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IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
- BroadR-Reach® portfolio certified to meet rigorous demands of global automotive industry
- Achieves production part approval process (PPAP) with leading tier-one automotive supplier
- Extends leadership in fast-growing automotive semiconductor market
- Automotive OPEN Alliance SIG membership surges to 100+ members
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today announced that its BroadR-Reach® automotive portfolio has met the rigorous requirements of the global automotive industry including TS16949 compliance/ISO 9001 certification, in-car EMC performance and AEC-Q100 qualification. The BroadR-Reach portfolio also has attained PPAP production release with Valeo, one of the world's leading tier-one automotive component suppliers. For more news, visit Broadcom's Newsroom.
ISO 9001/TS16949 is an international standard that specifies stringent requirements for a zero-defect quality management system throughout an organization. Compliance with the standard is a key requirement in serving the automotive industry and Broadcom's accreditation is expected to further propel wide-scale adoption of Ethernet-based networks as the standard in automotive driver safety and infotainment applications.
According to ABI Research, the prevalence of in-vehicle electronics has nearly doubled in the last decade as consumer demand for in-vehicle connectivity continues to grow. As a result, automotive manufacturers are under increasing pressure to offer advanced driver safety and infotainment features as standard equipment throughout the fleet while reducing cost, complexity and overall weight.
Broadcom's BroadR-Reach automotive-qualified Ethernet solutions allow multiple in-vehicle systems to simultaneously access information over a single unshielded twisted pair cable at speeds of up to 100 Mbps. By eliminating cumbersome, shielded cabling, automotive manufacturers can reduce connectivity costs up to 80 percent1 and cabling weight up to 30 percent2.
Automotive OPEN Alliance SIG Promotes Proliferation of In-Car Ethernet
Interest in Broadcom's BroadR-Reach technology has grown dramatically as the industry accelerates adoption of Ethernet-based networks to deliver high-performance bandwidth over the industry's lowest cost cabling solution. Last month marked the one year anniversary of the OPEN (One-Pair Ether-Net) Alliance Special Interest Group that Broadcom, together with leading technology and automotive manufacturers, established to encourage Ethernet-based networks as the standard in automotive applications.
Since its inception just one year ago, the OPEN Alliance has surged to more than 100 members strong, representing many of the world's leading technology companies and automakers. Visit www.opensig.org to learn more.
Automotive Ethernet Market Drivers
- The automotive semiconductor market is expected to reach $39B by 20183
- Automotive manufacturers require open, scalable, in-vehicle connectivity3
- New vehicle factory-installed connected car penetration will reach 60 percent by 20174
- Growing consumer awareness of vehicle safety spurring demand for new driver assistance features such as speed monitoring, lane departure warnings and driver behavior feedback4
- Growing number of drivers expecting the same infotainment experience in the car that is available in the home. Internet access, real-time location-based search, and music streaming are among the most desired applications4
- Infotainment has moved from the luxury segment to the mass market vehicles due to falling prices and increased economy vehicle deployment4
The full line of BroadR-Reach automotive-qualified switch and PHY devices are immediately available.
Dominque Bonte, Vice President & Practice Director, Automotive/Navigation/Telematics/M2M, ABI Research
"ADAS and infotainment features are now available on a wide range of vehicles, not just high luxury models. Consumer awareness of safety issues is pushing vehicle manufacturers to install systems that can help prevent collisions from occurring while additional convenience features, such as parking and lane change assistance, are making safety features more attractive. We expect demand for enabling technologies such as Broadcom's BroadR-Reach Ethernet technology to continue to grow as these features become more ubiquitous as standard equipment."
Dr. Ali Abaye, Broadcom's Senior Director of Automotive PHY Product Marketing
"The car is the next frontier for high speed communications, and Broadcom's expertise in intelligent connectivity allowed us to deliver innovative technology to the automotive industry. Full automotive qualification shows our commitment to this fast-growing market."
Robert Lutze, Broadcom's Vice President of Quality Assurance
"This formal recognition is a testimonial to Broadcom's leadership in providing our automotive customers with electronic devices that meet rigorous standards for quality and reliability. This achievement marks yet another milestone in our expanding commitment to serve the automotive industry with unique products and features."
1 Based on current market prices for unshielded single twisted pair FlexRay cables
2 Based on combined weight of 2-meter twisted, single-pair FlexRay cables and connectors
3 ABI Semiconductor Forecast, 2012
4 ABI Connected Car, May 2012
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a FORTUNE 500® company, is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom® products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environments. With the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and embedded software solutions, Broadcom is changing the world by Connecting everything®. For more information, go to www.broadcom.com.
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The pricing model for the dynamic networks are based on impressions or, in the case of Massive, sites viewed for ten seconds or more. The rates for inclusion in console games are a little less standardised, but can be comparable to TV budgets. However, Codemasters director or business development Matt Davies explains: “Whether an advertiser has millions or thousands to spend, there is always a solution.”
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Starcom Digital director Nigel Sheldon believes that metrics and the evolution of games have helped the medium grow, although he concedes that it is a nascent area of his agency’s business. “A few years ago, advertisers had to be involved from the start of a game’s development,” he says. “Now, with the ability to feed ads into games dynamically, you can measure effectiveness and use activity that relates to a current campaign. Advances in online gaming and content has made the proposition more attractive for advertisers.”
Not only advertisers benefit. Bartlett says: “The publishers need in-game advertising. Production budgets are rising. When I was a developer, 12 people worked on producing a 200,000 game. Now, more than 100 people are working on games that cost anything from 5m to develop.”
Davis agrees that game budgets mean developers have no choice but to tap into this lucrative revenue source. “But rising marketing budgets are pushing up costs,” he adds. “As publishers try to reach a wider market, their advertising becomes more sophisticated and costs rise.”
Codemasters’ Davies says: “Brands can be confident that with third-generation gaming they will get a good representation in a game. And, most importantly, gamers are a captive audience.”


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“We are hitting the ceiling and while the United States has been buying cars, there’s a limit,” said Albin. “Going forward, we are looking to maintain these numbers and maybe one or two (percentage) points of growth,” he said.
Mexico, the world’s fifth biggest auto parts producer, exports more than 70 percent of its output, mostly to the United States.
The Mexican peso MXN=D2 MEX01 has weakened about 10 percent so far this year against the U.S. dollar, on top of a depreciation of nearly 17 percent in 2015.
“But you have to look for other markets,” said Albin.
“Brazil was a good market for us, but we’re only selling a third of what we used to sell to Brazil,” he said.
In the medium-term, Albin said the local auto parts sector expects to reach sales of more than $100 billion by 2020, which would push Mexico into fourth place among the world’s top producers, on par with Germany.
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New Press Heats Up Southwestern Printer
PHOENIX—Cereus Graphics has installed a new Komori Lithrone S40 sheetfed offset press. Cereus reportedly is the second printing company in the nation to begin operating the newly designed, 40˝ press after its Graph Expo introduction last fall.
ADAMSVILLE—Precision Graphics has installed a five-color Komori Lithrone 40.
PHOENIX—A two-color, 17x22˝ Sakurai 258EPII perfector has been installed by the Arizona Department of Transportation.
LITTLE ROCK—Magna IV has purchased two Model 3F sheetfed presses from Mitsubishi Lithographic Presses. The new 40˝ presses—a six-color with coater and extended delivery and a two-color—joined an existing six-color Model 3F.
BURBANK—California Coast Color has added a six-color, 40˝ Mitsubishi Model 3F-13 sheetfed press with tower coater and extended delivery to its equipment list. The 14-year-old company has 15 employees and 11,000 square feet of manufacturing space.
NORTH HOLLYWOOD—Ad Industries announced it has acquired Cal-West United (also known as Rundel Products, Western Looseleaf and California Calendar), a manufacturer of vacuum formed packaging, looseleaf and specialty products.
NORTHRIDGE—Commercial printer Dot Graphics has installed a Creo Trendsetter CTP system. The company also reports it has plans to expand into a 35,000-square-foot facility later this year.
BOULDER—Twelve new Tensor printing units were installed last year at Intermountain Color. The company has placed another order for an additional Tensor four-high tower.
DENVER—National Printing & Packaging has added a six-color, 28˝ Mitsubishi Model 1F-15 press. It replaced a five-color, 26˝ press.
CHICAGO—Greeting card manufacturer Recycled Paper Greetings has added a 14x22˝ Kluge EHD foil stamping, embossing and diecutting press.
CRESTHILL—A four-color Komori Lithrone 26 has been installed at Graphic Promotions.
WHEELING—Segerdahl Graphics has purchased a new two-color Ryobi 582H sheetfed press.
INDIANAPOLIS—Ross-Gage Inc. has purchased its second Durrer Rega step and European thumb cut indexing machine.
LAFAYETTE—Haywood Printing, in operation since 1826, has announced several equipment upgrades for its bindery, including a Wohlenberg 115PS Cut-Tec paper cutter, a Muller Martini Minuteman 1509 saddle stitcher, and a Rollem Auto-4 CPS for numbering, perfing, scoring and slitting.
TIPTON—McCormack Printing Impressions, a full-service commercial printer, has installed a Duplo System 4000 collating and bookletmaking system.
LOUISVILLE—Midland Communications Packaging has entered into an exclusive agreement with Chapman Group to represent the Peterson Case loose leaf binder line in Kentucky and other parts of the Midwest.
MONTCLAIR—A two-color Komori Spirit 26 perfector has been installed at The Printers Place.
PENNSAUKEN—A new Tigra perfect binding system from Muller Martini has been added to McCormick's Bindery. The binder can produce up to 3,600 soft cover books per hour.
OCEANSIDE—The Printcafe Logic SQL print management system has been implemented by Printcraft Graphics.
PALMYRA—The Paul T. Freund Co., a specialty printer of candy boxes and department store boxes, has added another Kluge EHD.
SYRACUSE—Dellas Graphics, a commercial printer and mailer, recently installed Printcafe's PSI print management system.
COLUMBUS—Old Trail Printing has expanded its bindery capacity with a new Bravo T/S saddle stitching system from Muller Martini. Old Trail Printing took its name from its original location on The National Old Trail—Route 40 in Columbus. It is a full-service commercial printer, employing a work force of more than 100.
DUBLIN—Vincent Graphics has installed a six-color Heidelberg Speedmaster 74 press with an in-line coating tower. The second-generation commercial printing, direct mail, fulfillment and e-commerce company was founded in 1968.
COLUMBIA—Crowson Stone Printing reports a 50 percent reduction in paper waste during makeready and a one-third decrease in makeready time through its use of Heidelberg's Prinect workflow solutions. The shop is using Heidelberg's Prinect PrepressInterface and ImageControl systems to support its new 10-color, 40˝ Speedmaster perfecting press. With these systems in place, Crowson Stone was able to reduce the stock required for 10-unit, two-sided perfecting makeready to an average of less than 300 sheets.
EASLEY—An automated Osako 368AS saddle stitcher was purchased by Martin Printing from North American distributor Best Graphics.
GREENWOOD—The Index-Journal has purchased a new Goss Community press for increased color capacity in its daily newspaper of the same name. The press reportedly was chosen for its reputation for shorter-run newspapers and the simplicity of its operation. The single-width Goss Community for The Index-Journal will be installed in March and has two four-high towers, one two-high unit and four mono units. It is also equipped with hydraulic paper roll lifts, motorized register for four-highs, remote compensation for the four-high units, 50˝ roll stands and a quarter folder.
HOUSTON—Earth Color has implemented the Printcafe PSI print management system.
MCALLEN—Freedom Communications recently placed an order for a Goss Universal 45 for its newspaper The Monitor. The press will be used to print the daily editions of The Monitor.
NORFOLK—AmeriComm has acquired Fastlist.com, a division of High Tech Data Services. The acquisition will reportedly allow AmeriComm, a full-service direct marketing and communications company, to supply advertisers and direct mailers with an easy, online count and order system for residential mailing lists with state-of-the-art mapping capabilities. AmeriComm has five locations across the United States.
SPRINGFIELD—Gannett Offset has signed an order for the final phase of a comprehensive enhancement program from Goss International to upgrade its existing presses. The project involves the installation of Goss digital inker page packs and Goss press controls across Gannett Offset's fleet of presses. This latest order from Gannett Offset is for the installation of digital inkers on its Goss Colorliner press. The press was the first Goss Colorliner in the U.S., originally installed in 1988.
KENOSHA—Badger Press has purchased a Duplo System 4000 bookletmaker from Best Graphics.
MENOMONEE FALLS—Postal Solutions, a marketing production firm, has announced a new company name. Proven Direct marks the formal launch of its newest services—variable imaging and online marketing. According to the company, the word "postal" defined the company solely as a mailing house. The Proven Direct name, accompanied by the tagline "Your Marketing Solutions Group," will apply immediately in electronic communications. The company reports it has also launched a new Website at www.provendirect.com.
MILWAUKEE—A two-color, 20x28˝ Sakurai 272EPIIL perfector press has been installed by the Milwaukee County Transit System.
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Postmaster General Says Technology is Making Mail More Powerful
SAN FRANCISCO—March 18, 2013—Technology and changing consumer expectations are helping to transform mail into an even more powerful communications channel, Postmaster General and CEO Patrick R. Donahoe told the nation’s largest annual gathering of mailing industry leaders today.
“As the mailing industry, we must continue to work to drive innovation and leverage data and technology to improve the consumer experience and grow revenue," Donahoe relayed in his keynote address at the National Postal Forum. “Our challenge as an industry is to shape those moments when people are experiencing mail, and make them more powerful in the future. That’s part of getting our game on—shaping our future and building excitement about the power of mail and the future of mail.”
Mail already has an advantage over other ways of communicating, Donahoe said, because it is tactile and encourages users to interact with it. “People slow down and absorb what they receive. They process it. They retain it,” he said. To strengthen that experience, Donahoe urged the mailing industry to focus on four key ideas: making mail more personally relevant, more actionable, more functional and more creative.
“Through the convergence of data and technology, mailers can use the insights about individual interests to make mail more personal,” he noted. “With imbedded QR codes and augmented reality, mail becomes much more functional and creative, creating an even more influential experience.”
Donahoe also touted the fact that American businesses are spending the same percentage of their marketing dollars on mail today as they did 30 years ago.
“Even with the emergence of cable television, social media and smartphones, marketing mail has remained constant because of the tremendous value it delivers to consumers who receive it and its ability to drive an exceptional return on investment for the businesses who send it,” said Donahoe. “The growth of our industry is going to be driven by changing technologies and customer expectations. We have to work together as an industry to anticipate these changes by leveraging the value of mail to shape new opportunities.”


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Economic development organizations are working together to fund, advocate for, inform and connect businesses affected by COVID-19 restrictions.
The organizations are reacting to the pandemic that caused massive employee layoffs by shutting down ski resorts, bars, restaurants and more. As the nation’s response to the virus progresses, the regional organizations are working overtime to support businesses through the rough period.
“Everything is very fluid,” said Tim Walsworth, executive director of the Durango Business Improvement District. “We’re in reaction mode, but we’re trying as a group to be a little more proactive.”
The Business Improvement District has been leading a meeting three times each week among development organizations, including the chambers of commerce for Durango, Ignacio and Bayfield; the city of Durango; Visit Durango; the Small Business Development Center; Region 9 Economic Development District; and others.
“There’s very few businesses or industries that haven’t been impacted negatively by what’s occurred here over the past couple of weeks,” Walsworth said.
One of the group’s top priorities is to connect small businesses to local, state and federal funding opportunities, like Small Business Administration low-interest disaster loans with long repayment terms.
The organizations are also advocating with U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton to ensure a federal stimulus bill includes enough support for small businesses.
And they are advocating for the city to relax some of its rules, like parking fees downtown, to support businesses.
“We want to be aware of all the opportunities ... where a business can get this operating capital that they’re desperate for,” Walsworth said.
They are conducting a survey of local businesses, which covers topics like layoffs and revenue decreases, to communicate the community’s needs to Tipton and other government officials.
Region 9 Economic Development District is working on a business relief fund that could provide 0% interest loans to local small businesses.
The organizations will create a webinar for small business owners who want updated COVID-19 response information, the best ways to adapt to restrictions, funding opportunities and what other resources are available.
The organizations are also updating the website, swcoda.org, to be a one-stop shop for businesses and community members in search of information or resources.
Most of the resources relate to La Plata County, but the website will expand to include information for surrounding counties, such as Montezuma, Dolores and Archuleta.
Businesses will be able to post updated services and hours in the BID business directory, which includes 400 downtown and north Main Avenue businesses.
In coming weeks, the BID board of directors and staff will take up rent relief for businesses. They also plan to add a job board to the Downtown Durango website.
Employees who have been temporarily laid off from their workplaces will be able to post skills and availability on the website. They will then be connected to work opportunities in the area.
Durango and surrounding communities are resilient, Walsworth said.
“We’ve proven that time and time again through disasters,” he said. “We all do believe we will get through it, and there will be opportunities on the other side for businesses to thrive.”


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Wednesday, January 06, 2016
By Manoj Kumawat
Toyota to bring petrol variants of Innova and Fortuner
The decision of Supreme Court India to ban the entrance of diesel vehicles with engine displacement capacity of more than 2000cc had compelled major car makers to determine new strategy for their powerful vehicles. Going through this decision of Supreme Court Toyota Kirloskar Motors, the Indian arm of Japanese car maker Toyota Motors is speculating to launch the petrol variants of its best selling SUVs Innova and Fortuner soon in Indian car market.
The role of Innova and Fortuner in company’s total sales can be understood from the fact that share of both these vehicles count to 55% across the country following 14% of sales from Delhi and NCR region. It would be interested to know that Japanese car maker has already launched the petrol variant of Innova empowered with 2,000 VVT-I petrol engine churning the power of 137 bhp and torque of 183 Nm is already of sale in Indonesian car market.
On the other side Supreme Court of India continued its decision of ban on the sale and registration of diesel vehicles mounted with 2,000 cc displacement capacity in Delhi and NCR region. The bench of Supreme Court yesterday rejected the petition present by major car makers including Toyota, Mercedes Benz and Mahindra requesting the court to revise the decision. The car makers said that diesel vehicles manufactured by them do not affect the pollution.


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CARBONDALE, Colo., Aug. 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Vatom Labs, a brand innovation company that connects brands to their audience through SmartMedia objects, has worked with Miller Lite to enable its latest phase of the brand's Know Your Beer program. The 'edutainment' game was designed as a mobile experience called Great Taste Trivia and blends Miller Lite's unique brand personality with the digital power of blockchain-enabled engagement.
Great Taste Trivia is a 12-question trivia game served to the mobile phones of legal-age drinkers in more than 230,000 bars and restaurants across the country. If a player answers all 12 questions correctly, their prize is $5 compliments of Miller Lite! It was launched on July 2nd to a great reception and to-date a little over half of the prizes have been won.
Having designed the experience with the need to authenticate and immediately reward players that complete the trivia game, Vatom Labs utilized its proprietary self-serve creative platform that leverages the blockchain at its core. By using SmartMedia objects, Vatom Labs is able to track activations, engagements and attribute the reward based on those outcomes and to the channel where the user was originally acquired.
"We've been looking for new and innovative ways to reach drinkers in the bar, on-premise," says Lucy Bloxam, associate marketing manager for Miller Lite. "Great Taste Trivia allows Miller Lite to extend the success of Know Your Beer into the digital space. It's new, it's different, its engaging and it's positioned to gamify drinkers' time on-premise, helping make Miller Lite top of mind for the rest of the night."
The new trivia game will appear in social media channels, select apps and browsers via a geotargeted media buy that will serve the game to users identified inside bars and restaurants. Others can grab the game via QR codes on posters and other point-of-sale materials inside bars and restaurants. The game began on July 1st and will continue through September.
Once a user enters their email address and acknowledges they're 21 or older, they're asked to answer 12 trivia questions pulled from a question bank. Miller Lite will award 10,000 winners, who are limited to one $5 prize, which will be instantly transmitted via Paypal.
"Today, brands are looking for innovative and new ways to activate and engage their existing customers and acquire new customers," said Tyler Moebius, Co-founder and CEO of Vatom Labs. "We have built a powerful brand activation platform that leverages a new blockchain enabled SmartMedia object that is highly-programmable and able to deliver real tangible value from the brand to the consumer– like $5 to their PayPal account—that remains a simple mobile experience. Users see a fun, engaging game where they can kill-time, share the experience with friends, earn more ways to play and win a $5 instant prize."
The game, a form of promotion called "digital edutainment," features a series of multiple-choice questions focused on beer and Miller Lite. What is unique about this experience is how it is leveraging NFTs (non-fungible tokens called SmartMedia Objects) to provide a robust experience including a game, social badges, rewards for virality, and ultimately to ensure that the $5 rebate coin the user receives upon winning the game cannot be counterfeited.
Moebius added, "We believe providing brands the ability to create engaging and immersive digital promotions and activation experiences that are backed by the blockchain is the next major upgrade required to usher in the new era of brand innovation."
For more information on Vatom Labs, visit www.vatomlabs.com.
Media Contact: Raul Jovellanos, [email protected]
SOURCE Vatom Labs


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Somizi not impressed by the Hollywood life: 'They sold us a dream'
Fresh from his recent trip to America to host the red carpet for MTV Base Africa at the MTV Video Music Awards in LA, Somizi has revealed that after experiencing the Hollywood life he would rather chase the "African dream".
Speaking on his Metro FM breakfast radio show with DJ Fresh this week, Somizi said he had experienced the Hollywood life and was underwhelmed by it.
"I got to be inside it (Hollywood) and I look at it and I was like 'America clap your hands because you sold us a dream'. It is not what it seems," Somizi said.
He explained that he got to be in the same room as US music icons Nicki Minaj and Kendrick Lamar but was seemingly unimpressed, saying that they "sold a dream" to their followers.
After the underwhelming experience, Somizi said he was more determined to abandon any pursuits of an American dream and rather "make it" back on home soil.
"I want to be one of the people who really emphasises the importance of being proudly African, of not chasing the American dream. Don't chase it. You don't realise how much we have. We are okay with just being in Africa and killing the African dream. My trip reminded me of that," Somizi said.
Somizi won over American audiences with his unique fashion sense and outgoing personality, hitting the red carpet at the awards in a crystal-encrusted outfit worth over R40,000.
Speaking to TshisaLIVE, the designer of the outfit said that the outfit was inspired by Somizi's "loud personality".
"Somizi has a loud personality and I wanted to channel that in the outfit. 90 percent of the outfit was made with tiny Swarovski crystals, including in the shoulders and the leg boot pants," designer Anita Ferreira said.


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Beijing- and San Francisco-based App Annie remains a market leader in mobile app analytics throughout the world, and it continues to improve its user experience with its latest free update.
App Annie now lets you view your app’s rank history in different countries side by side in a single graph. In the past, comparing different countries was a pain, requiring users to run split screens, constantly change windows, and more or less eye-ball the graphs.
The new feature allows comparisons of up to 10 countries at once, and you can easily toggle each of them and their sub-categories on or off.
In addition to the cross country rank history, App Annie is now tracks Windows Phone apps as well. That brings the total number of app stores monitored to six. The history for the Windows Phone Store only goes back to December 24, 2013 for now, though.
Founded in 2009, App Annie now reports 90 percent of the world’s top publishers use it for analytics on over 350,000 apps, and it tracks 3.9 million apps in total.
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Recent market turmoil may have spurred an exodus of funds from Southeast Asia's markets, but Japanese companies are piling in – and shunning China.
In the wake of the Bank of Japan's massive easing program, Japanese bank lending and capital is pouring into Southeast Asia, with acquisition activity picking up, HSBC said in a report. "Corporate Japan is also taking the plunge, setting up more and more factories across Southeast Asia."
It's more than just caution over investing in China, it said. "China is no longer the highly competitive export platform it used to be," HSBC said. "It also reflects the growing pull of markets like Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam as promising consumer markets in their own right and increasingly competitive export platforms."
Why is investment swinging away from China?
"We can see from a survey of Japanese exporters that they are becoming increasingly worried about the political situation between Japan and China," said Robert Prior-Wandesforde, head of economics for Southeast Asia at Credit Suisse, citing a survey from Japan External Trade Organization, or Jetro. Last year, a territorial dispute over the East China Sea islands flared up, spurring tension between China and Japan, with violent protests on the mainland leading some Japanese firms to shut down factories temporarily.
Japan's currency has weakened sharply in the wake of the BOJ's April pledge to pump $1.4 trillion into the Japanese economy over the following two years, marking the world's most aggressive quantitative easing program.
(Read More: Corporates take emerging market volatility in stride)
The weaker yen should probably have slowed investments into Southeast Asia as it makes investments at home more attractive and investments overseas more expensive.
Japanese companies aren't terribly likely to keep their investments in their home market, even with the weaker yen, Prior-Wandesforde said. "It's still an expensive place to locate and produce," he said, noting there are also concerns about power supply amid ongoing problems at the Fukushima nuclear plant in the wake of the March 2011 earthquake. The plant has been taken offline as radioactive material continues to leak, with the resulting outcry putting the fate of Japan's other nuclear plants in jeopardy.
(Read More: China risks following Japan into economic coma)
"(Companies) see better opportunities to meet demand elsewhere in the region than they do in their own market, which is aging rapidly and where consumer spending is still very depressed," he said.
HSBC noted the yen's weakness appears to be actually accelerating the investment flows.
"With the BOJ holding its foot firmly on the gas, expect this to rise a lot further," it said.
To be sure, not everyone thinks the BOJ's easing is driving Japanese investment toward Southeast Asia.
Corporate investments take a while to decide upon, indicating the Japanese corporate investment boost may be unrelated to the stimulus measures introduced in April, Prior-Wandesforde said.
"Japanese companies have taken the view that a number of these Southeast Asian countries offer significant opportunities, particularly to meet domestic demand," he said. Japanese manufacturers, especially in the auto segment, have targeted Indonesia's growing middle class, while heavy supply-chain investment in Thailand is of long-standing, he noted.
—By CNBC.Com's Leslie Shaffer; Follow her on Twitter @LeslieShaffer1


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This Nationwide Journey and Tourism Week (NTTW), there’s extra purpose than ever to rejoice the collective energy and promising way forward for the U.S. journey and tourism trade.
The 39th annual NTTW, happening Could 1-7, acknowledges the Way forward for Journey and the essential position our trade will play in rebuilding the workforce, serving to communities recuperate, fostering sustainability, ushering in new improvements and reconnecting vacationers within the U.S. and around the globe.
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ATHENS – It already looks like 2023 will be a gangbusters year for tourism in Greece, the country’s biggest revenue engine, and now the push is turning toward Asia and trying to lure more Chinese and Australians.
With China allowing people to travel again after a resurgence of COVID-19 that began there and put the world on hold with lockdowns for more than two years, Greece is trying to persuade them to come.
Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias said the Australians will be coming back too after they were kept out of international travel under strict health measures after Greece in 2022 lifted its restrictions.
Speaking to Real FM radio he noted that the tourism season began March 11 with direct flights – with more added from the United States – and seats filling fast for island hops in the Aegean and to Crete.
He said campaigns to get people to come year-round had been effective instead of just featuring summer and islands, beaches, sun and sand, also focusing on attractions ranging from skiing to hiking, wellness and sports.
He said he also expects a 20 percent increase in cruise ships with the Chinese company COSCO which operates the port of Piraeus further making improvements to bring in vessels packed with tourists, ready to spend.


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For sellers, commission plans are often complex and insufficiently transparent, leading to accounting errors and frustration. Everstage, a sales commission platform, solves that, so sellers can see exactly how much they’ve earned. It also has features to estimate how many commissions they could potentially earn from their deals pipeline. Today, the startup announced it has raised $13 million in Series funding led by Elevation Capital.
MovieUpdates first covered Everstage last August when it announced a $1.7 million starting round from 3one4 Capital, which also returned for this round.
Everstage was founded in 2020 by Siva Rajamani, the former leader of Freshworks’ global revenue operations team, and Vivek Suriyamoorthy. Its clients include Chargebee, Postman, Nitro, Hackerrank, and CleverTap.
Everstage has added new features over the past year: instant commission visibility on Slack, contract management, and incentive gamification. For example, sales reps can enter different scenarios and see how that affects their payout estimates. Everstage also has leaderboards so salespeople know how they rank on their team.
Rajamani told MovieUpdates that revenues have increased 5x since Everstage’s seed funding, thanks to a 6x increase in customer base. While the majority of Everstage’s customer base is located in the United States, it now also has customers in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Africa. It is used by companies in vertical sectors, including technology, business services, financial services, insurance, health technology and logistics. Everstage also increased the size of its team from 20 at the time of the seed funding to 70 now.
The funding will be used to grow Everstage’s go-to-market, product and engineering teams, as well as branding and marketing.
In a prepared statement, Akarsh Shrivastava, Principal at Elevation Capital, said: “We were super impressed with how, unlike today’s legacy vendors, Everstage elegantly enabled companies to design and execute even the most complex plans. while providing a modern UI/UX and consumer app-like experience.”


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It’s March, but you could forgive medical device industry leaders if they’re still smarting a bit from a generally tough 2013. Several new studies indicate a low level of mergers and financing last year, which could slow product innovation down the line, a drop in 2013 product approvals, and a mixed report on how that medical device excise tax thing is impacting hiring and other initiatives.
Let’s start with taxes. Studies from the Emergo Group, AdvaMed, and comments from the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) paint slightly different pictures, though none says the tax is good for the industry — the reaction has ranged from a sort of bad to really bad.
Emergo’s survey, which has been criticized by MITA but endorsed by AdvaMed, said effects weren’t good but weren’t as bad as predicted. In 2013, 75% of respondents said the tax would result in major (read: bad) changes in their business. But fewer than half said it had actually gone down that way in a similar Emergo study this year.
AdvaMed, which has applauded some recent efforts to repeal the device tax, saw a bleaker picture. Nearly 40 member companies reported that the tax forced 14,000 layoffs, and big reductions in R&D and start-up company investment.
That last bit is troubling — and maybe with us for a while.
A recent survey by EP Vantage (EP) found 2013 to be one of the worst on record in terms of mergers and financing activity which “could contribute to a lack of innovative devices in future.”
The recent past doesn’t look so hot, either, according to EP. Last year, the FDA approved just 23 innovative devices, that’s down 44% from 2012.
“The increasingly stringent FDA approval process means that devices tend to gain European approval around three to five years before they reach the US market.” But wait, the bad news gets worse. Proposed changes in the EU approval system might throw a spanner in the works there, too, EP warns.
Still, there’s a potential silver lining: If EU approval gets significantly tougher, it could put pressure on the FDA to continue efforts to speed things back in the 50 states. “To its credit, FDA is aware of this [potential EU approval slowdown] and is weighing options to combat it [including] the new de novo pathway, a swifter review process for low-risk devices intended for unmet needs.”
FDA weighing some changes is good news for the device industry. Until then, its the medical device industry struggling under the increasingly heavy burden.


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According to, the latest beta for iOS 15.4 has new capabilities aimed at preventing Apple’s AirTags from being used to follow people. Most importantly, during the setup process, there is a new privacy warning that advises that using AirTags to track someone without their agreement may be illegal, and that law enforcement may request information on an unknown AirTags’ owner. The notification reads, “AirTag is Linked To Your Apple ID.”
After a slew of press reports revealed that Apple’s AirTags had been used to track people without their consent, the company introduced a slew of additional security protections for them earlier this month. Apple didn’t give a specific release date for the new safety features at the time, just stating that they would arrive “later this year.”
reports that iOS 15.4 can now identify when an unidentified pair of AirPods is discovered traveling with you, in addition to the additional privacy alert. According to , AirPods formerly sent a more generic “Unknown Accessory Alert” notification, which prompted some users to become confused. The ability to stop safety alerts when a tracker is discovered in your neighborhood has also been eliminated, and the Find My app now has new tracking notification options.
Other anti-stalking AirTag features announced by Apple earlier this month include a faster alert when an unknown AirTag is detected in their presence, as well as the ability to use the precise ultrawideband tracking in newer iPhones to locate an AirTag that isn’t theirs (previously, this was only available to an AirTag’s owner). Apple claims that tracking notifications displayed on an iPhone will be linked with an AirTag’s alert sounds to make them more prominent.
Along with the new anti-stalking capabilities, iOS 15.4’s fourth beta includes a new American Siri voice, which according to is less gendered than the voice assistant’s current selections. Face ID functionality when wearing masks and Apple’s new Universal Control feature are among the other new iOS 15.4 features. Although an official release date for iOS 15.4 has yet to be announced, it is expected to be available to the general public next month.


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To curb smuggling, UP launches liquor for poor
Noida: To check liquor smuggling, the Uttar Pradesh government on Monday launched a liquor for Rs 25 a quarter for poor.
It will be available only at select outlets at border areas, Excise Department officials said.
"At present, a quarter bottle of country liquor in Uttar Pradesh costs Rs 45. It has 36 per cent liquor content. Poor man in order to buy cheap liquor go to Haryana to buy quarter bottle for Rs 30. It has liquor content of 28 per cent.
"Suppliers, besides providing smuggled liquor also adulterate it to earn extra money which may prove fatal to consumers," District Excise Officer Kuldeep Yadav said.
"Poor do not bother about percentage of alcohol content. Price is the only consideration for them. From April 1, liquor prices have been hiked by 15 per cent.
Country liquor price is hiked by Rs 5 per quarter and it now cost to Rs 50 per quarter. However, with the launch of poor man`s liquor, they don`t have to buy liquor from Haryana. It has liquor content of 25 per cent," he said.
The department hope that the plan will work and liquor smuggling will be reduced considerably, Yadav said.
The outlets are likely to open at Dankaur, Jewar, Jhundpura among others.
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Red Hat announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Gluster, which makes open-source software that clusters commodity SATA drives and NAS systems into massively scalable pools of storage, in a cash deal valued at about $136 million. Gluster is also a cont...
Red Hat is acquiring privately owned storage vendor Gluster for approximately US$136 million in cash to boost its cloud offerings, it said on Tuesday.
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Is Microsoft using a next-generation computing boot-loading technology to lock out the use of Linux and other OSEs on certain computers? While Microsoft has denied malicious intent, one Red Hat developer maintains that this may be the case.
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Symantec this week introduced what it calls the Symantec Certificate Intelligence Center, a cloud-based service that works with an on-premises software component to keep track of SSL server certificates used by an organization.
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With the next release of its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) package, Red Hat has finally rid itself of one of its most notorious dependencies, namely the use of Microsoft's Windows Server and SQL Server.
When it comes to the fast-moving business of trading stocks, bonds and derivatives, the world's financial exchanges are finding an ally in Linux, at least according to one Linux kernel developer working in that industry.
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Australia’s dairy manufacturers have invested more than $27 million in environmental sustainability projects over the past three years, a new report has found.
The report, Australian Dairy Manufacturing Industry Sustainability Report 2007/08, was produced by Dairy Australia on behalf of the Dairy Manufacturers Sustainability Council.
Assessing dairy manufacturing’s overall environmental performance at 52 of the nation’s 57 manufacturing sites, it found more than $2.5 million had already been saved as a result of these projects.
The benefits to the environment were also impressive, with savings of more than 6000 tonnes of green house gas emissions.
The report looked at several key environmental impacts, including energy, water and chemical consumption and the production and disposal of solid waste, packaging and wastewater, and compared these to a benchmark survey from 2004/05, the State of the Environment Report 2005.
A five per cent reduction in fresh water required for every litre of raw milk produced was one of the many improvements highlighted.
Recycled water usage, meanwhile, increased from 15pc to 26pc due to the adoption of reverse osmosis systems to recover water, while the generation of wastewater for every litre of raw milk processed fell from 1.6 to 1.5 litres, 47pc of which was used for irrigation in 2007/08.
Dairy Australia managing director Mike Ginnivan said that despite competing for milk supply and for market share in domestic and overseas markets, dairy processors were sharing their challenges and successes in environmental management.
"The 2007/08 Sustainability Report is just one way in which the dairy industry is seizing the initiative to work together on solving common problems so that all dairy manufacturers can maximise their ability to reduce their environmental footprint," he said.
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The world’s first winemakers were living on the territory of modern Georgia 8 thousand years ago. To such conclusion the canadian scientists from the University of Toronto based on chemical analysis of pottery, found in the Caucasus.
Previously, it was assumed that the true birthplace of wine was Iran. There were found traces of ancient wine-making dated to the fifth Millennium BC. Now found out that by the time Georgia made wine for thousands of years.
Previously, we reported that the international us-Chinese research group has determined where it first appeared prolific Apple tree. According to researchers, the first time the apples have begun to spread in Kazakhstan and the Chinese mountains. Later merchants travelling the nearby silk road, we spread them on different needles of Europe and Asia, which led to the creation of many new varieties.


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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) gave in-principle approval to Crypto.com, Genesis and Sparrow to offer crypto payment services in the country.
Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, Heng Swee Keat, said on Wednesday that three additional digital payment token service license applicants had received in-principle approval — bringing the total to 14.
“There are many other good use cases within the broader digital asset ecosystem. We should therefore take the same approach as earlier tech waves,” he said. Before going on to say “Singapore remains keen to work with blockchain and digital asset players.”
The Major Payment Institution License enables companies to offer a range of payment services, including offering customers in Singapore cryptocurrency services or digital payment token (DPT) services.
Kris Marszalek, CEO and co-founder of Crypto.com, noted the high standards set by MAS and said they help to foster innovation. “We look forward to continuing to collaborate with the MAS and deepening our roots in Singapore – a flourishing market for fintech innovation, renowned for its well-regulated business environment,” he concluded.
Today’s announcement comes just three weeks after MAS announced plans to research use cases for decentralized finance (DeFi) on public blockchains. The plans are known as Project Guardian and include partners such as JPMorgan, Marketnote and DBS.
Sparrow and Genesis did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Block.
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POLISPORT 2021 Digital Off-Road Catalogue
Polisport has released their 2021 catalogue in a digital format with all products and replica plastics for the new season.
Due to the pandemic and absence of international tradeshows, Polisport say they decided to present this year’s catalogue in a digital-only format – while also taking into consideration the need to be more sustainable and to embrace a more digital way to present their products and communication.
They’ve also updated the catalogue and included links and interactive hotspots so you can go directly to their website or to the video content for each product. All aimed at making viewing the product range easier.
View the 2021 catalogue by clicking here www.polisport.com


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HUNDREDS of tonnes of frozen beef will be shipped from the Port of Townsville after JBS Australia secured a more efficient supply route to Asian markets.
It is the first time in over a decade that JBS has exported frozen beef from Townsville as the company looks to capitalise on international demand.
Shipping giant ANL has worked with JBS for the last year to develop and secure future meat exports from Townsville, with the first refrigerated containers leaving in May.
The Hansa Regensburg is expected to dock in Townsville tomorrow to collect the latest shipment, bound for Japan.
JBS Northern Chief Operating Officer Anthony Pratt said the new freight service would allow JBS to better serve producers in the region, with products delivered directly and more efficiently to international customers.
"The JBS Townsville plant provides a valuable option for North Queensland cattle producers to supply grass-fed cattle for processing in the region,'' Mr Pratt said.
"The plant processes roughly 145,000 cattle per year, supports 508 full-time equivalent jobs and contributes over $600 million to the local economy.''
ANL General Manager Intra Oceania Trades Chris Peck said he believed beef exports to Asia had a strong future.
"ANL has a great partnership with the agricultural sector and sees Australian beef exports, specifically those into North East Asia as a key commodity with proud history and a strong future," Mr Peck said.
Townsville Port Chief Operating Officer Drew Penny said the new venture was a strong sign that infrastructure investments made at the Port of Townsville to grow containerised cargo was supporting industry needs.
"Japan is a very important trading partner for our region, and we are thrilled to have JBS exporting directly out of Townsville,'' Mr Penny said.
"We are committed growing agriculture exports directly from Townsville to support our customers, farmers and industries in North Queensland, and we thank JBS for their confidence and support in our shipping lines and port facilities.''
JBS is the second processor to recommence shipping frozen beef from Townsville.
Mackay abattoir, Thomas Borthwick & Sons (Australia) Pty Ltd, were the first to send frozen beef from the Port of Townsville in over a decade when they sent 18 tonnes to Asia last October.
Bothwicks process about 2400 head of cattle a week, mainly for Chinese and Japanese markets, and commenced a trial from Townsville as a northern supply chain alternative.
That company exports about 30 containers a week.


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Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) officially launched the 2019 Marketing Campaign yesterday with the Ministry of Industry identifying the annual expo as a key platform for the government to engage the international community as the country seeks to strengthen linkages which are pivotal to achieving the desired economic growth rate trajectory with a vision for the Southern African nation to become an upper-middle income society by 2030.
The trade expo will next year be hosting the 60-year diamond trade show running from 23-27 April 2019 at the Zimbabwe International Exhibition Centre in Bulawayo under the theme, “Propagating Industrial Exhibition Growth through Trade and Investment.”
“Celebrating its 60th anniversary the annual ZITF continues to be not a just a demonstrative theatre for Zimbabwean businesses but offers investment prospects, learning content and consultative opportunities that are imperative to the national development agenda,” Ndlovu said.
“From a government perspective, we continue to rely on the trade showcase for a bird’s eye view snapshot of the economy that describes our markets, shows actual trends and opens up[ new business opportunities.”
The Industry Minister went on to say that stands at the ZITF are already being allocated within their various product groupings.
“To date, a total of 138 exhibitors have confirmed their participation for ZITF 2019,” Ndlovu said. “Sectors represented include services (health, education, and business), manufacturing (food, chemicals), building and construction, government, ICT, media and printing, SMEs, agriculture, mining, local authorities and transport among others.”
“In terms of space uptake, 49 631 square metres have been made available for sale. Of this, 63.7% has been taken up compared to 59% sold at the same time last year.”
“The government, therefore, calls upon local exhibitors in these and other sectors to take advantage of the integral networking and sourcing platform offered by ZITF 2019 and confirm their participation.”
Fears of a harsh 2019, where ZITF celebrates the diamond jubilee are already looming as Zimbabwe’s 2018 faces fuel queues and companies threatening to close down as the year goes to an end.
The Industry Minister in response to such fears said that it is to early to predict for a harsh 2019.
“The outlook for the next year seems very positive,” Ndlovu said. “With the support of the whole of industry, the ZITF Company loos forward to a fruitful and successful ZITF 2019. Advertisers and sponsors are invited to take advantage of this opportunity to increase their visibility.”


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Palama, Mexico, August 10, 2019.
A new supermarket, Vallarta supermarket, has opened in the Mexican city of Palama.
It is the first supermarket in Valladium to open in Mexico.
The store is owned by a private company that owns the majority of the land in Vallara.
The Palamas grocery chain is the third-largest grocer in Vallada.
“This is a great start to the new year,” said Luis Ceballos, chairman of Valladium municipality, adding that it will soon open stores in other cities.
Valladium is in the northern region of Tamaulipas and is a tourist destination with a population of more than 8 million.
Valladares municipality has about 1,000 residents.
“We’re hoping to see a lot of things in 2018, like the opening of more restaurants and the opening up of malls,” Ceballs said.
Vallarta has been a major destination for Mexican migrants, especially those from Guatemala.
“There’s been a lot going on in the state of Mexico.
They have many problems, but the most important thing is to go to work and to make a good living,” said Valeria Gonzalez, who has lived in Valladare for over 30 years.
“In Valladium, there are many people who have families and they have jobs.
But they don’t have the opportunity to do that here in Mexico.”
“Valladium is the only municipality in Mexico where a supermarket has opened,” Gonzalez added.
The city of Vallada has one million inhabitants.
“The majority of us live in the suburbs, but we have many other people who are working and we have to go and work.
That’s why I think that the new supermarket is good news for the municipality,” Ciballos said.
“It will give people more opportunities to work.”
The opening of the supermarket comes as many people are working from home, or have families that live far from home.
In the United States, some states are considering making it illegal for businesses to provide goods to workers.
Some of the states have already passed such measures, but others are waiting to see how the Mexican government responds.
The Mexican government has also promised to increase taxes on businesses that do not pay taxes.
“I think it’s a good idea for businesses that have been working in Mexico for years to start investing in their workers,” Ciba Torres, deputy director of the Mexican Institute of Economic Research, told the BBC.
The Valladium store will be the first in Valladaland to open since 2013, when a new supermarket in the city opened in Vallados municipality.
Valladas supermarket is located in a part of the city known as the area of the town called San Antonio de los Rios, which is the largest and most densely populated area in Valladas municipality.
The supermarket has a total of 10,000 square meters, about the size of a small apartment.
The location in the center of Valladar, the capital of Valladia, is also one of the best places to shop for groceries, according to the Mexican newspaper La Nación.
The mall will feature several stores, including a supermarket with fresh produce and meats.
The new supermarket will be open for one month.
Vallada is the fifth municipality in Vallandia, and the first municipality in Tamaúl in the country.
Vallads town is located on a peninsula, with the largest population in Tambos municipality.
It has a population density of less than 1,300 people per square kilometer.
The area around the mall is known for being an extremely safe city, as its main highway runs through the center.
The town of Valladi is home to many small towns, and has a history of having strong indigenous populations, particularly from the Zamora people.
The indigenous people, who have lived in the region for centuries, are the main reason why the city of Tambales has such a high concentration of Tampicoans.
According to the National Institute of Anthropology and History, there is evidence of at least two separate migrations of indigenous populations from the Tampiac region of northern Mexico.
In 1822, Tampicos population was about 1.6 million people.
In 1929, Tambalas population was over 3 million people, and it has since been reduced to about 500,000 people.
“Tampicoan people in the town of Tampa are very proud of their history and culture,” said Jorge Pérez, professor of anthropology at Universidad de Tampiérres.
“They have very strong traditions, like their traditions and customs, and that’s why Tampicierto people are very happy about the opening in Vallanders new store,” he added.
According the National Commission on Anthropology, the Zamorros indigenous people have an important cultural connection to the area.
“During the 20th century, Zamorro communities were moving from the coastal cities in Tampica, Tamañana, and Vallejo