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The new venue is located in the heart of The Walk at Bahar in JBR and the official launch will take place on September 1, with special offers running through to September 3. To mark the occasion, every 20th customer through the door will eat for free, up to a maximum amount of AED200.
“We are delighted to open our latest branch, a doorstep dining option in a busy and hugely popular destination for residents and tourists alike. The new outlet enables us to share multiple new Asian soul food dishes that are a result of our ‘Asian Soul Tour’ earlier this year serving up authentic flavours and our ‘sticks-hands-spoon’ mantra with an even greater audience,” says Stefan Borchardt, brand chef of The Noodle House.
The new restaurant has a capacity of 90 covers. Features include an interactive screen which gives diners the option to take a selfie against branded filters, as well as a façade with an eight-metre glass frontage, plus integrated video and artwork on internal areas.
“This year we have already enhanced the customer dining experience through a number of sustainable initiatives and other operational changes such as a safety scheme or our delivery drivers, and I look forward to our new customers experiencing our new approach,” adds Borchardt.
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UAE-based grocery retail chain, Grandiose has opened its first hypermarket in Abu
UAE-based Carrefour announced its theme and plans for Ramadan 2021. The brand
Locally owned supermarket Spinneys celebrates 60 years of doing business in the
UAE-based Carrefour will become the first retailer in the region to offer new levels
The Organic Farmers’ Market is back in Bay Avenue for its 12th
UAE-based Lulu Group recently inaugurated its first-ever all-female staff store in Jeddah,
Jones the Grocer, the gourmet grocer and cheese retailer launches the Jones
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Marks & Spencer’s plant-based range now offers over 25 vegan products including meat-free
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Abu Dhabi’s state investment company ADQ is in talks to invest about $500 million
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British retailer Marks & Spencer, operated by the Al-Futtaim Group has announced
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Dubai-based Thai street food and tea bar restaurant, Cafe Isan is launching
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Recalls in Review: A monthly spotlight on trending regulatory enforcement issues at the CPSC.
Certain products, like toilet paper and disinfectant, flew off of store shelves when the country began responding to the current COVID-19 pandemic. In recent months, new and used bicycles have become one of the next “must have” items as people look for socially distant activities and alternative modes of transportation.
The CPSC has regulated bicycles and their component parts since the 1970s. Just last month, the Commission published a Safety Alert regarding bicycle handle bars– warning consumers to inspect their bicycle handlebars for sharp, exposed metal ends, which can pose a serious impalement hazard. At least six impalement deaths and 2,000 emergency room visits between 2000 and 2019 are linked to bicycle handlebars, according to the alert. Plastic or rubber grips on the ends of bicycle handlebars can prevent those injuries and CPSC’s regulation requires handlebar ends to be capped or otherwise covered.
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Bullish on J.C. Penney, Despite Doubts
The CEO says most Penney stores will have 40 new brand-name shops inside them by late 2013.
Three of my four favorite stocks for 2012 are up an average of 23%. The other is in the witness-protection program, and its name can’t be divulged. Okay, okay, it’s J.C. Penney (symbol JCP), down 15% since I blessed it in my January 2012 column. I think I have some explaining to do.
A few months ago, I sold all my Penney shares (though I held on to some options). Then I successfully shorted the stock, betting on its price to fall. Now I’ve bought shares again. In fact, Penney is one of my hedge fund’s ten biggest holdings.
To say Penney is controversial is an understatement. Some bears think the company might go under. The most wild-eyed bull, well-known hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman, says the stock, $29 as of September 7, could near $300 a share over time (Ackman is on Penney’s board of directors).
Dreams of such gains made me pounce prematurely. My biggest mistake was to believe that CEO Ron Johnson, who with Steve Jobs created Apple’s network of stores, could work his magic quickly. Retail turnarounds are notoriously difficult. And the successful ones, such as J. Crew, tend to take time.
Frankly, I got sucked in by Johnson’s brilliantly articulated vision of a glorious future, and I figured that some progress would be quickly evident. The opposite happened. Penney, which had always had an extravagant marketing budget centered on couponing, decided to stop using coupons and shift to everyday low prices (more or less). The idea bombed. It turned out that Penney shoppers liked coupons. Oops.
Once the coupon fiasco became apparent, I should have shorted the stock (I did eventually, but not soon enough). The coupon rebellion didn’t mean Penney’s plan was fatally flawed, but it did suggest that it would take a long time to change the behavior of Penney shoppers. The stock, which traded at $43 last February, went into freefall, eventually breaching $20.
The final insult came on August 10, when Penney reported awful earnings for the quarter that ended in July (a loss of 67 cents per share) and dreadful same-store sales (a key measure for retailers). But the stock rallied 5.9% that day after executives made upbeat comments in a post-earnings-release conference call.
Johnson told investors that traffic declines at Penney stores were abating. Levi’s, one of the first of 100 major brands to open a store within a store at Penney, saw sales climb 25% from the previous year. Johnson said most Penney stores will have 40 new brand-name shops inside them by the fall of 2013. Store-within-a-store operators will include Izod, Vanity Fair, Maidenform and Martha Stewart. Most important, Johnson said that Penney would resume growing in 2013.
There’s more. Penney executives announced that annual cost savings of more than $900 million are ahead of schedule, that the company will have more than $1 billion in cash at year-end and that it had booked one million free haircuts for the back-to-school season (one of the new kinds of promotions the company is using to lure customers).
Investors drove the stock higher, even as Wall Street frowned. One analyst worried that Penney could have a lousy Christmas season. So what? Penney has more than enough cash to survive a bad Christmas. Moreover, extraordinary value is buried within the company. Penney owns 49% of its real estate and leases the rest at an average of $4 per square foot—90% less than many mall tenants pay. Comparisons with Sears are obvious: Like Sears, it has great real estate. But unlike Sears, Penney has a credible retail strategy that should lead to earnings growth.
Could Penney stock fall 30% from here? Sure. But the potential reward looks much greater than the risk. Buy the shares and don’t look at the price until the 2014 winter holiday season. If you’re patient, I think it will be a merry one.
Columnist Andrew Feinberg manages a New York City–based hedge fund called CJA Partners.
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Microsoft confirmed today that it is considering charging users for "premium services" provided through its UK Internet portal MSN, the most visited site in the UK.
The company issued a statement saying that existing facilities, including the company's popular free email service Hotmail, will not be subject to charges, but said it is actively considering charging customers for enhanced versions of existing services or for new facilities.
These include broadcasting live music through the MSN Web site and providing enhanced games through MSN Gaming. MSN said these services are likely to launch next year.
"MSN is at an early stage of looking at charging for premium sevices on MSN UK," said a company sokeswoman. The spokeswoman could not confirm press reports suggesting that it might charge users up to £60 a year for access.
The decision underscores concerns over the viability of Internet advertising as a means of generating revenue for Web portals. Microsoft said it has doubts about the long-term viability of free Internet portals, but added that it does not intend to abandon Web advertising altogether.
"We remain committed to generating revenue from our existing advertising model, in the UK [this is] revenue from advertising, from sponsorship and content distribution," said the spokeswoman.
However, a survey carried out recently by consulting firm Booz Allen & Hamilton, indicates that banner ads on Internet portals have little impact on surfers.
MSN is the most popular Web portal in the UK, with 14 million visits per month, according to its own data. It receives 200 million visits every month worldwide, but is thought to be unable to transform those clicks into dollars through mere advertising and sponsorship deals.
Subscription-only sites have met with few successes. Yahoo! announced recently that its auctions listings have suffered since January, when the service ceased to be free-of-charge.
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Online Gaming Winners
Lots of green this week for New Jersey online casino and poker players. At BorgataCasino.com, we saw a major win on the Jack and the Beanstalk online slot. And at BorgataPoker.com, the felt was flush with cash in tournament after tournament. If you want to relive the magic, the full story on what happened the week of January 27 is right here in our weekly recap.
A big win on Aztec Myths at BorgataCasino.com and a legendary triple cash for one player at the BorgataPoker.com tables made for an unforgettable week online in New Jersey. Here’s your rundown for the week of September 16.
We may be in New Jersey, but with a big win on the Wild West online slot game and some serious Texas Hold’em victories at the poker tables, it sure felt like the Lone Star State around these parts. Read on for all the big stories from BorgataCasino.com and BorgataPoker.com for the week of September 9.
It was another hot summer week at BorgataPoker.com and BorgataCasino.com, with countless players locking up big finishes in poker tourneys and a number of casino players turning a few dollars into as much as $16,000 on one spin. For the whole story on who won what the week of July 22, read on.
Summer is all about enjoying the gorgeous weather outside, so it’s no surprise that we saw a bunch of big wins on several outdoorsy online slots including Wild Life, Lucky Angler: A Snowy Catch, and Money Boat Cash Flash at BorgataCasino.com. Read on to find out who won what at our online casino, plus all the info on this week’s BorgataPoker.com online tournament champions.
Lightning struck at BorgataCasino.com, bringing good luck to one lucky player on the Zeus III online slot. And over at BorgataPoker.com, we witnessed Crash930 and a_stormy_knight both take down big tourneys. These are just two of many epic stories from the week of July 1, 2018. Read on for the rest.
To say the week of June 24 was flawless for online gaming players in New Jersey would be the understatement of the year. At BorgataCasino.com, we witnessed multiple online slot wins over $5,000. And at BorgataPoker.com, FlawlessBinkage nabbed three tourney titles and a 2nd place finish. Read on for the whole deal.
If you need more proof that summer is officially here, look at all the hot streaks happening online. This week at BorgataCasino.com, we had a big win on the Melon Madness online slot. And over at BorgataPoker.com, Donate_here knocked it out of the park in the Mega Thursday for the second straight week. For more New Jersey online gaming headlines, read on.
They say money doesn’t grow on trees. But don’t tell that to the big Borgata online gaming winners the week of March 18. We saw a massive win on the Lucky Tree online slot at BorgataCasino.com, and a number of poker players raked in the green by conquering Garden State Super Series tourneys at BorgataPoker.com. Here’s a look at the highlights.
Borgata Online Gaming players are laughing all the way to the bank after hitting it big on games like Joker Pro and crushing multi-table tourneys like our $40,000 Guaranteed Sunday event. We’ve got all the details on the big wins for the week of July 9, so read on.


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GoPro reported revenue of $202.3 million in 1Q18
GoPro (GPRO) stock rose almost 12% in the week ended May 4 to close at $5.45. GoPro stock fell marginally by 0.4% on May 7, and the stock has now generated returns of -36% in the last 12 months and 11% in the last month after falling 13% in 2017. GoPro is trading 23% above its 52-week low of $5.43 and 54% below its 52-week high of $11.89.
GoPro announced 1Q18 results last week and reported revenue of $202.3 million, a decline of 7.4% YoY. Non-GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) EPS (earnings per share) was -$0.34. Analysts expected GoPro to post revenue of $184.2 million with EPS of -$0.37 in 1Q18.
Will lower-cost products drive revenue for GoPro?
GoPro has tried to attract consumers by launching a camera priced at $199. GoPro’s camera shipment volume rose 3% in 1Q18. However, the average selling price fell from $296 in 1Q17 to $267 in 1Q18. The average selling price is expected to go down further as sales of the $199 device are expected to keep rising this year.
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You don't become the biggest most powerful social network in the world by being the nice guy all the time and Facebook look like they are set to flex their muscles once again and "borrow" some features from an upcoming competitor.
Techcrunch has leaked photos of Facebook's new photo sharing app that is set to be released in what will be a much needed update to the current iPhone app. The app seems to draw heavily on apps like Path and Instagram and Facebook are clearly feeling the heat in this photo sharing space and want to come in and own the market quickly.
This is the big debate that is happening around Facebook at the moment because due to the fact that they have 700 million users and pretty much control the social graph as soon as they see something they like they can pretty much copy it, roll it out to all the users and it stunts the growth of the smaller company. Facebook did it to Foursquare and it looks like they might be about to do something similar to Instagram...
Instagram A Threat To The Social Graph
I've been saying for some time that Instagram were a very serious threat to the big social networks because with 5 million users on one platform alone (iOS) within their first 6 months and plenty of social interactions they are flying. With a new app for Android and a website on the way Instagram is starting to be a place where people share more and more photos and have social interactions and that is eating in to Facebook's turf once again! I said months ago that Facebook needed to copy Instagram style filters and it looks like that's what they have done with this app and it also leans heavily on some other features from the likes of Path.
Remember Foursquare's Traction
Pretty much the day before Facebook launched their places product Foursquare were riding high and creating unbelievable buzz and turning down offers of $100 million for the company from Yahoo. It looked to all intents and purposes that they had the location war sewn up but Facebook quickly borrowed some of their features and launched Places which quickly help to stunt Foursquare's buzz. Foursquare is by no means dead and continues to grow and be relevant to a smaller audience but with Facebook at the races and putting checkins in front of their 700 million users that is just not a battle that you can ever win.
Facebook The Only Winner Here
You can argue all you want about how right or wrong it is to "borrow" features from smaller companies and implement them in to a platform the size of Facebook. I think it's morally dubious but if you are a platform that size and a business that is growing then I think you just have to do it. Twitter, Google, Apple and all other big tech companies do it on a regular basis. The other option was snapping Instagram up but I have a feeling just like Foursquare they would have been to pricey with their spectacular growth. What do you think of this move by Facebook? Looking forward to using the app and couldn't care less where the idea comes from or bothered about people in start ups like Instagram?


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Electric car revolution would be fuelled by 'nudging' drivers to smart tariffs, UCL research finds
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Electric vehicle owners can be successfully ‘nudged’ into choosing smarter, lower-carbon tariffs for charging their cars via simple email campaigns.
Electric vehicle owners can be successfully ‘nudged’ into choosing smarter, lower-carbon tariffs for charging their cars via simple email campaigns, new UCL research published in Nature Energy suggests.
Currently, most electric vehicles are charged by their owners at peak times – usually when they get home from work – when carbon-intensive sources like coal and gas are called upon to meet the high demand. For electric vehicles to live up to their green credentials, owners must charge them at off-peak hours – when less carbon-intensive energy sources are used to produce electricity.
But the research, led by the UCL Energy Institute’s Moira Nicolson, discovers that a simple, low-cost email to new vehicle owners is an effective way of encouraging owners to adopt off-peak tariffs.
Sales of electric vehicles have dramatically increased in the last four years – from 3,500 in 2013 to 100,000 by March 2017. But to meet carbon emission targets, it is vital to ensure that vehicles are charged at off-peak hours.
The study involved sending emails to 6,000 electric vehicle owners who received the UK Government's electric vehicle grant, encompassing roughly 10% of all electric vehicle owners in the UK.
The results show that nudging owners via email was significantly more effective shortly after they purchased their vehicles. Engagement was much lower after three months of ownership, suggesting government and industry must act swiftly in order to ensure owners adopt off-peak tariffs.
The results also showed that the way in which the information is framed to electric vehicle owners also makes a big difference. Email open rates were 15% higher and click-through rates to the tariff information 90% higher when the savings associated with switching tariff were expressed as a way of cutting the cost of charging their vehicles from home rather than cutting the cost of their energy bills.
These results have direct implications for national tariff switching campaigns. In the UK, tariff switching campaigns target the average energy bill payer and are launched in Autumn to coincide with the start of the heating season when energy bills tend to increase. This study suggests that we should not rely on these generic broadcast campaigns when it comes to ensuring electric vehicle owners transition onto off-peak tariffs. Rather the results show that it would be much more effective to use an electric vehicle specific campaign timed to coincide with the date that specific individual purchased their electric vehicle, with emails providing a cheap and effective method of delivering this message in the right way and at the right time.
Moira Nicolson, lead author and PhD candidate at the UCL Energy Institute, said:
For electric cars to meet their green credentials it is vital that they are charged with less carbon-intensive energy sources. However this relies on electric vehicle owners adopting off-peak tariffs and avoiding charging their cars at peak times.
Most of the behavioural science research in the energy domain has been confined to testing whether people are more likely to reduce their home energy use when they see their own energy use compared to that of their (usually lower consuming) neighbours'. This type of 'social norms' messaging works really well if the behaviour you're trying to encourage is the social norm - but it doesn't work very well if the 'green' behaviour is the exception rather than the rule, which is so often the case in the energy area.
My research found that a simple email to owners within the first three months of purchasing an electric car is effective in nudging owners to off-peak tariffs, particularly if the message frames the savings from switching tariff in terms reducing home electric vehicle charging costs rather than reducing the household energy bills. “For electric cars to meet their green credentials it is vital that they are charged with less carbon-intensive energy sources. The government and industry should take these findings as a basis for a low-cost, direct and effective way of ensuring the potential of electric vehicles is harnessed.”
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Beckley as a helicopter landed in the parking lot of the Crossroads Mall today carrying Good Ol’ St. Nicholas.
The mall was filled with long lines as families waited to get their Christmas photo with St. Nicholas and have their children tell him what they want for Christmas.
The Davis family came out to see Santa and celebrate their first Christmas outing with their daughter Lilianna.
“She wanted to see Santa. She’s always been excited since we started putting up Christmas decorations. So yeah, she’s been really happy about it,” shared Marvin and Megan Davis, parents of Lilianna.
Santa Claus landed early Saturday morning filling the mall with cheer and happy aspects of the Christmas season as many stores began to run early holiday sales.
“It’s just a kick off of our holiday season. Our stores are having fantastic sales Black Friday. Already there’s lines in them and so it looks good. It looks like it’s going to be a happy holiday season,” said Kathy Housch, Mall Manager.
Santa Claus has been arriving at the Crossroads Mall for over 30 years. The mall manager, Kathy Housch, explained that Santa’s arrival continues to be welcomed and a highlight that kicks off the holiday season.
“The kids faces and their excitement, it never gets old,” said Housch.
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Rising tuition fees could shut out working class talent from studying fashion at Britain's world-class colleges, according to an ambassador for the British Fashion Council.
Speaking at the opening of London Fashion Week, Sarah Mower, who is also a visiting professor at Central St Martins, said today's home-grown success stories "came through at a time when fees didn't exist, or were affordable".
The Guardian reported the British fashion industry is being urged to take inspiration from the US, where fashion veterans give something back through scholarships and bursaries.
London fashion week is expected to inject £100m into the British economy.
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The group had capsized several times, losing their oars and their global positioning system.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — With its own fortunes sinking, Yahoo is angling for a windfall from rising Internet star Facebook.
The effort will hinge on the latest in a series of high-tech tussles over intellectual rights. Yahoo and Facebook are sparring over whether Facebook's eight-year-old social network relies on some of the innovations that Yahoo has patented or acquired since it launched its website in 1994.
Yahoo Inc. is demanding that Facebook license the technology or face a lawsuit. If the issue goes to court, Yahoo could depict Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg as an entrepreneur who rips off other people's ideas — a portrait already explored in the 2010 movie, "The Social Network."
Yahoo confirmed the looming patent battle in a Tuesday statement issued after The New York Times reported the intellectual rift.
"We must insist that Facebook either enter into a licensing agreement or we will be compelled to move forward unilaterally to protect our rights," Yahoo said.
The ultimatum evidently surprised Facebook Inc., based in Menlo Park, Calif.
"Yahoo contacted us at the same time they called The New York Times and so we haven't had the opportunity to fully evaluate their claims," Facebook said in a statement.
The patent claims could cast a spotlight on Facebook's vulnerabilities as the company tries to complete an initial public offering of stock this spring. At the end of 2011, only 56 U.S. patents had been issued to Facebook — a relatively paltry amount at a time when other companies have been spending billions of dollars to shore up their defenses in what has become an intellectual arms race.
Google Inc., for instance, agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Inc. for $12.5 billion primarily because it wants the cellphone maker's portfolio of 17,000 patents.
Yahoo, which is based in Sunnyvale, Calif., owns more than 1,000 patents. It hasn't publicly identified which ones it believes Facebook is infringing. The dispute boils down to 10 to 20 patents covering online advertising, messaging and other Internet services, including social networking, according to The New York Times, which quoted unnamed people familiar with the issue.
The patent claims could be seen as Yahoo's desperate attempt to piggyback on a more popular rival.
Yahoo's revenue has been steadily falling during the past three years while Facebook's revenue has soared from $272 million to $3.7 billion. The contrast stems from the increasing amount of time people are spending on Facebook's online hangout, a trend that has been luring advertisers away from Yahoo.
Yahoo's troubles have weighed on its stock, which hasn't traded above $20 in nearly 3 ½ years. The shares added 4 cents Tuesday to close at $14.90, leaving Yahoo with a market value of $18.5 billion. Facebook is expected to price its IPO at a level that gives the company a market value ranging from $75 billion to $100 billion.
With an audience of 845 million users, Facebook has become so influential that Yahoo now ties much its own online services to its rival's social network. That strategy is helping Yahoo to attract more Web surfers on desktop computers and mobile devices.
Facebook's upcoming IPO helps explains why Yahoo decided to assert its patent rights now. Facebook may be more likely to work out a licensing agreement rather the risk having the specter of a legal battle dampen investor enthusiasm for its eagerly anticipated stock market debut.
"As a shareholder, I am happy they are going after Facebook. It's a perfectly legitimate thing for them to do," said Eric Jackson, a managing member of the hedge fund Ironfire Capital. He hopes Yahoo can extract several billion dollars from a Facebook licensing agreement.
Yahoo made hundreds of millions of dollars from a patent settlement that it reached with Google just before that Internet search leader went public in 2004.
Under that agreement, Yahoo received 2.7 million shares that were valued at $230 million when the IPO was priced. But Yahoo didn't sell all its Google holdings at the time of the IPO. The company eventually booked gains of nearly $1.3 billion from the stock it received in the Google patent settlement and other shares it got as part of an old Internet search partnership between the two companies.
Given that Google relied on the Yahoo patents to sell Internet search advertising, Jackson believes Yahoo should have had an even bigger windfall. Google's ad revenue last year exceeded $36 billion.


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WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Ethical Electric, a renewable energy company providing 100 percent clean electricity to retail power customers across the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, and Midwest, today announced it has donated over $1 million to environmental and social impact organizations.
Ethical Electric has steadily increased its total donations to charitable groups and partner organizations since inception in 2013, passing the $1 million milestone this month and nearly doubling total donations since early 2015.
Of the total amount, more than $543,000 has been donated in support of environmental/clean energy advocacy and education while nearly $523,000 has been donated in support of social impact and multi-issue organizations benefiting our planet and advancing equality, peace, justice, and equal opportunity.
"Ethical Electric's corporate giving has educated consumers about climate change, directly funded environmental projects, and expanded access to renewable energy," said Tom Matzzie, Founder and CEO of Ethical Electric. "Our mission since day one has been making clean energy available for everyone and our charitable giving helps create a world with less pollution and cleaner electricity."
Ethical Electric's charitable giving has powered it to the highest level of B Corp certification, with a company score 50 percent higher than the required score for B Corp certified companies. The company is also helping expand clean energy access as a founding Leadership member of the Coalition for Community Solar Access.
In addition to creating a positive impact on social issues, Ethical Electric makes it easy for customers to create environmental impacts. On average, each household that switches to Ethical Electric avoids 18,876 pounds of carbon pollution per year. The company's customers have kept more than 1.71 billion pounds of carbon dioxide out of the air, equivalent to preventing 827 million pounds of coal from being burned, and has had an environmental impact equivalent to preserving 734,000 acres of forest.
Ethical Electric is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and has quickly grown to become the fourth-largest direct-to-consumer renewable retail energy provider in the United States, expanding to eight states and the District of Columbia through campaign-based micro-targeting.
About Ethical Electric
Ethical Electric is a renewable energy company empowering utility customers to cut emissions and support clean energy through 100 percent renewable electricity. The company buys electricity from regional wind and solar farms in wholesale competitive energy markets and sells it to homes and businesses through their existing utilities instead of fossil fuel-based power. Ethical Electric is a Certified B Corporation, a member of the American Sustainable Business Council and the U.S. Green Building Council, and is certified with the highest available rating by Green America's Green Business Network, the first and largest network of socially and environmentally responsible business. For more information or to become a customer, visit www.ethicalelectric.com
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03 August 2011
This week saw an addition to the Auckland Airport experience with the opening of Down Under Bar and Café.
As the latest addition to the group of Mac’s bars around Auckland, Anne Singe, the General Manager of HMSHost (the company who owns and operates the bar), says it will offer visitors to Auckland Airport a new and unique food and beverage experience.
“I think people are going to be wowed. The bar and café will have a quirky and relaxed feel. It will showcase the best of New Zealand customer service and food and beverage whilst adding a Mac’s personality to the Airport experience.”
The new bar and café will have several different seating zones including multiple areas to watch live sports on big screens. The menu will include small plates and pizzas through to main meals.
The Downunder Bar and Café opened on August 2 in the international terminal landside food and beverage area.


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The Microsoft-produced documentary, Atari: Game Over, sought to both chronicle the rise and fall of the pioneering game company, as well as dispel or confirm one of the gaming industry’s biggest myths — the burial of hundreds of thousands of unused cartridges of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600. Fans from all over the world descended upon a landfill in Alamogordo, N.M. as crews dug in to discover the truth. While it wasn’t the mass of plastic they were expecting, there were a good number of Atari cartridges found under the ground — including E.T.
Because they were buried within the city limits, the City of Alamogordo claimed ownership of the games and proceeded to sell them online. That turned out to be a good call, as the sales of the cartridges on eBay brought in a whopping $107,930.15. The total was divided up between the city, a local historical society and the payment of fees and such. A total of 881 cartridges were sold, including a copy of E.T. for more than $1,500.
There’s still close to 300 more cartridges left over from the dig that the director of the documentary, Joe Lewandowski, is holding onto. According to the report on Engadget, he may possibly sell them in order the fund a sequel to the documentary that found the games in the first place. Which I hope will be called Atari: Game Over 2: Game Overer.


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Shares of Genius Brands International Inc.
surged 13% on volume of 2.2 million shares in premarket trading Wednesday, putting the on track to open at a 3-year high, to extend the kids media company's recent rocket ride higher. The stock has more than doubled (up 122.1%) amid a three-day win streak through Tuesday and has soared nearly 13-fold (up 1,187.6%) over the past month. In comparison, the S&P 500
has gained 8.8% the past month. "Genius Brands is in the simplest business. We make animated cartoon programs for children, which we distribute worldwide, and license the characters on consumer products manufacturers for royalty income," Chief Executive Andy Heyward said in an emailed statement to MarketWatch. "The characters and programs, which we began developing four and five years ago, are now coming to market this year with hundreds of products in every category for kids." Heyward said the company has also recently announced its own network service, Kartoon Channel!, which will launch on June 15 in over 100 million TV households in the U.S. and over 200 million mobile devices. Over the past month, the company has also announced that it regained compliance with the Nasdaq's minimum bid price listing standard and two registered direct stock offerings that raised a total of $39 million. Separately, short interest jumped to a record high as of mid-May.


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“My ideal Christmas present would be a deal with the European Union,” says Bentley CEO Adrian Hallmark. Nonetheless, he explains the British luxury carmaker is prepared for no-deal, stockpiling a month’s supply of production parts where two days is the norm. “We don’t welcome a hard Brexit, but we’re ready for it.”
This has been a turbulent year for Bentley, which achieved record profits in the first quarter, followed by a record loss – and the announcement of up to 1,000 job cuts – in the second quarter. The company has also ceased all motorsport activities as a cost-cutting measure.
Despite the twin challenges of Covid-19 and Brexit, Hallmark says Bentley ends 2020 in “good shape”, breaking even and with an order bank 50 percent larger than at the start of the year.
“My favourite description of crisis management is ‘doing everything in a six-month period that you should have done over the past five years’ – and there are so many examples of that here,” he explains. So what comes next?
‘Luxury is a growth trend’
“Luxury is a growth trend across all categories, not just cars,” says Hallmark, “and I think that will continue.”
In the longer term, he cites Bentley’s ‘Beyond 100’ strategy for sustainability as a major potential advantage. “We only build small numbers of cars, so it’s easier for us to decarbonise our footprint and choose materials that are ethically and environmentally transparent.”
One example is the 5,000-year-old river wood used in the Bentley EXP 100 GT concept car, a waste product from farming, which is preserved in peat.
Discussing the social effects of the pandemic, Hallmark says: “We’ve all learned that you don’t have to travel all the time. But when you do, isolation is not a bad thing. It’s created even more need for a private bubble – a haven, if you like.”
‘Electrification is an obligation’
Bentley has stated it will only sell plug-in hybrid vehicles from 2026, and will go fully electric by 2030. “Electrification isn’t an option, it’s an obligation,” Hallmark believes.
The shift to battery power is also more straightforward for a luxury brand, he says. Most Bentley customers have access to a charging point at home or work, and 39 percent are already considering an EV for their next car.
“The inter-city charging network is the next frontier. If you look at the rate of ramp-up for charging points, it will support 30 percent of the total UK vehicle fleet by 2030. If we create innovative charging solutions on top of that – such as inductive charging or a lorry with batteries in the back that gives you a boost while you have lunch – we can make it work.”
Vorsprung durch Bentley
One consequence of Bentley’s shift to electric vehicles will be closer alignment with Audi. In the past, the marque has shared more platforms and hardware with Porsche (all three brands are part of the Volkswagen Group).
Bentley will formally move under Ingolstadt’s wing in the second quarter of 2021 and will benefit from Audi’s new Artemis initiative for electric, highly automated cars.
“It makes sense to find the best organisation for synergies,” explains Hallmark. “Whether the Audi solution will be shareholding or simply governance is not yet determined. But we see this as an opportunity, not a risk.”
Bentleys are for driving
Hallmark says the idea of Bentleys being chauffeur-driven cars is a myth. “That was the case 50 years ago, it’s not the case today. Even in China, more than 90 percent of our cars are driven by the owner.”
“The driving feel of a Bentley is one of the top three attributes cited by our customers for buying one,” he reveals. “Autonomous cars are definitely on the agenda, but we want to orientate around the driver, with autonomous features that take the stress out of the boring bits – e.g. junction-to-junction on the motorway or complex parking manoeuvres.”
A return to motorsport is also on the cards eventually. “Racing was one of the key foundation stones for building the image of Bentley. It was the proving ground for [company founder] W.O. and for the people around him.
“For Bentley never to race again would be difficult to imagine, but it has to be relevant. Endurance racing with renewable energy is where we’d want to be.”


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Uber has settled its legal dispute with Alphabet’s self-driving vehicle company Waymo for $245 million. Waymo will be getting 0.34% stake in Uber. The deal also includes a clause that will ensure that Waymo’s confidential information isn’t included in Uber’s technology. Waymo was initially seeking at least $1 billion in damages.
In 2016 Waymo sued Uber over trade secrets, that allegedly one of its former employees has taken from the company and based on which he later started his own company Otto, acquired by Uber. The settlement comes as a big victory for the new Uber CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi.
Toyota invests $69M in Japanese Uber rival
Toyota has backed Japanese JapanTaxi — Uber’s main rival in Japan — with $69 million. Toyota is also an investor in Uber. JapanTaxi is owned by Ichiro Kawanabe, who also runs the country’s biggest taxi company Nihon Kotsu.
JapanTaxi also offers a fare calculator app if you took a taxi offline, and an app for booking rides for children. It claims to have 4 million downloads and 60,000 vehicles — one quarter of all taxis in Japan. Uber doesn’t provide information on its users in Japan, however says it accounts for less than 1% of Tokyo taxi market.
Ride-hailing accounted for 68% of business travel expense in 2017
A new report by Certify claims that ride-hailing accounted for 68% of the overall transaction volume in the land transportation category last year, led by Uber and Lyft, respectively with 56% and 12% of the total. Uber’s overall share of processed expenses has also grown from 6% of all expenses in 2016 to 9% in 2017.
Taxi numbers are still plummeting, from 11% in 2016 to 7% in 2017.
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The Writers Guild of America West has released a 15-page antitrust report claiming that Disney, Amazon, and Netflix are on track to become the dominant forces in the entertainment industry. The report argues that recent mergers and deregulation have paved the way for these three companies to control content creation, consumer viewing options, and the way content is consumed. It further alleges that these companies have accumulated their market power through mergers and other anti-competitive practices, offering a troubling glimpse into the future of media.
The report highlights Disney’s series of mergers, which have increased prices for its streaming services, consolidated its position in the industry, and limited output and innovation. Netflix, once seen as a promoter of competition, is now accused of using its market dominance to exploit its employees, reduce investment in innovative content, and raise prices for consumers. Amazon, leveraging its status as a tech company, has aggressively acquired other companies, used tolls to hinder competition, and allegedly underpaid union residuals.
The Writers Guild calls on lawmakers and antitrust agencies to prevent further consolidation, investigate signs of anti-competitive behavior, and increase regulation and oversight of streaming platforms. The union supports the new merger guidelines introduced the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice, which require consideration of the impact on labor in regulatory reviews.
By highlighting the power and practices of Disney, Amazon, and Netflix, the report aims to shed light on the diverging priorities among the member companies of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) during ongoing negotiations. The Writers Guild has long maintained that AMPTP member companies have different interests and could potentially make deals together or separately.
The report warns of the consequences of these companies becoming the new gatekeepers of the entertainment industry, including precarious working conditions, shorter employment terms, and lower pay for writers and other industry workers. It also raises concerns about Netflix’s ability to raise subscription fees without impacting its market share and Disney’s recent price increases for its streaming services.
As the entertainment industry continues to experience mergers and acquisitions, the Writers Guild emphasizes the need for safeguards against anti-competitive practices and the need to protect workers’ rights.


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Echelon Corporation, creator of the LonWorks® device networking platform for connecting everyday devices to each other and the Internet, and Samsung Electronics Company Ltd. Announced on Monday that they have signed a Strategic Alliance Agreement under which Samsung will adopt Echelon's PL 3120® and PL 3150® Power Line Smart Transceivers and the LonWorks platform for its HOME VITA™ home and consumer.
Additionally, Samsung will promote the PL 3120 and PL 3150 Power Line Smart Transceivers to both its HOME VITA alliance partners and to other electronics companies, and Echelon will provide its LonSupport™ and training services to Samsung and its partners to assist with new product design-ins and high-volume manufacturing ramp-up. As part of the agreement, Samsung reaffirmed its support for, and sponsorship of, the LonMark® Interoperability Association, and both companies announced plans to work together to develop LonMark objects for home control and consumer products.
"When people look back at 2003, they will see it as the pivotal year for the home networking market, and the relationship announced today between Samsung and Echelon as the catalyst that moved the market into mainstream, high-volume adoption," said Andrew Chon, Samsung Electronics' executive vice-president and Digital Solution Center manager. "Our years of experience with Echelon's power line technology has proved to us that rock-solid, plug-and-play networks of appliances, air conditioners, consumer electronics, and home control devices are not only cost-effective to build but simple for consumers to install. Echelon has the right products for the mainstream, high-volume consumer market -- they're a perfect fit with our HOME VITA line, which brings networking into every product in a home without the complexity typically associated with such systems. The key to igniting the home networking market is to make the networks completely invisible and totally reliable -- and we believe that Echelon's power line technology is unique in the world in its ability to meet these challenges."
The HOME VITA alliance includes Samsung and Samsung-affiliated companies that are designing and building networked air conditioners, thermostats, A/V systems, hot water heaters, lighting devices, kitchen appliances, and other consumer products. The Agreement calls for Samsung to promote the PL 3120 and PL 3150 products to alliance members.
Joseph M. McGuire, Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers' (AHAM) president, said: "Both Samsung and Echelon were active participants in the development of AHAM's standard, Connected Home Appliances -- Object Modeling, ANSI/AHAM CHA-1. We applaud their efforts to provide home automation applications that will create new value added services and features to allow remote operation and monitoring of appliances from anywhere in the home or even when you are away from home."
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Rockbot is the very clever music system that allows businesses to engage their customers in choosing the soundtrack to their restaurant, bar or shopping experience. It’s like an app-based jukebox with millions of fully-licensed options. Garrett Dodge, co-founder and CEO, says they’ve outgrown their current digs at Harrison and 17th and plan to triple the size of their staff once they move to the new location on Broadway and 13th. Weinstein Commercial Real Estate owns the property and is overseeing the renovations to the floor above the storefront News stand and Subway deli. The remodel will wrap up by the end of April and then RockBot can move in and begin nesting.
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Facebook today counts more users, and faster growth, outside of its home market of the U.S. than inside it, but the U.S. still accounts for nearly half of all the social network’s ad revenues. To help boost the ratio in emerging, rapidly expanding markets, where mobile devices are the primary means for going online, today Facebook said it would turn on a new piece of ad tech called bandwidth targeting: bandwidth targeting will give advertisers the ability to send ads based on the quality of a user’s network connection, moderating type of ad to whether a user is on a 2G, 3G or 4G / faster connection.
An illustration of how ads could look in practice, trialled on services in Thailand, is above.
Facebook said that the feature is rolling out globally starting today through its Ad Create tool, Power Editor and the API.
That means that technically, bandwidth targeting could also be used in markets like the U.S. to, say, serve rich media ads to people on 4G connections, while giving those on slower phones and less connectivity, a more pared-down, less annoying experience.
Still, according to a post by Facebook product marketing manager Brendan Sullivan about the new feature, bandwidth targeting is mainly aimed at more developing regions, where Facebook has already been honing its growth sights.
The move to add bandwidth targeting comes in the wake of Facebook already allowing advertisers to target based on device type, device model and operating system. Sullivan explains the rationale for adding bandwidth like this:
“Targeting by mobile network type helps advertisers choose creative that will run smoothly on any given device and connection speed. For example, serving a video ad to people in Indonesia with 2G connections may mean wasted impressions if people are unable to load the video or it buffers for minutes when clicked. Optimizing the creative — for instance, targeting a video campaign to people with high-speed connections, and swapping in an image or link ad for people with slower connections — means ads can perform more efficiently for the people seeing them.”
It’s also part of a bigger strategy at the company to localise services and make them more accessible to users in markets outside of developed, mature countries like the U.S. and markets in Western Europe.
On top of initiatives like Internet.org that aim to work on improving Internet access for people, Facebook has been working on ways of making the social network more accessible on mobile devices through different kinds of data plans. Earlier this year, the company acquired Pryte in Finland, which works as a middle man between carriers and content companies to create data plans based on access to specific content — or perhaps in the case of Facebook, access to Facebook free of charge. In 2013, it acquired Onavo, a mobile analytics specialist, that was partly a bolster to its Internet.org initiative. Onavo’s technology, which was able to detect characteristics of users’ handsets such as what kind of device you are on, may be getting utilized in the new targeting tool, too.
Mobile is very big business for Facebook right now. According to the company’s last quarterly earnings announced in July, there were 1,070 million monthly active users of Facebook coming in on mobile devices, while the bigger figure, including mobile and desktop, was 1,317 million.
Within that bigger figure, Asia and “rest of the world” is already massively outnumbering the U.S. and Europe in terms of usage, which together account for only 496 million monthly active users across all devices. Facebook says it now has 399 million users who only access the social network on mobile devices, but it doesn’t break out regional proportions behind the number.
At the same time, though, Asia and other countries outside of the U.S. and Europe are well under Facebook’s mean average revenue per user figure, and most definitely below what Facebook earns from users in the U.S. Facebook is currently making ARPU of $5.79 per user in its home market, while Asia is just $1.02 and ROW is $0.83. The global average is $2.06. Adding in a feature that could help better connect users to ads based on bandwidth may not only mean serving more ads, but also encouraging advertisers to push more ads to those users.
“We are excited about the new mobile targeting option on Facebook which allows us sharper targeting to a relevant audience,” Ronita Mitra, SVP, Brand Communication, Insights and Online, Vodafone India, in a statement. “We hope to see more such technology innovations across the industry.”


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Web sites. Forums. Blogs. Wikis. Mobile apps. As social media’s ubiquitous conversation recasts the way consumers buy and bond with brands, this package aims to sharpen thinking about the opportunity and how to master it.
In mid-July, US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer suffered personal social media nightmare: hackers from the Anonymous movement found the password to the company’s Facebook account by simple trial and error and defaced Pfizer’s page with derisive content. The hackers’ hoax was only a part of a whole series of difficulties that the medical industry has faced in social media in recent weeks.
At the end of July, the homeopathic company Boiron made legal threats against an Italian blogger and learned the so-called Streisand effect. Computer scientist Samuel Riva wrote on his homepage that Boiron’s largest revenue generator, a cough medicine, contains no drugs according to scientific standards. The Streisand effect worked. It means that any attempt to remove something from the Net by means of a legal action certainly attracts the attention of the Internet community. Indeed, online media and the prestigious ‘British Medical Journal’ eventually picked up the case. The only feasible option Boiron has left is to retreat.
German companies do not get off scot-free either: Bayer had to issue an apology in June in the UK for twitting in the official Twitter account about a new variant of the erectile dysfunction drug, because the tweet advertised a prescription drug, which is illegal in Britain.
Not only many pharmaceutical companies apparently lack competence despite multi-million dollar marketing budgets, they are also hampered by the strict laws on prescription drug advertising. Sanofi Aventis and GlaxoSmithKline have already become the victims of several virtual flash mobs: patient initiatives called to flood the Facebook guest books of the corporations with critical questions about prescription drugs. However, according to the requirements of the regulatory authorities, the pharmaceutical companies cannot answer them themselves. For this reason, the questions from users often have to be deleted. In view of the flash mob attacks, the moderators of the pharmaceutical companies were a little behind.
Moreover, beginning 15 August the new rules apply to Facebook user accounts. From now on the companies, including those working in the pharmaceutical industry, have to authorize comments on their Facebook pages. About 31,000 of Pfizer’s loyal Facebook friends now diligently leave new comments on the company’s virtual pinboard. Since hardly any sensible comment without any reference to the product portfolio is possible on the pages of pharmaceutical giants, only a sea of Pfizer’s advertising messages remains, everything else is removed.
The competitors’ reactions to the change in rules were drastic: more than 30 companies including Sanofi, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca and Merck & Co shut down their Facebook pages. Not only do they fear the comments of disappointed patients, but also public descriptions of side effect associated with their products, which they should promptly pass on to the regulatory authorities.
The number of active Facebook users is constantly growing. This community of Germans has now reached 20 million over the period from July 2009 to June 2011. The statistics covers all Facebook users who log in at least once a month. In comparison with Google, a user spends here a considerably longer period of time, over 6 hours/month. Facebook has over 600 million members worldwide, which makes it the largest social network.
A recent study by A.T. Kearney (a global management consulting firm) examines Facebook pages of the 50 most powerful brands in the world. They do not significantly use the interactive capabilities of Facebook’s Social Network. Their communication and conversation in social networks usually goes in a single (one-way street) direction and not by the sender-responder (two-way) model typical for the social web. Over the period from November till December 2010, 89 percent of all user entries had been left unanswered on the Facebook pages of leading brands. In addition, many companies seem to shy away from the open consumer feedback: all the top brands except one use filter for their whiteboards. A.T. Kearney experts see the major reason for the reluctance of the companies in their fear of possible loss of control. The companies that build emotional connection with a user receive positive response on Facebook. Also, the provision of financial and human resources is important.
„With its 600 million users, Facebook today is the largest social network in the world. In 2010, 30 percent of the world population with Internet access were already in Facebook. Nevertheless, it is clear that the Facebook activities of many top brands are still stuck in infancy“, says Dr. Martin Fabel, Partner at A.T. Kearney, Marketing and Sales Practice
Over the period from November till December 2010, five of the top brands had not been present on Facebook at all. 89 percent of another 45 left all user entries unanswered. Altogether, about 1,000 Facebook entries and nearly 61,000 responses had been analyzed in the scope of the study. Only 11 companies replied to more than one user entry. Only 15 percent of responses encouraged the user to continue dialog, and 17 percent of responses used names.
Seven of the analyzed top brands have set up their whiteboards in such a way that only the company can post to it, but not the users. The only available option for the users is to reply to messages from the company. A vast majority of the companies have also decided on a filtered view of their bulletin board with the option to hide individual entries. Only one company has disclosed all the entries.
The analysis of wall posts, with 34 percent belonging to the companies and 66 percent to consumers, has shown the following: 27 percent of the entries were spam, 35 percent contained praise, 8 percent were complaints. Another 12 percent contained replies to posts of other consumers and 11 percent contained questions.
25 of the concerned companies listed three times as many entries from consumers as from businesses. Another 20 companies had four times as many entries from businesses as from consumers. This suggests that these companies have not yet been able to exploit the full potential of social media.
Advertising Made Popular
The company entries containing advertisements have proved particularly popular among the consumers, especially those offering coupons, prises or other benefits and additional services. 75 percent of all company entries with advertisements had their “Like” button pushed. The least attention, however, was paid to the purely informational messages. In total, 71 percent of all company entries were advertising posts.
To Do List For the Companies
The major reason for the reluctance of many companies is their fear of possible loss of control.
„Of course, customer comments can spread across the Internet like wildfire, this can be both a curse and a blessing. This way or another. That is why the companies will not be able to escape from facing this challenge,“ explains Mr Fabel.
Companies should be timely and forward-looking, and take initiative in communication and conversation in social web and use the huge market potential:
- Use emotional responses to consumers
- Get involved in social sponsoring, social funding
- Create transparency
- Motivate consumers to join
- Include social gaming
- Offer incentives
- Use Facebook as a sales and service channel
- Implement faster (real time) response options
- Engage more of qualified staff and consultants
Social media with Facebook is no longer an artificial Internet hype. It is a private business in which approximately 50 per cent of active Internet users want to be picked up. Under the threat of their own (commercial) downfall, the new fields of activity in the social web should be professionally operated and developed.
Facebook now allows conversion of personal profiles into business pages: Profile To Business Page Migration tool is used to help launch small businesses that build up a personal fan base first, then build their corporate identity on the basis of it.
Facebook Deals starts in Germany: Facebook has now started offering its mobile bargains in Germany too. It is an interesting offer for chain stores of any color. It is based on the principle of viral referral marketing: anyone who tells his friends via Facebook that he just bought a t-shirt from Benetton receives a discount or various other goodies from the supplier.
Instructions for businesses can be found here at Facebook Biz. The first deals from Berlin can be found, with examples, on the blog: HM, for example, is offering a one-time discount of 25% on the article of choice.
Most companies don’t possess a summary of the many social media platforms available. A great variety of social media exists already catering to all niches, uses and target groups. Usually social media is understood to be an isolated application limited exclusively to one site, such as Facebook. In addition to that, the popularity of social networks is country-specific. Brian Solis’s Conversation Prism is clear and detailed yet also provides a valuable overview as seen here.
A few of the achievements of Web 2.0 have been the development and implementation of Ajax applications as well as the use of mashup environments. Mashup refers to the creation of new media content through the seamless re-combination of existing content. Tumbleblogs such as Soup make use of this principle. TSC Consult integrates Twitter posts, RSS feeds, YouTube and other feeds into its Social Media Soup. When you call up the domain socialmediasoup.tsc-consult.de you will gain access to many of TSC Consult’s social media activities all bundled into one-also as an RSS feed.


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The Average Cost Of Thanksgiving Dinner 2015
The price of Thanksgiving dinner hits a record high this year due to production issues caused by a bird flu outbreak in the Midwest earlier this year. The average cost of Thanksgiving dinner for 10 people is $50.11.
According to Fiscal Times, the average cost of food for the celebration has remained around $49 since 2011. These prices reflect the average cost of Thanksgiving dinner for 10 people with a 16-pound turkey.
Turkey prices are up 6.42% this year due to the worst bird flu outbreak in U.S. history. By mid-June, the H5N2 virus had killed more than 48.1 million birds in the Midwest.
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Fears that a pumpkin shortage from wet weather would affect Thanksgiving pies also appear to be overblown. A 30-ounce can of pumpkin pie mix increased 8 cents this year to $3.20.
Other item prices that went up this year included a 14-ounce package of cubed bread stuffing (up 7 cents), two nine-inch pie shells (up a nickel), and 3 pounds of sweet potatoes (up a penny).
The prices of milk and miscellaneous ingredients experienced the largest year-over-year price declines. The price of whole milk dropped 51 cents, or 13.6 percent, and the price of miscellaneous ingredients, declined 30 cents, or 8.6 percent.
Obviously somebody is doing something wrong because the photo above shows a Thanksgiving shopping receipt at $151.39. Last minute purchases will include rolls, bananas, grapes, eggnog, and whatever didn't make the shopping list in the first place.
The Typical Thanksgiving Menu
- Mashed potatoes
- Sweet potatoes
- Green bean casserole
- Acorn squash
- Cranberry sauce
- Fruit salad
- Dinner rolls
- Banana bread
- Apple pie
- Pumpkin pie
It's more expensive to make everything from scratch. Pre-packaged stuffing, cranberry sauce, gravy, pies, fruit salad, mashed potatoes are cheaper than homemade. Last minute purchases of about $30.00 will bring the total to $180.00. The average cost per person at dinner would be about $26.00. Is the national average realistic? Creating a Thanksgiving feast for around $50.00?
Ummm, it would be cheaper to go out for Thanksgiving dinner, but why would you deprive yourself of precious family time? Your home full of friends and family? Where dogs are begging, cats are trying to get into the house, kids are fighting over the TV, a husband who will disappear until dinner is on the table, and lots of dirty dishes! Because you know the memories are priceless.


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Ceremonial first 2015 Mustang rolls off the assembly line at Ford.
Ford is building a limited-edition Mustang GT to honor the pony car’s 50th anniversary. It is showing the Limited Edition at the New York auto show, which begins this week.
Which convertible is hotter? The highly acclaimed and luxurious Lamborghini Gallardo or the more affordable Fiat 500? You decide!
Police say street racing may be to blame in a crash that killed a 27-year-old Las Vegas man.


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iOS 10.3 is reportedly due to come out soon though some iPhone and iPad users wary of the changes forthcoming. This is with reference to the application of a new Apple File System (APFS) where folks who upgrade will see conversions made to their existing HFS.
Initially, this would be expected once folks upgrade to iOS 10.3. But there are some issues that might come up along the way. The conversion process is a tricky one and that may include possible data loss which could end up permanently lost. The APFS and HFS file systems are incompatible and hence the concern of possible data loss, Mashable reported.
Hence, there are now people worried about it though there is a simple workaround. Before upgrading to iOS 10.3, iPhone and iPad owners would be wise to backup their files first before installing the new operating system, Gizmo Times reported. It remains to be seen if the Cupertino company will tackle the matter with the next iOS currently in its beta stages.
Aside from the worries on data migration, another growing concern with iOS 10.3 beta has to do with older 32-bit applications. The problem is somehow similar to the file system issue and another aspect that Apple has yet to explain.
As things stand now there are big changes in store once iOS 10.3 is ready for deployment. Aside from the new platform and file structure, most are hoping that it includes improvements to security. Looking back at iOS 10.2, most are aware of the issues tied up to it.
iOS 10 has carried lots of issues so far, mostly from the security side of things. Some hot fixes and patches are expected, hopefully, ones that will not give hackers a chance to carry out their evil intent. With time to spare, most are hoping these problems for iOS 10.3 are addressed and patched in time.
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Intel Corp. has shipped a new family of business-grade “Kaby Lake” processors.
Officially unveiled last August, Kaby Lake is the latest edition of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel’s Skylake CPU platform. PCs equipped with the new 7th Gen Intel Core vPro chips introduced today deliver up to a 65 percent improvement in multitasking performance compared to comparable devices produced 5 years ago and up to 10 hours of battery life, according to Tom Garrison, vice president and general manager of Intel’s business client division.
“Workers are much more on the go now,” he observes. “Battery life is important and we’re delivering a big jump in [that].” Together, Garrison continues, the new processors’ power efficiency and performance gains result in up to 50 percent better end user productivity.
Hardware makers will ultimately utilize 7th Gen Intel Core vPro CPUs in over 80 notebook PCs and more than 20 desktops spanning everything from clamshell form factors and 2-in-1s to towers and all-in-ones. According to Garrison, today’s businesses need access to a wide variety of hardware designs in order to attract and retain employees, especially the youngest and most desirable ones.
“You can’t hire the top millennials if you’re not giving them what they perceive to be the technology that will support them and make them successful,” he says.
Intel expects approximately 50 computers bearing 7th Gen Intel Core vPro chips to be available by the end of this month. Roughly 40 more designs will arrive in February and March, followed by another 10 or so in the second quarter of the year.
Garrison points to security and manageability as key strengths for the new Intel processors.
“Business PCs have to be managed and increasingly they have to be the most secure devices out there, because the PC really is the front door to a network,” he says.
On the security front, 7th Gen Intel Core vPro processors come with the first general availability version of Intel Authenticate. Available in preview mode for the last year, Authenticate allows companies to create multifactor authentication processes combining “something you know” (like a four-digit PIN code), “something you have” (like a smartphone), and “something you are” (like a fingerprint). Administrators can customize those procedures for different environments, requiring more factors when users login from a coffee house or airport, for example, than when they connect to the network from their office.
Authenticate is designed to help businesses mitigate identity-related security vulnerabilities, which play a role in over 60 percent of data breaches, according to 2015 data from Verizon Communications Inc. Intel eventually plans to integrate the system with Microsoft’s Windows Hello authentication technology, which lets users login with fingerprints or facial recognition rather than passwords, to create a single, unified sign-on process.
“This is something that Intel and Microsoft are absolutely committed to,” states Garrison, who says the integration will appear in a future release of the Windows operating system but declined to specify when that software will reach market.


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GIC said to have tackled grouses in ongoing sale of GLP
THE litany of complaints about the biggest Asian buyout deal became so bad that Singapore's sovereign wealth fund decided to act.
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- Amazon is conducting tests for its new facial recognition technology in Orlando.
- Officers from the Orlando Police who volunteered for the test are recorded while other people’s data is not stored on Amazon’s servers.
- The test has raised concerns over the technology with many claiming the police could misuse Amazon’s technology for themselves.
The Orlando police are helping Amazon test its new facial recognition technology. Amazon’s ‘Rekognition’ project has already faced enough controversy, and it seems like people are not too happy about the Orlando cops allowing granting access to their IRIS cameras spread across the city. The police department clarified that the Amazon software captures only facial data of cops who are part of the testing program voluntarily.
When the ACLU discovered the IRIS cameras all over Orlando were being used to record data for the e-commerce giant, it led to a backlash from citizens who are rightfully concerned about their privacy. The Orlando police chief held a news conference informing that Amazon is making use of the police department’s cameras to test out their technology. The chief admitted that the police department has an understanding with the e-commerce giant and the cops might use the technology to track persons of interest once the software is out of its development stage.
The Orlando police department intends to use the software to protect innocent people and not simply breach anyone’s privacy. Facial recognition can help catch murder suspects and stalkers according to the OPD, and the police have confirmed that they will never use the software to track down innocent people for any reason.
Police chief John Mina also added that the cops test new equipment quite frequently. He clarified that even though they are testing the new technology, they may not go ahead with using it beyond the testing stage.
After the conference, staff from Orlando Sentinel pointed out that the chief was unaware that Amazon was also using three IRIS scanners in the downtown area which are used to track criminals which added to the controversy. The police chief confirmed later that all camera locations would be made public soon.


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Lavu Partners with Omnivore
Lavu, a mobile point-of-sale (POS) system for restaurants and bars, has partnered with Omnivore. This partnership encourages restaurant operators to develop differentiated customer experiences and further streamline operations with their Lavu POS while taking advantage of Omnivore’s back of house, front of house and outside of house third-party solutions.
Technology is becoming more and more crucial to restaurant success. According to a report from the National Restaurant Association, four out of five restaurateurs said technology helps increase sales. However, a third of owners found their operations to be lagging when it came to technology.
Omnivore connects to more than 200 applications to enable restaurant operators in third-party delivery, analytics, digital menus, guest engagement, online ordering and more. Key apps include OpenTable, MarketMan, Yumpingo, Thanx and Harri.
Restaurant operators can access and deploy the Omnivore Marketplace of apps through the Lavu POS.


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Berlin / DE. (riag) Foodpanda, the global mobile food delivery marketplace, announces a new financing round of 100 million USD led by Goldman Sachs. Existing investors, among them Rocket Internet AG, also participated in the round.
Together with the last funding of 110 million USD in March 2015, Foodpanda has now raised over 310 million USD since its launch in 2012. After acquiring key competitors in India, Mexico, Russia, Brazil, Eastern Europe and South-East Asia, the company will use the recent investment to further expand its own delivery activities and improve overall customer experience across its 40 markets. Last-mile delivery has been part of Foodpanda´s operations since the beginning, it will now accelerate its efforts to drive customer satisfaction, aiming to offer the most convenient way of ordering food – from the mobile app and online.
Foodpanda, together with its affiliated brands, focuses on emerging markets, operating in 40 countries across five continents, market leading in 32, among them India and Russia. foodpanda is active in over 580 cities around the world, operating in twelve of the largest 20 metropolises, and partnering with over 60’000 restaurants.
Ralf Wenzel, Co-Founder and CEO of the Foodpanda group: «We are very happy about the recent support from Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, with its deep expertise in online marketplaces, and which, together with our renowned group of investors, will allow us to build the leading mobile food delivery marketplace in Emerging Markets targeting over three billion consumers. The Emerging Markets represent the largest opportunity in online food delivery and we are committed to create the most convenient way for ordering and delivering food».
Ian Friedman, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners: «We have been impressed by both the growth trajectory and high-quality management team of Foodpanda. We believe that Foodpanda has a tremendous opportunity to cement its Emerging Markets leadership position in the coming years. It is our expectation that the Company´s innovative, value-added offerings will lead Foodpanda to be the winner in online food delivery within the markets in which it operates».
As part of the financing round, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners will join the Advisory Board of foodpanda.


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What you need to know
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk is facing a lawsuit over the late disclosure of his Tesla stock buy.
- Musk should have filed forms to say he had bought 5% of Twitter stock, but didn't.
- A Twitter shareholder believes Musk cost existing shareholders money when they sold their shares without knowing the news.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has found himself on the receiving end of a federal lawsuit after his failure to correctly disclose his purchase of Twitter shares, potentially impacting the finances of other shareholders.
The suit, filed yesterday in the U.S. Southern District of New York, claims that Musk was 10 days late when filing the required form that would confirm his stock buy. That form should have been completed after he held more than 5% of Twitter shares on March 24 — but it wasn't filed until April 4. The news of Musk's investment in Twitter say share prices rise 24%, reports Variety.
Now, Twitter shareholder Marc Bain Rasella believes that those who sold stock between the two dates were shortchanged because the stock price would have been higher had Musk filed the paperwork on time.
This is just the latest in an ongoing farce that saw Musk announced as being Twitter's newest board member following the $2.9 billion stock buy. Then, Musk went on a tweeting spree that, among other things, asked whether Twitter was dying. Then came the news that the outspoken Tesla man wouldn't be joining the board after all.
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Verizon Wireless chief Lowell McAdam has been busy writing letters recently, mostly to U.S. lawmakers.
Yesterday’s missive had a similar intention, to explain how his company is really very warm and friendly toward consumers and competitors. The difference is its addressee — none other than Arthur Sulzberger, the publisher of the New York Times.
He did tear to shreds the newspaper’s opinion piece on phone companies. He accused the paper of relying on myths to make its point that regulators may want to take a look at phone company’s behavior.
But, for media-watchers at least, the good news is that he actually read a newspaper (an increasingly uncommon act) and decided the medium was important enough to reply with a good old fashioned letter to the publisher (an even more uncommon act).
Here’s a short precis of their battle of words:
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New car sales fell for the first time in six years last year with demand for diesel cars plunging by almost a fifth.
In total, there were around 2.5 million cars registered, according to industry body the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
The figure was down 5.6% from 2016, while diesel sales fell 17% as higher taxes and pollution fears hit demand.
SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes said he expected car sales to continue to drop this year, predicting a 5 to 7% fall.
The figures are preliminary, with final numbers for the year due to be published later.
Mr Hawes blamed the sales fall on declining business and consumer confidence, but pointed out last year's performance followed two years of record sales.
"We need to put it into context. This was still the third best year in a decade and the sixth best ever," he added.
Mr Hawes said that confusion about the future of diesel had fuelled a backlash against diesel cars.
Diesel vehicles produce the overwhelming majority of nitrogen oxide gases coming from roadside sources.
Analysis: Theo Leggett, BBC business news reporter
It's fair to say the steep decline in demand for diesel cars is causing both frustration and consternation within the motor industry.
The industry needs to sell diesels, because they are generally more fuel efficient than petrol cars and therefore produce less carbon dioxide.
That helps car companies to meet targets for reducing CO2, introduced in order to combat climate change.
But concern about the level of nitrogen oxides (NOx) they produce has made them a favourite target for clean air campaigners.
The industry talks about a short-sighted backlash against new technology, which is encouraging people to stick with older, dirtier cars – and preventing sales of newer, cleaner models.
But it's worth remembering where the backlash against diesel really began: with the VW scandal.
It didn't just expose wrongdoing at one company – it also showed how the industry as a whole was building cars that routinely produced emissions far above the legal limits.
So you could argue that carmakers really have themselves to blame.
Diesel car sales fell by almost a third in December after November's Budget which introduced a levy on new diesel cars that failed to meet the latest emissions standards.
Experts said the one-off tax increase – which comes into effect in April – would be applied to most new diesels.
Mr Hawes said for many drivers diesel was still "the best bet because they can save a lot of money and indeed have a lower C02 emission".
As a result of the switch away from diesel cars, which have lower carbon dioxide emissions, he said that the SMMT's annual report on C02 emissons from new cars was likely to show an increase for the first time in 20 years.
"The backlash against diesel has made it far harder for us – and the government to meet our climate change targets," he said.


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FBI Warns of Cyber Threats to Vehicles
Staten Island, N.Y. (March 11, 2016) – Some consumers and business people seeking reliability in their cars and trucks now face a new threat: Hackers who target vehicles.
Victory State Bank, Staten Island’s only community-based commercial bank, notes the threat was recently highlighted in a public service announcement from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The announcement – a joint product of the FBI, Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – points out that modern motor vehicles often include new connected vehicle technologies that aim to provide benefits such as added safety features, improved fuel economy, and greater overall convenience.
Aftermarket devices are also providing consumers with new features to monitor the status of their vehicles. However, with this increased connectivity, the FBI is highlighting the importance of consumers and manufacturers maintaining awareness of potential cyber security threats.
Vehicle hacking occurs when someone with a computer seeks to gain unauthorized access to vehicle systems for the purposes of retrieving driver data or manipulating vehicle functionality, the FBI explains. While not all hacking incidents may result in a risk to safety – such as an attacker taking control of a vehicle – it is important that consumers take appropriate steps to minimize risk.
Therefore, the FBI and NHTSA are warning the general public and manufacturers – of vehicles, vehicle components, and aftermarket devices – to maintain awareness of potential issues and cybersecurity threats related to connected vehicle technologies in modern vehicles.
To learn more about vehicles’ vulnerability for being hacked, Victory State Bank recommends reading the FBI’s announcement in its entirety online at http://www.ic3.gov/media/2016/160317.aspx
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VSB Bancorp, Inc. (OTCQX: VSBN) is the one-bank holding company for Victory State Bank. As Staten Island, N.Y.’s only community-based commercial bank, Victory State Bank operates five full-service locations on the Island: The main office in the community of Great Kills, and branches in the communities of West Brighton, St. George, Dongan Hills and Rosebank. For additional information, Victory State Bank may be reached at 718-979-1100 or visited online at www.VictoryStateBank.com.


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Consumer and Business broadcast coverage places Lyst front of mind across the Black Friday weekend
With forecasters predicting £5 billion being spent over the Black Friday weekend, with the significant majority of that online and via mobile as customers shun the old fashioned in store scrum for a far more comfortable retail experience, an opportunity was identified for Lyst to increase its share of voice across multiple broadcast media channels. Of course, with so many brands competing for coverage during this key retail period, the challenge was coming up with a strategy that would truly deliver cut through.
With an inventory of over 3 million fashion products and access to 4.5million changing fashion data points every hour, Lyst could be positioned as a definitive source of global fashion intelligence. This allowed us to create bespoke, highly compelling pitches for both business and consumer broadcast media. The latter was strengthened using the results of research we commissioned showing that most sales savvy shoppers now require a 40% discount to consider something a real bargain. With coverage opportunities maximised through interviews and the production and placement of a top tips video feature and individual social video edits of each tip.
Coverage highlights included Lyst founder and CEO, Chris Morton, appearing on BBC World TV and CNN, highlighting that shopping online has blurred international boundaries and discussing how the industry is adapting to globalised pricing and consumer behaviour. Concurrently, Katherine Ormerod, Editorial Director at Lyst, delivered her top tips to listeners and users of more than 15 radio stations and 18 websites. These included the national on air outlet, talkRADIO, with Mirror.co.uk and the luxury lifestyle website EAUX.co.uk offering mass and highly targeted online reach respectively.


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has attracted the interest of the payments industry and the public in mobile payments and NFC technology.
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In stores, Apple Pay
works with iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch, as well as iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, upon availability.
Renasant Corporation (NASDAQ: RNST) has announced that it will offer its MasterCard cardholders faster and more secure everyday payments through Apple Pay
When members add a credit or debit card to Apple Pay
, the actual card numbers are not stored on the device or on Apple servers.
Technology is changing the way consumers pay for products and Apple Pay
provides a more convenient, secure and private way to make purchases, said Justin Bigham, First Niagara Head of Consumer Product Management.
The report and forecast "Global Mobile NFC Payments to Exceed $130 Billion by 2020," quantifies the scale of the NFC-based mobile payment opportunity and identifies the launch of Apple Pay
initiatives by payment networks to drive contactless payment acceptance among retailers, and consumer demand for mobile payments, as three key catalysts for growth.
Some of the notable stores supporting Apple Pay
service include McDonalds, Nike, Disney stores, Subway, Macy's and others.
Much of his focus was on Apple Pay
, which he said is still a small player despite its highly publicized launch.
allows users to make purchases with just the touch of a finger at hundreds of thousands of stores.
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Sunil Kanoria, director at Viom and a joint owner of the company through Srei Infrastructure, said both the stake sale and IPO options are open.
The firm is planning to invest in a startup, set up an R&D centre, begin local manufacturing and emerge as India’s No 1 handset player by 2020.
The competitors in India market are also there in China. We're fairly confident we will be able to get to No. 1 in India in three to five years.
A telco offering users free access to one website, while charging for other websites is discriminatory, opponents to zero rating argue.
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Trai chairman Rahul Khullar disputes govt's claim of a rise of 1.3 p/min in call rates after spectrum sale
"Cost increases will have to be passed to consumers in some form. The cost impact varies from 6 paise to 7 paise a minute," Trai chief told ET.
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"The telecom department chose maximisation of revenue and earned over Rs 1.09 lakh crore. I believe that it will affect the industry."
We entered the auction with a focus on the next 20 years in telephony and not unduly biased or driven by the past. We believe the future is 4G and not 2G and 3G.
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Nikolay A Nikiforov raised concerns over India’s spectrum auction rules that saw MTS, a leading telecom provider in Russia, pull out of the sale.
India’s rural subscribers rose 1.44%, or 4.70 million over the previous month, taking the total rural consumer base to 330.34 million.
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