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Apr 28, 2007
*Am i going too far with saying that all those capitalistic corporations should just be boycotted 24/7 just for who they are & what they are doing?*
After McDonald’s Victory, Labor Activists Target Burger King
Written by Kari Lydersen, The NewStandard Tuesday, 24 April 2007
It took four years for Taco Bell's parent company to agree to demands that the restaurant take responsibility for the wages and working conditions of migrant laborers who pick its tomatoes. It took another two years for McDonald's to accept a similar deal.
Last week, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a Florida farmworker-run group, claimed victory in its long-fought campaign to force McDonald's to pay just one cent more per pound of tomatoes, a raise that will be passed directly on to pickers. The restaurant giant negotiated a contract with the CIW just days before the coalition planned to announce a boycott during actions at the fast-food giant's Oak Brook, Illinois headquarters last weekend.
Now, the coalition says Burger King must come to the negotiating table before the end of the year or face a boycott. Once McDonald's conceded, the Immokalee workers and their supporters didn't waste any time jump starting the Burger King campaign, switching the focus of a rally and carnaval in Chicago on April 14 from "Ronaldo" McDonald to "El Rey" – "The King."
At a welcome dinner held the group's first night in Chicago, featuring a pre-ordered cake decorated with stumbling plastic clowns, Coalition supporters couldn't help breaking out with the chant "Ronaldo se cayó" – "Ronald has fallen." As reported by The NewStandard in 2005, McDonald's had previously infuriated the Coalition by signing onto an industry-originated voluntary certification program called Socially Accountable Farm Employer (SAFE), considered toothless by workers' advocates.
During performances by local and national musicians at the Immokalee carnaval April 14, attendees waved a paper-maché crown and taunted Burger King.
Company representatives have so far refused to pay the one cent raise for tomato-pickers. Burger King spokesperson Keva Silversmith told TNS the company has no control over tomato pickers' wages and working conditions, since it does not employ them directly, but buys tomatoes from suppliers. "We have no channel where we can directly influence the workers' wages," Silversmith said
That argument rings hollow, however, since Taco Bell's parent company Yum Brands, which signed an agreement with the CIW in March 2005, and McDonald's also buy their tomatoes through third parties. As part of their agreements, the companies are developing independent monitoring programs to make sure the raise is enforced and that a workers' rights code of conduct is followed.
Burger King has offered to stop buying from suppliers if the CIW proves they are violating federal labor law. US laws, however, offer few protections for farmworkers. Unlike workers in other most other industries, farmworkers are not guaranteed the legal right to overtime pay or collective bargaining.
Silversmith said Burger King had also offered to train the immigrants for jobs in its restaurants. "We've definitely been open to recruiting Immokalee workers into the Burger King system," Silversmith said. "We have a variety of positions open in restaurants and in the corporate office in Miami. We're not sure how the skills would overlap, but we're trying to have a positive and constructive dialogue."
But Coalition members are generally uninterested in fast-food restaurant jobs.
"We're not unemployed," said CIW farmworker and executive director Lucas Benitez. "We want dignity and we want them to take responsibility for the conditions we work in the fields."
The raise of one penny per pound would boost workers' wages by more than 70 percent, from about 45 to 77 cents per bushel. Under contracts negotiated with Yum Brands and McDonalds, workers will make about $96 per day, while under contracts with Burger King, they will still make $56 for the same weight – 4,000 pounds of tomatoes.
Emanuel, 18, came to Immokalee, Florida from Oaxaca, Mexico a year and a half ago. As the workers packed up for their trip back to Florida after the Chicago events, he said the wages under Burger King's contract are not enough to pay for rent, food and family needs. "That's why we're fighting for that one cent more," he said in Spanish. "It will make a real difference. We also need them to respect our rights."
His fellow Oaxacan, Francisco Venegas, 33, also interviewed in Spanish, said other migrant workers used to think the Coalition was "crazy," but now the Coalition is well-known and widely-supported, with achievements including the two major corporate agreements, scores of local protests to combat labor abuses, weekly meetings and a low-power radio station.
"[McDonald's] had to come to the table because they knew we were going to win," Venegas said. "Now, Burger King."
Durango, Mexico native Francisco Aragon said he has seen definite changes in working conditions in the 15 years he has been traveling back and forth between Immokalee, where the tomato season wraps up by May, and Chicago, where he sells popsicles from a cart during the summer. "We get much more respect," he said in Spanish.
Coalition supporters held rallies at several Chicago-area Burger Kings on April 13, the day they had planned to picket McDonald's corporate headquarters. McDonald's did not respond to requests for an interview.
"McDonald's and Taco Bell aren't the whole fast food world," Benitez told the crowd at the carnaval, which was held in a concert venue because of the weather. "Today we are sending a message to Miami," Benitez added, referring to the city where Burger King is headquartered.
Invoking his personal hero Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Benitez said Coalition members would "walk like he would like to have seen us do, united toward a promised land."
"Right now that promised land is Miami," he continued. "We're not going there to sunbathe, we're going to get justice. When we're all together, those giants are afraid of us."
Apr 4, 2007
This is purely disgusting!
i do not understand how those so selflabelled "animal lovers" can support such things. This is seriously making me sick. & the worse is they believe they are doing good things & many are hoping to reach freedom for non humans. How do they seriously think it's possible keeping them as resources?
BURGER KING SHIFTS POLICY ON ANIMALS
By Andrew Martin, The New York Times
March 28 - In what animal welfare advocates are describing as a "historic advance," Burger King, the world's second-largest hamburger chain, said yesterday that it would begin buying eggs and pork from suppliers that did not confine their animals in cages and crates.
The company said that it would also favor suppliers of chickens that use gas, or "controlled-
atmospheric stunning," rather than electric shocks to knock birds unconscious before slaughter. It is considered a more humane method, though only a handful of slaughterhouses use it.
The goal for the next few months, Burger King said is for 2 percent of its eggs to be "cage free," and for 10 percent of its pork to come from farms that allow sows to move around inside pens, rather than being confined to crates. The company said those percentages would rise as more farmers shift to these methods and more competitively priced supplies become available.
While Burger King's initial goals may be modest, food marketing experts and animal welfare advocates said yesterday that the shift would put pressure on other restaurant and food companies to adopt similar practices.
"I think the whole area of social responsibility, social consciousness, is becoming much more important to the consumer," said Bob Goldin, executive vice president of Technomic, a food industry research and consulting firm. "I think that the industry is going to see that it's an increasing imperative to get on that bandwagon."
Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive of the Humane Society of the United States, said Burger King's initiatives put it ahead of its competitors in terms of animal welfare.
"That's an important trigger for reform throughout the entire industry," Mr. Pacelle said.
Burger King's announcement is the latest success for animal welfare advocates, who were once dismissed as fringe groups, but are increasingly gaining mainstream victories.
Last week, the celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck announced that the meat and eggs he used would come from animals raised under strict animal welfare codes. And in January, the world's largest pork processor, Smithfield Foods, said it would phase out confinement of pigs in metal crates over the next decade.
Some city and state governments have banned restaurants from serving foie gras and have prohibited farmers from confining veal calves and
pigs in crates.
Temple Grandin, an animal science professor at Colorado State University, said Smithfield's decision to abandon crates for pregnant sows had roiled the pork industry. That decision was brought about in part by questions from big customers like McDonald's, the world's largest hamburger chain, about its confinement practices.
"When the big boys move, it makes the entire industry move," said Ms. Grandin, who serves on the animal welfare task forces for several food companies, including McDonald's and Burger King. Burger King's decision is somewhat at odds with the rebellious, politically incorrect image it has cultivated in recent years.
Its commercials deride "chick food" and encourage a more-is-more approach to eating with its turbo-strength coffee, its enormous omelet sandwich, and a triple Whopper with cheese.
Burger King officials said the move was driven by their desire to stay ahead of consumer trends and to encourage farmers to move into more
humane egg and meat production.
"We want to be doing things long before they become a concern for consumers," said Steven Grover, vice president for food safety, quality assurance and regulatory compliance. "Like a hockey player, we want to be there before the puck gets there."
Mr. Grover said the company would not use the animal welfare initiatives in its marketing. "I don't think it's something that goes to our core business," he said.
Beef cows were not included in the new animal welfare guidelines because, unlike most laying hens and pigs, they continue to be raised outdoors. Burger King already has animal welfare standards for cow slaughter, he said.
The changes were made after discussions with the Humane Society and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, known as PETA.
PETA, in particular, has started a series of high-profile campaigns to pressure fast-food companies to change their animal welfare practices,
including a "Murder King" campaign that ended in 2001 when Burger King agreed to improve its animal welfare standards to include, among other things, periodic animal welfare audits.
Since that time, PETA officials said they had met periodically with Burger King officials to encourage them to adopt tougher standards. About a year ago, the Humane Society began its own efforts to encourage Burger King to improve its farm animal standards.
Mr. Grover said his company listened to suggestions from both groups, but ultimately relied on the advice of its animal welfare advisory board, which was created about six years ago and includes academics, an animal welfare advocate, an executive of Tyson Foods and Burger King officials.
"Where we think we can support what our animal advisers think is right, we do it," Mr. Grover said.
The changes apply to Burger King suppliers in North America and Canada, where the chain purchases more than 40 million pounds of eggs a year and 35 million pounds of pork, he said.
A reason that such a small percentage of purchases will meet the new guidelines is a lack of supply, Mr. Grover said. Burger King plans to more than double its cage-free purchases by the end of this year, to 5 percent of the total, and will also double its purchases of pork from producers who do not use crates, to 20 percent.
The cage-free eggs and crate-free pork will cost more, although it is not clear exactly how much because Burger King is still negotiating prices, Mr. Grover said. Prices of food at Burger King restaurants will not be increased as a result, he said.
Most laying hens in the United States are raised in "battery cages," which are usually stacked on top of each other three to four cages high. Sows, during their pregnancies, are often kept in gestation crates, which are 24 inches across and 7 feet long.
Matt Prescott, PETA's manager for factory farm campaigns, argued that both confinement systems were filthy and cruel because the animals
could barely move and were prone to injury and psychological stress.
Under Burger King's initiative, laying hens would be raised in buildings where they would be able to wander around. Similarly, sows would be raised indoors, most likely in pens where they would be able to move freely.
"This is not free range, but simply having some room to move around inside a controlled environment, " Mr. Grover said.
While converting barns for crate-free sows is relatively simple, Ms. Grandin said it was much more difficult and expensive to raisecage-free hens because not nearly as many birds fit in one building.
Burger King officials say they hope that by promoting controlled-atmosphe re stunning, more slaughterhouses will adopt the technology. Currently, there are only a few in the United States using the technique, and most of them process turkeys.
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Uber is the latest company to reveal a hack that’s affected 57 million customers and 600,000 drivers. We think it’s time you had better routes to redress when your data is compromised – do you agree?
It’s been reported today that Uber’s breach, which happened in 2016, was concealed by the global transportation giant, who paid the hackers to delete the data.
A spokesperson for Uber told us: ‘The compromised data included the names and driver’s license numbers of around 600,000 drivers in the United States, and some personal information of 57 million Uber users around the world, including names, email addresses and mobile phone numbers.’
They added: ‘At the time of the incident, immediate steps were taken by Uber to secure the data and obtain assurances that the downloaded data had been destroyed.
‘The incident did not breach Uber’s corporate systems or infrastructure, and outside forensics experts have not seen any indication that trip location history, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, social security numbers or dates of birth were downloaded.’
While the Information Commissioner’s Office has warned Uber that it faces ‘higher fines’ for concealing the breach, an enormous number of people have been affected by it. In our view, not only does your data need better protection, but you also need better avenues for redress when your data is misused.
In a joint letter to the Digital Minister, Matt Hancock MP, Which?, Age UK, Privacy International and the Open Rights Group have called on the government to make it easier to seek redress for data breaches.
We believe the government should amend the Data Protection Bill, which is currently going through Parliament, to allow independent bodies to take collective redress on behalf of customers when a company has failed to take sufficient action following a data breach.
Data breaches, such as Uber’s, are becoming more common and yet the legal protections for consumers are still lagging behind.
As it stands the law is clear: should your data be compromised you have the right to redress from the company.
Your first step for actually doing so is to contact the company to find out what it is offering. If the company won’t provide you with redress, or what it has offered isn’t good enough, the only other option is to take the company to court yourself. This means a potentially lengthy and costly legal process.
Redress isn’t always financial compensation, in many cases, this could be additional security credit checks or a monitoring service.
We think the best way to ensure that adequate redress is sought for consumers’ who’ve been party to a significant data breach is to allow independent organisations acting in the public interest to take action collectively on behalf of all those who have been affected.
A collective regime would improve processes, cut legal costs and court time, allow companies to address all claims at once and ultimately ensure that data breach victims get appropriate redress for misuse of their data.
Action on redress
Uber’s data breach – and the fact that it hid it – will worry both its customers and drivers. We think it’s critical that the company does all that it can to ensure affected people get clear information about what’s happened.
In the meantime, we’ll be continuing to make the case for collective redress. If you have suffered a data breach and your information was lost then share your story with us and help us make the case for collective redress.
Update: 29 November 2017
Uber has revealed that 2.7 million UK users have been affected by the data breach. The hackers accessed the names, email addresses and mobile numbers of passengers and drivers.
Our managing director of home products and services, Alex Neil, said:
‘Uber’s data breach – and the fact that it was hidden – will worry UK customers and drivers alike. It is critical that the company does all that it can to ensure affected people get clear information about what has happened.
‘Data breaches are becoming more and more common and yet the protections for consumers are lagging behind. The UK Government should use the Data Protection Bill to give independent bodies the power to seek collective redress on behalf of affected customers when a company has failed to take sufficient action following a data breach.’
Are you an Uber customer? Are you concerned that your data has been compromised? Do you think victims of data breaches should have easier routes to redress?

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How Luxury Brands Are Increasingly Embracing Ecommerce
“Is Digital Killing the Luxury Brand?” asked a September Adweek headline. The article focused on luxury retailers’ reluctance to embrace digital, concerned that their exclusivity could be compromised by the Internet’s inherent accessibility.
Oh, that headline was from September 2011. Since then, the luxury landscape has changed quite a bit. Gucci allocated more than half its advertising to digital channels this year. Tiffany & Co. has become an SEO dynamo. LVMH brands such as Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior are even available on Amazon now.
For luxury brands, it’s always been about brick-and-mortar. Physical stores allow the brands to roll out the red carpet and deliver white glove service to customers, while also maintaining full control over the customer experience. But over time, luxury players have had no choice but to move online alongside their customers.
How Luxury Players Improved Personalization
Over the past five years, luxury brands have outpaced the global market in ecommerce growth. McKinsey & Company projects that ecommerce will make up 19% of the luxury market by 2025, up from 9% last year.
It makes sense when you think about who buys these brands. With the exception of Alaska and Hawaii, whose isolated geography often incurs additional shipping fees, there’s a strong correlation between the states that shop online the most and the states with the highest per capita income.
As luxury retailers increasingly embrace ecommerce, we’ve seen a huge improvement in their capabilities over the past year. On Sailthru’s inaugural Retail Personalization Index, Net-a-Porter, Nordstrom and MATCHESFASHION.COM ranked high for their personalized shopping experiences. However, they were anomalies; most of their high-end contemporaries fell much further down the list.
In September, we launched the second Index, where all three brands performed well. Net-a-Porter and Nordstrom improved enough to maintain positions in the top 10. At the same time, far more legacy luxury and ecommerce retailers joined them in the top half, including Rent the Runway, Tory Burch, Brooks Brothers, The RealReal, Shopbop and Neiman Marcus.
It’s worth noting that the competition was also much stiffer this year. For this year’s Index, we analyzed more than twice as many brands, only highlighting the strongest 100. While the majority of luxury brands failed to qualify — about 35% made the list — that’s true of virtually every category. Overall, these brands outperformed those in the grocery, crafts, pets, and jewelry verticals.
Looking at the Luxury Landscape’s Future
It’s not just us. Analyzing 76 luxury retailers, Gartner’s L2 research firm found that most of luxury brands’ web traffic comes from search. That means that consumers aren’t necessarily heading to Chanel.com, as much as they’re coming across it in their research. L2 also noted how much these retailers’ websites have improved year-over-year. In 2017, 44% of these retailers’ websites boasted geolocation features; now, 56% do. Similarly, real-time inventory increased from 28% to 41%.
From year to year, onsite personalization is where we’ve seen the most marked improvement for luxury brands. Retailers could earn 30 possible points in that category. On the Sailthru 100, 43% of in this category earned at least 25 points, while 93% scored 20 or higher.
Luxury consumers are shopping online more than ever and brands are accommodating them. However, the majority of sales still happen in physical stores. Mobile devices are the key to in-store personalization. Email, the most lucrative digital marketing channel, is a great way to drive traffic to stores.
Next year’s Retail Personalization Index is bound to be the toughest one yet. To stay competitive, high-end retailers must give their mobile and email experiences the same TLC as their websites. We’re excited to see which ones rise to the occasion.


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Hemos from the a-tale-of-two-apples dept.
novus ordo writes "Apple is being sued in London by Apple Corps, owned by the former Beatles and their heirs. This is a third battle over the name 'Apple' in Britain. Apple Corps has previously been awarded $26M by Apple Computer for the use of the name."
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After a weekend of continuous hacking, the winners of this year’s BattleHack in Toronto is team Not Me, for creating an app that prevents account theft and protects your online information.
The city-wide competition hosted by PayPal and Braintree is a 24-hour event held in Toronto’s Mars Discovery District. BattleHack visits 14 cities worldwide where developers are tasked with building a mobile application that solves a local problem of their choice.
The Not Me team, who won first prize in Toronto last year under the name Team Angry Kitten, will be heading to the PayPal headquarters in Silicon Valley for the BattleHack World Finals with other regional winners to compete for the $100,000 (USD) grand prize.
“The entire purpose of BattleHack is to find the best hackers on Earth. Everything that happens in Toronto is just a mass of inspiration for the technical community,” said host and judge Jonathan LeBlanc, head of developer advocacy at Braintree and PayPal.
In addition to their entry to the World Finals, team Not Me also received the famous custom-made BattleHack axe trophy.
The winning app recognizes if someone is attempting to access a user’s online account or personal information without permission and notifies the user through email and text message. By integrating Braintree’s SDK, Not Me allows users to pay for the protection service with PayPal or a credit card of their choice.
The Not Me team believes their app provides a solution to security threats that impact a large number of Internet users.
The five judge panel based their decision off of idea quality, how well the app incorporated the PayPal API, Braintree, or Venmo SDK’s, and for overall execution and user experience.
The goal is to build everything within a 24-hour period using any breed of code, but must integrate PayPal as the sole payment method.
“At the end of the day you’re building an app that fixes a problem that you have. Those are the best hacks because there’s passion behind it,” said LeBlanc.
In second place, team While I Brush built a smart toothbrush holder with a built-in video display that plays while you brush your teeth. They received an XBOX One.
Team OpenMD, the third place winners, built an app that allowed doctors to easily collaborate on patient cases by getting real-time medical feedback from patients while they are at home. They received an Adafruit ARDX v1.3 kit.
The hacking began Saturday afternoon when the gong struck at 1 p.m., and carried on for 24-hours. During that time, participants were treated to free food, many giveaways, nap stations, and late-night massages.
Last year, the Not Me team (formerly team Angry Kittens) built Security Blanket, an app that helps parents and law enforcement find missing children. Members Alex Christodoulou, Ernst Riemer, Maya Kenedy, and Christopher Larsen went on to win second place at the 2014 BattleHack World Finals, for developing an app to help visually impaired people correctly identify products when grocery shopping.
The winnin team from Tel Aviv took home the $100,000 grand prize for their app, AirHop, a collaborative consumption app for consumers to share carrier or Wi-Fi access.
The global BattleHack 2015 series began in January in Melbourne and will end after the world finals in November in San Jose, CA.


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Trai and BEREC emphasised that the internet must remain an open and non-discriminatory platform, adding the goal of the MoU is to encourage a cooperative relationship between the parties
Digital India is about education, employment, entrepreneurship and empowerment. It will help realise the objective of reform, perform, transform, said Modi.
The US duties are intended to punish China for abusing American intellectual-property rights. Trump has signaled he wants to reduce America’s $376-bn trade deficit with China.
The government expects the first draft of recommendations on data protection legislation to come this month. These will become the basis for framing a law on data security.
UIDAI had earlier announced that it will include face recognition feature as a means of verifying users who face issues with biometric authentication.
Popular crypto-currency bitcoin fell to a two-month low on Tuesday.
In its discussion paper on national strategy for artificial intelligence (AI) released on Monday, the Aayog has proposed a two-tier structure to address research in India.
With the European Union (EU) implementing General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) from May 25, awareness of individual information security has increased among those active on social media.
Another MoU was inked between the NITI Aayog and Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (SCE) on Cooperation in the Field of Planning.
The Virtual ID (VID) feature is aimed at giving users the option of not sharing their Aadhaar number at the time of authentication.
The regulator has asked for data to be stored “only” in India is said to be the biggest challenge with majority of industry bodies asking RBI to review or withdraw this condition.
The first National Policy on Electronics was rolled out in 2012 which offered incentives to companies setting up manufacturing units in the country.
The CEO of the electric-vehicle maker said a restrictive policy environment in India is proving to be a hurdle for local production.
The payment companies are worried India's data onshoring move could set a precedent and nudge other major governments to implement similar rules at a time when there is heightened scrutiny on how companies globally handle their customers' data.
The I-T department has exempted angel investors from income tax on their investments in startups with effect from April 11.
Prasad said that Common Service Centre have risen from 83,000 to 2,91,000, while 89 BPOs have started operating in various states in a matter of 2.5 years.
Premji asserted that of the 65,000 H1B visas issued every year, the Indian IT industry uses less than 10,000, adding that 70% of visas go to Indians but they do not go to Indian companies.
GDPR, designed to designed to give individuals in the European Union (EU) more rights to control their personal information, came into effect on Friday.
The journey of data protection laws has come a long way from just being statutory to now being compulsive with hefty penalties, ultimately safeguarding citizen data over commercial interests
EU regulators have new powers to go after companies that get too grabby or that don't tell you clearly what they're doing with your data.


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On November 22, Latin America’s largest e-commerce platform Mercado Libre announced that it will soon allow the use of cryptocurrencies for transactions in the Brazilian market through the digital payment application Mercado Pago.
According to Mercado Pago Vice President Tulio Oliveira, Mercado Libre customers in Brazil can buy, sell and store cryptocurrencies through their digital wallets. However, customers will not be able to use cryptocurrencies to pay directly for products on Mercado Libre in the immediate future.
Mr. Oliveira said the initiative to trade in crypto on Mercado Libre will be tested in Brazil and then expanded to other economies in the region.
In November 2021, Mercado Libre allowed a small group of customers to conduct trading operations with cryptocurrencies for the purpose of reviewing the effectiveness of this initiative. The number of customers authorized to conduct operations through cryptocurrencies is expected to increase sharply in the coming weeks.
For his part, Mercado Libre CEO Marcos Galperin affirmed that digital currency opens a new path for this largest e-commerce platform in Latin America.
In May 2021, Mercado Libre announced the purchase of $7.8 million worth of bitcoins. Previously, this e-commerce “giant” announced that it would make it possible for every customer in Argentina to buy real estate with bitcoin, while before, real estate transactions in this Latin American country Only use USD.
In the period from January to September 2021, Mercado Libre recorded sales of $ 4.9 billion, an increase of 88.3% compared to the same period last year. The platform’s net profit is estimated at 129.4 million USD, up 159% over the same period.
From the beginning of this year to the end of September 2021, Mercado Libre has 78.7 million user accounts with a trading volume of $7.3 billion. A total of 259.8 million items were sold on this e-commerce platform in the period from January to September 2021.


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Hilo Hattie will be closing its flagship store on Oahu, officials announced Tuesday.
The company has attempted to find a co-tenant for the Nimitz Highway location, but was unsuccessful. After 35 years, the store will tentatively close at the end of October 2015.
Back in February, Hilo Hattie filed for bankruptcy, which followed the closing of stores in Kihei, Hilo, and Kona.
A company spokesperson tells us Hilo Hattie is looking at several locations in Waikiki for a retail store.
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City announces it will not convert Hilo Hattie on Nimitz Hwy into homeless shelter
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Once ranked alongside the world’s greatest wines, Chianti has recently been shunned by collectors.
Online fine wine seller, Liv-Ex founder Justin Gibbs says, “We suspect that, because it provides relative value, people buy it and drink it rather than taking an investment view – thus reducing secondary market activity.”
Often depicted as a folksy red in a straw-covered bottle, Chianti long enjoyed wide popularity that was both a blessing and a curse.
Investors saw Tuscany as a romantic land with unlimited potential. And this investment initiated Tuscan wine’s ascent to the top tables.
But more glamorous wines like Montalcino’s Casanova di Neri Brunello and Bolgheri’s Tenuta Dell’Ornellaia outpaced Chianti as wine aficionados looked for richer, more intense wines, spurred on by high scores from critics.
Collectors bought into the concept of prestige. Wines from Montalcino and Bolgheri fitted right in. Chianti lagged behind.
“Chianti suffers from a ‘been there/done that’ syndrome,” says Gerald Weisel, proprietor of Weimax Wine & Spirits, in Burlingame, California, who caters to a clientele ranging from high-tech Silicon Valley savants to an old-guard cadre of San Francisco collectors.
The biggest problem for Chianti was the vineyards, where many of the vines were of uncertain origin, he says.
The Chianti Classico 2000 Project selected eight clones (from hundreds), to bring Chianti Classico into the future.
“By the end of this decade,” says Master Sommelier Tim Gaiser, “over 50 percent of all the vineyards in Chianti Classico will have the new clones. It is a huge jump in quality.”
Further, the Chianti Classico Consortium recently overhauled the denomination by adding a top-tier level, Gran Selezione, in direct competition with Brunello and Super Tuscans.
Fewer than 100 wineries on board.
What made Chianti Classico ‘classic’ in the historical sense ̶ location, grape and method ̶ is what should be bringing Chianti back into the sights of shrewd collectors.
But new tastes and fashions still have the upwardly mobile crowd choosing Brunello and Super Tuscans over Chianti Classico. Darrell Corti is a Chianti world expert who believes there’s a shift on the horizon.
“Chianti, especially Chianti Classico, has gone from being a label to a wine that’s been transformed – in some instances, modified greatly from ‘what it’s supposed to be’,” says Corti.
“And now I think it’s coming back because all the red wine in the world can’t smell like Cabernet or Merlot.”
When wine styles turned towards power, richness and intensity and supplanted wines that were more restrained and classic, Chianti was nudged out of the limelight.
But now there are signs of tastes turning again toward wines that more genuinely reflect where they come from.
That promises to lift Chianti out of the shadows to recapture its moment in the sun. Chianti producers are hoping!
See more at: http://www.lepanmedia.com/chianti-the-land-that-wine-collectors-forgot/


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On September 11, 2018, the Colorado Department of Revenue Division of Taxation adopted temporary emergency regulations (eDocket) requiring retailers that are doing business in Colorado and have substantial nexus with the state to collect Colorado sales or use tax, as applicable. In addition, the Department adopted an emergency rule prescribing the sourcing of retail sales in Colorado to determine which jurisdictions may impose tax on the sale. These regulations, which apply to both in-state and out-of-state retailers, will take effect December 1, 2018.
This temporary emergency regulation puts out-of-state sellers on notice that final regulations will require them to register for a Colorado sales tax license and start collecting sales tax on November 1, 2018, if they aren’t already doing so. The department says the regulations will apply a $100,000 or 200-transaction limit we’re seeing in other states and won’t collect sales tax retroactively. The deadline to register for out-of-state retailers that don’t meet the small-seller exception will be Nov. 30, 2018.
This could be a messy transition. According to Joseph Bishop-Henchman and John Buhl, writing for the Tax Foundation, Colorado isn’t ready.
“There?s a reason the state is colored bloodred on our map from our report showing which states were readyfor the post-Wayfair leap into online sales tax collection. Colorado?s big problem is that it allows its 349 county, city, and district local sales tax jurisdictions autonomy in administering, collecting, and auditing. Filing is very cumbersome as a result, with the state and local tax base not necessarily adding up on a given transaction.”
Bishop-Henchman and Buhl go on to explain that if online sellers in Colorado have to collect both state and local sales tax (as opposed to state tax alone), then the policy would go “beyond what Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote was permissible in the U.S. Supreme Court?s Wayfair decision.” State-only tax level collection is more defensible.
Stay tuned…we’ll be hearing more from the Colorado Department of Revenue as they rush to meet their own deadline.
The temporary emergency regulations can be found on the Secretary of State?s eDocket system. The regulations will be published in the October 25, 2018 Register. For additional information on these changes, visit the department’s website at www.colorado.gov/tax/sales-tax-changes.
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Embankment seating ready for The Chalkboard's April 14 reopening
With four tables for pre-booking and three that will be offered on a first come first served basis, afternoon teas are back on for the restaurant. To adhere to Covid-19 guidelines, all tables can be enjoyed by groups of up to six or by two households.
Sharing details of the booking process on social media, The Chalkboard team confirmed that each booking would be for a maximum of two hours to ensure that as many people as possible get to enjoy the space.
In the event of bad weather, customers will be offered a takeaway box of the food they ordered. Refunds or alternative booking dates cannot be given, so the Chalkboard team have stressed that those who book a table do so knowing the rainy day contingency plan.
Walk-by take away will be offered, including breakfast, and the restaurant has been approved to serve alcohol from April 14.
Opening hours for The Chalkboard continue to span 10am to 5pm from Wednesday to Sunday, although the team have suggested they may stay open later for drinks and nibbles on those nice summer evenings.
On social media, Hannah, Andy and the rest of the team said: "This is, yet again, a brand new way for us to operate. We appreciate your kindness and patience during this time. We really do have the loveliest customers.
"We look forward to the day when guidelines and restrictions can be lifted."
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The Biggest Stories Of The Week (January 11-17)
Between the Battlefront 2 fiasco and The Rise of Skywalker, it felt as if Star Wars was on the decline as a franchise. The Mandalorian helped restore my faith, though, even if the CGI corpse of young Mark Hamill still haunts me in my dreams. If the Lucasfilm Games experiment pans out, then maybe the Star Wars video games can be redeemed as well.
The biggest stories of the week include the return of Lucasfilm Games, more Cyberpunk 2077 drama, new Nintendo Switch game announcements, the Hitman 3 EGS controversy, the Indiana Jones game announcement, and several high-profile delays.
Related: The Biggest Stories Of The Week (January 4-10)
Lucasfilm Games Has Returned & Ubisoft Is Making A Star Wars Game
Big changes are happening in the world of Star Wars video games, as EA’s vice-like grip on the license is starting to loosen. Disney announced that the Lucasfilm Games branding is returning and that it will apply to all Star Wars games, both past, and present. It will also be used for games based on other Lucasfilm properties.
EA is supposed to retain exclusive rights to develop Star Wars video games until 2023. It seems that Disney has other plans, as Ubisoft is making a Star Wars game. Very little is known about this game, as it’s said to be in the earliest stages of development, but it marks the end of EA’s control over the license. Maybe the Battlefront 2 controversy from a few years back had more of an effect than we realized?
Cyberpunk Drama Returns
We lasted a whole week without Cyberpunk 2077 drama, but we’re back in it now. CD Projekt Red founder Marcin Iwinski released a video on Twitter that discussed the launch disaster. The team’s aim is to work on the last-gen versions of the game, in order to get them up to speed. This means that the PS5/Xbox Series updates have been pushed back to the second half of 2021. It seems that even the fans who own the current-gen versions would have benefitted from waiting a year before purchasing the game.
Since then, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier released a report about the development of Cyberpunk 2077. It seems that management ignored the information provided to them about the developers regarding issues getting the game running on PS4/Xbox One. The report also claimed that the E3 2018 demo was fake, and that developers wasted months of time putting it together.
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury & New Pokemon Snap News
Nintendo finally broke its silence regarding its 2021 schedule. A trailer for Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury showed off some of the new content in the game. Bowser’s Fury is a standalone adventure, where a second player can play as Bowser Jr. and fight alongside Mario. Bowser will take on a giant form, and it’s possible for Mario to transform into a Super Saiyan/colossal cat hybrid to fight him.
The Pokemon Company revealed that New Pokemon Snap will be released on April 30. The game is set in the brand new Lental region, and it will involve the player taking photos of 200 Pokemon. There is something making the Pokemon glow, called the Illumina phenomenon, and it’s up to the player to investigate it.
EGS Exclusivity Screws Over Hitman Fans
Hitman 3 is on its way and console players will have a leg up over the PC players. If you own Hitman 2, then you can play through its levels in Hitman 3, but only on consoles. Hitman 3 is an Epic Games Store exclusive on PC until 2022. This means that you have to buy Hitman 2 on EGS to use its stages in Hitman 3, even if you already own the game on Steam. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has said that he’s looking into the issue, so it’s possible that a deal can be worked out before the game launches.
An Indiana Jones Game Is On The Way
It seems that the Lucasfilm Games logo won’t be reserved for Star Wars games, as an Indiana Jones game is being developed by Bethesda Softworks and MachineGames, with Todd Howard acting as executive producer. Almost nothing is known about the game at this point. We don’t know its genre, platforms, or if Harrison Ford is on board for voices. It’s possible that it’s early enough in development to be an Xbox Series X/S exclusive, but we won’t know for a while yet.
Hogwarts Legacy Delayed To 2022 (Among Others)
The effects of the pandemic on the video game world are starting to be seen. WB Games announced that Hogwarts Legacy has been delayed to 2022. It wasn’t long after that Rider’s Republic lost its release date and Elite Dangerous: Odyssey was pushed back to autumn 2021. These are likely just the first of many games that will be pushed out of their release dates in 2021.
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Dates have now been announced for the 2014 East Med Yacht Show which will again take place on the beautiful island of Poros between the 3rd and 6th of May.
Now in its 13th consecutive year, the show is organised by the two major Associations of the Hellenic Yachting Industry: Hellenic Yacht Brokers Association (H.Y.B.A.) and Hellenic Professional Yacht Owners Association (H.P.Y.O.A.).
The East Med Yacht Show has become an important platform for the luxury charter yacht market in the Mediterranean, welcoming a wide range of vessels of all sizes and types. It offers charter industry professionals an opportunity to familiarise themselves with each yacht’s interior and exterior areas and meet their crew in order to then recommend to their charter clients for the upcoming season in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Throughout the week a line-up of spectacular yachts from the global charter fleet are available for viewing in the stunning Poros port as well as presentations of the latest water sports and a glittering array of evening events. Last year’s show was a huge success with highlights including the 57m (187’) sailing yacht Fleurtje, the 38.4m (126’) motor yacht Mabrouk and the 45m (148’) Ouranos.
For more information about attending the 2014 East Med Yacht Show, contact your preferred yacht charter broker.
a line-up of spectacular charter yachts are available for viewing in the stunning Poros port as well as presentations of the latest water sports


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- Budapest Business Journal
While the new Rudi has 30% lower sugar content, it contains no sweeteners either, according to a press release.
While the "Fitt" product line was launched years ago, it only offered solid yoghurt-coated Rudis in the name of healthier snacking. However, the newest addition is a rendition of the 1968 classic, with a layer of dark chocolate surrounding the sweet and soft curd filling.
According to the press release, the Mátészalka factory of Túró Rudi experimented a lot before being able to reproduce the taste of the classic dessert. Apart from containing 30% less sugar, the product contains 25% more curd.
For more than 50 years, Pöttyös Túró Rudi has been a favorite of domestic households: most Hungarians consume a Pöttyös product on a weekly basis, the manufacturer claims.


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23 Mar Kentucky Retail Shop Online
As of Monday, March 23, 2020 at 8:00pm all non-essential businesses in Kentucky will be temporarily closing doors to the public due to the safety precautions to combat COVID-19 outbreak.
Beshear said businesses that are exempt of this order include: grocery stores, pharmacies, drug stores, auto repair and auto parts stores, car rental services, liquor stores, banks, veterinarians, gas stations and pet supplies stores.
Retail businesses and Entrepreneurs! We want to give you hope. Shoppers, let’s support our local retail shops. Find a business website, Facebook Page, Instagram and share your support on all social media channels.
In 2016, 209.6 million U.S. people were online shoppers and had browsed products, compared prices or bought merchandise online at least once. These figures are projected to reach 230.5 million in 2021, positioning the United States as of one the leading e-commerce markets based on online shopper penetration. https://www.statista.com/statistics/183755/number-of-us-internet-shoppers-since-2009/
So far, 69% of Americans have shopped online, and 25% of Americans shop online at least once per month. The majority (59%) of these shoppers bought clothing items, and 47% bought their first item on Amazon. https://optinmonster.com/online-shopping-statistics/
Share this post and tag your favorite retail stores. Take a photo of your recently purchased item and encourage others to do the same.


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JEC Group have brought together the international community of composites leaders and executives in our Composites Circle as an unique networking opportunity to meet with both peers and future partners.
Nanyang Technological University's Institute for Sports Research (ISR) has set up an international consortium to develop innovative materials and process for sports products with Arkema, Chomarat, Babolat (tennis racquet maker ) and Topkey (bicycle manufacturer).
The new consortium, known as the Innovative Composites for Sports Products (I-Comp Sports), will benefit from ISR’s research and testing facilities housed at NTU’s School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. It will also leverage ISR’s strong industry links, including NTU’s plans to invest S$3 million in specialised machinery for manufacturing composite materials using an advanced method known as automated fibre placement.The consortium will jointly develop new carbon composites materials, parts design and manufacturing technology for sports products such as racquets and bicycle frames.NTU Provost Prof Freddy Boey said the I-Comp Sports consortium will drive composite materials research, in line with the university’s ambitions in sports technology research and innovation. The joint research in composites will benefit not only the sports product industry, but also industries such as aerospace, renewable energy, and materials engineering.ISR’s first product made its debut at the Sochi Winter Olympics 2014. ISR had worked with the French manufacturer of skiing equipment, Skis Rossignol, to develop their new “INFINI” range of dynamic compression garments for cross country skiing.Strong industry linksApart from collaborating with multinational companies, which includes TaylorMade-Adidas, Sumitomo Rubber Industry (Dunlop/Srixon), Quiksilver and Russian largest sport retailer Sportmaster, ISR is also partnering international sports federations.Together with International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), ISR engineered a unique prototype machine to test the bounce of table tennis racquets to ensure they meet competition standards. At the same time, ISR is also working with the Badminton World Federation on equipment especially in shuttlecock development.Locally, the research institute has partnered Dou Yee Enterprises in flexible heating systems for sports garments, capitalising on NTU’s knowledge and expertise in making printable flexible batteries. ISR has also partnered with Bronx Creative Design Centre in innovative sports footwear technologies and material sciences from NTU.ISR has been focusing on sports equipment research and innovation with two goals in mind – to train manpower capability through postgraduate students; and to offer a unique interdisciplinary research and technology platform that will attract the international sports industry and its economy into Singapore.Since its founding in 2011, ISR has secured over S$5.5 million in research funding and generated revenue of over S$1 million. The institute, which will have 80 researchers and staff by end of this year, is funded by the Economic Development Board and NTU. It currently has 26 research and development projects completed or ongoing with its 15 sports industry partners, in addition to its 10 university research projects and 32 PhD students.More information: www.ntu.edu.sg


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BlackBerry has pushed a fresh update to its app on iOS and Android, taking it to version 2.6 on both the versions. The update finally allows you to send stickers in group chats, which was also one of the most requested feature on the app.
Taking user feedback into consideration, the company has also improved its Timed Messages feature. A Timed Message can now last up to 60 seconds (depending on how long you wish to set the timer) and can be viewed multiple times before it disappears.
On iOS, the app gets a new design that fits with the overall design language of iOS8. Also, the app now supports the larger screens on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. On Android, BBM now works well with Android 5.0 and adds a new landscape mode.
BlackBerry has said that the udpates should be available worldwide i the next 24 hours. Grab the app from the store links below.


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Sorry, classic iPhone owners. Siri won’t be headed to your device anytime soon. Apple confirmed, in a support email sent Monday, that Siri will only work on the iPhone 4S for the foreseeable future.
Siri is the voice-operated, sassy virtual assistant to the iPhone 4S. Her ability to schedule meetings, ponder the meaning of life and report back on weather conditions has helped make the iPhone 4S a commercial success.
Just don’t expect Siri to share the love with older iOS device owners. “Siri only works on iPhone 4S and we currently have no plans to support older devices,” Apple said in an email response to a bug report.
Michael Steeber, a Cult of Mac contributor, was alerted to the exchange and posted a screenshot of the deflating email (pictured left).
The news comes as no surprise — though it may shatter a few hopes and dreams.
If you’re still desperate for Siri on your device, you’re not alone. Hackers have attempted to port Siri to the iPhone 4, iPod Touch and iPad with moderate success. But Apple’s determination to keep Siri locked to its iPhone 4S host may only strengthen their resolve.
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A reader of the Phillippine site Autoindustriya.com sent in what appear to be naked spy photos of the pickup that Nissan recently teased first in photo then in video. The shots, one taken from the front and one from the back, have been found on the Nissan Navara Club Thailand forum. The details in the two photos, one from the front and one from the back, match up with the details we can make out from the teaser video, lending credence to the idea that this is indeed the next Nissan Navara, which is essentially the Frontier in overseas markets. Nissan US has reportedly disavowed this as our next Frontier, though; the mysterious photo on Twitter was put there by Nissan Thailand, supposedly the location of these two trucks.
The only other detail submitted with the images is that there's a 2.5-liter turbodiesel under the hood putting out 187 horsepower and 332 pound-feet of torque, running through either a seven-speed automatic transmission or a six-speed manual. The reveal is scheduled for June 11, which is when we should know a lot more about the Navara and how much it is or isn't indicative of what we'll get with the next Frontier, a vehicle we're still not expecting for some time.
Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn is on track to be the highest-paid executive in Japan for the fourth time in five years. Ghosn's salary and bonuses last year rang the register to the tune of $9.8 million (995 million yen), and when stock dividends are added to the equation, the exec's total pay crested a billion yen. That represents a 0.7-percent increase over his pay from the previous year. Ghosn earned an additional $3.1 million as CEO of Renault.
According to Bloomberg, Ghosn's compensation was announced at a shareholder's meeting in Japan, prompting an explanation from the CEO. "I understand the sensitivity of the issue," Ghosn said. "Being in Japan should not be a handicap to attract talent. We need the best minds, we need the best talents."
Few would argue with that assessment, we'd guess, but it doesn't answer the question of whether Ghosn is the most talented CEO in Japan. Akio Toyoda, head of Toyota in Japan, earned 230 yen (though, as a large shareholder in Toyota, Toyoda's dividend payments bring him closer to Ghosn) in compensation while steering his automaker to a profit that was five times higher than Nissan's. Honda President Takanobu Ito was paid the comparatively small sum of 150 million yen last year.
The Nissan Versa and Versa Note may have a carpeting problem that could make the little cars risky to drive. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is launching a preliminary evaluation into the 2012-2014 model year versions of the Versa, Versa Sedan and Versa Note, affecting an estimated 360,000 vehicle. In these vehicles, it's possible that the driver's foot could be caught where the carpet meets a trim panel near the accelerator. The regulator has four reported instances of the issue, but it's still collecting data from Nissan about any further cases.
According to the complaints, the tunnel carpet cover trim panel can possibly snag the drivers' right shoe where it meets the carpet, and can either keep their foot on the accelerator or prevent moving it to the brake pedal. In one case, the problem was bad enough that the driver had to free his foot using his hand, while driving. In two of the four reported cases, the vehicles were rental cars.
This is actually the second ongoing preliminary evaluation for some of these models. In late May, NHTSA started looking into the 2013-2014 Versa and 2014 Versa Note for long brake pedal travel.


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Businesses are not just creating new products and services; they’re shaping new digital industries.
From technology standards, to ethical norms, to government mandates, in an ecosystemdriven digital economy, one thing is clear: a wide scope of rules still needs to be defined. To fulfill their digital ambitions, companies must take on a leadership role to help shape the new rules of the game. Those who take the lead will find a place at or near the center of their new ecosystem, while those who don’t risk being left behind.
Whether they’re blazing a path to automated driving or precision agriculture, the breakout businesses of today are defining the rules and standards for entirely new digital industries. Participating in the prevailing markets is not enough. In order to grow through their digital strategies and continue to be relevant, companies must work to shape the digital markets of tomorrow.
The early adopters have already started. Tesla’s Silicon Valley approach to building electric vehicles has set them apart within the auto industry, but their plans portend a future as much more than a car company. Tesla’s digital strategies cross multiple existing industries as they look to shape new ones.
The company is expanding their energy storage research into products for the home that upend traditional utility and building approaches, while their upcoming Tesla Network will create a fleet of personally owned Tesla vehicles to be used for self-driving ride-sharing – creating an entirely new model for both car ownership and shared transit. Tesla’s diverse digital strategy puts it in direct competition with legacy companies from myriad industries, while those legacy companies lack the maturity of a digital ecosystem to compete in more than one.
From every angle, it’s apparent that emerging industries like this one are not just ‘version 2.0’ of industries that existed before. The change is much more dramatic: these new digital ecosystems are transcending disparate markets to create new digital industries.
These changes are happening at every level of business, in every sector. According to Gartner, “by 2020, your company will either lead a digital business industry you have created or be part of one created by someone else…if you are still in business.”
Amazon and Netflix started out, respectively, as e-commerce and DVD rental companies; they now both compete with television production studios and broadcasters through their streaming content, with Netflix getting their largest number of Emmy nominations ever in 2016 and winning a personal-best nine, and Amazon walking away with six. NVIDIA, which built their empire on computer video cards, developed graphics processing units (GPU) to address a host of problems fundamental to video, and have now adapted that technology for applications in supercomputing, the Internet of Things, and automotive. In fact, these are their biggest growth areas, not video.
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text: Investors gave Yelp five stars when the online community restaurant and business review website hit the stock market Friday for the first time, its shares soaring more than 60 percent over the IPO price. With social networking powerhouse Facebook\'s expected $5 billion initial public offering in the wings, Yelp\'s successful launch on the Nasdaq proved a small but still useful sign of the US market\'s hunger for established Internet firms. Midway through the session (1730 GMT) shares were at $24.36, a whopping 62.4 percent above the $15 dollar IPO price. Earlier they jumped as high as $26.00. Yelp, which serves up some 25 million user-generated reviews of service businesses by city across the United States, Canada and western Europe, only raised $106.5 million in the 7.1 million share offering. But that was considered strong for a company which, seven years after its launch in San Francisco, lost $16.7 million last year on revenues of $83.3 million, mostly from advertising. With its restaurant and nightlife reviews the website\'s most popular feature, the company said it had a monthly average of 66 million unique viewers in the fourth quarter of last year. The company trades under the listing symbol \"YELP\".


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The retailer that pummeled its brick and mortar competition with its e-commerce offerings is now hoping to beat them at their own game.
Amazon has opened its first Clicks and Mortar—a chain of pop-up shops offering everything from beauty products to electronics and food and drink—at Manchester, England’s St. Mary’s Gate, reports The Guardian.
The company plans on rolling out nine more shops in locations throughout the British Isles, including Wales, Scotland and Yorkshire.
Part of a year-long pilot launched in conjunction with small business organization Enterprise Nation, the shops give 100 small online businesses their first brick and mortar presence; featured brands include Altr for Men, a male-centric skin care brand, and Swifty Scooters, purveyor of adult kick-scooters.
“U.K. shoppers like to shop both online and in high street stores [and this will] enable customers to discover new brands on their local high streets,” said Emma Jones, Enterprise Nation founder. “Our intention is to help small businesses succeed by combining the best elements of online and high street retail. This new concept will provide small businesses with the space, technology and support to experience physical retail for the first time.”
Amazon isn’t the only e-tailer that has sought out a physical presence in the U.K.—in May 2019, eBay opened a pop-up store in Wolverhampton, where 40 small businesses displayed and sold products.
Amazon itself has made multiple forays into traditional retail, including a fashion pop-up on London’s Baker Street in October of 2018 and a physical space with numerous retail partners to promote Black Friday deals. Amazon Go, a checkout-free grocery store concept, opened in Seattle in January 2019, with 10 other U.S. locations following.


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The South Korean Smartphone manufacturer giant LG has confirmed that its upcoming flagship device, which will be the successor of the LG G2 is LG G3 comes with QHD screen. The LG G3 display screen has offered (1440×2560 p resolution).
LG confirmed the LG G3 has QHD Screen
The tech giant has confirmed the news about the LG G3 would be offering the QHD display (1440 x2560 p) resolution which is four times better than a full HD display. The Korean consumer electronics giant does not reveal the other details of its upcoming flagship device. The pixel per density of the LG G3 would be near about 530 ppi due to the QHD screen.
According to some previous rumors the LG G3 had a 5.5-inch QHD display with 530 ppi. And according to a purported image which comes out during the AnTuTu benchmark of LG G3 also points to the same resolution, and also provided other specification details such as Adreno 330 GPU, OpenGL ES 3.0, a rather inaccurate 640 dpi, and multi-touch support.
Some of the rumors for this handset of LG will run on Android 4.4.2 KitKat and later its is updated on the KitKat 4.4.3. This flagship device of LG will offer a 13-megapixel rear view camera along with LED flash and it has a 2.1-megapixel front-facing camera, 3GB of RAM, and 32 GB built-in storage that can be expanded up to 64GB.
According to some other reports which suggest that the LG G3 handset will also be water-resistant like several flagship devices which are already in the market such as -Sony Xperia Z2 and Samsung Galaxy S5. The LG G3would be introduced in Q3 or Q4 of this year 2014, when Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 805 is expected to arrive.


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The US Supreme Court is set to hear a case that could threaten the Internet’s most lucrative business, online advertising.
The case, Gonzalez v. Google, will be argued on Tuesday and will focus on whether internet companies are responsible for the content their algorithms recommend to users. The tech industry says it is protected by a legal shield contained in the communications law known as Section 230.
Much of the debate surrounding the case has focused on the costs to online companies if a court finds them legally liable for the hundreds of millions of comments, videos and other content posted by users every day. However, such a decision could also strike at the core of automated advertising, which Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook and Alphabet Inc.’s Google rely on for much of their revenue.
In fact, social media companies view the incident as an existential threat.
“This case could have a negative impact on the entire advertising ecosystem,” said Mark Beckman, chief executive of DMA United, an advertising firm that regularly uses Google and Facebook tools to deliver targeted ads to potential customers around the world.
Google is being sued by the family of 23-year-old Nohemy Gonzalez, a US man who was among at least 130 people killed in the November 2015 attacks in Paris by Islamic State. The family claims that Google’s YouTube should be held responsible. For automated Islamic State video recommendations.
Websites and ad networks automatically target ads based on information they collect about users, including their location, browsing history, topics they follow closely, and more. Ads are placed on websites using online tools without human intervention.
Google declined to comment on the case. But in his Supreme Court brief, he said he was concerned about the case’s impact on the economy, including advertisers. Meta believes Section 230 protects the company from liability for all third-party content, including advertising, and the social media giant is concerned that the court could weaken that protection, a Meta spokesperson confirmed.
Experts say the Supreme Court’s sweeping ruling could effectively shut down the business of serving personalized ads on the Internet and return online advertising practices to the early 1990s. It could also force platforms to launch a wave of lawsuits against users over millions of ads, leading to smaller legal costs for ad networks and exchanges.
“If we don’t target advertising, we’re going back to the old ’90s model of ‘see who bites,'” said Jess Mears, an advocacy consultant at the tech-funded group Chamber of Progress. Miers previously worked at Google.
Together, Google and Facebook capture nearly 50% of digital advertising revenue worldwide. Companies called online advertising “two-tiers” collect reams of data about their users in order to serve them relevant ads; a business that earns both companies billions of dollars annually. According to data analytics firm Insider Intelligence, Google will generate $168 billion in ad revenue in 2022, and Meta will generate $112 billion. This year, Google’s US revenue alone is projected at $73.8 billion, compared to Meta’s at $51 billion. The Supreme Court ruling will only apply to the US, but it will be technically difficult for companies to treat advertising differently in its biggest market than in other countries around the world.
Companies already face legal challenges related to the advertising they serve, particularly on sensitive issues such as health care, politics, employment opportunities, and more. With few exceptions, Facebook and Google have been successful in winning most of the cases that would make them liable under Section 230.
That could change quickly if the Supreme Court decides to limit Section 230. While the shield protects companies from lawsuits over content created by ordinary people, Kathy Gellis, a California lawyer who has represented tech companies in online speech cases, said the ads could be classified as “user-generated content” if the Supreme Court’s ruling is extensive.
The digital advertising industry is already under fire as governments around the world come under pressure, claiming companies are collecting too much information about people without their consent and violating their privacy. In countries including the European Union, privacy regulations that limit the amount of data companies can collect on users have already put a lot of pressure on the digital advertising ecosystem, Beckman said.
“We are already implementing new marketing initiatives as an agency to not only combat what we believe will happen if 230 is restricted, but also these new restrictions on third-party data privacy,” Beckman said. : He said the era of “beautiful” and distinctive advertising could be on its way back, as advertisers can no longer rely on the hyper-personalized and low-cost ad networks they’re used to. While targeted advertising allows companies to reach their target audiences with little effort, moving away from algorithmic recommendations can require advertisers to work harder to gain attention.
Mears said it is likely that Google and Facebook will face most of the lawsuits that the court weakens Section 230.
Online advertising is so important to Meta’s and Google’s business models, it’s likely they’ll try to fight it in court, said Gelis, a California attorney. They would try to settle the legal costs and see if they could win the cases on the merits. “Everybody’s going to try to confuse as much as they can,” Gelis said.
For some critics of tech companies, ending internet ad targeting could benefit the internet’s most vulnerable users. Children’s advocacy group Common Sense Media and Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen argued in the Supreme Court that Google’s videos and ad recommendations can create a “feedback loop” that sends children and teens down rabbit holes that can spiral into eating disorders, self-harm and around extremism. In their view, Google and Facebook should better monitor the ads it serves to younger audiences.
The case could be “a shock to many businesses,” said Eric Goldman, a law professor at Santa Clara University School of Law.
“So much advertising now is delivered dynamically,” Goldman said. “If that dynamic evaluation is an algorithmic proposition that disqualifies an ad network for 230 protection, then the ad industry needs to do something else.”
(Except for the headline, this story was not edited by NDTV staff and was published from a syndicated feed.)
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Usually in December, companies that have had a tough year are sold off in order to use the tax losses to offset gains. However, despite Apple's terrible two months, the pressure may be coming to an end because of the "wash sale" rule.
On September 10 we warned that Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) investors may be wise to take profits. We received our share of angry phone calls and emails, but stuck with our opinion. Now that Apple is down 23% from its close on September 10, it’s time to revisit the story. The chart is scary, but the fundamentals are good…
Last week we talked about selling puts to cash in on a waffling market. Some good companies have been trading off despite fundamentals remaining strong — or, in some cases, improving. But there hasn’t been a trend. What we have seen is that the same driver behind special dividends is hurting some companies’ share prices: Tax-gain, as well as tax-loss selling, is impacting the market this month.
Usually in December, companies that have had a tough year are sold off in order to use the tax losses to offset gains. However, this year is different.
Companies that have had a great run are being sold to capture the lower tax rate, as well. In just three weeks, stock holders will need to pay 40% on capital gains rather than 15%. So if you think you may need to sell a stock in your portfolio in the next 13 months, you’re much better off selling today. This is going to hurt a lot of companies.
Why is this affecting Apple? Apple has an over-loved product line with technical forces working against it, bad comps and a management team that’s doing its best to push down the share price.
Everybody wants its products, whether it’s an iPhone, iPad or MacBook, but there are some things working against it:
1. Management transition
The visionary of the company died. I don’t mean to sound cold, but a product company has transitioned from the hands of a visionary to the hands of a manufacturing expert. It may work out, but the overt leadership is gone.
2. The industry
Apple is a hardware company, and it’s in an environment where other great hardware companies have fallen to margin pressure — HP (NYSE: HPQ), Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM), Nokia (NYSE: NOK). Each of these companies owned a niche, while Apple is creating an ecosystem — but that difference will be realized next year.
3. Tax-gain selling
We’re at a point where investors are looking to take gains before the year’s end in companies that may be seeing increasing competition. Google’s CEO is making public announcements about Android taking a share, while Tim Cook is apologizing for missteps.
4. Tax-loss selling
Anybody who initiated an Apple position after March is under water and can benefit from tax-loss selling despite the multi-year run.
It has been a terrible two months for Apple, but the pressure may be coming to an end because of the “wash sale” rule. In order to take the tax loss, an investor cannot buy back the shares for one month. Since the fourth quarter is Apple’s strongest quarter, if an investor wants to capture the tax loss but still own Apple for this event, he needs to sell more than one month before the announcement.
For Apple, this means selling will stop the week of the Dec. 17. The reporting date for fourth-quarter earnings has ranged from Jan. 17 to Jan. 23 over the last five years. If professional investors are taking this into account, one leg of the selling will soon be over and could mark the bottom for the stock.
Tax-loss and tax-gain selling can temporarily disrupt supply and demand in stocks with high valuations, but when investing for the long term, the fundamentals of the company will win out.
David Eller is part of the research team at InvestmentU.com.


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OnePlus 6T spotted on Geekbench, specs leaked
The first camera sample of the upcoming flagship smarphone OnePlus 6T was just posted by OnePlus CEO and now the device OnePlus 6T with the model number OnePlus A6013 spotted on Geekbench ahead of its announcement , which will be held on 29th October. The device has scored 2387 for single-core and gained 8925 multi-core score.
The Geekbench listing reveals that the device OnePlus 6T will come with 8GB RAM. It will be powered by Snapdragon 845chipset with Octa-core processor and will run on Android 9.
So far, we get the rumored specifications that the device OnePlus 6T will sport a 6.4-inch AMOLED display with a water-drop notch, 6GB/8GB RAM. It will be armed with Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chipset and will be run on Android 9.0 (Pie). Also OnePlus 6T will be its first smartphone with an in-screen fingerprint sensor. The 3.5 mm audio jack will be not present.
The camera section of the device OnePlus 6T will include vertical dual rear camera with 16MP and 20MP sensors with LED flash.
Connectivity wise, it will include dual-SIM card slot, 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac.
Now we have to wait 3-4 days to get more and confirmed specification of the device OnePlus 6T on its announcement .
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The Electricity Control Board has announced an increase in the average bulk price by 7.3 percent from the current approved tariff of N$1.6982 per kilowatt-hour to N$1.8222 per kilowatt-hour for the financial year 2022/2023.
Acting ECB Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Rachel Boois said the board met in April to discuss a tariff application submitted by NamPower for a 12.78 percent effective bulk tariff increase (inclusive of generation and transmission), resulting in a rise from an average N$1.6982 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) to N$1.9153 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for the financial year 2022/2023.
However, the allocation was reviewed, and a 7.3 percent increase was approved.
“After due consideration and in accordance with the tariff review process, the Electricity Control Board resolved to increase the average bulk tariff with 7.30 percent from the current approved tariff
of N$1.6982 per kilowatt-hour to N$1.8222 per kilowatt-hour for the period 2022/2023. The approved increase follows a tariff decrease in 2019/2020, no tariff increase for 2020/2021 and an increase of 2.29 percent in 2021/2022,” said Boois.
The approved tariff adjustment is effective from 1 July 2022.
According to Boois, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the current economic climate were considered in this decision. Electricity tariff reviews are conducted annually to ensure that utilitie charge appropriate tariffs to collect enough revenue to provide reliable and efficient services at affordable cost-effective rates.
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Malaysian companies BOXTradEx and BOCT have signed a strategic partnership to allow BOXTradEx users to settle fiat-to-cryptocurrency transactions, subjected to rates.
Moreover, the partnership includes an establishment of a Fiat On-Ramp platform for users in Southeast Asia countries, such as Vietnam and Indonesia. This allows them to deposit fiat money from their bank account in return of digital assets like BOCT, BTC, Ethereum, USDT and more.
The spending of digital assets is generally a prevailing issue within the digital assets ecosystem due to its inaccessibility and unreliableness. Merchants also pointed out that digital assets are still not widely accepted as a mainstream payment mode.
In response to the problem above, BOXTradEx and BOCT decided to improve the accessibility and convenience for the sake of BOXTradEx’s users, as well as to provide more option to expand in the digital assets ecosystem.