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Amazon has ordered its first animated series: a dramedy from the creator of BoJack Horseman, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, and its writer and producer Kate Purdy. According to Amazon, the half-hour series, Undone, is about a woman named Alma who discovers that she has a "new relationship with time" after a car accident.
Bob-Waksberg and Purdy will also be executive producers, along with Noel Bright and Steven A. Cohen (both executive producers on BoJack), and Tommy Pallotta (A Scanner Darkly). The artist Hisko Hulsing will work with a team of designers in the Netherlands to visualize the story.
The news does not mean that Bob-Waksberg and Purdy's relationship with Netflix is over. Last month, Netflix ordered another animated series of 10 episodes of Bob-Waksberg, Bright and Cohen, called Tuca & Bertie. The comedy, created by BoJack producer Lisa Hanawalt, is about a pair of "30-year-old women living in the same apartment building" and starring Tiffany Haddish of Girls Trip. Last fall, Netflix revamped BoJack Horseman, its longest-running animated series, for the fifth season.
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Leading North American cannabis executives will be speaking at the MoneyShow Las Vegas Cannabis Investing Event on May 14th. This is a FREE event that cannabis investors do not want to miss.
Highlighting the Cannabis Investing Event are Canadian cannabis giants, The Green Organic Dutchman and Aurora Cannabis (ACB.TO) (ACBFF). During this event, you can learn about TGOD, which is expected to commence trading on the TSX exchange in the coming weeks.
From Australia to Germany, from Colombia to Denmark, legal cannabis markets continue to emerge while existing markets such as that in Canada are to seeing incredible growth. During the Cannabis Investing Event, you will learn about some the hottest opportunities for cannabis investors from leading company executives, industry analysts, and experts.
Canada: A Global Cannabis Leader
Earlier this year, Aurora Cannabis invested more than $50 million in TGOD and signed a supply agreement with the organic cannabis producer. Last month, TGOD completed a $100 million brokered financing at $3.65 per unit and investors are very excited about the upcoming listing.
During the Cannabis Investing Event, Aurora CCO Cam Battley and TGOD EVP Brett Allan will speak and will also participate on a panel so you will be able to learn more about the recent partnership and investment.
Canada will be a major topic at the Cannabis Investing Event and attendees will hear from Emerald Health Therapeutics CEO Chris Wagner, Invictus CEO Dan Kriznic, Choom CEO Chris Bogart, and many more.
California: The World’s Largest Legal Marijuana Market
One of the topics that will be covered in-depth during the Cannabis Investing Event is the scope of California’s recreational market. On January 1st, the state’s recreational marijuana market opened and this has been a major catalyst for companies levered to California, which is expected to be the largest market in the world.
One company capitalizing on this development is Plus Products, which produces and sell cannabis-infused products in California. The company’s gummy product is ranked number 4 in the entire state and is recording strong revenue growth.
Plus initially came onto the market with a cannabis infused gum and has since expanded its product line to include gummies. Plus has seen amazing demand for its gummy products and has secured a new facility and state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment to increase production capacity. We are favorable on this move as the company will be able to fund this project with the proceeds from a recent offering.
When it comes to investing in cannabis businesses, it all starts with the management team and Plus is led by a team that has a proven track record of success. The company has made a few strategic additions to its board of directors and we believe this positions the edibles manufacturer to succeed. With an initial public offering set to take place in 2018, this is a company that cannabis investors need to keep an eye on.

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Famous Rapper calls his 10 million followers into cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin’s rise to 40 thousand dollars has caused more talk every day, while US rapper Meek Mill, known for his love of cryptocurrencies, has advised his audience of more than 10 million followers on Twitter to learn about the cryptocurrency market as soon as possible.
In his Twitter message, the famous rapper said::
“Everyone who follows me, who is with me, as soon as possible!! I advise them to learn about stocks and especially cryptocurrency markets. I don’t know how much money I have, but all I know is that I bought these. I can’t stop buying myself”
Mill had previously tweeted about several stocks, including both cryptocurrencies and Tesla. Especially after the cryptocurrency tweet, many Bitcoin and digital money people also responded to the famous rapper with mentions. “Bitcoin is different from other cryptocurrencies. I’d like to tell you the basics,” he wrote.


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Growth as far as the eye can see: VISION 2016, the world's leading trade fair for machine vision, once again recorded a slight increase in exhibitors numbers over 2014. The leased floor area rises by 6% to a total of 10,900 square metres. VISION once again impressively underscores its status as the world's leading trade fair with its international structure: 57% of exhibitors (2014: 53%) come from abroad, and the percentage of companies from China continues to grow. The nation represented with the highest number of exhibitors continues to be the US with 34 exhibitors.
Glimpse of the future guaranteed
Apart from a host of product launches and over 90 talks on three stages in which experts from around the globe share their knowledge, the organiser is particularly thrilled about presentation of the 22nd VISION Award. This year, the award is presented to Machine Vision Lighting Inc. for its innovation in the field of machine vision illumination - "VISA - Method Lighting (Variable Irradiation Solid Angle) - Overturning conventional wisdom about lighting". "In recent years we have observed, time and time again, how pioneering ideas have won, which rapidly go on to become indispensable products. This underpins the importance of this traditional award," explains Project Manager Florian Niethammer, "and always guarantees a glimpse of the future."
The trade fair will also feature products for the future. Some 20 years ago, the first embedded systems were introduced at VISION – today it is hard to imagine the industrial and non-industrial sector without embedded vision. Florian Niethammer continues: "We showcased the earliest signs of a new technological trend some two decades ago, which has gone on to achieve a breakthrough today. It is therefore worth keeping a look-out at VISION for products that still have to conquer the market."


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Forbes China has recognised our Corporate Ambassador AviaGames’ CEO Vickie Chen as an ‘Industry Leader’ within its prestigious 2022 Global Chinese Elite Top 100 list.
The list recognises 100 outstanding global Chinese representatives in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and other regions.
Chen was also recently recognised as a Female Executive of the Year finalist in the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, a premier business award programme honouring women executives, entrepreneurs, employees, and the companies they run.
In addition, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business has recognised the AviaGames Pocket7Games social competition gaming platform as a finalist for ‘Smartphone or Tablet App of the Year’.
More than 1,500 entries were submitted for consideration, and finalists were determined by the average scores of more than 200 business professionals around the world, working on seven juries. AviaGames is also the creator of the award-winning Bingo Tour app.
“It is an honour to be nominated alongside industry-leading Chinese entrepreneurs and female business executives, and to be acknowledged for achievement, innovation and impact,” said Vickie Chen, CEO and Founder of AviaGames.
“These awards, and the leaders in which I am nominated alongside, inspire me to continue to elevate AviaGames’ strategic vision and continue creative ventures to bring a more diverse range of people together to play the games they love.”


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Cryptocurrency exchange Binance said on Monday it will stop accepting new customers in the United Kingdom, in compliance with new regulation restricting promotions from overseas digital asset firms in the country.
New users in the UK will not be able to register on the platform from 5 PM local time (4 PM GMT), according to a post on Binance's website.
The country's tough stance comes as cryptocurrency regulation remains in focus around the world after a string of high-profile collapses last year sparked worries about how these firms use and store customer deposits in a largely unregulated industry.
The Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) new rules around cryptoasset promotions came into effect on Oct. 8.
Last week, Britain's financial regulator said it was stopping peer-to-peer platform rebuildingsociety.com from approving financial promotions for Binance and other crypto asset firms, days after Binance announced it had partnered with the company.
The FCA in its decision notice had said unregistered cryptoasset firms must not promote cryptoassets to UK consumers unless they have an authorized company to approve the promotions.
"We are working closely with the FCA ... are looking to find another suitable FCA-authorised firm to approve our financial promotions as soon as possible," Binance said.
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It’s no shock that the final couple of years have been arduous on employees world wide. Within the US alone, the “stop price” reached a 20-year excessive and got here to be referred to as the Nice Resignation.
Earlier this yr we reported one other anomaly dubbed the “Nice Reshuffle” that noticed 618,000 entrepreneurs depart their jobs in 2021. A report from LinkedIn predicted that this development would proceed effectively into 2022 with 24% of entrepreneurs on the lookout for a brand new job, and 62% altering jobs altogether.
What does the information say. Preply seen Google Developments knowledge and analyzed 572 key phrases representing curiosity in over 50 completely different abilities related to American employees. They discovered that 35% of the curiosity was in digital advertising alone.
LinkedIn famous that there was a 121% YoY improve in distant advertising job share. In the identical report, LinkedIn additionally famous that a few of the hottest jobs in demand this yr are social media. The rise in digital advertising abilities ought to come as no shock. Employees need to go distant, as COVID protocols proceed to alter. Digital advertising jobs actually provide the pliability and placement independence that many employees are trying to find.
Different areas of curiosity. Whereas digital advertising got here in at #2 with 35%, it trailed behind knowledge science at 76%. Different areas of curiosity had been knowledge administration (34%), and interpersonal and administration (34%).
Digital advertising sizzling spots. The report from Preply signifies that a lot of the curiosity in these abilities comes from city areas. Nonetheless, on-line studying makes it potential for anybody with a stable web connection to take part, irrespective of the place they’re. However the largest improve in n digital advertising abilities come from Arkansas (125%) and Chicago (32%).
Why we care. Digital advertising isn’t going wherever any time quickly. Even developments in AI and automation aren’t slowing down the necessity for social media entrepreneurs, account managers, and search engine marketing specialists, and extra. Entrepreneurs had beforehand seemed to relocate to large metropolitan areas resembling NYC, LA, and San Francisco. Due to inflation and the elevated price of dwelling, we might see that change quickly. Studying extra digital advertising abilities helps arrange employees to be in demand for the roles they need and the salaries they deserve.
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IHS buys auto forecaster CSM Worldwide for $27M
IHS Inc., a provider of energy and security information to governments and large companies, said Wednesday it is acquiring automotive forecasting company CSM Worldwide for about $27 million.
CSM Worldwide provides vehicle production and sales forecasts and other research to car makers, suppliers and financial organizations.
IHS has its own automotive research division and said in a statement that acquiring CSM will help it expand that service.
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Fans of the puzzle dating simulator HuniePop have been eagerly waiting for its sequel, HuniePop 2: Double Date, and the game finally almost done.
The developer posted on Twitter announcing that there are only three weeks of work left to do on the game, focusing on audio, balancing, and testing, which will be followed by the wait for Steam’s approval.
Assuming that issues don’t arise, the release should come before Valentine’s Day in 2021.
You can see the official announcement below. Incidentally, the image includes a code for a costume for Jessie that can be unlocked when the game launches.
If you’re unfamiliar with the HuniePop franchise, the first game launched on Steam back in 2015 as a hybrid between a puzzle game, a visual novel, and a dating sim. Despite its rather alluring nature, it drew a lot of attention for its solid puzzle mechanics and the beautiful artwork.
As a result, it still has “overwhelmingly positive” user reviews on Steam, which are definitely deserved according to yours truly.
HuniePop 2 will release “soon” for PC. If you want to see (and hear) more, you can check out a video introducing new character Ashley and one sampling the voices of the cast, a semi-recent story teaser, and a gameplay trailer focusing on new features.


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It’s a refrain heard repeatedly at this week’s National Retail Federation trade show and convention: Let the robots do what they do best, and free up human employees to do what they do best.
And the retail industry has decided that what robots do best (and what humans are bad at) is spotting when bottles of shampoo are sold out, or cans of soup are in the wrong place, and keeping track of when store shelves need to be replaced.
A clear sign that shelf-scanning robots and other automated inventory tracking systems have reached the tipping point came Monday with the news that Walmart is expanding its use of shelf-scanning robots to another 650 of its stores, bringing the number of robot-assisted Walmart stores to 1,000.
That news gave Bossa Nova, the robotics and retail tech company supplying Walmart’s robots, a boost at the trade show, where it was demonstrating its robots.
A number of other companies at the show also were showing off their versions of scanning robots, including Badger Technologies, a division of tech corporation Jabil; and Savioke, which has partnered with Brain Corp to add shelf-scanning capabilities to its floor cleaning and hospitality robots.
One company, Gather.ai, is demonstrating an inventory-counting, camera-equipped drone designed to scan boxes on warehouse shelves.
Even more exhibitors are displaying automated shelf scanning systems that use cameras mounted on shelves to monitor inventory levels combined with software that analyzes the information collected by the camera to alert store employees when shelves need to be restocked.
Sarjoun Skaff, founder and CEO of Bossa Nova, in an interview at the retail show Monday, said retailers like Walmart are embracing the robots because it solves stocking problems that have plagued retailers for decades.
“Instead of spending time on your schedule looking for problems, you can start fixing them. You become data driven,” he said. “Now, when the [work] shift shows up they already know what problems need to be solved.”
Store employees get a list of problems found by the robot – out of stocks, misplaced products, pricing mistakes. The list, Skaff said, is organized by severity of the problem, “so you hit the biggest first, and you improve your store fast.”
Does Skaff envision his robots evolving to where they can restock the shelves without the help of a human? No, says Skaff. That wouldn’t be a smart use of the robot’s time, because restocking shelves is something humans are way better at.
“In restocking a shelf, it would be competing with a human and a human is uncannily good at picking and placing,” Skaff said. “Robots have a long way to go before they will be good enough to compete with a human at restocking a shelf.”
Instead, Bossa Nova plans to concentrate on supplying more information to retailers about what the robots do best – scanning and recording and memorizing information such as how quickly a brand of soda sells out, or which shelf placement produced the most sales, or other data about the physical environment in the store.
Bossa Nova, which was born in Pittsburgh, grew out of Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute. It now has offices in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Bentonville, Arkansas, Mountain View, California, Leetsdale, Pennsylvania, and Sheffield, England. It started as a toy company, producing robotic toys, and switched to retail robots in 2012.
Intel introduced Bossa Nova to retail tech executives in 2013, hosting the company at the retail show in 2013.
“In 2013, nobody had a robot in a store or an inkling of a robot scanning the shelves,” Skaff said. Bossa Nova initially had a hard time convincing investors that there was a future in inventing technology to help brick-and-mortar stores. In 2013, 2014, 2015, he said, everyone thought Amazon would kill off brick and mortar—“until Amazon bought Whole Foods. That changed the conversation,” Skaff said.
Now, Bossa Nova and other retail tech companies are changing the conversation again. And the result is, this year, at the retail show, the country’s largest retailers are talking about their plans to use robots, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and machine learning as a way to let their human staff do what humans do best, and connect with other humans – their customers.


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Budget 2012: VAT Loopholes to Close
Hot food and sports drinks are targeted, as anomalies in the VAT system are set to be brought in line.
The chancellor announced that loopholes, which allow hot foods sold in supermarkets to avoid VAT, while similar products from take-aways being charged, will end. Another quirky anomaly allows sports drinks to be exempt from VAT while regular soft drinks are not.
The Treasury expects to raise £50m in 2012/3 rising to £120m in 2016/7, which ‘some may see as highly ambitious’ Stephen Coleclough, PwC tax partner considered.
Referring to the ‘hot food reform’ Coleclough said: ‘Sandwiches which are not hot, but warmer than the “ambient air temperature” will now attract VAT. But the issue is by no means cut and dried. Bizarrely, products with freshly baked bread aren’t caught in the net. Batten down the hatches for the first court case on the legal definition of “freshly-baked”.’
He added: ‘The government is trying to remove anomalies but has only introduced new ones which will no doubt lead to yet more litigation which is the one thing the government is trying to avoid.’
- VAT Fraud Leads Father and Son Duo to Jail
- Mechanic Ordered to Pay Back £208k with Respect to a Tax Fraud
- Large Businesses Tax underpayments increases by 13% to £25bn
- OECD Releases Compliance Ratings on Tax Transparency
- LITRG urges to Act Fast on Missed Tax Credit Renewals
- Legal and Accounting Businesses Contribute £15.5bn in Taxes for UK Treasury
- Chinese Football Association Introduces Rule of 100% tax on Signings of Foreign Players


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Longtime Wilton resident Stephen H. Gluck, an expert in the coffee industry, died at his home on Nov. 13 at the age of 80.
After spending the majority of his life in the green coffee industry, it became an avocation for Gluck, who chose "COFFEE" as his license plate.
While working in the coffee industry, he had the opportunity to live in Honduras, Ecuador, Guatemala and San Francisco early in his career before returning to the East Coast to join Imperial Commodities Corp. in New York in 1962, becoming president in 1974. In 1984, he joined Cargill Inc., becoming managing director of its London coffee division until retiring in 1994.
Gluck received a number of awards for his service to the coffee industry, including one from Ramacafe, Nicaragua, in 2004 and TechnoServe in 2003. He was also an honorary lifetime member of the Pacific Coast Coffee Association and the Green Coffee Association.
Born in Ulm, Germany, Gluck moved to Syracuse, N.Y., with his parents as a boy. He attended St. Lawrence University and graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in Hispanic American Studies.
He is survived by his wife Katherine Hall Gluck; five children Dia Potter, Stephen Gluck, Jr., Cecily Sachi, Eugenie Coleman and Daniel Gluck and their families; stepchildren, Erin Bell and Brian Bell; and sister Irene Robertson.A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4, at Wilton Congregational Church, 70 Ridgefield Road. Donations in Gluck's memory can be made to the Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County, P.O. Box 489, Wilton, CT 06897.
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Hardware and software giant Microsoft Corp. says it will open a new retail store at The Oaks shopping center in Thousand Oaks on Thursday.
Located at 350 W. Hillcrest Drive, the site will be one of 12 retail stores in California, including a new store in Canoga Park. The Thousand Oaks location will also be Microsoft’s third specialty store in the state. Specialty stores offer a selected number of items.
On opening day, Microsoft will offer a Surface 64GB tablet for $199. The deal is limited to that day and to one per customer while supplies last. The store will open at 10 a.m.
Microsoft has 93 retail store in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.
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Phat! Company have released official photos and info regarding their upcoming Sana Futaba figure, from the mobile game Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record. The figure is 1/8 scale and stands around 20cm tall.
The figure is currently available to pre-order froma variety of retailers, including AmiAmi. Sana has a ¥13,800 RRP (excluding tax) and is scheduled to release in April 2019. Phat! also mentions that Felicia Mitsuki is planned to join her in the future, so look out for that, too.[tabby title=”Gallery” icon=”camera” open=”yes”]


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Stocks Edge Lower Ahead of Federal Reserve Policy Decision
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks edged lower in early trading on Wall Street Wednesday ahead of the latest interest rate policy decision by the Federal Reserve.
Health care and technology companies led the market lower as investors favored safer holdings in the utilities and real estate sectors. Microsoft and Apple edged lower, dragging other technology stocks down with them.
Johnson & Johnson and UnitedHealth Group fell 1.1 percent, weighing down their peers in the health care industry.
The market closed on a soft note Tuesday, ending a weeklong rally. The market is still off to a roaring start to the year. The S&P 500 index is up 12.6 percent so far in 2019. That's better than the full-year gains for the benchmark index in four of the past five years.
Investors are looking ahead to comments from the Federal Reserve after its latest two-day meeting. The central bank has signaled that it will be "patient" in raising interest rates as it weighs a dimmer economic picture globally.
Bond prices rose ahead of the Fed announcement. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 2.59 percent.
Investors are also digesting another snippet of information on trade talks between the U.S. and China. White House officials are saying that top U.S. trade and economic officials will visit China late next week for another round of negotiations. Wall Street is hoping for a resolution to the damaging trade war between the world's largest economies, which has made goods more costly for companies and consumers.
KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 106.2 points, or 0.4 percent, to 25,777 as of 10 a.m. The S&P 500 fell 0.3 percent and the Nasdaq composite 0.1 percent.
DAMAGED PACKAGES: FedEx plunged after the company told investors that weak economic growth and higher costs will continue to cut into profit and revenue.
The package delivery company's third-quarter profit fell more than expected as it dealt with slower economic growth and weak global trade. Revenue also fell short of forecasts. Looking ahead, the company cut its full-year profit forecast for a second time.
RISING DOUGH: General Mills blew away profit forecasts for the third quarter as higher prices on some of its products lifted revenue.
The maker of Cheerios, Lucky Charms and Pillsbury, has been facing tougher competition as consumer tastes continue to shift to healthier food options. The company has been working to build a broader mix of healthier products, along with raising prices on certain brands.
The company now expects adjusted full-year earnings per share to be flat to up 1 percent from last year's $3.11. Previously it forecast a decline of up to 3 percent.
OVERSEAS: Germany's Dax fell 1.5 percent on bad news for several key companies. Automaker BMW projected lower profits for the year. Also, a U.S. jury found that Bayer's Roundup weed killer contributed to a California man's cancer. Other European indexes edged lower and Asian indexes were mixed.
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Blockchain payments firm Ripple will further expand its operations in the Asia-Pacific region after entering into a strategic partnership with Global Money Express Co. Ltd (GME Remittance), one of South Korea’s leading money transfer giants.
GME Remittance Joins RippleNet
According to a blog post on August 10, GME Remittance is now a RippleNet customer, joining over 300 other member banks and financial institutions across the globe. The firm joined the enterprise blockchain network of Ripple to enhance cross-border payments between South Korea and Thailand.
In particular, GME Remittance has linked up with Thailand’s largest bank by market capitalization, Siam Commercial Bank, through RippleNet — which notably doesn’t use the XRP cryptocurrency. This collaboration was made possible through Ripple and SBI Holdings joint venture, SBI Ripple Asia, in a bid to “accelerate and scale” remittance payments for over 184,000 Thai citizens who are presently living in South Korea.
The post also revealed that GME Remittance is eyeing connections with more existing RippleNet customers to establish a footprint in more remittance corridors across the region and internationally, including the United States and Europe.
GME Remittance Director and COO, Subash Chandra Poudel, said in the announcement:
“We chose Ripple as our partner because with RippleNet we can launch into new countries with new partners within 1-2 weeks. This has drastically reduced the time to market and provides us with an edge compared to our competitors.”
Poudel added that RippleNet has increased the speed and transparency of sending money across borders since the partnership was launched.
Ripple Expands Asian Footprint
Ripple has been making concerted efforts in recent years to build a strong presence in the Eastern region.
Indeed the company says Asia-Pacific is one of its fastest-growing markets for both customer demand and transaction growth, with transactions growing 130% year-over-year. The San Francisco-based fintech also has several South Korean partners, including Sentbe, Hanpass, CROSS ENF, and Coinone Transfer.
Even though Ripple is presently enmeshed in a legal brawl in the United States, it seems that the company’s business is booming in Asia.
XRP’s price climbed to $0.97 at the time of publication, demonstrating over 12.15 percent growth over the past 24 hours.


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Founded in 1947, Swedish clothing retailer Hennes & Mauritz AB (STO: HM-B), commonly known as H&M, has grown into one of the most recognizable brands in the fashion industry. H&M has more than 5,000 stores worldwide and employs 120,000 people.
Not surprisingly, the COVID-19 shutdown had an impact in 2020. The company reported strong growth in online sales but overall sales still came in 5% down in September 2020 over the same period one year earlier.
The company said it would permanently shut down 350 stores starting in 2021, but that doesn’t mean it’s giving up on brick-and-mortar. Its executives seem to have concluded that the real world and the online world work best in tandem. “More and more customers started shopping online during the pandemic, and they are making it clear that they value a convenient and inspiring experience in which stores and online interact and strengthen each other,” said CEO Helena Helmersson. “We are increasing digital investments, accelerating store consolidation, and making the channels further integrated.”
- H&M is a leader in the “fast fashion” space, competing with Zara and Forever 21.
- Fast fashion relies on high volume sales of trendy and inexpensive clothing.
- H&M claims its mix of brick-and-mortar and online sales is a business strength.
The Secret to H&M’s Success: Fast Fashion
The secret to the success of H&M and its rivals like Zara and Forever 21 can be attributed to the fast fashion business model.
Fast fashion relies on moving a large volume of merchandise from the designer table to the showroom floor in the shortest amount of time possible and at a reasonable price. Aimed at young, fashion-conscious urban consumers, their products are trendy and they’re cheap, bordering on disposable.
That naturally has gained them some criticism from advocates of sustainable and ethical consumerism.
H&M’s model also relies on a solid marketing team that can quickly determine what the target demographic desires and get it into the supply chain fast.
H&M’s Brand of Fast Fashion
While fast fashion is not limited to H&M, the Swedish brand has a distinct business model. Unlike Zara, H&M does not manufacture its products in-house but outsources its production to more than 900 independent suppliers around the world, mainly in Europe and Asia, which are overseen by 30 strategically located oversight offices.
To incentivize fair working conditions, H&M introduced a pilot program for its Bangladesh and Cambodian factories which involved the company purchasing 100% of the factories’ outputs over a five-year span. H&M hoped that by being the sole customer, it is better able to ensure safe working conditions while increasing productivity more naturally, as opposed to attempting enforcement through routine compliance inspections.
Secondly, only 80% or so of all store merchandise is stocked year-round, while the remaining 20% of H&M products are designed and stocked on the fly in small batches, depending on the prevailing trend. To ensure timely delivery and fast lead times, H&M relies on its state-of-the-art IT network, which allows integration between the central national office and satellite production offices.
By mid-2021, H&M appeared to be recovering from the pandemic, but not without some difficulty. In June 2021, the company reported sales jumped 25% from the year before but were down 4% from its 2019 numbers.
China seemed to be a problem area. Sales in that nation fell 23% after the retailer was booted off its popular Tmall website and some domestic phone app stores in response to H&M’s expressions of concern about alleged human rights abuses. China accounts for 5% of the retailer’s total sales and is one of its top suppliers.
American investors can follow Hennes Mauritz via its American Depository Receipt, Hennes Mauritz ADR (HNNMY), which is listed on the NASDAQ.
Shares closed on Aug. 13, 2021, at $4.13. Its 52-week range was between $3.04 and $5.22.
The Bottom Line
Since its founding in 1947, H&M has grown to become the world’s second-largest fashion retailer, after Inditex, owner of the Zara stores.
The continued success of both retailers depends on their application of fast fashion, which relies on spotting fashion trends as they appear and getting inexpensive copies of them into their stores as quickly as possible.


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DeNA (TYO:2432) points out today that its mobile RPG Blood Brothers reached the top of the Google Play top grossing app charts in the US over the weekend. The fantasy RPG has been doing well for the past few months, gradually climbing up in the top ten until it briefly took the top spot this past Saturday (see chart below).
Interestingly, the app that Blood Brothers knocked out of the first spot (temporarily) was another Mobage title, Rage of Bahamut. That game held that position for almost six months. DeNA’s executive games director Kenji Kobayashi is pleased with the success of this up-and-coming title:
Following the success of Rage of Bahamut, we are delighted to see Blood Brothers also gaining remarkable popularity in the U.S. and other countries. […] In Japan, DeNA has accumulated extensive know-how on rapidly iterative game design, where we constantly and quickly incorporate user feedback to our games. We see Blood Brothers’ success as another solid proof point that the model works across borders, not just in Japan.
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And indeed, Blood Brothers has been very popular in a number of regions, becoming the top grossing app in more than 22 countries, including France and Canada, plus India, Indonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines here in Asia.
How’s Blood Brothers doing on iOS? That version of the game launched back in August, and ranks as a top ten top grossing app for the ‘role playing’ and ‘adventure’ categories. The app claims over 150,000 downloads to date.
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Coinbase Takes a Bet on Middle East Crypto Market
- Coinbase takes a bet on Middle East Crypto Market by investing in Rain Financial
- Rain Financial has secured a total funding of $17. 9 million
- Coinbase’s highly anticipated IPO is set to hold anytime soon.
Coinbase has taken a huge bet on the Middle East Crypto Market by investing in Rain Financial, a crypto exchange with operations based in the Middle East and North Africa region.
In a funding series led by Middle East Venture Partners, Rain Financial raised $6 million. The round has other key investments from Coinbase, Vision Ventures, and others.
The rainy season for Coinbase
Rain is the first approved cryptocurrency exchange in the region and has also been licensed by Bahrain’s apex bank. The funding will be used to expand operations in the Middle East region while also upgrading the technical team.
According to the company’s co-founder, there is a spike in the number of news uses and volume traded from the Middle East region.
Rain Financial has secured a total funding of $17.9 million. With operations in about 50 countries, the company is poised to be the region’s top exchange.
Rain’s home country, Bahrain, is one of the top countries in the region in terms of cryptocurrency. Bahrain regulators have been working on a framework for cryptocurrency in the country since 2020.
Coinbase and its search for global dominance
Coinbase has taken a significant bet on Rain Financial’s potentials by investing in the company in a bid to boost its global dominance. Although this mission faces a lot of competition from top exchanges like Binance, Coinbase has continually expanded its relevance away from the American market by investing in other companies through its investment section, Coinbase Ventures. Coinbase Ventures’ previous investments include Compound, Messari, and TaxBit.
Coinbase raised $300 million in 2018 from a funding round to source more money before going public. Coinbase is set to go public anytime soon with a valuation of $28 billion.


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CES is a double-edged sword for tech journalists. It’s the largest consumer electronics trade show in the United States and one that constantly looms on the horizon like an ominous cloud filled with the promise of long hours and sleep-deprived nights. At the same time, it’s a space where we can gawk at remarkable innovations that will soon shape the future of the industry, redefining technology as a whole and paving the way for more advanced application as they do. That said, wouldn’t it also be nice if you could peruse and purchase all the show’s products in a single place?
This year, things are going to be a bit different. Amazon’s CES Showcase will feature a host of inventive products, from high-end audio components to the latest in home automation, all culled directly from its showroom floor. The showcase will essentially function as a central hub for all things 2016 CES-related, thus providing quick access to the latest product reveals, interviews, and video reviews featured on Digital Trends and a few other select publications.
It will also serve as the first place you’ll be able to pre-order many of the products shown throughout the week of January 6, and this will allow you to be the first to get your hands on that must-have gadget everyone is talking about before it officially goes on sale. Afterward, you’ll just have to wait like the rest of us …
- Alexa loses her voice, gains celebrity ones in Amazon’s Super Bowl ad
- Our favorite phone accessories from CES 2017
- Amazon introduces new Fire TV Edition line of budget-priced TVs at CES
- Amazon will offer an Echo-exclusive music streaming plan for $4 or $5 a month
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Native Ad Company Sharethrough Raises $10M from BSkyB, Others
The new money, coming nine months after the company raised $17 million, will be used for global expansion and product development as Sharethrough aims to bring “in-feed, native advertising to every content publisher and brand marketer,” said CEO Dan Greenberg in a blog post. Originally focusing on native video ads, Sharethrough has since expanded to include other native ad formats.
The company also recently opened an office in London, and acquired a UK-based regional content marketing house called Van.
As part of Sky’s investment, Jamie West, deputy managing director of Sky Media, Sky’s ad sales division, will assume a “board observer” position at Sharethrough. More importantly, Sharethrough will now power all of the native advertising across Sky’s online and mobile properties, including Sky Sports. Sky is an existing client of the Sharethrough for Publishers platform.
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Ivanhoe Cambridge, owner of several shopping malls around BC has invested $280 million in upgrading their Surrey Town Center property in the Guildford area of Surrey to Zombie Apocalypse standards. Meaning, when the zombies come, it’s Dawn of the Dead time.
Expanding to 1.2 million square feet and adding 70 new stores to the already existing 200 means this is your one stop, post apocalyptic destination. The mall even comes with a built in self sustaining air scrubber as they have installed a 10,000 plant living wall.
Graeme Silvera, Ivanhoe Cambridge’s vice-president of retail development, Western Region for obvious reasons could not come out and say the renovation was in preparation for the coming apocalypse, but read between the lines of what he did say and the message becomes clear.
“(We’ve got) all of the tenants that were attracting people to go over the Port Mann Bridge,” he said. “They are recognizing the market (in Surrey) is as big as the Vancouver market, and this bridge possibly with the tolling is going to convince people that they want to stay on this side of the river now.”
You don’t need a translator to understand the message there is “We need places to gather and as the zombie apocalypse stretches out from days to months to years as it inevitably will, infrastructure will crumble and collapse. Stay off the bridges and join our community.”


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Like all second-generation units of the Chevy Colorado, the 2020 Colorado will continue to ride on thewith the following vehicles: 2015 and newer GMC Canyon
Last week we finally got to take a look at the all-new 2020 Jeep Gladiator. and even the off-road-focused Rubicon is capable of lugging around 7,000. The Chevrolet Colorado diesel four-wheel drive.
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No official information has been released yet regarding the Chevrolet Colorado for 2020. Fleet ordering guides indicate GM will begin production in mid-July of 2019. We currently estimate a release date in late August or early September. Expect pricing and other details to be announced closer to that time. We’ll update this page once we know more.


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The dollar surged to a 20-year high against a basket of currencies and the euro broke below parity against the greenback after data on Wednesday showed U.S. consumer price inflation surged to a 40-1/2-year high in June.
The consumer price index increased 1.3% last month as gasoline and food costs remained elevated, more than the 1.1% expected by economists polled by Reuters. read more
"This morning's number is staggeringly high. It's higher than expected and shows that inflation is going quickly in the wrong direction," said Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer at Independent Advisor Alliance.
The euro plunged to $0.9998 against the greenback, breaking below the $1 level for the first time since Dec. 2002, before bouncing back to last trade at $1.0024.
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Navigating a New Ad Landscape
Hey y’all! Happy Friday.
As always, we’re glad to have you with us. Today, we’re going to talk about something that we think is going to be a pretty big deal this cycle: changes in ad targeting.
With the launch of the iOS 14 software update earlier this year, Apple really shook up the way advertisers are able to reach their audiences. iOS 14 gave Apple users (who, for the record, make up about half of all smartphone users globally) the ability to opt-out of sharing their data and mobile activity with any given app. If you’re an Apple user, you’ve probably seen the prompts yourself:
In a lot of ways, this change is *really* good for users: it gives us more control over our own data and over who we let have access to it. But for advertisers - including groups doing voter registration and turnout work, like VFP, who “advertise” to potential voters - being unable to rely on user data makes it a lot harder to accurately target our audiences.
To make things even more complicated, this week, Facebook announced a pretty big change to how advertisers can target users on their platform. Starting next year, advertisers (again, including groups like VFP) will no longer be able to use a feature called “detailed targeting”, which had historically allowed us to target users based on characteristics like race, ethnicity, and political affiliation. Instead, we'll have to rely on much broader categories like gender, age, and location - categories that, generally, don't tell us all that much about who we're actually reaching.
And again, in a lot of ways, this change is a really big win for user privacy. But, again, it makes it *really* hard for us to reach the audience that we're interested in getting a message out to.
But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible, and it definitely doesn’t mean we’ll stop trying. The Voter Formation Project will always do everything in our power to make our country’s electorate look more like the people that live here, even if now, we have to get a little bit more
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Yes, Netflix Can Increase Prices Further
Video streaming giant Netflix has recently (and finally) decided to up its monthly subscription price by $1. Current subscribers need not fret, however: the company is portraying an Amazon-like focus on customers and will grandfather in existing subscribers for a full two years.
Despite the modest increase, Netflix's high-quality video streaming service remains a very cheap and compelling offer for consumers. In addition, the company's growing reputation as an original content producer will enable Netflix to add many more subscribers and enact an even bigger price increase several years down the road and still stay very competitive with other premium TV names like HBO of Time Warner and Amazon .
Small price hike
Netflix will direct its price hike at newer customers in the U.S. and a number of international markets in which the company operates. Netflix ended the last quarter with more than 48.3 million subscribers across the globe, and the company will not enforce a price hike on these customers for a whole two years.
As a result, a small fraction of the company's customers will see heightened prices and most consumers who use Netflix will not see major effects from this for a long time. Based on the company's guidance for the second quarter of 2014, Netflix should add 500,000 subscribers in the U.S. and 940,000 subscribers across all of its international markets.
Netflix will be upping the price from $7.99/month to $8.99/month for new subscribers in the U.S, and the company's subscribers in the UK and Europe will also see similar price hikes denominated in pounds and euros as well. The company continues to add many new movies and TV shows for its subscribers, and will be able to fund even more original content for its growing subscriber base.
Immense pricing power
Netflix is a vastly different company from what it was in 2011. That year,the company saw its stock price fall from $300 to the low $50s. At that time, Netflix was mostly a streaming and DVD company with commodity content licensed from various content creators like Time Warner, CBS, and AMC Networks, etc.
However, the company has more than doubled its subscriber base from 21.4 million to more than 48 million members worldwide, and now it also offers a lot of exclusive content and is increasingly adding high-quality original shows like House of Cards and Orange Is The New Black, etc. Also, some of these shows got lots of praise from critics and won a number of awards as well.
With such high-quality content, Netflix can raise its prices even more as the company's high-quality originals are far better than those available from its Internet TV rivals -- Hulu and Amazon Prime. Amazon recently struck a deal with HBO to add old catalog content as well as future shows three years after they debut on HBO for an estimated $300 million per year. However, most of that content will be familiar to consumers by the time it is available for Amazon's 20 million subscribers. So the content is not fully exclusive unlike the originals developed by Netflix.
HBO and Cinemax have a combined subscriber base of more than 43 million in the U.S. but the premium channel is an add-on to basic cable packages at a price point of $15+/month. Also, Amazon's original content hasn't been half as popular as the original content developed by Netflix. So Netflix can easily hike the price to $9.99/month a few years down the road.
For most consumers, a $1 price hike is not really a big deal either. However, the company's earnings profile will see dramatic improvements due to the current price hike when existing subscribers see the price increase in their bills two years from now.
Earnings growth ahead
In the last quarter, Netflix's gross margin stood at 31.6%, which was the highest level in nine quarters for the company. So the company's big investments in developing platforms in Europe and other territories are aiding its margin improvement, and should scale up even more down the road.
Investors in Netflix will welcome the price increase with both arms as analysts had long expected it to raise prices. As a result, the company's earnings should see stellar growth. Analysts' estimates call for earnings per share of $4.20 for 2014, which is a big jump from Netflix's 2013 EPS of $1.85.
As the company's international segment starts starts to contribute more meaningfully to the bottom line in the next few quarters, Netflix's EPS could likely continue to see big double-digit increases. The company will still retain a lot of pricing leverage as it is investing heavily in adding high-quality originals to its library. The big drop in the company's stock price in 2014 as part of the pullback in tech stocks has created a very attractive risk/reward situation for Netflix investors and definitely warrants closer inspection. As always, Foolish investors should do their own research before making any investment decisions.
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Chip developer Arm, whose technology is found in virtually all smartphones, benefits from entering the data center business. The increased use of artificial intelligence technology is also increasing demand for chips with Arm architecture, company chief René Haas said after presenting the current quarterly figures. Arm shares rose more than 50 percent in early U.S. trading Thursday after its revenue forecast for the current quarter significantly exceeded analyst expectations.
Apple, among other companies, develops processors for its iPhones and now also for Mac computers based on chip architectures designed by Arm. Semiconductor company Qualcomm, whose chips power many Android smartphones, also uses it. Customers pay royalties to Arm for using the chip architecture.
V9 and data center processors boost profits
With the latest chip architecture, called V9, this rate is about double that of the previous one, Haas said. Since chips based on it are now used in all new premium smartphones, this also boosts Arm's sales.
Even more lucrative for the chip designer are data center processors, which generate revenue from multiple computing cores at the same time. The foray into the automobile business is also bearing fruit. Chips based on Arm technology are found, for example, in iPhones, Tesla electric cars, Samsung televisions and also in the coveted artificial intelligence processors of the semiconductor company Nvidia, Haas highlighted Thursday in the CNBC television channel.
Arm raises sales forecast more than expected
For the current quarter, Arm expects sales of between $850 million and $900 million, while analysts, on average, were only expecting a forecast of $778 million.
Arm went public last fall and shares initially stalled at the issue price of $51. Thursday's price jump took it to the $120 mark.
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Superdry swings to full year loss
Superdry has swung to a full year loss after a twelve months of “considerable challenge.”
In the 52 weeks to 27 April, the fashion retailer made a pre-tax loss of £85.4 million. This compares to a profit of £65.3 million in the previous year.
Group revenue was flat at £871.7 million while underlying pre-tax profit was down 56.8% to £41.9 million. The retailer said its performance in the second half was poor across all channels.
The year saw Superdry’s co-founder Julian Dunkerton return to the business despite opposition from its board. The move resulted in the chief executive and other board members resigning.
Dunkerton said today: “The issues in the business will not be resolved overnight. My first priority on returning to Superdry has been to steady the ship and get the culture of the business back to the one which drove its original success.
“All the team in Superdry are working incredibly hard to deliver the direction set out, with a real focus on returning the business to its design-led roots and getting the retail basics right.
“Although we are only three months in, our initiatives are gaining some early traction, and I am confident we are doing the right things to ensure that over time Superdry will return to strong profitable growth.”
Superdry issued three profit warnings in the year. The company blamed unseasonably warm weather over a prolonged period for poor trading. It also said that Superdry may have been losing its appeal to customers.
The company will now focus on “bringing back design excellence” to its products. It will also be aiming to “re-ignite the brand DNA” through consumer engagement and social media.
Looking ahead, Superdry expects group revenue to show a slight decline in the current financial year, particularly in the first half, as it balances promotional activity and works to strengthen the brand.
It added: “We expect our financial performance in FY20 to reflect market conditions and the historic issues inherited.”


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Fraudster Belle Gibson’s Melbourne home has been raided over the $500,000 fine she received for profiting from claims she cured herself of cancer.
The sheriff’s office went to the 28-year-old’s Northcote home on Friday over the “substantial debt”.
“A warrant of seizure and sale on Ms Gibson was executed today by Sheriff’s Officers at an address in Northcote,” a statement from Consumer Affairs Victoria read.
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“Ms Gibson owes the Victorian public a substantial debt and Consumer Affairs Victoria will continue to pursue repayment.”
The Federal Court fined Gibson $410,000 in 2017 for breaching consumer law when she claimed she had brain cancer but healed herself through diet and alternative therapies, going on to make a profit from her cookbook The Whole Pantry and an app with the same name.
Her fine has now grown to more than half a million dollars with costs and interest.
Gibson appeared in the Federal Court in 2019 claiming she was unable to pay the fine.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions his Department has had with industry stakeholders on funding for an equitable and affordable switch to greener and cleaner heating ahead of the upcoming Spending review. (57137)
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The Government has been engaging with a range of industry and consumer groups on funding options to enable an equitable and affordable switch to greener and cleaning heating. Further details of these policies are set out in the Heat and Building Strategy.
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Creating memories and bespoke ceremonies
A Sportsman’s Dream will be open on Sunday, December 8th from 12.00pm to 6.00pm to celebrate the launch of the New Tipperary GAA Jersey.
Special Guests, Tipperary Senior Hurlers, Brendan Maher (Captain), Noel McGrath (Vice-Captain) and Darren Gleeson will be in store at 3.00pm.
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Surprise: The BMW M4 will be Unveiled December 12th in Gran Turismo 6
We already knew that the BMW M4 Coupe will come to life in the GT6. According to an announcement made by Sony, the M4 "will be made available through a free update shortly after the release of GT6, allowing car enthusiasts around the world to drive it before it arrives in BMW showrooms" in 2014.
Since the model will be revealed in GT6, it would make no sense for BMW to keep it a secret until January, so we’ll have the first details on both models this Thursday.
Click past the jump to read more about the BMW M4 Coupe.
The BMW M4 Coupe will be powered by a 3.0-liter turbocharged engine that produces 430 horsepower and 413 pound-feet of torque. The car will weight under 3,300 pounds and will hit 60 mph in less than 4 seconds.
The new BMW M4 Coupe will be offered in eight exterior colors: Alpine White, Mineral Grey Metallic, Black Sapphire Metallic, Sakhir Orange Metallic, Silverstone Metallic, Austin Yellow Metallic, Mineral White Metallic and Yas Marina Blue Metallic.
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Coles will end its in-store butcher service this weekend, will assess its meat workers for redeployment or redundancies, and will serve only pre-packaged meat moving forward in what has been labelled a ‘cost cutting exercise’ by the Australian Meat Industry Employers’ Union.
The supermarket said the change comes after discussions with its meat department workers in August about the change, which were confirmed this morning by the ABC.
“In June we let our meat team members know we were considering a proposal to align our meat operating models nationally in our stores, so that we can consistently deliver high quality retail-ready meat for our customers whenever they want to shop,” a Coles spokesperson said.
“Following a period of consultation with affected meat team members as well as their union representatives, a decision was made to proceed with the proposal in late August.”
The AMIEU acting federal secretary Matt Journeaux said the decision will affect about 1570 Coles team members, and was a devastating blow for the industry.
According to Journeaux, who spoke to the ABC, some employees that opted to be redeployed within the Coles ecosystem have been offered 16-20 hour weeks in different roles.
“There’s a lot of people that ticked the redeploy box just to see what was on offer, and most of those offers that have come out have been pretty substandard, so I think a lot more will be opting for redundancy,” he said.
“If [our] members want to take up jobs in abattoirs, we will help them wherever we can.”
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BOMBAY A home furnishings company agreed to withdraw the name “The Nazi Collection” from a line of bedspreads after protests from India’s Jewish community.
The company had sparked anger by using swastikas in promotional material and refusing to scrap the name, which it insisted stood for “New Arrival Zone for India”. But in a statement yesterday it apologised for offending the country’s Jews and said that all advertising and publicity material bearing the name The Nazi Collection would be withdrawn. “We sincerely regret our action in proposing such an obnoxious name for our products,” the company said.
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Joe Jonas catches a case of the giggles while taping a show for 'El Hormiguero' in Madrid, Spain. June 24, 2011.
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Fashion and pop culture collided last evening to recognize sartorial excellence at the 2015 CFDA Fashion Awards.
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6,000 New Auto Jobs Expected in Alabama
Feb. 1, 2021—The Alabama Department of Commerce estimates that more than 6,000 new auto-related jobs in Alabama are expected following the completion of two major manufacturing plans, the Alabama Reporter reported.
A new Mazda Toyota plant in Huntsville and a Mercedes-Benz EV manufacturing operation in Tuscaloosa and Bibb counties are expected to be the main source of the growth, with both expected to open in the coming months.
“Vehicles have become Alabama’s chief export, with annual shipments to 90 nations around the world,” Economic developer Nicole Jones told the publication. “The automotive industry accounts for over 40,000 manufacturing jobs in our state. A business-friendly climate that includes a quality and skilled workforce, low taxes, competitive incentives and an excellent quality of life facilitate an environment conducive for business.”
Last year, the Alabama auto industry added 1,900 jobs and $1.1 billion in investment.


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RAH Color Technologies LLC has added an Eastern District of Texas suit against Microsoft (4:20-cv-00176) to its sole litigation campaign, begun in late 2010. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation transferred the other open cases—against Adobe, Dalim Software, and Electronics for Imaging—to the Northern District of California where District Judge Susan Illston has imposed a stay to await the outcome of inter partes reviews (IPRs) of various patents-in-campaign. RAH Color pleads that it believes the new case to be a “tag-along action” appropriate for transfer to California as well. The plaintiff asserts five of its patents, targeting Microsoft over color management features included in certain Windows operating systems (e.g., Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10) and certain Surface devices over their inclusion of various features related to color management, media capture and management, and display backlight adjustment.
RAH Color Technologies LLC has opened up a third active case in its color reproduction campaign, filing a new suit against Xerox (1:17-cv-06813) in the Northern District of Illinois. Xerox is accused of infringing six of RAH Color’s patents through the provision of print servers with certain color calibration and reproduction features. RAH Color’s past practice had been to file cases serially in multiple districts, but the NPE filed a suit against Quad/Graphics this past June and a suit against Samsung in July, both of which remain open in the Northern District of Illinois. In a recent motion to join the Samsung case to the earlier Quad/Graphics one, RAH Color represented that at the time it anticipated “filing additional cases before the end of the year”, which it has now done.
RAH Color Technologies LLC has sued Samsung (1:17-cv-05430), accusing the company of infringing five patents (7,830,546; 8,279,236; 8,638,340; 9,404,802; 9,516,288) generally related to color reproduction. The accused products include mobile devices with Samsung’s Adaptive Display Technology, which adjusts a display’s color based on ambient light. RAH Color, controlled by named inventor Richard A. Holub, began this campaign back in December 2010; with the addition of the ‘340, ‘802, and ‘288 patents in this latest complaint, the number of asserted patents now stands at 19.
Inventor-controlled RAH Color Technologies LLC has filed another case in the campaign begun in December 2010, accusing Quad/Graphics (1:17-cv-04931) of infringing a subset (6,995,870; 7,312,897; 7,729,008; 7,830,546; 8,537,357; 8,760,704) of the 16 patents that have been asserted throughout. The patents generally relate to color reproduction, with various print and display products and services (e.g. digital cameras, print servers, etc.) at issue since the beginning of the campaign.


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China's largest chip foundry, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) expressed pessimism about the possibility of a business turnaround in the near term during its third-quarter 2022 earnings conference call, but emphasized that it remains optimistic over the medium- to long-term development.
It noted that its expansion plans remain unchanged, and its talent retention and equipment acquisition have been able to keep up with the pace of capacity expansion.
Although the new US export rule prohibits US persons (including Chinese with US citizenship or residency) from assisting the development of advanced semiconductor technology in China (especially companies on the Entity List), SMIC co-CEO Zhao Haijun said its talent reserve is at the best condition of all time, as the COVID-pandemic has lowered employee turnover while new graduates showed strong motivation in joining the semiconductor industry.
"Many university graduates with bachelor's and master's degrees are eager to join us," said Zhao, "We took in many good quality new recruits, and talent source is sufficient. The total number of our headcount last year was 15,000-16,000, and this year so far we have exceeded 20,000."
Liang Mong Song, the former TSMC R&D executive who helped Samsung build up its foundry, remains the co-CEO at SMIC, despite the US restrictions. "Although SMIC has not admitted that it has mass-produced 7nm chips, it is true the team led by Liang developed and produced it with immersion DUV. They did not copy the design of TSMC," an industry expert who has been closely monitoring the semiconductor industry in Taiwan and China for more than two decades told DIGITIMES. "SMIC has started to develop 5nm chips, but the challenge has become even greater after the new US export control rules."
SMIC is aiming to increase 340,000 units of 12-inch wafer equivalent in monthly capacity in the next 5-7 years in new production line projects at five subsidiaries. Capital expenditure has been raised from US$5 billion to US$6.6 billion for the entire 2022, but it does not include the Tianjin Fab, mainly due to the company's needs to prepay for the equipment that sees long lead times before delivery, according to SMIC statement.
Compared to GlobalFoundries (GF), which has recently confirmed that it will initiate layoffs and a hiring freeze, SMIC is still prioritizing production expansion. SMIC is trying to secure equipment with long lead time in order to ensure capacity expansion is carried out on schedule.
Zhao stressed that the five subsidiaries will differentiate from each other in terms of product portfolio, focusing on specialty memory, CMOS image sensors, panel driver IC, power management ICs and others respectively, so that there will not be overlapping on equipment procurement.
"This cyclical downturn was not caused by oversupply but the drastic slowdown on the demand side," said Zhao, who emphasized that new innovations, social trends, and macroeconomic recovery will drive the demand in the future. "When we build a fab, it is for the operation of at least the next 20 years, and hence we will not change the plan just because this year is a downcycle in the semiconductor industry... We are doing capacity expansion according to the pace of our technology development roadmap and product planning of our customers."
SMIC indicated that the inventory of smartphones and consumer electronics is still being digested slowly, and customers show little interest in carrying out design tape-out and starting trial production. As smartphones, smart home and consumer electronics account for more than 60% of SMIC's revenues, the latest cyclical downturn in consumer demand has taken a heavy toll on the Chinese foundry house.
Headwinds in macro environment
According to Zhao, since the second half of 2022, the macroeconomic environment has been characterized by weak consumer demand, global energy crisis brought about by international conflicts, high inflation, currency fluctuations and other factors, resulting in a sluggish economic recovery.
Despite the pessimism, there are still some bright spots. "Demand from industrial control applications is relatively stable, but the growth is limited. Automotive is resilient in terms of end demand and consumption, and demands still outstrip industry capacities," said Zhao. "The demand for Internet of Things (IoT) for wearables, local area network (LAN) applications, and power grid automation are seeing robust growth of 20-30% in revenues sequentially."
Zhao stressed that since this cycle is overlaid with multiple complex external factors such as new export control rules imposed by the US that are bringing challenges to the global and regional supply chains, the adjustments may take a long time and the downward cycle of the foundry industry has not yet bottomed out. "We will adopt a dynamic approach to adjust customers, product portfolio, and capacity."
"While demand declined externally and internally, and with annual maintenance conducted on some fabs, the monthly capacity increased by 32,000 8-inch equivalent wafers, but capacity utilization was down five percentage points from the previous quarter to 92.1%," said company press release.
The US restrictions on advanced chip tech export to China and SMIC's inclusion in the Entity List have boosted SMIC's reliance on its domestic market. The Chinese mainland and Hong Kong contributed 70% of SMIC's third-quarter 2022 revenues, up from 66.7% a year ago.
SMIC said it is still assessing the impact of the new rules imposed by the US on October 7. It said it has maintained close communication with suppliers, and is trying to clarify "some definitions in the new rules." According to the foundry house's current interpretation of the new US regulations, SMIC's customers are in full compliance with the US government's requirements in terms of production capacity and technology nodes. But some customers still need some time to gauge the new US regulations, and SMIC continues to communicate with both sides, it said.
Zhao's latest statement was gloomier than his previous one made three months ago, where he predicted that the cycle adjustment would continue until at least the first half of 2023. Now, Zhao pointed out that the combination of macroeconomic trends and the rate of inventory depletion "has not yet shown any signs of recovery." The company expects its fourth-quarter 2022 revenue to decrease by 13-15% sequentially, and gross margin to range between 30% and 32%, down from 38.9% in the third quarter. Inventories increased 17.2% from the second quarter, reaching US$1.7 billion.


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The entity behind “Project Swordfish,” the unnamed company looking to invest $96 million and create 450 jobs in Alamance County, could be a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. distribution center, according to industry sources.
An inter-local financing agreement and a city-county compact presented to Alamance County officials this week detail the numbers behind “Project Swordfish,” saying an unnamed company would be an $85 million, 500,000-square-foot distribution center. The company also expects to invest $11 million in equipment. The project would create 450 jobs with an average wage of $35,374.
Both Alamance County and the city of Mebane on Monday voted unanimously to support both the compact and the financing agreement for Project Swordfish, said Mac Williams, president of the Alamance County Chamber of Commerce. The city of Graham on Tuesday followed suit by approving both the compact and the financing agreement, said Graham City Manager Frankie Maness.
This inter-local agreement would be the first time the three governments together — Alamance County and the cities of Graham and Mebane — have gone in together on an economic development-related activity, Williams said.
Williams declined to comment on speculation about Project Swordfish, though sources in the industry indicated that Wal-Mart has scouted the 1,215-acre tract in Hawfields for a distribution center. The site is south of Cherry Lane and Interstates 40/85 and north of N.C. 119 and Kimrey Road.
The Business Journal reported in November that site-prep efforts in Hawfields by Alamance County officials were likely aimed at landing a distribution center for the retail behemoth.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CombineNet, Inc., the leading provider of best-in-class online sourcing technology solutions for global supply chains, today announced that it has been recognized by SupplyChainBrain readers as a "2012 Great Supply Chain Partner." This award represents the fourth consecutive year that the advanced sourcing solution company has achieved recognition in this list of supply chain industry leaders.
Over the course of six months, SupplyChainBrain asked its readers to nominate vendors and service providers whose solutions have made a significant impact on their company's efficiency, customer service and overall supply chain performance in 2012. Nominations were received for hundreds of trading partners in every aspect of supply chain management. The result is the 10th annual list of 100 Great Supply Chain Partners, available online at: http://www.supplychainbrain.com.
"Our compliments to CombineNet on making the list of those 100 companies who received the most qualified nominations," said Brad Berger, publisher of SupplyChainBrain. "We're pleased to recognize the companies who have so impressed our readers that they took the time to let us know."
"We thank our customers for sharing their stories with SupplyChainBrain. This repeat award is a very welcome recognition of the power that CombineNet's advanced sourcing solution has in getting more spend under management and driving stronger real-world business results," said Rich Wilson, chief executive officer of CombineNet. "Our Expressive Bidding® and sourcing optimization capabilities together make CombineNet ASAP® for e-sourcing the choice of best-in-class companies who want to realize the full power of their strategic sourcing plans."
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The 2012 July/August issue of SupplyChainBrain includes the select list of companies. To view SupplyChainBrain's article and complete list of winners online: http://www.supplychainbrain.com/content/nc/general-scm/business-strategy-alignment/single-article-page/article/100-great-supply-chain-partners-2/
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Building Supply Chains for the Future –CSA Group, Canada China Business Council, Embassy of Canada and Baker & McKenzie jointly host a Seminar on the Analysis of Trade and Investment between China and North America.
CSA Group, a leading global provider of standards development, product testing and certification services, together with the Canada China Business Council (CCBC), Embassy of Canada and Baker & McKenzie, held a seminar today in Beijing under the theme “Building Supply Chains for the Future”. RJ Falconi, Executive Vice President, Government Relations, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, CSA Group, Hélène Vaillancourt, Executive Vice President, Technology and Engineering Department of the CSA Group, Jiang Yi, Vice President, CSA Group China & Hong Kong, Christopher MacLean, Counselor (commercial), Embassy of Canada to China, Yijun Song, Counselor Commercial, Ontario, Canadian Embassy, Isbella Liu, Partner, Baker McKenzie, and Daniel Cheng, Managing Director of CCBC attended the seminar.
“This year marks the first time CSA Group held a seminar in China under the theme “Building Supply Chains for the Future”. We are looking forward to working more closely with Chinese industry associations and expanding our relationship with the government of the People’s Republic of China,” said RJ Falconi, Executive Vice President, Government Relations, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, CSA Group. “We will continue to promote and support standards development in China and deliver high quality and innovative services to Chinese market via our internationally recognized expertise and world renowned testing and certification process.”
According to the first China Quality Conference held at Great Hall of the People in Beijing from September 15 to September 16, “quality, innovation and development” will be the major directions of industrial development in China. With Chinese exports moving from an old generation of “Made in China” to a new generation of “Innovated in China”, the third party testing and certification industry will play an extraordinary role in the future. Therefore, CSA Group will continue to comply with policies and market development in China so as to provide more localized, professional, efficient, one-stop services for local manufacturers exporting to North American and global markets with emphasis on quality, sustainability and safety of their products.
“Asia, including China, has become an important trading partner of North America and will continue to grow in the future, ” said Jiang Yi, Vice President, CSA Group, China & Hong Kong in his presentation. “CSA Group will continue to apply our technical knowledge and expertise in standards development, product testing and certification services to provide Chinese and Asian companies with innovative, efficient and diversified localized services and assist them as they enter North American and global markets.”
China has become Canada’s second largest trading partner. In 2013, two-way merchandise trade between the two countries reached $73.2 billion and accounted for 7.7 per cent of Canada’s world trade, according to Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada released on November 10, 2014 1. North America is the most important export region for household appliances, household articles, gas, cables and explosion proof products from China. North American countries have strict regulations on consumer goods and industrial products. Due to a lack of understanding of international laws and regulations, Chinese exporters frequently suffer losses because of violations. Therefore, domestic producers depend more on international testing and certification organizations. Before exporting, products must undergo mandatory testing and certifications processes to deal with complex trade barriers and help reduce the risk of illegal exportation.
With one third global investment in China, CSA Group has established laboratories in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen with a full range of product testing and certification services for global markets, including Europe and North America. In the future, CSA Group will accelerate investments and expand local services in gas & plumbing, industrial products , hazardous locations, health care, medical, and sustainable energy in order to meet the increasing requirements of clients in these areas in China .
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Durham Box boosts Nozomi offer with white ink
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Durham Box has added the white UV LED ink option to its EFI Nozomi corrugated printer as the business expands its offering into new markets including e-commerce.
The St Helen Auckland, County Durham firm installed the Nozomi C18000 single-pass inkjet last year, having announced the purchase at Fespa in Munich. It has now become the first UK user with the white ink option.
The white ink capability was installed four weeks ago. It allows Durham Box to match a broader range of brand and Pantone colours on brown kraft corrugated board, as well as produce higher-quality halftone images on that type of material.
The firm has also recruited highly-experienced industry professional Andy Smith as its new PoS business development director.
Smith, whose career includes senior roles at DS Smith, Cestrian, APS Group and Service Point, joined in June and has been laying the groundwork for the new offering during lockdown.
He described e-commerce as “the new PoS”.
“E-commerce is really starting to get busy, and we can bespoke the offering. For example, for a suit supplier the lining of the suit can be mirrored in the lining of the box.
“I truly believe more and more companies will switch retail marketing budgets to the e-commerce experience,” Smith said.
He also highlighted the ability to exactly match packaging with PoS materials.
“That is where the quality of PoS comes in, in the packaging that you receive and you remember that. That dynamic lends itself to what the Nozomi is capable of doing,” he said.
“A great example is a drinks brand where we can produce a beautiful box on the Nozomi, and also produce an FSDU in exactly the same colours.”
The 1.8m-wide printer runs at 75m/min. Durham Box is currently running the Nozomi on single shifts and some weekend shifts as it flexes to meet customer demand. Smith said a night shift was on the cards as work builds.
He said the business had been “incredibly busy” during lockdown with packaging work, as firm’s such as breweries pivoted their offerings towards direct customer deliveries in order to maintain sales.
“They are selling online and want nice packaging,” he added.
Smith said Durham Box was planning a marketing campaign asking clients to challenge the firm with test jobs in order to demonstrate what the Nozomi could do.
“There is a new dynamic and it’s an exciting time. Dan [Dan Morris, joint managing director] had the foresight to invest and there’s a great bunch of people here.”
Durham Box employs 85 and has sales of around £12m. The firm aims to grow that to £25m over three years, and has just expanded with a further investment in an additional 93sqm of storage and distribution space.
EFI has also announced that the Western Michigan University Pilot Plant has recently assigned an OCC (old corrugated containers) certification for EFI Nozomi white ink, “verifying its recyclability and repulpability”.
The four-colour ink set had previously gained the same certification.
“EFI Nozomi inks are the first and only single-pass digital corrugated printer inks to achieve the certification,” EFI stated.


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Sprint will be the first U.S. mobile carrier to sell Samsung’s Galaxy S II, starting Sept. 16, but T-Mobile and AT&T said Tuesday they also will offer the phone.
A follow-on to the popular Galaxy S, the phone will be the thinnest available at all three operators.
The largest mobile carrier in the U.S., Verizon Wireless, notably has decided not to sell the phone. Verizon recently said it already has an extensive portfolio of Android phones and so would not offer the Galaxy S II.
All models of the Galaxy S II will work on the 4G networks of the respective operators and will run Android 2.3, or Gingerbread. The phone will have a 4.3-inch Super Amoled Plus display, which uses technology developed by Samsung. It will have an 8-megapixel rear camera, plus a 2-megapixel front-facing camera for video conferencing.
Users will be able to record video at 1080p and connect the phone to certain TVs to view content such as videos on the larger screen.
Sprint is calling the phone the Epic 4G Touch and will sell it for $200. Neither T-Mobile nor AT&T disclosed prices or shipping dates for the Galaxy S II.
In addition to missing out on Verizon’s millions of customers, Samsung also faces other challenges in the U.S. A new iPhone is expected to launch soon, and Microsoft’s updated Windows Phone software will be available in the coming months.
However, the Samsung Galaxy S II, first announced in February and already available in much of the world, is proving popular. Five million have been sold in the past 85 days, Samsung said during a press conference on Tuesday.
Samsung initially scheduled the unveiling for Monday in New York but postponed it due to heavy storms. The company is holding a separate event in London on Thursday and has not said what it plans to reveal then.


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Set to go on sale sometime this fall in United States, the 2016 Buick Encore Sport Touring will also have some cosmetic tweaks such as the winged rear spoiler, 18-inch rims and door handles painted in the same color as the rest of the body. Inside the cabin it will feature the Convenience package which includes a dual-zone climate control system, 120-volt power outlet, an auto-dimming rearview mirror as well as rear cross traffic alert, remote start, side blind zone alert and fog lamps.
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