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Nexxr, a start-up established by four Pretoria schoolboys, is an online advertisement-sharing network designed for bloggers, online retailers and other website owners wanting to leverage each other’s audiences, allowing them to advertise on each other’s sites for less than US$3/month.
Mikhaeel Aboobaker, one of the four founders of the self-funded start-up, is only 17 years old and in grade 11 at high school. His three partners — Cassim Moosa, Taahir Ismail and Zaakir Kalla — are all in matric. Aboobaker manages the service, while his partners market it and chase funding.
Nexxr makes its money by taking a cut of the $2,95/month it charges for each ad placed. Users of the service paste a snippet of code onto their own website and their advertisement appears on the sites of other users who’ve done likewise. Users can also choose what sort of audience they’re looking for and Nexxr will pair them with appropriate sites.
“We’re aimed at people starting out online: bloggers, online store owners, entrepreneurs — anyone who wants to advertise but can’t afford regular online advertising or doesn’t want to make that much of an investment yet,” says Aboobaker.
Before going live in August, Nexxr had 3 000 registrations, 1 000 of which turned into sign-ups at launch. The service promised early users free accounts. Since then, it’s had 120 paid sign-ups, of which 35% have come from SA, with most of the rest coming from the US. Aboobaker says these numbers are lower than he’d hoped for, but given it’s done little marketing of its own and has few overheads, he says the company is willing to be patient.
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The back-end of the system is simple to use, says Aboobaker. “It’s a straightforward ad-sharing script run from our servers,” he explains. “We’re using a US-based service called Single Hop.”
One of the challenges Nexxr is working on is ensuring that only regionally appropriate ads show up on sites that have signed up. “We’re working hard on regional targeting,” he says. “We tested the service for two months, but you can never find all the bugs.”
The founders coded a quarter of the site in SA, with the bulk of development outsourced to an Indian company Aboobaker has used for previous projects.
“Overall, the outsourcing experience has been good a good one,” Aboobaker says.
Nexxr started out relying on word of mouth but is now starting online campaigns of its own using everything from Google AdWords to Facebook advertising and promotion on Twitter.
Aside from growing the user base, there are plans to extend Nexxr into content sharing. “Right now we’re an ad-exchange platform, but hopefully by the end of the year [Nexxr] could also be used to share content.”
Aboobaker has ambitions of travelling to the US when he’s finished school and taking the project with him. “We all want to study and keep trying start-ups,” he says. He and his partners have long been friends and are all intrigued by the possibilities online start-ups present.
“We definitely want to grow Nexxr beyond SA,” says Aboobaker. “We’ve been looking at venture capital in the US. We’ve also spoken to the Silicon Cape Initiative, but most of the interest there has been around funding rather than the contacts and growth opportunities that usually come with venture capitalists.”
In order to ensure ads are of a consistent quality, Nexxr vets each ad before it goes live. “We have the option to pause or reject ads and we have guidelines as to what content should and shouldn’t be included and what sort of sites ads can link to. We’re working on a feature where users can also flag inappropriate ads and other methods to automate the process.”
If the service takes off, the founders will either have to automate the process or hire an army of underlings to ensure no questionable content slips through. For now, though, the founders are happy to watch the service grow, refining it as needed.
“At the moment the service is really simple and we want to try and keep it that way,” Aboobaker says. And if it doesn’t take off? “We’ll try something else.” — (c) 2012 NewsCentral Media


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Android Auto will get integration with other applications in 2022, thanks to which it will become even more useful in the hands of drivers. Google announced this change in connection with CES 2022.
Android Auto Later this year, it will acquire more applications that will work on car screens. between them – July, a car-related expense tracking application, which is also popular in Poland. The creators announce that application support in Android Auto will appear in the “summer”, but unfortunately the most accurate dates do not fall.
You can read about the announced news on Official Google BlogWe learned that the creators of Android Auto have strengthened their collaboration with developers Lyft and Kakao Mobility to bring their drivers’ apps to the system. Additionally, in addition to the Fuelio mentioned above, Android Auto will also include apps such as MochiMochi and Prezzi Benzina.
At the same time, Google describes the expansion of the possibility of using Android smartphones as car keys for BMW cars. He says, in the future the car will unlock even without taking the phone out of the pocket, and the service will be offered in other UWB-equipped smartphones.
Google adds that the changes will also appear in cars that use the Google Assistant directly in their infotainment systems. Soon, you’ll be able to download additional apps, including YouTube, which you can use when you’re stationary.
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Toy appeal ready for new year of donations
Coronavirus and lockdown will not stop a charity from its work collecting and delivering Christmas toys.
The Sikh Toy Appeal has officially launched its 2020 appeal to help as many children across Wolverhampton and the surrounding area to have a present to open on Christmas Day.
The appeal, which is part of the STA Foundation, has operated in the city since 2017 and has grown in size since then, with 25,000 gifts being handed out in 2019.
The charity held a small launch event on Sunday to get the ball rolling on the appeal which, according to founder Manny Johal, has attracted some big name sponsors for 2020.
He said: “We have got Hamleys in London as a sponsor this year as they have picked us to be their chosen 2020 charity, as well as Bentley and Rolls Royce sponsoring us.
“Because of Covid, we’ve had to cancel a lot of events this year, so having sponsors like this is invaluable to us and helps us to help people across the city.”
Mr Johal said the appeal had had to change the way it collected toys for the 2020 appeal as lockdown was forcing a lot of toy shops to close their doors over the next month.
He said: “We’ve now got the system where, for the first time, we will accept monetary donation, which we never did before, allowing us to buy toys online to be delivered.
“We are still going to run the appeal and we’re still going to go out and deliver the toys as they come into us, so the pandemic will not stop us from operating on that front.
“We’ve moved to a new premises this year, which enables us to bring in a bigger team so, with full social distancing in place, the appeal will aim to beat the total of last year.”
Mr Johal said there were a number of ways to donate to the Sikh Toy Appeal, beginning with dropping off toys at Unit 22, Imex Business Park in Wolverhampton.
To find out about other ways of donating toys or money, and what to donate, go to thestafoundation.org


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MOUNT VERNON — A few years ago, E85 was touted as an option in reducing American dependence on imported oil. A blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline would be a domestic alternative to imported oil, and, as a bonus, it burns cleaner than gasoline.
The problem was, it was not readily available. It would take time and money for stations to be remodeled or refitted in order to accommodate E85 as well as gasoline. It would take time to construct additional production facilities.
And not all cars can use it. Generally those are recent-model cars with the “Flex Fuel” designation or older vehicles that have been modified to handle the higher ethanol blends.
Now gas prices have spiked again, ethanol production facilities have been built and some places are selling E85.
Today, the closest stations selling E85 fuel are the Kroger at 1240 Park Ave. in Mansfield, the Mount Gilead Sunoco at the intersection of Interstate 71 and Ohio 95, and the Kroger at Polaris Parkway in Columbus and on Sunbury Road in Westerville. There are a total of 74 stations in Ohio selling E85, according to E85prices.com.
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NEW ORLEANS — As business owners, self-service laundry operators have many responsibilities, ranging from daily operational tasks to how they can grow and market their business.
Tending to your laundry’s lease is a key responsibility, advises Brian Wallace, president and CEO of the Coin Laundry Association (CLA).
“The [coin laundry] business can be somewhat forgiving,” says Wallace. “You can make mistakes here or there … but leases is one of those areas where if you make a mistake, they’re a pretty hard mistake to recover from.”
To assist in navigating the logistics of leasing, the CLA hosted an Advanced Laundry Lease Analysis panel at this summer’s Clean Show, featuring Brian Grell, executive vice president at Eastern Funding; Van Merrill, vice president of vended laundry development and sales at CG West; and Charlie Pasquale, founder of Pasquale Properties and BCC Payment Systems.
Leases are “an important asset” of a business for not only laundry owners who lease their laundry space, but property owners themselves, Wallace says.
“I think this has relevance for those of you who own your buildings, because at some point you might find yourself wanting to sell that laundry but keeping the real estate and becoming a landlord.”
ESTABLISHING DURATION AND CLAUSES
How can a prospective store owner negotiate other aspects of the lease such as duration and other clauses?
Regarding duration, Pasquale says, “I understand that it’s going to take a long time to repay the money back to [lenders] to have your equipment be your own. In companies that have a lot of mechanical [equipment], we’ll start 10 years with a good-credit tenant.
“On options, our policy is [to] match it; if it’s a 10-year lease, we make it a 10-year option.”
Grell advises prospective store owners to add certain clauses to their lease, such as a “dark clause,” for when other businesses surrounding the laundry go out of business, or “dark.”
“If you’re in a large shopping center, and you have an active tenant in there [like a large grocery chain] … If they go dark, it’s important that you can negotiate with the landlord to reduce rent,” says Grell. “I’ve seen … a tenant pull out, and all of a sudden the other businesses are suffering.”
Another sub-clause he spoke about was a ‘water clause,’ which would give the owner the full responsibility of paying the water bill themselves.
“Often … a landlord pays the water authority directly for the water bill [but] if your landlord doesn’t pay the water bill, [the water authority] can shut it down,” Grell says.
PITCHING THE BUSINESS TO THE LANDLORD
Perhaps one other obstacle that prospective store owners can anticipate is the industry’s overall “legacy issues,” according to Merrill.
“Our legacy issue is one where we have a lot of old laundries that are small [and] unattended,” he says. “What happens is that a lot of those old laundries that are still around [don’t] necessarily have the best appearance after a few years.”
Because of this, landlords have developed a bad impression of laundry businesses, he says.
“You have to overcome that,” says Merrill. “You have to really explain to the landlord [that] things have changed. … You’re going to have people coming to your great laundry from a long way away and they’re going to patronize other tenants in that shopping center.”
One other point to negotiate with your landlord—tenant improvements. The building’s infrastructure and utilities, including sewer, water, gas and electric lines, must be the responsibility of the landlord, not the tenant, Merrill explains.
“One of the things I want the landlord to do is … facilitate the space with all the utilities that I’m going to need.”
Such responsibilities should also account for needed improvements that could arise during the building’s permitting phase, he adds.
“For example, the driveway to the parking lot is not properly sloped … you’re the person that has to re-do the driveway,” says Merrill. “Another big ask is that you spell out that the structure, the common areas of the building … all that is the responsibility of the landlord.”
THE ART OF NEGOTIATION
When it comes time to lay a deal on the table, what tactics are there to employ? All panelists agreed on the importance of being reasonable.
“Try to be reasonable if you’re not using a professional and you’re doing it on your own,” says Pasquale. “There is a calculation to what real estate is worth and what the landlord needs to make his business function.”
“I modify so many terms by the word ‘reasonable,’” says Merrill. “It’s very important that you have on the assignment that you have that word … because you want to create a reasonable assignment fee, you want to have reasonable conditions.”
Grell advises consulting with a local distributor before making a deal. Merrill adds that reviewing the whole lease, and having an understanding of all the terms on the lease, should be part of a prospective owner’s “battle plan.”
“You have to have a strategy of how you’re going to go after that lease, and really give and take,” says Merrill. “Just like poker, you [have to] know when you’re going to give a little bit to get a lot.”


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Fujifilm have officially revealed their X-Lens roadmap at an exclusive briefing at CES 2012.
Covering 2012 and 2013, Fujifilm are set to release six new lenses in addition to the 18mm, 35mm and 60mm optics that were announced alongside the X-Pro1 body.
A super-wideangle 14mm and 18-72mm f/4 IS lens are due in 2012, with a 28m f/2.8 pancake and 23mm f/2 primes to follow in 2013. Also set to be released next year are two zooms - the 70-200mm F/4 OIS and 12-24mm F/4 OIS.
Fujifilm stressed that the X-Lens roadmap is subject to change in response to feedback once the X-Pro1 is in photographers’ hands.


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Despite all of the high-tech information sources available to us nowadays, there’s nothing quite like the feeling of a book.
It’s a lot like the feeling of gathering in person. During the past year, the Victoria Public Library has worked with incredible creativity to provide events in a virtual format. However, many Victoria residents have been missing the feeling of attending a Friends of the Library book sale: thumbing through rows and stacks of books in the Bronte Room, surrounded by fellow book-lovers in search of hidden gems.
After more than a year of waiting, we’re excited to welcome our longtime patrons back to the Bronte Room this week as we work to raise funds for the library’s event programming. The book sale will be open to the public 9 a.m.-6 p.m. May 17-21 and 10 a.m.-noon May 22.
I’m pleased with the progress that has been made in reducing COVID-19 transmission and increasing vaccinations in our community. Nevertheless, the virus is still a cause for concern, which is why the board worked to come up with ways to keep our guests safe and healthy during the book sale.
If you come to the book sale this week, you may notice that the shelves have been spaced apart to create distance between browsers. We’ve also moved our checkout area to reduce foot traffic at the entrance. The room will be sanitized each day with a UV light machine.
In accordance with City policy, all staff and patrons will be required to wear facial coverings. We will also have optional rubber gloves for residents who want them. Of course, plenty of hand sanitizer will be available.
If you were as impressed as I was by the library’s tenacity during the past year, you may want to consider helping us support them further. You can inquire at the library about becoming a member of the Friends of the Library. The membership fee is $10 per year, and members enjoy priority access to the book sales via a “members-only” sale on Sundays.
You can also become a supporter for a $50 fee. The cost is normally $100, but we are reducing it to $50 this year in honor of our organization’s 50th anniversary. Supporters will be recognized in our newsletter.
You can also pick up a nifty Friends of the Library book bag at the library. They cost $5 and come with a special perk: If you bring your book bag to the last two days of the book sale (May 21 and 22), you can fill up the bag as many times as you like for $1 per fill-up.
I hope that the return of the book sale will serve as a sign of hope for residents. I also encourage residents to do their part to bring COVID-19 under control so that other types of events can be held safely. Keep wearing your mask, and if you’re eligible for the vaccine, get it. Things will only go back to normal when our community is truly safe.
We are always looking for volunteers to serve on the board or help out at the book sales. If you’d like to help, please reach out to me at email@example.com.
Diana Sneed is the Friends of the Library president and book sale co-chair.
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Hundreds of people queued all the way to the end of the car park at IKEA this morning as the doors opened for the first time in three and a half months.
Bristol's famous blue and yellow furniture store had them lining up in a snake formation in near the doors, and there were so many people ready for the store to open at 10am that the queue stretched out the length of the car park.
Our photographer John Myers was on hand to capture the moment the queue started moving as the doors opened at 10am.
The people at the front of the queue had been there from dawn this morning, and many of those lining up headed straight for the Returns line.
IKEA is just one of thousands of shops, hairdressers, barbers, gyms, pubs and restaurants across Bristol that are able to open once again for the first time since the first few days of January, when Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued another 'stay-at-home' lockdown order to stop the spread of coronavirus Covid-19.
Numbers of cases in Bristol peaked in that first week of January, with numbers of people hospitalised with the virus reaching unprecedented levels by the third week of January.
Cases have fallen rapidly since then, and there are only small numbers of people still in hospital with the virus at present.
Shoppers and staff are still required to wear a face masks in Ikea and every other store.


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Car dealers looking to boost their profits as much as possible should go out of their way to give motorists the biggest incentives to buy a new car.
New research has indicated that a shift has taken place in the reasons why motorists feel the urge to buy a new vehicle.
In the past, at times when the cost of fuel was at its highest, motorists were on the lookout for the most fuel-efficient vehicles to reduce their general everyday running costs.
However, the recession has now caused a number of motorists to only seek a new car when their current model is incapable of running any more.
Six months ago, some 45 per cent of motorists cited saving money on running costs as their chief reason for buying a new vehicle.
Yet, the latest AA Personal Loans Car Purchase Index has revealed that this figure has now fallen to 29 per cent, with 44 per cent of motorists looking for a new car only to replace a current old or damaged model.
Thus, the government’s decision to introduce the scrappage scheme on older cars could be just the tonic that a dealer needs to boost sales, as it is an ideal encouragement for motorists to trade in their old car for a discount on a new model.
Mark Huggins from AA Personal Loans is optimistic that the scheme could introduce certain motorists into the new car market for the first time.
He said: "At a time when families are perhaps keeping cars longer, the new government scrappage scheme could be crucial to kick-start the industry and get people buying again.
"Despite the downturn, the average personal loan for a car has stayed at around £8,000 which means that the scrappage scheme will enable some families to buy a new car for the first time."
And manufacturer Nissan is extending its options further by allowing motorists with vehicles that are eight-years-old to benefit from the service.
The only catch is that they have to buy a British vehicle from the range.


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Fonterra has bumped up its milk price forecast by 40c and is now suggesting a 'midpoint' price of possibly $6.80 per kilogram of milk solids for its farmers in the current season.
The giant dairy co-operative has retained a wide (one-dollar) range for its milk price pick, but has lifted the range to between $6.30 and $7.30 from the previous $5.90 to $6.90.
Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell says the stronger 2020/21 milk price forecast is largely being driven by improved demand in China.
“Despite the initial impact of Covid-19, we have seen demand for dairy in China recover quickly. In particular, demand for Whole Milk Powder, which is a big driver of milk price, has been stronger than expected.
“While it is still early in the season, dairy prices have improved from the levels we saw on [the GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction market] through the first wave of Covid-19 and demand for milk powders has proved resilient.
“We have seen this demand reflected in GDT auctions, with prices trending upwards in recent events and this is supporting our decision to lift the range and its mid-point, which farmers are paid off.
“At a $6.80 milk price, more than $10 billion would flow into regional New Zealand.”
Hurrell says there are a number of factors the co-op is keeping a close eye on, which is why it’s retaining a wide forecast range of $6.30 - $7.30 per kgMS.
“It is still relatively early in the season and a lot can change. For example, we could experience volatility with exchange rates, milk supply from the EU and US is increasing and there continues to be uncertainty around how a potential risk from further waves of COVID-19 and a global economic slowdown could impact demand.
“With increasing demand and supply, we see the dairy outlook as more balanced, but given there are still a number of risks, we are still recommending our farmers be cautious with their decision making.”


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Mobile Predictions for 2012: Security, Payments, Windows Phone and More
CIO.com's Al Sacco gathers a handful of mobile and wireless predictions from industry experts on subjects like mobile malware, mobile payments and location-based services and offers his take on which predictions will come true--and which will fall through.
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CIO — Chances are, you've probably read a few 2012 technology predictions by now, or at least heard about some expected tech trends. The Web and blogosphere have certainly seen no shortage of such forward-looking posts; even CIO.com publisher IDG-Enterprise's President and CEO Michael Friedenberg offered up his two cents on what's to come in 2012.
To set this particular story apart from the pack, I gathered up a handful of insightful predictions from mobile experts at organizations including IEEE, Sybase 365, and Metia/Seattle, and then offered my take on which predictions will prove to be dead on, the ones that could pan out and the predictions that don't stand a chance, in my opinion.
1) Mobile Security and Smartphone Hacking in 2012
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), pronounced "eye-triple-E," claims to be the "world's largest professional association for the advancement of technology." If that's so, than the smart folks at IEEE should be able to offer some accurate mobile predictions for 2012, right? The IEEE's main warning is that smartphone hacking will soar in 2012, mostly via free, rogue smartphone applications.
IEEE Fellow and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) computer scientist Jeffrey Voas, claims to have already uncovered malware in more than 2,000 currently available free apps. And Voas says roughly 1 in 100 free apps in 2012 will visibly contain malware--and even more malware will be beyond immediate detection.
"The issue with free apps is that you're paying a price you don't know about," Voas says. "Smartphone users need to remember that free isn't necessarily free."
IEEE Senior Member and Head of the School of Computing and Intelligence Kevin Curran thinks businesses, particularly C-level execs, will be the main mobile malware victims in 2012. .
"With more people using the same phone for business and personal reasons, the upsurge in smartphone hacking presents a real issue for businesses as well as consumers," Curran says. "A company can have all appropriate firewalls in place, but it takes just one employee to download malware onto their phone. In fact, with more senior employees using phones for work, it is likely to be C-suite executives exposing businesses to vulnerabilities."
I agree wholeheartedly that 2012 will really mark the start of the mobile malware age, in which smartphones and tablets will be targeted to the same degree as desktop PCs. I think a number of high profile malware-related incidents will help to raise awareness of the need for vigilance among smartphone and tablets users, and the enterprise IT managers who maintain such devices. And I think Google's Android OS will fall victim to the majority of these malware incidents because Android security isn't exactly "strong" in general, Android market share is growing so rapidly, and many of Android users choose to "root" or "jailbreak" their devices, which further opens them up to attacks.
I'm not sure about Voas' specific malware numbers, but it does certainly make sense that much of the upcoming malware will come in the form of free apps, because many more users will likely download free applications so the potential benefits to the Bad Guys are more significant.
It's worth noting, however, that malware can definitely be packaged along with paid, seemingly legitimate applications, as well, so users should be skeptical of installing any applications from sources they don't know or trust, whether they're free or not, and especially if the promised functionality seems too good to be true.
As for businesses taking the biggest hit due to an increase in malware, this could be the case simply because businesses tend to use and transfer more potentially valuable information than the average consumer--such as trade secrets.
But many more consumer smartphone users exist than corporate smartphone users, in general. So I would expect more consumers to fall victim to malware than business users. However, the potential for serious damage is larger for a corporate user with sensitive information stored on a mobile device than a consumer storing just music, movies and contacts.


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With a personal fortune estimated at 110 billion dollars in 2017, Jeff Bezos is, at the age of 54, the world’s richest man. And that sum should increase markedly between now and the end of the year, as this summer the company he founded crossed the trillion dollar market capitalization mark.
In under a quarter of a century the New Mexico native has transformed Amazon from a struggling online bookseller into a global mega company, which dominates the e-commerce, data storage and intelligent personal assistant sectors and has designs on many others.
The ultimate disruptor
Like many American success stories, this one starts out in the garage of a modest suburban home. In 1994, armed with a 300,000 dollar bank loan, he founded the first-ever online bookstore. He had just turned 30 and had next to no entrepreneurial experience. The Princeton graduate and former Wall Street manager struggled at first to convince investors of the potential of his company, as Amazon posted losses in its early years, but gradually it began to win market share from established booksellers such as Barnes & Noble and in 1997 launched its IPO. With Amazon expanding at the turn of the century, Bezos began investing here, there and everywhere in an effort to disrupt existing business models. He offered lower prices on products such as books, CDs and DVDs, favoring growth over profit, always proceeding in a methodical and well thought out manner. In the digital era, he was the first to understand the importance of quickly reaching critical mass. A decade on from founding Amazon, he had solidified his reputation as a businessman and investors who had been reticent were won over.
A new way to pay
In the business world, Jeff Bezos is often compared to a steamroller. Every company dreads the day he takes a shine to their sector of activity. Just ask Walmart. In June 2017 Amazon got into bricks and mortar retail with the 13.7 billion dollar acquisition of Whole Foods, in one fell swoop gaining 400 physical points of sale. Bezos aims to revolutionize the experience of shopping with Amazon Go, a range of convenience stores without checkouts where items are scanned as you put them in your shopping basket and the cost of the purchases deducted automatically from your Amazon account as you exit the store. Bezos aims to open 3,000 Amazon Go stores in the US by 2021. Although at present Amazon accounts for only 2% of grocery store sales, its unrivalled ability to innovate has the traditional retailers running scared. Bezos has announced that very soon you will be able to eat what you buy at Amazon Go, inside the stores themselves ‒ a development that will see Amazon compete directly with chains such as Subway.
Reaching for the stars
A science-fiction fanatic ‒ he single-handedly saved sci-fi show The Expanse from cancellation this summer by bringing it to Amazon Studios ‒ Bezos has already invested billions on the conquest of space. Blue Origin, the company he founded in 2000, is developing a vessel and lunar lander capable of making regular cargo deliveries to the moon, with the eventual goal of establishing a permanent lunar colony. “We have to go to space to save the Earth…and we kind of have to hurry,” he has said of the program. Much of the money he makes from Amazon is reinvested in Blue Origin. He puts in a billion dollars a year and an increasing share of his time. He spends every Wednesday at Blue Origin’s headquarters in the suburbs of Seattle, a company he aims to see double in size by 2021, by which time both its commercial and space tourism services should be up and running. And with space flight tickets priced at 300,000 dollars each, Blue Origin will soon begin to claw back some of the money pumped into it. Jeff Bezos may have his sights set on the stars, but his feet remain firmly on the ground.
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PlayStation has agreed to fully acquire Haven Studios, the development team led by Assassin's Creed, Star Wars and Google games veteran Jade Raymond.
It follows Sony's initial investment in the studio in March last year. Ever since, the team has been working on an exclusive new IP for PlayStation, which has now been revealed as a 'live service experience built upon a systemic and evolving world'.
Post-acquisition the studio will continue to be run by the current management team in close collaboration with PlayStation.
The acquisition will mark Sony's first foray into the huge Canadian games development scene, which is responsible for some of the world's biggest AAA games. PlayStation joins the likes of Tencent, EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Nintendo, Warner Bros, Activision Blizzard, Take-Two, Square Enix and Sega, which all operate studios in the country.
Haven Studios currently boasts over 60 employees and is the 18th developer to join PlayStation Studios. You can read more around the reasoning behind the acquisition in our interview right here.
"Haven Studios is an emerging studio with an exceptional team of talent, and we're delighted to welcome them into PlayStation as our first game development studio in Canada," said Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan.
"The studio's focus on creating an original AAA multiplayer game will not only flex the power of PlayStation 5 but will further expand upon the diverse catalog of gaming experiences that can only be found on PlayStation."
Raymond is a games industry veteran. Alongside launching massive franchises such as Assassin's Creed and Watch Dogs, she also set up Ubisoft Toronto and EA's Motive Studios, and was in charge of Google's internal games development project before the firm changed its strategy.
"We're excited to have the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from all of the exceptional PlayStation Studios teams," she said. "We intend to fully embrace the incredible capabilities of the PS5 to create new worlds that inspire players and allow them to connect in new ways."
PlayStation Studios boss Hermen Hulst added: "Jade has built a world-class team with the creative and technical prowess necessary to deliver on such an ambitious project. We value the studio's dedication to building a player-first, collaborative game environment that can last for generations and are thrilled to have them officially become a part of PlayStation Studios."
The price of the acquisition was not disclosed.


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Pet Food Regulations, the federal, state and local laws and regulations that govern the sale of cat food and dog food and animal feeds as well as pet food labeling laws.
- Mon, 21 Oct 2019 04:00:00 +0000: Australian hunters to harvest 14k kangaroos for pet food - Pet Food Regulations
The Victoria state government started the Kangaroo Harvesting Program to reduce the population of native kangaroos.
- Fri, 04 Oct 2019 16:00:00 +0000: FDA reports on pig ear recalls, FSMA pet food compliance - Pet Food Regulations
Pig ear pet treats contaminated with Salmonella have caused 143 human illnesses to date, FDA reported. The agency also reported on FSMA inspections.
- Wed, 02 Oct 2019 04:00:00 +0000: Ethoxyquin limits Peru, Chile fishmeal use in pet food - Pet Food Regulations
Although Peruvian and Chilean fishmeal producers have interest in entering the pet food market, use of a synthetic antioxidant may limit their access.
- Mon, 09 Sep 2019 23:55:00 +0000: AAFCO holds annual meeting, part 1: Pet Food Committee - Pet Food Regulations
The Pet Food Committee covered a lot of ground, including regulatory considerations and the formation of a new working group, at the latest AAFCO annual meeting.
- Mon, 09 Sep 2019 04:00:00 +0000: 143 Salmonella cases tied to pig ear dog chews from 3 firms - Pet Food Regulations
As of August 27, the Centers for Disease Control report 143 cases of human infection by Salmonella enterica related to exposure to pig ear dog treats.
- Mon, 05 Aug 2019 08:10:00 +0000: Rules for reconstitution of dry pet food ingredients - Pet Food Regulations
AAFCO guidance isn’t strictly laid out, but there are some items to keep in mind when ensuring regulatory compliance of reconstituted pet food ingredients.
- Mon, 29 Jul 2019 04:00:00 +0000: Raw pet food brand sues FDA over zero Salmonella policy - Pet Food Regulations
A raw pet food brand company filed challenging the legality of the U.S. Food and Drug Administation enforcement of zero-tolerance Salmonella standards as beyond the agency’s powers granted by Congress.
- Tue, 23 Jul 2019 04:00:00 +0000: 93 Salmonella cases likely caused by pig ear dog treats - Pet Food Regulations
CDC officials stated that the likely sources of the bacteria were pig ear dog treats. Officials have not identified a common supplier.
- Thu, 11 Jul 2019 04:00:00 +0000: Grain-free dog food marketing legally safe despite DCM - Pet Food Regulations
The term grain-free in dog food marketing likely won’t become a target for lawsuits against pet food brands.
- Mon, 08 Jul 2019 04:00:00 +0000: 4 reasons DCM may not result in pet food brand lawsuits - Pet Food Regulations
Class action lawsuits may not results from cases of canine dilated cardiomyopathy correlated to certain grain-free dog foods.
- Mon, 01 Jul 2019 04:00:00 +0000: DCM: 5 brands in 58% of FDA reports, dry dog food in 86% - Pet Food Regulations
Five pet food brands accounted for nearly 58% of canine dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) cases reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration between January 1, 2014 and April 30, 2019.
- Thu, 27 Jun 2019 04:00:00 +0000: 16 dog food brands correlated to DCM by FDA: Acana #1 - Pet Food Regulations
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released an update on their investigation into canine dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) cases correlated to certain grain-free dog foods.
- Wed, 26 Jun 2019 04:00:00 +0000: Artisanal, craft pet food marketing may trigger lawsuits - Pet Food Regulations
Pet food marketing claims related to the quality of the products can be lead to lawsuits if those pet foods don’t live up to consumers’ expectations.
- Mon, 17 Jun 2019 19:00:00 +0000: European pet food survey: EU labeling law not effective - Pet Food Regulations
At Petfood Forum Europe, a pet food labeling expert shared data showing most pet food companies have not found EU regulation 767/2009 to be effective.
- Tue, 11 Jun 2019 05:09:00 +0000: Pet treat net content declarations: Is count sufficient? - Pet Food Regulations
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's proposed definition pertaining to the net contents of packaged pet treats and chews has received some backlash from interested pet food industry parties.
- Tue, 11 Jun 2019 04:00:00 +0000: Lawsuit claims Purina tuna suppliers harm, kill dolphins - Pet Food Regulations
The plaintiffs allege that tuna in Purina’s Fancy Feast supply chain may have been caught using fishing techniques that harm, stress and sometimes kill dolphins, along with sea turtles, sharks and other animals.
- Thu, 30 May 2019 14:00:00 +0000: Research, funding making insects more viable in pet food - Pet Food Regulations
With studies showing nutritional benefits for pets and investors funding insect protein suppliers, this may soon be a more common pet food ingredient globally.
- Wed, 22 May 2019 04:00:00 +0000: US drops tariffs on Mexican, Canadian pet-food-can metals - Pet Food Regulations
United States President Donald Trump agreed to end metal tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, used in the production of pet food containers, from Canada and Mexico as of May 19.
- Tue, 21 May 2019 04:00:00 +0000: AFIA opposes proposed pet treat weight labeling rule - Pet Food Regulations
The American Feed Industry Association criticized a proposed pet treat regulation that would require labeling by weight of all pet treats.
- Wed, 15 May 2019 02:56:00 +0000: Challenges of pet food labeling and public perception - Pet Food Regulations
Does regulatory compliance protect pet food companies from class action lawsuits? Maybe not.
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AM and FM radio is being removed from new models of car manufacturers including Ford, BMW, and Tesla.
According to The Washington Post, car companies’ move to restrict access to the audio feature was motivated by the medium’s declining consumer base as well as a problem with electric engines that interferes with its signal.
Ford announced that it will expand its phasing out to both future electric and gas-powered models, whereas BMW, Mazda, Polestar, Rivian, Tesla, Volkswagen, and Volvo have already done so from their electric vehicles.
Nissan, Toyota, and Honda, however, have resisted the forced removal of the frequency even though a group of bipartisan US politicians have created a bill to prevent carmakers from doing so.
The bill would direct the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to issue regulations to mandate AM radio in new vehicles without additional charge, reports Reuters.
Democratic Senator Edward Markey, one of the sponsors of the bill, said: “Carmakers shouldn’t tune out AM radio in new vehicles or put it behind a costly digital paywall.”
The legislators contend that it jeopardises a federal system for informing the public of important public safety information.
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a trade group representing major automakers, added: “Mandating AM radios in all vehicles is unnecessary. Congress has never mandated radio features in vehicles ever before. Automakers remain 100 percent committed to ensuring drivers have access to public alerts and safety warnings.”
Ford’s recent decision was backed by company data that stated AM radio accounted for less than 5 per cent of in-car listening.
However, according to the National Association of Broadcasters, 82 million Americans tune in to AM stations each month.
According to RadioToday, recent data from the UK revealed that the percentage of people who listen to AM/FM has actually climbed significantly, from 34.2% to 35.6%.


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Ever since Google Photos and its unlimited high-quality cloud storage arrived, Google has included a handy backup method with your Google Drive. As long as you had the Google Drive toggle flipped in the Google Photos settings (and enough space in your Drive), everything added to Google Photos synced back to Google Drive, so you could create a personal library of photos in their original quality.
As of July 10, that's changing. Google says that Drive sync was causing confusion with users, so Photos will no longer include an option to sync with Google Drive. You'll still be able to back up your photos in original quality if you choose, but you'll no longer see new photos appear on your Drive. Similarly, anything you add to the Photos folders in Google Drive will no longer automatically appear in Google Photos.


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Broker's take: UOB Kay Hian initiates coverage on Sasseur Reit with 'buy'; S$0.97 target price
UOB Kay Hian has initiated coverage on Sasseur Reit, with a "buy" recommendation and a target price of S$0.97, citing the real estate investment trust's portfolio, which comprises retail outlet malls located in tier-2 Chinese cities, which are part of a market that has ample room for growth on rising aspirational consumption and middle-income household spending.
Demand for branded products is growing, underpinned by disposable income per capita in China that is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.8 per cent and reaching 34,700 yuan (S$6,700) per capita by 2021. Meanwhile, upper middle class households in China are expected to expand at a 10-year CAGR of 18.3 per cent and account for 54 per cent of urban households by 2022.
As it stands, UOB Kay Hian analysts Jonathan Koh and Nicola Ho wrote in a Wednesday report that the current "supply of outlet malls is not able to meet China’s voracious appetite for branded consumer goods", suggesting that the outlet mall segment has much capacity to grow.
Sasseur Reit's lease structure is designed to provide a good balance between stability and growth, the analysts noted.
It comprises of a fixed rent component with a 3 per cent annual rental escalation. This makes up 70 per cent of total rent. The remaining 30 per cent is a variable component that is pegged to tenant sales.
"The structure provides downside protection while enabling upside potential should the outlet malls perform better than expected," the UOB analysts said.
Unit price catalysts include a robust domestic consumption by middle-income households in tier-2 Chinese cities and the acquisition of the Reit's sponsor’s pipeline properties.
UOB Kay Hian's report is prepared under the Research Talent Development Grant Scheme where the Monetary Authority of Singapore provides co-funding to groom research talent to initiate research coverage of primarily mid-small cap Singapore Exchange listed companies.
Other research houses covering Sasseur Reit include DBS Group Research, CGS-CIMB and Maybank Kim Eng.
As at 1.45pm, Sasseur Reit units were trading down 0.5 Singapore cent or 0.6 per cent at 79.5 cents with about 895,100 million units changing hands.


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A continuing partnership between Fanshawe College and Northern Commerce delivers digital marketing benefits for both students and small business
The third Northern Digital Marketing Challenge will see teams of marketing students plan, implement and manage digital marketing campaigns for 13 local businesses. The participating businesses were selected through Fanshawe’s Lawrence Kinlin School of Business.
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Open to students in the Business Administration Marketing, Marketing Management and Honours Bachelor of Commerce programs, the idea behind the challenge is to give students some much-needed hands-on experience working with marketing campaigns.
“This is a unique and exciting opportunity for students,” says Fanshawe College professor, Liz Gray. “It provides them with hands-on experience working with advertising tools that businesses need to build their brand and drive sales.”
Photo: Corey Dubeau of Northern Commerce and Liz Gray of Fanshawe College (file photo)
Students benefit from the opportunity to learn from the experts at Northern Commerce and will manage real world Google and Facebook marketing campaigns funded by Northern Commerce on behalf of the selected businesses for two months, after which they will present them and the results to a panel of judges drawn from Northern.
“Our goal is to provide students with fundamental learning experiences to help launch their careers while sustaining local businesses,” says Corey Dubeau, VP strategy at Northern Commerce.
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“Working on a live campaign that impacted an actual local business was exciting and rewarding, adds Reena Herbstreit, a marketing project coordinator at Northern Commerce and former Fanshawe College student. “The skills I acquired ignited my passion for digital marketing and my career.”
The benefits extend to the business side as well. Representing one of last year’s participating businesses, Michele Burk, office manager at Mclauchlin Wellness Clinic, notes, “Since participating in last year’s program, we’ve seen a significant increase in patient registrations thanks to the advertising campaigns run by the students.”


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BARCELONA Motorola's U.S.-friendly announcements at this year's Mobile World Congress were all about voice.
The company put their CrystalTalk noise cancellation technology into several low-end voice phones, and added a new midrange phone that's perfect for T-Mobile's Hotspot@Home Wi-Fi calling service.
Motorola has been reeling in recent weeks, with a drop in global market share to third place followed by an announcement that the company is looking to potentially spin off their handset division because of the low stock price. Motorola didn't have a press conference at this show, though they have a large booth.
Motorola's senior vice president for corporate development and strategy, Don McLellan, said firmly that the company is looking to "fix" their handset division, and that they're committed to the business though whether that's entirely sincere or part of the complex stock-related goings-on is anybody's guess.
The Motorola Z6w is Motorola's highest-profile new phone at the show. The Z6w is essentially the ROKR Z6 slider phone, with Wi-Fi and a larger battery. The key is that it uses UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) technology, the Wi-Fi-calling technology that T-Mobile calls Hotspot@Home. With quad-band EDGE, the phone is practically guaranteed to pop up in T-Mobile's lineup. The Z6w runs MOTOMAGX, Motorola's Linux-based OS first shown on the RAZR2 V8. It has a 2-megapixel camera, a 2-inch, 320 X 240 display, and a versatile MP3/WMA player that syncs with Windows Media Player.
Motorola's other phone announcements were all low-end, but they're interesting because other phone companies aren't talking about call quality the way Motorola is. The W161, W181, W230 and W270 all include CrystalTalk, the noise cancellation technology that Motorola introduced on the RAZR2 line. They slowly slide up in features, from the W161's tiny black-and-white screen to the W270's color screen, removable memory and MP3 player. All four have FM radios, though, and all four could potentially come out in the US.
It's interesting to juxtapose these announcements against the other major manufacturers at MWC. Sony Ericsson had an impressive set of new, high-end experiences. Nokia had an incremental set of new, high-end experiences. LG and Samsung both claimed the upper mid-range to some extent, albeit with a bunch of phones that will never be sold in the U.S. Compared with those sets, Motorola's line looked unambitious though spokeswoman Juli Burda said that MWC may have fewer announcements as it's sandwiched between the CES and CTIA trade shows in the U.S, Motorola's core market where they tend to announce their top products.
Otherwise, Motorola had several announcements that looked beyond current networks to try to position the company for the upcoming, fourth-generation cellular networks that will launch between 2009 and 2011. Those announcements came out of the company's networks division, not the handset division, which doesn't help the wavering fate of the handset business.
Motorola spun out a new WiMAX desktop modem and PC Card, some high-def video and online gaming experiences shown using the LTE network, which neatly cover all four major carriers' long term strategies Sprint is going WiMAX, while Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile have all picked LTE.


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Food and groceries make up 38 per cent of the seasonal shopping splurge, but the retail analyst says that the Christmas feast will cost more this year, since food inflation is running at 6.3 per cent.
This rate of inflation is way over the predicted 2 per cent Christmas spend increase, from GB₤82.3 bn, or ₤1383 per person.
“Unavoidable though this extra expense will be, shoppers will be more careful about what they buy, balancing spending on treats with cutbacks on everyday foods,” said Verdict.
Festivals like Christmas, Easter and Halloween are usually high profit times for food firms – from retailers through to manufacturers.
While manufacturers will have already developed their seasonal products for Christmas this year – indeed, they will already be stacking up in warehouses and even on shelves – they will have done so with an eye on formulation costs.
However economists and politicians appear resigned to a recession that could take some time to crawl out of. This means that on-going attention to affordability and cheaper formulations will be required for treat foods aiming at next year’s festivals.
There has been a major reformulation drive in the food manufacturing sector in recent years, partly driven by the need to deliver good tasting products that have lower fat, sugar and salt contents, and partly to help reduce the use of ingredients that have now become too uneconomical to use in large quantities.
When it comes to treat foods, however, consumers are unwilling to compromise on sensory properties such as flavour. In short, if a product that has been reformulated – be it for health or price reasons – does not taste as good as the original, consumers will be disinclined to buy it again.
For the flavour industry, the current economic situation is actually being seen as a business driver.
Frans Struiwig, Symrise’s senior VP, strategic business unit, flavour and nutrition global told FoodNavigator.com in a recent interview that manufacturers are turning to flavour houses to replace or boost flavour that is lost when they substitute cheaper ingredients that are not so tasty.
Other ingredient suppliers have turned their creative attentions to helping manufacturers balance the cost-quality issue.
AAK has reported that the high price of cocoa butter (a component of chocolate, which has a longstanding association with festivities) has led to greater demand for its alternative, cocoa butter equivalents, which come from cheaper specialty vegetable oils.
The price of cocoa butter has risen significantly in the last 18 months, from under SEK 30000 (€3193.8 at today’s exchange rates) per tonne in early 2007 to over SEK 50000 (€5325.4) per tonne at this year’s high. Cocoa crops have this year yielded disappointing crops, which has pushed up the price of cocoa globally.
Another example is Danisco, which moved as long ago as July 2007 to developing a range of emulsifiers aimed at reducing the need to use commodity products that were causing manufacturers grief at that time, such as wheat, gluten, and vegetable oils in food formulations.
Palsgaard has announced the launch of its IceTriple emulsifier-stabiliser system, which it says allows for a 20 to 25 per cent reduction in total milk solid content in a standard ice-cream, depending on the recipe and processing conditions.


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Money Made Easy: Your five minute guide to... Dormant accounts
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND will be writing to about 4,500 customers in the next “few weeks” after it wrongly told them there was no money in their underused, or “dormant”, accounts.
The bank, 73% owned by the taxpayer, was forced to admit it had misled customers who inquired about money held in their accounts. The bank later said the accounts have an average balance of £50, although some will contain much more.
RBS declined to comment when asked by Money to disclose the number holding more than £1,000 – so it is up to customers to find out for themselves.
The bank said: “We are very sorry this happened and as soon as we discovered this we took steps to correct the error.”


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The adidas Yeezy 350 Boost will be releasing in infant sizes on August 15th according to the latest episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Kim revealed that baby North West won’t be the only toddler rocking the must-have model as a release mid-August was confirmed on last night’s Kardashian televised installment. The rumor of baby-sized general releases of Kanye’s famed three stripes creation has long since been disputed, but when catalog shots revealing two original Yeezy Boost 350 colorways in Turtle Dove and Pirate Black surfaced back in March, some legitimacy was added into the mix. The infant sizes will be priced at $120 USD.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Ford Motor Co.
CEO Alan Mulally told analysts on Friday that he had nothing new to add regarding reports the automaker is about to shut down its Mercury brand. He did say, however, that Ford continues to look closely at its portfolio of brands and consider strategic options that would be good for business. A day earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported that Ford, after years of speculation, was finally preparing to close the 71-year old brand. Ford shares lost 1.8% to $11.77 in early trading.


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We know that Final Fantasy XIV’s next major content update, Patch 6.4, is coming some time in late May. Not only has the development team said as much, but the current Moogle Treasure Trove event tends to point toward a specific date: May 23. We’ve already gleaned part of what’s coming in the Patch 6.4 from the last Live Letter from the Producer, but as promised, there’s another on the horizon.
Square Enix has announced the air date for the next Live Letter from the Producer. Over on the official Lodestone blog, it’s revealed that Letter from the Producer Live Part LXXVII (77) will stream on Friday, May 12, 2023 at 4:00 A.M. PDT / 7:00 A.M. EDT. Viewers can catch the stream on YouTube Live, Niconico Live, or Twitch.
As stated before, the Live Letter will dive deeper into Patch 6.4, giving us further details on what’s coming down the pipeline. We already know that Patch 6.4, entitled “The Dark Throne”, will offer a new standard dungeon, a new Variant Dungeon, a new Trial against Golbez himself, and the last Pandaemonium raid wing. What we’ll likely be getting in this stream isn’t entirely new features, but further details on what was announced in the last Live Letter.
It’s a big year for Final Fantasy XIV. We have the 10th anniversary of the release of A Realm Reborn, all three Fan Festival 2023-2024 events, a new Eorzean Symphony, and further details on what will comprise the next expansion. To Meracydia or the New World? What lies in wait for the Warrior of Light?


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While the rest of us fail to ever really start on our kooky passion projects, there are people in the world like Mike Maier, the owner of this 1966 Ford Mustang pro-tourer, grabbing headlines with the things they’ve created using nothing but hard work, determination, and ingenuity. (And buckets of cash, presumably.)
Mike Maier and his superb Ford Mustang were recently the focus of a “Daily Transmission” from motorsport lifestyle brand Hoonigan – a brand famously associated with pro rallycross driver and DC Shoes co-founder Ken Block, who knows a thing or two about transforming old Mustangs into high-horsepower performance machines. Maier, who owns a suspension shop, started work on his ’66 Ford pony car some twelve years ago; today, it boasts an awe-inspiring list of modifications that make it a true force to be reckoned with on both track and street.
The list includes a Roush Yates NASCAR motor with 750 horsepower and an 8,700-rpm redline, kept lubricated by a 5-gallon dry-sump system, and a unique pushrod suspension system with swappable cams made by Maier himself. There’s plenty more besides, but those are easily the highlights.
Watch Hoonigan’s latest “Daily Transmission” above for the full scoop on this bedroom poster-worthy 1966 Ford Mustang.


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Three men have been arrested in connection with an internet scam targeting online banking customers.
The suspects, one from Nigeria and two from Romania, were held at a central London hotel on Monday night.
They are are being questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering.
The arrests followed reports that 2,000 phishing pages, which copy genuine bank sites, were put online to dupe people into entering confidential details.
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First of Grant Thornton’s draft reports circulated to beef taskforce members
A draft of the first of three reports by professional services firm Grant Thornton that were commissioned by the Beef Market Taskforce has been presented to taskforce members, AgriLand understands.
This report is on competition law as it relates to the beef sector, while the other two reports which are still in the works are on market and customer requirements relating to in-spec bonuses; and the price composition of animals along the supply chain.
It is understood that the draft report examines competition law in Ireland, and the roles and responsibilities of various actors in enforcing competition law in the beef sector.
It also states that it remains unclear what role the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) will have in implementing the EU Directive on Unfair Trading Practices.
The report examined competition law as it relates to three specific areas: the role of the CCPC; producer organisations (POs); and co-operatives.
On the CCPC, the report seemingly examined the relevant competition legislation that the statutory body is expected to enforce, and how it is legally expected to do that.
However, the report did not delve into claims from some farmer organisations that competition law in the sector was being breached by certain actors in the sector.
On POs, the report outlined the criteria necessary for setting up a PO, and also noted research elsewhere that indicated the benefit of POs in terms of farmer bargaining power.
€3 million for suckler beef promotion
In other news related to the beef sector, Bord Bia has committed to provide €1 million in funding in each of the next three years for the promotion of suckler beef if an application to the EU for funding is unsuccessful.
In a document shared with members of the Beef Market Taskforce, the food board said it was awaiting a decision from the European Commission in November on whether its application for funding has been successful.
However, Bord Bia said it would put €3 million towards suckler beef promotion, spread across three years, in the event that the commission rejects the funding application.


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SEATTLE--(http://www.ontela.com), provider of an award-winning camera-phone picture-saving service for wireless carriers, today announced that more than two million wireless customers will now be able to automatically save their camera-phone pictures with PhotoCopter from Ontela. The simple cell phone service can save photos to the user’s PC hard drive, e-mail inbox and Web sites like Blogger, Flickr, Photobucket, and Snapfish. This unlimited photo-saving service is available from members of the ACG for $2.99 per month. The newest carriers to deploy Ontela technology are Alaska DigiTel, Appalachian Wireless, Bluegrass Cellular, Carolina West Wireless, Cellcom, Cellular 29Plus/Lyrix Wireless, Golden State Cellular, Illinois Valley Cellular, Inland Cellular, Leaco Rural Telephone, Northwest Missouri Cellular, Panhandle Regional Wireless Network, Thumb Cellular and United Wireless. They join existing Ontela customers Alltel, Cellular South, Cincinnati Bell and nTelos.)--Ontela, Inc. (
“Now their subscribers can rest easy knowing that their memories will no longer be trapped in their camera phones.”
“We are delighted to launch our PhotoCopter service with carriers that are so keenly focused on the customer experience,” said Dan Shapiro, CEO of Ontela. “Now their subscribers can rest easy knowing that their memories will no longer be trapped in their camera phones.”
“The member carriers of the ACG strive to provide the best services in the wireless industry to our customers,” said Russ Lipinski, executive director of the ACG. “PhotoCopter is a fantastic service that allows them to have all their photos where they want them, and we are delighted to make it available to our wireless data customers.”
Earlier this year, Ontela raised $10.3 million in venture funding and won the CTIA award for best consumer application in mobile entertainment and social networking.
Ontela provides technology infrastructure to wireless carriers that allows consumers to unlock the photos in their camera phones. Currently available on 18 carrier networks, including Cellular South, Alltel, Cincinnati Bell, and nTelos, PicDeck™ technology allows consumers to automatically save their photos to their PC, email address, and/or favorite imaging web sites. Ontela is backed by Steamboat Ventures, Oak Investment Partners, Hunt Ventures, and Voyager Capital and headquartered in Seattle, WA. For more information, visit www.ontela.com.
“Ontela” and “PhotoCopter” are registered trademarks of Ontela. References to other companies and their products use trademarks owned by the respective companies and are hereby acknowledged.


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The NFT profile photo functionality on Reddit is still under internal development. So far, Reddit has introduced four NFTs. Reddit has not said when the NFT profile image functionality will be available. Twitter’s NFT profile image function was launched earlier this month. The Ethereum blockchain serves as the foundation for CryptSnoo NFTs.
According to reports, Reddit is preparing to implement a feature that will allow users to display their non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as profile images. This function will be identical to the one offered by Twitter earlier this month. According to the source, however, details concerning Reddit’s NFT profile photo function have yet to be determined. Reddit also introduced its NFT, CryptoSnoo, last year. According to the article, users will be able to utilise CryptoSnoos and other NFTs as Reddit profile images.
Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt told TechCrunch on Wednesday, “We’re continuously investigating ways to give value for Reddit users and communities.” “At the moment, we’re evaluating the possibility to utilise NFTs as profile photos (avatars) and verify ownership,” he continued. Reddit hasn’t said when the functionality would be accessible. Rathschmidt, on the other hand, stated, “It’s a limited, internal test, and no decisions have been made regarding extending or rolling out the capabilities.” This function is reported to be similar to one that Twitter launched last week.
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The microblogging service now offers users a new option that allows them to utilise NFTs as profile images. NFT profile photographs on Twitter display hexagons rather than the circular shape offered for conventional profile pictures. Tapping on the images brings up information about the art and who owns it. Reddit introduced CryptoSnoo NFTs in June 2021. The Ethereum platform creates limited-run NFTs. The price of Ethereum in India on January 27 at 4:57 p.m. IST was Rs. 1.98 lakh.
“CryptoSnoos represent some of the most breakthrough events in art history,” according to Reddit. When a person buys a CryptoSnoo NFT and connects it to their Reddit account, the picture of the NFT becomes the user’s avatar on the social media network. In addition, users receive a collectable NFT card on their profile, and their remarks have an animated glow. Snoo, as in CryptoSnoo, is Reddit’s extraterrestrial mascot. The NFTs are a Snoo mascot variety.
As of now, four CryptoSnoo NFTs have been released: one is an 8-bit style Snoo, one is a Helium balloon Snoo, one is a disco-ball Snoo, and one is a modern-art inspired Snoo. CryptoSnoo is now only available on Reddit’s desktop website.


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More curiosities about the new iPhone 15 presented yesterday.
During Apple’s special event, the company surprised the world with the announcement of the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. The latter incorporates a series of exclusive news that differentiate it from the rest of the smartphones in the series, such as a much more powerful telephotography lens.
The new one telephoto lens of the iPhone 15 Pro Max camera module increases the up to 5x optical zoom. A considerable increase compared to the 3x optical zoom of the iPhone 14 Pro models. But did you know that it is capable of reaching a 25x digital zoom?
The iPhone 15 Pro Max will be able to zoom as far as the eye can’t see
The iPhone 15 Pro Max’s 25x digital zoom offers the biggest zoom in history of the iPhone and any other device that Apple has released.
However, despite the great advance compared to previous generations, the digital zoom of the iPhone 15 Pro Max falls behind the competition…
Samsung’s Galaxy S23 Ultra offers a 100x Space Zoom Capable of providing very precise image details up to 100 meters away. For its part, the Pixel 7 Pro has a Super Res Zoom 30x which is still superior to Apple’s.
Optical zoom allows you to magnify image viewing through the camera’s hardware components while digital zoom uses software to do the same.
Among many other new features, the iPhone 15 Pro Max incorporates a main camera of 48 megapixelsa telephoto camera 12 megapixels and an ultra wide angle camera 12 megapixels.
Apple has significantly improved the photos of the portrait mode with more vibrant colors that enhance people’s skin tone, it has improved the cinema mode with 4K resolution and has enhanced the photographic results of the night mode thanks to the light capture of the camera of its iPhone 15 line. In addition, the company with the bitten apple has introduced a new functionality to record Space Video in three dimensions for Apple Vision Pro.
iPhone 15 Pro Max with A17 Pro chip is available from 1,469 euros in Spain. The pre-order period has already begun and its official launch will occur on September 22. You can check all the prices of the new iPhone 15 in Spain here. What do you think about the news of the flagship from Apple?
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Comcast.com (www.comcast.com) began showing off the results of its facelift Thursday.
The MSO said that for the first time, surfers can use Flash-based virtual demonstrations to interact with Comcast products and services.
The site’s new interface directs visitors to three specific channels: Learn, Customers and Shop.
Learn show’s off the cable operator’s product offerings -- Comcast Digital Cable with On Demand, HD programming and digital-video-recorder service; Comcast High-Speed Internet; and Comcast Digital Voice -- through interactive, rich media demonstrations with full-motion video and sound.
Customers provides direct access to online bill paying and account management, manuals, demos, installation assistance and around-the-clock support services.
And Shop allows customers to view all available services and packages, accompanied by related information and prices, and sign up for service.
“We wanted the new site to be convenient and fully interactive to mirror the entertainment experience for which our products are known," Comcast senior vice president of sales and marketing Marvin Davis said in a prepared statement. "We're very pleased with customer feedback to date, which has been overwhelmingly positive. Comcast.com was already garnering more than 5 million unique visitors per month, and we anticipate that the new site will attract even more visitors.”


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Small brewers report 82% decline in beer sales with many struggling to survive
Small independent breweries have reported a decline in beer sales of 82% since the outbreak of coronavirus, with many businesses struggling to survive, according to the latest research.
The survey of 282 UK breweries, conducted by the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA), revealed eight out of ten brewers do not believe the government is doing enough to support them, with more than half (54%) unable to access any government support.
Almost a third (29%) are now considering redundancies, according to the survey.
Although beer production is considered to be an “essential business” as it is part of the food and drink supply chain, the main route to market for many independent breweries has been cut off now that pubs, bars and restaurants are closed, SIBA said. As a result of this 65% of breweries have stopped production altogether.
SIBA chief executive, James Calder, said: “Unlike the global beer brands that can supply supermarkets in great volume, small independent breweries sell the majority of their beer through pubs, bars and restaurants, meaning the lock-down measures have hit them much harder.
“While many have launched local delivery services or online shops to try to stay afloat, the increase in online sales is a drop in the ocean compared with the overall decrease their beer sales have seen. Pubs, bars and restaurants have been receiving help from the government, but none of the same schemes apply to our small breweries that saw their sales fall off a cliff almost overnight. They urgently need a package of measures to keep them going otherwise many won’t be able to reopen.”
SIBA is working together with the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) on the Pulling Together initiative, which links independent breweries and pubs offering beer delivery and takeaway services with beer lovers across the UK.


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If you didn't get a chance to nab tickets to see Rudimental live in concert this month, you'll be pleased to know the foursome have announced they'll be back on the road early next year.
And tickets for the latest UK tour go on sale today at 8am - get yours here.
The nine-date tour will feature gigs in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham and London.
The announcement follows the release of their second album We the Generation earlier this month, which features pop heavyweights like Ed Sheeran and Dizzee Rascal.
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While some shoppers are flocking back to stores, the idea that the pandemic has irreversibly changed shopping behaviors still appears to have merit.
To compete with pure-play eCommerce giants like Amazon, retailers invested heavily in digital capabilities throughout the pandemic. These investments include at-home delivery or in-store pickup models, launching their own marketplaces, and launching their own retail media programs.
Tracking this surge in retailers’ digital capabilities and overall shopper sentiment, analytics firm Edge by Ascential predicted that online sales will account for almost 40% of all chain retail sales by 2026.
The murky sub-category of “digitally influenced” sales is also starting to become more defined. 39% of shoppers will not buy in-store without reading online reviews first. And 69% of in-store shoppers prefer to look up product reviews on their smartphones instead of speaking to a store associate.
But digital initiatives still struggle to fit into the agenda of retail brands. “Despite all this retail disruption, some organizations and leaders are still behaving like sheep,” says Chris Perry, co-founder of the eCommerce education startup firstmovr, who published a position piece on the issues that eCommerce leaders continue to face in their organizations. Perry says that what’s at stake is not just the end customer - merchants and buyers from physical retail stores are taking cues from the online world. “Target and Walmart are bringing in a lot of digital native brands into physical store,” Perry says. “Why is that? [these brands] may be exclusive to that store, and they also recognize these high growth digital brands as where the growth is coming from. This is why winning the ‘digital shelf’ is important.”
Organizational silos, shortsighted goals, risk aversion, and bureaucracy are cited as the main barriers for retail brands to make real progress with their digital initiatives.
At an online event by firstmovr yesterday, three digital and eCommerce leaders from national brands shared their experiences and strategies for getting more alignment and better results for their digital efforts.
“It's not brick and mortar versus eCommerce”
"People think it’s brick and mortar versus eCommerce,” says Diana Haussling, VP/GM Digital commerce at Colgate-Palmolive.
“The reality is we are human and we shop all the various modalities and channels."
Haussling says that bureaucracy is one of the most insidious challenges that a brand may face in achieving its ecommerce aspirations. “You have to be able to move quickly and jump on the cultural relevancies of the moment. For example, linking national media to a specific retail site. But how we manage P&Ls or processes sometimes don't allow us to move quickly or engage with consumers.” Haussling noted that while many larger CPG brands recruit talent from startups in a bid to kickstart growth, they can quickly be mired in bureaucracy.
Tactics that Haussling suggested could move the needle is to embed ecommerce professionals within the organization, so that ecommerce becomes part of the DNA of the company rather than a discrete function.
She also highlighted that internal advocacy is necessary. Understanding who the decision-makers are versus whose opinions you’re never going to change is key in understanding who you should be ‘selling’ your ideas to.
“Risk aversion is often rooted in the culture”
Tiffany Tan, Head of eCommerce Growth Accelerator at The Clorox Company, says that while risk aversion may be part of a company’s culture, there is an opportunity to flip the script. “eCommerce is inherently risk-mitigating,” Tan says. “Metrics will tell you pretty quickly if you've made the right call. eCommerce actually has mechanisms that inherently modify risk."
“Silos exist - even in ecommerce”
Pearlstein, whose remit spans all online channels for Bayer, says that much work and effort is duplicated across teams because of organizational silos. This is unfortunate because most issues or opportunities that a team faces on a given digital channel has likely been experienced elsewhere in an organization.
Pearlstein says that the key to internal buy-in for digital initiatives is having visual representation. “If I can show progress as 'red, yellow or green', I can more easily make the business case for resources to close a gap,” he says.


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Maruti Suzuki cuts prices, aligns with Government to revive demand
Welcoming the Government's initiative to revive the demand in automobile industry, Maruti Suzuki India Limited, today announced to proactively and voluntarily share the benefits of corporate tax reduction with its customers.
The Company has decided to reduce the price of select models by Rs 5,000/- (on ex-showroom price).
These popular models include all variants of:
Alto 800, Alto K10, Swift Diesel, Celerio, Baleno Diesel, Ignis, Dzire Diesel, Tour S Diesel, Vitara Brezza and S-Cross.
The new prices will be applicable from 25th September 2019, across the country. This reduction of price will be over and above the current promotional offers for the Company's vehicle range.
The Company is optimistic that the price reduction will bring down the cost of acquisition especially for the entry-level customers. This announcement around the festive season will help boost customer sentiment and revive the market to create demand.
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State warns of third medical pot products recall
Ypsilanti — Medical marijuana products sold in Ypsilanti have been recalled due to failed laboratory testing, state officials said Friday.
It's the state's third recall on marijuana products this month.
Products sold between Dec. 14 and Jan. 3 at Indica LLC, 1090 N. Huron River Drive in Ypsilanti are the target of the latest recall, the state's department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs said.
The recalled products are:
- Black Cherry Pie Buds, License No. 1A4050100000CE5000000364
- Punch Shatter 1g, License No. 1A4050100000CE5000000112
- Gorilla Dosha Buds, Licensee No. 1A4050100000CE5000000299
- OG 18 Shatter .5g, License No. 1A4050100000CE5000000142
- Galactic Meds Polar Bar R.S.O. 1g, License No. 1A4050100000CE5000000200
- Purple Kush Buds, License No. 1A4050100000CE5000000216
Patients or caregivers who have these products should return them to Indica LLC for proper disposal, according to state officials.


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Hot on the heels of the release of its Phantom 630 full tower gaming case, NZXT has announced a new addition to its line of PC fans. Dubbed the FZ-200, NZXT is calling it its most ambitious 200mm fan yet.
The FZ-200 features an airflow rating of 103 CFM, which is a 15 percent increase over previous generation fans from NZXT, and a noise rating of 20 dBA. It operates at between 500 and 900 RPM and features new standard 154mm spacing compatible with the Phantom 820 and the Phantom 630. It's also got sleeved cables for improved cable management.
The FZ-200 is available in an LED and non-LED option. LED colors include blue, red, green, white and orange. The LED model will set you back $20.99, while the non-LED FZ-200 is $17.99.


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Wholesaler buys 1,500-store convenience retail group
Bibby Line Group has sold Costcutter Supermarkets Group (CSG) in a deal which will see 1,500 stores become part of Bestway Wholesale.
Bestway is the UK’s largest independent wholesaler and its retail division already includes Bargain Booze, Best-One and Wine Rack. It said the Costcutter group, which also includes Mace, Supershop, Kwiksave and Simply Fresh, would “continue to operate as normal”.
York-based Costcutter has enjoyed a transformation in its fortunes recently and in 2019 it recorded a £5m EBITDA profit after losing £4m the previous year. Sales grew 10% to £426m.
The value of the deal has not been disclosed.
Dawood Pervez, managing director of Bestway Wholesale: “Costcutter is a great brand with a long heritage and a history of success alongside industry-leading and loyal retailers, with some of the best in-store execution in the business.”
The sale of Costcutter is part of Bibby Line Group’s strategic realignment of the business and follows the disposal of Bibby Distribution to Menzies Distribution announced last week.
John Cresswell, chief executive of Bibby Line Group, said: “We hope CSG will continue to prosper and grow as it becomes part of a larger business with deep retail expertise.
“This is also positive news for Bibby Line Group, completing the planned strategic realignment of our portfolio, further strengthening our Group balance sheet for future investment.”
The deal is conditional on approval by the Financial Control Authority, which is expected in the first quarter of 2021.
Bibby Line Group was advised by CMS and PwC on the agreed sale.


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Paying corporate taxes is a necessary side-effect of doing business. However, not all corporate taxes are created equal. (For the purpose of this article, we’re going to refer to all taxes and social contributions businesses have to pay as “taxes”.)
Even though the US administration has recently lowered corporate taxes, businesses still have to hand over 27% of their revenue to the government as tax. Before you’re tempted to complain, this rate isn’t that high. According to a recent joint study by the World Bank and PwC, the global average of business taxes is 40.5%.
However, there are several countries in the world that have a lower tax rate than that. Doing business in a country that has low business tax rates certainly has its perks.
Their prices tend to be lower as well, which is a benefit even if you “only” want to import goods from that country. But if you want the full benefit of low business tax rates, you may even consider moving parts of your business there.
But if you want the full benefit of low business tax rates, you may even consider moving parts of your business there
Here’s a list of the five best countries with the lowest business taxes.
With an impressive corporate tax rate of 0%, Bahrain has the fastest growing economy in the Arab world. Petroleum processing is the most important industry in the country, but aluminium production comes in a close second. Regarding services, banking and financial services are the most significant in the country.
Bilateral trade with the US is worth around $2 billion annually, with the most important commodities being aluminium, machinery, apparel, vehicles, and agricultural products.
Along with their stunning location in the Caribbean, the Bahamas can also boast a business tax rate of 0%. The country’s main source of income are tourism and financial services, and it heavily relies on the US for most of its food and manufactured goods imports.
About 6 million US citizens visit the country each year, which provides a great opportunity to US businesses wanting to expand overseas.
Recently, the Hungarian government cut the business tax rate to 9%, and introduced several measures to make the Central European EU member state more attractive to foreign investors.
Hungary’s main import articles are vehicles, electronics, food, and pharmaceuticals. If you’re considering investing, tourism, agriculture, green industries, and manufacturing are currently on the rise as lucrative sectors.
In addition, Hungary has a highly skilled workforce and a lower wage level, which makes it a top outsourcing location for many US companies.
Located in Southeastern Europe, Montenegro has a business tax rate of 9%. Although not part of the Eurozone (not even the European Union), the country uses the euro as its currency.
Tourism and services are Montenegro’s main industries. The country relies heavily on foreign direct investment as well as export/import. The government of Montenegro is strongly in favor of US investments.
Paraguay has a corporate tax rate of 10%, which, along with its location in South America, makes it ideal for US investments. The mineral industry provides the backbone of the country’s economy, as well as the production of soybean, stevia, tung oil, and corn.
Paraguay has strong business ties to the US. Over 75 US companies are present in the South American country, and bilateral trade is currently worth over $2.1 billion.
In addition to the countries described above, several other countries employ a 10% corporate tax rate, including Macedonia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kyrgyzstan, Andorra, and Qatar.
Although not sovereign countries, several British territories employ a 0% business tax as well. This means that you can do business with these territories at a 0% corporate tax rate, even though the mainland UK applies different rates.
This means that you can do business with these territories at a 0% corporate tax rate, even though the mainland UK applies different rates.
Currently, the territories with a 0% business tax rate are Anguilla, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Whichever region of the world you choose to do business with, you’ll have to exchange payments with them.
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Rules aimed at halting bank excesses that led to the credit crunch were announced by Barack Obama last night.
The US President unveiled changes including powers to let the central bank oversee the entire financial sector.
A watchdog will be set up to drive out bad practice.
Mr Obama said there was a need to ditch the "culture of irresponsibility" and lax procedures in the system.
The US Federal Reserve will regulate banks and other large firms that "pose a risk to the entire economy".
And a consumer protection agency will be set up to champion people taking out a home loan, credit card or other such financial product.
Mr Obama said that earlier regulations were "overwhelmed" by the "speed, scope and sophistication" of changes by smart bankers.


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A group of Walmart employees pushing for higher wages said on Friday they were planning protests at 1,600 Walmart stores nationwide on Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year in the United States.
Arkansas, US-based retail giant Walmart is planning to establish an e-commerce marketplace in India in a bid to compete with online retail giants for a share in India's e-commerce industry.
Montreal, Canada-based tech startup FixMeStick launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kicstarter to raise $50,000 to get its virus-fighting USB stick into major retailers in the US.
US-based multinational retail chain Walmart started testing the local pick-up option for Walmart To Go, the company's online grocery shopping service with home delivery feature in Denver, Colorado.
San Francisco-based recruiting startup getTalent's founder Abraham Shafi told TechCrunch that his company was just acquired by job website Dice, but financial terms of the said deal were not disclosed.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc is sticking with Bank of America's Merrill Lynch unit to run its 401(k) program with $18 billion in assets, Wal-Mart confirmed on Tuesday.
With more shoppers wishing to avoid the throng, research firm comScore reported a 15% increase of online spending on Black Friday to USD 1.20 billion.
Online shopping website Amazon is set to dominate this holiday season, rising above other ecommerce rivals and traditional retailers and hitting a 54% increase in its stock this year.
Wal-Mart CEO and President Mike Duke will officially step down on Feb 1, 2014 and will be replaced by Doug McMillon who is the head of Wal-Mart's international division. Duke will continue his role as Chairman and will be advising the new CEO for a year.
WalMart, Sears, Macy's and other retailers are now doing their best to increase sales for the coming Christmas season.
Walmart decided to offer its holiday deals early in anticipation for holiday shopping season.
In a joint statement, Bharti Retail and Walmart dissolve their Best Price partnership in India.
The recent remarks made by officials of both Bharti and Walmart indicate issues between the two.
According to a top Indian government official, Walmart's plans of getting into the country's multi-brand segment could be at its final stage.
In a surprising but laudable move, multinational retail company Walmart released changes on its 2014 healthcare package, including a provision for LGBT employees to elect domestic spouses in health insurance.


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LONDON - Salman Rushdie, the prize-winning Indian-born writer, has in the past based novels on the politics of India and Pakistan.
LONDON - Salman Rushdie says he turned to the world of video games for inspiration for his new book, "Luka and the Fire of Life." The writer says he wrote the book for his 13-year-old son.
As Americans scrutinize every purchase, merchants are making sure to stock up on holiday gifts that are either practical or offer an affordable way to splurge.
NEW YORK - The Christmas shopping season doesn't kick off for another six weeks, but retailers already are signaling they're prepared to discount aggressively to entice shoppers still skittish about spending.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - As if the gun-toting action in "Call of Duty: Black Ops" wasn't expected to feel real enough in high definition, Activision Blizzard Inc.
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Indian farmers call for free markets4 min read 20 Mar 2018, 11:27 PM IST
For decades, the Indian farmer has been at the mercy of government doles. Now there are voices demanding just prices in open markets
At a time when some Indian business leaders have begun to make protectionist noises, it is significant that the Kisan Coordination Committee (KCC) has released a liberal eight-point charter of demands ahead of a meeting to be held in New Delhi this week of various members of the World Trade Organization. The farmers have called for the liberalization of agriculture, the end of government intervention in the farm economy, scrapping of the National Food Security Act, direct benefit transfers to the poor, free trade in farm products and the removal of restrictions of rural land markets. The legacy of Shetkari Sanghatana leader Sharad Joshi is still alive.
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There’s a technology boom going on right now in the IoT sector, with a huge number of smart and connected devices hitting the market, and consumers mopping them up, especially so in the recent Black Friday sales, where many smart home automation systems were heavily discounted. From Amazon Alexa, to a vast range of light bulbs, there’s a lot of things that suddenly want to talk to each other in your house, so let’s get cracking and see what it’s like to turn your home into a smart home!
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