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PHOENIX, Feb. 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Heather Guffin's, Phoenix Reputation Online Management Service (PRO-MS) is the latest custom solution to come out of the labs of Alliance Sales & Marketing Solutions. PRO-MS or simply "Phoenix", has been launched to help sales and marketing businesses repair and/or manage their online reputations.
Negative brand or product association seriously impacts a business's ability to generate revenue. Considering that 77% of people will investigate a products reputation online before buying, 89% of consumers use search engines for purchase decisions, and 9 out of 10 people say that a bad online reputation will turn them off of a purchase. Businesses simply can't afford to have a bad online reputation these days.
Heather Guffin's, Phoenix Reputation Online Management Service, has arrested the attention of many timeshare sales and marketing businesses in Mexico, many of whom had experienced chronic revenue degeneration due to unfair negative online comments and bad reviews.
Alliance Sales & Marketing Solutions acknowledges that most businesses tend to underestimate the damage caused by negative content and consumer sentiment. These same businesses end up attributing underachievement in terms of sales or marketing results to alternative factors. Smart sales and marketing businesses are slowly starting to realize that the first page of Google is essentially the face of their business.
Complaints and negative product reviews are effectively poisoning revenue streams and slowly killing your business. Too many companies, and this is especially true for timeshare companies, have simply ignored their poor internet reputation in the hope that their consumers will do the same.
According to Google just one negative post referencing your product, reduces a person's chance of purchasing by 95%. For timeshare businesses this is a frightening statistic as 3/4 prospects will investigate your online reputation during, or immediately following a sales presentation. Considering 65% of your target demographic own smartphones, and can investigate your reputation online within minutes, the reality is that a large percentage of your target consumer base is paying close attention to how you look online, and you need to be doing the same.
Heather Guffin's, Phoenix Reputation Online Management Service (PRO-MS) is yet another dynamic custom service that Alliance Sales & Marketing Solutions have added to their growing list of products. If you are interested in improving your online reputation learn more at the Alliance Sales & Marketing Solutions website.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that CA Technologies has been named “Platinum Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CA Technologies helps customers succeed in a future where every business – from apparel to energy – is being rewritten by software. From ...
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Security, data privacy, reliability and regulatory compliance are critical factors when evaluating whether to move business applications from in-house client hosted environments to a cloud platform. In her session at 18th Cloud Expo, Vandana Viswanathan, Associate Director at Cognizant, In this session, will provide an orientation to the five stages required to implement a cloud hosted solution validation strategy.
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On Saturday, 3 July, Huddersfield’s leading wine merchants Hoults and Kwas, celebrate Arch Day 2021 by offering free wine.
All things grape
The two businesses will be offering free wine tastings and tasty local nibbles from 12pm to 4pm. They are located under the arches on Viaduct Street,
It is their way of thanking customers, both old and new, for their support through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Huddersfield BID will be providing entertainment at 2pm with a performance by Mirror Men.
For one night only, after the afternoon celebrations, Viaduct street will have a late-night opening from 4 – 10pm.
Huddersfield BID has identified the railway arches on Viaduct Street as a critical area to support in the coming years.
They are working towards bringing ‘Super Saturdays’ to Viaduct Street, first up with Mirror Men’s performance this Saturday (3 July)
The hidden gems on Viaduct Street are home to an eclectic mix of independent businesses since 1987.
“Delighted to be able to say thank you.”
Rob Hoult said, “In the 38 years, Hoults have been selling wine in Huddersfield. We’ve earned the loyalty and undying love of a great bunch of customers. In this last year and a half, our customers have stood us in good stead through all the rigours of lockdowns, closures and re-openings.
“By hook or by crook, we’ve kept the wine moving, and by golly, our customers have told us how much they’ve cherished a good glass of wine. This period has highlighted as never before how important we are to each other, and we’re delighted to be able to say thank you in this way.”
Duncan, the owner of KWAS, said, “It’s independent businesses like Hoults and Kwas that will drive the economic recovery in our town centre. So, as well as showcasing our own businesses, we hope that Arch Day 2021 will encourage some other independent businesses to take a look at the arches and maybe come and be our neighbours. Everybody needs good neighbours!”
What is Arch Day 2021?
Arch Day is a national celebration created by The Arch Company. It celebrates independent businesses and charities that operate underneath railway arches in England and Wales.
On Saturday 3 July, events will be held by businesses as part of the #loveyourlocalarches campaign. The campaign encourages the public to support independent businesses under railway arches. The day hosts a series of community-based events celebrating local arches.
Adam Dakin, Managing Director at The Arch Company, states: “We are proud to champion small businesses like Kwas and Hoult’s. The diverse mix of independent businesses who call the railway arches home play such an important role in communities across the country.
“The Arch Company is here to support these local arches, and seeing directly how our £10 million Hardship Fund has helped these businesses in Huddersfield survive the pandemic is really rewarding. Kwas and Hoult’s – and their creative partnership to mark Arch Day – offer a fantastic example of the brilliant businesses found within the unique spaces of the arches.”

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The upscale five-door Kia Rio X-Line hit the Russian market nearly two years ago and has completely replaced the 'ordinary' hatchback in the local range. And soon a similar option will appear in global Rio: according to the British edition of Autocar, Kia has almost decided to create a cross version of the hatchback for the markets of Europe and America.
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Recall that the global Rio is different from the Russian in a more compact body and another set of powertrains, and in fact they are only platform-bound. The crossover version, codenamed XRio, will have increased clearance and a plastic body, but the drive will remain front. Interestingly, such a car is already in the European range of the company: the all-terrain vehicle of the Kia Stonic is based on Rio, but has an original coupe. According to preliminary information, the next generation of Stonic will become taller and off-road, thus freeing up a niche for the XRio.
By the way, according to legend, the idea of creating a cross-Rio belongs to the Russian traders of the company. It was they who offered the headquarters to create such a car, looking at the success of the Renault Sandero Stepway (this version represents two-thirds of Sandero's sales in Russia). Since our Rio is the closest relative of the Chinese model Kia K2 and their development was carried out in parallel, the idea of a cross hatchback was chosen by the Kia division in China. The five-door Kia K2 Cross debuted even earlier than the Russian car. As a result, the Chinese refused the main hatchback, although they developed such a car and even managed to certify it, but it did not reach the assembly line.


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French Fries beat Freedom Fries when it comes to sodium. U.S. fast foods are often more than twice as salt-laden as those of other countries, according to a new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
In the study, researchers examined the sodium content of more than 2,000 menu items from the world’s six largest fast-food chains: Burger King, Domino's Pizza, KFC, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and Subway.
While government-led public health campaigns and legislation efforts have reduced sodium levels in many countries, the U.S. government has been reluctant to press the issue. That’s left fast-food companies free to go salt crazy, says Norm Campbell, M.D., one of the study authors and a blood-pressure specialist at the University of Calgary.
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One McDonald’s ketchup packet—the tiny ones that can coat about three fries—packs 110 mg of sodium. That’s about as much as an order of salty spuds.
Many low-fat foods rely on salt—and lots of it—for their flavor. One packet of KFC’s Marzetti Light Italian Dressing might only have 15 calories and 0.5 grams fat, but it also has 510 mg sodium—about 1.5 times as much as one Original Recipe chicken drumstick. (Feel like you're having too much of a good thing? You probably are with these 8 Saltiest Fast-Food Options.)
Bread is the No. 1 source of sodium consumption in the American diet, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Just one 6-inch Roasted Garlic loaf from Subway—just the bread, no meat, no cheeses, no nothing—has 1,260 mg sodium, about as much as 14 strips of bacon.
Leafy greens play perfect host to an array of sodium-stuffed toppings and dressings. Cheeses, croutons, tortilla strips, and meats (especially of the crispy or cured variety) are especially salty. A Burger King Chicken BLT Garden Fresh Salad, for instance, has 50 percent more sodium than a medium order of onion rings. (Make sure you check out these 20 Salads Worse Than a Whopper.)
Premade pies, pastries, and cinnamon-covered breadsticks might taste sweet, but chances are they are still salty with preservatives. Two little Pizza Hut Hershey's Chocolate Dunkers squares with chocolate sauce have about 285 mg of the salty stuff—about as much as two Pizza Hut wings.
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Google Wallet and PayPal have been competing with each other in the mobile payments market for years now, but both have struggled to create a mobile payment experience that has mass appeal. Google Wallet added a new element to its experience yesterday by adding the competition, PayPal, as a payments option for its users, who can now use their PayPal accounts to make app and content purchases in the Google Play store.
The PayPal payment option will sit along side paying with credit card in the Google Wallet when users go to check out, Google announced yesterday.
[For More of Our Mobile Payments Coverage: Cutting Complexity Out of Mobile Payments]
“Our goal is to provide users with a frictionless experience, and this new integration is another example of how we work with partners from across the payments industry to deliver this to the user,” Google said on its Android Developer’s Blog.
Users will only be able to purchase apps and content such as e-books, music and videos with PayPal; they won’t be able to use it to buy devices or device accessories in the Google Play store.
Th new integration will be available in 12 countries, including the U.S. and Canada. Users will be able to pay with PayPal by simply entering their account login info when they check out.
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Global Pet Expo Wraps with Solid Numbers
The 16th annual Global Pet Expo, which took place late February in Orlando, Fla., was a success despite travel bans due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, said Andrew Darmohraj, executive vice president and COO of the American Pet Products Association (APPA), which puts on the show with the Pet Industry Distributors Association (PIDA).
Total buyer attendance came in at 6,041, 22 percent of which consisted of international buyers representing 78 countries. Attendees from all 50 U.S. states were represented with an increase of 6 percent from the West Coast specifically, while domestic attendance from mass-market buyers was up 17 percent over last year, officials reported.
Additionally, the show featured 1,066 exhibiting companies with 3,541 booths filled with “the latest and greatest” in pet product innovations, many of which made their debut at this year’s event, officials said. The show floor spanned 354,100 square feet of exhibit space.
“The ways in which COVID-19 has changed the world are still unfolding,” Darmohraj said. “And while it wasn’t quite business as usual, we are extremely proud of the Global Pet Expo team for their tireless work to not only adapt to the changing landscape but pull off a safe and productive event with unparalleled show experience. With more than 20 percent of buyers registered coming to Global Pet Expo for four or more years consecutively, it demonstrates the vital role this trade show plays for pet retailers. It should also be noted we had 222 first-time exhibiting companies, recognizing Global Pet Expo as an exceptional opportunity for new entrepreneurs and businesses entering the industry.”
New products of the year could be found in the 45,000-square-foot New Products Showcase. Now in its 10th year, the New Products Showcase “Best in Show” awards ceremony took place on the show floor where awards were handed out to Best in Show, second and third place winners across nine categories.
The 2020 Global Pet Expo Academy was also deemed a success attracting a record 2,000 attendees. The academy, managed by PIDA, featured 15 speakers offering 46 hours of free retailer education on trending topics such as marketing, social media, store design and customer service. Likewise, the well-attended 15-minute mini sessions took place in the New Products Showcase, and offered valuable information to attendees in a convenient location on the Show Floor, according to officials.
“We’re proud to offer free access to these first-class educational programs,” said Celeste Powers, president of PIDA. “This is the opportunity of the year to learn from many of pet retailing’s best-known authorities on a wide array of business-building topics. By providing retailers with this important education, it’s our goal that this information will not only deepen their knowledge but also put their businesses on the road to success in 2020 and beyond.”
Global Pet Expo also received national media attention, and there was an increase in social media influencers taking part in this year’s show, officials noted.


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Loudeye music deal drives up stock valueShares of Loudeye more than doubled yesterday after the Seattle Internet company announced an agreement to encode and distribute more than 120,000 songs from The Orchard's music catalog.
The stock, which has traded below $1 all year, rose 74 cents to close at $1.27.
Seattle-based Loudeye will help The Orchard -- one of the largest distributors of independent music in the world -- set up a digital media infrastructure that makes it easier to download music.
Electronic postmark with Office productsMicrosoft Corp ., the Redmond-based software maker, said yesterday it will offer AuthentiDate Holding Corp.'s
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AT&T plans to pepper the nation's 50 largest cities -- including Seattle -- with 20,000 wireless fidelity, or Wi-Fi, "hot-spots" by 2005 so business travelers can access company data networks through wireless technology in hotels, restaurants and airports.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016, 12:25 PM ET|Posted by Will Richmond
Videology announced this morning that its clients will be able transact video ad campaigns on a new viewability currency (“vCPM”) for a guaranteed price on guaranteed viewable impressions. The impressions are measured by third-parties Moat, DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science.
Clients can use the MRC viewability standard (50% of pixels on screen for at least 2 consecutive seconds) or the stricter Extended Viewability Standard (100% of pixels on screen for at least 50% of the video’s duration with audio on and not autoplay).
With Videology’s self-service platform, clients can create their own campaigns using vCPMs, choose their viewability standard and choose the measurement vendor. When the campaign begins, the third-party’s viewability data is ingested in real-time, with Videology in turn optimizing the campaign against viewable impressions.
The vCPM capability is in beta with availability in Q1 ’16. It marks the latest industry move to address viewability issues, which have become more visible over the past year.
(For those interested in more on viewability we had a deep-dive session at last June’s Online Video Ad Summit with speakers from ABC, Genesis Media, Moat and Viacom. The session video is here.)
(Note: Videology is a VideoNuze sponsor.)


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L’OCCITANE en Provence, a global natural beauty products and cosmetics manufacturer and retailer, will bring the brand's in-store shopping experience online. Founded in 1976, L’OCCITANE has more than 3,000 stores across more than 90 countries with upwards of 50 e-commerce websites. Using Qubit's personalization platform, Qubit Pro, along with industry-first artificial intelligence (AI)-powered mobile discovery solution, Qubit Aura, L’OCCITANE has launched various personalization initiatives to maximize impact across its web properties.
“Our customers now expect the same personalized services they receive in-store online," said Loanne Le Gac, e-business product coordinator at L’OCCITANE en Provence. "Our e-commerce team is committed to ensuring that that’s the case, and on a worldwide scale. Qubit allows us to deliver a personalization program on multiple domains to ensure a consistent level of quality and service across channel.”
To date, Qubit has contributed to significant increases in revenue per visit (RPV), revenue per customer (RPC), and mobile conversions. The ultimate goal of the collaboration is to ensure that all L’OCCITANE customers, regardless of channel, have fulfilling and meaningful experiences with the brand.
The L’OCCITANE global ecommerce team started using Qubit Pro, a behavioral data-based personalization platform delivering targeted experiences at scale, to collaborate and share best practices across multiple domains and locations, from Japan to Brazil, London to Australia. Among the techniques used, social proof, which informs shoppers of how other shoppers are behaving in similar customer journeys, exhibited 2.86% uplift in RPV and 3.55% uplift in RPC in the U.K. while strategies to save the customer before site abandonment resulted in 2.65% uplift in the U.S.
As more shoppers engaged on the mobile channel to discover and purchase the brand's catalog of products, L'OCCITANE deployed Qubit Aura, which sits on the brand's existing mobile website and, through AI-powered personalization, changes the products a user sees based on their behavior in a social newsfeed type experience. The brand's U.K. e-commerce team reported 159% increase in mobile conversion rate as a result of Qubit Aura.
L’OCCITANE will continue to build more web experiences that match the personalized interactions customers receive when they browse and buy in-store.


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GrubMarket has made an announcement today, which is sure to grab the attention of the food industry. GrubPay, a secure and user-friendly payment platform for food wholesalers and distributors, has been launched. GrubMarket has now become the first and only eCommerce platform that offers an integrated payment solution that is exclusively designed for the fresh industry.
GrubPay can be used as a standalone product, but it also integrates seamlessly with GrubMarket’s current software ecosystem. This ecosystem comprises the following innovative software solutions: WholesaleWare, an all-encompassing ERP system that operates 360 degrees; Orders IO, a mobile eCommerce solution that’s highly advanced and Farmigo, which is a CSA management software. With these software products, GrubMarket provides a centralized omnichannel solution for the food supply chain.
Customers of GrubMarket can now accept and handle payments quickly, easily, and securely with GrubPay, via ACH, credit card, and other online payment methods. As stated by Genevieve Wang, the Chief Product Officer at GrubMarket, “Traditional payment acceptance methods for the fresh industry are cumbersome, expensive, and unreliable. Third-party payment providers lack an understanding of the nuanced needs of food distributors and wholesalers, and their fee structures squeeze the already thin margins of these businesses. This is why GrubPay is such a big step forward for the fresh industry.”
GrubPay offers a host of unique features and benefits, such as online payments, pay by link, real-time payment tracking, full accounting integration, competitive pricing, and flexibility and customization. Customers of all sizes can easily link to the GrubPay credit card payment gateway and securely accept online card payments or process transactions in-store. Customers can pay via ACH transfer and/or credit card using a secure payment link that is hosted by GrubPay. They can create emails and SMS messages with payment links or add payment links to invoices to get paid directly by customers. They can also create QR codes that facilitate real-time payment at checkout or even embed payment flows on social media.
GrubPay also provides real-time payment tracking, which allows users to track their active payment balances and gain complete visibility into the status of each payment. Within WholesaleWare, users can automatically generate payment requests for invoices, and payments, customer balances, and reports are kept in sync and up to date with WholesaleWare’s Accounting Module, in real-time. GrubPay’s pricing model is highly competitive, transparent, and designed for the food distribution and wholesale business model, so customers can worry less about costs. Customers can use GrubPay’s developer platform and APIs to rapidly build production-ready integrations that enable invoicing and online payment functionality, designed for their customers’ and products’ unique needs.
Mike Xu, CEO of GrubMarket, said, “Right now, most fresh industry players still use traditional offline methods like checks and cash to complete payment transactions. Others rely on third-party providers that charge exorbitant fees and are not tailored to facilitate payments in the food supply chain industry. We are proud to take the next step of every great eCommerce company – offering seamless payment solutions to our customers. GrubPay is a truly transformative solution that will create significant value for the food industry and help customers streamline their payment processes, reduce costs, and save time.”
GrubPay’s launch is indeed a game-changer for the food industry, as it offers a one-stop solution for payment processing. By facilitating payments for the food supply chain through its integrated payment solution, GrubPay will make payments accessible, easy, and affordable to all its customers.


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BMW is unquestionably excited about the second-generation M2. In a year when the brand celebrates the 50th anniversary of its M division with a number of new vehicles, the new standard for the old enthusiast BMW has been marched out for camouflaged glamour shots all over the world. The latest photo set took place in front of the San Luis Potosi, Mexico plant where BMW has transferred the coupe’s production. That three-year-old facility already builds the 3 Series for North America and the 2 Series coupe for global markets, the addition of this third model will grow the employee ranks by 800 workers and add a second shift. It appears someone took another model out for a day on Mexican back roads for showcase on the ‘Gram, as well.
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The model on display does without the M Performance high wing out back, and we expect there’d be quad pipes in their traditional locations. Camo normally masks the size of a vehicle and features, so we’re not sure what to make of the fact that the coming M2 always looks substantially larger than the outgoing model. We know regulations play a part in that, as does all the new stuff happening under the skin. The Munich maker’s S58 engine from the M3 and M4 goes under the hood, a 3.0-liter inline-six with about 450 horsepower and 412 pound-feet. If that were the final output figure, it would surpass the M2 CS by six horses and pound-feet.
We’re still waiting to see what the new M3 CS and M4 CS bring, but BMW fans have already been beating drums to say the coming M2 will be the last pure BMW M car — assuming the M2 rumors of rear-wheel drive and a six-speed manual come true. And perhaps the last one with a bite-sized kidney grille, too.
Production starts in San Luis Potosi toward the end of this year, running through July 2029 according to a BMW insider.


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Over half of Korea's streaming service users log on at least 5 days a week: Study
More than 60 percent of streaming service users in Korea use the platforms at least five days a week, according to a report by the Korea Communications Commission on Tuesday.
The most preferred video streaming platform was YouTube.
The report titled “2022 Study on the Usage of Broadcasting Media” (translated) surveyed 6,708 men and women over the age of 13, in 4,287 households nationwide, between June and August 2022.
According to the respondents, 72 percent of those surveyed use some form of video streaming service; a slight increase from last year's 69.5 percent. The average time spent watching videos on such platforms was 1 hour and 29 minutes a day, with 95.7 percent watching more than once a week and 60.7 percent watching five times a week or more.
The most preferred video streaming service was YouTube (66.1 percent), followed by Netflix (31.5 percent), Tving (7.8 percent) and Wavve (6.1 percent).
Users mainly watched celebrity videos or entertainment shows (67.2 percent), drama series (49.6 percent), news (31.4 percent), sports (22.9 percent) and current events and arts (21.8 percent).
Most watched them on their smartphones, 89.1 percent, a slight decrease compared to last year's 92.2 percent. As of today, 93.4 percent of Koreans own a personal smartphone, and the number has largely remained consistent over the past three years. The elder generations, however, showed an increase in smartphone ownership; 93.8 percent of people in their 60s owned at least one.
The number of people watching the content on a television screen increased from 12.4 percent last year to 16.2 percent.
Seventy percent of respondents said that smartphones were the most necessary device in everyday life, while television, the runner-up, was only chosen by 27.5 percent. Less than 2 percent replied that a personal desktop computer, laptop, newspaper or radio were essential.
Around 90.1 percent use their smartphones and 75.5 percent watched television more than five times a week. The older the respondent was, the more they tended to watch television.
Only half, or 50.7 percent, of respondents over the age of 70 used smartphones, which is less than half the number of other age groups.
Overall, 95.4 percent of households owned a television, while that figure was 90.4 percent for one-person households.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The makers of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" and game publisher Activision Blizzard Inc. have agreed to lay down arms in a legal fight over millions of dollars in royalties.
The two sides said Thursday that they had settled the matter out of court. The terms were not disclosed.
Activision, a subsidiary of France's Vivendi SA, said it doesn't believe the settlement's one-time expense will materially affect its earnings outlook for the current quarter or calendar year due to unexpectedly good performance recently.
Jason West and Vincent Zampella, former heads of Activision game studio Infinity Ward, had sued Activision for wrongful dismissal after the company fired them in March 2010. The pair claimed they were fired to avoid paying them bonuses and sought more than $36 million based on the game's profits following its release in November 2009. They later raised their claim to over $1 billion.
Activision countersued, accusing them of conspiring to take their secrets to rival Electronic Arts Inc. and breaching their contractual and financial duties. Activision also said West and Zampella poisoned the atmosphere at Infinity Ward against Activision, prompting dozens of developers to follow them out the door.


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Nintendo has announced that Brain Age is coming to Nintendo Switch! The game releases on December 27th in Japan as Brain Age: Nintendo Switch Training. A stylus will be sold with the game and can be purchased separately. New features with this Brain Age game include online leader-boards and world tournaments. Here’s the new trailer:
Currently, a western release date is unknown. Stay tuned at Final Weapon for the latest Nintendo Switch news!


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A web designer asked to redesign an alleged scam tax returns site said he didn’t want to reveal the “smoke and mirrors” too early in the payment process.
The taxreturngateway site took £5.47million in five months in fees from users who were charged up to £1,000 each.
Many users thought their money was going directly to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), Teesside Crown Court heard.
Prosecutors claim the website was deliberately designed to mislead users into believing they were dealing directly with HMRC.
In another email, web designer Mike Kenny said that “people might be inclined to catch on” if their tax estimates provided by site were in round numbers.
“You might like to consider if that is the language of a legitimate business,” prosecutor Jonathan Sandiford told the jury. Jamie Wyatt, Michael Hughes, Stephen Oliver and Richard Hough are all accused of fraud in relation to their taxreturngateway website, which was run from offices in Sunderland.
Mr Kenny is named as a co-conspirator, but is not on trial.
Closing his remarks to the jury, Mr Sandiford said:
“The intention was to deceive users so they assumed the majority of their payment was used for what can only have been their tax bill to HMRC.”
The jury was told the website came “under pressure” after users complained to the Press, Trading Standards and HMRC.
Amanda Bowring, a lawyer employed by HMRC, said: “We were getting complaints, there was clearly confusion in the minds of the public.”
Graham Trembath QC, defending Oliver, said: “There was a disclaimer on the taxreturngateway site, which also said they were a registered agent of HMRC.
“Saying they are a registered agent for HMRC clearly says they are not HMRC.”
Ms Bowing replied: “As a general policy, HMRC ask agents not to use their registration status in publicity material.”
Mr Trembath said HMRC had previously suggested changes to the site, which the defendants had made promptly.
He likened the site’s service to the ‘check and send’ service offered by the Post Office to people applying for a passport.
Ms Bowring agreed the changes had been made.
Jamie Wyatt, 27, and Michael Hughes, 26, both of Peartree Rise, Seaton, Seaham, Stephen Oliver, 47, of The Folly, West Boldon, and Richard Hough, 43, of Thorpe Waterville, Kettering, Northants, deny conspiracy to defraud between June, 2013, and June, 2014.
Wyatt, Hughes, and Oliver deny a second charge of conspiring to defraud by denying consumers the right to cancel under distance selling regulations.


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Shares of Cirrus Logic (CRUS 0.42%) have dipped more than 7% in 2022 so far, despite the company releasing a solid fiscal 2022 third-quarter report on Jan. 31.
Cirrus stock has lost more than 4% of its value since the release of the quarterly report. This seems a tad harsh given that the company's top and bottom lines crushed expectations by a huge margin, and the guidance was way ahead of expectations as well. Not surprisingly, analysts covering Cirrus stock expect it to deliver solid upside.
The stock has a median share price target of $110 and a high estimate of $120, which would translate into a 42% upside from its closing price on Feb. 11. Cirrus stock seems capable of delivering such impressive upside given the pace at which it is growing and the multiple catalysts it is sitting on.
Cirrus Logic is stepping up its game
Cirrus Logic's fiscal Q3 revenue shot up 13% year over year to $548 million, while adjusted earnings increased 19% to $2.54 per share. The numbers were way better than Wall Street's expectations, as analysts were looking for $2.14 per share in non-GAAP earnings on $510 million in revenue.
The better-than-expected performance wasn't surprising, as supply chain improvements at Apple (AAPL 0.74%) -- Cirrus' largest customer -- had set the chipmaker up for a strong start to 2022. Apple uses Cirrus' power conversion chips and audio codecs in its iPhones, and accounted for 82% of its top line last quarter. The iPhone maker blew past Wall Street's expectations when it released its fiscal 2022 first-quarter results on Jan. 27 on the back of robust demand for its products, and Cirrus followed suit.
Even better, Cirrus' guidance for the current quarter was way better than what analysts were looking for. Cirrus expects $420 million in revenue this quarter at the midpoint of its guidance range, which points toward a massive jump of 43% over the prior-year period's revenue of $294 million. Cirrus says that this huge year-over-year top-line increase would be driven by a combination of higher volumes, an improvement in average selling prices (ASPs), and content gains in the high-performance mixed-signal business, which has been gaining terrific traction of late.
Analysts were looking for just $356 million in revenue from Cirrus this quarter, but it is clear that they underestimated the company's growth drivers. Let's see why Cirrus' growth is about to step on the gas this quarter, and why the company could sustain its newly-found momentum in the long run.
Apple is going to expand the chipmaker's addressable market
It is evident that Cirrus' fortunes are closely tied to Apple, and that's good news for the chipmaker, for two reasons. First, it has gained content at Apple, as the latest generation iPhones come with a power conversion chip from Cirrus in addition to the audio codecs that the latter has historically supplied to the tech titan. This explains why Cirrus management pointed out in the shareholder letter that it is seeing higher ASPs.
The second reason why Cirrus' close Apple relationship bodes well for the chipmaker is because of a potential improvement in iPhone volumes this year. Counterpoint Research estimates that Apple shipped a record 238 million iPhones last year, and it is expected to smash that record in 2022 as per various estimates. Apple's 2022 iPhone shipment estimates range from 259 million units to as high as 300 million units.
Mizuho Securities estimates that the pent-up demand and easing supply chain constraints could lead Apple to make 66 million iPhones in the current quarter that ends in March, an increase of 20% over the year-ago period. So Cirrus' bright forecast seems logical, as higher production at Apple and more content in each iPhone could likely give its revenue and earnings a significant boost.
What's more, Apple's 2022 shipments could hit the higher end of the forecasted range, as the company is reportedly on track to expand its portfolio with a 5G-enabled, entry-level iPhone SE next month. With the device's price expected to range between $269 and $399 as per JPMorgan analysts' estimates (after accounting for trade-ins), the budget-friendly 5G iPhone is expected to give Apple's sales a big boost.
JPMorgan points out that Apple could produce 30 million units of this rumored device in 2022. More importantly, the investment bank estimates that a budget-friendly 5G iPhone could help Apple attract as many as 1.4 billion customers from the Android ecosystem, while also encouraging 300 million existing iPhone users to upgrade.
So Cirrus' chips could be deployed in an additional Apple device that's expected to put up strong volumes. Also, Apple is expected to expand its lineup further next year with a foldable phone, according to noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International securities.
Cirrus stock is a terrific bargain
In all, the solid prospects of Cirrus' largest customer should lead to long-term growth and help the semiconductor stock deliver the impressive upside that the market expects it to. Analysts anticipate Cirrus' earnings to increase at an annual rate of 15% for the next five years, which would be a huge improvement compared to a flat earnings performance over the past five.
With the stock trading at just 19 times trailing earnings and 14 times forward earnings, buying Cirrus stock right now is a no-brainer, as it is cheaper than the S&P 500 index and looks primed for substantial upside.


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On Monday Sony announced that it has agreed to work with Panasonic in developing a next-generation standard for an optical disc with at least 300 GB of storage by 2015.
The agreement arrives after both companies, who previously developed products based on the Blu-ray format, realized that optical discs will need larger capacities in years to come, especially as growth in the archive market continues to accelerate. Yet, why continue to use optical discs? Hard drives and solid-state drives have plenty of storage capacity, right? They're not long-term solutions.
"Optical disks have excellent properties to protect them against the environment, such as dust-resistance and water-resistance, and can also withstand changes in temperature and humidity when stored," the companies said in a statement. "They also allow inter-generational compatibility between different formats, ensuring that data can continue to be read even as formats evolve. This makes them a robust medium for long-term storage of content."
This standard will be based on technologies each developed separately, Sony said. Just last year, Sony commercialized a file-based archive system in its XDCAM series of professional broadcasting products which housed twelve 25 GB optical discs within a single, compact cartridge. In July, Panasonic launched the LB-DM9 series of optical disc storage devices which uses a magazine of twelve 100 GB optical discs. A maximum of 90 magazines can be stored in the LB-DM9, totaling 108 TB (the announcement claims 180 TB).
"In recent years, there has been an increasing need for archive capabilities, not only from video production industries, such as motion pictures and broadcasting, but also from cloud data centers that handle increasingly large volumes of data following the evolution in network services," Sony said. "By actively promoting the adoption of a new standard for next-generation high-capacity optical discs, they intend to offer solutions that preserve valuable data for future generations."
Sony and Panasonic will continue to hold discussions regarding the specifications and other items relating to the development of this new standard, the company said.
300GB? So what?
Streaming is the way to go. If we want to store larger files, we can use internal or external HDDs/SSDs.
Internet speeds keep improving. By the time 4K is the standard HDTV format (5 years+?), our internet connections will be able to easily carry the 4K signal.
If the LB-DM9 has advanced compression tech it might store a max of 180 TB on 108 TB of Disk.
That said, not everything in technology has to be based on how useful it is to "you" let alone no one can map out the net benefits to other technologies this may aid in developing.


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The Importance of Data Loss Prevention for Macs
By Mr. Filip Cotfas, Channel Manager, CoSoSys
In the last ten years, Macs have gradually made their way into the workplace. Their number has increased through Apple’s own efforts to improve their products for use in the enterprise, such as their transition to M1 chips and system extensions, but also the implementation of Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) and Choose-Your-Own-Device (CYOD) policies, which allowed employees to decide on the type of device they want to work on.
macOS device use across enterprises has increased in the business environment. This widespread use of Apple devices in business is making many companies rethink their approach to endpoint provisioning, management, and, more importantly, security.
The risk of insider threats
With its solid Unix-based architecture, native encryption options, and new kextless mode, macOS has never been more secure. However, while Macs might be more secure against brute force and malware attacks, they are just as vulnerable to one of the biggest threats to data security: the people operating them. Employees are at the root of some of the most disastrous data breaches in history, whether through carelessness, turning malicious, or falling for phishing or social engineering attacks.
The number of security incidents caused by insiders has increased by a staggering 47% since 2018, according to the Ponemon Institute’s 2020 Cost of Insider Threats Global Report, with human error alone accounting for 23% of all data breaches. A further 7% were due to malicious insiders, and 17% of external attacks used employees as an entry point into the company network.
The rise of data protection legislation
While in the past, companies may have been tempted to take their chances and rely on Macs’ advanced security to prevent data breaches, nowadays, protecting sensitive customer data is no longer a choice. Some of the world’s biggest companies, such as Google, H&M, and Marriott, have already been hit by fines. Reputational damage is also harder to overcome for small to mid-sized organizations as it increases the likelihood of lost business as customers choose competitors without a history of bad data security practices.
Protecting sensitive data with Data Loss Prevention
When it comes to sensitive data protection on Macs, solutions like antivirus and antimalware software that protect an entire device from outside tampering, are not effective. Employees need access to data to effectively perform their duties. Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions were developed to help companies secure data from human error by protecting sensitive data directly.
Using DLP, organizations can define what sensitive data means to them, whether it’s personally identifiable information (PII) or different categories of intellectual property (IP). Once defined, DLP policies can be applied to identify, monitor, and control the movements of files containing sensitive information. In this way, companies can prevent sensitive data from leaving Macs and ensure it is not transferred via insecure channels such as messaging apps, personal emails, or file-sharing services.
Removable devices, which can easily be lost or stolen, are another common data security concern for computers running on any operating system, including macOS. Device control features can help companies monitor the use of removable devices and identify which user has copied files to which devices, making it easy to spot suspicious insider activity that may result in data theft. DLP device control policies can limit or block the use of USB and peripheral ports as well as Bluetooth connections.
Some DLP solutions offer a higher degree of flexibility in policies, allowing companies to set restrictions and privileges based on groups, departments, devices, and even individuals. In this way, employees with access to sensitive data daily can have stronger policies without affecting the rest of the workforce.
When protecting data on Macs, companies must choose DLP products offering zero-day support for new macOS releases. This means that the product developers have access to macOS updates ahead of their public release and can test their software with them. Incompatibility with new updates can compromise a company’s data protection efforts and open the door to data loss. Organizations can ensure continuous data protection by choosing DLP products offering zero-day support.


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Samsung has again taken the nasty way of pulling down rival Apple's products in its latest commercials for Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1. In its latest commercial about the Galaxy Note 3, Samsung shows NBA star, LeBron James, to highlight the massive size difference between its 5.7-inch ''phablet'' and Apple''s iPhone 5S.
According to The Verge, in its ad for Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1, Samsung directly assaults Apple's iPad Air 'pencil' commercial with its voice-over actor saying 'it's an extremely simple tool, but also extremely pointy.''
The commercial goes on to show that the 'even thinner' Galaxy Tab Pro offers multitasking prowess along with being superior for watching videos. In an earlier commercial, Samsung poked fun at people waiting in queue for the latest iPhone5.


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In another jolt to the global technology giants Amazon and Google, a UK regulator has announced to open formal cases against the two tech companies over concerns that the two are unable to shield consumers from fake reviews.
According to the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), there were growing concerns that the two technology companies were not doing enough to protect customers from fake reviews, in “possible breaches of consumer protection law.”
The regulator said that the problem centres on reviews that customers can post online after buying items, with concerns that some businesses are posting fake reviews or paying people to write them — distorting the star ratings that many consumers rely on.
“We are investigating concerns that Amazon and Google have not been doing enough to prevent or remove fake reviews to protect customers and honest businesses,” said the CMA's chief executive, Andrea Coscelli.
The CMA is taking further action after it began a probe last year into how these platforms detect fake reviews, deal with and punish those who post them. If the regulator finds that Amazon and Google have broken the law, it can order them to formally commit to change, under threat of court action.


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SAP today announced the general availability of SAP HANA appliance software to customers globally, heralding a new generation of analytics, business applications and IT simplification with SAP in-memory computing technology. First conceived last spring, SAP HANA was delivered to select customers in November and is now generally available as promised. SAP HANA is one of the fastest growing sales pipelines for new products in SAP’s history. Learn more.
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AGEIA Responds To ATI's Triple Play
June 9, 2006 6:00 AM
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No games are being announced that supports ATI's method, says AGEIA
Earlier this week at Computex,
reported that ATI officially announces its solution to physics processing. Called Triple Play,
ATI's solution depends on three Radeon X1K series cards
, two of which operate in CrossFire mode while a third card is configured for physics processing. The Triple Play solution, says ATI, uses the raw gigaflop performance of the Radeon X1K series to process physics, but users are concerned at the approach. The fact that customers are forced to buy three ATI boards ended up being questionable for many users as costs quickly escalate. A system with two Radeons can still use one for physics calculations, but it is no longer dubbed Triple Play.
FiringSquad this week reported a response from AGEIA which attempts to explain the lack of value in ATI's solution. According to AGEIA, measuring the performance of physics processing by simply looking at the number of gigaflops in a GPU is analogous to saying that "the more wheels I have on my car, the faster I will go." AGEIA's vice president of marketing,
Michael Steele, said to FiringSquad
Graphics processors are designed for graphics. Physics is an entirely different environment. Why would you sacrifice graphics performance for questionable physics? You’ll be hard pressed to find game developers who don’t want to use all the graphics power they can get, thus leaving very little for anything else in that chip.
“Boundless Gaming” is actually enabled by AGEIA’s Gaming Power Triangle in which the PhysX processor adds true physics to the mix instead of leaving it to a repurposed graphics processor.
AGEIA further says that developers are announcing more and more games that support its PhysX product, while no one is announcing support for ATI's method. Steele also mentioned that while he's glad that ATI has agreed that physics is important, ATI is delivering a "questionable" solution to physics processing.
Steele also emphasized that PhysX is available now while ATI's solution is not.
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6/9/2006 6:41:27 AM
Honestly I think Ageia had problems to begin with
A) No Customizeable options yet.
B) Performance hit on CPU
C) PCI card that costs $299 ... PCI bus is not exactly future proof and for $300 I think it should at least still be good for another 2 years not if they keep PCI slots that long it will be good.
So lets see a card taht sits off the PCI-E bus and of course a 1K series ATI card can be loads cheaper if needed as a cheap solution. Side note most newer mobo's i've been viewing have less and less pci slots and when deciding between a X-fi sound card or physics I think most would go with teh X-fi.
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LAS VEGAS – Inspired by Mykonos, Élia Beach Club is scheduled to open at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas on June 10, Eater Las Vegas reported on April 21.
“The pool scene takes its inspiration from Mykonos, Greece, with wood-framed cabanas draped in fabric, jute woven poufs, and stonework accents,” Eater reported, adding that “the venue plans to showcase tropical house, world house, and deep house music,” and “a stage features a straw thatched roof and overlooks the Mediterranean-vibe pool.”
Among the features at Virgin Hotels “is an outdoor esplanade where diners can enter restaurants from their patios that look onto the pool scene,” Eater reported, noting that “Casa Calavera, the Mexican restaurant from Hakkasan Group, already opened with its sandy patio, while Todd English’s Olives, the sports bar Money, Baby!, and Kassi Beach House open soon.”
“Nightlife veterans Mio Danilovic, Jason ‘JROC’ Craig, and Michael Fuller plan to operate Élia Beach Club (pronounced ee-LYE-uh),” Eater reported, adding that “Danilovic, the creator and managing partner of the venue, recently opened Joia Beach in Miami.”
Élia Beach Club hours will be Thursday-Sunday, 11 AM-1 AM.


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Hyosung, the Korean multinational two wheeler manufacturer in collaboration with DSK Motorwheels - its new owner, recently pitched in its first ever motorcycle in India - Hyosung GT250R. The launch of this Hyosung GT250R came with a promising announcement by the Director of DSK Motorwheels, Mr. Shirish Kulkarni who said that the company was looking forward to set up a local production plant in India for the newly launched Hyosung GT 250R. With an investment of Rs. 300 crore raised completely by equity, this localisation will likely reduce the post-production price of the Hyosung GT250R from Rs. 2.75 lakh to Rs. 1.5-1.75 lakh. The site for the new production plant is yet to be decided but it is likely to come up and begin production in the next 18 months.
At the on-road price of Rs. 3.10 lakh for the Hyosung GT250R, the company aims to sell as many as 3000 units per year. What is to be seen is whether the buyer prefers to buy the Hyosung GT250R at this price or decides to invest another Rs. 1.2 lakh and buy a Hyosung GT650N instead. However, with localisation and subsequent decrease in price the GT250R may prove to be the bike of choice. The Hyosung collection of 600cc + superbikes have seen the light of glory owing to the assailing costing.
Two other awaited launches by the DSK Motorwheels are the Hyosung GV250 and Hyosung GV650 that are expected in the next 8 months. These two cruisers promise to be fun for the experienced riders and safe and easy for the beginners. Bike lovers will also vigilantly await the naked version of GT250 which may be available only the next year. Costing around Rs. 50000 less than the GT250R, the GT250 supplemented with the additional benefit of local production will surely be a threat to the KTM Duke 200.


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It's also getting tested out on cows.
Face scanning isn't just for humans anymore.
Norwegian fish farming giant Cermaq plans to roll out facial recognition technology at salmon farms that scan each fish's head for sea lice, Bloomberg Businessweek reported Monday. Each individual fish will reportedly have a medical record that's tracked over time.
The spread of sea lice in salmon farms is a big problem that could cost the global salmon industry $1 billion annually, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. Cermaq's system uses cameras enabled for 3D scanning, which can tell salmon apart by remembering the pattern of spots around the fish's eyes, mouth and gills. If the salmon has lice or skin disease, the infected fish will reportedly be separated and treated.
While farming industries may see facial recognition as a way to increase production, its use on people by law enforcement has raised privacy concerns. Some companies have also developed facial recognition technology for school security and airport security.
Cermaq is testing the fish facial recognition with Norwegian tech company BioSort. And Cermaq isn't the only farming company that's testing facial recognition technology. US agriculture giant Cargill is also trying out the tech on cows to adjust feeding components in order to increase milk production, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.
"The iFarm is a concept that we plan to develop depending we get the approval for the licenses needed," said Lise Bergan, corporate affairs director at Cermaq, in an email statement. "The development period will be 6 years. The initial tests we have been doing leave us optimistic, and we are hopeful that we will succeed in developing iFarm."
"We have completed 9 months of testing in a small pen with 2000 fish and proven that the principles work, but has also learned that it is not straight forward," said Geir Hauge, CEO of BioSort AS, in an email statement. "We plan to start a new test with 10.000 fish in November and in parallel we are preparing for tests in large commercial scale pens with 150-200.000 fish."
Cargill didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
First published on Oct. 8, 10:19 a.m. PT.
Updates, Oct. 8, 12:45 p.m. PT: Adds Cermaq spokesperson and BioSort AS CEO Geir Hauge statements.


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Byju's today announced the appointment of Puneet Bhirani as Senior Vice President-Operations.
In his role, Bhirani will oversee the company’s overall operations strategy as well as build a strong and innovative technological support to scale the business. Given the company’s growth across new products and platforms, he will strengthen internal capacity as per the strategic objectives, the company said in a press release.
Pravin Prakash, Chief People Officer, Byju's said, “Puneet brings in a wealth of experience coupled with deep understanding of business operations. We believe his joining will be a great value addition to the team and look forward to supporting him along the way.”
Bhirani said, “I am extremely excited to be a part of the team that’s redefining the online learning space and making quality education accessible to all students. I am looking forward to becoming an integral part of the brand’s upheaval and introducing new practices to continue the seamless momentum of existing processes.”
Before joining Byju's, Puneet was the Chief Executive officer of Ola Fleet and Group Chief Operating Officer at Ola across mobility, foods, and Ola electric. A CXO with over 24 years of cross-cultural experience across India, the UK, and the US, he brings on board his expertise in business transformation, new business setup and expansion, business development and cost/ resource optimization across various domains. He holds an Advanced MBA degree from the University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and an MBA from S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research.


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Despite uncertainty in global conditions, the Victorian wool industry continues to show optimism, largely thanks to a jump in clothing sales - both formal and athleisure - as people go back into the office and COVID-19 restrictions ease.
For Avington Merino stud managing director Noel Henderson, Sidonia, clothing sales have continued strong despite the increasing uptake of casual wear over the past few years.
Mr Henderson, who is also a board member of Australian Wool Innovation, is buoyed by innovative, new styles of clothing that provide opportunities for studs across Victoria.
"For the last two years people haven't actually been buying suits," Mr Henderson said.
"They've been generally buying casual clothing online and certainly the trend that is developing worldwide is away from more formal clothing, and is developing towards more casual climbing, which has been accelerated by COVID itself and people at home.
"On a former scale, the average businessman had five suits, at least probably six, but nowadays they may only have two because they'd only be going to the office two or three days a week."
However, the excitement for Mr Henderson comes in the development of suit innovation for new workplace situations.
"For instance, Hugo Boss is about to release a more casual suit which is made not with a woven fibre but with a knitted fibre," he said.
"There are now some very clever knitting machines that can do either flatbed knitting or circular knitting and companies like Hugo Boss will be the first in the market to utilise it.
"[These suits] will be a more relaxed fit, easier to wear and people are more likely to adapt."
While Mr Henderson is not sure how much these new innovative suits will cost, he "can't imagine it being any cheaper but it will certainly sell".
He said AWI would look to promote such creativity in clothing, like woolen next-to-skin wear and business shirts and that there would continue to be assistance in development of the technical aspect to enable that to happen.
"There have been studies here in Australia, the US and elsewhere which show that people are more relaxed in these suits with the fibre breathing, leading to better sleep for people as well," he said.
"We are as an industry trying to get over those superstitions about wool, like it being prickly to wear.
"That is no longer the case with the way wool is processed now with even the development of next-to-skinwear coming down to 16 micron in many cases."
While Mr Henderson said there was still a reason for caution, considering the conflict in Ukraine and ongoing COVID shutdowns in China, but there was strong industry resilience.
"I think that the influence of COVID has dampened the market slightly, but it's hard to separate at the moment because the currency issues that have developed as a result of what's happening in Ukraine are starting to cause some consternation because the the Australian dollar has been rising," he said.
"Whilst we get paid in Australian dollars here, the world market for wool operates in US dollars, so ultimately that's affecting what is happening with price."
Rabobank's Agribusiness Outlook 2022 showed while consumer confidence was going down, in the big markets of US and China, there are positive factors that will push prices higher.
Rabobank agricultural analyst Dennis Voznesenski said trends were expected to grow stronger through 2022 and rise above general retail apparel sales.
"First, US retail apparel sales are continuing to grow, with December data showing an 18 per cent rise versus pre-pandemic levels," Mr Voznesenski said.
"Second, the latest woollen suit import data for October 2021 shows a full recovery to pre-pandemic levels in France and only 26pc below pre-pandemic levels in the US."
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SEOUL • The fate of South Korea's kimchi industry rests on whether China considers it pickled or not.
When China reclassified the fermented cabbage dish several years ago, Korean exports of kimchi evaporated. As a pickled product, it did not meet China's strict import hygiene standards.
Now, China has pledged to reconsider the designation, a concession that could pave the way for a new boom in exports since the two countries sealed a broad trade deal.
The episode over kimchi, a source of deep culinary and cultural pride in South Korea, reflects the sometimes complicated relationship that China has with its neighbours.
As China looks to deepen its trade ties around the region, such pockets of tension could flare up, creating challenges for its ambitions.
For years, cheaper Chinese kimchi imports flowed into South Korea, undercutting local producers, who were not permitted to export to China. The subject became such a sore point that kimchi was left out of important trade talks with China for years.
China looms large in South Korea's economy. It is South Korea's biggest partner, with bilateral trade totalling US$235 billion (S$321 billion), according to the most recent figures from the Korea International Trade Association.
That is roughly twice the amount with the United States. And neither South Korea nor China is part of the negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a US-led trade deal that the Obama administration has said is a way to strengthen its economic links in Asia.
China is pursuing a string of smaller pacts across Asia, using its financial heft and global influences to its advantage. In its first major move, China signed a free-trade agreement with South Korea last month.
Under the agreement, each country will scrap tariffs on more than 90 per cent of goods, including medical equipment, electronics and kimchi, over the next 20 years.
The deal is expected to increase trade between the countries to US$300 billion, according to estimates from the South Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.
For South Korea's kimchi industry, it should have been a victory. Kimchi, a pungent cabbage that, traditionally, is buried for months and carries a powerful smell, holds a special place in South Korea. It has been on the table at every meal.
But the producers, in factories across the country, are still reeling from a bureaucratic change in China. By classifying kimchi as pickled goods, the Chinese government basically blocked all imports of the product from South Korea.
Kimchi is fermented and has high levels of bacteria. As such, it did not pass the hygiene standards normally applied to pickled goods, which are sterilised and have low amounts of bacteria.
In a few short years, South Korea's once-growing kimchi trade with China evaporated, from hundreds of thousands of dollars of exports a year to just US$108 in 2013 and US$16,800 last year. Instead, cabbage is flowing in the opposite direction, with China now exporting hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of kimchi a year to South Korea.
Even if the rules change, it may be difficult to reverse the damage.
As cheap Chinese kimchi has flooded the market in South Korea, local producers have struggled to hold on to their business. Some have moved their factories to China to keep costs down. Others have closed their factories. Ms Kim Soon Ja, the chief executive of Hansung Food, said she had been left with little choice but to lower the price of her kimchi products.
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For the third consecutive time, Ghana has witnessed a decline in inflation, reaching a rate of 35.2% in October. This marks a noteworthy decrease of 2.9 percentage points from the 38.1% recorded in September.
According to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) data released by the Ghana Statistical Service on Tuesday, November 14, the breakdown reveals that food inflation stood at 44.8%, while non-food inflation was at 27.7%.
The timing of this release is significant, aligning with Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta’s imminent presentation of the 2024 Budget Statement and Economic Policy to Parliament on Wednesday, November 15. The positive development of declining inflation rates is particularly highlighted by the Government Statistician, Prof. Samuel Kobina Annim.


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I saw no news today that changes anything in my thinking. Items like the huge drop in retail sales in December, the breakup of Citigroup, the new bankruptcy filings by companies like Nortel and Gottschalks, etc., only reinforce my themes. A prolonged sideways market remains my baseline.
But, there were a few items of note:
1) The recession is global: England is implementing programs to stimulate bank lending to small businesses; Ireland may need assistance from the IMF; Greece’s and Portugal’s credit rating were lowered by S&P (Spain is being warned of similar downgrade); German GDP is contacting; Deutsche Bank blames “exceptional conditions” for a full-year loss.
2) Bernanke says the banking / credit crisis is not over and requires further stimulus. Also that the timing and strength of any economic recovery is uncertain.
3) While slowing dramatically, China is still showing positive growth and has overtaken Germany as the world’s #3 economy (behind the US and Japan).


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Domestic tourism in Turkey has begun as it returns to "new normal," and the country is revving up efforts to gradually reopen to international travelers.
In this regard, hotels have started to design their facilities, including buffets, lobbies, and pools, to maintain social distancing.
A safe tourism certification program has also been introduced to ensure if airlines, airports, and other transportation facilities, accommodations, and food venues are fulfilling the set hygiene standards.
Hotels and restaurants are submitting their applications to obtain the certificate based on 150 control points.
According to Muberra Eresin, the head of the Turkish Tourist Hotels and Investors Association (TUROB), Turkey's certification program is one of the most comprehensive in the world.
Pointing to the detailed inspection from the entrance of the hotel to the emergency exit, from rooms to the kitchens, and from halls to the pools, Namli said the certificates will be hung [at reception or in the lobby] such that all customers could see, and find out further details through a QR code.
"For the first time in Turkey, we will audit hotels and restaurants according to criteria similar to NASA's health and hygiene standards," he said.
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After seeing the best ever Black Friday week in the history of PlayStation, Sony has announced that worldwide PlayStation 4 sales to consumers have crossed 50 million, as of December 6. This includes sales of PS4 Pro, which launched last month, but Sony didn’t say how many units the new console sold on its own.
PS4 software is also doing well, with Sony estimating that more than 369.6 million copies have been sold through retail stores and the PlayStation Store worldwide as of December 4.
Sony Interactive Entertainment President Andrew House said:
We’re truly delighted that the PS4 community continues to flourish since launch three years ago. With tremendous support from our fans and partners across the globe, this year we were able to deliver an unprecedented lineup of hardware such as the new slimmer PS4, PS4 Pro and PlayStation VR. We will continue to provide the best gaming experiences available through our ground-breaking software lineup and network services, as we focus on accelerating our business and expanding the PS4 ecosystem.
Sony’s last PS4 sales update came in May, where the system was at 40 million units sold and 271 million pieces of software sold. Sony expects PS4 sales to reach 60 million by the end of March 2017.


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Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without Stilton. But in news that will have traditionalists choking on their port, the “king of cheese” is coming under threat from a new breed of British blues. Inspired by the success of Continental cheeses, such as Cambozola and Saint Agur, British cheesemakers are creating innovative new blues that are muscling their way on to the Christmas cheeseboard.
“This is crazy, silly season for us – it’s full steam ahead from now until January,” says a surprisingly unflustered Caroline Bell, joint managing director of pioneering blue cheese company Shepherd’s Purse in Yorkshire. Set up in the Nineties by pharmacist-turned-cheesemaker Judy Bell (Caroline’s mother), the business is at the vanguard of the British blues explosion, producing 210 tons of blue cheese a year, including the sheep’s milk Mrs Bell’s Blue, and two soft, velvety cow’s milk cheeses, Harrogate Blue and Yorkshire Blue.
“Outside of Stilton there wasn’t a huge amount of choice for British blues when we started,” says Bell. “We saw a gap in the market and started on a long journey of learning how difficult it is to make blue cheese. There are so many variables in cheesemaking, but when you add Penicillium roqueforti [the mould that makes cheese blue] you bring a whole other layer of chaos.”
Encouraging an even spread of the living, breathing blue mould is a fiendishly tricky task, she explains, dependent on acidity, temperature and humidity. “They are softer, more delicate cheeses,” she says. “We use different strains of blue mould, which aren’t as spicy and powerful, so they are mellow and rounded.”
It’s a flavour profile that has hit a sweet spot with the public. Sales have grown by more than 10 per cent a year thanks to listings in M&S, Tesco and Morrisons. Sales of Stilton are down 3.5 per cent in the 12 months to November 2018, according to Kantar, the data firm. In the same period, soft and creamy Cambozola grew 18 per cent.
Third-generation Stilton-maker Robin Skailes at Cropwell Bishop in Nottinghamshire is all too aware of the trends. “Stilton is not a growing cheese, which is a bit of a worry,” he says. “It’s suffered from competition from much larger European producers, who can promote their products more aggressively in supermarkets, and new British blues have nibbled away at sales in delis and cheese shops.”
In the spirit of “if you can’t beat them, join them”, Skailes decided to become part of the blue revolution five years ago, creating the Gorgonzola-esque Beauvale. The soft cow’s milk cheese has a squidgy texture and mild creamy flavour that has won it several awards and a place in the cheese counters of Waitrose and Harrods.
“Market research suggests that 35 is the age when people start to try Stilton, while younger people prefer softer, milder blues,” he says. “That was one of the reasons for Beauvale. We were missing out on a huge part of the market.”
The sheer number of new British blues means the market is becoming crowded, says Cheshire-based artisan cheesemaker Claire Burt. “There’s definitely more competition now, with lots of people making good cheese,” she says. “It’s tough, but exciting.”
Burt’s Cheese is a tiny player, making just 7.5 tons a year for customers such as Booths and The Wine Society, so has worked to differentiate itself by pushing the boundaries of blue cheese even further. As well as its signature Burt’s Blue, it also makes Drunken Burt, which is washed in cider, and DiVine, which is wrapped in vine leaves.
“The benefit of these softer blues is they are ready at about six weeks [compared with 12 weeks for Stilton],” she says. “That’s a lot less money tied up in the maturing room, which is good for cash-flow.”
Back at Cropwell Bishop, Skailes is quick to reassure concerned Stilton lovers that Britain’s most famous blue can hold its own against the new pretenders.
“We’re seeing exports growing to the US and Australia, where Stilton is seen as a really good-quality British product,” he says. “It’s also still a mainstay on every cheese counter in Britain. These new blues complement Stilton. They get people talking about British blue cheese, which benefits everyone.”
Five new-wave British blues (with alternative festive drink matches)
Beauvale and English sparkling wine
Beauvale (below) has a luscious, silky texture and milky flavour that coats the tongue. A crisp sparkling wine cuts through the cream and refreshes the palate, says cheesemaker Robin Skailes. He recommends a flute of Chapel Down Brut, which has bready aromas and a quince finish.
Drunken Burt and cider
A cheese with a drink habit, Drunken Burt is tumbled in Gwatkins Golden Valley cider as it matures to give the rind a tangy flavour (instead of being pierced to encourage blue veining). A medium sweet cider is the obvious match, complementing the rind and bringing sweetness to the saltiness of the cheese. If you can’t find Golden Valley, try Orchard Pig Charmer.
Harbourne Blue and sloe gin
Made by Devon-based Ticklemore Dairy, Harbourne Blue is one of just a handful of blue goat’s cheeses made in the UK. The flavour ranges from bright, zingy lactic notes to floral, fudgey or even fruity flavours. Sipsmith Sloe Gin works across them all, bringing leafy, plummy depth.
Lanark Blue and Pedro Ximénez sherry
Scotland’s answer to Roquefort, Errington’s Lanark Blue is a fiery sheep’s milk cheese (once described as a “kilt-lifter”) that bucks the trend for sweet creamy blues. It’s spicy, salty flavour is tempered by the rich Christmas cake notes of Pedro Ximénez sherry. Very Rare PX Sherry from M&S is a winner.
Cornish Blue and stout
Cornish Blue was named the best cheese on the planet at the 2010 World Cheese Awards thanks to its sweet, hazelnut flavour. It’s a cheese crying out for something dark and seductive on a winter’s night. Step forward Bristol Beer Factory’s Milk Stout, which has a rich, chocolatey body that cuddles up to the cheese.
£16-18/kg, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose


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MapMyFITNESS (Austin, Texas) has announced $3 million in financing from Square 1 Bank. The investment follows a $9 million Series B round led by Austin Venture Partners and Milestone Venture Partners. MapMyFITNESS is a health and fitness technology company that runs a social network for fitness enthusiasts. Its network of websites and mobile applications includes MapMyRUN, MapMyRIDE, MapMyWALK, MapMyMOUNTAIN, and MapMyDOGWALK.
Users get access to a searchable database of more than 45 million global routes, online training tools, fitness calculators, nutrition tracking and event listings. “After surpassing the 10 million registered users mark – including 4 million in only the past six months – our goal is to keep innovating ways for our members to keep improving their fitness, nutrition, and overall health,” said Richard Jalichandra, CEO of MapMyFITNESS.
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