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Perrigo to split off generic drugs unit
- Perrigo plans to split off its generic prescription drug business from the company's larger consumer healthcare division, mulling shedding the unit in a sale, merger or separation to shareholders.
- The decision follows a strategic portfolio review aimed at addressing a steady downward slide in the company's stock price. Investors, however, didn't take to Perrigo's plans, sending shares in the drugmaker down more than 10% Thursday.
- Price erosion in the market for knockoff drugs has hurt sales at generic drugmakers, including Mylan and Teva Pharmaceuticals. On Wednesday, Mylan said it would weigh its options as it copes with struggles in its North American business.
Over the past 18 months or so, Perrigo has made several changes in an apparent effort to placate shareholders. The drugmaker restructured its board in early 2017, handing to seats to activist investor Starboard Value.
Then, in January of this year, Perrigo announced Uwe Roehrhoff would take over as CEO from John Hendrickson, who retired. Hendrickson had taken over when former CEO Joseph Papa left to run Valeant Pharmaceuticals, now Bausch Health Company.
Separating Perrigo's generic drug division is expected to take place during the second half of next year. A spinout had reportedly been in discussion for some time, but Perrigo has yet to settle on how it will separate the unit.
In addition to topical generics, the company also sells over-the-counter drugs and infant nutrition products.
Its consumer healthcare division is about a $4 billion a year business, while generic drugs brought in just under $1 billion over the past 12 months.
Sales of pharmaceuticals have fallen in recent quarters, totaling $209 million in the second quarter — a 13% drop from a year ago. In a statement, company CEO Roehrhoff said the unit fell short of earnings expectations due to a shortfall in new product launches as well as challenging dynamics in the generic drug market.
On Thursday, Perrigo explained its decision to move forward with a spinout as the best path to unlock value for shareholders, allowing it to focus on consumer health.
"Committing our energy and capital to the healthcare needs of consumers and our retail and pharmacy partners better positions Perrigo to drive long-term growth," Roehrhooff said.
Perrigo expects to give further details on September 25 when it holds a conference call on its consumer business.
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Members at Amplify Credit Union no longer have to worry about incurring any fees on their deposit accounts.
The $1.2 billion asset credit union in Austin, Texas, switched to a fee-free model in February that eliminated all banking fees on deposit accounts.
“For any depositor at our institution, it’s impossible for them to incur any kind of fee,” says Stacy Armijo, chief experience officer. “It doesn’t matter what their balance is. It doesn’t matter what their behaviors are. It doesn’t matter which product they use or how long they’ve had it. It’s impossible to be charged a fee at Amplify for banking.
“People are so used to having fees charged,” she continues. “The irony is that it’s hard to get people to believe we’re really doing this.”
The credit union rolled the fee-free model out in a staged fashion, first turning off all fees during January and announcing to members on Feb. 2—2/2/2022—which the credit union called “fee-free day.”
A few weeks later, Amplify launched the model to the public.
The staged approached allowed Amplify to identify any technical bumps as well as improve the online account opening process. While the credit union has physical locations, Armijo says it operates with a digital-first mentality in how it approaches growth.
“We decided it was better to launch this well and welcome new people into our institution in a way that we had a lot of confidence in especially from a digital service point of view, as opposed to launch it fast and then have it feel clunky,” Armijo says. “This isn’t a trendy strategy. It’s not the promotion of the quarter. This is a shift in how we think about our business model and how we’re going to market. We wanted to take the time to do it right.”
Amplify’s announcement came in the wake of several financial institutions announcing they were eliminating some fees.
“We decided to take it all in one chunk. You don’t get to promote being fee-free if you’re not really fee-free,” Armijo says. “You can’t say, ‘we’re sort of kind of fee-free.’ This is what banking has done forever.
“We wanted to really have the opportunity to have the value proposition and we’re fortunate that our business model hasn’t relied as much on this type of income as other institutions of our size.”
Armijo understands not all credit unions can eliminate all fees at once. However, she says it’s worthwhile to explore the idea and possibly take small steps toward an eventual fee-free model.
“Taking it in bits and pieces is much better than not doing it at all,” Armijo says. “This is quickly becoming table stakes for what consumers are going to expect with their accounts. We can either set the pace ourselves, make these decisions, plan it into our business cycle, and do it in a way that is feasible, or we can wait until our customers do it to us through attrition or until the regulators do it do to us through concerns about these income streams.”
Learn more about Amplify’s decision to eliminate all banking fees on deposits accounts by listening to Armijo’s interview with the CUNA News Podcast.

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- The newly announced battery can survive extreme weather conditions.
- It is also coming with an improved fast charging solution.
GoPro cameras are very popular especially among vloggers as the same enables them to carry easily and shoot videos, the same is also capable to handle extreme conditions as well. Now GoPro launches an enhanced Enduro battery for the Hero9 & Hero10 Black that is claimed to provide better performance and the battery can able to survive the extreme weather conditions as well. So let’s get into the article to check out the complete details of the newly announced battery.
The newly unveiled GoPro Enduro battery for Hero9 and Hero10 Black will be able to manage extreme winter as well as extreme hot temperatures. It is claimed that the camera can able to record videos at 4K/60fps video for up to 76 minutes during the temperature as low as -10°C. It is also said that you guys can able to record videos at 1080p/30fps video for 115 minutes, 4K/120fps for 50 minutes, and 5.3K/60fps for 56 minutes under the same temperature condition.
Apart from this, it is also claimed that the newly announced battery will provide improvements and this same will offer up to 13% faster charging capability.


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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Twitter said Monday that it has identified a glitch that allows users to "force" other users to follow them.
As a result, users found that they temporarily had far fewer followers in their Twittersphere than usual -- most accounts showed 0 followers for an hour or so. However, logged-in users could still see activity from all those they follow by going to their Twitter home page.
The company quickly said it was working to solve the problem, which surfaced in posts from Gizmodo and other tech blogs drawing attention to the bug.
"We're now working to rollback all abuse of the bug that took place," Twitter said mid-afternoon on its blog. "Follower/following numbers are currently at zero; we're aware and this too should shortly be resolved."
Gizmodo received a tip about the bug from a Turkish Twitter user, whose account has since been suspended.
John Herrman, a tech reporter for the website, said Gizmodo receives hundreds of tips a day, many of which turn out to be "fairly ridiculous." But the magnitude of this one became clear after a few quick tests.
"It turned out that it was in fact a serious exploit," Herrman said. "It was working exactly as if the person was following you."
By 2:45 p.m. EST, the issue appeared to be resolved, but Twitter representatives did not respond to calls for comment.
Last week, Facebook reported a glitch that made some instant messages visible to a user's entire list of friends. But Twitter has been fairly immune to criticism about its privacy policies, Herrman said, since less personal information is used for the service.
Twitter said Monday that protected updates -- those users flagged to keep private -- "did not become public as a result of this bug."
Although the snafu is unlikely to have a long-term adverse effect on the company, it does reveal potentially serious weaknesses in Twitter's system, Herrman said. In the short term, the company will have to do some public relations work to appease users.
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A new study has explained the link between water and energy consumption, and the greenhouse gases emitted as a byproduct, encouraging state leaders and consumers to take steps towards reducing water consumption and saving energy.
The state uses large amounts of energy to pump, treat and deliver water to consumers, who use even more energy to heat and use the water at home.
The greenhouse gas emissions associated with water-related energy consumption total more than 100 million metric tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent gases.
“Water use means energy use, therefore conserving water means conserving energy,” said report author Ethan Elkind, Climate Change Research Fellow at UCLA Law and Berkeley Law.
“Most of the energy consumption from water comes from consumer use of household appliances like dishwashers and hot water heaters. These appliances are very energy-intensive, so conservation at home offers the greatest energy- and money-saving potential,” he added.
The report identifies key obstacles to conserving water and recommends, among other things: the expansion of energy-efficiency funding programs, such as a public goods surcharge on water bills and on-bill financing to help water consumers pay for water efficiency improvements; and the implementation of rate structures that encourage and reward water use efficiency.


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Sony has surreptitiously made the PS4 more powerful for game creators.
Some inside digging into a recent update to the software development kit has revealed that the Japanese company unlocked the 7th CPU core in the PS4, and developers now have access to utilizing it. The note that was found by Beyond3d Developer forum in the update reads as follows: “PS4–Added FMOD_THREAD_CORE6 to allow access to the newly unlocked 7th core.”
What does this mean? Not much right now, but in the future, we’ll see the results of developers utilizing more of those 8 cores built into the PS4. Obviously, this is a good way of giving developers some extra juice to make grander games, without needing to actually change the hardware platform itself.
Microsoft took a similar approach last year, and so far it seems to have worked. There’s more graphical parity seen in games available on both the Xbox One and PS4. I would imagine that even if we don’t see a jump in graphical fidelity on PS4 games, we will at least get smoother experiences if developers choose to utilize the new core.
Home consoles are quite underpowered right now in comparison to PCs, so squeezing every bit of extra power is pretty necessary. As of now, the PC platform is looking like the more appealing place to play.
What do you think about Sony taking the same approach as their competitors? Is this a smart move? Do you think it will make much of a difference? Let us know in the comments below.


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On Wednesday, Hike introduced HikeMoji to all users, increasing competition in the area of personal emoji, by applying HikeMoji to all users, which is described as the first local and personal embodiment.
According to the company, the scale of machine learning (ML) on the platform has also been expanded from the incorporation of 100 trillion combinations in the beta version to 100 quintillion sets in the first release released on Wednesday.
This lends itself to creating HikeMoji in less than three seconds and this is more life-like.
“Incredible traction with over 1 million plus HikeMojis created in beta alone. We are excited to officially roll this out in V1 with lots of details. You can now take your HikeMoji with you to other messaging platforms,” Kavin Bharti said Mittal , Founder and CEO, Hike, in a statement.
It was launched in the beta in November 2019 and up to a million HikeMojis were created in beta.
Inspired by India’s diversity, this makes HikeMoji the largest platform for creating an avatar for local avatar as well.
It is worth noting that HikeMoji users can now play with over 1,200 items, including hairstyles, skin shades, accessories, facial features, and expressions, giving them the opportunity to enjoy an embodiment that not only reflects their personality but also their mood.
Switching from beta to version 1 also provides users with a variety of features including boils, freckles, cheek lines and more.


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A North London bakery has been fined £152,823 after it was found to be using a tennis racket to mash potatoes.
The directors of Sweet Mahal and Doce Bakers, which both prepared food at the premises, appeared before Highbury Magistrates Court last week to answer charges, after an EHO inspection discovered the potato-covered racket in a bowl of boiled potatoes.
The charge was part of a string of hygiene failings uncovered by Enfield Council, which brought the prosecution.
Enfield Council found the Edmonton premises that were used to manufacture desserts, sweets, bakery goods and samosas to have fallen far short of acceptable standards.
An ongoing pest infestation problem was discovered, which posed a real risk of food poisoning and illness to the public.
As well as stumbling across the tennis racket that was used to mash potatoes, floors and equipment were found to be filthy.
Fiona Sinclair, director of food safety consultancy STS, said it “beggared belief” that any food business operator could think that using a piece of sports equipment as a food prep device was an acceptable practice.
“The question is, if the bakery finds it acceptable to use a tennis racket as a potato masher and can’t muster the decency to buy a simple piece of everyday, inexpensive kit, what on earth else is going on behind closed doors?
“As consumers we put our trust in food producers to make sure that the food we eat is handled hygienically, and produced in a clean environment. The public can’t see what goes on behind closed doors and, as such, it’s examples like this that show the importance of the role that an EHO plays in protecting public health.”
“Not only was this business cutting corners and failing to comply with even the most basic of hygiene laws, but they were operating under conditions that surely morally indicate blatant disrespect for the trusting, paying consumer.
Sinclar said the case illustrates the value of unannounced visits from enforcement officers, and the importance of an EHO’s legal power of entry to gain access to inspect food businesses at any reasonable time.
“It is also good to see the courts issue a hefty fine – due punishment for such a laissez-faire attitude towards public safety,” she added.
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ARLINGTON, VA -- Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced its preliminary determination that imports of common alloy aluminum sheet for aluminum tube manufacturers from China are benefiting from unfair government subsidies in connection with the agency’s on-going countervailing duty investigation.As a result, the agency will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) to require U.S. importers of common alloy aluminum sheet from China to deposit estimated countervailing duties at the time of importation.
Based on information gathered to date, the Commerce Department calculated preliminary subsidy margins ranging from 31.20 to 113.30 percent of the value of the imported common alloy aluminum sheet.Finally, the Department calculated a subsidy margin of 33.10 percent for all other Chinese producers and exporters that cooperated in the Department’s investigation, but were not selected for individual investigation.
The next step in this trade action will be the Commerce Department’s issuance of its preliminary antidumping duty determination, which is scheduled to be announced in June.If an affirmative preliminary antidumping determination is issued by the Commerce Department, U.S. importers will be required to post cash deposits or bonds on all entries of common alloy aluminum sheet from China in the amount of the subsidy and dumping margin calculated by the agency.


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TICKET prices in city centre car parks look set to rise in a bid to cash in an extra £80,000 – and disabled drivers may have to pay at one site.
Proposals to be considered by Chichester District Council’s cabinet on Tuesday would see new charges implemented from April 1, 2015, following a rise in April this year.
There is also the possibility of charging for the disabled bays in the Avenue de Chartres car park, which are currently free to blue badge holders.
“The authority does not legally have to provide free parking for blue badge holders and there are approximately one-third of councils across the UK who already charge blue badge holders to park,” says a report prepared for cabinet members ahead of the meeting.
The report claims the impact will be mitigated by providing more free spaces in other car parks in the city.
The move to charge has come about because of a new pay-on-foot payment method set to be introduced at the Avenue de Chartres car park, which would see drivers pass through a barrier when entering and leaving the car park, having to pay for their ticket at a machine as they are about to leave.
Currently, there is no barrier and drivers buy a ticket when they arrive for the length of their stay, with the area monitored by parking officers.
Charging disabled drivers is the cheapest way of implementing the scheme.
Other options considered included asking blue badge holders to apply for a membership card or press an intercom button and show their blue badge to a CCTV camera when leaving the car park.
“Should blue badge holders be required to pay within this car park there will still be the potential to park for free on-street and in other council-owned car parks within the district,” says the report.
“Evidence from recent monitoring of the disabled bays within the Avenue de Chartres car park suggests that the current nine spaces designated for disabled drivers within this car park are not particularly well used.”
The overall increase in the council’s parking fees would be ‘in line with inflation’, according to the report.
“It is felt these increases are modest and are in line with other neighbouring authorities, thus leaving Chichester’s competitive economic advantage unchanged.”
The tariff changes could lead to an additional £65,000 in revenue for the council, plus £15,000 from season tickets.
An all-day ticket in a long-stay car park, such as the Cattle Market or Northgate, would rise from £4.80 to £4.90.


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Pakistan-India tickets sold out:. Within hours of going on sale, the initial batch of tickets for the highly anticipated match between India and Pakistan at the Asia Cup 2022 were all gone. Soon, the second round of tickets will go on sale.
On August 28, Pakistan and India will face off in the UAE in the greatest cricket match in Asia. Since the Asia Cup 2022 itinerary was released, fans have been on the lookout for available tickets to the event.
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The intensity of the cricket rivalry between Pakistan and India is unmatched, as evidenced by how quickly all of the tickets were snapped up. The second batch is currently being anxiously anticipated by the fans. The remaining tickets will reportedly be made available online soon.
From August 27 to September 11, 2022, the United Arab Emirates will host the Asia Cup.
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A Apple was ordered by the French competition authority to pay a fine of 25 million euros because of an update that makes older models of the iPhone slower and for not having warned users of that.
At stake will be the updates of the iOs 10.2.1 and 11.2 which, after being installed, made the older models slower. According to the French Directorate-General for Competition, Consumption and Fraud Prevention, the mark 'committed a crime of deceptive business practice by default».
Many users had already complained about this, saying that each time an operating system update was installed, the iPhone's performance worsened. In view of the impossibility of returning to the previous version of the system, many users were forced to change their batteries or even buy a new phone.
Apple agreed to pay the amount and said it redesigned the battery management system on the new iPhone 11. Now smartphones use a combination of hardware and software to avoid performance problems as the batteries age.
In 2017, Apple admitted that it reduced the capabilities of its devices over time, giving as justification the prolongation of life of lithium-ion batteries that, over time, will degrade.


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E3 2013: Mad Max Announced for PlayStation 4
From the developers of Just Cause 2.
During its E3 press conference today, Sony announced that Mad Max is coming to PlayStation 4. The third-person, open world adventure is set in The Wasteland, which is the setting of George Miller's Mad Max movies. The game is in development from Avalanche Studios and published by WB Interactive and will feature exclusive Road Warrior content on PS4.
WB Interactive later confirmed that Mad Max will also be coming to PS3, PC, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.


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Offering a pioneering buy now pay later (BNPL) platform for SaaS sellers and professional services providers, UK-based Tranch has just picked up about €4 million to launch out of stealth. Supporting the mission to take B2B BNPL mainstream, the funding was led by Flash Ventures and Global Founders Capital.
Founded in 2021 by Philip Kelvin and Beau Allison, Tranch is shaking up the market. While a lot of interest is currently gaining momentum in the BNPL space, it’s an area that has tended to rely on standard credit scoring which keeps loan sizes low and durations short. This London-based fintech is aiming to change that. By combining traditional credit reports with open banking, Tranch is able to lend against much larger expenses and for longer durations.
The result? It means that B2B BNPL will be more accessible to a far wider pool of businesses. More SMEs can start to rely on B2B BNPL for the first time to pay their annual (and expensive) Saas subscriptions, consultancy and professional fees in a way that doesn’t suck up vast amounts of cash flow leaving them without the liquidity they need to keep growing.
Philip Kelvin, Co-founder & CEO of Tranch, explained: “Tranch was born out of frustration and desire to fix a broken model. My time as a scaleup CFO made me realise just how inflexible payment options can be for crucial SaaS tools and other business services, and how detrimental this lack of choice and payment ownership can be on thousands of companies. ‘Pay with Tranch’ solves that huge and costly problem, by putting flexibility and choice at the heart of the payments process in a way that works simply and favourably for both suppliers and buyers.”
It’s reported that companies waste about $20 billion a year globally paying premium monthly fees for annual SaaS contracts that they could pay for upfront and in full if it wasn’t for cash flow constraints. Tranch helps eliminate this wastage, enabling companies to pay for SaaS and other business services on terms that work for both them and their suppliers.
The solution embeds in the sales journeys of SaaS sellers and other service providers (from legal firms to recruitment). By offering a ‘Pay with Tranch’ payment method, these suppliers can offer their end-customers a more flexible way to pay for contracts, while they themselves get paid upfront, faster.
Further, businesses selecting Tranch to pay their large expenses can achieve greater control over their cash flow and boost their liquidity. Instead of settling invoices in full within a standard 30 to 90-day term, an end-customer that chooses ‘Pay with Tranch’ can spread the cost of their contracts over six to 12 months.
At the same time, the young fintech startup helps suppliers to create a positive sales experience that generates better customer loyalty and retention over the long term. SaaS sellers, in particular, no longer have to offer bespoke payment plans that cause them billing complexity and increase the risk of customer churn.
Yash Zaveri, Partner & MD at Flash Ventures who will join Tranch’s board commented: “B2B BNPL players so far have been largely focused on B2B e-commerce where ticket sizes are small and lenders rely on standard credit data to make limited credit decisions. We’re excited to see Tranch making B2B BNPL accessible to more complex lending demands involving larger volumes and longer durations, all of which creates a hugely scalable international market opportunity through their full lending tech stack.”
The fresh investment will be used to now grow the team as well as onboard more suppliers across multiple verticals as the company continues its growth in the UK and then expands to the US later this year.
Tranch is also backed by Y Combinator and will join YC’s Summer 2022 cohort as the London-based startup gears up to launch in the US later this year.


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Leaker Ice Universe tweeted that there’s an image that if you set as your wallpaper, causes a bug on Android. This bug currently affects a range of handsets including Samsung and Google Pixel phones, among others. Setting the photo as your wallpaper causes the screen to immediately start turning on and off. Here is the image:
How Does The Wallpaper Affect Your Android?
The issue may be caused when certain phones don’t support the colour space used by the image. The image uses the RGB colour space, while many Android phones prefer SRGB.
This makes it unusable. Rebooting a phone won’t fix the issue. According to 9to5Google, you can:
- Restart your phone into safe mode
- Delete the image file as a potential fix, or
- Factory reset your device to get things back to normal.
The bug does not affect everyone but most of the Samsung and Google pixel phones are affected. However, do not try this with your
This being the issue, a fairly simple fix might be available for any phones that suffer from this issue. An XDA-Developers report states that one developer has already submitted a patch to AOSP to resolve the issue.
This is not new to phones. Something like this happened to Apple a few months ago. Earlier this year, a bug was found in iOS 13 that caused iPhones to crash when displaying a certain emoji.
A few years ago, there was even a five-second video that could cause iPhones to crash. You should probably steer clear from this image until a fix is widely available. You can follow the conversation here:
Never set this picture as wallpaper, especially for Samsung mobile phone users!
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AN UPCOMING iPhone model could be delayed by weeks after launch.
The release of one of the four iPhone 14 models expected later this year is reportedly at risk.
Apple unleashes a host of new iPhone models every September.
And this year is no different: we're expecting the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Max, iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max.
Apple will likely announce them all in early September, followed by a release around 10 days later.
But a new report from Nikkei Asia warns that "at least one" of these models is behind schedule.
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The delay is linked to disruptions due to Covid lockdowns in China, according to industry insiders.
And this could mean you're waiting longer than you'd like for a new iPhone.
"It is challenging to make up for the lost time," a supplier told Nikkei.
"Apple and its suppliers are working around the clock to speed up development."
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But they added that the re-opening is "rather slow".
Apple itself has warned that China lockdowns are disrupting production.
And models in recent years have been delayed at launch: the iPhone 12 Pro Max shipped three weeks after the iPhone 12 Pro.
It's still not clear which specific iPhone model might be delayed.
And it's possible that Apple's suppliers might be able to catch up.
In any case, it seems certain that all of the models will be out well in time for Christmas.
The big launch event always takes place in September, and generally falls early on in the month – on a Tuesday or Wednesday, typically.
For 2022, we'd expect the event to take place on Tuesday, September 13 or Wednesday, September 14.
That would be followed by iPhone 14 pre-orders on Friday, September 16.
And we'd expect an actual iPhone 14 release date of Friday, September 23.
Sadly some models might ship later if rumours of the delay are true.
There are four rumoured models: iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Max, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max.
That's a bit of a departure from previous years, with the old "Mini" model scrapped in favour of a bigger "Max" base model.
We're expecting a big bump to processing with a new A16 chip.
And the camera will likely see some major upgrades too.
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Wineka column: Cheerwine app guides fans
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If Sarah Palin experiences an overwhelming urge for a Cheerwine, where does she turn?
The Cheerwine Finder tells her there’s one around the corner at the Fred Meyers Meat and Seafood Market in Wasilla, Alaska.
If Lindsay Lohan has a Cheerwine craving, she can find it in glass bottles at the BevMo in La Mesa, Calif.
Snooki could buy Cheerwine at Delucia’s Brick Oven Pizza on First Avenue in Raritan, N.J., and Peyton Manning can find Cheerwine at BRICS on East 64th Street in Indianapolis.
Regis Philbin could sit down to a Cheerwine float at either of the Brother Jimmy’s BBQ locations in New York — on 3rd or 8th avenues.
Want to know the closest place that sells Cheerwine?
There’s an iPhone app — and a website — for that.
Software developer Nick Loftin of Raleigh created the “Cheerwine Finder” in 2009. It serves a couple of purposes.
One, if you are traveling and have a craving for Cheerwine, you can consult the Cheerwine Finder (www.cheerwinefinder.com) to locate a place nearest to you that sells Cheerwine. The soft drink, identified mostly with North Carolina and the Southeast in general, actually is available in numerous states, even as far away as California and Alaska.
You just have to know where to look, and the Cheerwine Finder — powered by Google Maps — helps with that.
A second benefit from the Cheerwine Finder is that anyone can add new locations for where the soft drink is available. That’s how the Cheerwine Finder grows and becomes more useful. (Loftin verifies that Cheerwine is sold at the new addresses entered before he places them on the finder.)
Loftin’s finder has become a self-perpetuating tool, dependent mostly on Cheerwine lovers on the move.
“Honestly, I don’t know if it ever does stop,” Loftin says of the finder’s life span.
Cheerwine has a dedicated following — more than 60,000 friends on its Facebook page would attest to that.
“Every single one wants to see this brand do well,” says Tom Barbitta, vice president of marketing for Cheerwine. “Everyone is in Cheerwine’s corner, and Nick personifies that. We’re delighted with what he’s done.”
Loftin’s personal affection for the Salisbury-bred soft drink comes from a childhood spent visiting grandparents Stan and Betty Bozeman in Salisbury. Now his mother, Jennifer, lives and works here, too.
But growing up in Rockingham County and graduating in computer science at N.C. State University, Nick Loftin always had easy access to his favorite soft drink.
“To me, it was as common to see in grocery stores as Coke and Pepsi,” he says.
In the summer of 2009, Loftin took a two-week business trip to California, just outside of Los Angeles. “Toward the middle of the time there,” he says, “I was just starting to miss a few things from home — barbecue, sweet tea and Cheerwine.
“I thought, there has to be a way to get it out here.”
Loftin looked everywhere online for some mention of Cheerwine in California, and various message boards told him to try different places until he found it at a specialty beverage store.
The experience led to his idea for the Cheerwine Finder. “I thought it would be good to have a vehicle to tell people where it is,” he says.
By October 2009, after taking a couple of weeks to write the website code and employing a friend to help with graphics, Loftin launched the Cheerwine Finder. How did he think Cheerwine, the company, would react?
“I wasn’t sure,” Loftin acknowledges. Company officials soon learned of the finder through a post on Twitter, and they invited Loftin to Salisbury for a talk that led to his developing an iPhone application for Cheerwine.
The free application includes links to the Cheerwine Finder and Cheerwine’s Facebook page, allows one to purchase Cheerwine merchandise and even gives users the ability to chug a Cheerwine, if they don’t have the real thing close by.
On the phone, if you turn a picture of a Cheerwine soda can upside down, it sounds as though you’re drinking it.
Barbitta says Cheerwine paid Loftin a very modest fee for developing the application (not available yet on Androids), while showering him with T-shirts and product.
“There’s always a case of cold Cheerwine waiting for him,” Barbitta adds.
The Cheerwine Finder website generates a little bit of money from Google ads, which has covered the hosting fees. “I’m just doing it because I like it,” Loftin says.
Loftin, 27, runs his own software development company and, among other things, has created iPhone apps for Money Mailer coupon franchises in Raleigh and Charlotte. He only has to spend a couple of hours a week in looking after the Cheerwine Finder.
Once, on a business trip to the Tampa area of Florida, Loftin decided to test his Cheerwine Finder. It told him a local ice cream parlor offered Cheerwine, and he went there to see whether it was true.
“Sure enough, they had a bunch of Cheerwine in glass bottles,” he says.
Loftin struck up a conversation with one of the employees, who said a lot of people asked about Cheerwine and knew that it might be at the ice cream shop because of a website.
Loftin recognized then that his idea for the Cheerwine Finder and the work he had put into the site was worth it. He informed the ice cream man he was looking at the Cheerwine Finder’s creator.
“You must be their biggest fan,” he told Loftin.
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Google has announced the release of a new skin tone scale to make search results more inclusive.
The tech giant has teamed up with Harvard professor and sociologist Dr. Ellis Monk who has come up with a more equitable skin tone scale. The Monk Skin Tone (MST) Scale is designed to replace outdated skin tone scales skewed towards lighter skin.
Monk has been studying how skin tone affects the psychology of communities when faced with taboo topics such as colorism and underrepresentation of less celebrated tones in conditional settings.
“In our research, we found that a lot of the time people feel they’re lumped into racial categories, but there’s all this heterogeneity with ethnic and racial categories,” the 10-year veteran said during a conference call with UrbanGeekz
“And many methods of categorization, including past skin tone scales, don’t pay attention to this diversity. That’s where a lack of representation can happen…we need to fine-tune the way we measure things, so people feel represented.”
A part of that representation lies in the hands of the Monk Skin Tone Scale. After viewing results with participants nationwide, research demonstrated that the scale’s representation aligned with the current technology standard, especially for darker tones.
Google will use the MST Scale as a catalyst to grow an organic design for easier and more accepting recognition with consumers. The scale will also help the tech industry build more representative datasets to train and evaluate artificial intelligence models for equity in face imaging.
The MST Scale and supporting technology will improve how users use Google with better expectations. So for example, looking up images regarding makeup, the scale will optimize its search patterns to better match users relative to their interests.
The benefits of the tech instrument will also serve creators, brands, and publishers. They’ll be able to use this new inclusive schema to label their content with attributes like skin tone, hair color, and hair texture.
This way, they’ll be able to label their images with an SEO language easier for search engines and other platforms to comprehend.
During the call, a concerning matter was brought up revolving around darker tones and how the scale builds a relationship between sensitivity awareness and tech.
Monk drew attention to the Fitzpatrick Scale which is a numerical scale that measures the amount of melanin in the skin after exposure to the sun. The scale was developed to measure how skin reacts to ultraviolet light or sun exposure.
“The reality is the Fitzpatrick Scale didn’t do a good job differentiating darker skin tones which leads to the purpose of the MST Scale,” he said. “It’s intended to fix those kinds of issues creating a more dynamic range which fits comfortably among the Black population.”
Tulsee Doshi, who is the Head of Product for AI and Product Inclusion in Search, also commented on skin tone spectrums and how it’s received by consumers when using apps alongside Monk.
Doshi added, “This is why we are excited about the scale. Every user is different and deserves a good experience and you want to build off that which works so we won’t personalize but instead refine it.”
“We are taking the steps forward with the schema to create more relevant and beautiful imagery to make the experience better. But we’re at the beginning so we’re still building towards that sensitivity,” she said.
What’s next for the MST Scale? Google will continue collaborating with Monk to test the scale across different regions and product applications to enhance possibilities and inclusiveness.


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£3.2 million boost for rural businesses
Ngage Solutions has been awarded £3.2 million LEADER funding to support farmers, foresters, rural businesses and communities. Grants of up to £50,000 will become available between 2015-2020 to support projects that create jobs, help businesses to grow and benefit the rural economy.
The accountable body for both the Chilterns and Clay Vales LEADER programmes, Ngage Solutions, will work in partnership with the two Local Action Group’s (LAGs) to deliver the funds which are part of the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE), with the money coming via the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra).
The Clay Vales LEADER fund worth £1.72 million will cover Aylesbury Vale, rural Milton Keynes and South Northamptonshire. The aims of the programme are to help establish a thriving local rural economy underpinned by a strong tourism offer, high-quality local food businesses and enhanced agricultural and forestry productivity.
The Chilterns LEADER area broadly follows the outline of the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), possibly the most heavily visited landscape in the UK with 55 million leisure visits a year. The fund, worth £1.5 million will aim to enhance farm productivity, support small and medium size businesses and farm diversification projects, strengthen rural tourism, culture and heritage, and forestry productivity.
Philippa Batting, Managing Director of Ngage Solutions says: “We are proud to have been awarded the contracts for the Clay Vales and Chilterns LEADER programmes, working in partnership with our Local Action Groups and rural businesses. Most importantly, we are delighted that the experience and knowledge gained through the successful delivery of the 2008-2013 LEADER programme can be further extended to help grow the rural economy into the future. In the 2008-2013 LEADER programme, projects delivered by Ngage were some of the most successful in the UK. 124 projects were awarded funding which in turn sustained 206 jobs, created 117 new jobs and helped launch 39 new businesses.”
David Campbell, Chair of the Clay Vales LEADER LAG says: “This is fantastic news for our rural economy, LEADER funding has proved to be the catalyst to help rural communities thrive in new ways that would not otherwise be possible. We greatly welcome being able to bring the LEADER programme to a wider community in this new phase.”
David Briggs, Chair of Chilterns LEADER LAG says: “We are delighted to have been awarded this new round of funding, especially as we know there is a real need within our local community. Due to the success of the last wave of LEADER funding we have already had expressions of interest from local businesses including farms looking to expand processing capabilities, diversify into farm shops and tea rooms, cycle hubs, tourism projects and forestry activity.”
Daniel Lacey of EJ Lacey & Sons, a LEADER beneficiary in the last round of funding explains: “Before we secured LEADER funding we had been bottling and labelling all of our milk by hand and our hard-working team just couldn’t keep up.” A £40,000 LEADER farm diversification grant enabled the dairy to install a fully mechanised bottling plant and purchase a new refrigerated delivery van to allow for a fourfold increase in home and shop deliveries, as well as increasing supplies to the farm shop.
Defra is still working up the application processes but it is anticipated that LEADER will be open for applications from early summer onwards, with the first grants being paid in early 2016.
For more information about whether your business may be eligible for a LEADER grant and for more information on the Chilterns and Clay Vale LEADER programmes, visit www.leader-programme.org.uk or call the team on 01494 568969.


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Pages for an item listed as a “sideways swastika ring for men’s fashion punk rock style” were not available on Amazon.com and Sears.com as of Tuesday morning, but according to a report from The News Journal , the rings were available until sometime Monday.
Anti-defamation groups were not at all happy about the selling of the items, which were available on the sites from a third-party vendor.
“It’s an opportunity for some growth here. It’s an opportunity for a reassertion of some sensitivity to what those symbols really stand for,” David Margules, vice president of the Jewish Federation of Delaware, told the paper. “People have a First Amendment right to buy this stuff and to display it if they want, but that doesn’t make it right. It doesn’t make it appropriate.”
Amazon hasn’t publicly said anything about the rings. The retailer didn’t reply to a News Journal request for comment, nor has it replied to numerous tweets and Facebook posts about the rings.
Sears, on the other hand, has been highly apologetic. Almost all of its Monday and early Tuesday Twitter replies were about the rings.


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Today, Google launched version 4.2 of its Google My Business (GMB) API. With this update, Google has added features that help businesses manage their listings more easily and provide deeper information about their locations.
This latest update supports:
If your business isn't already verified with Google, you can initiate the verification process via email, postcard, phone call, or SMS text message — and input verification codes — via API. Previously, you could only handle verification within the Google My Business UI. This update saves you time and energy so that you can refocus your efforts on other parts of your business.
Initiate Ownership Conflict Resolution
You can now use the API to identify Google Maps listings that are already claimed. If another Google account has already claimed your listing, you can visit a direct link provided by Google to begin the ownership conflict resolution process.
Is your business a chain store? Note to Google that your locations are part of an established enterprise.
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Interested in using Yext to manage your Google My Business account? Contact your Yext representative today to get started or sign up for a demo of the Yext platform today.


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Mum's still the word with AT&T, but LG's gone ahead and spilled the beans on the burgundy version
of the Vu
-- a phone that's starting to look a little long in the tooth in the face of its newer competition from Samsung
, so what better way to freshen things up than with a new color? Only the MediaFLO-equipped CU920 version of the phone seems like it's coming in the new shade, so if you were hoping to squeeze by without having to buy the mobile TV circuitry, we're afraid you might walk away disappointed. Let us know if you see this one galavanting around stores, won't you?


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It's Arts & Crafts on Bedford this weekend
STAMFORD -- Once again, traffic on Bedford Street will cease this weekend to give way to the crop of white tents brimming with artisan crafts, handmade gifts, jewelry, paintings, pottery, and other art forms.
The event features over 80 crafters and it's a juried show, meaning artisans apply to get in.
"We get new people and retain some old people," said Sandy Goldstein, the DSSD president. "These are people who have remained because it's a very successful show."
The crafts fair is a regular Stamford tradition; it used to be held in Veterans Park, but was moved to Bedford Street 6 years ago to place it in a more central location.
"We wanted to close the street and have people come," Goldstein said.
As passersby stroll through the myriad vendors -- offering jewelry, sea glass, woodcrafts, handbags, photography -- the restaurants on Bedford Street will spill out onto sidewalks, where browsers can stop for a bite to eat. Goldstein added that strolling musicians will add ambience to the event.
"You have a great outdoor feel, and it creates a beautiful sense of place," she said.
Goldstein is also confident about the turnout for the crafts fair and the business it will bring to the area.
"It will bring thousands of people downtown," she said. "We do get people from the region, but namely, it's Stamford people."
Morty Bachar, of Lakeside Pottery, is an artisans participating the weekend's event. Lakeside Pottery has been part of Arts & Crafts on Bedford since the event's second year, and has enjoyed each annual appearance, Bachar said.
"When we did the first year, we loved it," he said. "It gives an opportunity for people who have never done pottery to do it. It was a thrill to enable those people to do it."
During the fair, the city provides Lakeside Pottery with two tents, and they set up two or three pottery wheels with demonstrations and instructors.
The fair also gives vendors such as Lakeside Pottery great exposure to the public, and offers their pottery instructors a chance to get out of the studio.
"There's nothing better than doing pottery outdoors," Bachar said.


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Google’s parent Alphabet Inc.
had a “standing interest” in buying Tesla Inc.
Chief Executive Elon Musk said in court Monday, referring to an earlier deposition. That factored into Musk’s decision to try to take Tesla private then, the CEO said. Musk is under cross-examination by his lawyer, Alex Spiro, after an hours-long examination by a plaintiff’s attorney in which he said his “funding secured” tweet was “absolutely truthful” as he had initial commitments from a Saudi Arabia investment fund and also could have sold part of his stake in privately held SpaceX.


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UPS Freight, the heavy freight arm of UPS, on Monday, Dec. 15, announced faster transit times between central Illinois and points throughout the United States. The new, enhanced direct service places all of Illinois under a next-day blanket and draws major markets — including Dallas, Atlanta, Pittsburgh and Minneapolis — to within two days of central Illinois, according to the company; in all, some 250 lanes to and from central Illinois will see faster transit times.
“We intend to aggressively grow our business,” says Jack Holmes, president of Richmond, Va.-based UPS Freight. “These enhancements are part of a long-term strategy to combine speed, technology and reliability to create an unmatched offering for our customers.”
The new offering includes time-definite guaranteed service for all shipments when moving under UPS Freight’s current 560 Tariff, plus improved visibility since all UPS Freight shipments will be handled by company drivers equipped with handheld computers. The handheld devices allow immediate input into UPS’s information data network, making it easier to manage inbound and outbound freight shipments, the company says.


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Robocalls: They’re a plague upon us.
If you’ve ever jumped off the couch or interrupted your dinner hour to pick up the phone, you know what we’re talking about: those unwanted calls pitching a product, asking for a donation or trying to sell you something.
Some are legal and legitimate. Most are not.
Every month, the Federal Trade Commission fields about 178,500 consumer complaints about robocalls and telemarketers. The FTC has pounced on some of the worst perpetrators of illegal calls, filing more than 100 lawsuits in the last 10 years. And for a decade, consumers have been able to register their phone numbers on the National Do Not Call registry (www.donotcall.gov), which bans telemarketers from dialing their cell or landline.
But clearly, it’s not enough. When we wrote last month about annoying telemarketers and robocalls, a number of readers contacted The Sacramento Bee, sharing their frustration and inability to stop the calls.
The FTC is listening. In April, it announced the co-winners of a $50,000 “Robocall Challenge” contest, seeking solutions to kill off illegal robocalls. The solutions had to be inexpensive, work with existing telephone equipment and be easy to implement.
One of the winners, Aaron Foss, is a Long Island computer programmer and entrepreneur, who calls his software solution “Nomorobo.” (The other winner created similar call-filtering software.) Last week, we talked with Foss, 35, from his home office, where he’s testing his robocall-blocker, which will be offered – free – to consumers in September. Here’s an excerpt:
Question: You’ve designed a dipping bowl for buffalo wings and a children’s cancer treatment tool. Aside from the $50,000 prize, what attracted you to this competition?
Answer: I like solving interesting problems. I work with a lot of clients, but some of these projects are on my own, like the wing dipper. … All those things come from the same line of thinking: There are problems out there that nobody has taken time to solve. The answer becomes obvious.
Q: The FTC says your product may be the first to market coming out of the Robocall Challenge. What kind of interest are you getting?
A: Since April, there have been 11,000 emails (to Nomorobo.com) that either said, “Put me on your list,” or were people sending me (illegal) robocall numbers. It blew me away. I didn’t realize how big a problem these robocalls were. To get 11,000 emails before a product is even launched is amazing.
Q: How does your solution work?
A: It uses a feature that’s called “Simultaneous Ring,” or some companies call it “Find Me” or “Follow Me.” If you have a bunch of different phones, it can ring all of them at the same time so you can pick up all your calls from anywhere: your office line, your cellphone, your spouse’s phone. It was built into all phone systems in the 1980s, but most people don’t know about it. It’s usually free. You have to call your landline or wireless company to turn it on. I’m using that technology in a unique way to block these robocalls.
Q: Tell us how it works.
A: If you have Simultaneous Ring on your phone and someone calls your number, that call is being split and goes first to a NoMoRobo number. In real time, it’s analyzing the caller ID and caller frequency across multiple phone lines.
It’s a red flag, for example, when the same phone number has made 5,000 calls to different numbers in the past hour. It’s also a red flag when the same phone number is sequentially calling large blocks of phone numbers. Both scenarios indicate robocalling patterns.
If it detects a robocaller, the call is automatically disconnected … before the consumer’s phone even rings.
Those numbers go onto a “blacklist.” If an incoming number doesn’t appear on the blacklist, the software asks the caller to type in a number. If it’s a human telemarketer, they’d respond. If it’s a robocaller, they can’t respond and the call is terminated.
Q: What about legitimate robocalls, such as your kid’s school or an emergency alert? How do those calls go through?
A: The legal robocallers want a solution just as much as the average consumer. We’ll have a “white list” of legal robocall service companies. Just before their voiceblast goes out, they’d send a message to Nomorobo so the system would know: Don’t block that number.
Q: If you’re giving this service away free to consumers, how are you covering your costs and your investors?
A: I have some investors – a venture capital firm and angel investors – who’ve put up $100,000 (plus his $25,000 prize as an FTC contest co-winner).
There’s a big market on the business side in protecting businesses from these calls. For consumers, it’s an annoyance. But for businesses, it’s a real waste in time and resources answering robocalls. It costs them in real dollars.
My strategy is to get this basic version out free to consumers, then the (paid) pieces come on top of that.
Later, I’ll make value-added services available, like blocking political calls. They’re technically legal, but bug people. Or you could block a customized blacklist of (what) you don’t want to hear from.
Q: In testimony last month before a U.S. Senate committee, you said the federal Do Not Call registry is almost completely ineffective against illegal, mass-dialed robocallers. How so?
A: The DNC is great for legal robocallers, the legitimate companies trying to call you up. They respect that list. But the technology has changed so much that the new robocallers are akin to spammers. They don’t care if you’re on the list.
It’s so cheap … less than a penny a call, and they’re calling large blocks of numbers. They’re selling scams, dubious credit card offers, life-alert pendants to seniors. They’re scamming people and don’t care if your number is on the DNC or not. That list worked in the past. Now we need new products to push the fight forward.
Q: Your company name sounds Japanese, but it’s really a play on “No More Robo.” How’d you come up with it?
A: For the competition, I was writing code and got to a point one day where I said, “No more of this.” And then I realized, that’s it. That’s the name: “No More Robo.” Two or three other people entered the competition with the same name. But I grabbed the dot-com domain before I even entered. It’s resonated.
Q: You plan to roll out the first service in September. How’s the testing phase?
A: We have a few dozen beta-testers using Nomorobo on their phones. Just off the bat, the system is identifying and disconnecting 80 percent of illegal robocalls.
Putting a dent in these robocallers: I would love to put that business out of business. It’d be a huge win on so many levels.
Robocall Revenge: Consumers Fight Back
When the Federal Trade Commission announced its $50,000 “Robocall Challenge” contest to find ways to thwart illegal robocalls, it heard from dozens of everyday consumers, who shared what works for them. Here are some “practical suggestions” that consumers say have helped them reduce robocalls at home:
- Ask your phone carrier about blocking services. Some landline providers let you block calls from specific phone numbers. There may be a fee.
- -Internet-based phone services – offered by major carriers like AT&T or numerous smaller companies – may have more sophisticated blocking tools. One consumer uses an internet service that will tag unwanted incoming numbers. When a call from a tagged number comes in, the robocaller gets a “disconnected number” tone.
- Check online for “call blocker” devices sold for landlines. Some can be pricey, so do your research. Read reviews and compare options. Same with call-blocking apps for your smartphone. Many are free, but check technology sites for user reviews.
- Try using “special information tones.” They’re a three-note sound that typically indicates a failed call or a disconnected number. Consumers can find free audio files online, or buy a product like TeleZapper, which sells the tones. The three-note tone is added at the beginning of your voicemail or answering machine message. Some consumers say it reduces robocalls, presumably because auto-dialing software sees your number as non-working.
- Use a virtual phone line, like GoogleVoice, which has built-in call-screening features. When asked for your phone number, even by friends, give out the virtual number. Set it up with call forwarding so that incoming calls are screened first, then sent to your mobile or landline. One Portland, Ore., user said it’s a “totally free” solution to block illegal calls.


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Making it Work: Laois food firm brings a taste of Africa into Irish kitchens
The Jungle Food Company claims its Flavour Safari sauces are the first of their kind and has reported a 59 per cent jump in sales over the last year
With a blend of local Irish ingredients and authentic African flavours, a Laois-based food company believes it may have captured a new sweet spot in the country’s culinary landscape.
The Jungle Food Company, founded in 2015, has increased its sales by 59 per cent over the last year despite the impact of the pandemic with a range of African-inspired sauces.
Flavour Safari, the brand under which the company trades, was established by Michael Onalimi and...
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Costcutter chief executive Darcy Willson-Rymer has vowed to up the ante on the Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons as the battle for the convenience grocery market intensifies.
Willson-Rymer told Retail Week that the symbol group will be able to “compete much more effectively against the multiples” after striking a deal with wholesaler Palmer & Harvey this week.
The 50/50 joint venture will create the UK’s second-largest convenience store chain behind Booker’s Premier after Costcutter took over 800 Mace, Supershop and Your Store shops and formed a joint buying group with Palmer & Harvey which has left direct retail.
Willson-Rymer said the deal would give the buying group, named The Buyco, a combined purchasing power of £5bn. Costcutter now has 2,500 shops in its network, as well as 25 company-owned stores, and Willson-Rymer wants to double this store count.
He is targeting a group of 20,000 non-affiliated independent retailers as future Costcutter members.
Willson-Rymer said: “We are going to have to have consolidation in the convenience sector and we will start with buying power. I am inviting other symbol groups into our buying group.”
The move comes as the convenience grocery sector becomes increasingly competitive as Morrisons ramps up its presence in the market. IGD figures show the UK convenience market is worth £34bn is set to increase to £44bn by 2017.
Asda revealed it is to extent its click-and-collect service to more than 5,000 convenience stores through its partnership with CollectPlus. Shoppers will be able to pick up online orders in Costcutter and its competitors stores.
Asda’s own store service is available for orders of general merchandise products in all 566 Asda stores and for grocery in 86 stores. This figure will reach 200 by the end of 2013.


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Agriculture is not always peace and tranquility, but in some way, it is helping to lift the spirits of some Hoosier veterans. The Indiana Grown Homegrown By Heroes program assists members of the military who want to be in the ag business.
“If there is an existing military person, a veteran who is or wants to get into farming, well the produce, the products, the ag food products that they would sell have the benefit of getting Indiana Grown affixed to it, presuming it is grown in Indiana of course, but also it gets the logo Homegrown By Heroes affixed,” says Indiana State Department of Agriculture Director Ted McKinney.
The program not only helps Hoosier veterans, but also focuses on buying local produce.
Co-founder and owner of Hallelujah Acres Farm, James Catron in Boone County, credits Indiana Grown Homegrown By Heroes as being instrumental in the launch of the family’s small farm business.
“Because of the brand they give us -- the little tags they give us -- to let people know it’s local grown by veterans, it gives us an opportunity to educate people especially in Indiana," Catron says. "A lot of people don’t know that 90 percent of their food is trucked in, so it’s a good way of educating and talking to people about supporting the veterans that are involved with this but also teaching people on what’s happening with our food supply.”
Founded by the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, Farmer Veteran Coalition was granted the honor of administering the program nationally on Veterans Day 2013. Since then, the program has expanded to include over 550 members in 48 states plus Puerto Rico. HBH is supported by several national agriculture and food safety leaders such USDA, Farm Credit Services of America, and the American Farm Bureau.


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The next Unpacked event is scheduled for August 7.
Samsung will reportedly be launching 4 Galaxy Note 10 variants.
The Galaxy Note 10 will sport a primary triple-aperture wide-angle lens along with a telephoto lens, and an ultra-wide lens.
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Samsung is all set for the launch of its second flagship of the year. After several reports from last month, the Korean giant has announced August 7 as the launch date of the next Galaxy Note device. Today, Samsung sent out press invites confirming the date and location. The latest Unpacked event is scheduled for August 7 at 4PM ET (August 8 at 1:30AM IST) at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Samsung is expected to announce four different variants of the next Galaxy Note: the Note10 and the Note 10 Pro, and 5G variants of both. There are reports which claim that the Galaxy Note 10 Pro could be called the Galaxy Note 10+.
There is not a whole lot of information revealed by the invite poster: just a picture of an S pen and a single camera lens. The latter obviously hints at the punch-hole display like the Galaxy S10, although Samsung will reportedly be putting it at the center of the Note 10 screen. Furthermore, the leaks suggest a fresh design for the rear cameras as well.
Rumours also suggest that Samsung will launch a Note 10+ alongside the regular Note 10. The major difference between the two could be in the size of the display. The regular model will allegedly feature a 6.4-inch Dynamic AMOLED display, while the elder sibling is supposed to sport a 6.8-inch Dynamic AMOLED panel. These specifications are not confirmed but the images of a case allegedly belonging to the Note 10 Pro are already making the rounds on the internet.
The next Samsung flagship is expected to pack a 4170mAh battery, an Exynos 9875 chipset (or Snapdragon 855 SoC for some markets) coupled with up to 12GB RAM and 1TB of storage.
On the optics front, the Galaxy Note 10 is rumoured to feature a triple aperture camera setup: f/1.5, f/1.8, and f/2.4, on the back. The primary lens will be able to switch between the three apertures to give users control over the depth of field, and the amount of light entering the lens. Apart from the primary triple-aperture wide-angle lens, the Galaxy Note 10 will sport a telephoto lens, and an ultra-wide lens. Additionally, the Note 10+ is expected to add a fourth Time of Flight sensor for added depth information and various AR applications.
However, aside from the extremely clear launches, the question is whether we will get any update on the release date of the long-missing Samsung products, like the Galaxy Fold, and the Galaxy Home speaker (which was announced alongside Note 9) on August 7. Let’s wait and watch what happens to these products.
Looking at Samsung’s history of early product leaks, we should get a lot more information about the Unpacked event in the coming weeks. So stay tuned with Digit for all the action as we get closer to August 7.
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Podcasting is growing up: According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million. And, after years of offering only an opaque “downloads” number, Apple is getting ready to give podcast creators more data about their listeners.
On the latest episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Hot Pod founder Nick Quah said this is good news ... for most people.
“On the one hand, you have certain creatives being like, ‘I want to optimize for the metrics when I’m creating stuff, I want to know more,’” said Quah, whose email newsletter is aimed at people working in the podcast industry. “And then there’s people who are a little more jump-off-a-cliff, creatively oriented.”
“You give fire to a person, they would probably want to use it at some point,” he added. “I think the fact of the matter is, over the long term, it’s coming and it’s a thing that’s good that the entire community has to deal with.”
Having more specificity about podcast numbers will attract more advertisers and benefit the creators of shows that have passionate audiences, Quah explained.
“That is basically a black box,” Quah said of the “downloads” number. “That scares away a lot of advertisers that are accustomed to a higher degree of measurement and more specificity into whether your ads are being served.”
“It’s the equivalent of ‘I sent out a magazine today.’ You don’t even know if people looked at page four, which is where your spread is. It may just be in the back bin somewhere. That is an issue for podcasting if it wants to be classified as a digital product and to be accepted in the larger pool of buys.”
But the losers as Apple professionalizes its analytics are the creators without an engaged audience who have been selling ads based on that “downloads” number alone.
“There’s going to be a lot of podcasts realizing that they didn’t have audiences as big as they [thought],” Quah said. “And there’s going to be a smaller percentage of podcasts that realize they have a very, very engaged audience base and it’s as big, if not slightly less, than what they thought it was. So we’re really going to see a shakeout, resizing and reconceptualization of, how do you measure for the success of a show?”
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Lamborghini hopes to be able to continue producing cars with internal combustion engines for the next decade, CEO Stephan Winkelmann told the German newspaper. Welt am Sonntag this week. “After hybridization, we will wait and see if it will be possible to offer internal combustion engine vehicles beyond 2030,” he said in an interview with . “One possibility would be to keep combustion engine vehicles alive through synthetic fuels.”
If Lamborghini does indeed continue to make ICE cars into the 2030s, it would put the Volkswagen-owned automaker at odds with much of the industry. Consider Dodge, for example. The Stellantis-owned brand plans to debut its car in 2024. That same year, it also plans to stop producing some of its most popular gasoline-powered models, including the Challenger and Charger. On the other hand, Lamborgini will not offer an all-electric car.
Practically speaking, even if Lamborghini continues to produce ICE cars in the 2030s, it may not be able to sell these vehicles in many places. In the US and other parts of the world, governments have decided to ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars until . Countries like Germany have for vehicles running on synthetic fuels, but no company is producing the alternative to gasoline on a scale still and maybe not for many years.
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Aldi is rolling out a new traffic light system in stores.
Soon, customers will see automated lights at the entrances.
These are in place to help the flow of customers through the supermarket.
It should also make social distancing a lot easier.
So how do the traffic light rules work?
If the light flashes green, it means “please enter the store”.
Customers who are presented with a red light are told to “wait patiently”.
The only exceptions are for key workers.
NHS staff and other priority shoppers are urged to go to the front of the queue.
Other Aldi guests have been asked to respect this and let them pass.
Richard Thornton, Communications Director at Aldi said: “The protection and safety of our customers and employees is our top priority and this new system is an accurate and effective way to allow us to control customer numbers in stores.
“The system’s trial was well received by our customers and we will be gradually rolling this new social distancing measure out nationwide from this week.”
The new rules don’t affect the current social distancing guidelines that are in place.
Shoppers must still stay two metres away from one another and use one trolley per customer when they can.
Markings remain on the floor to make distancing as clear as possible.
Meanwhile, tills are equipped with protective screens that create a barrier between staff members and the public.
Both consumers and employees are advised to stick to strict hygiene regimes, such as washing their hands, to help protect against coronavirus.