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A team led by Cheong Ying Chan Professor of Engineering and Environment Prof. ZHAO Tianshou, Chair Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Director of HKUST Energy Institute, has proposed a novel cathode design concept for lithium–sulfur (Li–S) battery that substantially improves the performance of this kind of promising next-generation battery.
Li–S batteries are regarded as attractive alternatives to lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries that are commonly used in smartphones, electric vehicles, and drones. They are known for their high energy density while their major component, sulfur, is abundant, light, cheap, and environmentally benign.
Li–S batteries can potentially offer an energy density of over 500 Wh/kg, significantly better than Li-ion batteries that reach their limit at 300 Wh/kg. The higher energy density means that the approximate 400km driving range of an electric vehicle powered by Li-ion batteries can be substantially extended to 600-800km if powered by Li–S batteries.
While exciting results on Li–S batteries have been achieved by researchers worldwide, there is still a big gap between lab research and commercialization of the technology on an industrial scale. One key issue is the polysulfide shuttle effect of Li-S batteries that causes progressive leakage of active material from the cathode and lithium corrosion, resulting in a short life cycle for the battery. Other challenges include reducing the amount of electrolyte in the battery while maintaining stable battery performance.


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Smashburger, a Denver-based burger chain, opened its first area location in the new Boulevard Marketplace on Wednesday, Oct. 3.
Fairfax City Mayor Scott Silverthorne participated in Smashburger's version of a ribbon-cutting, a "ceremonial smash" with founder Tom Ryan.
"I am thrilled to welcome Tom Ryan and Smashburger to the City of Fairfax, their first location in the Washington Metropolitan region,” said Silverthorne after Wednesday’s preview party. “This new restaurant, along with several others in the new Fairfax Boulevard Marketplace, is a great addition to the Fairfax family.”
Silverthorne added that he quickly became a Smashburger fan after trying the burgers that are made of 100 percent Angus beef that is smashed on a 400-degree flat grill to sear the burger.
“I've eaten a lot of burgers in my day, but this is one of the best by far, and by the looks of the crowds the past few days, I'm not alone in my thinking,” Silverthorne said.
Each Smashburger restaurant features a regional menu created with “regional ingredients and tastes in mind,” according to Ryan. The Capital Burger and Chicken Sandwich were created exclusively for the DC area.
“At Smashburger, we pride ourselves in creating menu items that appeal to the local consumer,” Ryan said. In addition to burgers, the restaurant also offers a selection of chicken sandwiches, hot dogs, salads, rosemary and garlic–seasoned Smashfries, fried pickles, haystack onions and veggie frites. Beverage selections include alcoholic and non-alcoholic choices such as milkshakes in addition to beer and wine.
In addition to Smashburger, other tenants now open in the Boulevard Marketplace, located on Fairfax Boulevard across from Captain Pell’s, include Subway, Donatos and a 7-Eleven. Hunan Taste and Hair by Lynn are opening soon, according to Jay Donegan, the center’s developer.
Donegan, owner of J. Donegan Co., specializes in the redevelopment of underutilized, infill locations and ground-up specialty retail centers, mostly in the Northern Virginia area. In 2001, he helped redevelop the $17 million, 102,000 square foot Main Street Marketplace in old-town Fairfax that includes the area’s first two-story Starbucks. In 2008, he developed the 24,000 square-foot $12 million Fairfax Marketplace, on the site where Frank’s Nursery once stood.
"We are excited that Smashburger's first location in the area has opened in the City of Fairfax at our new Boulevard Marketplace retail development,” Donegan said. “We were very discriminating in terms of which restaurant we wanted to occupy the most prominent location in our project. Smashburger will be very visible at the main entrance to the site, with colorful outdoor seating next to acres of preservation area.”

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JK Paper expects its total production capacity to increase by nearly 50 per cent to 4 lakhs tone per annum with its new plant in Orissa becoming operational by the end of next year. The company, which produces nearly 2.67 lakh tone of paper now, expects to touch 4 lakh tone mark by the end of 2012 when its Rs 1,650-crore expansion at the Rayagada in Orissa gets over.
With the new facility in Orissa getting operational, it expects the capacities to touch 4 lakh tone per annum from the present 2.67 lakh tone. JK Paper is in the process of setting up a pulp mill and a paper machine in Orissa.
One of the leading producers of office paper, coated paper and high-end packaging board paper in the country, JK Paper has 28 per cent market share in office paper, 26 per cent in packaging board paper and 16 per cent in coated paper in the domestic market. The new facility will give the company more capacity, better quality, better environmental standards and at the same time reduce operating costs.


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The eBay board has written to shareholders calling on them to vote against activist investor Carl Icahn's proposal to spin off PayPal.
In January Icahn began making his very public case for PayPal to be hived off from eBay, arguing that the auction site was hampering the growth and competitiveness of its payments subsidiary.
Last week, in the face of aggressive push back from the eBay board, he changed tack and proposed selling off 20% of PayPal in an initial public offering.
However, in a letter to shareholders the eBay board has reiterated its stance ahead of the company's annual meeting on 13 May, urging them to vote against his spin off plan and his bid to have two employees added to the eBay board.
"We have evaluated carefully Mr. Icahn's proposal to spin off PayPal. We do not support it. Mr. Icahn's proposal is not a new idea, and Mr. Icahn himself recently backed away from supporting his own proposal," says the letter.
Over the last five years, notes the firm, PayPal and eBay have generated a 441% increase in share price for investors, significantly outpacing Nasdaq and the S&P.
Says the letter: "Our shareholders and our customers are best served by keeping PayPal and eBay together. No other payments competitor has achieved PayPal's success - because no other competitor has had a commerce platform like eBay.


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ASIP is back!
One of Downtown Merced’s popular coffee shop hangouts reopened on Dec. 11 in a 5,000 square foot brick building on Main Street between O and P streets.
Only about a third of the shop is currently open — the “Sensory Lab” which serves coffee — but work is starting on a kitchen and coffee roastery next door that will have even more seating. The whole thing is expected to be open in two to three months.
“We will do easy bites, comfort food, like avocado toast, a breakfast burrito, stuff like that. Easy, easy stuff,” said owner Justin Shen. “We’re also gonna have a patio.”
ASIP used to be smack dab in the middle of downtown, next to the Regal Hollywood movie theater. But the lease was up after five years, and Shen wanted a bigger and cheaper space, so the old ASIP closed at the end of August.
“In terms of drinks, we keep a lot the same, like specialty drinks. But we focus more on coffee beans here,” Shen said. “I will be roasting more in terms of different coffee beans. We want to give people a deeper insight into the coffee.”
Shen, 33, is originally from Suzhou, China, a prosperous city in the Jiangsu region, 30 miles west of the Shanghai metropolis. Jiangsu has been known throughout history for its canals, opulence and seafood – but not coffee. That’s something Shen came to love in America, while he was studying biology at San Francisco State. Sightglass Coffee – he still remembers the name of the cafe in the city where he first became obsessed.
“I just ordered a drip coffee and I took a sip and I was like, whoa! Did they put orange juice in the coffee? It’s so juicy, so sweet,” he remembers. “I talked to the barista and they said coffee is from the coffee cherry. So it is a fruit. If you roast it lighter, you’re supposed to taste more of the coffee cherry notes, right?”
“I always tell people, imagine roasting coffee like it’s cooking a steak. The best way of eating a steak is medium to medium rare. When it’s burned you taste the grill, not the actual steak.”
Western coffee culture has since jumped the Pacific, Shen said, as China has become more prosperous in recent decades, and now you can find roasters and cafes in any major Chinese city.
As of 2019, ASIP has two locations in Shen’s hometown Suzhou.
“It went well and then half a year later COVID starts, so. They’re still open, but just not as good as I expected,” Shen said.
Chinese coffee beans are also increasing in popularity. Before COVID, Shen traveled to Yunnan province, a lush region on the border with Myanmar, where most of the coffee is grown in China. He visited a coffee farm, and eventually imported some beans which became a hit in Merced, he said.
“It’s fun. It’s like a dream job for me right now,” Shen said.


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Aluminum scrap exports increased by 8.1pc to 158,545mt in July from 146,638mt a year earlier, according to the latest data from the US Census Bureau.
Scrap exports also improved by 5pc from June, with automotive production inching closer to pre-pandemic levels as COVID-19-related lockdowns have eased and global electric vehicle production has risen.
In the first seven months of 2020, aluminum scrap exports fell by 5.9pc to 1.01mn mt from 1.08mt during the same period last year.
Used beverage can (UBC) shipments from the US resumed in July after coming to a standstill in June. However, at 10,798mt, they were still only 8pc of July 2019 levels—a marked decline from 143,443mt. Export batches also consisted of 6,424mt of remelt scrap aluminum and 141,322mt of other scrap aluminum, a segment mostly composed of non-ferrous zorba. Both categories saw exports respectively surge from 376mt and 2818mt in July 2019.
Malaysia was the largest importer, receiving 48,884mt of aluminum scrap from the US, while South Korea and India followed at 24,323mt and 21,687mt, respectively.
Other US nonferrous scrap exports climbed in July, with copper growing by 3.2pc to 73,466mt from a year earlier, and lead increasing by 55.4pc to 7,136mt. However, nickel exports decreased by 89.4pc to 968mt, and zinc declined by 50.6pc to 1,129mt.


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For over four years CHEM Trust has been calling for the EU to review its ineffective laws regulating chemicals in chemicals in Food Contact Materials (FCM) like food packaging. On September 24th, the European Commission invited a wide range of stakeholders to a workshop in Brussels to (finally!) launch this review. As we have highlighted in the past, the current laws do not … [Read more...] about Finally, a review of Europe’s ineffective laws on chemicals in food contact materials has begun
On March 27th CHEM Trust published the "Toxic Soup" report, which examined how industry is being allowed to replace the well-known hormone disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA), with very similar chemicals that may also be harmful, for example bisphenol S (BPS). The day before we had sent letters to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), the European Food Safety Authority … [Read more...] about Use of endocrine disrupting chemical BPS in thermal paper is increasing, but where’s the action?
Last week another milestone was reached in Europe`s slow and ineffective process to protect our health and environment by reducing exposures to pesticides and biocides with harmful endocrine disrupting (ED) properties. On January 31st a public consultation on the draft guidance document for identifying endocrine disrupters closed. This guidance is important because describes … [Read more...] about Will the EU finally start identifying endocrine disrupting biocides and pesticides or will exposure continue?
Today, the 16th January 2018, the EU Commission released its long-expected Plastics Strategy. The Strategy includes an announcement that the Commission has started the process to ban both intentionally added microplastics and oxo-degradable plastics. Both these bans will be implemented as Restrictions under the EU's main chemicals law REACH. The Commission also announced a a … [Read more...] about EU announces plan to restrict plastic microbeads and oxo-degradable plastics
The weather is cooling down, Christmas street lights are switched on, New Year's Eve celebrations are being prepared... It is the season to get merry and enjoy dinners with family and friends. You will probably use Christmassy paper napkins to decorate your table or to wrap slices of cakes and other sweets. However, what you probably don't know is that these nice coloured paper … [Read more...] about Will you be using toxic napkins at Christmas?
CHEM Trust has been highlighting the severe deficiencies in the EU's regulation of chemicals in food contact materials, where the laws have big gaps (e.g. paper and card food packaging), and allow continued use of hazardous chemicals. However, we are not just concerned with the deficiencies in the regulations, but also with the secrecy with which the European Commission works … [Read more...] about The secretive (and ineffective) world of EU rules controlling chemicals used in food packaging (updated)
After years of delays, debates and continued exposure of people and wildlife to chemicals with hormone disrupting properties (EDCs), experts from EU governments voted this morning to support the latest Commission proposal defining criteria for identifying endocrine disrupters. In CHEM Trust's view the criteria will not properly protect public health and the environment, as … [Read more...] about Identifying EDCs: EU Government experts adopt flawed criteria
Following on from a very critical report by the European Parliament, the European Commission has finally announced that it will review the laws regulating the chemicals allowed in food contact materials such as packaging. They have also published a detailed study showing the extent of the problems caused by the lack of adequate EU rules covering food contact materials (FCM) … [Read more...] about As concerns mount, EU Commission finally commits to action on laws regulating chemicals in packaging
The long process of establishing EU criteria to identify hormone (endocrine) disrupting chemicals (EDCs) continues to stutter forward, with a new proposed texts from the European Commission. These texts, coming just a few weeks since the last texts, fail to address our concerns regarding the burden of proof needed, and introduce a whole new loophole which aims to allow … [Read more...] about A bad Xmas present: new EDC criteria proposed by European Commission should be rejected (Update 22nd of December)


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Benefis Health System is hosting its Men & Machines Car & Bike Show on Sept. 9 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Benefis Sletten Cancer Institute parking lot in Great Falls.
All proceeds from the event go to support Benefis Sletten Cancer Institute’s Circle of Hope Cancer Survivorship Program. The Circle of Hope program offers a variety of support groups and services to help patients and their families through their cancer journey.
This family-friendly event showcases more than 100 vehicles, including classic cars, muscle cars, motorcycles, and more. The event will also feature the following: a Harley-Davidson Jump Start Stationary Riding System that allows attendees to hop on and experience what it’s like to ride a Harley; a Kid Zone with face painting, die-cast car decorating and racing, coloring, and other activities; raffles for three motorized child-sized vehicles; a 50/50 drawing; men’s health and wellness information; and food and beverage vendors.
“Men & Machines is a unique car show because it’s about more than just cars. It’s also about men’s health,” said Kevin Evensen, manager of Benefis Sletten Cancer Institute. “We know that all of the amazing vehicles that come to our car show are extremely well maintained. Unfortunately, men sometimes take better care of their cars than their own health. While everyone enjoys the cars, attendees will also have the opportunity to learn more about their own recommended checkups and maintenance to ensure they can enjoy both their cars and health for many years to come.”
For more information, or to register your vehicle, please call 406-731-8250 or visit www.benefis.org/carshow.


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A woman in California was just awarded almost $2 million on Wednesday at the end of a product liability suit.
In March 2013, Jennifer Ries from Corona, CA plugged her VapCigs charger into her car, causing the charger to explode and giving her second-degree burns. After a six-day long trial, the Riverside Superior Court jury gave her $1.9 million in the lawsuit against VapCigs, the company that distributes the cheap Chinese e-cigarettes, wholesaler Cartons 2 Go, and retailer Tobacco Expo.
While I hate a frivolous lawsuit as much as the next guy, this case seems to be fairly legitimate. Unlike most of the recent mechanical mod explosions, she was actually using the product the way it was intended to be used. Should everyone now be worried about their vape pen chargers exploding? Probably not. This incident occurred 2 and half years ago, which is basically an eternity in the world of vaping. But to be on the safe side, if you’re going to start vaping with a basic eGo style vape pen, don’t buy the really obviously shitty looking ones from the gas station/mall kiosk. Just like mech mod clones, they’re cheap for a reason.


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The Cloud wars are shaping up to be a 3-way horse race between Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Microsoft. As I elaborated in previous blog posts, the IaaS price war has been raging over this last year and will continue. Now we seed the combat arena shifting to PaaS where Google just announced Google Cloud DNS which competes directly with Amazon’s Route 53 DNS offering. Expect all three vendors to go toe-to-toe on PaaS features. Let the cloud wars continue!
In the last week, we saw the cloud computing competition hit yet another new level in the race to zero! By that, I mean the race to near-zero cost of computing. Three big announcements last week:
- CISCO announced a 1 billion dollar investment into the IaaS cloud space to take on Amazon. Of course, everyone is trying to take on the leader.
- Google announced huge price drops and the ability to combine its compute engine and app engine offering. Also, challenging Amazon…
- Amazon counter-punched all comers with another price drop
These are exciting times for the cloud computing space! Stay tuned as more heavy-weights continue to slug it out for leadership in the cloud!
Do you know the history of cloud computing and the trends that shaped it? The timelines are from my book the Great Cloud Migration and show all the key events in the history of cloud computing. Understanding the history is important to understanding the major influencing factors and forces that shape the current landscape.
Here is a summary of the events:
* 1961 – Professor John McCarthy propose computing be organized as a “public utility”.
* 1964 – IBM CP-40 Operating Systems uses Virtualization
* 1972 – IBM VM/370 is a virtual machine operating system
* 1991 – The World Wide Web popularizes the internet
* 1997 – First use of the term “Cloud Computing”
* 1999 – Salesforce.com and VMWare launch
* 2002 – Amazon Web Services (AWS) launches and SOA emerges
* 2003 – Seminal Google File System (GFS) paper published
* 2005 – Google Maps is a watershed event for browser-based apps (introduces AJAX).
* 2006 – Hadoop launched, shortly followed by Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2
* 2008 – Google App Engine launches
* 2009 – Microsoft Azure launches
* 2010 – GSA’s apps.gov launches (and federal Cloud-first policy).


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Diageo to Build $115-Million Distillery in Kentucky
Diageo announced a new $115-milllion distillery in Kentucky and signals its intentions to the growing American Whiskey category.
The company said over three years it intends to build a 1.8-million proof gallon (750,000 9-liter cases) distillery and six barrel storage warehouses in Shelby County, Kentucky. Details are not final, but Diageo will purchase approximately 300 acres of property located on Benson Pike in Shelby County, the company said.
This likely scraps Diageo’s distilling plans for the Stitzel-Weller plant, which is currently a whiskey-aging facility and visitor center. During the Bourbon Affair tour, Diageo officials said there was still white dog left in the lines from the 1990s, so the plant was not properly mothballed before it was shut down. This new distillery also indicates that the world’s largest spirits company indeed has a plan for American whiskey.
And that’s a plan the governor of Kentucky apparently likes.
“Today marks another feather in the cap for Kentucky’s bourbon industry,” said Governor Steve Beshear, in a prepared statement. “Distilled spirits remain a marquee industry in the Commonwealth, and Diageo’s new distillery will ensure that even more Kentucky bourbon is enjoyed around the globe. I want to thank Diageo for investing in Shelby County, and I look forward to seeing the distillery in action.”
I will say the timing of this announcement is interesting. On Tuesday, whiskey blogger and Bourbon-Hall-of-Famer Chuck Cowdery scathed Diageo for its American whiskey business practices. After Cowdery’s May 27 post, Diageo’s stock price slightly dropped. Did he have anything to do with the announcement’s timing? Or is it coincidence? I don’t know, but I do believe Diageo’s move will reinvigorate investment in Kentucky’s distillery community. Yes, money is flowing in right now, but more will come. With the passing of a barrel tax credit and politicians showing up to every distillery opening, Kentucky’s in a bourbon frame of mind.
What does this mean for American whiskey? Well, it means if you’re a drinker, buy some bourbon and rest assured there’ll be plenty of Bulleit Bourbon (Diageo’s mainstay bourbon brand) coming down the pipeline. And if you’re an investor, you might want to buy now while stocks are relatively low.
This whiskey investment trend isn’t going away; it’s just getting started.
But bourbon is not without its enemies. Perhaps the greatest threat against all bourbon distillers is the class-action whiskey fungus lawsuit.
It appears, Diageo is even thinking about the environmental consequences of its new plant, saying the company has a strong record of achieving zero waste to landfill in its operations, and the company aims to achieve the same in Kentucky. Diageo says it also plans to collaborate with the local community for the recycling and reuse of materials generated from the proposed facility. Diageo says the proposed distillery will be designed to fit in with the surrounding countryside and during construction. It will take measures to conserve the 100 acres of land around the property line that will act as a natural barrier to site operations, the company said. Knowing Diageo, they’ll likely have security guards posted throughout the natural barrier just so we binocular-toting journalists can’t see behind the curtain.


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We’ve had the Tide Pod Challenge, the salt and ice challenge and the cinnamon challenge. It seems like every few weeks there’s a challenge teens are trying out just to become a viral sensation and get their 15 minutes of fame.
The latest challenge, which unlike other viral challenges isn’t dangerous, it is posing a problem for workers at craft store chain, Hobby Lobby.
Teens are heading to the craft store floral aisle to show off their photography skills.
The walls of faux flowers are serving as a backdrop for the glamorous shots.
ABC News said that Kelsey Maggart, a professional photographer, is the one who started the latest challenge in January.
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Sport rules video content market with mobile and OTT taking marketshare away from pay-TV
Sport reigns as the most-watched genre of content today, according to the 2019 Grabyo Global Video Trends Report.
The study of 10,000 consumers in seven markets showed that more people are now paying for online streaming services than pay TV, with more than 50% of people in the markets studied choosing to pay for an online video service. Meanwhile, 43% of consumers have cut the cord and are watching video most often on their smartphone.
Speaking from the Oval cricket ground in London, Gareth Capon, CEO at Grabyo, noted that since smartphones have come out, almost every demographic is using them for watching video. However, he said that the question to be focusing on, rather than what technology content is being viewed on, “is much more around frequency, preference and perception,” said Capon. “That to me speaks more about access, flexibility and choice than it does about what the content is necessarily.”
The study pointed out that despite most of the age groups surveyed (18 to 25, 26 to 35, 36 to 49, and 50 to 65+) being most interested in watching sports, they were least interested in seeing more of it.
On the genres of video, all the groups surveyed watch the most, sport was clearly at the top with 42% to 49% for each age group. Conversely, what attracts those age groups to videos on social media is not sport, which each age group placed at the bottom of the selection with only 10% to 13%.
The platform being watched reflected what those viewers wanted to see more of, however. Social media users look for specific types of content according to the platform. YouTube audiences tend to watch more long-form video content and want to see more in-depth sports highlights (30%).
However, 36% of Instagram audiences want to see more behind the scenes content and 42% of Facebook audiences want to see more movie clips and trailers. Meanwhile 50% of Twitter audiences want to see more breaking news updates and 33% of Snapchat audiences want to see more celebrity video clips.
Overall, on which content audiences want to see live-streamed on social media, the research showed that live sport is interesting to 13% of people, which was the second-highest preference after news at 13.8%. Audiences also want us to see eSport events live-streamed on social media with 4.5%, behind the scenes footage of celebrities, actors, and sports people with 7.7%, and live Q&A’s with the usual celebrities and also sports people with 6.6%.
The research showed that smartphones dominate today’s video market. Almost half of consumers reported using their phone to watch videos more than any other device. This jumps up to 59% for 18 to 25 year olds. Altogether 90% of people use a mobile device to watch video and 40% use a smartphone to watch video the most often.
Only 38% of global pay TV customers consume most of their video content on a TV screen, suggesting most pay TV customers are watching TV online, on demand, on a variety of mobile and streaming devices. The research concluded that broadcasters that fail to adopt a robust multiplatform strategy will struggle in the coming years.
Capon added that, “people care about price, they care about content, and they care about the quality of service, quality of the video, and those things really stood out [in the survey]”.
Capon went on: “You compare that to TV, and what TV generally has is really good content and really good service, scalably delivered, really reliable, and generally on a free to air basis which was a price point people liked! One of the challenges is pay-TV has become increasingly expensive, and sports is increasingly expensive, and the combination of those things [means] we’re at a tipping point right now.”
The tipping point Capon referred to is that while rights are aggregating primarily on the TV, they are expanding into OTT, but, “the overall business model hasn’t changed, and there’s a limited amount of flexibility because most of these propositions are still driven off the TV schedule primarily”.
Capon continued: “So when we extrapolate what people are looking at, they care about sports and entertainment, they care about flexibility of devices, they care about a price point that’s going to work but they want quality of service. I think that’s the point that OTT and the current world around mobile and social that still is challenging. Every live TV provider has had their challenges, DAZN included, and everyone from Facebook to YouTube; you won’t find an OTT provider out there in live sport, certainly, that hasn’t had significant technical challenges to its services.
“There are many fluctuations and variations in the infrastructure between the source of the content and you watching it on your phone or TV or connected device… but that’s a technology challenge that will get solved.”
Capon said he feels the market is now at an interesting inflection point, where quality of service can vary according to the available infrastructure, but people are demanding flexibility of the service at a good price, particularly in the sports market, “and that will have an influence on rights and business models, as it did in the music industry,” he noted.
While price is an important factor, the research showed that 18 to 25 year olds will justify their spend on services if video content is high quality and available in the latest HD formats such as 1080p/60, 4K UHD and HDR video across devices. Video quality is important for sports for this group. Meanwhile the 26 to 35 year old age group like convenience and access when choosing how to watch video, which reflects on the importance they place on availability on which devices they can use. They are also more focused on price than the younger generation.
The 36 to 49 year old category are driven more by price than younger groups, so they are interested in ad-supported services that are free. Finally, the baby boomers are focused on quality of content. while they are most interested in watching sport, film and news is more popular than in other age groups.
In the UK consumers are early adopters of technology and are the bellwether for consumers trends in media across Europe, the study said. However, although the UK pay TV market remains the strongest in Europe, consumers show a preference for online streaming. Grabyo’s research suggests that live video viewing will expand online in the UK in the next few years and start to grow rapidly on social media, as all audiences under the age of 50 show an interest in watching live streams on social and OTT. Broadcasters and publishers must get ahead of this shift and deliver live TV content, events, and experiences that are built for digital, warned Grabyo.
For British viewers, YouTube is the most popular media platform being used to watch video with 74% of the vote, while Facebook follows with 53%, Instagram with 30%, and Snapchat with 19%. Meanwhile TV series and clips with 81% won the most popular vote for the type of content being watched, followed by entertainment at 80% film clips and trailers at 71%, factual documentaries at 65%, news at 54%, and finally sports with 41%.
The US mirrors the UK’s preference for entertainment content at 77%, and sports coming in last in popularity at 40%. Also again, YouTube was the most popular form of social media platform to watch video on at 75% followed by Facebook at 56%.
While the majority of consumers in each market surveyed are paying for media services, European consumers showed a preference for free and ad supported content across TV and social platforms. Social video penetration and usage in this region is higher than OTT which is in contrast to the US and UK; 82% of European consumers watch video on YouTube, which is higher than any other market in the study.
On the social media platform Europeans are using to watch video on the most, YouTube comes in at the top with 82% of the vote. This is followed by Facebook with 54%. In Europe, while film clips and trailers led the most popular type of content viewed at 78%, sports came bottom at 44%.
Concluding, Capon said he believed that while current social media platforms provide good personalisation through algorithms, “there is much more to come,” he said. He explained: “Once you’re abstracted from the schedule [of linear TV] then you start to get into a world where you can create something that is very personal. But I don’t think it takes away from the power of live sport, because that’s what sport’s all about.
“If the World Cup Final is on and a billion people are watching, you do want to watch what everyone else is watching; you want to enjoy that shared experience and I don’t think that’s going away any time soon.”


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HP has unveiled what it claims to be the world’s first production-reading 3D printer family, built to print parts ten times faster than competitors’ printers.
The HP Jet Fusion 3D Printing Solution was announced at the 3D additive manufacturing conference, RAPID, and it is aimed for designing, prototyping and manufacturing.
The multi jet fusion solution is made of two different models. The HP Jet Fusion 3D 4200 Printer, due to be launched by the end of 2016, has been built for prototyping and short-run manufacturing needs, with high productivity to meet same-day demands with a low cost per part.
The second model, HP’s Jet Fusion 3D 3200 Printer, is only expected to be launched next year and has been designed forprototyping, but with improved productivity and the capacity to grow usage at a lower cost per part.
In addition, HP has also unveiled a synchronised set of tools that include intuitive software and HP’s Jet Fusion 3D Processing Station with Fast Cooling.
According to HP, the 3D Processing Station with Fast Cooling accelerates parts cooling time versus recommended manufacturer time of SLS printer solutions.
HP CEO Dion Weisler, recently told Fortune magazine that the company is planning its way to enter the $12tr injection moulding market.
He said that with 3D printing "we get to democratise manufacturing."
Customers’ can pre-order the 3D 3200 printer from HP’s website. The starting price is set at $130,000 and up to a maximum price of $155,000, which includes the printer and the separate Processing Station.
The 3D 4200 model will be shipped for over $200,000 and the price will also vary depending on customers’ configurations to the machine.
Stephen Nigro, President of HP’s 3D printing business, said: "Our 3D printing platform is unique in its ability to address over 340 million voxels per second, versus one point at a time, giving our prototyping and manufacturing partners radically faster build speeds, functional parts and breakthrough economics.
"The new HP Jet Fusion 3D Printing Solution delivers a combination of speed, quality, and cost never seen in the industry. Businesses and manufacturers can completely rethink how they design and deliver solutions to their customers."
HP has already established a 3D ecosystem of manufacturers, co-development partners and strategic partners, including Nike, BMW, Autodesk, Jabil, Johnson & Johnson, Materialise, Proto Labs, Shapeways and Siemens.
Tom Clarke, President of Innovation at Nike, said: "We have been using 3D printing to create new performance innovations for footwear for the past several years. Now we are excited to partner with HP to accelerate and scale our existing capabilities as we continue to explore new ways to manufacture performance products to help athletes reach their full potential."
The 3D printing market value is expected to grow at a CAGR of 43.5% between 2015 and 2020, according to the most recent research in this segment by Canalys.
By the end of 2016, the market will be worth $4.9bn, a value set to increase to $22.4bn by 2020. Shipments of 3D printers are forecast to grow at a CAGR of 67.2%, to reach 2.4 million units by 2020, up from today’s 400,000.


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Brooklyn Whole Foods Wows With Solar, Wind, EV Chargers, Greenhouse and More
The outside of the newly opened Whole Foods on Brooklyn, NY’s Gowanus Canal contains more examples of renewable energy and efficiency than some companies have throughout their entire operations.
Solar and wind energy work together to completely power two Skypump electric vehicle charging stations and 19 LED streetlights. The Sanya SLSTM streetlights, by New York, NY-based Urban Green Energy (UGE), would remain operational during regional outages because of their natural power sources.
UGE says the streetlights and charging stations both produce more energy than they require, reducing energy consumption at the supermarket.
“Taking advantage of the smart grid regulations available in New York State, UGE’s power systems contribute to the store’s microgrid—feeding energy to the electrical grid and taking only when needed,” the company said in a statement.
A 324-kilowatt (kW) solar array covers much of the parking lot and is expected to offset nearly 30 percent of the 56,000-square-foot building’s electricity use, or 380,400 kW hours from the grid, Earth Techling estimates. Additionally, a 157-kW combined heat and power system can provide heating and chilled water throughout the year and during grid failures.
Whole Foods full expects the store to garner LEED Platinum certification.
“We’re about 60 percent more efficient than any other grocery store in the U.S.,” according to a statement from Whole Foods’ Green Mission Team.” We’re going to be saving about 2.5 million kWh a year, which is equivalent to taking about 360 cars off the road annually.”
The location, which also has solar carports, features a 20,000-square-foot rooftop hydroponic greenhouse to be run by Brooklyn-based Gotham Greens in 2014. The company will provide fresh vegetables throughout the year.
The store is on the Gowanus Canal, where the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will attempt to reverse the trend of “more than 150 years of industrial waste, storm water runoff and sewer overflows” with a $506 million cleanup plan announced in September.
UGE has installed renewable-powered off-grid lighting systems in 80 countries for various Fortune 100 companies.


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The U.S. Postal Service will implement its second postage rate increase of the year starting this weekend.
As of Sunday, Aug. 29, rate increases will impact the USPS’ “most dominant” products -- including First Class Mail letters, postcards and mailing services -- Stamps.com reports.
Price increases for First Class Mail items range from $0.02 - $0.20.
In addition to First Class Mail, prices will increase by $0.10 - $0.85 for Domestic Mail Extra Services such as certified mail, signature confirmation, return receipt, etc; and by $0.30 - $0.93 for USPS Media Mail based on the weight of the package.
According to Stamps.com, prices for First Class Package Service or Priority Mail, which are known as “competitive” products, will not incur a price increase with the USPS’ “most dominant” products starting Sunday; however, this could change as additional USPS announcements are expected.


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WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration enacted more lenient rules Wednesday over the export of powerful data-scrambling technology, used to guarantee privacy of e-mail and credit-card sales over the Internet.
But critics complained that the relaxed restrictions still go too far, leaving sensitive data vulnerable to dedicated hackers with sufficient financial resources.
"Today's action is a good first step, but it is only that," said Ed Gillespie, executive director for Americans for Computer Privacy, an industry trade group.
The new rules from the Commerce Department allow U.S. companies to sell high-tech tools overseas that use the so-called 56-bit Data Encryption Standard or its equivalent, which has an unlocking key with 72 quadrillion possible combinations.
"U.S. encryption firms will be better able to compete effectively with encryption manufacturers around the world," said William Reinsch, the agency's undersecretary for export administration.
The rules also eliminate restrictions on selling data-scrambling products to U.S. subsidiaries overseas, and even more-powerful products can be sold in 46 countries to some industries, such as insurance and health care.
The government imposes limits on exports of the most powerful scrambling technology -- now anything above 56-bit -- because it fears that authorities, even with a judge's permission, won't be able to read the messages of criminals or terrorists.
The administration previously limited the export of 40-bit encryption technology, which has more than 1 trillion combinations.
Experts have suggested that scrambling sensitive e-mail or online credit-card transactions using less than 90 bits is vulnerable, while most experts consider 128-bit encryption practically unbreakable.
Vice President Al Gore announced the relaxed restrictions in September, calling the balance between privacy and not helping criminals "probably one of the single-most difficult and complex issues that you can possibly imagine."
The export limits do not directly affect Americans, who are legally free to use encryption technology of any strength. But U.S. companies are reluctant to develop one version of their technology for domestic use and a weaker overseas version, so they typically sell only the most powerful type that's legal for export.
Last week, two industry groups -- the Internet Architecture Board and the Internet Engineering Steering Group -- estimated that after an initial purchase of equipment, hackers could break a 64-bit encrypted message in less than a day for roughly $2,500 per message.
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Five years ago, Chris Batty, until this week Gawker’s vice president of sales and marketing, was looking to fill un-purchased ad space on the site. He wanted to forgo the “horrendous creative” of ad networks that litter sites with penny stocks and would keep his sales teams pushing buttons instead of building relationships. Batty sought something prettier, more intimate, more unique for the company’s growing real estate. At the time, he was living with a woman who worked for Christie’s Auction House, and he prodded her to find artists to fill the empty space. She didn’t act on Batty’s inspiration, but he did — bringing images of artists’ work to stand alongside Gawker’s blog posts.
The result was a workaround that gave Gawker full control over its pages’ aesthetics. Born as a stopgap to complement blog posts, Gawker Artists is now taking on an unexpected life of its own — it became a standalone site in 2006 — in large part by thinking of art not merely as a pretty placeholder for text but as something that could survive on its own. Something that could be modeled and monetized. “Gawker Artists is an art brand rather than an editorial brand,” Gawker Media’s director of marketing, Erin Pettigrew, points out. That’s a major distinction in an industry that uses the word “art” as shorthand for photos, infographics, cartoons, and any other visual.
G.A. curators — working with more than 1,400 artists with 35,000 images — tailor and export work to media partners like Elle, Curbed, and The Atlantic. They hang pieces at Gawker’s notoriously bit-focused office, and are in talks to curate work for the headquarters of another high-profile startup. G.A. organizes sponsored exhibitions and events and collaborates with brands on creative projects. Soon, it will launch an art shop that sells limited-edition prints.
It’s an experiment that suggests the power of looking beyond text in journalism’s business models. As Ivan Askwith, director of strategy at Big Spaceship and a founding member of MIT’s Convergence Culture Consortium, puts it: “Let go of the idea that content needs to be created in a certain medium.”
In hindsight, Batty says he would have found a simpler solution for the ad space. Networks are more versatile now, and Gawker can collapse un-purchased space, folding the pixels away and making them disappear. That would have been a shame, though, for Jonathan Fasulo, a photographer who shows on artists.gawker.com. A company that builds websites for photogs found Fasulo there, liked his work, and is giving him a free site for two years. Berlin-based Winston Torr started exhibiting on G.A. earlier in 2010 — and within a week of signing on, his Facebook fan page jumped from 175 to 275 followers. That was followed up with a phone call from the curator of a new Berlin gallery, who wants Torr for a show.
Gawker doesn’t represent artists, but it provides free profiles and exposure. “We both want to communicate with as big an audience as possible,” says Liz Dimmitt, drawing a comparison between artists and journalism companies. Liz and her 24-year-old sister, Genevieve, curate Gawker Artists, visiting studios and taking submissions.
Right now, G.A. is a corporate art program: It’s not charged with generating revenue, producing traffic, or breaking news. The site is an endearingly calm space among Gawker’s tumultuous, often cheeky media properties. “We are sort of a good karma project,” says Liz, who interned with JP Morgan Chase’s corporate art program seven years ago and joined G.A. in 2006. Genevieve, fresh out of Savannah College of Art and Design, says, “I didn’t really know what Gawker was,” but adds that it’s “kind of genius for them to be placing art in their ad space.”
That genius is not just about G.A.’s use of ad space; it’s also about their construction of an entirely new community (in this case, artists) that builds an entirely new resource (in this case, art) that is entirely monetizable: exhibits, art-based events, prints, etc. Some of the most promising media organizations are bringing their business models offline: Mashable inaugurated Social Media Day; Vice invited its merry band of hipsters to watch Eastbound and Down; the Economist holds business summits; Vogue brings out the fashionistas; GQ opened a restaurant division; Wired pops up its SoHo store; Tyler Brule’s traveling journalism operation, Monocle, has an office that publishes in the back and sells products in the front. What makes G.A.’s model work is that they move offline by harnessing community-generated content online.
Since Gawker differentiates between a Torr painting and, say, a picture of Putin, the company can use each resources in different ways. One way they do that is to spread their new resources to visually-based websites. Each month, the Dimmitt sisters cycle new content through Gawker Media properties, and G.A. offers to share the code with anyone who wants it (simply fill out a form with preferred display sizes). More than 200 sites — many of them those of Gawker Artists — feature Gawker’s art on their blogs and Flickr and Etsy profiles. Digital Americana, a literary and culture mag made strictly for the iPad, exhibits Gawker Artists as a footer banner on its site.
For bigger journalism outfits (like Curbed, Elle, and The Atlantic), the Dimmitts hand-curate. Curbed, a real estate-focused network, features art from thematically-related artists in the top-right corner of its site and as banner ads to break up blog posts. General Manager Josh Albertson trusts the Dimmitts to pick images that fit, and if you check out Curbed, there’s a pleasant mix of architectural work co-branded as the “Gawker Artists Curbed collection.” Even though Albertson looks forward to the day when Gawker Artists content is replaced by paying clients, “we’d rather be running this than 25-cent weight-loss CPM ads,” he says. Gawker curates these collections for free, but along the way, they’re building their second brand — and curators are getting to know their community for the time when bigger projects come along.
Gawker Artists also brings a three-dimensional sensibility to Gawker Media sites. Not Avatar 3D, but events, exhibitions, community. “I think Gawker has been somewhat of a pioneer in that respect,” says Erin Smolinski, media planning manager for Diesel USA. As part of Diesel’s Be Stupid campaign earlier this year, she spent $30,000 with Gawker Media, a buy that included run-of-site banners, custom roadblocks, co-branded posts, and a contest moderated by James Frey. Click-throughs were through the roof — 3.8 percent on custom builds, almost five times the industry average — and Diesel’s first-ever online campaign garnered Gawker up to $7 CPMs.
Simultaneously, Gawker Artists was curating its NSFW (“Not Safe For Work”) show featuring artist Justine Lai’s “presidents” series (somewhat SFW). Account exec Meredith Katz told Smolinski about the event, and Diesel put $5,000 of the buy to sponsor NSFW. “I liked the way it made our plan robust,” she says. Smolinski, who partnered with Gawker for its Silent Rave — a dance party with headphones (really) — says NSFW was “a little more intimate and brave” than the rave. It made the campaign resonate more, and Diesel got to wrap party guests in a room full of branded information.
This summer, the Dimmitts helped build an event with $10,000 from smartwater, a Glaceau (Coca-Cola) brand. Artist Ryan Brennan created a multimedia installation that synchronized with music and played well against the setting sun. Infinitely more engaging than a display ad, “the event creates a lot of value, no doubt about that,” says Clotaire Rapaille, author of Culture Code. He likes the fluid nature of Gawker’s creation. “Water is only good when it is in movement. Smartwater is ‘being’ movement, being alive and being in the moment. That reinforces your brand in people’s mind.” Not bad for community-generated content. “I’m actually shocked that more people haven’t done what we’re doing,” Liz says.
Image — “Rapture,” by Robyn Alatorre — courtesy Gawker Artists.


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The Week That Was
This collection contains content for the home page from The Week That Was With Julie G.
Traxium has acquired two Cleveland companies with more than 200 years of combined experience. Both will remain open and operational.
The Xerox Iridesse is the only digital press that can print metallic gold or silver dry ink, CMYK and clear dry ink in a single pass.
For anyone who uses direct mail, there’s a good chance postage soon will be going up dramatically. Here’s how to get involved.
LSC Communications will acquire RRD’s Print Logistics component and Trend Offset will acquire LSC’s retail offset printing facilities.
Pitney Bowes announced Platinum Equity signed an agreement to acquire the company’s Document Messaging Technologies business.
Quadratec, company that sells parts for Jeeps, launched a scannable catalog using image recognition to make every page interactive and shoppable.


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Blancco is looking Ingram Micro to help them put together a select channel of MSPs and VARs to offer their erasure-as-a-service offering. Softchoice has been announced as a Canadian channel partner.
Earlier this year, erasure-as-a-service provider Blancco Technology Group signed a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro. While that agreement included the U.S., it did not include Canada at that time, although both parties were busy concluding a Canadian deal. That deal has now been finalized, and Blancco’s data erasure and mobile device diagnostics service is now available through Ingram in Canada. Blancco also announced that Softchoice has been signed on as a partner in their fledgling Canadian channel.
Blancco is Finnish in origin, although they now sell in 16 countries worldwide, and have been in business for 20 years. They provide organizations with a hardware and software platform for data erasure, including a digitally signed, tamper-proof certificate that verifies that sensitive data has been permanently erased and cannot be recovered. Their core market is regulated industries, and their audit trail is designed to satisfy many such regulations, including PCI DSS, HIPAA, EU GDPR, ISO 27001 and NIST 800-53.
Compliance laws are a key driver in Blancco’s business, and with the GDPR going into effect in Europe, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 having been passed, to go into effect in 2020, and Canada’s federal PIPEDA privacy law being expanded November 1, momentum on that front is strong.
“Other factors are also important but compliance is a huge component,” said Christina Walker, Global Director of Channel Sales and Programs at Blancco. “We do benefit from those laws. But we have other customers that use our erasure for large environments. Many take the position that certain data should not be retained for disaster recovery purposes for more than 30 days. There are other cases where policies are driven by the CISO or by the company.”
Blancco sold direct from the time of its inception in 1997, and the channel is a much more recent addition, with its channel program dating from 2015.
“We know that we are a small component in the security message, but we are a very important one,” Walker said. “We reached the point where we really need the channel to grow. We have grown the number of active partners globally this year by 105 per cent between July 1 and June 30.”
Erasure-as-a-service is still somewhat exotic in the market. That has both a positive and a negative side. On the negative side, the need to educate and evangelize customers about its value is Blancco’s major challenge in the market. On the positive side, partners do tend to get it.
“They instantly see the fit of an erasure service with an audit trail,” Walker indicated.
While a distributor like Ingram Micro often possesses expert technical capability on the offerings that they distribute, that wasn’t the case here with something newer like erasure service.
“Their people are also being trained themselves on erasure-as-a-service,” Walker said. “They didn’t know anything about it themselves when we started.”
The Ingram Micro relationship is focused largely around MSPs, although Blancco does work with some VARs like Softchoice.
“We want MSPs to be our voice in the market for a holistic security picture,” Walker said.
Blancco is not looking to Ingram Micro to enlist an army of partners for them, as they have much more of a value channel approach.
“We aren’t looking to Ingram Micro to bring us a ton of partners, but we are looking for the right partners,” Walker stated. “They are tagging us on to other vendors in the security space, and we go aligned together to talk to likely MSPs. We are finalizing arrangements with a major MSP now. One of their clients is a very large financial institution who they will provide with this service. We are also onboarding Softchoice to do erasure as a service.”
The go-to-market strategy with Ingram Micro in Canada is slightly different from the U.S.
“In the U.S., we aligned ourselves with the Advanced Solutions Group rather than security, because we resonate significantly in the data centres, and we thought that the data centre group would provide the fastest path to expansion,” Walker said. “In Canada, the strategy is different. We have started with their security alliance, where Ingram is attaching us with other security vendors.”
Blancco has a three-person office in Canada, with a country manager, a sales person and a sales engineer. While Blancco would like to expand in Quebec, none of their small staff are French-speaking.
“We are looking to the channel to provide that language component, Walker indicated.”
The Blancco relationship with Ingram in the U.S. has done well in its short tenure. On Monday, at the Ingram Micro ONE event in D.C., Blancco received the 2018 Emerging Vendor Award for Data Center due to overall revenue run rate and relationships made across Ingram Micro’s organization, as well as partner enablement activities.


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505 Games has announced the pre-order bonuses for their upcoming bank-heist co-op fest, PayDay 2, and have also unveiled a new gameplay video for our viewing pleasure! PayDay 2 will hit retailers in August. The pre-order bonuses are as follows:
I thought this was suppose to be downloadable title 0_o $40 and $60 for some premium edition ....
That's what they said they stated that it would be in store and as a downloadable title.
I was surprised to learn this game no longer has AI teammates..
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Following in the footsteps of other Tech companies highly exposed to China, Apple warned it will not meet its March quarter revenue guidance as the coronavirus hit both demand and manufacturing in the country. In addition, the company was expected to launch, sometime in Q1, a low-cost iPhone model (currently nicknamed SE2 or iPhone 9), that will certainly be postponed to Q2. Apple stores are now gradually reopening and factories that have begun to reopen are ramping up slowly.
Clearly, Q1 will be a quarter to forget for the Tech and, more specifically, semiconductor industries. But this temporary supply-and-demand shock should not conceal the improving fundamentals we have seen since Q3/Q4 with 1) an easing of trade relations between the US and China 2) a semiconductor demand recovery driven by data center upgrades and first 5G network rollouts and 3) historically low chip inventory levels.
As all these drivers remain well in place, we are convinced that Apple and the semiconductor supply chain will enjoy a V-shaped earnings recovery post Q1, assuming the coronavirus epidemic loses steam. Pent-up demand will likely fuel revenue growth in Q2 and Q3 and, potentially, some of this pent-up demand could shift towards the 5G iPhones that are expected to start shipping in Q3 and to mark the start of a major smartphone upgrade cycle.
In all, the weakness since mid-January of many of the 5G-related names and of our Smart Connectivity certificate could be an attractive entry point for those believing in a massive smartphone upgrade cycle over 2020-21 and in the take-off of 5G industrial and business applications.


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Next Tuesday, the FSA board will meet to discuss whether folic acid should be added just to bread or to flour - which would mean it could also go into cakes and biscuits.
The blanket addition of folate is justified, it says, because a lack of folic acid before and during pregnancy has been linked to disabilities in babies. A study published in health journal The Lancet last week added weight to the FSA's cause by suggesting that regular doses of folic acid could also reduce the risk of stroke in adults by up to 30%.
But not everyone is convinced of the merits of mass medicating - or the costs likely to be entailed.
So far, the FSA has agreed to a series of controls if compulsory fortification is adopted, such as wholemeal flour being exempt. Controls on voluntary fortification of products such as breakfast cereals and spreads, some of which already contain folic acid, would also be included in its recommendation, says the FSA.
However, opponents of the move point out that an increase in folic acid can mask a vitamin B12 deficiency, which can be dangerous in the elderly. Plus, they point out, the effects of too much folic acid in a diet are not fully understood.
Manufacturers have expressed concerns about how the move will affect not just bread producers but the wider cakes and biscuit industry, if the FSA recommends that folic acid is added at the milling stage, the cheapest and easiest way to do it.
"We support the FSA's decision, and would welcome clarification about how folic acid can be
added to bread without affecting cakes or biscuits," says a spokeswoman from the Biscuit, Cake, Chocolate and Confectionery Association.
The idea of mandatory fortification has also drawn fire from campaigners for natural and organic food.
"The FSA has confirmed that wholemeal flour will be exempt from the fortification, supposedly because it wants the consumer to feel like they have a 'choice'," says a spokesman for Garden Organic, a charity dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food.
"That's because wholemeal flour already has folic acid in it. So why not just tell women of child-bearing age to eat more wholemeal bread?"
The FDF agrees that there are other simpler measures that
could be taken to ensure the public gets the recommended amount of the vitamin B compound in their diet.
Why not encourage greater use of voluntary fortification, for instance, or disseminate the message through schools, supermarkets and GPs' surgeries that young women should take folic acid supplements?
There is also the cost to consider, says the National Association of British and Irish Millers. "We are happy to support the FSA's decision, but this is a public health exercise and, as such, we think it is only right that the government should foot the bill," says NABIM director, Alex Waugh.
"If this is not covered by government then it will be the millers who probably pick up the costs, which could end up as an additional cost to the consumer. At the end of the day, paying for the folic acid would be cheaper for the government than running a big public health campaign, so hopefully it will see sense."
The FSA board, which has already voted unanimously for the move, will make a final recommendation to the Department of Health after next week's meeting.n


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In an odd, throwaway line, Apple’s Eddy Cue mentioned that Siri, the voice control app for iOS 7, will let you search directly in “Bing.” In fact, the absence of Google was quite noticeable, reduced to a mention in the iWork portion of the event that the new web apps would work with Chrome.
Apple has been weaning itself off of Google for years now and with this release – and this pointed note regarding Bing – shows how deep the disaggregation has gone.
Earlier, the company shut down Google’s mapping app by creating its own (arguably sub par) solution. With this version of iOS the rejection of Google seems to be complete. While many will argue that the entire OS is wildly reminiscent of Android in the aggregate, this seems to be a catch-up effort that allows iOS to stack up to similarly outfitted devices from Google and Microsoft. Most important, however, it shows who Apple sees as its only – and most dangerous – competitor.


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Oceania Cruises has floated out its new ship Vista at the Fincantieri shipyard in Sestri Ponente, Italy.
Vista will sail its maiden voyage from Rome to Barcelona on 14 April 2023, followed by 12 additional European voyages, prior to commencing sailings from the US to the Canadian Maritimes and New England, the Panama Canal, and the Caribbean.
Oceania Cruises president and CEO Howard Sherman said: “Vista is Oceania Cruises’ most anticipated ship in the history of our company, and I am thrilled to be here with our partners from Fincantieri as the ship morphs from blueprints and steel into reality.
“Vista is truly a ship of dreams, and we cannot wait to welcome her inaugural season guests next year.”
Fincantieri merchant ships division general manager Luigi Matarazzo added: “Ten years have passed since we delivered Riviera to our friends at Oceania Cruises, from the same Sestri shipyard.
“The launch of this new ship therefore represents an important milestone not only of her construction, but also in the consolidation of the relationship with the shipping company.
“I am sure that Vista will give life to a new class of ships that will stand out for its refinement and technological advances.”
Vista: ‘The next step’ for Oceania
The 1,200-guest Vista will feature 12 dining options, four of which are new to the luxury cruise line, as well as eight bars, lounges, and entertainment venues.
All Penthouse Suites and staterooms will have large bathrooms with oversized rainforest showers, while Oceania will introduce new Concierge Level veranda staterooms for solo travellers.
Speaking to Cruise Trade News about the ship in 2021, the line’s senior vice-president & MD EMEA, Bernard Carter, said Vista will “provide an evolution of what Oceania Cruises has been developing over the past 20 years”.
“It takes the core elements to Oceania Cruises to a new level, and I am confident no one will be disappointed,” he added.


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Microsoft has filed several civil lawsuits against those it says are infringing on its brands and trademarks by registering domain names intended to capture mistyped URLs — and then selling ads against them.
The company filed two civil lawsuits against four named defendants and another “John Doe” lawsuit against 217 defendants in an effort to unmask those who have anonymously registered domain names containing its brands and products. Three of the alleged squatters identified in the suit are Jason Cox of Albuquerque, New Mexico; Daniel Giggins of Proto, Utah; and John Jonas of Springville, Utah. Together, the company says, the three men illegally registered 324 domain names targeting its trademarks.
Microsoft is also trying to block online auctions that traffic in misspelled versions of its own domain by patrolling domain auctioning sites and approaching their operators when its trademarks appear for bidding.
Registering domain names with trademarked terms, with the intent to profit from them, is illegal under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), a federal law that came into effect in 1999. The wording states that anyone who “registers, traffics in or uses a domain name that is… identical to, confusingly similar or dilutive of” existing trademarks is punishable by law.
Microsoft has been a particularly appealing target for the squatters, but is not the only corporation to be exploited. Pepsi, Boeing and the U.S. Army have also had their domains parroted.
The company first noticed the upsurge in domain names containing its trademarked terms during an existing anti-phishing “Domain Defense Program,” operated in conjunction with strategic partner Internet Identity.
“While cybersquatting had been considered by most a nuisance issue, recently the stakes have gone up, as pay-per-click advertising has allowed for an explosion of websites to drive that traffic monetization,” said Rod Rasmussen, Internet Identity’s director of operations. “This is causing brand erosion, customer confusion, and trademark dilution on a much wider scale and is starting to get some serious attention from brand holders.”
Rasmussen expects that the lawsuits will at least deter squatters from illegally using Microsoft trademarks, but he cautions, “There is also the ‘hungry bear’ effect… You don’t have to be faster than the hungry bear chasing you, just the other guy next to you. Same principle applies here. If one company is tough on squatters, they’re a much less desirable target and will see fewer infractions. Yet another consideration is that in the arcane world of trademark law, defending your marks is actually required in order to ensure you don’t lose them.”
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Gold steady below 1-month high, heads for second weekly gain
Gold traded steady in early Asian trade on Friday, after hitting a one-month high in the previous session on the European Central Bank`s decision to keep interest rates steady through the summer of 2019 and looming trade worries.FUNDAMENTALS
** Spot gold
** U.S. gold futures
** The European Central Bank will shut its hallmark bond purchase scheme by the close of the year, taking its biggest step yet towards dismantling crisis-era stimulus a decade after the start of the euro zone`s economic downturn. It also sees interest rates steady "at least through the summer of 2019"
** U.S. President Trump has made up his mind to impose "pretty significant" tariffs on Chinese goods, an administration official said on Thursday, as Beijing warned that it was ready to respond if Washington chose to ratchet up trade tensions.
** Tough sanctions will remain on North Korea until its complete denuclearisation, the U.S. secretary of state said on Thursday, apparently contradicting the North`s view that the process agreed at this week`s summit would be phased and reciprocal.
** China`s economy is finally starting to cool under the weight of a multi-year crackdown on riskier lending that is pushing up borrowing costs for companies and consumers, with data on Thursday pointing to a broad slowdown in activity in May.
** Japan`s central bank will likely debate on Friday structural factors that may be dragging on inflation, which has been disappointingly weak and could make talk of an exit from ultra-loose monetary policy a distant prospect.
** Gold discounts in India were at their widest in nine months this week as higher domestic prices tempered retail purchases, while buying in other Asian centres remained subdued amid a lack of significant momentum in global prices. [GOL/AS]
** German technology group Heraeus [HRHLD.UL] will open a precious metals refinery and recycling plant in China in September to take advantage of the country`s rising demand for platinum group metals.
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T-Mobile announced this afternoon that they will automatically credit all Sidekick users one month of data service.
Jim Alling, Chief Operations Officer at T-Mobile USA wrote the following memo on the T-Mobile support forum inform customers of the the credit and to once again apologize for the disruption in service:
“Dear valued T-Mobile Sidekick customers:
I realize that for many of you, your T-Mobile Sidekick is how you stay in touch with your friends, family and others. I sincerely apologize for the impact the current disruption of data services may be having on you. I assure you that T-Mobile is working very closely with Danger/Microsoft to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. T-Mobile-supported services, such as voice calls and SMS/MMS, have not been affected and continue to be operational. Danger/Microsoft has been working, and will continue working through the week, to restore data functionality and other features.
I understand that this data service disruption is very frustrating to our valued Sidekick customers. For many years, the Sidekick has been, and continues to be, a cornerstone device for T-Mobile. And we believe Sidekick customers are among the most loyal customers anywhere. Recognizing that, and to address any inconvenience Sidekick data customers are experiencing, T-Mobile will automatically credit one month of data service to customers who subscribe to T-Mobile Sidekick data plans. There is nothing you need to do to get this credit â€“ T-Mobile will post the credit to these accounts in the coming days.
We will continue to post the latest information and FAQs to these Forums. I appreciate you being a loyal T-Mobile customer, and appreciate your patience as everyone works hard to resolve the current issues. Thank you.
Jim Alling, Chief Operations Officer, T-Mobile USA”


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TV Everywhere is starting to look like linear TV in terms of commercial breaks.
That's the good news--or bad news, depending on how you look at it--reported by FreeWheel, the advanced advertising unit purchased by Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) earlier this year.
In its latest Video Monetization Report, FreeWheel says the number of ads seen through authenticated pay-TV viewing spiked 368 percent year-over-year in Q3, with 46 percent of those ads delivered during "long-form" programming of 20 minutes or longer.
So-called "mid-roll" commercial breaks now average 101 seconds and include four spots, up from 87 seconds and 3.5 ads in Q3 2013.
Authenticated ads delivered to smartphones spiked 77 percent, while those delivered to OTT devices like Roku and Apple TV (NASDAQ: AAPL) were up 208 percent. And 87 percent of ads viewed on OTT devices came within long-form and live program viewing.
Driven by sports events like the World Cup, live TV Everywhere viewing is up this year. Ads delivered in live authenticated streams accounted for 21 percent of all authenticated commercial viewing in Q3, up from 8.6 percent a year earlier.
Authenticated ad views by device. (Source: Freewheel Video Monetization Report, Q3 2014)
Four reasons why TV Everywhere isn't ready for prime time: A simple look at a complex problem
WSJ: Comcast's other acquisition, FreeWheel, has media companies concerned
DirecTV poised to profit from Comcast-FreeWheel deal
DirecTV to use, invest in FreeWheel for TV Everywhere technology
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Nintendo is not the only company that's currently enjoying the high of its latest mobile money-maker Pokemon Go. While a small smartphone accessory manufacturer has already seen a slight rise in stocks to meet the smartphone battery-drain demand, another bigger company is predicted to make the most out of the Pokemon Go craze.
From the looks of it, tech giant Apple will stand to gain quite a handful over the next two years thanks to Pokemon Go. According to Marketwatch, one Needham analyst Laura Martin predicted that a US$3 billion additional revenue may be going Apple's Way thanks to the fee that is charged for hosting apps on its App Store.
Around 30% is reportedly kept from all of the earnings obtained by Pokemon Go, thanks to the fee that comes with expenditures via the iOS apps. This was compared to how much Apple got in additional revenue for hosting Blizzard and King's Candy Crush Saga back in its heyday as one of the most popular mobile titles. Apple earned US$2 billion alone from that game in two years
Perhaps what's even more noteworthy is the fact that the estimated additional revenue for Apple may be worth more than what Nintendo may get from Pokemon Go. Given its 32% stake in The Pokemon Company, plus factoring in Niantic Labs' stake in the title, and Nintendo's overall profit from Pokemon Go may not be as much.
Of course, that may only be as relatively compared to what other stakeholders in Pokemon Go. Let's not forget that Nintendo's stock has kept soaring in what could be the high time of the Pokemon Go bubble, it even overtook Sony in the stocks in a steep finishing climb.
There will surely be much more to come as far as Pokemon Go's reach is concerned. It still has to launch in Asia, where a huge portion of its fans, and not to mention the franchise's hometown, is located.
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Qantas and American Airlines joint business
Qantas has today welcomed the United States Department of Transportation’s (DOT) final approval of its joint business with American Airlines, to better serve customers travelling between North America, Australia and New Zealand.
This follows the DOT’s tentative approval of the joint business in early June.
Final approval means Qantas and American Airlines can now coordinate as part of a joint business to deliver new routes, more destinations, reduced travel time, lower fares, and additional benefits for frequent flyers.
For decades, Qantas and American Airlines have connected travellers across the Pacific and worked together as codeshare partners.
The joint business will allow Qantas and American Airlines to further deepen our longstanding partnership with the first order of business for Qantas to introduce two new routes from Brisbane to Chicago and San Francisco.
Announced in Brisbane last month, these two new routes, which will be operated by Qantas’ Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft, are expected to launch by the end of April 2020 and will add more than 170,000 seats across the Pacific each year. The schedule for Qantas’ Brisbane-Chicago and Brisbane-San Francisco flights is being finalised, with fares available for sale soon.
Qantas and American Airlines will also add codeshare services to more of each other’s existing international flights between Australia and the United States with customers able to purchase these codeshare flights in coming days.
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RCCI urges govt to promote trade ties with Central Asian States
RAWALPINDI, JAN 06 (DNA) – Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) President Malik Shahid Saleem has urged Government to promote regional trade with increasing ties with Central Asian Republics.
Addressing executive committee meeting, President RCCI said that “Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Central Asian states can become a new economic zone if connected with China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC),”.
The RCCI president said CPEC was a unique opportunity for traders and investors of not only Pakistan and China but also for the entire regional countries, especially the Central Asian states.
He stressed bilateral cooperation in sectors, including pharmaceutical products, marble, rice, sports goods, textile goods and information technology.
There is need to improve banking channel, transportation, road and rail network so that perishable goods got more sustainability.
We are facing big challenge on competitiveness with neighboring countries. Lower tariff rates, regulatory duties and cheap electricity price can help manufacturers to meet the given challenge and it will also help Pakistan to increase its exports.
RCCI president stressed upon the government to facilitate exporters while returning their sales tax refunds.=DNA
Biggest visa center of Asia to become operational in Karachi from Sept: UAE Envoy
KARACHI, JUL 19 (DNA) – Ambassador of United Arab Emirates (UAE) Hamad Obaid Alzaabi hasRead More
Thai Airways resumes operation from Islamabad to Bangkok
Islamabad: Thai Airways International has resumed its operations from Lahore and Islamabad to Bangkok andRead More


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Digital advertisers, take note – the market might look slow now, but the budget for advertising on mobile devices is going up, according to research firm Gartner Inc.
Global mobile advertising spending is expected to increase about $5 billion this year – up from $13.1 billion in 2013, to $18 billion by the end of this year. While that may not seem like a huge jump, in the next three years, that number is supposed to reach almost $42 billion.
“Over the next few years, growth in mobile advertising spending will slow due to ad space inventory supply growing faster than demand, as the number of mobile websites and applications increases faster than brands request ad space on mobile device screens,” said Stephanie Baghdassarian, research director at Gartner, in a statement.
However, she noted that between 2015 and 2017, we should expect to see better market conditions, as well as new targeting technologies, standardized marketing metrics, and providers consolidating in this space – factors that should all make mobile advertising more attractive to advertisers.
“The mobile channel will become more and more integrated into 360-degree advertising campaigns, eating up budget historically allocated to print and radio advertising,” Baghdassarian added.
The area with the highest growth? That’s slated to be video, as more and more consumers continue to buy tablets over the next few years. In the meantime, display formats are still expected to take the biggest chunk of revenue, with mobile display ad formats accounting for the majority of ads on mobile devices.
Beyond these two categories, mobile advertisers are also expected to use more and more location data to reach consumers. Gartner names a category called the “search/map ad type,” which either automatically pushes consumers messages, based on where they’re located, or takes advantage of location data from consumers who check in to places they visit using apps like Foursquare or Pinterest. So advertisers for local businesses – for example, your neighbourhood pub – are going to be most interested in location-based mobile advertising, Gartner’s report notes.
Advertisers are also more likely to favour using the Web to display mobile ads instead of using in-app displays, especially as developers begin to use more HTML5 tools in writing their code.
And while we should expect to see growth in mobile advertising in most parts of the world, North America is slated to be its stronghold, the Gartner report noted. While mobile advertising continues to grow, online advertising is mature in North America, and mobile advertisers have more spending power in this region.


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Ambika Soni files nomination from Punjab
She was accompanied by Shakeel Ahmad, Amarinder Singh, Harish Choudhary,Rajinder Kaur Bhattal and Leader of Opposition in Punjab assembly Charanjit Singh Channi.
PS4 sales hit 40 mn as Sony console dominates
PS4 has dominated the market for the latest-generation consoles & is nearly double those of riv...
Sony Pictures gets exclusive rights of Premier Futsal League
The multicity franchise-based league would be played across India from 15-24 Jul...
Sony, Star may fight tooth and nail for IPL telecast rights
Sony Pictures Networks, whose contract ends after 2017 IPL season, has made it clear that it will leave no stone unturned to secure the rights for the future as well.
Nikkei rebounds on weaker yen; Sony soars on growth outlook
Home appliance and electronics exporter Panasonic Corp also gained on the weaker yen, rising 3.4 percent by late morning.
IPL opened with "decent" viewership across Sony Max, Sony Six and Sony ESPN: BARC data
Impressions are a measure of number of viewers at any given point of time during the telecast of the match. The seven matches were played between April 9-15.
Mall consumers are browsers, shopping is not priority on their agenda: Ashish Soni
The ace designer, who has spent over two decades in the fashion industry, has recently set up a luxe store for men in Delhi.
Nikkei hits near 1-month high on weaker yen; Sony soars on outlook
Although turnover edged up to 1.783 trillion yen, recovering from the previous day's 1.67 trillion yen when it hit the lowest this year, it remained thin.
A sparkling evening: Jewellery designer Poonam Soni's party in Mumbai
The evening also featured a preview of Soni’s jewellery collection.
Sony Pictures Networks India introduces women-friendly work-linked benefits
The duration of paid leave that can be availed for maternity has been increased from 12 weeks to 6 months (180 calendar days).
Flipkart's chief product officer Punit Soni quits
Punit Soni, the high profile hire from Silicon Valley, made by India's most valued internet company, has quit Flipkart, in about a year of joining.
Hotstar, Sony Liv gear up to take on Netflix in India
Sony Liv, the over-the-top services player owned by broadcaster SPN India, and Star India’s Hotstar will use Hollywood movies and English TV content to take on Netflix in the Indian market.
Sony's sensor business slows down even as cost cuts lift profit
On Thursday, it said it expects production to resume around the end of May. The disruption, it said, could cause "major" opportunity losses.
Sony logs biggest FY profit in 8 years on restructuring, games
Operating profit more than quadrupled to 294.2 billion yen ($2.70 billion) for the year ended March, roughly in line with the firm's forecast announced earlier this month.
Kapil Sharma returns on Sony, says there should be more comedy shows
The comedian has now come up with 'The Kapil Sharma Show', which airs on Saturday.
Indian unicorns unwilling to bring in professional CEOs: Ex-Flipkart executive Punit Soni
Indian unicorns are grappling with leadership challenges but are unwilling to bring professional chief executives on board.
Call drop penalty is unheard of in any other country: Nitin Soni, Fitch Ratings
In an interview with ET Now, Nitin Soni, Fitch Ratings, gives his take on the call drop penalty.
ET review: Sony alpha 68 has an impressive new auto focus system
The Alpha 68 is quick off the mark and even quicker to focus. Any user will appreciate its ability to focus in really low light.
Sony to delay announcing earnings forecasts to assess quake damage
Sony said it would release the forecasts some time in May, instead of on April 28, when it is due to announce results for the year that ended in March.
E-commerce space in India is very challenging: Punit Soni
Former Flipkart CPO, Punit Soni spills the beans about his new plans. Punit played a crucial role in launching chat feature ping as well as mobile push. He stated that the e-commerce space in India is indeed very challenging.
Sony unveils innovative camera featuring 4D focus
The 24 MP A68 camera delivers extraordinary auto focus performance under any shooting conditions.
Flipkart CTO Punit Soni denies exit rumours
CTO Punit Soni breaks his silence for the first time on his rumoured exit from Flipkart. Watch the video to know more.
Sony cuts FY 2015 profit estimate by 9.4% on weaker smartphone demand
The company said on Thursday it is estimating operating profit of 290 billion yen ($2.64 billion), down from a previously estimated 320 billion yen.
Sony A6300: Loaded and compact
Sony's mirrorless camera claims to focus at the speed of sight with exemplary image quality.
Sony extending closure of image sensor plant in quake-hit southern Japan
Operations at its image sensor plants in Nagasaki and Oita, also on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, fully resumed, the company said.
LG overtakes Bravia maker Sony in flat panel television sales
The Japanese electronics giant attributed this development to a change in business strategy, which places a greater focus on the premium segment and an eye for value over volumes.
Flipkart's chief product officer Punit Soni, a high-profile catch from Silicon Valley, quits
During his stint with Flipkart, Soni was responsible for significantly enhancing the product design capability and hiring a robust technology team.
Arun Dutta named Sony Pictures, AT&T JV's India head
The studio is based in Bengaluru and is actively recruiting for more than 60 positions across engineering, quality assurance, product management, analytics and art.
Sony Pictures signs letter of intent to acquire 9X Media for Rs 220 crore
9X Media operates three music channels in Hindi, 9XM, 9X Jalwa and 9X Bajao, one in English (9XO), Marathi (9X Jhakaas) and Punjabi (9X Tashan) each.
Sony to get around 20% of IPL ad revenue from mobile handset makers such as Vivo, Lava, Micromax
Brands such as Oppo, Vivo, Lava, Micromax and LYF, in addition to advertising during the T20 league matches are also sponsors of six of the eight teams.
In the medium-term R-Jio will have to raise price: Nitin Soni, Fitch Ratings
Whole industry is moving towards spectrum neutrality
Acid attack on AAP leader Soni Sori in Bastar
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My face today reflects the fight in Bastar: Soni Sori
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Vice Admiral Satish Soni inaugurates maritime museum in Visakhapatnam
Vice Admiral Satish Soni, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Eastern Command of the Indian Navy inaugurated the Maritime block of Visakha Museum in Visakhapatnam.
70% ad spots for IPL 9 sold: Sony
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LG, Sony fight for survival in India's smartphone space, to exit entry market
Facing tough competition from Chinese and local vendors, their market share in the smartphone category has slipped to record lows - LG at 0.4% and Sony at 1.5%.
We’re committed to protecting Soni Sori and minorities: Chhattisgarh CM Raman Singh
Raman Singh discussed the recent attack on a local church, fighting Naxals – and protecting Soni Sori.
More channels, regional acquisitions on Sony's India menu
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Sony expects Rs 1,200 crore advertising revenue from IPL 2016
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Sony partners ESPN to launch two sports channels
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New Silk Route in talks with Sony Pictures to sell 9X Media for Rs 250-300 crore
The PE fund, that holds around 80% stake in the company, expects to barely recover the amount it had invested in the business nine years ago.
New Silk Route, Pradeep Guha in talks with Sony to sell 9X Media
Owing to poor demand the PE fund and other shareholders have been engaging with prospective buyers on and off for the last two years.
Good news, Kapil Sharma fans! Comedian back on television with new show on Sony
After working together for almost three years , differences emerged between Colors and Sharma, and they parted ways.
Is ex-Googler and Flipkart employee Punit Soni on his way out?
A source close to the development said Soni has been contemplating quitting Flipkart in the backdrop of the app-only strategy backfiring for the e-tailer.
Sony reports a jump in fiscal third quarter profit on PS4
Sony, which also makes Bravia TVs and Xperia mobile phones, has been undergoing a marathon restructuring to focus on more profitable operations.
Masters Champions League to be telecast on Sony Six
Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) has bagged the exclusive rights to the first edition of the Masters Champions League (MCL), a T20 cricket league which will starts January 28 next year.
Sony says to buy Israel's Altair Semiconductor for $212 million
Sony Corp stepped up its investment in chip technology after strong sales of camera sensors in the last few years helped turn around the business.


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