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Would you spend $130,000 on a car without Android Auto?
- GM just unveiled the Cadillac Escalade IQ EV.
- The new EV features a 55-inch LED display that would be perfect for Android Auto.
- GM chose to give its EV a custom infotainment system instead.
GM just announced its latest electric vehicle (EV), the Cadillac Escalade IQ EV. The new Escalade has almost all the bells and whistles you’d expect from a $130,000 car, including a 55-inch LED display. But there’s one glaring omission that would have fit perfectly with that massive display, Android Auto.
Back in March, it was revealed that GM had plans to restrict access to both Android Auto and Apple CarPlay in its future EVs. Instead, the company would work on building its own custom infotainment systems with the help of Google. A move that has garnered a lot of backlash from automotive enthusiasts since the announcement.
You’d think that being on an Android Automotive platform, the Esclade IQ EV would at least give you the option to use Android Auto. But it looks like that won’t be the case. According to The Verge, it has received confirmation that compatibility for the phone projection feature is completely absent.
If you’re wondering why GM would make such an unpopular move, it likely has something to do with the company’s plans to generate revenue from entering the software-as-a-service business. According to GM Authority, the automaker wants to generate up to $25 billion in revenue annually by as early as 2030 by offering software-as-a-service products. Having a software platform would allow it to create a revenue-sharing model for paid apps developed by third-party companies. According to the outlet, GM’s senior VP of innovation and growth has said that he thinks new vehicle owners would be willing to pay up to $135 per month for various subscription-based apps and features.
But what do you think? Would you be willing to pay $130,000 for a car missing an important feature like Android Auto? Let us know by voting in the poll below.


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ESSEX— The zoning commission has proposed two zoning amendments that would ease restrictions on any proposed new restaurants while separately banning chain fast food restaurants and drive-through windows in town. The proposed amendments, along with a series of revised and updated definitions, will be presented at a Jan. 28 public hearing.
Joseph Budrow, zoning enforcement officer, said Wednesday he has been working with commission Chairman Alvin Wolfgram on the proposed amendments for more than a year. One of the proposed amendments would remove provisions of the zoning regulations that have limited new restaurants in Essex for more than two decades.
The amendment would delete language in the regulations dating back to the 1980s that prohibit new restaurants on a corner lot, on parcels with 200 feet of a corner lot, and on parcels within 750 feet of an existing restaurant. These restrictions played a role in March when the zoning board of appeals rejected variance appeals for a proposed coffee and pastry shop in vacant space at 57-61 Main Street in the Centerbrook section.The board suggested it was up to the zoning commission to revise the rules on restaurants, rather than looking to the ZBA to approve variances of the regulations to open up vacant space for possible new restaurants.
“The commission decided this was something it would like to do,” Budrow said. He added the panel later next year would propose removal of another restaurant restriction dating to the 1980s that limits new restaurants in Essex to no more then 10 seats. This rule has also blocked proposals for new restaurants in recent years.
But while the commission is proposing an easing of some restaurant restrictions, the Jan. 28 public hearing will also include a proposed ban on any new fast food restaurants in Essex, along with a ban on new drive-through windows for either restaurants or banks. The only fast food restaurants in town are the Dunkin Donuts in Centerbrook, that has been in business for about five years, and a subway restaurant at the Bokum Corners shopping plaza. Three banks in town currently have drive-through windows for banking.
Budrow said Wolfgram had suggested the proposed ban on fast food restaurants and drive- through windows. He acknowledged the proposed blanket prohibition on these uses could generate a legal challenge.
The definition of a fast food restaurant, which is included among the proposed updates of definitions set for the January public hearing, would define a fast food restaurant as an establishment with over ten franchises in other towns that offers a “standardized menu” that customers order and obtain at a location separate the from tables where people consume food.
Budrow said the proposed changes for rules on restaurants are not prompted by any possible specific proposals expected in the near future, but rather are an effort by the commission to determine whether town residents support the proposed changes.

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Gov. Kathy Hochul has concerns about signing a bill aiming to cut down on New York's impact on global deforestation, with executive staff telling lawmakers she's perplexed about potential impacts on small businesses across the state.
Lawmakers passed a bill at the end of session, known as the Tropical Deforestation-Free Procurement Act, which would prohibit the state from contracting with companies that use tropical hardwoods or products that contribute to deforestation.
Soy, beef, palm oil, coffee, cocoa, paper and other products could not be sourced from land with an at-risk forest, and contractors would have to submit data to the state proving where products originate from.
"We don't understand how much damage is being done," bill sponsor Sen. Liz Krueger said Friday. "I like cocoa, I like coffee, and do I really want to destroy the planet in order to get my morning cup? I hope not. ...So this bill would say, New York state, when you contract with companies to spend our taxpayer money to buy things you cannot contract with companies who are getting any of their products from the destruction of these tropical forests all over the world."
Krueger, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, says rainforests in places like Brazil, Venezuela and the Philipines provide critical protections against climate change.
Around 15 billion trees are cut down every year, or close to 42 million trees per day, according to the Nature Conservancy.
But legislation left unsigned by this point in the year is typically left because of outstanding questions or a lack of support from the Second Floor. Opponents are worried about negative impacts the change would have on small businesses as well as minority and women-owned businesses.
Hochul's staff have told lawmakers the governor shares those concerns.
"And with all due respect, I think they're wrong," Krueger said. "The answer is in the bill."
The legislation creates a supply chain transparency assistance program to help small and women and minority-owned businesses find sustainably sourced materials and remain competitive for state projects.
State agencies that use the largest amount of tropical hardwood, like the Office of General Services and Metropolitan Transportation Authority, would have several years to transition to other products.
The European Union also recently adopted a similar policy, which the senator argues means New York must follow suit to not leave in-state enterprises behind.
"With all due respect, to anyone who's a New York company, if you want to sell to Europe and you do, you're going to have to follow these rules anyway," Krueger said. "So it's actually helpful for us to do this in New York because we can then be part of the process to help you find out the supply chain for companies that you buy products from."
Environmental organizations and activists have turned up the pressure, petitioning the governor for her support to sign the bill by sending her letters in the last two weeks. But Hochul often heavily considers concerns of business leaders across the state in deciding to sign legislation.
If she signs the measure, it would be the first law of its kind in the nation after California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a similar proposal in 2021.
Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay says it's a change that should be done at the federal level to have the intended impact.
"Who wants to see tropical forests being cut down?" Barclay said. "But ultimately, you know, we have to pass, we have to govern and we have to pass legislation that actually works."
Lawmakers did not include fiscal impact in the legislation, and Krueger says the potential costs are unclear.
"It's probably going to end up costing the state a lot more money," Barclay added.
But supporters argue the change cannot wait, urging her colleagues to fight climate change and protect future generations.
Former state Sen. George Amedore is the vice president of Amedore Homes Inc. — a Capital Region business that has been in his family for three generations.
He says it's often difficult for builders to know the origin of recycled products, and the law could drive contractors to depend on synthetic materials worse for the environment overall.
"What's the replacement? They're not going to be natural," Amedore said. "They're going to be made in factories that are going to be made with resins, petroleums, chemicals... They're going to be the replacement of the exact product this bill is trying to prohibit being used."
The former senator questions how small businesses would be penalized if a particle, or small part of a product, is sourced from a place that would be prohibited.
Bill sponsors argue the legislation will have minimal impact on construction contractors. If it becomes law, the onus is placed on the state agency, not the contractor, to ensure tropical hardwoods are not materials used in state contracts. Businesses that contract with the state are responsible for not sourcing soy, palm oil, coffee, cocoa, paper and other commodities listed in the bill.
Tropical hardwoods are generally not used in the construction of homes and buildings.
Amedore also said the federal government and U.S. Department of Agriculture already has specific regulations about where builders source their products and related chain supply. He's urging Gov. Hochul to veto the legislation and leave this oversight to officials at the national level.
"We can say it's all about saving the tropical rainforest, but it goes much further than that," he said.
Other small and medium-sized contractors Friday said they have not developed strong opinions about the legislation since it was first proposed last year. Projects frequently come with specifications and builders are accustomed to meeting the specifications of what a customer wants, they said.


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The Department of Trade and Industry, (the dti) will undertake a business mission to Nigeria from 25-30 September 2016. The mission will be led by the Chief Executive Officer of the recently launched initiative of the dti, Trade Invest Africa (TIA), Ms Lerato Mataboge. Officials from the dti’s Black Industrialists Programme and representatives of Plastics South Africa will be part of the mission.
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies says the objective of the mission will is to seek trade and investment opportunities in Nigeria with the aim of establishing relations to position South African business in leveraging the identified opportunities for the mutual benefit of both countries.
Davies adds that this collaboration between TIA, the Black Industrials Programme and Plastics SA is key in addressing issues such as access to markets, the promotion of industrialisation, sustainable growth and transformation.
“Through the support of black-owned entities in the manufacturing sector, the business mission to Nigeria aims to enhance the efforts of the Black Industrialists Programme and ensure that the support for black industrialists increases in order to improve their participation in the manufacturing industry,” says Davies.
According to Davies, Plastics SA has identified Nigeria as an important market for the growth of the South African plastics industry and TIA aims to facilitate increased access to the Nigerian market in this regard.
South Africa and Nigeria are considered to be the leading economies of the African continent. Total trade between these countries accumulated to R 220 billion from 2011 to 2015.
During this period, vehicles, base metals, machinery, plastics as well as chemicals ranked as the top five exports sectors to Nigeria respectively, while imports were led by mineral products, base metals, plastics, machinery and vehicle equipment.
Sectors targeted for the mission are, infrastructure, energy, agro-processing, plastics, chemicals and automotives.
Sidwell Medupe-Departmental Spokesperson
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- EBay Inc.
on Wednesday reported a second-quarter profit of $640 million, or 49 cents a share, on revenue of $3.9 billion. During the same period a year ago, eBay earned $692 million, or 53 cents a share, on $3.4 billion in sales. Excluding one-time items, eBay would have earned $822 million, or 63 cents a share, and met the estimates of analysts surveyed by FactSet. However, eBay's shares fell more than 5% in after-hours trading as the company gave a third-quarter outlook that fell short of analysts' forecasts.


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AI is here and already transforming many industries. At AI Business, we specialize in reporting on how artificial intelligence is impacting business around the world, and in the past 12 months, demand for AI in the enterprise has increased exponentially. Our recent survey of Fortune 500 businesses showed that 32% are already implementing in some form of AI, and 82% of those who weren’t, are planning on doing so within the next 12-18 months. The world’s largest companies are investing well over half a billion dollars into AI-centric research, and this upward trend is only going to continue.
In this talk we will discuss the tangible impact of AI on core verticals including transport, financial services and retail who are among the earliest adopters of AI. We will cover case studies from large companies such including American Airlines, BoA, and Macy’s who are some of the earliest adopters and advocates of the advancement of AI.


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On Friday, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, the world’s wealthiest woman, experienced a significant decrease in her net worth due to the poor performance of L’Oreal shares. The French beauty company, in which she and her family have a partial stake, registered its worst single-day performance since the Great Recession.
Bettencourt Meyers and her family’s fortune fell by $6.9 billion to $91.7 billion on Friday, making her the biggest loser among billionaires that day. Despite the drop, she remains the 15th-richest person on the planet and the richest woman, with a significantly larger fortune than the second-richest woman, Walmart heiress Alice Walton.
The decline in L’Oreal’s stock was sparked by a slowdown in the company’s Asia business, causing its quarterly sales to fall short of analyst estimates. L’Oreal is Europe’s sixth-most valuable company by market capitalization and owns subsidiaries such as Kiehl’s, Maybelline, and Garnier. The company’s stock has seen a 9% decline year-to-date, resulting in a $25 billion reduction in market capitalization.
Friday marked the single worst day for Paris-listed shares of L’Oreal since October 27, 2008


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British Online Supermarket Ocado Upgrades Annual Earnings Forecast; Target Price GBX 2,450
Ocado Group, the world’s largest online pure-player grocery supermarket, upgraded their annual earnings prediction for the second straight time in just two months, largely driven by a surge in demand for food delivery services amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The British online supermarket expects EBITDA of more than 70 million pounds, up from a forecast of over 60 million pounds made last month. If realized, that would be a more than 60% surge in EBITDA from 2018-19’s 43.3 million pounds.
“With three new warehouses opening in 2021 which will ultimately give us 40% more capacity to our business, we look forward to being able to offer more slots to existing customers while welcoming new customers to Ocado and showing them what we can offer,” said Melanie Smith, Ocado Retail’s Chief Executive Officer.
At the time of writing, Ocado’s shares traded 3.23% lower at GBX 2250.77 on Thursday. However, the stock is up over 75% so far this year.
“Ocado Group’s (OCDO) Q4 sales confirmed strong UK gains but accelerated online market share losses. Another bump up in FY EBITDA expectations is entirely linked to the smooth redistribution of UK online slot demand across the week. As OCDO outlines in its outlook for 20/21, next year’s profit outlook will largely depend on a non-time delivery of additional capacity and a lack of reversal of this year’s consumer behaviour,” said James Grzinic, equity analyst at Jefferies.
Ocado Stock Price Forecast
Seven equity analysts forecast the average price in 12 months at 2,447.50p with a high forecast of 3,455.84p and a low forecast of 1,742.09p. The average price target represents a 10.87% increase from the last price of 2,207.51p. All those seven analysts, three rated “Buy”, four rated “Hold” and none “Sell”, according to Tipranks.
Morgan Stanley gave the base target price of GBX 1,820 with a high of GBX 2,836 under a bull-case scenario and GBX 1,219 under the worst-case scenario. The firm currently has an “Equal-weight” rating on the online supermarket’s stock.
“We derive our price target from a DCF-based SOTP. We value the Retail business at c.508p. We value the remaining solutions business at c.944p, of which Kroger (477p). We include additional contract wins in our Base Case to the value of 300p. The remainder is cash and deferred consideration from M&S. Values are determined using DCFs (WACC 7.5%),” noted Maria-Laura Adurno, equity analyst at Morgan Stanley.
Several other analysts have also upgraded their stock outlook. Ocado Group had its price objective increased by Berenberg Bank to GBX 2,530 from GBX 2,430. The brokerage currently has a buy rating on the stock. Peel Hunt raised the target price to GBX 2,800 from GBX 2,490. Citigroup reiterated a buy rating and set a GBX 2,900 target price.
“We would expect the comment around the guidance upgrade to be taken positively by the market rather than focus on the fact that, sequentially, there has been a softening in basket size as well as Retail revenue growth. Online penetration in food retail is c.7.8% (pre-COVID-19 outbreak) in the UK and it is one of the most advanced markets. Ocado benefits from increasing penetration through its Retail and Solutions businesses,” Morgan Stanley’s Adurno added.
“Best-in-class tech suggests upside from additional capacity on existing contracts and new contracts. There is competition on the micro fulfilment side. Limited near-term catalysts, execution risk. Current valuation captures part of the upside (prospective contracts and acceleration in existing ones).”
Upside and Downside Risks
Risks to Upside: Ocado signs additional large international contracts, the greater scale from new contracts helps drive profitability for the whole group. With respect to existing contracts, partners ramp-up faster – highlighted by Morgan Stanley.
Risks to Downside: Execution risks as the company struggles to keep up with newly committed capacity, resulting in downsizing of existing contracts. The slow pace in getting new contracts, which are also smaller in size.


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Critically-acclaimed interactive adventure series The Walking Dead by developer Telltale Games may soon be getting a Wii U release.
Eurogamer spotted a listing for the game on the UK-based retailer site, GAME.co.uk. The link features Season One (Game of the Year Edition) and Season 2 as a combo pack for £29.99. The game appears to have a release date of October 30th, 2015, and is currently available for pre-order.
The game has seen a launch on multiple gaming platforms including PC, Mac, PS3, PS4, PS Vita, Xbox 360, Xbox One, iOS and Android. Season 3 will see a release next year, but it is unknown whether it will make an appearance on Wii U.


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At this time of the year, chocolate is as festive as Christmas lights and reindeer. Amateur bakers look to make holiday fudge for gifts and office parties. Also, children want to make brownies and chocolate chip cookies in anticipation of Santa Claus making a visit. For those who bake, it does not come as a surprise that the cost of chocolate has steadily risen. They may not have drawn a connection to intentional pricing schemes because all other baking materials have become more expensive. Nevertheless, it seems fitting that a class action lawsuit involving chocolate pricing has recently been certified.
A federal judge in Pennsylvania has certified a class of chocolate purchasers in the matter of In re: Chocolate Confectionary Antitrust Litigation. According to a report produced by TopClassActions.com, the case was created to consolidate a number of class actions that arose after German and Canadian investigations revealed a price-fixing scheme among some of the largest chocolate producing manufacturers in the world.
Notable names include Nestle, Mars, Hershey, and Cadbury. While speculation abounds as to whether the companies specifically colluded with each other to inflate chocolate prices, one study supporting the Plaintiffs’ claims found that the cost of chocolate rose nearly 40 percent between 2004 and 2008. While the collusion investigations took place in 2008, the price-fixing allegations go back to 2002.
The classes of Plaintiffs in the case include direct purchasers (restaurants and other confection makers), indirect end-users (consumers), and indirect purchasers that purchased the chocolate for resale.
Source: TopClassActions.com, Judge Certifies Class in Chocolate Price-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit, December 18, 2012


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Travel is one of the worst performing sectors when it comes to email marketing, according to a survey.
Silverpop, a digital marketing technology provider, has released its 2012 Email Marketing Metrics Benchmark Study.
The company examined email messages sent in 2011 and the first quarter of 2012 by 1,124 participating customers.
The survey found that travel has the third worst open rates globally (13.2%) and the worst click-through rates globally (2.3%).
The sectors with the best open rates were financial services (55.6%) and charities (52.2%).
Sectors with the best click-through rates globally were consumer software (8.6%) and media and publishing (8.9%).
“These findings confirm that response rates vary widely based on the approach that is taken and the content that is delivered,” said Loren McDonald, vice president of industry relations for Silverpop.
“Companies that focus on helping recipients by providing behaviour-based content that is meaningful, personal and relevant rather than just firing off one-size-fits-all promotions are far more likely to find themselves in the top 25%.”


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Pre-COVID, Bosch had generated Rs 24,000 crore worth of component orders for BS-VI vehicles, and a sizable share of this was for diesel powertrain components.
Time is appropriate to look for partners for passenger vehicle business: Tata Motors CFO, P B Balaji
Everyone in the automotive industry would want to look at partnering to share costs because the problems created by the pandemic were much larger than one company could handle, said PB Balaji, the chief financial officer of Tata Motors Group, during the company's earnings call on Monday.
Mahindra has been looking for investors in SsangYong after it failed to turn the company profitable.
“India is now close to $2.5-3 trillion and is expected to go to $5 trillion. Whether it happens in 2024 or it takes a few more years doesn’t matter. It is very clear that India is the number 3 market in the world,” Sanjeev Sharma, managing director, ABB India, tells Nehal Chaliawala and Satish John.
The automobile industry also uses gases like propane, LNG or LPG at during manufacturing. Boparai said that SAVWI will move to biogas as it is considered carbon neutral.
The two European groups had announced a merger in December 2019 to leverage their combined scale for better cost-efficiencies in an increasingly competitive and technologically fast-evolving global automotive landscape. The 50-50 merger will create the world’s 4th largest carmaker.
Recovery can be faster if government gives incentives: Steffen Knapp, Director, Volkswagen Passenger Cars India
When you compare it to China, the coming back is slower. Basically, they had a swing of one and a half months and this is not going to happen in India, said Steffen Knapp.
Consumers would be averse to making a big-ticket purchase like a car. However, consumers might consider purchasing two-wheelers or used vehicles to serve their personal transportation needs, said Hetal Gandhi, director, Crisil Research.
"This year, we are looking at two million units. HCV (heavy commercial vehicles) was 500,000 units, and now we are looking at a maximum of 200,000 units. Two-wheelers were at 25 million units and now we are looking at 12-13 million units. These are all ballpark numbers, but they are substantially lower," said Bosch MD.
Auto, steel producers keep going with SOPs, precautions, safety measures in place.
The debentures will be listed on the wholesale debt market segment of NSE.
The world will have to adjust to the new normal of working from home and living with the novel coronavirus, Apollo Tyres’ managing director Neeraj Kanwar tells Nehal Chaliawala and Satish John. In preparation for an uncertain demand environment, the company is re-engineering production and cutting down on all unnecessary costs or, as Kanwar puts it, "bad costs". Edited excerpts:
EMI holidays, 100% on-road financing and vehicle loan repayment schemes lined up as showrooms may reopen this week.
Workers in red zones were also finding it difficult to travel to factories in orange and green zones. Milon Nag, managing director of Pune-based KK Nag Ltd said, “Our factories in rural areas are open. But our managers and all live in Pune and they are unable to reach factories.”
Earlier, the company had proposed a 10% wage cut across the board to conserve cash after all business activities were halted due to the lockdown to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. Managing director Rajiv Bajaj had decided to forego his entire salary for the period.
A Deloitte survey found that over 70% participants said they would limit the use of ride-hailing services and public transport. About 84% of the people said the idea of owning a vehicle was valuable to them, but 66% said they would be avoiding any large purchase.
Auto companies had negligible revenue in past one month as plants & dealerships are shut due to the lockdown.
Ashok Leyland, Maruti, Bajaj get the nod for some units but see supply chain issues.
The second phase of the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles (FAME-2) looked to subsidise the purchase of 1 million electric two-wheelers, 7,000 electric buses and 55,000 electric and hybrid passenger cars in the three-year period starting April 2019.
Bajaj Auto has received approval for 850 workmen to attend work at Waluj.


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Sketchy Photos of iPhone X 2018 prototype have been leaked. The leak has come from an unverified source. The source also claims that Photos of iPhone X 2018 prototype are obtained from Indian Factory. The design of the smartphone in photos is similar to the existing iPhone X albeit in a different color. Leaked iPhone X 2018 prototype in pastel colors are amazing.
The photos show iPhone X 2018 in purple and green pastel colors. Another source revealed that Apple will launch iPhone 2018 in at least one of these colors.


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Walmart (WMT) posted a decline in earnings and weak sales growth at existing stores in its quarterly report on Thursday. The company’s forecast shows virtually no sales growth this year, but big changes to worker schedules may change this. Shares for the retail giant slid over 4% on the news.
Walmart’s net income slid 7.9% in the fourth quarter, down to $4.57 billion, compared to the previous year. Earnings per diluted share, excluding special items, was $1.49, which exceeded analyst estimates of $1.46.
Revenue reached $129.7 billion, lower than analyst expectations of $131 billion.
Sales at stores open at least a year in the U.S. climbed 0.6%, marking the sixth straight quarter of positive sales growth, but failed to meet estimates of a 1% increase.
Walmart raised its quarterly dividend from $0.49 to $0.50.
The big box retailer also said that net sales will be “relatively flat” this fiscal year, which is a downward revision from its previous forecast of 3%-4% growth. The company cited store closures and a stronger dollar.
In October, Walmart warned investors that its profits would decline over two years as the company invested in paying its workers higher wages. An increase in online shopping has also affected Walmart’s hold on the retail industry.
Walmart is also rolling out changes to its workers’ schedules in hopes of refining the customer experience, improving employee morale and boosting sales.
The company has been testing extensive scheduling changes. Currently, the retail store operates on an “open shift” system, which means managers schedule employees within the times the employee says they are available.
Walmart will now be offering employees the chance to choose between fixed shifts, flex shifts and the current open shifts. Fixed shifts would guarantee employees the same hours each week for up to one year. Flex shifts would allow employees to create their own schedules from the available hours.
Walmart is counting on these changes helping its bottom line, too. Early results showed an impressive 11% reduction in absenteeism, and staff turnover decreased by 14% as well. The new changes will not entitle employees to more hours, but will allow for more stability, which can reduce employee turnover and save Walmart money.


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9th November 2011
To celebrate their one year anniversary, Tek'it Audio has launched a special offer that includes all their commercial plug-ins for half the price.
From November 5 to December 5, 2011, you can get Badass distortion effect, Kutter 2 sequenced frequency cutter, APC punk console synthesizer, 8eqf semi-parametric EQ, 8eqp fully parametric EQ and Genobazz R bass synthesizer in an exclusive Anniversary Bundle for €45 / $64.
05 Oct 2012 Tek'it Audio updates Genobazz Pro VSTi to v1.1
23 Jul 2012 Tek'it Audio updates Genobazz to v2.1
04 Jul 2012 Tek'it Audio releases Genobazz Pro (VST Win)
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2020 is the year that you can walk into a bank with a face-covering looking for money, and no one will bat an eye at you. That is because we’re living through a global pandemic. And as the COVID-19 virus makes its way around the world, many countries have been implementing mandatory face masks for those who are in public spaces as a means of trying to keep people safe.
While the covered face is the new normal of 2020 shopping trips and public transportation rides, it has also spiked a new word: maskne. The latest social media hashtag to begin trending evolved out of the two words, mask and acne. It has been used to describe the blemishes people are experiencing as a result of wearing masks.
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[N.] Mask-Ne: When your face Breaks Out because you have to wear a mask 24/7… 😷😷😷😷😷 ✔ Facials are a routine must to help aid this situation ☆ ☆ #maskacne #arkansasesthetician #fortsmithfacials #facialsareamust #healthyskin #esthetician #beauty101 #glowingskin #skincaretips #skincareadvice #womenofbeauty
Based on the many posts across Instagram and other social media sites, the acne woes aren’t just limited to the teen demographic either. It’s even coming for those adults who’ve never battled a pimple in their life! Since face masks became the new normal, it’s quite common to see people posting about the return to their teen years, citing that their masks are the cause for their new breakouts.
While we all want to be able to wear our new masks comfortably in order to comply with safety guidelines, there still remains one question: what do we do about the maskne? How can we get ride of it or even prevent it from happening in the first place?
Up to offer some help with how to care for skin while under the mask was TLC’s beloved Dr. Pimple Popper. In the video below, she offers viewers some tips and tricks to keeping your face pimple-free even with a face-covering:
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Attorney General Todd Rokita is leading data privacy initiatives to protect Hoosiers from would-be scammers and identity theft. He cautions Hoosiers to closely monitor their personal information.
“When it comes to protecting Hoosiers, you can count on me to do the right thing. Whether it’s taking on Big Tech or investigating data breaches, my priority is to serve the people who elected me and not the companies that are putting profits over people,” said Attorney General Rokita.
Since taking office just over a year ago, Attorney General Rokita has taken a strong position in defense of Hoosiers’ personal information, including suing Google over location tracking. Attorney General Rokita’s lawsuit aimed to penalize Google for violations of the Indiana Deceptive Consumer Sales Act and to ensure that going forward, consumers can both understand and control the ways in which their personal data is obtained and used.
In addition to this lawsuit involving data privacy, Attorney General Rokita has also pursued antitrust litigation against Big Tech companies Facebook and Google. Further, he has battled Big Tech’s censorship of Hoosier voices with investigations into Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
Earlier this month, Attorney General Rokita announced an investigation into a massive T-Mobile data breach that impacted more than 53 million people across the country.
Attorney General Rokita cautions Hoosiers to stay especially watchful for the following types of phone/text scams about which his Consumer Protection Division has received complaints:
- Healthcare-related calls
- Real estate calls
- Credit services calls
- Phishing scams
- DirectTV/AT&T calls
If you receive an unwanted text or call, please file a complaint here with Attorney General Rokita’s office.
You also want to make sure to check your credit card statements to make sure no one has stolen your information. If you notice a discrepancy, Contact our Consumer Protection Division at 1-888-834-9969.


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Meridian Wealth Management LLC Acquires 13,258 Shares of Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F)
Meridian Wealth Management LLC raised its stake in shares of Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) by 92.9% during the first quarter, according to its most recent filing with the SEC. The firm owned 27,525 shares of the auto manufacturer’s stock after buying an additional 13,258 shares during the period. Meridian Wealth Management LLC’s holdings in Ford Motor were worth $320,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
A number of other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in F. Balentine LLC raised its stake in Ford Motor by 2.6% in the first quarter. Balentine LLC now owns 9,097 shares of the auto manufacturer’s stock valued at $106,000 after buying an additional 231 shares during the period. Archford Capital Strategies LLC raised its stake in Ford Motor by 7.8% in the first quarter. Archford Capital Strategies LLC now owns 9,361 shares of the auto manufacturer’s stock valued at $109,000 after buying an additional 676 shares during the period. GWM Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in Ford Motor during the first quarter valued at approximately $117,000. TNB Financial purchased a new stake in Ford Motor during the first quarter valued at approximately $119,000. Finally, FNY Managed Accounts LLC raised its stake in Ford Motor by 0.3% in the first quarter. FNY Managed Accounts LLC now owns 10,339 shares of the auto manufacturer’s stock valued at $120,000 after buying an additional 34 shares during the period. 55.23% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Shares of Ford Motor Company (NYSE F) remained flat at $10.77 during trading on Friday. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 32,300,117 shares. Ford Motor Company has a one year low of $10.67 and a one year high of $13.27. The firm has a market capitalization of $42.78 billion, a P/E ratio of 11.34 and a beta of 1.11. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $11.24 and its 200 day moving average is $11.60.
Ford Motor (NYSE:F) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July 26th. The auto manufacturer reported $0.56 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.43 by $0.13. Ford Motor had a net margin of 2.52% and a return on equity of 19.69%. The business had revenue of $36.93 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $37.22 billion. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.52 earnings per share. Ford Motor’s quarterly revenue was down .5% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, equities research analysts anticipate that Ford Motor Company will post $1.76 EPS for the current year.
The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, September 1st. Shareholders of record on Monday, July 24th will be given a dividend of $0.15 per share. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, July 20th. This represents a $0.60 annualized dividend and a yield of 5.57%. Ford Motor’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 63.16%.
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Several research firms have commented on F. BidaskClub lowered shares of Ford Motor from a “sell” rating to a “strong sell” rating in a research note on Thursday. Instinet lowered shares of Ford Motor from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and decreased their price objective for the company from $14.80 to $11.60 in a research note on Wednesday. Jefferies Group LLC reiterated a “neutral” rating on shares of Ford Motor in a research note on Monday, August 7th. Nomura lowered shares of Ford Motor to a “hold” rating in a research note on Saturday, August 5th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of Ford Motor from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Monday, July 31st. Three analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, thirteen have issued a hold rating, nine have assigned a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company. The stock currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $12.60.
In other Ford Motor news, VP John T. Lawler sold 80,624 shares of the stock in a transaction on Thursday, August 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $11.00, for a total transaction of $886,864.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the vice president now owns 10 shares in the company, valued at $110. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, insider James D. Farley, Jr. sold 25,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, June 12th. The shares were sold at an average price of $11.16, for a total transaction of $279,000.00. Following the transaction, the insider now owns 428,411 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $4,781,066.76. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 1.08% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
About Ford Motor
Ford Motor Company is a global automotive and mobility company. The Company’s business includes designing, manufacturing, marketing, and servicing a full line of Ford cars, trucks, and sport utility vehicles (SUVs), as well as Lincoln luxury vehicles. The Company operates in four segments: Automotive, Financial Services, Ford Smart Mobility LLC, and Central Treasury Operations.
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Music fans are increasingly turning to music streaming services like Spotify, instead of listening to pirated copies, however artists are unhappy about their share of the spoils.
The music industry needs to repair the royalties paid by music streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora, or else the shift to streaming will "fail" individual artists even as it benefits the music industry as a whole, Australia's royalty collection agency has warned.
Music streaming services, which are fast replacing music download services such as iTunes, have come under fire from musicians who complain that they're paid a pittance in exchange for allowing their music to be streamed over the internet.
In June, songwriter David Lowery complained he was paid only $US16.89 ($18.34) by Pandora after his song Low was streamed by the service almost 1.2 million times. He made more money from the sale of a single t-shirt, he wrote in a blog.
Andrew Harris, principal analyst at Australia's royalty collection agency APRA|AMCOS, said that while streaming services were doing a lot to fight internet piracy, the way their royalty payments are allocated "needs to be fixed".
As streaming grows, "individual artist returns [will be] diluted and spread over a much longer period of time than traditionally seen - even if they end up being the same in the long run," he said.
"The investment model and the way artists are compensated in such an environment must be addressed if we want to see artists thrive and continue making new music and maintain a long-term career," Mr Harris said.
Spotify, the world's largest music streaming service, with 24 million customers worldwide, says it pays 70 per cent of its income to the music industry - the same rate paid by download services such as iTunes.
"Right now we're still in the early stages of a long-term project that's already having a hugely positive effect on artists and new music. We've already paid $US500 million to rights holders so far and by the end of 2013 this number will reach $US1 billion," the company said in a statement.
"Much of this money is being invested in nurturing new talent and producing great new music."
All artists are paid on an equal footing, proportional to the number of times their tracks are streamed, Spotify says. If one artist were to account for 1 per cent of Spotify's total traffic, that artist would be paid 1 per cent of the royalties.
"As with any major change in the distribution model of music, artists have very understandably wanted to ensure that this growth of streaming services is good for them. We are confident that it is", said DA Wallach, Spotify artist in residence. "The same sort of conversation surrounded iTunes when it was first growing, and the same sort of conversation surrounded recorded music in the first place when musicians previously earned their livings only by playing live shows," he said.
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I actually got in my car and ventured into the world this week. During my expedition, I made a stop at a rest stop on the Merritt Parkway in my home state of Connecticut for a cup of Dunkin’ coffee. I was struck by two signs I saw.
One was at the front door of the building which houses a small convenience store, a Subway and, of course, a Dunkin’. This sign asked patrons to adhere to a set of guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID. As I read down the list, imagine my surprise when I noticed the second to last guideline – contactless payment. Along with the request for social distancing, lower capacity etc. they were asking people to pay with contactless. I had to take a picture. I think it is worth noting that when they describe contactless payments, they leave out NFC enabled cards.
Upon entering the building and getting to the Dunkin’ counter, I was struck by the next sign taped to the new Plexiglas partition between the customer and cashier – “We prefer going cashless.” Here again, there is an explicit request to use contactless payments (or cards).
An earlier article I wrote discussed findings from a recent survey of consumers that found that consumers were trying contactless for the first time because of the COVID crisis. My trip to the rest stop, however, was the first time I actually saw merchants asking customers to use contactless because of COVID.
Since these rest stops are run by the same company up and down Connecticut’s Merritt Parkway, I am pretty confident in saying that these signs exist at those rest stops as well. It’s really hard to tell how many people will use, or try, contactless when they shop at these establishments, but it does point to some of the ongoing concerns about the use of cash and, to a lesser degree, the use of a POS terminal.
The big questions for those in the payment industry who pay attention to these things is, “What does this mean for the long-term adoption of contactless payments?” As I have stated before I think some people who are new to contactless will continue to use it after the pandemic, and some will go back to their old habits.
That said, with merchants explicitly asking for contactless payments, more new consumers should be entering the fold of contactless triers. In summary, I think actions like these by merchants will nudge consumers, as a whole, to contactless but not push them.
By Peter Reville, Director, Primary Research Services at Mercator Advisory Group.


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[ezcol_1quarter][/ezcol_1quarter] [ezcol_3quarter_end]Coworking Megatrends for 2019
Liz Elam from GCUC shared in Work Design Magazine her trend predictions for 2019. In the article Elam talks about industry terminology, consolidation and differentiation, the growing role of coworking in real estate, and the importance of wellness and design. [/ezcol_3quarter_end]
[ezcol_1quarter][/ezcol_1quarter] [ezcol_3quarter_end]WeWork Backed Selina Set to Open in New York
Selina is a Latinamerican co-living company backed by the coworking giant WeWork. Bisnow reported this week that Selina is heading to New York to 138 Bowery street where it signed a full-building 63,000 square feet lease. According to the report, the New York location will have 90 rooms, 2,000 square feet of coworking space, and 2,000 square feet of retail space. [/ezcol_3quarter_end]
[ezcol_1quarter][/ezcol_1quarter] [ezcol_3quarter_end]Dallas Airport will now Offer Free Coworking Space
The Culture Map reported this week that Varidesk, a stand-up desk company, launched a free coworking in Terminal C of Dallas’ DFW Airport. According to the report, the space was installed in 24 hours and it features Varidesk standing desk workstations, meeting tables, power hubs, and free wifi. [/ezcol_3quarter_end]
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The use of apps is becoming increasingly important to the digital marketing efforts of brands and businesses, and is now a key component of overarching marketing strategies according to PR, search and social media agency Punch Communications.
Applications, or apps for short, are now a regular feature in the majority of people’s lives, particularly the younger generation who are effectively the future audience of many brands and businesses across the world. Whether it’s an app for a smartphone, or indeed an app on a brand Facebook page, they are both tools with which brands can engage their future consumers and develop a relationship with them.
Smartphone apps provide a means for brands to appeal to users from right inside their pockets, and bring added value to a users’ lifestyle, such as the Nike running app. Alternatively, Facebook applications, which capitalise on the immense size of the world’s biggest social network can facilitate a greater degree of engagement. In an environment where brands can make it very easy for users to talk about them and spread word of brand activity and initiatives, a great example of this being the app launched around the release of hit movie Toy Story 3.
Alex Smith, Account Manager at digital PR consultancy Punch, said: “The rate at which applications across platforms are being developed and also adopted by consumers shows that this is certainly one of the many directions that brands should consider when it comes to their overall digital marketing efforts.
“An application that appeals directly to the nature of consumers and the way that they interact with their extended networks online has the potential to go very far in terms of the number of downloads or views it can achieve in a relatively short space of time.”
Punch Communications is a leading Search, Social Media and PR company, offering digital services to a wide range of clients located all over the world.
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The cryptocurrency market has blown past a record $3 trillion, not bad for a digital assets market that is only a little more than a decade old. Now a new cryptocurrency called HUH Token plans on tapping into this ever-growing market when it goes public on the 6th of December.
Investors have certainly gotten more comfortable with established cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana. They continue to develop functionality and provide real-world financial solutions.
The grandaddy of them all, Bitcoin, appears to be pushing most of the market’s gains, with the second biggest crypto, Ethereum, following in its footsteps.
As of Tuesday, the overall market capitalization of crypto currencies hit over $3.31 trillion, according to CoinMarketCap. Binance Coin and Solana, the third and fourth-biggest cryptos, have added more than 20% in the past seven days.
Bitcoin surged more than 5.6% on Monday to $66,414 and looks set on testing its previous record of about $67,000.
However, the celebrations always come with a stark warning that cryptos are extremely volatile. The last time Bitcoin reached these levels, it fell by thousands of dollars and underwent multiple corrections that took it down to half its highest value.
Meme coins Shiba Inu, Floki Inu and Dogecoin have all swung wildly over the past few days, with the recent SquidGame crypto scam, which stole millions of dollars from investors, denting the image of cryptocurrencies.
But this didn’t deter investors for long as the first U.S Bitcoin-linked ETF (Exchange Trade Fund) was released on Wall Street, signalling the financial worlds further acceptance of cryptos and opening up the market to even more investment.
A new cryptocurrency called HUH Token is currently preparing for its launch on the 6th of December and is looking to pounce on the crypto fever. But if HUH Token wants to compete, then they are going to need to bring fresh ideas to the table.
One of the unique selling points of HUH Token is its revolutionary referral system that allows buyers to enjoy two separate streams of income. This means that if a user refers someone, they receive 10% of that person’s first purchase with HUH Token.
What’s more, you can refer as many people as you like and then get to enjoy 10% of each referee’s first purchase. The referee also benefits from this system as their sales tax is reduced from 20% to 10%.
HUH Token has self-proclaimed itself as the first-ever ‘Utimeme’ – which means that HUH Token has combined meme and utility purposes. The utility aspect comes from the creators claims that they intend to provide real-world value by linking the distribution system to Binance.
There are plenty of meme tokens you can invest in, however, there is only one Utimeme currently, which HUH Token hopes will be useful in their battle against the likes of Shiba Inu, Dogecoin, Floki Inu, Akita Inu, Samoyedcoin and the other canine cryptos.
Whatever happens, it’s clear that cryptos are here to stay and the market seems to only be getting stronger, bringing the opportunity for new cryptos like HUH Token to achieve the incredible.
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6. June 2019
A research report from Nofima and the NTNU Social Research puts forward new ideas for the future planning of sea areas. For example, could the introduction of marine industrial parks – industrial parks at sea – provide more space for the aquaculture industry?
During this project, the researchers shall gather new, multidisciplinary knowledge about how the marine industries can coexist in a good way along the coast, and develop new methodologies and models for such coexistence.
19. December 2018
With high-quality pictures of the stomach content of the fish, fish buyers bidding on catches at auctions can avoid buying a “pig in a poke”.
5. December 2018
A new, unique web portal is being launched today that reflects the influence of Norwegian aquaculture along the coast - both on the ocean and society as a whole.
12. October 2018
Progress in breeding work can provide a basis for profitable cod farming according to a new report just submitted by Nofima to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries (NFD).
Can we increase the value of salmon by emphasizing salmon quality in different ways?
A new research project will investigate and analyse relevant management models for aquaculture in the future.
18. January 2018
An advanced light meter developed by Nofima is set to revolutionise the processing of fish. White fish can be sorted according to the amount of blood in the fillet before it is cut open, allowing better utilisation of each individual fish and better profitability for fishing companies.
18. September 2017
How does fish farming affect wild fish, and why do fishermen experience the quality of wild fish near aquaculture facilities differently from what scientists have documented?
12. June 2017
Organic salmon can be difficult to find in European shops, and people do not know much about organic fish in general. New research highlights the need for updating EU regulations. This could create clearer regulations for organic aquaculture and increased consumer trust.


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Deliveroo reveals the most ordered dishes in Portsmouth
DELIVEROO has revealed the dishes that are ordered the most by cutomers in Portsmouth.
The food delivery app launched in the city in 2016 and has since expanded the number of takeaways that it offers.
It now offers everything from American burgers and Piri Piri chicken to Chinese and Japanese cuisines.
Deliveroo have now revealed the five most popular dishes in Portsmouth:
- 1 – Cheeseburger from Five Guys
- 2 – Quesadilla from Taco Bell
- 3 – Prince Charles is Overrated from 7Bone Burger Co
- 4 – Boneless Banquet from KFC
- 5 – Chicken from Roosters Piri Piri
With Chinese New Year just around the corner, the takeaway app has also revealed that Portsmouth was one of the biggest eaters of Chinese food in the country last year.
According to Deliveroo, Portsmouth ordered the second most Chinese food per person compared to any other city in the UK in 2019 - just behind Aberdeen who was crowned Britain’s biggest Chinese orderers for the past 12 months.
The company’s ordering data for 2019 also revealed that the Chinese dish most likely to be ordered by residents is Chicken Balls.
To find out the top 20 most ordered Chinese dishes in Portsmouth as well as other fun foodie facts about the city, click here


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Sometime in the flurry of news surrounding the new iPad Pro and the new MacBook Air, Apple quietly added the iPhone 5 to its list of “vintage and obsolete products” in the United States. There it sits, alongside the Apple III, the Newton MessagePad, and the first four generations of iPhone, as a thing that Apple officially no longer repairs or updates. The iPhone 5 is effectively dead in America, and the rest of Apple’s small-hands phones aren’t far behind.
This isn’t a surprise. Apple officially defines vintage products as those that haven’t been manufactured for five to seven years. The company discontinued the iPhone 5 in 2013, right after it announced the iPhone 5C, which was effectively the same device in a different case and is not yet obsolete. It does look like the iPhone 5 is not yet dead globally as Apple stopped short of adding it to its list of worldwide vintage and obsolete products. Nevertheless, it’s only a matter of time.
The iPhone 5 is also survived by the iPhone 5s and the iPhone SE—sort of. Apple actually discontinued the iPhone 5S in 2016, when the iPhone SE came out. But then, in September, Apple removed the iPhone SE from its online store, the first symptom of its imminent demise. That means that the slimmer case and 4-inch screen size are almost definitely doomed in the realm of iPhone design. Here to stay is the wider 4.7-inch iPhone 7, which Apple still sells, as well as the bigger devices, like the iPhone XS Max and its hulkish 6.5-inch screen. This is bad news for people with small hands, who loved the iPhone 5 and the iPhone 4 before it, because they could actually use the dang things.
None of this is to say that the iPhone 5 was Apple’s greatest phone. The device itself was prone to nicks and scratches, as its bluish-black anodized aluminum case just felt kind of crappy. The iPhone 5 also won’t support iOS 11 or iOS 12, and there were even some rumors that earlier versions of iOS 10 would phase out support as well. It also only had 1GB of RAM, which now seems hilariously underpowered compared to the 4GB of RAM in the iPhone XS.
Still, that form factor is something people will miss. It’s not gone yet, as Apple continues to support the iPhone 5, the iPhone 5c, and the iPhone SE. But it’s almost as if a family of four just lost their oldest sibling, and the Grim Reaper is coming for them next. When they die, the skinny, small-screen iPhones will be gone. Unless, of course, Apple decides to make an iPhone Mini, which would be hilarious and probably well received.
Update 2:30pm EDT - There might be hope yet! According to 9to5Mac, Apple will soon launch a new “Repair Vintage Apple Products Pilot” program that would enable some Apple stores and authorized service providers to repair older gadgets, including the iPhone 5. The details of the pilot program are unclear, as Apple has not announced anything. But maybe, just maybe, your iPhone 5 will get some life support in the near future.


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The CDC now believes the contaminated lettuce is from Yuma, Arizona.
"We can hope that a lot of this lettuce will be out of shelf-life and be off the shelves soon and that a lot of restaurants and grocery stores and people in their homes have heard our advice and, so, we're hoping that the illnesses will start to taper off", Dr. Gieraltowski said.
The CDC says illnesses that occurred after April 5 might not yet be reported due to the time it takes between when a person becomes ill with E. coli and when the illness is reported.
The investigation has not identified a common grower, supplier, distributor, or brand of romaine lettuce.
Last week, the agency broadened its warning, saying consumers should not eat or buy romaine in any form - including whole heads, hearts, chopped, or in salad mixes - unless they can confirm it is not from the Yuma, Ariz. growing region.
Idaho has been hit harder by the outbreak than any other state, with the exception of Pennsylvania, where 12 cases have been confirmed.More news: Markets Right Now: Big tech, industrials lead stocks lower
"If you do not know if the lettuce in a salad mix is romaine, do not eat it", the CDC warns.
Meijer and Kroger say they're selling romaine lettuce that's safe to eat.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the outbreak strain is linked to romaine lettuce from Yuma, Arizona.
They went back to the emergency room, where the hospital said Radovich was having kidney failure and sent her by ambulance to a nearby children's hospital in Roseville, California. Wash fruits and vegetables before eating or handling and avoid cross-contamination of food. Eight people have been hospitalized and one developed HUS. Symptoms of this complication include little urine output, easy bruising, lethargy, and pale skin.
Infections have been tied to the E. coli O157:H7 strain and illnesses have often been severe.
Restaurants and retailers should ask their suppliers about the source of their romaine lettuce. In 2016, attorney Fred Pritzker won $7.5 million for young client whose kidneys failed because of hemolytic uremic syndrome after an E. coli infection. "If you or someone from your family recently ate romaine lettuce and are experiencing symptoms, please seek medical treatment immediately". Class action lawsuits may not be appropriate for outbreak victims because the cases are very unique.


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Smartphone manufacturer Alcatel this week announced a partnership with T-Mobile to roll out its latest handset offerings in the One Touch line, the Fierce and the Evolve. The phones, which are scheduled for release in October 2013, were specifically designed to deliver a strong entry-level smartphone experience at a relatively low cost compared to Alcatel’s current stable of handsets.
The Fierce is the fiercer of the two phones, pricing in at $163.99. It operates on the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean OS, sports a 4.5-inch qHD display, runs on a 1.2 GHz quad-core MediaTek processor, uses an 1800 mAH battery, and has 1GB of memory. The Evolve, which will move for $99.99, is one notch less impressive.
The Evolve operates on Android 4.1 with a 4-inch WVGA display, 1GHz MediaTek MT6575 processor, 1400 mAh battery, and 512MB of memory. Both models come with 4GB of hard storage, a microSD card slot, a standard suite of apps, the proprietary Swype keyboard by Nuance, 4G connectivity and app multitasking.
The national release date for both models is Oct. 5 at select retailers. The Evolve will be available for pre-order at T-Mobile Oct. 14 and officially released Oct. 16. Meanwhile the Alcatel One Touch Fierce will roll out all at once Oct. 23 (no pre-orders in effect, straight to stores).
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Shazam is a music recognition application which lets users identify songs simply by listening to the music playing around them and has been downloaded over 1 billion times around the world and is used more than 20 million times each day.
Apple today announced it has completed its acquisition of Shazam and now the app will soon offer its experience ad-free for all users so everyone can enjoy the best of Shazam without interruption. Shazam previously offered two versions of its app: a free version with ads, and a paid “Encore” version without ads.
“Apple and Shazam have a long history together. Shazam was one of the first apps available when we launched the App Store and has become a favorite app for music fans everywhere,” said Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music. “With a shared love of music and innovation, we are thrilled to bring our teams together to provide users even more great ways to discover, experience and enjoy music.”
Apple first announced the acquisition in December 2017.


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Today, GameSpot Trax
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that suggests that the editorial site's audience has significantly warmed to Nintendo's Wii U, following on from the company's strong E3 showing.
According to Trax data, purchase intent rose across all levels of player interest in Nintendo's console, with "probably will purchase" and "definitely will purchase" getting three-point bumps, "may or may not purchase" getting a two-point bump, and "definitely will not purchase" falling by 8 points.
"Definitely will not purchase" remained the majority answer, at 37 percent of those polled overall. 22 percent of respondents fall into the more positive camps ("definitely will purchase" and "probably will purchase") while 42 percent are neutral ("may or or may not purchase" and "probably will not purchase.")
The purchase intent breakdown for PlayStation 4 is 49 percent positive, 37 percent neutral, and 15 percent negative. For Xbox One, it's 17 percent positive, 44 percent neutral, and 39 percent negative -- which GameSpot says was overall little changed by the companies' respective E3 showings.


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TRADERS in Nottingham have welcomed new guidelines which say councils should be more car friendly.
Eric Pickles, secretary of state for communities, has made the parking recommendations in a document due to be published this week.
It says that over-zealous parking wardens and ‘draconian’ parking policies have driven shoppers away from local businesses and to out-of-town retail parks and the internet.
The guidelines recommend: “The quality of parking in town centres is important – it should be convenient, safe and secure.
“Parking charges should be appropriate and not undermine the vitality of town centres and local shops, and parking enforcement should be proportionate.”
Nottingham City Council has come under fire both in the past and more recently for its attitude to parking.
Just this month it announced plans to introduce on-street parking fees to deter commuters from using residential streets and encourage more workers to use public transport.
The council is considering implementing fees in The Meadows, Sherwood and Basford, which are used as alternative parking for the city centre, City Hospital and New College Nottingham, respectively.
Traders in the city say the new guidelines issued by Mr Pickles have been a long time coming.
Geoff Williams, who owns Framework gallery on Derby Road and Tokenhouse in Bridlesmith Gate, said: “The council has got to realise that out-of-town shopping is obviously preferable and easier.
“There needs to be some redress about how much it costs to come shopping in the city centre.
“As long as you have internet shopping and retail parks with free parking, then we should be making it as easy as possible and not looking at it as a revenue stream.
“The council might think its clever milking money out of parking charges but for every shop that shuts you have at least one more voter out of work.”
The RAC Foundation has reported the city council made a profit from parking last year of £3,251,000. Meanwhile 4,023 fines of £60 each were issued to cars and taxi drivers turning into Station Street in less than a month, earning the council at least £120,690 in fines.
Nicola O’Neil, co-owner of Nottingham Light Centre in Maid Marian Way, said their shop did lose business because of parking charges.
“We struggle and obviously we don’t get any leeway from traffic wardens when people are picking up heavy and bulky items.
“I think if the new guidelines are followed they will help and it certainly can’t make things worse.
“I’d like to see them lower the fees, especially at a weekend when people are free to come in to town to shop but are put off by the charges.
A Nottingham City Council spokesman said: “The council has a co-ordinated transport policy that aims to limit congestion and improve public transport links.
“We are far from anti-car, and our £16 million investment in ring road improvements shows this, as does us reducing the price of overnight parking in some of our car parks.
“The park and ride scheme also helps car users while helping to reduce congestion in the city centre.
“We aim to encourage people into the city and the increased footfall figures in the city centre so far this year would seem to indicate that our considered strategy is working.”
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Leafy green vegetables, Brussels sprouts, beets and leeks aren’t typically the kinds of foods available at food banks. Fresh foods are hard to salvage for people in need, even though perfectly edible produce that doesn’t meet grocery store standards is often left to rot in the fields. But a Salinas organization, Ag Against Hunger, has developed some innovative methods for distributing fresh produce to food banks.
The organization runs a unique volunteer gleaning program, collecting surplus fruits and vegetables that would otherwise be left behind and plowed back into the soil. The produce is perfectly edible, but usually nearing expiration, said Karen DeWitt, executive director for the organization.
“It’s not just a bag of lettuce here and there,” said De Witt. “Last year we collected and distributed 12 million pounds of produce.”
Last year volunteers gleaned 450,000 pounds of fresh food left behind by commercial harvesters. That food was not bruised or spoiled. Produce fit for consumption is left behind for subtle reasons, like the age of the field or the prohibitive cost of harvesting a particular crop. Last year, for instance, a grower contacted DeWitt to ask if Ag Against Hunger would harvest a cherry orchard. A late rain ruined about half of the fruit, and paying pickers to sort it would have resulted in a loss for the farm.
Ag Against Hunger distributes to nonprofits and the food banks serving Salinas, Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz Counties.
“There’s a social obligation for us to give out nutritious foods,” said Leslie Sunny, executive director of the Food Bank for Monterey County. While fifty years ago food banks mostly distributed canned goods, “produce is the food of the future,” Sunny said.
Giving out fresh produce is especially important because of growing obesity and diabetes numbers. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, California carries a particularly high obesity burden, with approximately 36 percent of its adult population considered overweight and another 25 percent obese. The Monterey County Obesity Study revealed a 120 percent increase over a twelve-year period for Hispanic children, and sixty-four percent of Salinas’ population is Hispanic.
The keys to maintaining healthy weight, according to the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, are physical activity and healthy eating, which includes consumption of fruits and vegetables. California’s Central Valley is known as the salad bowl of world, yet only 42 percent of Californians reported eating at least five fruit and vegetable servings daily—a recommended starting point—and less than 20 percent of children, according to the 2009 California Dietary Practice Survey.
Every weekend hundreds of volunteers show up to glean—pick remnant fruits and vegetables—to help bring fresh food to people who can’t afford to buy it. A gleaning session lasts from about 9:00 a.m. till noon. At the beginning of the day, volunteers are taught how to harvest, and then they don gloves and hairnets for a day of work in the fields.
The food and field labor are free, thanks to the more than 700 volunteers. But transporting the food to people who need it costs money. Bins must be purchased, a driver must be hired to transport the full bins of food, and then there are fuel and transportation costs. “We have to move the produce really quickly. We hold it at our cooler, and food banks and other nonprofits come and pick it up,” said DeWitt.
When their 5000 square foot cooler is overflowing and food banks from these counties have all the food they need, Ag Against Hunger reaches out to other California counties and has even provided food to Arizona and Washington food banks, according to the warehouse manager, Cesar De La Torre.
The fresh food needs to be picked and shipped quickly—usually within one or two days—and there is a lot of it to manage, according to De La Torre.
The variety of produce is a boon to food banks across the valley. “We get yams, onions and stone fruit that we normally wouldn’t,” DeWitt said.
One of the ways the Food Bank for Monterey County distributes that healthy food they receive from Ag Against Hunger is through open-air markets, similar to farmer’s markets—but all the food is free.
Once a month, from April through October, at ten Monterey County locations, 200 to 400 families have the opportunity to choose what they take home. Each household walks away with between 50 and 100 pounds of produce.
The help, Sunny said, couldn’t be better timed. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at its peak in December of 2010, 16.4 percent of Salinas’ population was out of work. Unemployment is highest in Salinas and the Central Valley when growing season halts—December through March.
According to DeWitt, food banks are seeing more working poor—people who have some income, but not enough to feed a family. The Food Bank for Monterey County and Ag Against Hunger work together to meet the needs of one-fifth of Monterey County’s population, according to Sunny, and 18 percent of that population are children under five, living in poverty.
“We’ve seen a tremendous increase,” Sunny said, “in people standing in line to get food.”


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Remember the Infinite Monkey Theorem? That, essentially, given enough time and space a monkey, typing at random, could eventually recreate the collected works of Shakespeare? Well, it now looks like there’s a better non-human for the job. Or, at the very least, a much more efficient one.
You guessed it: robots.
Well, not really “robots” (like the ones that chased Will Smith), but computer programs that function at the rate of human articulation. Dominic Basulto, an innovation blogger for the Washington Post and Big Think, points out the growing capability of bot-generated content and the literary possibilities it provides:
This is becoming the central paradox of the Information Age: the easier it is for humans to create content and information on their digital devices, the more likely it is that robots and online bots will eventually take over the job of creating content and information for those digital devices. In other words, the more we democratize the process of creating content, the more we are planting the seeds for our own future literary demise.
The notion of a machine writing as eloquent as Shakespeare certainly seems a long way off, but it’s just as much of a possibility as any of the other “the-robots-will-someday-be-smarter-than-us” theories out there.
For now, though, we’re seeing this sensibility manifest itself in more practical ways. Yahoo’s much ballyhooed, whiz kid acquisition Summlyis nothing more than a genetic algorithm – designed to mimic how a human thinks – that condenses pre-existing articles. While the content is not necessarily original in thought, it is original in format. Similarly, spam Twitter feeds have been composing unique tweets for years now (and we’re not talking about a small, isolated pocket of the Twittersphere – it recently came out that over half of Justin Bieber’s followers are fake), and some – like Horse ebooks – have parlayed their entirely random (yet oddly poetic) gibberish into hundreds of thousands of followers.
The down side of thoughtless machines creating thoughts are plentiful, of course. Just this week, Wall Street algorithms created to mimic human reaction to news on Twitter picked up a fake AP Twitter report of an explosion at the White House, setting off a DOW flash crash, a $121 billion swing in a matter of minutes. It was robot readers overreacting to robot writers – basically the entire human condition in nanoseconds. No bueno.
Similarly, there are specific pros and cons in using these new tools in the marketing world. On one hand, it creates a language overlap between man and machine that permits marketing databases to better understand and service the sensibilities of consumers (with something as simple as a smiley face icon). On the other, it has the potential to wear down the already thin layer of authenticity that any branded communication bares.
It is here, as an experiential marketer, that I lose my enthusiasm for computer generated content. Our field relies on authentic connections – genuine, human moments – to create content that delivers branded messages in a package consumers care about. Social media users don’t want a feed populated with brand-centric messaging assembled to appeal to recent web searches; they want glimpses into the memorable moments of their friends’ lives.
Experiential marketing creates those moments in a way a brand can be inextricably – but authentically – tied in, and these moments are naturally shared out for online consumption. A machine may be smart enough to type a perfect 140 character brand message, but that doesn’t mean it’s as impactful as a human happy enough to share a slightly imperfect one.


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Gold bug Peter Schiff continues his attacks on Bitcoin. This time, the vocal BTC hater has tweeted that people’s fascination with cryptocurrencies provokes an increase in inflation and leads to higher prices on consumer goods.
Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, addressed the crypto community on Twitter accusing it of the rising inflation.
Bitcoin critic linked digital assets to higher prices for consumer goods. For some reason, Schiff has never mentioned that people purchase digital assets to increase their capital and be able to “consume” goods and services in a larger volume. Moreover, the point that he sticks to is equally true for both BTC and gold investments.
Lately, Peter Schiff has been louder than ever speaking out against Bitcoin. Earlier this week, he has tried to challenge Galaxy Digital CEO Michael Novogratz to a debate that the latter refused to step into.
The growing Schiff’s pressure has been noticed by crypto enthusiasts, who attempted to convey their point to the crypto sceptic, which proved to be fruitless.
One of the Peter Schiff’s readers has noticed that the crypto critic talks about Bitcoin much more often than BTC supporters do. Having stated that, the enthusiast declared the head of Euro Pacific Capital one of the biggest Bitcoin maximalists and even tried to add laser eyes to the critic’s photo.
On 21st September, Schiff posted a tweet, saying that “there are now over 12,000 crypto tokens, 84 of which currently have market caps above $1 billion. There is nothing special about #Bitcoin. The supply of altcoins will keep growing until the crypto bubble pops. Supply will overwhelm demand and prices will implode almost overnight.” By the time of writing, there are over 950 responses to the tweet, mostly critical ones.
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The event we’ve been waiting for a whole year – the most eagerly anticipated and largest trade fair event at the Celje Fair, opened its doors this morning. This year, on its 55th anniversary, it’s even more interactive, informative, and entertaining!
At the Celje Fair, we began the celebration with the official opening of the 55th MOS, the largest business and trade event in Slovenia and the surrounding region.
Nina E. Pangerl, the President of the Management Board of the Celje Fair, emphasized that the company has been working for 55 years to maintain, enrich, and upgrade the trade fair story, which adapts every year to the current conditions in craftsmanship, entrepreneurship, and the economy. MOS successfully follows global trade show trends and guidelines, with the help of several important partners, such as the Chamber of Craft and Small Business of Slovenia, which has been shaping the content program for craftsmen and entrepreneurs from the very beginning, addressing critical issues, and promoting artisan professions at the fair. Digitalization is also a significant theme at this year’s MOS, effectively promoted by various ministries, many of which are exhibitors at the fair.
Matija Kovač, the Mayor of the City Municipality of Celje, highlighted that during MOS, the city transforms into a true trade fair city, and everyone breathes in harmony with it. In the context of digitalization, the City Municipality of Celje is also embarking on a path of innovation, and this year, they are presenting themselves as exhibitors with a universal card called “Centralka,” which, in its initial phase, offers parking payment, public transportation ticket purchase, and bicycle rental.
Blaž Cvar, the President of the Chamber of Craft and Small Business, emphasized that it was the craftsmen who initiated the 1st MOS trade fair 55 years ago. Despite the floods at the beginning of last month, they managed to maintain the planned content at the fair, and they express gratitude for the government’s measures that contributed to this. Cvar also stressed that small businesses form the backbone of the Slovenian economy, and everything must be done to ensure that this backbone does not break. This year, on the Crafts Street in hall L1, they are presenting 11 artisan professions and many interesting activities.
Matjaž Han, the Minister of Economic Development and Technology, who was also the official opener of the fair, expressed gratitude for the Celje Fair organizing MOS for 55 years. He highlighted that it is a trade fair that’s more than half a century old with a new perspective, where we openly and sincerely discuss the challenges in the economy. After the August floods, he emphasized the strength of the community and the great solidarity of the Slovenian people, which always becomes evident when help is needed. He praised the cohesion in the field, working meetings, and conversations with people. He also announced that the ministry is preparing assistance for businesses.
The fair is hosting more than 600 exhibitors and 1,000 brand names. It will be open until 5:00 PM on Sunday, every other day until 6:00 PM.


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Sage is based at a purpose-built site in Newcastle
Tyneside-based software giant Sage is to shed 200 jobs across its 23 offices in the UK.
The firm, which has its headquarters in Newcastle, supplies business software to small and medium sized companies and employs 14,500 people worldwide.
It has reported a 14% boost in annual profits to £139.2m, but said it had to continue to control costs.
Paul Stobart, managing director of Sage UK and Ireland, said there would not be any compulsory job losses.
Mr Stobart said: "As all businesses are at the moment, we're doing everything that we can to keep costs to a minimum and in April we offered our UK employees the opportunity to apply for voluntary redundancy.
"Across our 23 offices in the UK, 200 people will be leaving the business as a result of this incentivised voluntary redundancy programme.
"Looking forward, it's business as usual, and we'll be working with our teams to make sure that we do everything we can to continue to provide our customers with a great experience, across all of our products and services."
The company, which has major sites in Winnersh, Berkshire, and Manchester, was founded in 1981 in a local printing works by entrepreneur David Goldman.
He developed software to automate the print estimating process of his business.


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2016 Advertisement News – Free Public Wi-Fi
No longer will you have to go to a Starbucks for free wi-fi. While retail shops and restaurants look into providing free wi-fi for their clients. A New York company called Control Group has rolled out a new public free wi-fi slim kiosk that will allow the public to use it’s free wi-fi which will be 100x faster than your traditional wi-fi found at your local retail store. The gigabit service are being installed in place of old phone booths and will include a headphone jack for you to make free calls and will have an emergency 911 button. The kiosk will have a tactile keypad, braille lettering and an android touch screen. The project has been approved by New York Mayor and the project is backed by google. New York is expected to get over 7.5 thousand free wi-fi kiosk.
Most people have accepted this new project because allows them to save money on their data bill. There is no comment from mobile internet service providers but seems like our U.S cities are becoming more responsive and welcome the project with open arms. The free public New York wi-fi kiosk will be paid by advertisers that will render their ads through a 55” inch digital monitor on each side of the kiosk and also have the opportunity to display municipal emergency messages to the public.
As an advertisement and promotional agency we welcome this new opportunity in our state of California. This kiosk will ultimately help small companies promote their brick and mortar businesses locally. Additional possibilities for this free wi-fi kiosk could be to track traffic monitoring on a more precise level.


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Beards have become so popular in contemporary fashion that a study shows we may have hit Peak Beard - the tipping point when clean-shaven stands out as rare and attractive.
We might imagine that, after a session playing a video game a player's violent outburts in real life would be inspired by the on-screen depictions of violence, but that may not be directly so.
John Spong, senior editor of Texas Monthly (previously a lawyer and possible outlaw) shares the story of Annie James, a Texas teen who caught a police car parked illegally and issued her own ticket.
A Tibetan Mastiff puppy recently sold in China for two million dollars. It probably does not have actual lion's blood, but don't tell the new owner.
The European Union causes a stink about American cheese names.
The Paris Review contributing editor Sadie Stein explains Stonehenge. Or at least tells us about new research suggests that the special stones selected have unusual acoustic properties.
It's all well and good to send in the clowns - until there aren't any left to send.
The Viking "jötunvillur code" has confounded scholars since its use 900 years ago. This week someone finally cracked the code. It was more candy-heart than battle-epic.
Wired Magazine recently undertook a study of popular online dating services like OkCupid and Match.com to mine some data about the most popular terms and tips.
The latest innovation in consumer targeting: facial recognition software used by retailers to record a customer's psychological state while shopping.


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Nogin Announces Inspire Me! Home Decor Has Selected Its Commerce-as-a-Service Growth Solution
TUSTIN, Calif., March 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nogin (NASDAQ: NOGN), a leading provider of innovative Commerce-as-a-Service (“CaaS”), today announced that Inspire Me! Home Decor, a home décor lifestyle brand, has selected Nogin Intelligent Commerce and Shopify Plus as its platform to enable a more streamlined, ecommerce approach and create a world-class shopping experience.
Inspire Me! Home Decor was founded in 2012 by Farah Merhi, who has experienced tremendous growth in her company’s customer base—growth which has been heavily driven by the team’s expertise in leveraging social media platforms to reach more than 10+ million luxury buyers. Through this agreement with Nogin, Merhi and her team are now able to plug into market-leading ecommerce technology, performance-marketing insights, fulfillment support, and customer service, enabling them to maintain their focus on continuing the brand’s social media and product assortment amplification.
“The competition we see in luxury markets, particularly direct-to-consumer, has become so complex that the most successful brands like Inspire Me! Home Decor are turning to Nogin to accelerate growth,” said Shahriyar Rahmati, COO and CFO at Nogin. “We look forward to partnering with Inspire Me! Home Decor to support in building a market-leading ecommerce experience without the cost, complexity, time and risk of a traditional enterprise platform.”
“My passion has always been decorating, styling, designing, and sourcing luxury products for my customers, which was the springboard behind the founding of Inspire Me! Home Decor,” said Farah Merhi, CEO and founder, at Inspire Me! Home Decor. “With the technology and support Nogin will provide, our team will be empowered to scale our business by harnessing all of our creative energy to truly excel in the areas of the business where we have the most impact.”
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Cadbury has decided to stop producing chocolate coins, prompting some distraught fans to declare that Christmas should be cancelled as a result.
A spokesman for the now US-owned company said that wrapping gold foil around a circular piece of chocolate was "fiddly" and that it was purely a commercial decision.
"We are sorry to see the coins go, but that's business," the spokesman told the Daily Telegraph.
Shoppers have switched to cheaper versions sold by the likes of Aldi and Lidl in recent years, hitting Cadbury's sales.
Observer restaurant critic and novelist Jay Rayner tweeted:
Harry Wallop, a Daily Telegraph journalist and sometime television presenter, said on Twitter: "I know others make decent chocolate coins. But yet again Mondelez [owner of Cadbury] has failed to understand us Brits. We want @CadburyUK coins at Christmas!"
He also had some advice for consumers seeking an alternative to Cadbury:
Ane-petition has already been started in a bid to reverse Cadbury's decision. It has been signed by one person.


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The shares of Coinbase Global Inc. they were rising towards one of the biggest falls on Monday after the decision of a different cryptocurrency platform to stop withdrawals and transfers sparked more concerns about the digital asset market.
Coinbase COIN shares,
it fell about 14% in Monday morning trading, after falling to 21.6% at the start of the session. Shares were heading for their third-largest single-day drop in a single day, widening their sharp drop since the year, with a drop in shares of almost 80% so far in 2022.
Cryptographic asset prices also fell sharply. Bitcoin BTCUSD,
fell 14% on Monday, ethereum ETHUSD,
was discounted 16% and litecoin LTCUSD,
Read: Bitcoin falls by $ 24,000 in a cryptocurrency crash. This chart shows how much worse a sale can be.
Strong stock falls come after cryptocurrency platform Celsius Networks LLC said on Sunday that it would pause withdrawals, exchanges and transfers between accounts. The company cited “extreme market conditions” and said in a blog post that the measure “would put Celsius in a better position to meet, over time, its withdrawal obligations.”
Elsewhere, Binance cryptocurrency paused bitcoin withdrawals on Monday morning.
Read: Following request for leadership changes, Coinbase CEO tells workers to quit smoking if they don’t believe in top executives
The moves are taking place following Consensus, a major cryptocurrency conference that ended on Sunday. Christopher Brendler, a DA Davidson analyst covering cryptocurrencies, was cautious in recapping the event.
“Unfortunately, we came out much more bearish (since) the sharp drop in liquidity has stressed even the strongest players,” he wrote. “While public companies are bigger, they are much better positioned and could still take advantage of the forced consolidation, the fall of BTC weekend and the increase in network hashrate aggravates what is already a very difficult situation.”
Brendler’s coverage includes cryptocurrency companies such as Core Scientific Inc. CORZ,
Riot Blockchain Inc. RIOT,
and Marathon Digital Holdings Inc. MARA,
all of which have dropped more than 11% on Monday.
Don’t miss out on “I thought it was a sick joke” – they gave up other job offers to work for Coinbase
He speculated that Block Inc. SQ,
the company, formerly known as Square, could be “a good option” for a merger with a mining company, although he acknowledged that CEO Jack Dorsey “is more interested in increasing decentralization than in bringing together the miners, so any deal would be small, plus a learning experience. “
Block, which allows users of its Cash App mobile wallet to trade bitcoins, is experiencing a nearly 10% drop in its own shares on Monday. Baird analyst David Koning wrote on Monday that he expects Block’s Bitcoin gross profit to be around 3% of the company’s gross profit this year, down from about 5% last year.
“We don’t believe any of our companies have material exposure to cryptocurrency volumes,” he wrote about his payment coverage universe, which includes Block, Mastercard Inc. MA,
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The new president of Panasonic is obviously a technical man at heart, more at home in the world of industrial products than consumer products.
'We really love this market. People here have high level of demand, and such accurate value evaluation system that making something for India is always very challenging.'
The record discounts on new cars currently ruling the market will likely continue for another 2-3 months as vehicle makers rush in with promotions to clear a huge inventory pile-up.
US-based auto component maker Johnson Controls today said it has bought out its Indian partner Tata Automotive Components from their joint venture for an undisclosed sum.
BYD, which opened its North American headquarters in Los Angeles in 2010, says the plant will initially turn out 10 electric buses for the city of Long Beach.
Electric cars are still coming to mkt from luxury maker Tesla, and from automakers such as GM, Nissan and others, but outlook has become murkier.
The $32.5 million deal will provide access to high-end, systems engineering, engine design and powertrain engineering capability, Tata Technologies said.
The car boasts of 330 litres of boot space. The latest offering from M&M is likely to compete with Maruti Swift, Toyota Liva and Honda Brio.
This new, more energy-efficient facility makes our 100 percent recyclable aluminum wheels even more environmentally friendly ... This project is also part of the Department of Energy's Better Buildings Challenge, through which we will share best practices - such as linking energy goals to compensation - to help other companies reduce their industrial energy intensity.
Alcoa's casthouse brings 'green' technology and new manufacturing jobs to Northeast Ohio ... Sustainability is integrated into Alcoa's business strategy, and this facility allows us to take our recycling practices to a new level, recycling 100 million pounds of scrap aluminum each year in a more energy efficient way.


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Google Lens, powered by AI has had its biggest expansion, now rolling out widely for other Android users. Although it hasn’t been made available to all users, most people with Google Photos will get it and it’s been announced that soon it shall roll out for iOS as well.
In the beginning, Google Lens was made available only to Pixel users, but before Lens, Google Goggles was an early app version and it was first released last year for Pixel users exclusively too.
However, Google’s expansion game has been playing out well as the market remains excited by the practical Lens tool in Google Photos, allowing Android users to have a taste of the AI-powered image recognition app.
Rolling out today, Android users can try Google Lens to do things like create a contact from a business card or get more info about a famous landmark. To start, make sure you have the latest version of the Google Photos app for Android: https://t.co/KCChxQG6Qm
Coming soon to iOS pic.twitter.com/FmX1ipvN62
— Google Photos (@googlephotos) March 5, 2018
How does Google Lens work?
Google Lens works thanks to an AI recognition system when a user takes a photograph of a book, a landmark, or most points of interest, Google will run it through their database and provide a card with relevant information about the subject of the photograph. Depending on what the user scans, Lens will provide different information.
For example, if a business card is scanned, Lens will ultimately deliver the contact’s email address, phone number and finally, it will add the contact to the user’s contact list. When it comes to landmarks or any place, Google Lens depends on what Google can recognize. So, if there is information available, Lens will drop an info card with a description and facts.
The Lens feature on Google Photos can be launched by basically tapping on the Lens icon in pictures uploaded to the application.
Why Google Lens in Photos is useful
Google Lens is not only limited to historical buildings or business utilities. It can also be used to identify leisure products like artworks, enhancing information about the artist that created them; or flower types, by providing facts and possible medical uses. It also works with other objects in nature and Lens even recognizes international dishes and their recipes all through pictures and simple icons.
It also displays the translation of foreign languages, and now AI and Google allow us to carry on easily with usually complicated tasks. Lens can be seen by many as a gateway tool for knowledge and it also allows users to experiment when it comes to new subjects that they may point at with their cameras.
Google Lens is a feature that will allow more and more users to embrace their smartphones as discovery and learning tools. The idea behind apps like these is to achieve the vision of realistically enhancing human capacity by increasing the range of tasks we can perform with a device that is virtually an extension of ourselves.
Source: 9 to 5 Google