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2014 was a good year for business intelligence and data professionals. Now that we’re halfway through 2015, the trends and predictions that were made at the beginning of the year have had some time to play out. Some of the predicted industry trends that have taken off include:
- Open source applications
- Predictive analytics
- Accelerated adoption of Big Data
- New players in the market
Many companies are moving from business intelligence standardisation to experimentations that results in the easing of data-quality concerns. It also helps in enhancing cloud-based, real-time and big-data platforms. According to an Information Week study published in January 2015, based on the responses from 384 business technology professionals, the two most important themes discussed were the complexity of analytics and business intelligence tools and the challenges of big data analysis.
Many industry experts have also made their predictions for business intelligence for the rest of this year. Some trends that were forecasted earlier in the year are already coming into play while some didn’t even see the light of day. Below are some of the trends that may be in play in terms of business intelligence processes, tools and solutions. Let’s take a look:
1. Business intelligence standardisation and analytics are waning
10 years ago, the business intelligence market was consolidating as business organisations tried to standardise BI products or solutions that could be implemented all through the organisation. And within the previous decade, many have changed because mobile innovation, cloud and big data exploration favour experimentation with a new generation of tools.
2. Governance will be transformed
Just as the landscape of business intelligence has transformed into self-service data, it will also change the way it is governed. Many business organisations will be checking and investigating how governance works in a self-service analytics environment.
3. Information will be used to digitise, reinvent or eliminate almost 80% of business processes and products from the previous decade by the year 2020
With the continuous growth of IoT or Internet of Things, real time information can be generated more easily and industries can actively participate in data growth.
More people will become more digitally engaged. Traditional analog processes will be digitised and automated including the physical and human processes. Most decisions will be based on algorithmic and automated judgement.
4. Sellers and marketers will take advantage of social intelligence into effective strategies
Tracking scalable social intelligence will let business organisations find out what the topic is starting to trend and what their customers or followers are talking about. Social analytics will open many opportunities to responsive product optimisation. This will result in the social advantage of the leaders which will make their competitors feel that they have the ability to see the future of business.
5. Internet of Things
IoT will push big data and business intelligence off centre as the most talked about topic in the coming months. “Analytics of Things” will be an essential concept to understand because cloud and hybrid clouds will generate data that can be used strategically to get an edge over the competition. As mentioned earlier, IoT will continually grow and will have a direct influence on almost everything.
6. The rise of cloud-based data warehousing
Cloud-based data warehousing services will give the biggest increase in the adaptation of any information-management category. From 24% last 2014, it now shows 34% in growth as of the 2nd quarter of 2015.
7. Real-time technology is on the rise
According to the prediction of complex event processing technology providers, real-time technology is already going mainstream. Although many processes, systems and solutions are still not quite there, the adoption rate shows an increase of 35%. Cloud giant Amazon once again provides mainstream proof with their Kinesis CEP service which is the backbone of real-time bidding, gaming, buying, media streaming and other services.
8. Analytics will emerge across the organisation
The data analysts of today will be the operations managers, salespeople or the supply chain executives. New and user-friendly technologies will provide browser-based analytics to let people answer many business questions. Any company that recognises this as a strategic advantage will start to support daily analysts with the tools, data and training to help them do what they need to do.
9. Data quality concern will ease
We all know that data is messy and always will be. In the following months and years, concerns about data quality will ease up. The popular big data platforms like Hadoop and NoSQL can accommodate data mess because they don’t force the users to normalise everything into predefined data models that possess consistent data dimensions. Machine learning and visualisation will do the job and accuracy will go up. It doesn’t mean that data quality will take a back seat. It’s still the number 1 concern among many data analysts, but the concern is going down at least where analysis is concerned.
10. Enhanced data security and privacy
Security and privacy has always been one of the major concerns among companies and IT people. It also doesn’t help when you hear news about high profile data breaches. Old and outdated technology will surely be a big target and at higher risks, thus, many business organisations will invest heavily in keeping their technological assets up to date and secure.
We will expect more people to make data part of their everyday online life. The way people interact with data is changing very fast and most of it for the better. Businesses should adapt to trends and change with the times. If they don’t, they will surely be left behind.


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Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) saw cargo tonnage fall by two per cent to 466,000 tonnes in November as both imports and exports fell.
HKIA saw three per cent and four per cent drops in imports and exports, respectively. Amongst the key trading regions, traffic to and from Europe and mainland China decreased the most during November. Transshipments, however, recorded moderate growth of three per cent.
The world’s busiest cargo gateway posted growth of 2.2 per cent in the first 11 months of the year, processing 4.7 million tonnes. In the past 12 months, cargo and airmail throughput increased by 2.5 per cent to 5.1 million tonnes.
HKIA’s extensive network has further expanded with new air services. Indian passenger carrier IndiGo started operations from 10 December, offering six weekly flights to and from Bangalore. In addition, Thai AirAsia launched a new route to and from Krabi with thrice-weekly service starting on 2 December.

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The city of Kyiv saw a 14.7% rise in retail trade.
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Despite not being digital natives, the generation of people who are currently retired breaks with the belief of being disconnected from the online world, as evidenced by the Barometer "Portrait of a retired person in Spain" drawn up by VidaCaixa in collaboration with the Obra Social "La Caixa".
Spanish retirees have on average three electronic devices: three out of four have a computer, 70% have a smartphone and 45% have a tablet. They even have hobbies related to technology: 7% have a video game console and 4% have a sports camera.
Retirees are also closely linked to social networks. Facebook is their favorite social network: 46% say they use it and 65% use it at least once a day or even several times in a single day. YouTube is the second most used social network: 43% use it and 76% of those who do enter at least once a week. In addition, they are up to date with the most used mobile applications: 70% have WhatsApp on their phone and 20% speak via Skype.
This report, in which VidaCaixa carries out a socio-economic analysis of people who are between 65 and 77 years old and have stopped working, also reflects that the level of use of new technologies also extends to the control of their finances. The digital channel, web or mobile application is the second most used for tracking your financial products, after the office. 32% use it. The face-to-face channel, the office, is still preferred in the counseling and product contracting phases, far from the rest of the options.
And is that new technologies are a very effective tool to combat disability and dependence as they offer a large number of possibilities applied to daily life, covering common areas such as leisure or entertainment and even more functional or technical .


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Humboldt West cafe, with cocktails, sandwiches and a kids' menu, coming to Bay View
Here’s news that picnickers can use: Besides serving a light cafe menu, coffee and cocktails, Humboldt West plans to have grab-and-go menu items and carryout beers and wines when it opens at 2841 S. Howell Ave.
The counter-service cafe, which will be right across the street from Humboldt Park, will have indoor seating for 40 or so, plus some outdoor seating of its own on the double lot.
But cafe owners Jami Markov and Brooke Corona expect that quite a bit of food and drink will be carried out, especially with the park nearby, Markov said. (Alcoholic beverages are allowed at reserved picnic sites in county parks.)
A key component of Humboldt West will be a children’s menu that the owners see as appealing to kids and affordable, such as half or whole grilled cheese, peanut butter and jelly, ham, and turkey sandwiches, with sides like Goldfish crackers, fruit cups or Go-Gurt.
“I’m a mom, my business partner is a mom, and that’s really important to us,” Markov said.
For the grownups, the cafe will have items such as avocado toast for breakfast; warm panini such as turkey, cranberry jam and provolone; cold sandwiches like falafel; salads including Caesar with chicken; and soups in fall and winter.
Some of the side dishes reflect Markov’s husband’s Bulgarian heritage, like the ruska, or Russian, salad, potatoes, ham, peas, pickle and carrots in house-made mayonnaise, and snejanka, or snow white salad, chopped cucumber in thickened yogurt.
Humboldt West will serve coffee, cold-brewed coffee and espresso drinks, sodas, juices, Mimosas and Bloody Marys at weekend brunch, and several beers on tap, plus some bottled beers and wines.
Markov and Corona now are remodeling the space. The site’s original bar “is in great shape,” Markov said, but the rest of the cafe is being designed from scratch.
The building, formerly Rickert’s Tavern, has been vacant for about 20 years, according to neighborhood residents, Markov said.
“We’re excited to have that open again for the community,” she said.
The “picture-perfect, ideal-world” opening would be in July, Markov projected.
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Martha Stewart Joins the Ranks Against Patent Trolls
Martha Stewart- craft queen and expert in all things home décor- has filed a lawsuit against the renowned patent troll Lodsys after the company claimed that the “Martha Stewart Weddings” iPad app infringed on a number of its patents. Lodsys initially requested that Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia purchase licenses for the patents for $5,000 each, but Martha isn’t going down without a fight.
Just yesterday, Stewart’s company filed a complaint in a Wisconsin federal court asking that the court review the patents in question and make a “declaratory judgment” against the troll company.
The complaint also helps to draw attention to the 151 cases that Lodsys has filed in Texas courts. The company has been troubling app developers for years, claiming infringement on several of its patents, and often receiving settlements from small defendants hoping to avoid costly litigation fees.
The company has also butted heads with Apple and Google, two tech giants dedicated to pushing out their own products while defending small developers incapable of fighting trolls successfully on their own.
Lodsys is just one of several celebrity trolls targeting these small tech firms. In response to the growing number of application developers in the industry, the Application Developers Alliance was founded to serve as a resource center and collective voice for over 25,000 developers.
This alliance serves in supporting the efforts of Google, who challenged several Lodsys patents, and Apple, who has taken to intervening in several lawsuits filed by the shell company.
Now, with Martha Stewart’s corporation onboard, the force fighting patents trolls grows stronger. While companies like Lodsys are unlikely to stop anytime soon, the increase in groups against them is definitely a good sign.


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CINCINNATI (Cincinnati Business Courier) - Just like last year, the top of the luxury housing market slowed down a bit in February, but sale prices in the top 10 were much higher than a year ago.
Six of the top homes sold in February in Greater Cincinnati went for more than $1 million compared to all 10 in January. However, only four homes sold for more than $1 million in February 2018 and two homes sold for more than $2 million last month.
Those top sales helped push the average sale price for the top 10 homes to nearly $1.5 million, up 52 percent from a year ago, when the average was just more than $969,000.
The month’s most expensive home sales included properties in Indian Hill, Sycamore Township, Mariemont, Montgomery, Covington, Deerfield Township and Hyde Park.
To see all of the region’s 10 most expensive home sales, read the full story from the Cincinnati Business Courier.
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The racing team signs its first major sponsorship since the end of the agreement with Uralkali.
- TransferMate will provide cross-border payment services
- Company logo to feature on Haas’ F1 car and driver’s clothing
The Haas Formula One team has announced a global partnership with B2B payment technology solutions provider TransferMate Global Payments.
As part of the agreement, TransferMate will provide cross-border payments services through its global payments infrastructure. The Ireland-based company’s logo will also feature on Haas’ car and on the clothing of drivers Kevin Magnussen and Mick Schumacher throughout the 2022 season.
Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
“We are delighted to welcome TransferMate and look forward to a productive working partnership in 2022 and beyond,” said Haas Team Principal Günther Steiner.
“It is clear that as a brand, TransferMate prides itself on providing the best product. We share this philosophy and ultimately we are both in industries where innovation is rewarded and actions must be executed with confidence and precision.
“Efficiency is key to everything we do in Formula 1 and working with TransferMate adds another deliverable to our operations.”
Sinead Fitzmaurice, Managing Director of TransferMate, added: “The partnership brings together two like-minded organizations, each with a strong commitment to challenging the norm through innovation.
“We look forward to seeing our partner group throughout the 2022 Formula 1 season. It promises to be a very exciting year for us and for the Haas team.
The arrangement with TransferMate is the first major sponsorship deal signed by Haas since severing ties with former title sponsor Uralkali following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The team sought to fill the market void left by the Russian potash fertilizer producer, although things were complicated with Uralkali reportedly seeking a $13 million refund and $8.6 million in compensation.
According Motorsport.comHaas also claims to be entitled to 8 million euros ($8.7 million) in compensation, saying they lost profits that would have been made had the deal continued.
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Duckworth joined Kew Green in March 2020. Classically trained with ‘Big Four’ accountancy firm PwC, his interest in hospitality started when assigned to the Southern Sun Hotel Group as an external auditor.
His career has spanned a period of 25 years, holding a variety of positions around the world from South Africa, British Virgin Islands to the UK, working with a number of medium to large corporate companies including Le Meridien, Malmaison and Hotel Du Vin, Rocco Forte and Virgin Limited Edition.
Chris Dexter, CEO of Kew Green Hotels, said: “I am delighted to welcome Russell to Kew Green Hotels to support our continued drive for operational and financial excellence and providing outstanding performance for our hotels, owners and partners.
“This key appointment for the group cements and builds upon our continued focus on our people, our customer and our industry leading profit delivery, at this a critical time.”
The news comes as Kew Green Hotels appointed Oxana Chernaya as the director of procurement and cost.
In her new role Chernaya will support the group’s continued domestic and international growth strategy and will provide “further expertise” to hotels and partners.
The hotel group said she brings a “wealth of experience” in procurement and cost management in hospitality operations, consultancy and retail industries across the UK, EMEA and CEE markets, where she worked for large corporate companies such as Marriott, JLL, DTZ and Kingfisher.


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OPPO is gearing up for the upcoming launch of the Reno7 5G and Reno7 Z 5G, the latest under the Reno7 Series, happening on March 18, 2022.
Mark your calendars as OPPO, the leading global smart device brand, gears up for the upcoming launch of the much-awaited Reno7 5G and Reno7 Z 5G under the latest Reno7 Series. The launch is set to happen live on March 18, 2022, 7PM on OPPO Philippines' Facebook, YouTube, Lazada, Shopee, and TikTok pages. Witness exciting performances from Yassi Pressman, GForce, and Armi Millare, and get a chance to win OPPO Reno7 smartphones, IOT, and a whole lot more.
OPPO Reno7 Series: The High-Value Portrait Expert
OPPO is set to offer Filipino users and content creators the newest powerhouse smartphones under the Reno7 Series -- Reno7 5G and Reno7 Z 5G. As the high-value portrait expert, these latest must-haves are packed with a Flagship Camera System and features that will elevate your portrait photo and video game. It will inspire you to be unlimited as it keeps up with your lifestyle needs and demands.
Both the OPPO Reno7 5G and Reno7 Z 5G have a 64MP AI Triple camera with an Ultra Clear 108MP Image that produces super high-definition photos. The Reno7 5G has a 32MP Front Camera while the Reno7 Z 5G has a 16MP Front Camera.
Each handset is also capable of shooting DSLR-like outputs with the Reno7 Z 5G’s Bokeh Flare Portrait for photos and the Reno7 5G’s Bokeh Flare Portrait Video. Reno7 5G also features Portrait Mode, allowing it to deliver stunning portrait photos with shallow depth of field and beautiful bokeh light spots in the background.
Aside from its ultra-slim body, OPPO used its proprietary design technologies, OPPO Glow and Laser Direct Imaging (LDI), to achieve an ultra trendy appearance that is fit for any occasion and environment.
The OPPO Reno7 Series 5G comes in these all-new colors: Startrails Blue and Starry Black for Reno7 5G, and Rainbow Spectrum and Cosmic Black for Reno7 Z 5G.


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Infinix brand ambassador, Davido was left in awe in reverence for a fan who bought one of it brands phone to surprise his mother.
Recall Davido went wild on the bird app a few days ago saying infinix will sell better and faster than all the mobile brands regardless of the number of celebrities they are singing as brand ambassadors in the country.
His tweet seems to have done the magic as a fan of his bought one of the phones today. The fan known as Miraboi shared images of the phone and mentioned Davido saying he bought it as a surprise gift to his mother.
Reacting to the tweet, he wrote “Great choice”
Davido’s ambassadorial job has earned the company some money here and we are confident he will strike again.
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Android Accomplishes Record 87.5% of Worldwide Smartphone Shipments In Q3 2016
A report from research company Strategy Analytics ensures that Android has
accomplished a record high 87.5% of overall smartphone shipments as of Q3 2016.
There were 375 million smartphones sent in the second from last quarter, a 6%
development on a comparative quarter a year back, with Android units growing
10.3% year-on-year, communicates the report.
Neil Mawston, Official Chief at Methodology Examination, said: “Android’s pick up came
to the detriment of each real opponent stage. Apple iOS lost ground to Android and
plunged to 12% share worldwide in Q3 2016, because of a dreary execution in
China and Africa.”
Check out the details in the chart below:
Though overall smartphone shipments expanded, Apple’s iOS units were down 5.2%
contrasted with a similar quarter a year ago. Phone shipments for different stages,
including Windows and BlackBerry, diminished 84.1% year-on-year.
Source: Android Authority
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Rogers Communications Inc. urged Canada's broadcast regulator to rein in the "wild west" of new media by banning exclusive deals that make mobile video available only to certain wireless providers.
Smart phones and tablets are an unregulated corner of the television industry, and rules are needed to prevent companies from using these devices to gain an unfair advantage, representatives from Rogers told the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on Monday.
Industry players like Rogers, BCE Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. will be testifying at a hearing this week and next looking into the ownership of media companies by national broadcasters – an increasingly important issue as more cable and satellite companies move toward controlling not just the signals and wires that feed TV into homes, but also many of the channels.
Rogers argued customers would be disadvantaged if they needed multiple subscriptions to get access to all of the content they wanted to watch on different devices. Especially with valuable sports content, rights holders such as sports leagues are looking to make extra money by selling mobile rights separately from TV rights, Rogers executives said.
"You want to sell your programming on [broadcast or specialty linear]TV in Canada, which is where 95 per cent of the revenue comes from, you better provide it to all the mobile providers," said Ken Engelhart, senior vice-president of regulatory for Rogers.
The media industry in Canada has transformed in the past year: BCE now owns CTV and a host of specialty channels, and Shaw bought the CanWest TV assets, including the Global network and specialty stations such as the History Channel. Rogers and Quebecor Inc. were already integrated since they own CITY-TV and TVA respectively.
The CRTC itself has had a hand in how the industry has become as integrated as it is. Most recently, it approved both the Shaw and BCE deals and is now attempting to figure out how it will cope with the transformation. In March, after approving the BCE-CTV deal, the CRTC put a temporary freeze on exclusive wireless content deals. It will lift that moratorium some time this summer, and must decide whether to regulate this kind of new media content, and how it will do so.
Another integrated company, Quebecor, followed Rogers by making a very different argument: Take away regulation, and let the industry compete.
"I'm a bit perplexed by Rogers's position," said Pierre-Karl Péladeau, Quebecor's president and chief executive officer. He argued that the vertical integration is "the only tool" to protect the Canadian broadcast system from "over-the-top" services such as Netflix and Apple TV, which provide TV programming over the Internet and on mobile devices such as tablets.
Companies need to be able to give themselves an advantage by putting exclusive content on mobile platforms, Mr. Péladeau said. He acknowledged that if this is allowed, consumers could need different companies' devices to access all the content they want: NFL on Bell phones, for example (a deal that already exists), with Blue Jays games only on Rogers phones and other programming or events on Quebecor phones.
"This is what competition is all about. Yes, at the end of the day, you will have different products on different devices. This is how you're going to be able to stimulate competition," he said following the presentation. "If not, it's going to be plain vanilla everywhere and only the large companies like Bell will succeed."
Quebecor asked for regulations to be relaxed in the traditional TV space as well as arguing that no new regulations are needed for new devices. Rogers disagrees.
"We think that rule should really apply to all television content. When you buy television content in Canada, it should be a standard clause in your contract that the mobile and ancillary rights should be available to all distributors," Mr. Engelhart said.


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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Ford Motor Co. is recalling almost 1.2 million full-sized pickups for a problem in which airbags can go off when not needed, expanding a much smaller recall it had instituted months earlier.
Ford recalled 144,000 trucks over the problem in February but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said at the time it was continuing to investigate the issue and might demand that the automaker issue a much larger recall, which Ford is now doing.
In a statement, Ford said it is issuing the larger recall "to reassure our customers of our safety commitment."
The recall applies to 1.19 million trucks, mostly Ford F-150s built between 2003 and 2006 but also some 2006 model year Lincoln Mark LTs.
The problem is caused by an improperly placed wire in the steering wheel, where the airbag is housed. Insulating material on the wire can rub off, causing a short circuit that can lead to warning lights and inadvertent deployment.
Ford had claimed the problem did not represent a safety issue because, in these cases, the airbags go off moments after the truck is first started and before the driver has taken the vehicle out onto the road.
A warning light indicating the airbag requires servicing usually lights up multiple times before the deployment occurs, Ford said at the time.
In a letter sent to Ford (F, Fortune 500) in late January, federal safety regulators called the 269 then-reported incidents of unneeded airbag deployments in F-150 trucks the "most incidents ever recorded in any inadvertent airbag deployment investigation or recall in NHTSA history."
The agency accused Ford of downplaying the rate of airbag deployments, adding that the rate of incidents was likely to increase over time.
Beginning in January 2006, Ford altered the way the driver's airbags are installed to put a stop to the problem, according to the safety regulator's documents.
Customers should seek service immediately if the truck's airbag warning light is illuminated, the automaker said in a statement. While Ford said it is not aware of any accidents related to the problem, one driver did jump out of a slowly moving vehicle after the airbag went off in the car, the automaker said.
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It's not enough to have a matching leash and collar. The latest -- and can we say kind of insane -- way to dress up your dog? A tattoo.
One upscale dog grooming shop on Manhattan's Upper East Side is offering temporary tattoos for dogs for about $100. The glue-and-glitter body art is the latest craze to grip the pet industry, which has been booming from the sales of everything from pet IQ tests to DNA tests.
"I really like outfits on my dog, but I thought a tattoo was kind of different," New York City pet owner Randy Mark, who owns 8-year-old Jackie, a Jack Russell terrier, told local news website DNAInfo, which first reported the story.
Some owners are going even further. Last month, a North Carolina man and owner of a pitbull puppy named Princess stirred controversy when he posted photos of an actual tattoo on the young pup to social media, according to local news network WXII.
Whether the pet tattoos are temporary or permament, vets are not convinced that dogs need any embellishment. Dr. Patty Khuly, a veterinarian writing on Vetstreet.com said the real-ink tattoos were simply a "painful and unnecessary" procedure for animals.
"As a veterinarian, I'd never agree to participate in such narcissistic shenanigans. I'm offended by this," she wrote in a blog post. Some pet experts even caution against springing for a fake tattoo, because dogs will naturally want to lick off the glitter.
But Jorge Bendersky, the New York City-based groomer who's Planet Jorge shop specializes in applying the temporary tattoos, said dogs like all the buzz the faux ink attracts on city streets. "Dogs are like humans, and when they accessorize they get attention," he told DNAInfo.
Check out some photos of pets getting inked at Planet Jorge's below:
One Dog's Journey To Get A Tattoo
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The 5G network is the new thirst of the smartphone consumers and this is leading many of the smartphone makers to instill this technology in their upcoming products. Today, many of the smartphone makers have already launched their 5G enabled handsets, while others are in their embryonic stage of development. One of the smartphone makers, Lenovo, has released a teaser to turn our eyes at it for the 5G technology.
In it’s latest Weibo post, a Lenovo executive has shared a list of 5G chipset makers but has asked us to wait for the “real trump card”. This teaser has given a heat to the boiling question that whether Lenovo is launching a 5G enabled smartphone or a 5G enabled chipset. It may be possible that the company may launch a 5G enabled smartphone by packing a 5G enabled Snapdragon or MediaTek chipset. However, it is probable that the Chinese headquartered tech brand may unveil it’s own 5G enabled chipset.
In the past, we have seen the launch of Snapdragon 855 and Snapdragon 855+ capable of 5G connectivity. We have also seen the unwrap of the MediaTek M70 5G chipset to boost an Android based handset for 5G connectivity. Hence we have no clue if the Lenovo executive is hinting at the launch of a 5G enabled handset or a 5G enabled chipset. Most likely, the brand may be working on a 5G smartphone, whereas our instinct does suggest that there is a li’l chance of a 5G enabled chipset launched by the Beijing headquartered Lenovo.
Talking about the teaser, the teaser image doesn’t suggest anything except ‘5G’ which can be read from it clearly. We still await for an official announcement on the 5G product that Lenovo plans launching or announcing. Though it is impressive that Lenovo has atleast made us all talk about 5G for it’s brand. We wait for more updates on this news to speculate anything further.


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MILAN — Furla has aggressive plans to expand in an increasingly crowded accessories market and to develop as a lifestyle brand, eyeing growth prospects in Asia.
“We are organizing ourselves for the big leap, we are at a turning point and we are ready to face the challenge,” said chief executive officer Eraldo Poletto.
Furla, which is showing its spring collection on Friday, can leverage “an extraordinary asset, the history, Italian heritage, and made-in-Italy creativity which is necessary but not enough; we must be more aggressive in our methods and in our determination,” said the executive, who returned to the Bologna-based brand in May after a brief stint in the same role at Alfred Dunhill.
Poletto was upbeat, as he believes Furla can win in the premium segment, also given the strong middle class that is emerging in Asia. “This is our moment,” he said. Asia accounts for 13 percent of sales, excluding Japan, which represents 27 percent. In the first half of 2013, the Asia-Pacific region showed 32 percent growth and Japan was up 31 percent.
Earlier this year, Furla established a joint venture with the Fung Group to open 100 stores in Greater China in four years. There are now 20 units in that market.
Last year, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization rose 28 percent to 32 million euros, or $41 million at average exchange, on revenues that climbed 18 percent to 212 million euros, or $271.3 million.
Furla has consistently invested in its retail chain, which now comprises 328 stores, of which 153 are directly operated, and the brand is available at 1,290 points of sale globally.
A boutique on London’s Regent Street will open in 10 days and Poletto revealed the company has plans to open a store in spring on New York’s Fifth Avenue, which will replace the unit on Madison Avenue. “We are thinking of other stores in New York; there is potential downtown,” he said. The U.S. accounts for 9 percent of sales and grew 31 percent in the first half this year.
Italy, which accounts for 24 percent of sales, grew 10 percent in the first half.
Poletto firmly denied any immediate plans to go public, despite his view on “thinking as a big company,” or any investor interest. “We must become bigger, small is no longer good and you need an important critical mass, but this is a healthy company that has no debt and is self-funded,” he said.
To build the lifestyle component, Poletto said the company is looking into other categories, especially shoes.
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For @massimogiorgetti of @msgm, the Nineties are his favorite decade. “They had a huge impact on my personal growth. What I like of the Nineties is that they are not so precise in terms of style as other decades…there was actually a bit of everything,” he said. As seen on MSGM’s Spring 2018 show: tie-dye and a bit of grunge, two styles that are synonymous with the decade #wwdfashion #wwddecades (📷: @kukukuba)
Breaking News: @hedislimane joins @celine as its new artistic, creative and image director. One of fashion’s preeminent image-makers and trendsetters, Slimane is to join the LVMH brand on Feb. 1 and unveil his first fashion proposition for men and women next September during Paris Fashion Week. It marks a major homecoming for Slimane, who cemented his reputation – and influenced men’s tailoring for more than a decade – as the designer of Dior Homme between 2000 and 2007. He went on to reinvent and ignite the house of Yves Saint Laurent, which he rechristened Saint Laurent, between 2012 and 2016 – all the while maintaining a close relationship with the Arnault family, which controls LVMH and Dior. Read the full exclusive story on WWD.com. Link in bio. #wwdnews #wwdfashion
“Personally I believe the Eighties have been the richest and more vivacious period for international fashion,” Giorgio Armani said when asked what his favorite decade of fashion is. It was a moment of disruption and experimentation and only thinking back to the first years of that decade is always an emotion for me, for what they have meant to me and my work.” The influence is clear in @giorgioarmani spring 2018 collection, pictured here, which was full of bright colors and unexpected prints. Read more about which decades designers loved most on WWD.com #wwdfashion #wwddecades (📷: @aitorrosasphoto)
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Rivian, a maker of electrical vans and vans, goes public at a inventory worth that values the corporate at almost $70 billion, a outstanding quantity that highlights the idea on Wall Street that the fast-growing electrical car market remains to be a wide-open discipline.
In a securities submitting on Tuesday, Rivian mentioned it was promoting its shares within the providing at $78. At that sum, it’s going to increase almost $12 billion. That fund-raising determine would surpass Uber, which raised $eight billion from its I.P.O. in 2019.
Rivian inventory will begin buying and selling Wednesday on the Nasdaq alternate below the ticker RIVN. At near $70 billion, Rivian’s market capitalization would strategy that of Ford Motor, which is valued at $80 billion and offered greater than 4 million automobiles worldwide final 12 months.
The market setting for the providing has been shaken this week as shares in Tesla, the main electric-car maker, plunged after its chief government, Elon Musk, mentioned he would possibly promote a few of his inventory.
Rivian has an enormous urge for food for money. Before this I.P.O., it raised over $10 billion from buyers together with Amazon and Ford, and it expects to devour billions of dollars because it tries to ramp up manufacturing of its three automobiles: an upscale pickup truck geared toward drivers who like off-roading; a sport utility car; and a supply van that was developed with Amazon, which has a big stake in Rivian and has ordered 100,000 of the vans.
Rivian and plenty of different automakers are betting that customers are ready to shift quickly to electrical automobiles over the following decade. General Motors has mentioned it goals to part out manufacturing of gasoline-powered automobiles by 2035. Tesla, which is on observe to promote almost a million electrical automobiles worldwide this 12 months, has a $1 trillion market capitalization, exceeding the mixed worth of G.M., Ford, Toyota Motor, Volkswagen, BMW and a number of other different automakers.
Much now relies on whether or not Rivian can scale up its manufacturing to fulfill clients’ orders. Tesla went by way of many rocky months when it struggled to supply its sedan in massive numbers.
By the top of final month, Rivian had delivered solely 156 of its pickups, generally known as the R1T; it plans to start out deliveries of the S.U.V., the R1S, subsequent month. It mentioned in a monetary submitting that it didn’t count on to satisfy the 55,400 orders for the truck and S.U.V. till the top of 2023, underscoring that it might take time to get manufacturing strains churning out vital numbers of automobiles.
Like different electrical car makers which have gone public this 12 months, Rivian is reporting massive losses. In the primary six months of this 12 months, it had a internet lack of $994 million, nearly as a lot as in all of 2020, when it misplaced $1.02 billion. Investors could also be prepared to tolerate the losses for a while. The van contract with Amazon ought to in concept safe a gentle income stream.
And Rivian may additionally profit from the view within the auto sector that it’s nicely run. Its chief government, R.J. Scaringe, has a doctorate in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, to this point, has not proven himself to be simply distracted or the supply of pointless controversies, criticisms made from Mr. Musk of Tesla.
Rivian’s pickup and S.U.V. are centered on well-to-do consumers who like the outside. “Keep the world adventurous ceaselessly,” Rivian’s I.P.O. prospectus proclaims.
Still, Rivian will face daunting competitors, together with established automakers which have a lot expertise with mass manufacturing. Next 12 months, Ford is meant to start out producing an electrical model of its F-150 pickup truck, the top-selling car within the United States. G.M. is predicted to quickly start promoting an electrical GMC Hummer — in each truck and S.U.V. variations — and is engaged on a Chevrolet Silverado electrical pickup.
At the I.P.O. worth, Rivian will probably be valued even greater, at round $75 billion, if its bankers promote further shares they’ve readily available to fulfill sturdy demand and a few inventory issued as compensation to staff is included within the calculation.


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Morrisons launches Beyonce-inspired Diva bouquet
Morrisons, the national supermarket, has rolled out a new flower bouquet called The Diva, believed to have been inspired by the rider requests of some female performers at Glastonbury, which was headlined by Beyonce.
According to Morrisons, its Glastonbury store received a number of floral requests from pop stars at the festival, including one from a "leading lady", believed to be from Beyonce’s team, for a selection of while roses, carnations and freesias for her dressing room.
The £10 Diva bouquet is being rolled out in Morrisons stores nationwide this week, after its exclusive Glastonbury launch over the festival weekend.
Jane Speakman, managing director of horticulture at Morrisons, said: "We're delighted to supply the flowers of choice for Glastonbury's leading ladies.
"As Morrisons works direct with growers, we can ensure that the flowers they receive are of super fresh, superstar, quality."
The Diva bouquet follows a contentious 'Diva' ad campaign by Cadbury's in May for its new Bliss chocolate bar. The press ad was pulled after supermodel Naomi Campbell suggested it was an openly racist attack against her.
Last month, Morrisons poached Arla Foods' top marketer Danny Micklethwaite to take up the newly created role of head of development.
This article was first published on marketingmagazine.co.uk
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Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has ordered all ministries, ministry-level agencies, Government bodies and provincial People’s Committees to hasten preparations for the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, which will occur in the next fortnight.
Consumers and retailers make preparations for Tet
The Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance were asked to ensure the supply of goods and price stability, particularly in rural, mountainous and insular areas. In addition, the ministries have been required to strengthen the fight against smuggling, trade fraud, counterfeit and low-quality goods, explosives, firecrackers and weapons.
The Ministry of Public Security must crack down on crime and prevent any terrorist schemes to safeguard national security, social order and safety during Tet. Stringent punishments will be imposed on traffic violations, as well as on firecracker production, trade and transport.
The PM requested the Ministry of Transport to create optimal conditions to ensure the transport and delivery of goods in order to meet public demand, which will surge before and after the holiday, as well as to promptly deal with traffic congestion on key roads and in big cities.
The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development were ordered to control food hygiene and safety at food processing facilities, retail outlets and markets, and to seriously punish violators.
The Cabinet leader also urged the Ministry of Health to have personnel and equipment ready for Tet.
Additionally, provinces and centrally run cities nationwide were asked to ensure a joyous holiday for all residents by visiting and sending Tet gifts to low-income families, people who have rendered service to the nation, the disadvantaged and other social policy beneficiaries./.


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Key Food Supermarket in Soundview closing its doors
A Key Food Supermarket in Soundview is closing its doors after more than 20 years.
The supermarket, located in the Bruckner Plaza on Bruckner Boulevard, will close in mid-October. A sign posted on the store says the supermarket lost its lease.
Key Food has long been a staple of the shopping center. Customers say they are concerned about where they will shop - particularly seniors, who will have to walk farther to buy groceries.
Bruckner Plaza is managed by Urban Edge Properties, a division of Vornado Realty, which owns the property. Residents say the two groups have been unwilling to work with the community to keep Key Food open.
A Western Beef, which used to be a Pathmark, is set to open in the next couple weeks. Despite being less than a half-mile from Key Food, some residents say that it's still too far of a walk for senior citizens.
News 12 reached out to both Key Food and the plaza's owner, but has not yet heard back from either.


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Massmart, which has just merged with US retail giant Walmart, is slowly gearing up to enter the burgeoning market of online retailing.
Massmart stores include Game, Makro, Dion Wired, Builder’s Warehouse and Builder’s Express.
The group’s CEO, Grant Pattison, said that the online experience was much deeper and more complicated “than just giving someone a button to press and a credit card to enter and the product is ready to be delivered at home”.
As cyber shopping becomes a haven for consumption in comfort for the time-poor and techno savvy, and as South Africans become more digitally aware and happy to pay for convenience, it is essential that shopping portals have a highly reliable delivery and logistics service.
On a global scale, the e-commerce platform in South Africa is small but internet usage has shot up dramatically over the last few years, with online retail sales due to hit R2.6-billion this year as they continue the trend of outstripping growth in the physical part of the sector at a rate of 35 per cent a year.
Walmart, which bought a 51 per cent stake in Massmart for R16.5-billion, will provide it with global expertise as it ventures into areas beyond its traditional trading formats.
Last month, as part of its online strategy, Walmart signed an agreement with the Shanghai municipal government to set up an e-commerce headquarters in the city – this was shortly after the announcement of a plan to buy a minority stake in Chinese online retailer Yihaodian.
Online sales in China, the world’s largest web market, hit about R4596-billion last year and the hub will be Walmart’s second; the other is in New York.
In South Africa, groceries, electrical appliances and clothing have generated the most online revenue, with online player Pick n Pay dominating the market, followed by kalahari.net and Woolworths.
The one-time timidness of South African shoppers has taken a backseat as an increasing number of people turn to the net for retail therapy and bargain-hunting.
According to research company World Wide Worx MD Arthur Goldstuck, online retail sales in South Africa have been growing consistently for the past five years at a rate of between 30 per cent and 35 per cent and passed the R2-billion level last year.
Goldstuck said the growth in online retail sales was due to the rising numbers of South Africans using the internet for online shopping.
He noted that, though there were about 3.6million people using the internet, of a population of about 48million, only half were shopping online.
Most people visiting online retail sites appeared to be “window shopping” and, Goldstuck said, even the most successful online retailers got only between 10 per cent and 15 per cent of their visitors to make a purchase.
“We’re focused on learning how to make product info and ranges available online so consumers are able to make a choice and decide how they would like to purchase – whether it’s online with delivery, or in-store collection,” Pattison said.
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Whoops! BlackBerry Creative Director Alicia Keys Tweets From iPhone!
After being announced as BlackBerry’s Global Creative Director less than two weeks ago, pop diva Alicia Keys claims her Twitter account was hacked after a specious tweet from an iPhone was sent under her name.
[quote]”What the h*ll?!!!! Looks like I’ve been hacked… I like@Drake but that wasn’t my tweet :-(” she posted shortly after the offending missive.[/quote]
As the Verge reports, Alicia Keys today offered the profound thought: “Started from the bottom now were here,” to all of her Twitter followers. This obvious spontaneity seems to have been sent from a Twitter for iPhone app.
It was removed shortly afterward.
Keys is the latest celebrity to experience problems with social media as tech companies look to cultural icons to push their products in mainstream markets. In 2012, Oprah used an iPad to send out a number of tweets endorsing Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet. However, this particular situation is a bit more interesting considering Keys has a paid position on the actual BlackBerry team; not just a promoter.
Pocket-Lint offers a tantalizing glimpse of her dressing room at the Grammys. There, not one, but two iPhones are to be seen on her dressing table.
An iPhone 4S is positioned so close to Keys’ fingers that all she would have to do is lift her arm up and her extremities would naturally meet its keyboard and want to communicate.


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“People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,” says U.S. News & World Report, “is putting KFC in the fryer.” PETA already has a history of cowing other fast-food restaurant chains into submission. Now it will apparently devote considerable resources to promoting a boycott of what it calls “Kentucky Fried Cruelty,” in the hopes that the Colonel will also cave to its demands.
PETA claims that their latest maneuver is all about animal welfare, but we know better. The group is far more interested in raising money (by attracting media attention), hurting meat companies, and forcing veganism on people, than in actually improving the life of a future 2-piece dinner.
What exactly does PETA want this time? It depends on whom you ask. Officially, PETA is demanding that KFC replace its existing slaughter practices with a supposedly more “humane” gas method.
But as Richard Lobb of the National Chicken Council said yesterday on CNN’s Connie Chung Tonight, PETA won’t be satisfied until nobody is eating chicken at all. “In two years,” Lobb mused, “PETA would be coming back at us claiming that we are using gas chambers for chickens and they would be demanding we stop that.”
CNN’s Bob Novak made this slippery-slope point last night on Crossfire, while actually eating from a fresh bucket of KFC chicken. Novak asked PETA’s Bruce Friedrich if he was only interested in “eliminating all eating of meat, of chicken of anything like that? Isn’t that what your real goal is? Not to worry about the poor chickens?”
Oddly, Friedrich’s satellite feed failed just as Novak was about to wrestle an answer out of him. But Dawn Carr, director of PETA Europe, was much more blunt in today’s issue of The Independent (UK). Carr told the paper’s environment editor: “Our ultimate aim is for people to go vegetarian.”
The New York Times aired perhaps the most telling piece of the puzzle on Sunday, pointing out the chicken industry’s concern that PETA’s demands “would increase the cost of raising those animals.” Ordinary people who eat, of course, would wind up paying for PETA’s publicity, as these added costs are passed on to consumers.
This is a strategy that the animal rights movement has been pursuing for many years. Farm Animal Reform Movement program director Pattrice Jones provided a clear illustration of this during her speech at the Animal Rights 2002 convention:
We’ve been doing a lot of work in this country for a long time, and what we’ve done is sort of apply a squeeze maneuver to the livestock industries… and what we’ve been doing is that, on the one hand, by introducing animal welfare legislation, by introducing environmental legislation, by introducing labor laws, we’ve increased their cost of doing business. At the very same time, all of our… vegan education campaigns have been cutting into their market and decreasing their profits.
Apparently, the zealots in charge of PETA think they have found a way to hurt the restaurant industry, increase the price of eating chicken, and create a lucrative fund-raising issue at the same time. But the entire strategy hinges on their ability to scare KFC into believing its customers will prefer PETA’s shrill rhetoric and violent history to the famous 11 herbs and spices.
It’s hard to imagine any business caving in response to such long odds, especially considering that PETA’s potential “boycotters” are generally vegetarians who don’t eat at KFC in the first place. But PETA has pulled it off before.
While the rest of the world adopts the requisite “wait and see” attitude, we’ll be celebrating the New Year by exercising our consumer freedom. The only remaining question is: original or extra crispy?


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Growth in the world beer market is set to reach around 2.5 percent this year in a “two-speed” recovery driven by emerging markets, while mature economies are set for more meagre advances, industry research group Plato Logic said on Monday.
“Globally, the beer industry continues to show resilience in the current economic climate; we are forecasting some further recovery in 2011 to near ‘normal’ growth rates,” said Plato director Ian Pressnell in a statement.
The 2.5 percent volume growth forecast for this year — largely reflecting the increasing taste for beer among emerging market consumers — compares with 1.6 percent growth in 2010 and an 0.4 percent advance in 2009.
For this year, the research group predicts 1 percent growth in Europe and America and some 4 to 5 percent in the emerging regions of Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
For 2010, there was no change in the ranking of the world’s five biggest beer markets, with China increasing its lead over the United States to be nearly twice as large, having consumed some 450 million hectolitres of beer, Plato’s figures showed.
Those two nations stay well ahead of Brazil, Russia and Germany.
China’s Snow beer retained its top spot in the world’s leading beer brands in 2010, according to Plato. The beer, brewed by a joint venture involving the world’s second-biggest brewer SABMiller , was followed by Bud Light, Budweiser and Brazil’s Skol, all brewed by the world’s biggest brewer Anheuser Busch InBev in an unchanged top four from 2009.
Chinese beer Tsingtao jumped to fifth spot, swapping places with Mexico’s Corona , while AB InBev’s Brazilian brew Brahma stayed in seventh position. Another Chinese brand Beijing Beer jumped over Heineken to make eighth spot, while Coors Light remained the 10th best-selling beer brand.


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At present, there are no federal regulations related to date labels on food products, aside from infant formula. Date labeling regulations are left up to states, which means consumers are left trying to sort out a patchwork of confounding terms. “Sell by,” “use by,” “freshest on,” and “expires on” are just a few of the phrases currently being used on food products.
Reps. Chellie Pingree (D., Maine) and Dan Newhouse (R., Wash.) introduced the bipartisan Food Date Labeling Act, a bill designed to end consumer confusion around food date labeling and ensure Americans do not throw out perfectly good food. Studies have shown that Americans are confused by food date labels, resulting in a significant amount of edible food ending up in landfills. H.R. 3981 will reduce food waste by standardizing date labels on food products. Pingree and Newhouse serve as co-chairs of the Congressional Food Recovery Caucus.
The bipartisan Food Date Labeling Act establishes an easily understood food date labeling system – “BEST If Used By” communicates to consumers that the quality of the food product may begin to deteriorate after the date and “USE By” communicates the end of the estimated period of shelf life, after which the product should not be consumed. Under the legislation, food manufacturers will decide which food products carry a quality date or a discard date. The Pingree-Newhouse legislation will also allow food to be sold or donated after its labeled quality date, helping more perfectly good food reach those who need it.
“Estimates indicate that around 90% of Americans prematurely throw out perfectly safe food, in part because of confusion about what date labels mean, meanwhile 38.4 million Americans are food insecure,” said Pingree. “This bill is an opportunity for the federal government to reduce confusion across the food supply chain and make sure no one is going hungry or inadvertently hurting our environment. With this piece of legislation, we can help ensure food is being used and eaten, rather than thrown out due to confusion.”
“Food labeling is important for consumer education, but the current practice is confusing and outdated. This bill takes a step toward reducing food waste by helping consumers understand the meaning behind date labels. The legislation also helps restaurants and grocery stores bridge the gap when it comes to donating food to shelters, food banks and other charitable organizations. I am proud to serve with Representative Pingree as co-chair of the Food Recovery Caucus as we work to help Americans waste less and save money,” said Newhouse.
“Most Americans don’t know the ‘best by’ date label on items at the grocery store aren’t based on safety or science. These completely arbitrary food date labels are confusing and costly for customers. Our commonsense measure to establish a uniform national date labeling system would provide consumers with clarity—helping them save money on their grocery bills and preventing perfectly safe food from going to waste,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Ct.) who has introduced the Senate companion bill.
Forty percent of all food produced in the U.S. is wasted, costing the nation $161 billion annually. It is estimated that if all food waste represented an individual country, it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases globally. Domestic food production accounts for 50% of U.S. land use, 80% of fresh water consumption, and 10% of the total energy budget. Consequently, recovering food helps to ensure that the hard work and resources that go into producing food is not wasted.
According to years of research on date labels at Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic, Emily Broad Leib noted that confusion over these labels is one of the leading causes of food waste in the U.S. She noted 84% of consumers throw food away after the date, even though for most foods the date is just an indicator of quality or taste.
“Fortunately, this is also one of the most solvable issues – standard date labels that distinguish between quality dates and discard dates can make clear what these dates mean and help reduce waste at businesses, households and food banks,” she said.
Jackie Suggitt, stakeholder engagement director at ReFED, a multi-stakeholder non-profit designed to reduce food waste, said standardized date labeling is one of the most cost-effective solutions for driving reductions in wasted food, and a significant amount of groundwork has been laid. “However, there continue to be barriers to adoption for food manufacturers, including highly varied state-level requirements around both the date label language and the ability to donate food past the labeled date. ReFED supports federal policy efforts that overcome these barriers and accelerate food waste reduction,” Suggitt said.
The food industry has also voiced support for the legislation. Chris Hood, president of Kellogg North America, welcomed the legislative leadership to standardize product code labels to provide greater clarity and reduce consumer confusion that can often lead to food waste.
“As part of our next-generation Kellogg’s® Better Days commitment, we pledged to reduce organic waste by 50 percent, including food waste, across our facilities. Kellogg is committed to doing our part to combat food waste and to empower our consumers with information to make informed decisions,” Hood said.


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Have you ever wondered what happens to the rubber tread that wears off a vehicle’s tires? On a planet with hundreds of millions of vehicles there has to be quite a lot somewhere. New modeling at the University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO) campus suggests an increasing amount of what are microplastics, the fragments from tires and roadways, are ending up in lakes and streams.
The UBCO School of Engineering researchers developed a conceptual framework to examine the potential contamination originating from the regular use of vehicles on roads and highways. Their findings suggest that more than 50 metric tons of tire and road wear particles are released into waterways annually in an area like the Okanagan.
Process graphic of tire wear considerations. Image Credit: University of British Columbia Okanagan School of Engineering. The high res full size image is available at the research report article with a download link.
Dr. Haroon Mian, a UBCO Postdoctoral Research Associate and study lead author said, “The results are quite significant. It’s especially alarming considering that this microscopic waste can contaminate our freshwater sources.”
Tires are critical for transportation and about 1.5 billion tires are produced annually to meet global demand – leading to almost six million tonnes of tire and road wear particles being generated around the world.
Both synthetic rubber and vulcanized natural rubber are considered forms of elastomeric polymers contributing to microplastics. It isn’t simply the rubber that causes contamination, said Dr. Mian. “Over time, all of those materials begin to break down and can release chemical additives that affect aquatic species,” he explained.
While some of the materials end up in the atmosphere, the majority of the tire and road wear particles are spread across roadways and eventually end up in aquatic environments. The results of his study indicate that almost 15 tonnes of tire and road wear particles can be transmitted to lake surface water each year, he added.
He pointed out that this is not only a global issue, but a local one. The research was done locally and he says lakes like Okanagan and Kalamalka are being unknowingly contaminated every day as thousands of people drive the highways connecting BC interior communities.
“This analysis focused on a small section of highway in the BC interior, but the findings suggest that other regions across Canada may experience the same challenges with this type of contamination,” said Mian. “A more uniform and comprehensive management and treatment strategy must be developed to limit the possible environmental ramifications.”
As part of his research, Mian also conducted a scenario-based assessment to estimate tire and road wear emissions by considering various real-time factors such as tire and roadway degradation in the environment and seasonal variations.
The report recommends implementing tire wear labels and standardization policies, adopting tire pressure monitoring systems, and applying wetlands or roadside swales as a secondary runoff treatment.
Tire wear particles aren’t on many folks radar as a threat. Yet the study work does point out that the disintegration of the particles isn’t a nothing to the environment. The idea of eating tire rubber or an elastomeric polymers or simply microplastics isn’t as creepy as ingesting the chemicals that make up the particles.
Likely worse and worthy of more note are the piles of worn out tires. They are more concentrated and pose more localized risks. It not unusual to hear of tire piles catching fire, smoking and dripping out some nasty stuff.
Perhaps civilization will come to recognize the pollution that comes from the comfort of riding on pressurized air in a polymer bladder.
One would expect that some of the tread wear will be vaporized and dispersed widely in the air. Particles might be trapped by vegetation unless washed downstream to lakes and rivers. But the used tire carcass is an issue that is increasing in concern.
So, please. Be good to your tires. And when used up, dispose of them responsibly.
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Since its inception, the Google Pixel series has been sticking to the same naming convention. With that in view, along with the leaks we’ve seen before, there’s no question about the name of the next mid-range entry in the series despite getting more storage, Google Pixel 4a would be cheaper than last year’s Pixel 3a. Soon, you can order it online and get it delivered through an eCommerce courier service. Everything comes at a price, indeed, so it wouldn’t come as shocking to see Google cut corners on the next mid-ranger.
Well, the first thing that’s going on is the Active Edge feature. This feature started with the Pixel 2 and has since been present on every Pixel phone. The highlight on the pre-release Pixel 4a is reportedly absent. At this time, it’s hard to say if the Pixel 5 will ditch this feature as well.
In turn, Active Edge lets users command Google’s advisor, mute the incoming calls and snooze the alarm clock. You can also rework it to use your choice of an online assistant. You can certainly also use touch inputs to conduct these actions, but sometimes tactile information is quicker and more comfortable.
Reportedly the feature has been substituted with a rear double-tap motion, so fans will not be losing out on it. This new technology is unlikely to require additional equipment and would use the accelerometer and gyroscope, so it’s a win-win. It will enable you to tap the back of the phone twice to perform specific activities, which should be just as good as Active Edge in principle.
In the meantime, Active Edge’s demise may be a positive thing too. The functionality hasn’t been very stable across the Pixel series, with multiple users reporting from time to time that it unintentionally stops working or accidentally triggers.
And in case you’re curious, Google’s still working hard to ensure that the app isn’t mistakenly activated. The feature is expected to expand out to other Android phones in the future, but at first, Pixel handsets are expected to be unique.


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#130 : This week on Chill, Sean Sia @ Healthy Options.
Healthy Options is the first and largest all-natural and organic products retailer in the Philippines, with 33 physical retail stores and an online shop specialising in natural food and health products.
Sean Sia is Head of Omnichannel and has pivoted Healthy Options around the complexities brought about by COVID-19 to set up the eCommerce platforms and continue to improve the customer experience across all channels for the Healthy Options Group.
Tammie Lee, General Manager at Overdose. Asia joins Sean to discuss the brand’s vision of bringing healthier food to the people in the Philippines, which started 28 years ago. They will be talking about the evolution of the business and how Healthy Options has been able to navigate the challenges posed by the pandemic to continue to bring healthier options to more people in the Philippines.


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CLAY COUNTY, TX (KAUZ) - A company that got it's start on the east coast celebrated a grand opening at its first location in Texas.
"In 1960 Triangle Brick was formed by some former members of another brick company in North Carolina," Howard Brown, COO & Executive Vice President said.
Company reps saw the potential to expand appropriately in Clay County.
"Around 2008 they decided they would like to come out to Texas so they began looking for raw material around about that time," Brown said.
The land was purchased in 2011 and ground was broken to build the 994-acre plant site in 2014. Currently, the plant is operating at 50-percent capacity and employees 35 people.
"As we get up to 100% we'll add more people," Brown said.
The plant is capable of producing 90 million bricks a year. The company already has Longo Landscape, a Wichita Falls business, ready to buy its bricks. One thing company officials want the community to know is how grateful they are to be in Clay County.
"Just thank you for welcoming us here. For being a participant in our start up here, and we just look forward to a lot of great years, we're all in it together," Brown said.
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NEW YORK (
) -- President Barack Obama's campaign on Thursday jabbed Mitt Romney on the auto industry in key swing states.
Three new ads were launched in Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Iowa, Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Nevada, according to
The Washington Post
The spots highlight an auto worker's appreciation that the president saved the industry's thousands of jobs,
Obama's explanation of why he felt government intervention was the right decision and how the economy
gradually improved after Obama entered office.
"It wasn't just the million jobs that were at stake, it was also part of what built our middle class, creating products stamped with those words 'Made in America,'"
Obama says in one ad. "What happened in Detroit can happen in all sorts of communities where when you combine American innovation with the best workers in the world, we can succeed."
David Axelrod, an Obama campaign senior adviser, told reporters that the campaign plans to spend $25 million on ads in May.
The New York Times'
electoral map lists eight of the nine states where the campaign released these ads as tossups for the 2012 election.
interactive map by The Brookings Institute reveals the largest concentrations of American manufacturing activity that affect swing states as being in Chicago (near Wisconsin, which is currently a tossup), Boston (affects New Hampshire), New York (reaches to Pennsylvania), Cleveland and Philadelphia.
The ads come a few days after Romney took credit for the comeback of industry giants
"My own view, by the way, was that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government help. And frankly, that's finally what the president did," Romney
said Monday. "So I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry's come back."
It's unclear, at least immediately, if Romney will suffer among blue-collar workers for these comments, but Thursday's ad blitz suggests the Obama campaign hopes to capitalize on the claim.
-- Written by Joe Deaux in New York.


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Diet Soda Better for Diets than Water? Controversial Study Says Yes
(NEW YORK) — After years of getting harangued about their favorite beverage, it appears diet beverage drinkers have finally gotten the last laugh.
But don’t get too cocky.
A new study says that diet drinks were shown to be more efficient at helping people lose weight than drinking water.


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From today’s NY Times,
Interestingly, it is the times of highest taxes when we have been most prosperous.
And then there’s the evidence. Over the last 30 years, economists have undertaken hundreds of studies to determine whether taxes hurt the economy. So far, they’ve turned up little to convict taxes of the charge. After reviewing the literature on the topic in 1993, two economists, William Easterly of New York University and Sergio Rebelo of Northwestern, concluded in a joint paper that “the evidence that tax rates matter for growth is disturbingly fragile.”
A leading tax specialist today, Joel B. Slemrod of the University of Michigan, would agree. He notes that in the 20th century, a rising tax burden in the United States and other developed countries went hand in hand with rising prosperity.
Maybe that is because we have a consumer economy, and higher taxes usually really means higher taxes on the rich – which means a lower share of the tax burden is on the great masses of non-rich. In a consumer economy obviously more people having more money to spend is good for the economy. In other words, redistributing the income down from the top is good for everyone, even the rich. And higher taxes would mean the government would not be borrowing, which is bad for the economy in the long term.
Higher taxes also enable the government to spend more, which is obviously good for the economy. Government spending means more jobs, and more money circulating in that consumer economy of ours. That’s what spending is. Also the government usually spends money on things that are good for the economy in the longer term, like education, science, infrastructure (the internet, roads, etc.) Investment.
When I learned about science, I learned that science is supposed to DEscribe what happens. But a lot of this kind of economics seems to be about, “If only people did so-and-so, so-and-so would happen.” That does not describe, it prescribes. And it’s also wrong.


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Facebook began testing the ability for Power Editor users to preview News Feed ads as early as last September, and the social network confirmed to sister blog Inside Facebook that it began rolling out the feature and other changes to Power Editor last week, with all Power Editor users receiving the updates “over the next few weeks.”
More than 17 million videos related to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge were uploaded to Facebook between June 1 and Sept. 1, and they were viewed more than 10 billion times by more than 440 million users, the social network said in an update Tuesday.
Hyperlapse, the new time-lapse video application from Instagram, has only been available since late August, but it has already found its way into a music video by Fall Out Boy, by way of agency Beutler Ink.
Facebook announced that it has been averaging more than 1 billion video views per day since June, with 65 percent of them on mobile, and brands and users that post videos will now be able to see how much of those 1 billion-plus views they were responsible for, as public videos from users and pages will now display view counts.
Bluetooth-speaker manufacturer Jam Wireless Audio may have been one of the first brands to tap the new Hyperlapse time-lapse video application from Instagram for marketing purposes, but it now has plenty of company, as the Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network shared some more examples in a post on the Instagram for Business blog.
Building up a following on Facebook is an intricate balance between posting things of interest, fostering engagement and giving your followers a reason to keep you in their News Feeds. It is a delicate house of cards — and the wrong social media wind can bring destruction. And like the Paul Simon song, “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover,” there are probably that many ways and more to drive all that traffic AWAY from your page. Let’s explore a few that you may be missing:
The latest update to Facebook’s Slingshot photo- and video-sharing application eliminated the app’s most prominent and most controversial feature, as users can now sling their shots as locked or unlocked, eliminating the need for recipients to sling their own shots before viewing the shots they receive.
Facebook users can get satisfaction, as official concert films and documentaries featuring The Rolling Stones are now available on a video-on-demand basis via the band’s Facebook page following the creation of an application by Eagle Rock Entertainment, which oversees many of the group’s home-video releases, and Facebook VOD platform Screenburn Media.
The Facebook page for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams topped 1 million likes Wednesday morning, and Williams posted a video to mark the milestone and announce an upcoming question-and-answer session.


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Redding's second In-N-Out opens with owner Lynsi Snyder making appearance
Redding’s second In-N-Out opened Tuesday with a special appearance by the burger chain's owner and heiress Lynsi Snyder.
A spokeswoman for the Southern California-based company said the restaurant traditionally opens at 10:30 a.m., but the doors opened Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. without any lines.
The new In-N-Out is near the corner of Churn Creek Road and South Bonnyview Road next to the Valero gas station.
The restaurant will employ about 60 people who will make a starting wage of $14 per hour, the company said in a news release.
In-N-Out regional manager Kevin McCoy said the business is looking to hire more workers and will accept job applications after the opening.
In-N-Out will feature a drive-thru lane and inside the restaurant there be seating for 69 customers.
The restaurant will be open daily from 10:30 a.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday through Thursday, and 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. Friday and Saturday.
In an interview, Snyder, 37, reminisced about growing up in this area and working at Redding's original In-N-Out when it opened in 1999.
"I worked there. I was an original hire there. It was exciting," Snyder said.
She said people were skeptical at the time whether the restaurant would attract that many customers.
"There were a lot of people that thought, 'No. It's not going to do that well. It's not going to be that busy,' and it blew all the records at the time. It was very busy," she said.
Snyder remembers good times she had here.
"I love this town. I have lots of fond memories living up here," she said.
In-N-Out is part of the Churn Creek MarketPlace shopping center, which has been under construction since last year.
The burger joint will join AM/PM ARCO and Panda Express as the only businesses to open to date in the shopping center.
Eventually, Churn Creek MarketPlace will be anchored by a Save Mart grocery store. Other retailers that have been announced in the center are Ross Dress For Less and Les Schwab Tire Center.
Construction of the Save Mart store started this summer and the supermarket is expected to open sometime next year.
For years, In-N-Out has done a huge business on Dana Drive in Redding near the Highway 44 interchange. Vehicles backing up in the drive-thru lane there is a common sight.
Six years ago, the company submitted plans for a second location at the vacant lot in front of the Super 8 Motel on the southwest corner of South Bonnyview and Churn Creek. But In-N-Out was never able to finalize a deal there, though at the time, a spokesman said they weren't closing the door on a second location in Redding.
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Volvo boss Håkan Samuelsson has called on the car industry to commit fully to switching to electric vehicles, believing that will speed up both customer demand and infrastructure development.
The Swedish firm has pledged to offer only plug-in hybrid or fully electric models by 2025 and become an EV-only firm within the next 20 years.
Speaking at the Financial Times Future of the Car digital conference, Samuelsson said it is clear electric cars are the future and “the more you hold open the alternatives, the slower it will go.”
He added: “The [Covid-19] pandemic has increased the understanding that the car industry needs to change. At Volvo, we believe electric is the way to go and said: ‘Let’s transform into an electric car company.’”
Asked whether consumers are ready to make the switch to EVs, Samuelsson said: “We believe it’s 50/50. Once you have electric cars in the showroom, a lot of people will go for the new technology.” He said he anticipates the shift will happen as quickly as the move from traditional mobile phones to smartphones: “It’s like a telephone 15 years ago, when you said: ‘Do you want one with buttons or do you want one with a touchscreen?’”
Although there are concerns about whether the charging infrastructure is ready to support a full switch to EVs, Samuelsson said: “If we don’t sell electric cars, nobody will invest in charging, so we have decided we cannot have that as an excuse and wait until charging increases. It will come and I don’t think anyone will have trouble charging their cars at the moment. In our view, the car industry will become electric and the clearer that signal is, the faster it will go.”
The UK government is planning to ban the sale of non-zero emission cars by 2030, with certain hybrids allowed until 2035. Samuelsson said banning the sale of combustion-engined vehicles is a better way of accelerating the switch than offering subsidies.
Asked during the FT conference about his reaction to the UK 2030 ban, Samuelsson said: “The first reaction is that it’s a bit fast and that’s not good. But I have a more humble reaction. If you look at how we pushed for safe cars, that happened 40 years ago and then regulations came in for seatbelts and crash bags and so on. That happened really fast and enabled better mobility, and that was not enabled with threats or incentives, but old-fashioned rules. So maybe the way forward should be to have clear rules of when we need to go to electric combustion.
“Once you realise the petrol and diesel engines are not part of the future, you say: ‘Okay let’s go fast into the new world.’ We have taken that conclusion and Volvo will be very careful at delivering only electric engines before anyone legally requires it.”


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As a House Of Krazees fan of 20+ years, I’m extremely excited to share an announcement that Majik Ninja Entertainment just made. On all of their social sites, they shared a new HOK picture simply that simply says “25 Years Of Krazees: The HOK Vinyl Collection”!
All we know is that it’s coming soon, and I hope that it’s followed up with some remastered audio on either CD or digital outlets. Either way though, MNE working on more House of Krazees projects is hopefully a good sign of things to come! We’ll bring you more as soon as we can!


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Amazon settles $79m Toys R Us suit
Monday 15 June 2009
Amazon.com will pay $51 million to Toys R Us to end a long-standing legal dispute between the online retailer and the toy seller.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Amazon said it had agreed to settle the dispute, which began in 2004.
The lawsuit was over a partnership that gave Toys R Us exclusive rights to supply some toy products on Amazon's site. New Jersey-based Toys R Us claimed Amazon violated the partnership by letting others sell some toys on Amazon.com, while Seattle-based Amazon said the toy seller failed to keep items in stock.
The companies originally joined up in 2000 after the toy seller's website, Toysrus.com, suffered a brutal 1999 holiday season in which some customers' toys were not delivered until after Christmas. That partnership was supposed to last until the end of 2010.
The settlement comes two months after a New Jersey appeals court ruled against Amazon, agreeing with a lower court's 2006 ruling that Amazon breached the deal. That allowed a lower court to consider awarding damages to Toys R Us, which had not disclosed how much it was seeking in damages. The settlement will take the place of a court award.
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As millions of Chinese factory workers and big city residents prepare to visit relatives in other parts of the country, they need to stock up on gifts for the family. So this time of year is an especially busy season for Chinese retailers.
But last year a new austerity drive promoted by Chinese President Xi Jinping put a damper on the festivities. As part of this campaign to fight corruption, China’s leadership discouraged conspicuous consumption and hurt New Year sales, with retail turnover during the weeklong festival rising at its slowest rate since the depths of the global financial crisis. Sales grew 15 percent, to 539 billion yuan ($90 billion), according to data from China’s Ministry of Commerce.


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A team of paddlers races along the Red River between Alexandria and Pineville during a running of the annual Louisiana Dragon Boat Races. The waterfront on both sides of the Red River has been the focus of numerous development proposals through the years. Pineville, for example, hopes to establish a small entertainment district with restaurants on its side of the Red to complement the Riverfront Amphitheater it faces in Alexandria. On Saturday, Pineville voters passed a ballot measure to allow alcohol sales in restaurants within the city limits, a decision that is widely expected to attract interest from restaurant and hotel chains and others in the hospitality industry.
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They say times change. People, too.
Clearly, some of both has happened in Pineville over the past few decades. How else would you explain Saturday's vote to allow the sale of alcoholic beverages in restaurants in the city?
The ballot measure passed by a vote of nearly 4 to 1 as more than 78 percent of the voters who turned out said: Yes, we'd like to sip an aperitif while browsing the menu, enjoy a bottle of wine with our dinner, and perhaps relax with a cordial or something stiffer to savor the pleasant moment. ...


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When Tiger Woods returned to competitive golf this past week, he sported the latest prototype of his signature shoe, Nike TW ‘17, at the Hero World Challenge. Digital marketing efforts, such as blogs, display ads, and social media posts, flooded our feeds to announce this debut alongside the help of the key influencer, Woods. While many were excited for Woods to step back on the course, others were simply anticipating the newest pair of kicks. It was the introduction Nike wanted for their all-new golf footwear.
Launching a product isn’t like it used to be. Today’s news pace is nothing short of exhausting. “Traditional” media is made up of a small number of publications. Getting attention has become more difficult and competitive, even for larger brands. For a successful product debut, marketers have to start planning as early as possible to build digital momentum.
Nike knew they couldn’t rest on last year’s laurels. Woods hadn’t played in a competitive golf tournament in over a year, and during his last live appearance he wore the TW’11s, not the ‘15s. They needed to do something different.
Prior to launch, Nike made the product available to important influencers. Woods was key, as it’s his shoe, but they knew they needed more. Encouraging influencers to use your product — then talk about it — generates buzz, links, and brand mentions. Credible influencers and outlets are integral resources, and smart brands know to build those prior to launch.
While Woods spent considerable time in rehab, Nike’s Senior Director of Athlete Innovation, Tobie Hatfield and team focused on creating a shoe that speaks to the brand and Woods’ first live-return to the course. Instead of simply updating the TW’15, Nike developed four prototypes and sent them to Woods, and he eventually selected one for the launch.
While the product team iterated, the marketing department was busy executing their strategy — social media awareness, content development, and search engine optimization. They used consistent blogging, public relations efforts, and social media posts to lead up to this past week’s Hero World Challenge, resulting in over two thousand retweets and seven thousand favorites from just one tweet by Woods.
The Nike TW’17s will be available in the Spring of 2017. Buzz continues to spread from Woods’ appearance, the release continues to rollout, and anticipation and intent-to-buy will keep building. Welcome to the new way to launch.