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Back in April thousands landed in Bristol from across the globe for the biggest virtual reality conference in Europe – VR World Congress (VWRC).
The event, which is in its third year, showcased virtual, augmented and mixed reality technology as well as speakers specialising in some of the most advanced virtual reality technologies from the South West and beyond.
It was an event that was not to be missed. So, for those who did, you’ll be pleased to know that you can now catch up on many of the talks and panels via the VRWC YouTube channel.
Particularly impressive was the conference’s high-tech highlights video which you can see below:
You can also check out some of TechSPARK’s highlight talks, featuring some of the South West’s most innovative virtual reality tech as well as VR’s global stars, below:
Trying To Connect – Daniel Efergan, Aardman
Daniel Efergan is the Group Creative Director of Digital at Bristol-based Aardman Animations. His talk dissected Aardman projects to look at how emotional connections between audience and story are established in VR, and how genuine mastery of this new medium is a long way off.
The importance of touch: Mid-air haptic feedback for VR & AR – Tom Carter, Ultrahaptics
Touch is essential for VR and AR experiences to feel real and respond intuitively to users’ interactions. Haptics allow us to feel immersed in our activities, feel in control of our actions and feel connected to the virtual environment and social interactions they enable. Tom Carter, the Founder of Bristol-based Ultrahaptics, discussed how the company’s incredible haptics technology provides this new level of immersion.
UWE: Learning in 3D: making education more real and inclusive – Dr MariCarmen Gil Ortega
Maria, a senior lecturer at the University of the West of England spoke about the design of virtual learning experiences and the affordances of immersive 3D virtual world environments for education and training.
Panel: VR Finance – Startup to Scaleup ft. TLT, BFI, Immerse UK, Accelerated Digital Ventures, Business West
Featuring specialists from across the South West including local investor Andy Mulvenna, Phillip Tellwright – an Innovation Specialist at Business West – and Jon Gill – a Corporate Partner at Bristol-based tech law specialists TLT – to name just a few, this panel was brought together to discuss the important matter of funding. Topics included financing options available at the moment and the trends that investors and the government are keen to explore.
Practical advice for optimising for mobile VR – Lukas Roper, Good Sport Games
Lukas, a Bristol-based freelance VR Developer at Good Sport Games, used his talk to give practical advice gained from personal experiences, detailing tips and tricks for optimising mobile VR. There’s plenty of advice to give, but his talk focusses on how to actually use that advice in real-life situations.
Creating magical experiences: Behind the scenes with Google Daydream and Warner Bros Fantastic Beasts VR – Resh Sidhu, Framestore
Framestore VR took fans of the wizarding world on a Fantastic Beasts virtual reality experience in the most immersive mobile VR experience built exclusively for Google Daydream. Resh Sidhu, Creative Director VR Studio, shared the lessons learned, the creative process from concept to reality and the challenges and solutions they found to deliver this award-winning experience.
Pokemon Go 2.0: Next gen localisation for AR – Ed Miller, Scape AR
Over the past few years, AR content creators have been limited to creating ‘marker-based’ AR experiences, using toolsets such as Vuforia or ARToolkit. In this session Ed – an interactive imagery specialist at Scape AR – walked the audience through a new tool for creating city-scale AR content, allowing developers and creatives to truly bring the virtual world to life.
- You may like: Pokemon GO: How to get started in Bristol and Bath
VR’s Out-of-home Opportunity – Kevin Williams, KWP
Kevin, Founder of out-of-home interactive entertainment consultancy KWP Ltd, spoke about the possibilities for VR to grow outside of the home.
Panel: Reaching out: the importance of touch in VR
This panel explored the part haptics must play in the future of truly immersive, interactive experiences. From tactile experiences to kinesthesis, the panel covered the information that a sense of touch can give the user, what current technologies can do to simulate this information and how they see haptics being brought to virtual worlds in the future.
Designing for VR/AR – Mary Cassin, Google
Mary graduated from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2016 with a major in game art and design. She interned at Intel developing an augmented reality prototype for their RealSense camera and now works at Google in their VR department, Daydream, as a user experience engineer. Her talk covered the technical and design limitations of VR and AR and how to overcome those challenges.
Check out the full list of 2017 speakers and panels on the VR World Congress website and take a look at all the recorded talks on the VR World Congress YouTube channel. You can also stay up to date with plans for VRWC 2018 and more by following them on Twitter here: @VRWorldCongress.


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Mumbai: Exide Industries Ltd on Tuesday reported a 35% rise in net profit in April-June quarter on higher sales and better margins, beating analysts expectations.
“Overall volume growth was robust and higher volume growth has substantially supported the topline growth of the company,” said Vaishali Jajoo, analyst at Angel Broking.
In April-June, Exide reported a net profit of Rs165 crore compared with Rs122 crore a year ago. Net sales rose to Rs1,150 crore from Rs903 crore.
A Reuters poll of brokerages had expected Exide to report a quarterly net profit of Rs143 crore on net sales of Rs1,070 crore.
“Our continued focus on cost reduction and product mix is once again reflected in this quarter’s overall performance,” TV Ramanathan, chief executive officer, said in a statement.
Exide has acquired smelting and refining units in Pune and Bangalore to meet a majority of its lead requirements locally and protect itself against lead price volatility and maintain margins.
Its board on Tuesday approved acquiring the entire holding in its Bangalore smelting unit Leadage Alloys India Ltd, where Exide presently holds 51%.
“The higher profitability figures are satisfactory considering the continued volatility in raw material prices and foreign exchange rates even as competition from cheaper imports from neighbouring countries continued unabated,” Exide said.
The firm will also start production at its new motorcycle battery manufacturing plant at Ahmednagar in Maharastra, it said, without giving a timeline.
Exide shares ended up 2.41% at Rs135.75 in a firm Mumbai share market.

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Xiaomi, China’s largest smartphone player and the fifth largest worldwide, came under fire recently after a report by Finnish security firm F-Secure uncovered evidence that Xiaomi’s cloud-based messaging service was collecting phone and IMEI numbers from users’ address books.
In a blogpost on Google Plus, Xiaomi Vice President, Hugo Barra stated that Xiaomi servers do not store any personal data but that the cloud messaging app, which works like Apple’s iMessage app “uses SIM and device identifiers (phone number, IMSI and IMEI) for routing messages between two users.”
He further explained that when a user “opens a text message or a phonebook contact, or creates a new contact, the device connects to the cloud messaging servers, forwards the phone number of that contact and requests the online status of the corresponding user, which is indicated by a blue icon when that user is online or gray icon if that user is offline (or is not a cloud messaging user). This allows the sender to immediately know whether they can text that user without incurring SMS costs.”
Barra then went on to apologise, “We apologise for any concern caused to our users and Mi fans. We would also like to thank the media and users who have been sending us feedback and suggestions, allowing us to improve and provide better internet services.”
To allay these concerns, Xiaomi released an update on Sunday. Besides giving potential users the ability to opt out of the service, the update will also encrypt the phone numbers of users who decide to use the cloud messaging app.


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Quit saving for that souped-up sportscar you’ll never be able to afford because recent changes to the Motor Vehicles Standards Act means the Australian car market is about to change, big time.
From 2018, a consumer will be able to import a new car or motorcycle from another country that conforms to Australia’s standards. The vehicle can’t be any more than 12 months old and have no more 500km on the odometer.
While the countries with comparable standards are yet to be seen, the UK and Japan are confirmed to meet the criteria. It means that consumers will be able to bypass hefty luxury car taxes by importing from overseas, and as a result, used car prices will decrease across the board.
The government has also amended the Customs Tariff Act 1995 to remove the $12,000 special duty on imported used vehicles from 2018. The duty isn’t always applied but according to major projects minister Paul Fletcher, “…[It’s] seen by consumers as a hurdle to importing second-hand cars even in the specific circumstances where such imports are permitted. By removing this duty, we will provide more options for Australian consumers.”
Cheaper rides for all.
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Educators, public officials, community leaders, and support organizations across Ohio are teaming up to organize more than 20 programs to support entrepreneurs and business owners across the state during Global Entrepreneurship Week. Leaders across our state see GEW as an opportunity to focus on recreating our entrepreneurial identity as the world adapts around COVID.
Cleveland’s second annual Black Entrepreneurship Summit is in full swing. Organizers are inviting black leaders from across the nation to present at this monumental summit. The aim? To establish a Black Business Agenda for black entrepreneurs and business owners across the nation.
The Northeast Ohio Hispanic Center for Economic Development (NEOHCED) is inviting dozens of hispanic entrepreneurs and business owners to sell their products and services at CentroVilla25 (CV25), the new Hispanic marketplace under development in the historic Clark-Fulton community of Cleveland.
Venture For America will share stories about the startups that have grown out of their nationwide fellowship program.
The Veale Foundation at Case Western Reserve University is hosting their annual massive open online course (MOOC), Beyond Silicon Valley: Growing Entrepreneurship in Transitioning Economies with students and entrepreneurs in South Africa, and more.
Connecting the Great Lakes regional ecosystem, GEW organizers from Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York and Ohio are planning a forum to discuss the Blue Economy and how to support entrepreneurs and businesses that rely on the Great Lakes.


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The sad news that music and video store HMV has gone into administration is a further blow to the struggling high street. With online shopping and digital music on the rise, was HMV’s demise inevitable?
I used to love popping into HMV. Its packed stores were chock full of albums, DVD box sets, video games and gadgets, and I’d wander down to the Oxford Street flagship store during lunch to pick up a CD and sometimes catch a live performance from a band with an album to promote.
HMV was music – part of our mainstream entertainment culture that introduced millions of people to a vast catalogue of music that provided the soundtrack to our lives.
Its ‘Nipper’ dog and gramophone brand has been a fixture of Britain’s high streets for over 90 years. Like countless others, it was where I bought my first ever album, fell in love with music, and as a kid would spend birthday money building a music collection that is still with me today.
Digital music moves in
Only, today, that music collection is digital – and it’s digital that is slowly killing the high street star.
Online sales of music, DVDs and video games, cameras, tablets and gadgets are soaring. In the first two weeks of December 2012, we spent over £4.5bn on online purchases – money diverted from the high street. This change in consumer spending makes stores such as HMV, and last week Jessops, ever more vulnerable to collapse.
Shoppers are increasingly turning to online stores and digital downloads – and I’m one of them. I buy my music through iTunes where I can get a 90 second preview of a song before buying. I buy gadgets from Amazon or Play.com, where I can shave pounds off prices charged by the likes of HMV. Online shopping is cheaper, faster and easier – and that’s hard to compete with when you’re chasing consumer spend.
I like shopping online, in the middle of the night from the comfort of my home, rather than battling through crowds to line-up at HMV’s tills like a line of shuffling shoppers checking into an airline. Prices are cheaper, digital products are always in stock and I get them immediately, and for less money.
The high street’s swan song
HMV could have – ten years ago – embraced online and the changing patterns of shopping. Instead, it dug its heels (and foundations) on the high street, and so missed the boat.
The irony is, as HMV faces an uncertain future, that many blamed the rapid growth of HMV and Jessops for decimating independent camera and music stores. Now, the rise of online shopping, with its convenience, cheap prices and accessibility is seeing us turn our backs on them.
It’s a depressing trend that is going to claim more scalps on the high street over the years. Our high street is increasingly sickly, and electrical goods and entertainment stores are particularly at risk.
It’s also personal. My children are now likely to discover their own love of music, not by flicking through album covers in a shop, but through iTunes and YouTube. And that’s a real tragedy.


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Movie Producer Launches Blockchain Based PlatForm Called TaTaTu
Ambi Media Group co-founder and CEO Andrea Iervolino is launching TaTaTu, a blockchain-based platform intertwining social media activity with entertainment viewing.
TaTaTu is a blockchain-powered platform that allows its users to receive rewards for watching movies, sports, gaming, and other forms of content and lets them get additional rewards from their friends’ viewing.
With a team of over 250 developers, as well as a dedicated blockchain team around the world, the TaTaTu platform is a social entertainment platform where users can easily invite their friends via their social media (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp etc) to join TaTaTu, watch and create videos that can be shared with friends, chat with other members, and share the content they like.
There is a need for a platform to provide higher levels of transparency to their users, brands and rights holders about the revenues generated and monetization of users. Audiences need free, legal and quality content with a simple user experience.”
“Where most content platform business models are based on making the final user pay for content, generating a market for illegal content monetization and therefore less revenues for content owners, TaTaTu is listening to the marketplace and adapting giving free access to content and going a step further to reward users with an automatic monetization system,” producer Andrea Iervolino said.
TaTaTu combines the features you expect from any video-on-demand (VOD) platform and adds social networks with a system that rewards users for watching videos through the blockchain. In short, it incentivizes content consumption by offering digital tokens for views generated by users and their friends.
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Small town living was what Frank and Lori Kania were looking for when they moved to Frontenac almost a decade ago.
Now, they get to serve the community they were so eager to join, taking over Malmquist Home Furnishings last October.
Frank, an information technology specialist, and Lori, who ran their other businesses and is a chemist by trade, purchased the business from Dave Buysse, who owned Malmquist for 38 years.
This gives them a chance to invest fully in small town living. They said it helped that they knew a bit about the home furnishing business. Between the two of them they've done everything, except for kicking in carpet, according to Frank.
Taking over business that's been in the Red Wing community for 103 years could seem like a difficult venture for a pair not from area. Tack on the seemingly endless varieties of flooring options, it wouldn't be surprising to feel overwhelmed.
However, as the Malmquist employees and new owners like to say: "We've got you covered."
"Well, it's not always easy," Frank said. "We've been challenged with a couple of things. One of the challenges in a small town is being relevant. Relevancy is the hardest thing. We want to keep the small store, small town highly personal experience because it's what we really liked about what Dave did."
What helps, according to Lori, is a level of intuitiveness from the employees. What also helps is the records of flooring purchases going back to the 1960s and the customer base is on its third and fourth generation now, according to Frank.
"What's interesting is because we have this wealth of information about what people have done throughout history, we can offer a level of personalization and attentiveness our competition just doesn't have," Frank said.
Carpeting that best suits a family with dirty pets, vacuum repair, custom designed drapes and window coverings are just a few of the many offerings.
When someone walks into Malmquist they'll quickly see how many options there truly are in the flooring business. Having a local place like Malmquist in the community can help people that are looking to redesign or replace aspects of a room. As the Kanias say, people still want that sensory opportunity in the purchasing process, something that the internet can't replace.
"The ability to touch and feel and smell it and rub their hands over it and walk on it takes precedence," Frank said. "And people want to do that."
"There's a lot of different things you need to know," Lori said about the decision making process. "That's why if someone comes in, they talk to a sales associate, then we figure out what your best option is. And what you should be looking for."
Thus far, the couple says the best part of the job-aside from being a small, more personal community-is the chance to work with people on a day-to-day basis.
The Kania children will be a mainstay at the store as well in the future. Frank Kania IV, 12, and Izley Kania, 10, are students at Lake City and can't wait to get started working at the business.


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MOSCOW, October 17 (RAPSI) – The Commercial Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region has declared a shareholder of Russian e-giant Ulmart Mikhail Vasinkevich bankrupt, according to court records.
A bankruptcy petition against Vasinkevich was filed in January by the retailer’s co-owner Dmitry Kostygin.
Kostygin in the meantime stands charged with large-scale credit fraud. According to case papers, the businessman acting as the Board Chairman of Ulmart provided false information on the company’s financial position to Sberbank for signing a loan agreement. In April, Sberbank transferred 1 billion rubles ($17.3 million at the current exchange rate) to the company’s account. The accused allegedly managed the money in his discretion.
The businessman pleaded not guilty, his lawyer Konstantin Dobrynin told RAPSI earlier.
Ulmart group of companies is the largest Russian private Internet holding focusing on e-commerce segment. The company’s distribution network consists of over 400 sales outlets across more than 240 Russian cities and towns.


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NYIGF Shortens Annual Event to Five Days Starting This Summer
Home & Textiles Today Staff -- Home Textiles Today, March 31, 2012
WHITE PLAINS , N .Y. - Prompted by a shift in traffic patterns and exhibitors' feedback on a recent survey about market timing, the New York International Gift Fair is adopting a new five-day format that calls for the event to open Saturday and close on Wednesday as opposed to Thursday.
This new approach will be implemented at the fair's upcoming summer 2012 edition, scheduled for Aug. 18 to 22 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Passenger Ship Terminal's Passenger Ship Terminal Piers 92 & 94 in New York City.
NYIGF's 10 divisions will continue to have staggered opening and closing dates, with Pier divisions - At Home at Pier 94 and New York's Newest at Pier 92 - and Handmade Designer Maker and Handmade Global Design at the Javits Center running Saturday through Tuesday; and Accent on Design, At Home featuring Home Textiles, Baby & Child, EX•TRACTS, General Gift, Personal Accessories featuring Details, Studio and Tabletop running Sunday through Wednesday at the Javits Center.
The Gourmet Housewares Show at NYIGF, which is presented annually during the summer market, also will run Sunday through Wednesday.
"An overwhelming majority - 85%-plus - of exhibitors surveyed is in favor of reducing the length of the fair by one day," said Dorothy Belshaw, NYIGF director and GLM svp. "Based on daily traffic and attendance patterns over the past few shows, we anticipate that attendance will not be affected negatively by this change."
All NYIGF divisions and locations will open at 9 a.m. and close at 6 p.m. daily
However, on Aug. 21 - the Tuesday of the event - At Home at Pier 92, New York's Newest at Pier 94 and Handmade at Javits will close at 5 p.m. On Wednesday, Aug. 22, all remaining divisions at the Javits Center will close at 2 p.m.
NYIGF noted these changes do not impact the summer 2012 launch of Artisan Resource, a new artisan production-sourcing event for U.S.-based importers, direct import retailers and wholesalers, alongside NYIGF.
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The Pontiac Quad Club is seeking vendors for its upcoming outdoors show on April 14.
“It's the first time we're doing this,” explained club President Patrick Amyotte.
He said there are currently several ATV dealers planning to attend, along with people selling everything from essential oils to heavy machinery. Vendors will set up in the club's garage and around the property at 1758 Hwy. 148 in Litchfield.
“It's bring your own table, [there's] no charge,” he said. “I'm hoping to get a mix of everything there.”
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Following the news about BRC Retail Crime Survey, Henry Rex, Programme Manager, Justice & Emergency Services at techUK commented below.
Henry Rex, Programme Manager, Justice & Emergency Services at techUK:
“According to the BRC’s annual Retail Crime Survey, 53% percent of retail fraud is now cyber-enabled. Alongside this emerging threat, there has been a shocking 40% increase in violence and abuse of retail staff. techUK encourages retail businesses large and small to explore how the latest developments in digital tech can help them prevent crime and protect staff.
In our recent paper, Digital Policing: The Future of Modern Crime Prevention, we highlight digital technologies that can make policing more efficient and efficient for victims of crime. For example, the adoption of online crime reporting tools, allowing the swift reporting of offenses and online submission of digital evidence, could dramatically speed up the time it takes to process cases and increase the likelihood of guilty pleas. This would go some way to address the fact that 56% of retailers surveyed believed police performance to be poor.
Business, police forces and the tech industry must work together to ensure that all parties have the skills, tools and knowledge to prevent and detect crime.”


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Only a few hours ago, Microsoft and Studio MDHR have announced they’re bringing Cuphead to Nintendo Switch.
The game will launch on April 18 and will receive a post release update that will introduce Xbox Live features to the Nintendo console.
While Xbox Live will be handled individually on a game to game basis, Microsoft has opened up about its plans with the platform.
As shared by people who has participated to the GDC panel held on the topic, the Redmond giant is planning on bringing more Xbox games to Switch next year.
“Microsoft: No plans for an Xbox Live SDK for Switch right now, but expect more games like Cuphead to come to Switch with Live enabled over there next year,” says Russell Holly, one of those.
“I’m being told they’ve also just said that they’re working with Nintendo to bring achievements to select titles. They’re already in Minecraft Switch so there’s precedent,” adds Chris Scullion.
So, while it doesn’t look like Xbox Game Pass nor xCloud are coming to Switch anytime soon, it seems that something’s moving in that direction.
Microsoft is most probably pointing at Ori and the Blind Forest and its follow up, The Will of the Wisps, to drop on Switch in 2020, with a few others that could be a good fit for the platform (think of Super Lucky’s Tale, among the others).
It’ll be interesting to see where all this leads the cooperation between Microsoft and Nintendo.


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City Foundry STL continues to attract new tenants to its Midtown St. Louis location, recently announcing a new event space concept by Butler’s Pantry, a new office lease with Great Rivers Greenway and five new food vendors for the Food Hall at City Foundry STL.
The 15-acre mixed-use development is scheduled to open in the spring of 2020.
“From the beginning, this project has been about creativity and vision,” said Steve Smith, principal owner of City Foundry STL and chief executive officer of Lawrence Group. “We are thrilled these local business owners share our confidence that City Foundry STL is the most inspiring, exciting place to be in St. Louis.”
With the new food hall tenants, the City Foundry STL Food Hall is now 80 percent leased.


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Consumer prices in the euro area rose by 3.2% in the year to February, according to a preliminary estimate. Retail trade perked up in January, rising by 0.4% after three months of falling sales.
Canada's central bank lowered its key interest rate from 3% to 3.5%. Canadian GDP rose by a sluggish 0.2% in the final quarter of 2007, held back by a big fall in exports.
The Reserve Bank of Australia raised its benchmark interest rate by 0.25 percentage points, to 7.25%, the highest rate in almost 12 years. Australia's GDP rose by 0.6% in the fourth quarter, leaving it 3.9% higher than a year earlier.
In America the Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) manufacturing index fell from 50.7 to 48.3 in February. By contrast, the ISM index of non-manufacturing activity rose from 44.6 to 49.3.
Consumer prices in Japan rose by 0.7% in the year to January.
Switzerland's GDP rose by 1.0% in the fourth quarter, boosted by strong domestic demand. Swiss consumer-price inflation was 2.4% in February.
Analysts have revised up their 2008 inflation forecasts for America and the euro area, according to The Economist's monthly poll of forecasters (see poll). Seers are gloomier about this year's outlook for GDP growth in both economies.
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WHITING, Ind., April 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Tipping: social custom or arbitrary decision? Tipping is a widely accepted part of our culture, but a new survey from CouponCabin.com reveals that the motivations behind gratuity are based on service quality and economic conditions. Nearly one-third (32 percent) of U.S. adults said they haven't left a tip after receiving less than average service. In addition, more than one-in-five (21 percent) tippers report they tip less when the economy is down. This survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Interactive on behalf of CouponCabin from March 29th – April 2nd, 2012, among 2,222 U.S. adults ages 18 and older.
Regardless of economic conditions, restaurant staff members are the most likely to receive tips. When asked which types of the following people or services they typically feel obligated to leave a tip, U.S. adults said the following:
- Restaurant staff (including wait staff, take out coordinator, maitre d') – 87 percent
- Hairstylist – 68 percent
- Bartender – 59 percent
- Taxi, car or limo driver – 55 percent
- Valet – 51 percent
- Bellhop – 50 percent
- Beauty treatment provider (manicures, pedicures, waxing, etc…) – 40 percent
- Spa treatment provider (massages, facials, skin treatments, etc…) – 33 percent
- Restroom attendant – 21 percent
- Home delivery (new furniture, appliances, etc…) – 19 percent
When it comes to how much people tip in restaurants, many report leaving gratuity above the old standby of 15 percent. More than half (51 percent) said they typically tip 16 percent or higher for average service in a restaurant. Seven percent said they tip 21 percent or higher. On the flip side, nearly one-third (32 percent) said they tip between 11 percent and 15 percent for average service. Thirteen percent said they tip 10 percent or less for average service.
"Whether you're at a restaurant or receiving services from other professionals, factor the tip into the overall cost," said Jackie Warrick, President and Chief Savings Officer at CouponCabin.com. "It's easy to forget that the tip could push you over your budget, so plan accordingly. Take the time to add in the tip ahead of time and if it exceeds your budget, seek out less expensive services or make alternative plans."
Many U.S. adults who tip admitted that tipping has been a burden to their finances. In fact, 46 percent report that they have tipped, even when they couldn't afford it, because they felt pressure to do so.
While tipping is often expected for services rendered, U.S. adults shared reasons why they tip, including:
- Want to give a reward for good work – 62 percent
- Because I feel I have to – 20 percent
- Want to receive good service in the future – 7 percent
- Other – 9 percent
This survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Interactive on behalf of CouponCabin from March 29th – April 2nd, 2012, among 2,222 U.S. adults ages 18 and older. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore, no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated. For complete survey methodology, including weighting variables, please contact: Allison Nawoj, [email protected].
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Cathie Wood's Ark Invest has filed for a transparency-themed ETF drawing on Tesla and Apple - but leaving out banks and energy giants
Cathie Wood's Ark Investfiled for transparency-themed ETFon Tuesday, SEC filings show.
- The fund excludes sectors including banking, fossil fuels, gambling, alcohol and tobacco.
- If the SEC approves the fund, it would be the second ETF launched by Ark Invest this year.
Cathie Wood's Ark Invest is planning to launch a transparency-themed ETF that will exclude sectors like banking, fossil fuels and gambling, according to a filing made with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday.
The new fund would closely track a Transparency Index developed by Solactive, with the SEC filing stating it would use a replication strategy - meaning the ETF would invest in tracked companies at a similar proportion to the fund. The fund normally invests at least 80% of its total assets in securities that are included in the benchmark index, the filing said.
The index includes technology companies like Tesla, Apple, Microsoft, Zoom, Netflix and Square, as well as companies from the food and beverage industry like Chipotle and retail heavyweights like Amazon and Nike. Many of these companies are also tracked by Ark Invest's other ETFs, which are generally tech and online heavy.
Industries that will be excluded from the fund include those that are, for example, dangerous to the environment, or manufacture addictive products.
"Companies operating in the following industries, as determined by the Index provider, are excluded from the Index: (i) alcohol, (ii) banking, (iii) chemicals, (iv) confectionery, (v) fossil fuel transportation, (vi) gambling, (vii) metals, (viii) mineral, (ix) natural gas, (x) oil, and (xi) tobacco," the SEC filing says.
Factors that impact whether a company can be added to the index include whether it meets certain transparency criteria, it's involvement in lawsuits and other legal issues as well as the company's public reputation.
Ark Invest had not responded to Insider's request for comment at time of publication.
The transparency characteristic of the fund is in line with Ark Invest's approach to investing - all of the firm's buying and selling activity is published on a daily basis and can be viewed online. This is in stark contrast to the vast majority of investment firms, which prefer to keep their cards close to their chest.
If approved, the Transparency ETF would be the second fund set up by Ark Invest this year after its Space Exploration and Innovation ETF listed in March in one of the most successful fund launches in history. The space-themed fund currently contains assets worth $627 million.
Ark Invest's flagship fund, the Ark Innovation ETF has $25.52 billion in assets under management.
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Nevena Borissova recently hosted a showing of the gorgeous new Rona Pfeiffer jewelry collection at her Pacific Heights boutique, Curve.
With exquisite craftsmanship, hand-painted designs, and techniques that create a vintage-looking effect, every piece of the collection seems like a one-of-a-kind work of art. Not surprisingly, Rona Pfeiffer has been likened to an artist who “paints with stones.”
Having worked in the entertainment industry as an agent, and recently having worked with Academy Award winning Costume Designer Colleen Atwood on a film, Pfeiffer’s designs have caught the eye of a wide variety of A-list celebrities. In just the past month, Gwyneth Paltrow, Gwen Stefani, Pink, Jessica Alba, and Taylor Schilling were spotted wearing Rona Pfeiffer. And she even designed custom pieces for two men at the 2014 Golden Globes: Chris Hemsworth wore a vest chain, and Johnny Depp wore a pave pocket chain.
Rona’s sister-in-law, Michelle Pfeiffer, was among the guests at the Curve event, as well as Vanessa Getty, Barbara Brown, Lauren Goodman, Mary Beth Shimmon, Carol Bonnie, Kathryn Lasater, and Megha Tolia, among others.
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To shop from the current Rona Pfeiffer collection, visit Curve at 2360 Fillmore Street in San Francisco.
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COMPUTING| Aug. 3, 2012, 9:59 a.m.
A new report from Juniper Research forecasts that the number of residential TVs, connected to the Internet via different platforms such as Blu-ray players, set-top boxes and consoles, and also via built in wireless or Ethernet connectivity, will reach almost 650 million by 2017.
The report finds that Smart TVs are becoming mainstream amongst consumers, similar to smartphone and tablet adoption. Even though the replacement cycle of TVs are longer than for, say smartphones, the report forecasts strong growth over the forecast period.
The report ‘Smart Home Ecosystem: Connected Devices, Service Models & Revenues 2012-2017’ finds that there is an increasing demand from consumers for new video content services from so called OTT providers Netflix, LOVEFiLM and YouTube. The revenue and profitability of traditional entertainment services within the home has attracted many new players including content aggregators and platform providers such as Apple and Google.
This consumer demand for connectivity and content has influenced the smart home entertainment segment in a major way along with the integration of social media, multi-screen strategies and applications.
Report author Nitin Bhas noted that as the cost of these connected devices fall over the period of forecast, the value of connectivity will rise.
“The consumer electronics industry along with key players, such as the content aggregators and platform providers, needs to clearly define this device ecosystem and start working towards driving this phase of growth and turn it into a revenue opportunity”, Bhas added.
The report adds that Smart Home Revenues will reach almost USD60bn by 2017, rising from USD25 billion this year
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In its latest submission to the department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP) last week, US-based Mylan said that the company has serious plans to invest in India and that, as of date, half its global work force of 20,000 persons is also located in the country. In terms of turnover, about a seventh comes from its India operations, all of this in the space of less than seven years.
If its proposal to acquire Agila Specialties for $1.6 billion through its India subsidiary is accepted, Mylan says it plans to increase domestic sales 12-fold by 2018, increase Agila’s capacity from 180 million units currently to 600 million units by 2017 and that it plans to become of the biggest local suppliers of injectables in the country.
Mylan’s DIPP submission also gives details of its sales in/from India and its overall investment plans in the country. According to Mylan, one of the world’s largest generics producers in the world, it has only two global R&D centres of excellence, one of which is in Hyderabad; of the seven global technology-focused development sites it has, one is in Bangalore. While Mylan’s sales in/from the country have risen 44% per annum over the last five years and investments 42% per annum, its workforce has risen four times.
Mylan India’s FY13 turnover was Rs 5,400 crore, up from Rs 749 crore in FY07; net foreign exchange earnings are up from Rs 256 crore in FY07 to Rs 2,838 crore in FY13.
Of this workforce of 9,700 persons, 1,100 are in the R&D set up, up from 330 in 2006 – while Mylan had just one R&D set up in India of 48,000 sq ft in 2006, it now has multiple facilities with over 180,000 sq ft of space dedicated to R&D. Mylan, which entered India in 2006 with its $736-million takeover of Matrix Laboratories, now has eight units making active pharmaceutical ingredients in India and two R&D plants in Hyderabad – another two sites are in the process of being acquired.
After coming into India, Mylan has invested Rs 3,800 crore in creating manufacturing facilities. This includes facilities to work on AIDS treatments – Mylan has won the biggest projects from the National AIDS Control Organisation and has brought down treatment costs from $10,000 per patient per year to $150 in the time it has been in India.
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One of South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Bithumb, has published its first audit report, detailing its financial performance as well as crypto reserves worth approximately $6 billion kept in 12 cryptocurrencies.
Also read: Yahoo! Japan Confirms Entrance Into the Crypto Space
$6 Billion Worth of Coins
South Korea’s second largest cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb recently released its first public audit report.
The exchange has 220 employees and 15 shareholders, the report details. It generated 333.42 billion won (~US$312 million) in operating revenue in 2017, a significant increase compared to the previous year of 4.32 billion won (~$4.1 million). Its net profit was 534.90 billion won (~$501 million) in 2017, up sharply from 2.51 billion won (~$2.4 million) in the previous year.
The Korea Times elaborated:
The company said its crypto reserves at the end of 2017 were 6.3584 trillion won ($5.9186 billion), including 416 billion won-worth coins of its own. The figure was up nearly 220 times more than the previous year.
The report breaks down the exchange’s coin reserves. Those deposited by clients are 49,559 BTC; 583,004 ETH; 54,383 DASH; 492,897 LTC; 5,560,189 ETC; 597,627,574 XRP; 156,956 BCH; 195,728 XMR; 94,261 ZEC; 9,761,686 QTUM; 993,839 BTG; and 63,087,428 EOS. They are worth approximately 5.94 trillion won (~$5.57 billion), the report shows.
In addition, the exchange also keeps its own coins. “Seven percent of the deposited cryptocurrencies (worth 415.9 billion won) were Bithumb’s, while clients deposited the rest,” the news outlet emphasized.
Bithumb’s own holdings consist of 3,228 BTC; 24,514 BCH; 65,421 ETH; 7,847 DASH; 100,437 LTC; 387,993 ETC; 40,834,963 XRP; 10,083 XMR; 2,473 ZEC; 324,029 QTUM; 10,590 BTG; and 553,181 EOS, according to the report. The total value adds up to 415,941 million won (~$390 million).
Bithumb Actively Expanding
Prior to the launch of the Kakao-backed cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, Bithumb has long been South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. Today, its 24-hour trading volume is $468 million, far less than Upbit’s trading volume of $1.715 billion during the same time period, according to Coinmarketcap.
Bithumb has actively been growing its business this year. News.Bitcoin.com recently reported on the exchange launching a social media-based P2P payment system as well as its partnership with Wincube to sell 12,500 kinds of mobile vouchers from 600 brands through gift certificates.
This follows Bithumb’s announcement that it will supply kiosks to restaurants, cafes, and other eateries, to facilitate crypto payments as well as a partnership with a travel site with over 5,000 accommodation facilities. The company is also launching a service to allow crypto payments at approximately 8,000 physical stores through a partnership with Korea Pay’s Service.
What do you think of Bithumb’s crypto holdings? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Controversy surrounding the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) brand-new American chipmaking plant is declining to wane. TSMC, much to everybody’s surprise, exposed previously this year that its chip factory in the U.S. will be postponed by a year. The company’s stated factor behind the hold-up is an absence of proficient employees in Arizona, and it plans to fly out employees from Taiwan to set up high-end devices at the website. A fresh report from The Guardian sheds more light on the labor issues at the Arizona chip website after talking to employees who lay some of the blame on Taiwanese supervisors being not able to adhere to security policies.
Former Workers At TSMC’s Arizona Site Allege Inconsistent Work Plans & Other Working Conditions
TSMC’s U.S. chip plant is main to the market’s efforts at diversifying the semiconductor supply chain far from Taiwan. The company is just one of 2 business worldwide that make innovative chips for other business, and the Arizona plant is the outcome of a years-long effort by the U.S. federal government to develop a regional supply chain independent of geopolitical disputes. Taiwan’s distance to China and the political stress in between the 2 have actually created issues about the security of TSMC’s Taiwanese plants and their significance to both civilian and defense-related semiconductor procurements.
After TSMC revealed in its 2nd quarter revenues that the Arizona chip plant will be postponed due to labor restrictions, regional employee unions have actually opposed highly versus the specified factor for the hold-up. Friction in between the U.S. and China and any hold-ups to the Arizona website indirectly benefit China given that it leaves America’s economy susceptible to any prospective dispute in Taiwan.
A fresh report from The Guardian interviews previous employees at the Arizona website and they declare numerous obstacles in constructing the sophisticated chip production center. These variety from complicated work jobs, a lax security culture and worrying mindsets towards regional employees.


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Energy efficient tote heaters, used in thinning viscose substances in the chemical storage industry, could save businesses millions of dollars on a yearly basis in addition to having a positive effect in protecting the environment,
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Could we see Ford’s first production 5.0 Eco Boost make it’s debut in the 2018 GT500? And it’s no secret that Ford has been testing a 5.0 Twin Turbo development mule as recently as a few months ago: Regardless, we expect this new beast to depart from the highly-discussed Flat Plane Crank 5.2L GT350 motor.
Traditionally, the GT350 (and GT350R) has always been aimed towards track use, while the GT500 is more of an earth-rotating, straight line, freeway runner.
As far as power delivery, as you all know, the Hellcat is producing just north of 700HP, so we would be shocked if Ford doesn’t take it one step further.
“Our new SVT Halo Mustang will have more HP than the Hellcat” claims a Ford rep from a recent CNN interview. If this new behemoth will be a forced induction car, than we can safely assume that Ford will stick with the traditional lobe crankshaft, or at least depart from the 5.2L GT350 platform.
The new GT350 if a high compression car, so running boost through it would require quite significant changes.
Another topic worthy of discussion is weight savings.
We all know Ford has recently invested heavily in Aluminum materials and tooling, primarily for the new F-150 line – but Ford Performance has also added a heavy dose of weight savings to the new GT350 and GT350R in terms of carbon forged plastic, carbon fiber wheels and aluminum fenders.
Could we see a new GT500 with more extreme use of aluminum and carbon fiber?
Could we see this car come in at 700 HP and weigh less than 3,600 lbs from the factory?
When can we expect some hard info on this new Ford Performance Halo car?
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Retail Forecast For 2017: Digital Commerce Is The New Black
It’s no secret that the retail industry, both online and in-store continue to grow, however predictions from the National Retail Federation are anticipating an exceptional amount of growth for 2017.
From a report that was just released, they are predicting an average of 3.7 – 4.2% growth over 2016’s numbers. including a combination of digital/online and brick and mortar sales. Nonstore sales alone are expected to see advancement at rates between 8-12%, which includes online retail, mail order catalog sales, phone sales, and additional direct-to-consumer options, and this is a very positive sign for the year ahead regarding business projections and as an overview of the American economy.
The fourth quarter in 2016 reported sales of $145.49 billion for all nonstore sales, which was a 12.5% increase of 2015’s numbers, according to the US Commerce Department. Judging by this report from Q4, predictions for digital commerce are expected, on their own, to increase at a rate of 16% during the same Q4 period this year; indicative of expansion that has not been seen since 2013.
This is very positive news for the digital commerce industry, as well as the overall economy as it signals positive action in all areas. Additionally, it makes it clear that having the best services in place, along with the most advanced website platform and technology to handle the incoming shift in growth would be in the best interest of retailers aiming to get their stores ready for the impending gains ahead.
“It is clear that online sales will continue to expand in 2017 and provide growth for the retail industry,” NRF Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz said. “But it is important to realize that virtually every major retailer sells online and many of those sales will be made by discount stores, department stores and other traditional retailers. Retailers sell to consumers however they want to buy, whether it’s in-store, online or mobile.” Clearly, this is evidence that those prepared, and willing to go the extra mile to serve the needs of their customers are going to experience the greatest cut of the opportunities.
In the US, retail still remains the largest private sector employing entity, supplying one in four jobs; or 24 million Americans. Growth in this sector influences so many others, and because retail is growing faster than it ever has, it is presenting excellent opportunities for many companies to grow right along with it. More than ever, it is clear that having the best technology available to capitalize on these trends is necessary if you are operating in this business.
VTEX offers one of the most scalable options as a platform, and is ready to service the needs of those gearing up for a higher level of unified commerce in the months and years to come. Our platform is designed to auto-scale to the demands of traffic, is accessible through a variety of channels including mobile and marketplace, and is known for its ability to outperform its competitors through its elastic-cloud infrastructure that can function without crashing during the most critical points of traffic, such as Black Friday. Suffice it to say, as far as a 16% growth goes for Q4 in 2017, here at VTEX we are ready for everything!


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Zane Lowe launched Apple’s Beats 1 radio station by playing the song ‘City’ by Manchester band Spring King.
Speaking about the song, Lowe said that he and his team had spent a lot of time debating what to play first but decided to go with the new band as they are “building” momentum in the same way he and the team are.
“We spent three months building this radio station and now we can build no more,” Lowe said. “This band put this EP out a few months ago… it’s not about fanfare, fireworks and hangover the next day, it’s about quality and consistency… from now on, we’re always on.”
After Spring King, Lowe went on to play Beck’s new single ‘Dreams’, Shutdown’ by Skepta and ‘Gosh’ by Jamie xx.
Listen to ‘City’ below:
Responding to the moment, Spring King tweeted:
yo @zanelowe are you kidding?!!?!? you just spun our tune! you're an absolute legend!!
— Spring King (@springkingband) June 30, 2015
Apple‘s long-awaited new music streaming service Apple Music launched at 4pm BST today (June 30) with Beats 1 following at 5pm.
The features of Apple Music include on-demand streaming, social networking that allows artists to connect with their fans and 24/7 radio station Beats 1.
Following Zane Lowe’s departure from Radio 1 to helm Beats 1, the likes of Josh Homme, Dr Dre, Pharrell, Drake and St Vincent have also been recruited to host radio shows on the station.
Apple Music recently attracted criticism for its policy of not paying musicians, producers, songwriters or rights holders during a three-month free trial offered to listeners. The company later made a U-turn on its royalty scheme following an open letter from Taylor Swift, confirming that it will be now be compensating artists during the trial.
Taylor Swift likewise reversed her decision of not streaming her latest album ‘1989’, announcing that it will be made available on Apple Music. Swift stated that it “felt right in my gut” to team up with Apple Music.
Apple have also reached a licensing agreement with several indie labels, including Beggars Group, which means they can now offer music from the likes of Radiohead and Adele. Dr Dre’s ‘The Chronic’ will also make its streaming debut on the service.
Pharrell Williams’ new single ‘Freedom’ will be mark the platform’s launch today as Apple Music’s first exclusive release.


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SEAT true fleet sales up 50%
SEAT UK recorded its best fleet and true fleet sales results in 2017, cementing its position as the fastest growing manufacturer in the top 20.
The brand’s improvement translates to increases of a third (33.7%) in overall fleet, despite the market declining by 4.5%, and 49.4% in true fleet.
Its 2017 results were achieved despite a managed 23.7% reduction in rental units, a short-cycle channel which impacts residual values.
The encouraging results arrive during the year that SEAT introduced the all-new Arona crossover and the New Ibiza, building on the continued success of the Ateca SUV.
SEAT UK head of fleet & business sales, Peter McDonald, commented, ‘As a brand we’ve made big steps in recent years, bolstering our team of fleet professionals, refining the buying process and offering a range of models which are attracting rave reviews while meeting the needs of fleet managers and drivers alike.
‘Last year was extremely challenging from an industry perspective; considering that environment our performance is something we are especially proud of and we hope to continue to provide products and service levels which exceed the expectations of fleets.’
For more information on SEAT fleet, see www.seat.co.uk/fleet, call 0800 975 7844 or email email@example.com.


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One of the considerable drawbacks of electric cars is their considerably longer charging time compared to the time it takes a to fill a gas tank. However, companies like Tesla are hard at work improving chargers to increase customer satisfaction by decreasing waiting times. Elon Musk has recently teased the company’s plans regarding their next Supercharger V3 generation.
Tesla currently has an expansive network of supercharger stations across the United States, where Tesla owners can freely charge their car. The network currently consists in over 769 stations in the US, with considerably fewer in other countries. As impressive as this may seem, Tesla is only getting started.
Tesla is expected to create a similar network of superchargers in China but at a greater scale. The company is currently looking for partners in China, considered to be the largest automotive market in the world. The company recently announced their 100th supercharger station in Beijing in June 2016. Overall, Musk has suggested that the global network of superchargers will be expanded to around 7,000 throughout the world by the end of 2017.
However, the expanded network is not even the icing on the cake for Tesla. Elon Musk recently responded to a person’s question regarding the company’s plans for their supercharger V3 plans, asking if it was capable of 350 kW. In response, Musk characterized that charging speed for Tesla’s supercharger V3 as a mere children’s toy.
This is quite a bold claim even for Musk, as current supercharger stations only have a capacity of 120 kW, and the first 350kw charging station is still under construction in the US. If that wasn’t enough, Musk even hinted that the stations will possible integrate solar arrays. Although Musk is not known for making unbacked claims, it remains to be seen how soon the supercharge V3 plans will become a reality.
In a related matter, Tesla’s supercharger stations across the US has increasingly become crowded due to both an increase in car sales as the fact that Tesla owners keep their cars parked at the station. Tesla has implemented a fix for both situations, by charging idle fees after the car has been fully charged as well as limiting the free access to supercharger stations after a 1,000 miles, at a considerably lower cost than gas stations.
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Bioplastics have been sold to us as a solution to the plastics crisis when, at best, they are a less bad option.
Meanwhile, a crop of Aussie founders has been stepping up with solutions. Phantm, Fungi Solutions & Planet Protector Packaging are using PHA, mycomaterials and wool to deliver safer, more regenerative alternatives to plastics and bioplastics, and have already secured millions in funding.
Join this event to hear how these Aussie innovators plan to disrupt our dependence on fossil-based plastics and bioplastics, and how consumers and supply chains can move to natural materials that leave no trace.
This event will raise awareness, excitement, and hope that there are home-grown and regenerative solutions to one of the dirtiest and most wicked problems on the planet.
Elliot Costello has a history of building impactful social and environmental enterprises in Australia. In early 2020, Elliot cofounded Phantm – an Australian regenerative company on a mission to replace both fossil and bioplastics. Phantm is developing market-leading technology that converts organic waste streams into a compostable natural material that is fully recyclable, can be composted in soil, and biodegrades in ocean environments. Phantm will be the first commercial enterprise to produce PHA in Australia.
Elliot Costello – Managing Director, Phantm
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NCDEX Jeera cools off from front-month delivery based rally
While the 397 tonnes of stock available for delivery corresponding to the November futures, open interest--reflecting intention of taking physical delivery of the commodity in last five days to contract expiry--rose to 897 tonnes. Prices have declined considerably since then and active January contract is currently trading near Rs 10,125 per quintal, down 2.5 percent from its Tuesday's high.
According to Mehul Agarwal, research analyst, Sharekhan Commodities, going forward, prices are expected to find support in Rs 10,000-9,840 range on the back of coming wedding season demand while fresh crop is expected to arrive in February-March. "Weak international demand, on the other hand, is expected to resist rally in prices," he added.


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TLDR: The European Commission introduced its Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD5) in 2018, which came into effect on January 10, 2020. While AMLD5 introduces licensing requirements for crypto exchange and wallets, it makes no mention of the Travel Rule.
The EU introduced AMLD5 on May 30, 2018, which added a requirement for member states to license Crypto to Fiat exchanges as well as Custodial Wallet services. It came into force on January 10, 2020, requiring member states to implement the directive. Individual member states are in the process of implementing these rules.
We have heard from customers throughout the EU that their national regulators have reached out to discuss the application of the Travel Rule. In general what we hear is that regulators want VASPs to start implementing the Travel Rule now, but are taking a best-effort approach initially.
AMLD5 does not include Crypto to Crypto exchanges as obliged entities, nor does it include the Travel Rule specifically. A new directive will probably include fulfilling the full FATF guidelines in 2020/2021.


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Trust, like love, can be a tricky emotion to evoke. Even tougher, it is all too easy to lose. In business, however, trust is essential if a company wants to retain customers, draw new clients and keep its hard-won reputation shining brightly.
In the e-business realm, unique challenges abound for firms that are trying to build a loyal customer following. Consumers may be wary of e-commerce in the face of identity theft, network security breaches, poor online customer service and the lingering shadow of failed dot-coms.
However, some companies have managed to beat the odds and become household names, with good repeat business and solid word-of-mouth among users. How did they succeed in winning customers’ steady clicks?
Gotta Have Faith
The process of acquiring customer trust is a lengthy one, no matter how much some companies might wish it were otherwise. That is because trust cannot blossom simply as a result of an expensive marketing campaign or a spiffed-up image. Rather, it is all about repetition.
IDC analyst Jonathan Gaw told the E-Commerce Times that whether a company is a B2C online retailer, a B2B exchange or another type of e-business, the basics of garnering trust are the same.
“It’s something you earn by building up over time,” he said. “You earn it through multiple contacts with the consumer and multiple transactions. If they have a good experience every time, then trust will follow.”
Although being well known or long-lived on the Web does not automatically guarantee customer trust, those factors can help.
Gaw noted that when online retailing first evolved, a question existed as to whether it was more important to learn how to sell online or to develop a brand name customers could trust.
Although both steps have proven to be crucial, e-businesses that understood how to build brands turned out to be the winners. Gaw cited Amazon and eBay as kings of the customer trust realm, with many other bellwether e-tailers serving as somewhat minor deity in the e-tail pantheon.
In accordance with the repetition principle, Amazon and eBay have built their loyal followings not because of the products they sell, but because so many people have used them regularly without incident.
Also, when problems do occur, the companies are quick to respond. If there is difficulty on eBay with a seller or a whiff of potential fraud, site representatives face — and solve — the problem quickly. Similarly, Amazon has an intensely focused customer-service network that smoothes over any customer discontent.
And while any e-business that wants to succeed has made it a policy to respond to customer concerns, the speed with which both Amazon and eBay handle this task puts them on the top rungs of the customer trust ladder.
Another important factor in being highly regarded by customers is reliability in terms of product offerings, customer service and especially site accessibility.
Performance indices, like those generated by Keynote Systems, have helped many sites discover where they rank in terms of e-commerce transactions. Keynotemeasures how sites perform in load balancing, capacity, speed and reliability, among other factors. Steady, rock-solid results can translate into loyalty because consumers know they can rely on a specific site to run quickly and predictably.
Amazon and eBay appear regularly on the list, but other companies like Eddie Bauer have gotten good ratings as well.
“Knowing how the end user is experiencing a site is a critical component to gaining customer trust,” Keynote product manager Jeff Morgan told the E-Commerce Times.
He added that using such site measures can work well in combination with creation of customer loyalty initiatives. “People have done well with speed and reliability,” he said. “Now we’re moving into the next phase, and that is how to align those things with business goals like customer retention.”
Up and Coming
Even if an e-business is not named Amazon or eBay, it is still possible to replicate some of those leaders’ success. Gaw noted that by focusing on building brand online, many companies are boosting their profile. Also, brick-and-mortar companies that have worked to solidify their online components are seeing gains in customer loyalty.
“Target, Wal-Mart, Barnes and Noble, all are doing quite well,” he said. “They’re improving.”
E-businesses that must compete in a crowded niche tend to be especially feverish about establishing their brand in an attempt to gain customer trust.
For example, Orbitz chief marketing officer Mike Sands told the E-Commerce Times that his company has made a huge investment in customer care resources, both in staffing and technology. Also, the site continually tries to refine its search results so that customers can have more results for their travel planning.
“Having more information ultimately generates more trust,” Sands said, “because customers believe they’re going to see more options on our site, and that gives them a sense that we’re reliable and honest.”
Orbitz also practices proactive customer service, which Sands said helps. For example, if there is fog in Chicago and flights are delayed, Orbitz customer service will notify all of its Chicago travelers via cell phone and e-mail.
Perhaps above all, trusted sites do not rest on their reputations.
“We take site feedback and incorporate that into site changes,” Sands said. “I don’t pretend we have it right. It’s a continual process, and we’re always working on it.”


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As North America is gripped by a freezing winter, the Trump Administration and SuperBowl LII the rest of us down here in sunny Australia are enjoying a balmy Summer.
One winter trend which we’ve seen break over the past few days is the return of the extra large beanie. A style which was often a staple of gang shootings and hiphop music videos has now made a return thanks to two of sport’s greatest. Both LeBron James and Tom Brady this week were spotted sporting the Pharrell Williams of winter headwear, aka Mega Beanie.
Arguably a great way to beat the cold, the oversized beanie will be making a comeback as essential streetwear meets luxe fashion accessory. Ideally worn atop one’s head, the oversize beanie trend should give you an additional 5-7cm of height ensuring you’re the tallest at most parties.
Brands such as Gucci, ACNE and Connolly have all embraced the trend as well as more traditional sportswear brands.
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iQOO is a gaming-centric brand managed by vivo and they have been doing so well launching gaming smartphones with top-notch tech specs. Now, it appears that the gaming sub-brand is going to go big by making tablets and laptops as well. It is rumoured that one of the products will be released sooner than we thought.
The iQOO PAD, which sounds like a tablet, is going to be launched alongside a possible gaming laptop iQOOBOOK. The news came when the trademarks of the two mentioned devices have been registered earlier this month. They are also expected to have flagship tech-specs just like how iQOO always does with their devices.
Although the trademarks of those two products were registered around the same time, the IQOO PAD might be the first to be launched first according to tipsters. A user who is not well-known for leaks posted on Weibo saying that the IQOO PAD will be launched "soon". After that, the famous tipster Digital Chat Station backed up the statement by mentioning that the device will come with a high refresh rate screen and fast charging capabilities. We're not getting an exact date for the launch but it will be "soon"!
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When it comes to Korean electric vehicles, Hyundai’s new Ioniq brand won’t be having all the fun.
Kia is planning an aggressive rollout of electric vehicles, saying it wants to launch seven such vehicles by 2027 and have 11 battery-electric vehicles in total by 2025. It’s part of an ambitious program called Plan S.
The first dedicated electric vehicle to come from Kia will be a model codenamed CV, set to launch next year, which will also preview Kia’s new design direction. It’s expected to use the new Electric Global Modular Platform that’ll underpin the Ioniq 5, Ioniq 6 sedan and Ioniq 7 SUV.
The company released a shadowy teaser photo that shows all seven upcoming vehicles, at least four of which appear to be SUVs. Two are quite clearly lower passenger cars.
Kia is aiming for 25 per cent of its sales volume to come from electrified vehicles by 2029. By 2025, it hopes EVs to account for 20 per cent of its sales in “advanced markets” like Korea, North America and Europe.
The upcoming EVs will be across a range of different segments, with Kia promising “models suitable for urban centers, long-range journeys, and performance driving”.
Beyond simply introducing these new models, Kia is working to install thousands of EV chargers – 2400 in Europe and 500 in the US. It’s also increasing the number of EV work bays worldwide to 600 by the end of this year, and to more than 2,000 by 2023.
Also on the agenda: a strategic partnership with charging infrastructure company Ionity and potentially a new vehicle subscription service.
Currently, Kia has the Niro EV, Soul EV and Bongo III light truck but each of these are available with internal combustion engines. It’s also offered an electric version of its Korea-only Ray micro car, as well as the electric KX3 SUV produced by its Chinese joint venture Dongfeng Yueda Kia.
The first of these to launch was the Ray EV, which debuted in 2011. Since then, Kia has sold over 100,000 battery-electric vehicles.
Also joining Kia and Ioniq in releasing electric vehicles is fellow Hyundai Group brand Genesis, which recently applied for a trademark registration for the name eG80 – which we’ve spied testing – as well as ‘e’ versions of the G70, G90, GV70, GV80 and GV90.


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Tesla’s supporters might think the electric company is as disruptive to the auto market as Apple was to cell phones, but the two companies are not comparable, according to a August report from the Harvard Business Review (HBR).
Tesla is innovative but not an Earth-shattering force like the iPhone maker, according to HBR writers Larry Downes and Paul Nunes, both of whom write on technology. Electric vehicles have been around for decades, HBR notes, so the company’s capacity to make something different about the technology is limited.
“For now, what the company has is a powerful brand that stands for luxury and sustainability at the same time,” they wrote. “But it’s not hard to see any number of existing premium brands—think BMW, Mercedes, Volvo, Lexus—stepping in to claim the same mantle.”
Competitors have wormed their way into Tesla’s world. The Volvo Car Group, for instance, claimed earlier this year that the company will produce only electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles starting in 2019, which contributed to Tesla’s stock dropping 13 percent at the beginning of July.
The iPhone was a cataclysmic change to the cell phone market, unlike the Model 3. Apple reinvented cell phones and personal digital devices in a massive leap, according to the Review. Additionally, Tesla has been unable to mimic iPhone’s immediate success, namely matching the capacity to make millions of products.
It is also not apparent that Tesla’s technology is any better than the modern-combustion-engine, the review added. Battery performance may not reach parity with fossil fuels for another 50 years, according to Tesla’s own data.
Analysts have criticized Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the company chairs in the past. Visionaries in Silicon Valley such as Apple’s Steve Jobs had exceptionally brilliant engineers like Steve Wozniak helping them develop the nuts and bolts of their vision, Matt Stack, the co-founder of Devonshire Research Group, told The Daily Caller News Foundation in 2016.
“Elon is missing his Wozniak,” Stack said. Apple had equal parts Jobs’ vision and Wozniak’s engineering brilliance, leading to the computer company producing products in a timely fashion, he said.
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By year’s end the legal cannabis industry is expected to surpass $15 billion. But the money that marijuana generates on the black market far exceeds that amount.
Uncertainty abounds in the coming weeks, as the cannabis industry will learn if its business is as resilient as alcohol.
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Notoriously protective of his image, Eastwood is suing these companies for fake news articles, manipulating metadata, and alleging he quit moviemaking to promote cannabis.
Some states have experienced record monthly sales while tourist-dependent markets have experienced a mixed bag.
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After securing the go-ahead from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and running tests on the system, the Department of Transitional Assistance announced Friday that Massachusetts residents who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits can now buy groceries online through Amazon and Walmart with electronic benefit transfer cards.
DTA said the benefits can be used to buy SNAP-eligible foods online, including fresh produce, frozen foods, dairy and eggs, plant seeds and more. Online purchases can be delivered through Amazon and some Walmart locations, and many Walmart stores also offer curbside pickup.
“The Administration has been working to use all tools available to address food insecurity exacerbated by this public health crisis,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders said. “SNAP is one of the best tools available to fight hunger, putting money directly into the hands of our residence (sic) and local economy. This innovative option enables families across the Commonwealth to purchase food directly and safely.”


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Schwartz Media, the publisher of The Saturday Paper and The Monthly, has left the Digital Publishers Alliance (DPA), representing more than 50 digital publishers, over the industry body's position on Meta's withdrawal from paying for news.
The alliance is opposed to having Meta designated under the News Bargaining Code, which could lead to the social media platform banning news from Australia.
The industry body says this would be devastating to smaller and independent publishers, with referrals drying up entirely from Meta, cutting audience and subsequently advertising sales.
"The only reason [we left] is that Schwartz has a different view on the designation of Meta under the News Bargaining Code to the DPA member group," Schwartz Media CEO Ben Shepherd told AdNews.
A month ago, Meta announced it is ending its deals to pay Australian publishers for their premium content.
The government is assessing whether to designate Meta under the News Media Bargaining Code, which can apply fines of up to 10% of annual turnover for failing to bargain with publishers in good faith.
Major publishers, including News Corp, Seven West Media and Nine entertainment, have shared payments reported to be $70 million a year from Meta. They want the federal government to force Meta to the negotiating table.
The smaller digital publishers took out a full page ad in the Australian Financial Review criticising Meta's move to end its publisher partnerships.
"A sustainable, robust and diverse media industry is the basis for a well-functioning democracy and plays a vital role in sharing information and ensuring accountability," the ad said.
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Rise of the DIY funeral: High costs mean some families are now burying loved ones in the garden
The average cost of a funeral, wake and legal fees is now £8,905
Rapidly rising funeral costs are forcing families to buy cheaper coffins, cut back on flowers and even bury loved ones in the garden.
The basic costs of cremation or burial, plus hiring funeral directors, doctors and ministers, has squeezed the amount that families have left to spend on send-offs, according to research by insurer SunLife.
The average cost of a funeral, wake and legal fees for managing a late relative's estate is now £8,905.
Of this, basic funeral costs are £4,078 — up 70 per cent on £2,400 a decade ago.
The amount spent on the send-off, however, has fallen from £2,097 to £1,928 during the same period.
Almost 60 per cent of funeral directors blamed cutbacks at councils for the rising costs of cremations.
SunLife warns with the cost of the funeral itself on course to hit £5,000 in five years, 'DIY funerals' are likely to become more widespread.
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The US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has published a proposal to regulate cryptocurrency transactions made through users‘ own wallets.
They could begin to be subject to the same requirements that already apply to transactions made by users of exchanges and other cryptocurrency services.
If the proposal is adopted, withdrawals of cryptocurrency to their own wallets from a centralised exchange would require the identity of the recipient to be verified, and the exchange would be required to store this data.
FinCEN is proposing that increased identification requirements would apply to outgoing transactions of $3,000 or more. For transactions above $10,000, companies will have to notify the authority directly. The regulator intends to ensure that the rule cannot be circumvented by splitting the transaction into several smaller parts.
FinCEN intends to collect public comments by January 4, 2021.
According to renowned expert Andreas Antonopoulos, this 1k Daily Profit will hit exchanges and custodial wallets, which will have to do extra work and force users to perform more actions.
„You will have to prove that the address belongs to you in order to withdraw to it. This year it will be $3,000. Next year they will lower the bar, even with inflation. Over time, all transactions will be controlled. Not your keys – not your coins, extra barriers. Your keys are your coins,“ he wrote.
„It’s pretty silly, but devoid of meaning. It will give them a huge database of wallet owners without relying on Chainalysis data, which is always probabilistic. The government will now have a confirmed list of wallet owners,“ commented The Block analyst Larry Cermak on FinCEN’s initiative.
He called it an obvious attack on user privacy, but noted that the proposal is not compatible with DeFi services and other protocols that cannot be subjected to KYC procedures.
„I think users will withdraw cryptocurrency to an identified wallet and then spend it through Tornado Cash or another mixer until this is also banned,“ Cermak added.
Recall that the US authorities intend to take such a step and are preparing a „farewell gift“ to the crypto industry before Donald Trump leaves office as president, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said in November.
He believes that if such a proposal is passed, users will start turning to unregulated platforms, and the situation itself threatens to cause the US to lose its financial centre status.
Last week, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said in a statement to the US Treasury that it would work with the blockchain industry to develop regulatory requirements.


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The Royal Mint and HM Treasury are calling on people to hunt down any remaining coins and spend, bank or donate them to charity before the end of Sunday (15 October).
After that, the 12-sided pound coin becomes the only legal £1 coin for use in shops and restaurants, although the old round pound can still be taken to the bank or donated to charity.
Julie Mason, industry communications manager at The Royal Mint, explained: "Social media is core to the campaign. Messages are both organic and targeted dependent on consumer research and business feedback. The campaign is using The Royal Mint Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn platforms targeted at consumers and businesses. These are re-posted via HM Treasury and stakeholder platforms. Instagram and Snapchat have also been used for elements of the campaign."
First introduced in 1983, the old coin has become vulnerable to sophisticated counterfeiters, with as many as one in thirty thought to be a fake.
The new gold and silver-coloured pound coin is designed to be more difficult to fake, and the overall key campaign message – ‘The new 12-sided £1 coin. Better by design’ – debuted last October.
However, secondary messages have also been used throughout the year-long project, with the current call to action based on the phrase ‘Spend, bank or donate your round £1 coin’ reinforced at regular periods, said Mason.
Over the course of the campaign, channels have included national and regional media, including consumer and trade publications, radio and television.
Meanwhile, e-shots targeted individuals and businesses who registered for updates about the new £1 coin, while ongoing consultation and communication has been carried out with key industry stakeholders in the cash-handling sector.
A dedicated website www.thenewpoundcoin.com has been offering general information, communication resources and FAQs about the new £1 coin and the end of the round £1 coin.
The campaign has partnered with a number of spokespeople representing The Royal Mint and HM Treasury, added Mason.
They include Adam Lawrence, the chief executive of The Royal Mint and Andrew Jones MP, the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury.
The campaign has also partnered with Children in Need’s Pudsey Bear, to encourage people to donate their old coins to Pudsey’s Round Pound Countdown.
The new 12-sided pound came into circulation on 28 March, so there has been almost seven months with the dual tender.
Although more than £1.2 billion worth of old pounds have been returned, there are still estimated to be millions in circulation.
Some retailers, including supermarket giant Tesco, have said they will defy the deadline and continue to accept round pounds for an extra week, while Poundland has said it will accept the old coin until the end of October.


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SolarWindow Technologies, Inc. [WNDW], a leading provider of transparent electricity-generating coatings for windows, has reported a net loss of $1.81 billion for the 9 months ended May 31, 2023. The company's annual revenue also decreased to $1.72 billion during the same period.
Despite the challenging market conditions, SolarWindow Technologies has been focused on advancing its innovative technology and expanding its product offerings. The company has made significant investments in research and development, which is reflected in the increase in deferred research and development costs on the balance sheet. However, these investments have not yet translated into positive financial results, as indicated by the net loss from continuing operations of $1.55 billion for the period.


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Quarterly profit nearly doubled at the Chinese e-commerce operator of Tmall and Taobao, and revenue shot up 56 percent. Fred Katayama reports.
Strong online sales drove Alibaba's quarterly revenue up 56 percent. The Chinese operator of Tmall and the online marketplace Taobao has been trying to beef up its offline sales by investing in its supermarket business and buying department stores and malls under its so-called "new retail" strategy. But e-commerce keeps taking up a bigger share of the revenue pie. What's more, revenue from its cloud business nearly doubled, and entertainment revenue shot up 30 percent. Alibaba's shares rose Thursday to an all-time high. Phoenix Financial Services chief market analyst Wayne Kaufman: SOUNDBITE: WAYNE KAUFMAN, CHIEF MARKET STRATEGIST, PHOENIX FINANCIAL SERVICES, (ENGLISH) SAYING: "Alibaba's earnings were terrific. And I think Alibaba is an indication of what to me is the most important growth story in financial markets today which is the growth of the Chinese middle class and the Chinese consumer." Alibaba is also pouring more money into e-commerce. It confirmed Thursday it led a $1.1 billion investment in the Southeast Asian online marketplace operator, Tokopedia. Earlier this summer, it poured another $1 billion into Singapore's online commerce company, Lazada Group.


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BEAVERTON, Oregon — June 28, 2016 — Biamp Systems, a leading provider of innovative, networked media systems, today announced that the company has been named to the Installation Hall of Fame by Installation magazine. The Hall of Fame induction recognizes individuals and companies that have helped to shape today’s pro-AV industry, either through their work over a period of time or through their involvement in major groundbreaking initiatives. Biamp was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the InstallAwards ceremony held June 24 in London.
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“It’s a tremendous honor to be named to the Installation Hall of Fame,” said Graeme Harrison, executive vice president of marketing for Biamp Systems. “Now in their third year, these prestigious awards recognize the best of the best, and we’re so honored to be included in such an esteemed group.”
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