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Hypebeast Enters $6 Billion Sneaker Resale Market – Quartz
Streetwear authority Hypebeast is making a big bet on the booming sneaker resale market.
The Hong Kong-founded digital media company has been a major source of information for people who have been selling and buying designer sneakers for 15 years. Now it’s going public in part to fund its own sneaker resale platforma move that would pit it against markets like StockX and Goat.
The company said on Monday (April 4) that it plans to list on the NASDAQ through a SPAC deal expected to raise $180 million; it will trade under the symbol $HYPE.
Hypebeast is trying to cash in on what investment firm Cowen called “a booming alternative asset class.” cowen estimated global sneaker resale market worth around $6 billion in 2019, predicting it will reach nearly $30 billion by 2030.
There has been a general increase in interest in sneakers. In January, Bloomberg reported that StockX, a leading sneaker resale platform, was prepares for an IPO in the first half of this year after being valued at $3.8 billion last year. Last November, eBay bought Sneaker Con shoe authentication service to help with the growing transactions he was seeing.
From advisor to marketplace
Hypebeast, which listed in Hong Kong in 2016, recorded more than $112 million in revenue last year, but most of it came from its editorial and creative agency. Less than 30% came from retail through its HBX e-commerce site, which sells brand name designer clothes and shoes. Until now, Hypebeast had no real interest in the lucrative resale market, where a pair of shoes that sell for $180 can be returned for thousands of dollars.
“It’s a monster opportunity that has barely been touched,” founder and CEO Kevin Ma said during the listing announcement. “The funny thing is that all the e-commerce sites already advertise with us because they really want to reach our audience. But now we’re going to try to do it better than anyone.
Resale sneaker shoppers need more guidance
While almost every media company, from the New York Times to Condé Nast to Hearst, has begun merge content with commercethe opaque nature of resale makes conservation all the more crucial.
Because the price of a pair of shoes can fluctuate wildly in the resale market – buyers are allowed to negotiate with sellers – the level of knowledge to determine a fair selling price is much higher than when selling. purchase directly from a brand.
StockX and other shoe resale platforms have also expanded their content, for example by creating buying guides for popular shoe styles. However, when it comes to curation, Hypebeast has the upper hand since it was a pioneer in the field.
Hypebeast has brought together a number of celebrity investors, including sports stars Tom Brady, Tony Hawk, Naomi Osaka, Airbnb founder Joe Gebbia, and actor Jonah Hill, among others.
The company is in a better position than existing players to evolve the global used shoe market. It already has a foothold in international markets through its media site, which also publishes in Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Indonesian.


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The ‘Teens, Social Media and Technology 2018’ report said that a shift in teens’ social media use is just one example of how the technology landscape for young people has evolved since Pew’s last teen technology survey in 2014-2015, with smartphone ownership now “nearly ubiquitous”.
Today some 85% of US teens aged 13 to 17 said they use YouTube, compared to 72% for Instagram, 69% for Snapchat and 51% for Facebook.
In the 2014-15 survey, Facebook was found to be the only platform that was used by a clear majority of teens with 71% use versus 52% for Instagram and 41% for Snapchat. However, unlike this year’s survey, the previous study did not include YouTube as an option.
In terms of the online platforms that teens use the most, today 35% said they visit Snapchat most often, 32% said YouTube, while 15% use Instagram the most. By comparison, just 10% of teens said Facebook is their most-used online platform, and even fewer cited Twitter, Reddit or Tumblr as the site they visit the most.
In terms of device use, in 2018 some 95% of US teens said they have or have access to a smartphone, which represents a 22-percentage-point increase from the 73% of teens who said this in 2014-2015.
Currently, some 88% of US teens report having access to a desktop or laptop computer at home, while 84% say they have or have access to a game console at home. An even larger 90% say they play video games of some kind – be it on a computer, mobile phone or games console.
The survey featured interviews with 1,058 parents and have a teen ages 13 to 17, as well as interviews with 743 teens. The interviews took place online and by telephone from March 7 to April 10, 2018, and were conducted by NORC, a research institution based at the University of Chicago.

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Задержан генеральный директор «Острова чистоты и вкуса» Виктор Ромук
На беларускай мове: Затрыманы генеральны дырэктар «Острова чистоты и вкуса» Віктар Рамук
According to the latest information, Viktor Romuk, the general director of the retail chain «Ostrov Chistoty i Vkusa» was arrested yesterday at Minsk National airport together with his wife Oksana Romuk.
Earlier, the Telegram channel «Posmotri, brekhnya?» reported that one of the offices of the retail chain was searched. The information was further confirmed: the search took place in the office of Romax on Kulman street in Minsk, which owns the discounter chain «Ostrov Chistoty i Vkusa,» and whose founder is Viktor Romuk.


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Hello again, Global Impact readers,
The will-she, won’t-she saga surrounding Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou has finally come to an end after almost three years, as the daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei landed back in China late last month, having reached a deal with prosecutors in New York that resolved her US fraud case.
At the same, Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were freed in China after they had been in detention since just days after Meng was taken into custody in December 2018.
So, does this three-sided game of international chess between Beijing, Ottawa and Washington mean all is rosy in the garden of US-China relations? And what does it mean for Huawei to have its CFO back on home soil.
Matt Haldane, a production editor with the technology desk at the SCMP, is here to unpack this and ponder what is next for Meng and Huawei, as well as for Messrs Xi, Trudeau and Biden.
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It’s politics as usual for Huawei
Media www.rajawalisiber.com – Huawei Technologies chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou returned home to Shenzhen at the end of last month, and it was not just people close to the company founded by her father Ren Zhengfei who were ecstatic. The country was full of pride, and the government used it as an opportunity to project an image of strength.
The end of the nearly three-year saga, during which Meng fought extradition from Canada to the US on charges of bank fraud related to sanctions on Iran, was enough to have some wondering whether this would mark an easing of tensions between the two countries under US President Joe Biden. Yet, the situation for Huawei, which has been under US sanctions since 2019, is not really any better today than it was two weeks ago.
US Trade Representative Katherine Tai did appear to strike a conciliatory tone this week when she said in a speech that the US would exempt certain products from tariffs on Chinese imports. But the tariffs are expected to remain in place, and Tai’s lack of specifics on the Biden administration’s approach to trade with China has frustrated some who see the tariffs as hurting the US economy.
But Tai’s tidings of tariff exemptions does not help Huawei, which is effectively blocked from doing business with US firms or acquiring advanced chips produced with US-origin technologies.
Huawei deputy chairman Eric Xu said in April that the company had no illusions about the sanctions being lifted under Biden, and that instinct has proven to be correct.
Days after Meng’s return, the US government issued instructions on how rural telecoms operators could apply for funding to remove Huawei equipment. Some US politicians are now also looking to fund the removal of hardware from Huawei and fellow Chinese technology company ZTE in Europe.
Huawei has been scrambling for ways to make up for lost smartphone revenue, which has plummeted under the sanctions. The company vowed to revive its smartphone business, but that is a tall order at the moment.
One of its primary efforts is upgrading traditional industries with 5G, artificial intelligence and internet-of-things technologies. It has already been doing this with hospitals and ambulances, coal mining and pig farming. It also wants to break into financial services and mobile payments.
The HarmonyOS that ran on smartphones, however, wound up being little different from Android, at least for now. The company is trying to move away from its reliance on American tech companies, and Android updates still come from Google.
So, even if the relationship between the world’s two biggest economies is on the mend, Huawei has little to gain.
The good news for the company’s mainstay telecoms-equipment business is that it continues to get big contracts back home.
Its overseas troubles have not soured Huawei on foreign markets, either. It continues to invest heavily in foreign talent and European lobbyists. Ren even told employees in May to continue to learn from the US.
“Just because the US is trying to suppress us does not mean we do not recognise it as a teacher,” he said.


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Reliance AGM 2021: Mukesh Ambani’s big announcement; Reliance Jio to release 2G to India | Reliance AGM 2021 Big announcments by Mukesh Ambani about energy sector
In 2016 we started Jio Company to fill the void in the digital world of the country. In 2021, Reliance will start a new business in the energy sector. | Reliance AGM 2021
Mumbai: Mukesh Ambani on Thursday made a number of important announcements at the 44th Annual General Meeting (RIL AGM 2021) of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), the country’s largest company. He said Reliance would invest heavily in the energy sector in the near future. So now, for the first time, Reliance has become a superpower in the energy sector as well as in the digital sector. (Big announcments by Mukesh Ambani in Reliance AGM 2021)
Speaking on the occasion, Mukesh Ambani said, “We started Jio Company in 2016 to fill the void in the digital world of the country. In 2021, Reliance will start a new business in the energy sector. Our goal is to revolutionize the field through green energy. In the next 15 years, Reliance will be a zero carbon emitter, said Mukesh Ambani.
The Reliance New Energy Council has been set up to move towards green energy. Preparations are underway to set up a Dhirubhai Ambani Green Energy Giga Complex on a 5,000-acre site in Jamnagar, Gujarat. Mukesh Ambani said that Reliance has set a target of producing 100 GW of solar power.
Apart from this, Reliance is also considering New Materials and Green Chemicals. Mukesh Ambani also said that Reliance would develop a world-class carbon fiber plant to support hydrogen and solar ecosystems.
Jio Phone Next launch from Reliance
Reliance launched the 5G smartphone as expected at the meeting. Reliance and Google have jointly developed the operating system of this phone. The phone will hit the market on September 10 on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi.
It is expected to be the cheapest 5G smartphone in the country. This smartphone will have high internet speed. This will make a big difference in people’s daily lives and the way they work, claims Google CEO Sundar Pichail.
Reliance has not disclosed the price of the Jio Phone Next smartphone. However, experts estimate that the price of this smartphone will be around Rs 4000. Geo-Google is expected to be the Android smartphone game changer.
Will make India 2G free
At Reliance’s AGM meeting, Mukesh Ambani said he would release 2G to India. To develop a 5G ecosystem, the market needs to have 5G-enabled devices. For this, Reliance is working closely with international companies. Mukesh Ambani claimed that Reliance Jio would not only give India 5G technology but also make the country 2G free.
Reliance Jio is currently the second largest network in the world in terms of data congestion. 630 crore GB of data is used every month through Reliance Jio. This is an increase of 45 per cent over last year, said Mukesh Ambani.
Big news: Reliance JIO starts testing 5G network in Mumbai and Pune
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In efforts to help members reach their highest potential in life, Equinox is launching two initiatives: one to put 5,000 more performance coaches in its clubs during the next two years, and the other to offer exclusive services and products from other high-end brands.
To meet a growing demand for personal training, Equinox is prioritizing a hiring initiative in addition to curating partnerships and creating development programs that foster the growth of its performance coaches, the company announced on May 15.
Part of the initiative includes a partnership with Hiring Our Heroes, an initiative to help veterans, transitioning service members, and military spouses find meaningful employment opportunities. The partnership will offer military community members the opportunity to become an Equinox performance coach, including full scholarships to attain their certification coupled with ongoing training and development through the Equinox Fitness Training Institute.
"People around the world want to live a high-performance lifestyle, and the desire to be a part of the Equinox community has never been stronger,” Equinox President Scott DeRue said in the announcement. “To support our members, we are making a bold commitment of hiring 5,000 performance coaches, investing in their training and education, and developing new personal training programs to help our members achieve extraordinary results."
The eight brands are watch company Bezel, health technology company Oura, resale site StockX, helicopter commuter company Blade, event and restaurant reservation company Dorsia, travel agency Indagare, supplements company Thorne, and prepared meal delivery service Provenance.
More partnerships are planned along with a loyalty program.
The program is not a discount program, but more of a resource program. For example, Equinox members will be invited to certain events by Bezel where they can try on select Bezel products, and for Oura, the Oura Ring will be included in the Equinox Rest and Recovery Kit with an Equinox ring cover, other offerings and a free 12-month subscription to Oura.
All club members, Equinox+ subscribers, and employees can join the program for free by going through the Equinox+ app or on the company’s website.
Equinox Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Business Development Julia Klim, who came up with the program, told Yahoo.com that the program is not intended as a revenue generator but more as a value-add to members outside the clubs.


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To meet the rise in the use of "hotspots", where wireless access is provided to mobile users in a public area, Nomadix has released a pair of gateway products.
One, the Hotspot Gateway HSG-25, is for smaller areas such as in coffee shops. The other is targeted at the hotel industry - the Hospitality Gateway HSG-100.
Both gateways provide Internet access and connect to any IP-based device in the area. End-users sign on and are directed first to a sign-up portal page. Security is taken care of by 802.1x support and a Radius client allows administrators to track user time.
The hospitality-specific gateway allows billing information to be mirrored to multiple servers, direct room billing and a "walled garden" feature so that Web pages can be served without need for customer log-in.
Combined wireless Lan and mobile connectivity could be used via hotspots, for example, to give end-users access to their own ISPs from a portable device via their GSM network, for which they could be billed.
This could be a step nearer following the announcement that US wireless equipment manufacturer Transat and Intel will be working together to devise a wireless Lan/GSM card which would allow authentication on different types of networks with users being billed singly and inter-operator bulk settlements, as with mobile roaming today.
Meanwhile in another wireless arena Toshiba Computer Systems has released a series of portable digital projectors aimed at the business market, which should aid their portability in the office and help to cut down on technical assistance when setting up presentations.
The 802.11b devices - the TLP-T700U and TLP-T500U - can be linked into corporate WLans. The main difference between the products is in brightness and price - with the T700U being the brighter of the two at extra cost.
Variants to the models - the 701 and 501 - have built-in document cameras allowing presentation projection of photos, print and 3D objects.


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Amazon spent around$4.3 on advisers last year in an trouble to help unionization of its storehouses, according to company forms with the US Department of Labor. Workers were needed to attend meetings led by the advisers who bandiedanti-union talking points ahead of crucial union votes in Bessemer, Alabama and Staten Island, New York, HuffPost has reported.
Companies are needed to expose fiscal details when advisers speak directly to workers about unionization. Veritably many have spent indeed$ 1 million on union avoidance over several years, according to a recent report, while Amazon spent multiple times that in just 2021 alone. Some advisers were paid up to 3,200$ per day.
The meetings are legal and generally held when employers discover works to organize unions. They are called” interned followership meetings“by labor organizers because attendance is typicallynon-optional. Generally, the advisers will concentrate on union pretenses and implicit loss of stipend due to work stoppages. They also help company’s come up with strategies to master unions.
Amazon workers lately suggested in two union drives in Bessemer and Staten Island. At Bessemer, workers suggested 993–875 against unionizing, but 416 votes have been challenged, so the final result is far from established. Still, as it stands now, the Staten Island union is presently ahead to (a periphery of 364) votes, with counting set to renew moment.


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GTA V has sold over 95 million copies worldwide
Take-Two broke the news in a recent earnings call, where company CEO and chairman Strauss Zelnick suggested the title's longevity is rooted in the broad appeal of the core game and GTA Online. 05.16.18 | News | Chris Kerr |


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— Software solutions provider Appian Corporation (NASDAQ: APPN) reported an adjusted loss of $0.14 per share for the third quarter, vs. $0.15 per share expected.
— On a reported basis, it was a net loss of $12.4 million or $0.19 per share, compared to a loss of $15 million or $0.24 per share in the prior-year quarter
— Total revenue increased 25% year-over-year to $69.4 million, vs. $65.24 million expected
— Subscription revenue advanced 38% annually to $40.4 million
— For the fourth quarter, subscription revenue is expected to be in the range of $42.0 million to $42.5 million, representing a 24-26% annual growth.
— Expects total revenues to between $69.1 million and $70.1 million for the fourth quarter, up 15-16% from last year
— Looking for adjusted loss per share between $0.15 and $0.14 for the December quarter
Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) reported first quarter 2023 earnings results today. Consolidated net revenues increased 8% year-over-year to $8.7 billion, in line with projections. Global comparable store sales increased
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL, GOOG) on Thursday reported a 1% increase in fourth-quarter 2022 revenues, with strong contributions from the cloud business. The company, which owns the largest internet search
Harley-Davidson, Inc. (NYSE: HOG) reported fourth quarter 2022 earnings results today. Revenue increased 12% year-over-year to $1.14 billion. Net income attributable to Harley-Davidson, Inc. rose 94% YoY to $42 million,


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A Good Reason to Stick to Your Coffee Routine
A study suggests a cup a day could be good for your brain.
If a cup of coffee is part of your morning routine, here's a scientific justification to stick with it. A new study from the Italian Longitudinal Study on Aging showed that consuming one to two cups of coffee per day might protect you from cognitive impairment and dementia. But increasing your coffee consumption—or not drinking it at all—could put you at risk. The findings are published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Over the span of three and a half years, researchers monitored the coffee consumption patterns of 1,445 cognitively-normal individuals, ages 65-84, to determine how coffee drinking habits affect cognitive function. They specifically considered the rate of incidence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Those who increased their coffee consumption to more than one cup daily were about twice as likely to develop MCI than those who reduced their consumption to less than one cup per day, and about one and half times more likely than those whose habits remained consistent (no more and no less than one cup).
Interestingly, individuals who habitually consumed a moderate amount of coffee (one to two cups per day) had a lower incidence rate of MCI than those who never or rarely drank coffee, suggesting that a daily cup of coffee can have positive effects on the brain. This is good news for the 45 percent of U.S. adults who report drinking a cup or two of coffee on an average day, according to a recent Gallup poll.
“Therefore, moderate and regular coffee consumption may have neuroprotective effects also against MCI—confirming previous studies on the long-term protective effects of coffee, tea, or caffeine consumption and plasma levels of caffeine against cognitive decline and dementia,” one of the researchers Francesco Panza, MD, PhD, said in a statement.
This isn't the first time a study has linked a coffee a day to keeping the doctor away. Previous research has suggested that a cup of joe could decrease depression risk, help to prevent skin cancer, and boost your workout, among other benefits.


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RAWALPINDI: If you ask any resident of Rawalpindi about the best Samosa outlet in the town, the Lahori Samosa Shop at College Road will come as the reply.
A few yards away from the historic Liaquat Bagh, there is a road on the rear of the Government Gordon College.
The road houses China Market and famous food outlets, including samosa shops, Kashmiri tea vendors, Tikka houses and stalls selling fried sparrows and many others.
A visit to the area shows workers busy in preparing and serving different items and consumers waiting to get their orders.
Fast food is very popular in the city but people still like the samosas, the eastern delight, with evening tea with their families and guests.
The Lahori samosa is very simple but delicious. It is made with potatoes and served with sweet chutney and chickpeas with fewer spices which made the flavour more exotic. In the winter, people enjoy the samosa with Kashmiri tea while in summer the almond flavoured milk is available with it.
Maintaining its quality for the last 48 years, Lahori Samosa Shop remains the favorite place for most of the people in the twin cities.
Shops opened in adjoining areas with this name have failed to match its quality as the old chef never let out his secret recipe to others.
A large number of people, including college students, shopkeepers and women visitors to Raja Bazaar and China Market, are seen either sitting outside the shop or in their cars on the roadside enjoying the delicious plates.
“Around 2000 t0 2500 people visit the shop of samosa and Kashmiri tea daily. However, at the weekends and during Ramazan the sale increases manifold.”
He said the secret recipe of the food item was cleanliness and best quality of flour, spices and oil. He claimed that not a single person in the last 50 years had complained about the quality.
“We started the shop when there was no food stall or chicken rice shops in the area. Of course, the price of a plate of samosa is less compared to other food items but one can’t leave the taste which he develops,” said an old worker of the shop.
“I came to buy samosas for my sisters. In small gatherings of women in downtown, it is the main feature in the menu,” said Shariq Ayaz, a resident of Nayya Mohallah, who was waiting on the footpath for his turn.
Samina Anwar, a resident of Lalazar who works with a private bank, said she tried many shops in the city, including Saddar, Lal Kurti and Kartarpura but found the Lahori samosas the best.
“The potatoes stuffing is better as potatoes are cut in small pieces and properly cooked and fenugreek leaves sprinkled in the filling added flavour,” she said.
Naeem Ahmed, a resident of Chaklala Scheme-III, said he had been visiting the shop when he was a student at the Gordon College and now his children also liked it very much. He said the taste of the samosas remained the same for the last nine years.
“Though the pizza and shawarma have become popular among the new generation, samosas are still favourite among the people. But people also look for quality items. The potatoes stuffing is better than meat mince as nobody wants to eat meat due to its substandard quality in many areas,” he said.


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MUMBAI: "The promise is kept today,'' is what Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata said while announcing the Rs 1 lakh ex-factory price of the Nano in Pantnagar (Uttarakhand), the area from where the company will roll out the budget car till the Gujarat plant gets ready.
The Nano, for which bookings open between April 9 and 25, will be available in three variants with the top-end model carrying features like front power windows, air-conditioning and central locking. In terms of ex-showroom cost (factory cost plus VAT and transportation charges), the base or standard version will cost Rs 1.34 lakh (ex-showroom Mumbai), the middle version (CX) Rs 1.6 lakh and the top-end (LX) will come for Rs 1.85 lakh. The respective tags in Delhi are Rs 1.23, Rs 1.48 lakh and Rs 1.72 lakh, Tata said, adding that Mumbai was a little expensive due to higher cost of transporting to the city. Whoever wins the lottery will have to pay registration charges (which varies in different states) and insurance cost (around 4%) over and above this cost.
The booking amount on the three variants would be Rs 95,000 for the base variant, Rs 1.2 lakh for middle and Rs 1.4 lakh for the top-end model.
"It meets all that we set to do... an affordable, small, all-weather transport to take you through rain and bad weather,'' Tata said. Commending his team for maintaining the low-cost over six years of work on the project, he said, "They defied conventional wisdom, broke barriers, and wrote new equation for transport.''
But you will not be able to steer the Nano's wheels as deliveries begin only in July. Elaborating on the booking process, the company said the application form will cost Rs 300 and booking can be done from over 30,000 locations across 1,000 cities. These include Tata car dealerships, branches of SBI and its subsidiaries and associates and outlets of Tata group companies like Tata Indicom, Titan, Croma and Westwide.
But unlike other models, a booking does not ensure that one would get to park the Nano in their garage. Tata said it would be able to produce only 50,000 units of the Nano from its makeshift plant at Pantnagar in Uttarakhand, until the car's dedicated plant at Sanand in Gujarat, with an initial capacity of an additional 2.5 lakh units annually, starts production late this year.
Considering that demand for Nano will far outstrip supply, Tata Motors has worked out a "random selection procedure'' to decide the lucky few to get the car. However, Ratan Tata acknowledged that keeping people wait for long was akin to waiting too long for a pretty woman "who becomes too old and perhaps too fat''. "Thus, we hope to meet this challenge,'' he said.
Tata Motors said within 60 days of the closure of bookings, it will process and announce the allotment of 1 lakh cars as part of the first phase of deliveries. These allotments will be "price-protected'' and carry launch prices. The deliveries will be staggered over the months starting July, but no interest would be paid over the booking amount.
To those other than the successful 1 lakh applicants, Tata Motors will provide an option to retain their booking deposit while paying them interest. "Those who choose this option will be eligible for interest on their deposit, effective from the date of announcement of allotment of the second phase, at a rate of 8.5% for retention period between 1-2 years and 8.75% for a retention period of over two years,'' the company said.
Apart from SBI, Tata Motors has also entered into agreements with other banks/NBFCs for the Nano booking loan, which includes Tata Motor Finance, State Bank of Patiala, ICICI Bank, State Bank of Travancore, State Bank of Mysore, State Bank of Hyderabad, State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur, State Bank of Indore, Axis Bank, PNB, Federal Bank, Corporation Bank, Indian Bank and the Central Bank of India.


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The 18-year partnership between Honda and Ten Kate came to what the team clarifies as “yet an abrupt and unexpected ending ” after last year’s WSBK effort, because the Japanese manufacturer combined forces with two additional WSBK squads at Moriwaki and Althea.
It’s now announced it has “signed prices with a top manufacturer and firstclass rider” for the WSBK yield.
The team states that the final details of the deal are still being finalised, and aims to be back to the grid “in just a couple rounds”.
It’s scheduled a media conference to declare its riders and brand new brand venture for April 2 at the Assen circuit – just under fourteen days before the Assen WSBK round.
Former MotoGP riders and WSBK race winner Loris Baz, who’s currently out of a ride, continues to be associated with the emerging Ten Kate vacancy, also recently contested “good things coming soon” at an post on societal media.


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Tesco cut value of ClubCard points by half for credit card holders
The millions of people who have a Tesco credit cards have some bad news this morning - Tesco have halved the value of the ClubCard points they get. This is thanks to new laws that have forced a number of high street lenders to pull back on their cashback offers.
Regarding Tesco, around 2.8m make savings with Clubcard points if they use their Tesco credit card, which can be redeemed at a host of places and businesses.
However, as of November, Tesco Bank will halve the earnings that customers make on shopping they've bought outside of Tesco. The company said that this new ruling was "disappointing" but they had to do it thanks to an EU cap on the amount card providers earn from shops.
With Tesco being a big player, it is obvious that if they reduce their deals, other businesses will follow.
A number of banks have dropped their incentives too, such as RBS and NatWest, with the closure of the 'YourPoints' scheme that paid 1p per £2 on purchases. They'll also be getting rid of the Cashback Plus credit card bonuses at the end of the month.
This could well mean that Sainsbury's Nectar points will be affected, as well as the cashback paid on Santander's 123 Credit Card.
Credit card issuers earn money from each customer thanks to these incentives. A Tesco spokesperson said: "We use that income to fund the Clubcard benefits we give back to our customers. As a result, we've had to make some changes to the amount of points our customers earn."
"We are disappointed that the industry changes have resulted in the need to reduce the Clubcard earn rate on our cards when they are used outside of Tesco."


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Of course the ad talks about the Miracle Material Graphene without putting it into explicit words that’s going to make this 20 Second Battery a reality yes I vouch it’s about Graphene my job is to tell you what’s going on…
Whether you choose to invest in this opportunity or not, it’s up to you but its a story that every investor should be aware of.
The ad is cueing that this is making big players like Nokia and Microsoft interested in its commercialization … here’s a bit of what he said on that:
“Nokia is one of the companies working with a flagship R&D facility in Europe that recently received a 1 billion euro grant… just to develop the technology behind ‘The 20-second Battery’…
“Nokia holds multiple patents in this technology….
“But lately Nokia’s mobile device sales have been slumping – resulting in the recent acquisition by Microsoft of Nokia’s Devices & Services business.
“Under the terms of agreement, Microsoft has paid approximately $5.44 Billion in cash for not only their devices and services… but to license Nokia’s patents for the next 10 years…
We all know Graphene is a focus for all big players and investors, and it’s a game changing material too its promise has been touted by some of the big mining newsletter vendors for a decade.
I strongly contradict this argument. It’s a fact that there are numerous ways to produce Graphene apart from using high purity flake graphite which is mined out of earth.
Usually Graphite is used in lubricants, steel making and Lithium ion batteries, and this consumes a majority of mined graphite which is just the purest form of coal.
When you’re talking about using a single atom’s thickness of a material it doesn’t really matter whether the price is $1,000 a ton or $50,000 a ton Graphene is valuable as a highly processed nanomaterial and the actual cost of the raw material to make it is trivial.
Probably some sort of chemical or lithography process will lead to mass production of this wonder material, and whether or not that process requires natural large flake graphite input is still ambiguous as of now. And its price isn’t going to be driven by the commercialization of Graphene at least in the next few years to come.
While everyone from chip-makers to academics to chemical companies trying to figure out how to mass produce Graphene and create a steady supply for the market that is imminent. I predict that it’s futile to invest in graphite miners considering Graphene and its prophecies.
For now get Graphene out of your mind and think about graphite … and let’s ponder over the stock Frank Curzio is touting in his unrelenting teaser ad… but before that a few clues about the little company:
“… in a remote area of the world, near the Arctic Circle, a large deposit of this mineral has been discovered.
“And even better news for investors is that this mine is controlled by a tiny Canadian mining firm that is set to begin producing in just a few months.
“This is one of the few sources for this miracle material outside of communist China.
Okay, the ad is touting Canadian stock Flinders Resources it’s on the pink sheets, owns Woxna mine in Sweden. Curzio had recommend Flinders back in 2012 also.
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By Tracy Coutain, Account Director, and Becky Fitzpatrick, Digital Marketing Manager Best Practices Earlier this month, we shared some insights on why your monthly donor program could become the most fruitful unit of your online fundraising program. If you missed our blog post you can read it here, or continue below to
By Madeline Frank, Large Donor/Events Intern In case you haven’t read tech news in the past few weeks, Facebook recently launched the newest addition to their ever-growing platform: Fundraisers! This new tool, specifically geared toward nonprofits and philanthropists, was quickly dubbed the newest trend in DIY fundraising. Vice President of
By Tracy Coutain, Account Director, and Becky Fitzpatrick, Digital Marketing Manager Why Monthly Donors? 2016 is the year of monthly sustainers. Multiple reports from industry leaders in the fundraising sector have shown a clear trend toward monthly giving, with some nonprofits seeing 17% of their total online revenue coming from
By Ségolène Rabel, Jr. Digital Marketing Strategist Finding the balance between online and offline fundraising can be tricky. Do you invest completely in direct mail, which has proven revenue results but a limited audience and expensive costs? Spend your budget on the less-expensive online channels that have promise, but haven’t shown consistent
By Ségolène Rabel, Jr. Digital Marketing Strategist Email marketing is one of the most important fundraising tools to generate online donations. But with most email users receiving over 30 emails each day, how do you stand out from the crowd and engage with these potential donors? Good news, we’ve got some answers.
Those born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s are often given unflattering attributes: addicted to technology, selfish, lazy, self-centered… Millennials do not appear to be the best prospects for any nonprofit fundraising campaign, especially since most are still struggling with college loans and finding a full-time job. However,
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Tesla’s Wild New Forecast Changes the Trajectory of an Entire Industry
Elon Musk’s plan is a really big deal, and not just for electric cars.
Tesla just took the most ambitious automotive production timeline since the Ford Model T and moved it up two years.
The company now plans to produce 500,000 electric cars every year starting in 2018. That’s 10 times the number of vehicles it produced in 2015, and enough to ensure that all 400,000 customers who put down a $1,000 deposit on the forthcoming Model 3 will qualify for a significant U.S. subsidy.
Talk about doubling down—even the original 2020 goal was considered a long shot by Wall Street. This new target would pledge the carmaker to a faster production growth rate than Ford Motor Co. managed in the early 1900s. That’s when Henry Ford pioneered the production line with the Model T, the first mass-market combustion-driven car.
A century later, Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk wants the Model 3 to be its electric grandchild. He’s now aiming for close to a million sales by 2020.
Tesla is going to be hell-bent on becoming the best manufacturer on Earth,” Musk said during an earnings conference call Wednesday. “My desk is at the end of the production line. I have a sleeping bag and a conference room adjacent to the production line, which I use quite frequently. The whole team is super focused.”
Musk’s enthusiasm aside, skeptics say his planned ramp-up is unattainable in the modern era. If Tesla can succeed—and even Musk admits that it’s a tough goal—it would be a tectonic shift for the global electric-vehicle market, just like the Model T was for the combustion engine
It would reshape the entire global car industry,” said Bloomberg New Energy Finance analyst Salim Morsy. “But a lot of things have to go right, and they have to go right on the extremes.”
BNEF tracked 234,000 electric car sales worldwide last year, of which Tesla made up a fifth of the market, Morsy said. For Tesla to stay on its new track, it would need to produce more cars next year than the entire global electric-car industry made in 2015.
Tesla’s first mass-produced car, the $35,000 Model 3, will need to come to market on schedule, and with great momentum, in late 2017. Telsa’s battery factory in Nevada must flourish, costs must come down, and car-making capacity must scale up at an astonishing rate.
For context: Tesla has never managed to hit one of Musk’s timelines for a new product launch. Not once.
But if Tesla can do it this time, U.S. buyers already waiting in line will benefit from a federal tax break currently valued at $7,500. That subsidy will drop by half shortly after the company reaches 200,000 sales in the U.S., which would take place in 2018, assuming a 50 percent compound annual growth rate. The more cars Tesla can sell that year, the more buyers will benefit from the subsidy.
Here’s an estimate of when that tax break would taper off. If Tesla ramps up in 2017, it could begin to drop sooner, but late-2018 buyers would still get a few thousand dollars
Earlier this year, I made some predictions about how quickly electric automobiles could begin to supplant gasoline-powered cars and upend oil markets. One method I used was based on Musk’s 2020 timeline, which would deliver enough electric vehicles to disrupt fossil fuel use by as early as 2022. If you believe Tesla can reach its new goal, that timeline just moved up.
The Clean Energy Revolution
Fighting Climate Change With Innovation
By Varun Sivaram and Teryn Norris
the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris came to a close in December 2015, foreign ministers from around the world raised their arms in triumph. Indeed, there was more to celebrate in Paris than at any prior climate summit. Before the conference, over 180 countries had submitted detailed plans to curb their greenhouse gas emissions. And after two weeks of intense negotiation, 195 countries agreed to submit new, stronger plans every five years.
But without major advances in clean energy technology, the Paris agreement might lead countries to offer only modest improvements in their future climate plans. That will not be enough. Even if they fulfill their existing pledges, the earth will likely warm by some 2.7 to 3.5 degrees Celsius—risking planetary catastrophe. And cutting emissions much more is a political nonstarter, especially in developing countries such as India, where policymakers must choose between powering economic growth and phasing out dirty fossil fuels. As long as this tradeoff persists, diplomats will come to climate conferences with their hands tied.
It was only on the sidelines of the summit, in fact, that Paris delivered good news on the technology front. Bill Gates unveiled the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, a group of more than two dozen wealthy sponsors that plan to pool investments in early stage clean energy technology companies. And U.S. President Barack Obama announced Mission Innovation, an agreement among 20 countries—including the world’s top three emitters, China, the United States, and India—to double public funding for clean energy
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Quite a number of pundits have gone out and predicted the appearance of Intel based Powerbooks from Apple this January - but it isn't going to happen.
For my money, I think Steve would love to have announced it last month. He can wait til June now. iPods will carry him over this Quarter. The new PowerBooks will have to be right before they come out. If not, Dell and the other PC laptop companies will "burn Apple a new ONE".
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No sooner has one trade fair ended, than preparations for the next begin. Thatґs the nature of the business for exhibition organizers. This time, however, the intervening period until the next edition of drinktec in Munich (coming up in about two-and-a-half years time) promises to be a particularly exciting one for the international beverage and food industry. Because the future of this sector is being presented and shaped around the world—at trade fairs in Brazil (Brasil Brau: July 15 to 17, 2015), South Africa (food &drink technology Africa: September 14 and 15, 2016), China (China Brew & China Beverage: October 11 to 14, 2016) and India (drink technology India: December 15 to 17, 2016).
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Grogu and Din Djarin are back for The Mandalorian season 3. Attendees of Star Wars Celebration 2022 got the first preview from the new season, but the rest of us just got an idea of the release date. The Mandalorian’s next entry is set to start streaming on Disney Plus in February 2023.
According to reports from the Celebration panel, the brief preview of season 3 teases Din Djarin’s trip to Mandalore. He explains that he feels he needs to go there “so I can be forgiven for my transgressions.” While we don’t know exactly what that means, we do know that Greef Karga (Carl Weathers) shows up in the trailer, as well as Bo-Katan Kryze (Katee Sackhoff), a Mandalorian who is sure to play an important part in this season and Din’s trip to Mandalore.
Just like previous seasons, The Mandalorian season 3 will be executive produced and written by Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni. The Mandalorian season 3 isn’t the only Star Wars series coming in 2023 — Ahsoka will also be released next year. Celebration also saw the premiere of the first trailer for Andor, a show that’s set to be released on August 31.
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In the first unsurprising development of 2023, Roku is finally launching its own smart TV. The question now is whether the company – whose stock is down 80% in the last year and faces myriad challenges – can leverage the news to reinvigorate its hardware business as it copes with an advertising slowdown challenging its platform business.
Overall, Roku lost $243 million in Q3, with the advertising scatter market down nearly 40% year-over-year in the quarter. This week, marketing analysis firm WARC predicted $880.9 billion in overall ad spending in 2023, which sounds like a lot until you realize the forecast is down $90 billion from previous estimates. While more of that reduced spend is going to CTV these days, companies relying on digital spend are still likely to report more ad pain in Q4. So the introduction of a smart TV that enables Roku to own customers the second they hit “power” on their remotes rather than hope they’ll choose the Roku console over other options is certainly a gamechanger for the company. Will it be enough? It’s hard to say, but the truth is that marrying hardware with software certainly can’t hurt.
Roku divides its financials into two major baskets: Player and Platform. Player revenue includes streaming players and some audio products sold through traditional and online retailers. That division has struggled a bit in recent quarters, with its $92 million in Q3 revenue down 7% YOY and posting a $17.5 million net loss. Meanwhile, its Platform division, which includes digital advertising, content distribution and licensing fees, and premium subscription revenue, brings in roughly seven times as much revenue and was up 15% YOY in Q3 to hit $670 million. That’s a wide gulf between those two divisions, and it’s telling that platform revenue continues to greatly outpace players despite the aforementioned ad slowdown.
Next? Roku has a big opportunity to equalize its revenue mix by entering the smart TV game and potentially cementing its relationship with millions of Roku fans who may opt to go all-in and buy a Roku TV set. And perhaps some will leave other platforms in favor of the easier access to Roku services through a native TV interface. Much will depend on how much of a splash Roku makes at the Consumer Electronics Show that began this week in Las Vegas and served as its launch venue. Keep in mind that its TV will be one of literally dozens of major brands from all over the world duking it out on price, screen size, resolution, and yes, the user interface. Just this week, TiVo owner Xperi announced (also at CES) the launch of its own smart TV manufactured by Vestel and “powered by TiVo” across brands including Daewoo, Hitachi, and JVC, among others. TiVo’s slick operating system has its own devotees (and powers many cable set top boxes by operators like Mediacom and Breezeline). Also unveiled at CES was a new smart TV by Comcast-Charter joint venture Xumo. It’s a lot of competition, but Roku has an advantage in that its beloved UI is so entrenched with tens of millions of users. Still, Roku will face an uphill climb versus scrappy smart TV upstarts like TiVo and well-funded ventures like Xumo, as well as against entrenched TV makers like Samsung, LG, and Vizio, all of which have their own formidable operating systems.
It’s a good thing that Roku continues to consistently build its customer base, announcing some preliminary Q4 numbers just this week revealing that its active accounts now exceed 70 million, up 16% YOY. Its streaming hours neared 24 billion in Q4 and 87.4 billion for all of 2022, up 19% YOY. ARPU has also been climbing, increasing 10% YOY to $44.25 in Q3 (no Q4 figures yet). The next year will be a critical chapter for this connected TV pioneer, and investors may soon start to wonder whether Roku is set for an eventual comeback. We’ll know more when the company reports its Q4, but not everything: Roku won’t even start selling smart TVs until the spring, so it will likely be the middle of 2023 before we can gauge whether consumers are in a buying mood.


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Man sells property for €3m - and buys it back for €215,000
‘It just shows how the whole world has gone’
A Limerick businessman who sold his house and 4.75 acres in 2005 for €3 million has bought it back at auction for €215,000.
A Limerick businessman who sold his house and 4.75 acres in 2005 for €3 million has bought it back for €215,000.
Vincent Campbell has confirmed to the Limerick Leader that he sold and bought back the piece of land and house at Ballycummin, Raheen.
Mr Campbell, whose family launched the Highway Bar and Restaurant in Dooradoyle, said he plans to graze cattle on the site but otherwise has no immediate plans.
The piece of land and house were sold at auction by GVM Auctioneers’ Tom Crosse.
“It is a very unique story,” Mr Campbell said. “It just shows how the whole world has gone, and unfortunately we all know what has happened in the eight years.
“We spent 20 very happy years there [in Ballycummin], we raised our family there. It was a lucky place for us and not just selling it, we were very lucky in life there.
“I was lucky that it was for sale again and I was in a position to buy it. I have very fond memories. I’m delighted to have it back,” he said.
He bought the house in 1986 and the piece of land in 1992. When it was sold privately in 2005, a flagship car dealership was planned for the site but building never started.
The land remained idle until it was put up sale by public auction on the instructions of a liquidator.


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The greener, the cheaper: tax discount for green ships in Danish port
Their tool for this is to give a shipping tax discount to all ships that achieve at least 30 points in the ESI (Environmental Ship Index). In the index, the ships are awarded points in relation to their emissions of CO2, SOx, NOx and their opportunity to receive shore power.
The decision to grant the discount is part of the Port of Aarhus's sustainability strategy and the discount amounts to 4.5 per cent of the shipping tax.
-Related solution: Ports as green first movers
Incentive for green ships and booming business
Chief Commercial Officer at the Port of Aarhus, Nicolai Krøyer, points out that according to the Danish Harbour Act, the Port of Aarhus has a duty of reception for vessels that wish to enter the port. Therefore, the Port of Aarhus has virtually no influence on which vessels arrive, nor on the vessels' use of fuel.
“That is why we are now trying to motivate the vessels with an economic tool that awards sustainability. Of course, it is our hope that the shipping companies that are already sailing to and from Aarhus will respond positively to the opportunity to save shipping tax,” said Nicolai Krøyer in a press release (in Danish).
Nicolai Krøyer hopes that the discount can make the Port of Aarhus attractive to more shipping companies that are not currently calling to port in Aarhus.
“Obviously, we are excited about whether we will see a business effect from the fact that we are the first mover on sustainable shipping taxes. We hope that in this context we can attract new customers who already have a sustainable profile and thus can see the benefit of calling here at a lower price,” said Nicolai Krøyer.
-Related solution: Onshore power for ships
Discount is a successful tool in Sweden and the Netherlands
Both the Port of Gothenburg in Sweden and the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands have successfully implemented green tax discounts. One of the world’s busiest ports, the Port of Rotterdam has been working with green tax discounts since 2015 for ships running on the more sustainable liquefied natural gas (LNG). In 2019, the Port of Rotterdam extended their discount to include smaller vessels, too.
A similar discount to the one in Rotterdam – and now in Aarhus – has been successful in increasing the green traffic for the Gothenburg Port Authority.
“The energy discount has been a strong contributing factor behind many players choosing to follow the LNG route,” said Edvard Molitor, Environmental Manager at the Gothenburg Port Authority in a press release.
Both the ports in Aarhus and in Gothenburg are currently part of ten ports in the Nordic region behind a declaration that focuses on sustainable port management. The joint declaration expresses a commitment in the region to collaborate on environmental challenges and reducing the carbon footprint of the regional shipping industry.
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Golf trolley company Motocaddy has appointed former Dyson concept engineer Ian Gell to the newly created position of Director of Engineering & Technology in a move designed to further enhance its future product innovation.
“This appointment reflects our commitment to introduce the most innovative and reliable golf trolleys on the market and maintain the brand reputation for leading the way forward in the trolley sector,” said Motocaddy CEO John Helas. “Ian has a great track record for coming up with new concepts that have changed the face of fiercely competitive markets and providing consumers with the absolute best user experience and value.
“He joins us at a very exciting time for the brand, as we extend our focus on new technology beyond award-winning touchscreen GPS trolleys and the popular remote-control model towards Cellular connectivity and the benefits that it can bring to golfers in the near future.”
Gell, who specialised in creating conceptual designs during his time with Dyson, joins Motocaddy after six years at Aqualisa Products, where most recently he was Head of New Product Design for the leading producer of electric, smart and mixer showers. Previously, he was also Concept Designer at The London Taxi Company, where he formulated ideas for modern black cabs.
“I’m really excited at the prospect of building on the impressive progress made by Motocaddy in terms of new technology designed to help golfers enjoy their game,” said Ian, winner of an international Designer of the Year award in 2004. “I love applying my innovative problem-solving skills to support the vision behind new products and I can see scope for me to contribute to even more development in this area.”
In another move from the Stansted-based company, Oliver Churcher has been promoted to the role of Marketing Director, having served as Marketing Manager for the past decade.
“Marketing has played a key part in our growth in recent times and under Oliver’s leadership, we plan to significantly expand our team over the next 18 months to promote our products even more effectively on a global basis,” said Helas. “Marketing investment will be a vital part of what we’re planning as a global brand going forward and I look forward to working with him on some exciting new initiatives in the coming months.”
The expansion in the Motocaddy team comes on the back of a successful 2020, despite the troubles on a global pandemic. The company ended the year with a 15% increase in turnover on the previous year and pre-order sales are 140% up on the same period last year ahead of an exciting 2021.
Motocaddy has also been extremely proactive in helping partners and customers in receiving stock during the latest national lockdown. “We’ve enhanced our end of customer service, as we saw during the tough times last year that our customers needed help more than ever,” said Helas. “In doing so we have increased capacity within the customer service team, so phones and email queries can be answered quicker and we have worked closely with our customers to offer them flexible delivery initiatives such as shipping to their home or end-user’s address,” he added.
The brand has also expanded into the US market over the past 12 months having setup a new subsidiary with warehousing, office space and made a number of sales appointments, while also having recently opened a new, larger warehouse in Germany to meet growing demand and assist with changes brought about by Brexit.
“The investment in key international golfing markets is an important part of our ongoing company strategy as we look to reflect our position as a major global brand,” he added. “We also continue to focus heavily on the UK and Ireland to support continued growth within our domestic markets.”


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The European ship company Thomson Cruises included the port of Cartagena de Indias in its new itinerary across the Caribbean, which will begin operations in the 2014-2015 season. Around 2,000 people are expected to arrive on these ships to the Colombian coast.
The writer, journalist, director of documentaries, photographer and, in particular, travel blogger, Paco Nadal, began a tour in Colombia on Friday invited by Proexport Colombia.
Based on the votes of millions of users from Trip Advisor, the Internet portal specializing in tourism, Casa San Agustin in Cartagena was selected as the most distinguished new hotel in the world, compared with 30 other hotels that were opened last year in Asia, America and Europe.
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These payments, an essential source of financial support for many individuals, are distributed on specific dates each month.
In the coming weeks, millions of Americans are eagerly awaiting their sixth Social Security payment of the year
The Social Security Administration follows a consistent schedule for sending out the checks. Recipients can expect their payments on the second, third, and fourth Wednesday of each month. However, the exact date of delivery is determined by the recipient’s date of birth.
For individuals whose birthdays fall before the 10th of the month, the June payment will be issued on the 14th. Those with birthdays between the 11th and 20th of the month can anticipate receiving their payment on June 21st. Lastly, individuals born between the 21st and 31st of the month will receive their payment on June 28th.
These regular Social Security payments play a crucial role in supporting retirees, disabled individuals, and surviving family members who rely on the program for financial stability.
It is important for recipients to keep track of the payment schedule to ensure timely access to their funds
As the designated payment dates approach, recipients are reminded to plan their budgets accordingly and make necessary arrangements to handle their expenses. The consistent and predictable nature of these payments allows individuals to effectively manage their finances and meet their financial obligations.
In conclusion, the upcoming sixth Social Security payment of 2023 is eagerly anticipated by millions of Americans. The distribution dates, based on the recipient’s birthdate, are set for June 14th, June 21st, and June 28th. Recipients are advised to stay informed about the payment schedule to effectively manage their finances.


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According to Polygon’s official Twitter account, the Maharashtra government has given over 65,000 caste certificates via the Polygon network, demonstrating the value of blockchain.
Maharashtra is one of the most industrialized states in India, and a caste certificate is a documentation establishing a person’s membership in a certain caste as defined by the Indian Constitution.
This is not the first time the Polygon blockchain has been utilized for government objectives. Polygon previously announced its selection as the official blockchain platform of the Swiss city of Lugano.
Lugano will create its blockchain infrastructure with assistance from Polygon. Lugano, Switzerland’s biggest city, proclaimed Bitcoin and Tether to be “de facto” legal cash in a well-publicized crypto adoption achievement.
As previously reported by U.Today, “makemytrip,” one of India’s top online travel providers, just released its own NFT collection focused on travel on Polygon-powered ngageNFT. Polygon has witnessed a flood of big businesses deploy NFT drops on its blockchain since late 2021.
Polygon indicates that improvements have been made since the previous network disruption.
Earlier this month, the Polygon PoS chain went down due to a problem with the Heimdall chain’s state-sync mechanism. In an effort to resolve it, a series of software updates and a second problem led in the deactivation of both services. The team published many updates over several days and worked closely with all stakeholders to ensure a coordinated rollout of the improvements. It states that no user payments or data were lost.
In a recent blog post, the Polygon network discusses its efforts to improve. To begin, the Polygon team is continuing to improve Heimdall’s robustness by introducing a dynamic transaction gas limit, raising the block gas limit, and providing bulk state-sync transactions.
Additionally, it states that a long-term overhaul of the Heimdall/Bor architecture is being considered, which will remove the chain’s strong link between the bridge mechanism and the consensus and core systems.
This will be done in the chain’s next version, provisionally dubbed v3, which will combine the Heimdall and Bor nodes and chain and eliminate the bridge mechanism.


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- Boston Scientific will look to integrate its many 2018 acquisitions, grow its structural heart business by 50% and keep expanding in emerging markets this year, company officials said Wednesday. The device giant will cool its pace of M&A in 2019, but is still poised for some potential tuck-in acquisitions.
- The company confirmed 2018 reported sales growth of 6.3% in the fourth quarter, or roughly $2.56 billion, nearing the upper end of the company's guidance range. Results were led by performance growth in MedSurg (7.4%), followed by Cardiovascular (6.3%) and Rhythm and Neuro (5.1%).
- The medical device giant set yearly guidance for 2019 at 7% to 8.5% organic revenue growth. In 2018, Boston Scientific reached $9.823 billion in total sales, or reported growth of 8.6%, in line with preliminary data announced ahead of last month's J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference presentation.
Boston Scientific entered 2019 on the heels of a $325 million buyout of mitral regurgitation player Millipede, capping a year of industry-leading M&A, the fruits of which the company intends to leverage this year.
The most significant of those deals was a $4.2 billion pick-up of BTG, which Boston Scientific said is set to close in the second quarter of 2019 and hopes will strengthen its position in interventional oncology. Additionally, CEO Mike Mahoney said he has "zero concerns" about the company's ability to also integrate men's health acquisitions Augmenix and NxThera and TAVR procedure enhancement Claret.
Executives are targeting $700 million to $725 million in total structural heart sales in 2019, which would represent 50% growth in the business. Among the products driving the bullish outlook is the TAVR Lotus Edge system, which Boston Scientific expects will gain approval early in the second quarter. The company plans a "controlled launch" in the U.S. in the second quarter, citing a desire to build the product's reputation and incrementally widen the rollout each quarter.
The company also said it will release its next-generation Watchman implant for certain atrial fibrillation patients in Europe in the first half of 2019.
CEO Mike Mahoney also addressed controversy surrounding the company's Eluvia paclitaxel-eluting stents, the use of which was recently flagged in the Journal of the American Heart Association as among a category of products leading to higher mortality rates for patients peripheral artery disease. Mahoney said FDA's letter asserting that those products' benefits still outweigh their risks should serve to reassure physicians and patients of the products' safety.
Geographically, Europe, the Middle East and Africa saw 12.2% yearly growth, compared to 8.8% in Asia-Pacific and 6.8% in Latin America and Canada. Company leadership said Japan will be a growing market for the company in 2019, with a launch of Watchman set to happen there in the third quarter.
Other key 2019 events for Boston Scientific have included a $180 million settlement in Boston Scientific's favor regarding ongoing TAVR patent disputes with rival Edwards Lifesciences, as well as the launch of updated versions of its deep brain stimulation systems within its neuromodulation business.
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Periscope now available on Android
Twitter overnight announced the Android release of Periscope, its new live-streaming app. The app allows users to broadcast live video from their smartphone with the press of a button, while viewers can interact with the broadcaster through sending messages and tapping their screen.
While the Android version of Periscope is very similar to the iOS app, there are a few additional features. These include granular controller over push notification settings, a resume option in case a broadcast gets interrupted by a phone call, as well as a Material Design inspired interface.
Periscope for Android requires smartphones to be running KitKat 4.4.4 or higher.
Periscope was initially released as an iOS exclusive at the end of March, and racked up one million users in its first ten days of availability.
"Just over a year ago, we became fascinated by the idea of discovering the world through someone else’s eyes," said the Periscope team on its official blog, following the app's launch. "What if you could see through the eyes of a protester in Ukraine? Or watch the sunrise from a hot air balloon in Cappadocia? It may sound crazy, but we wanted to build the closest thing to teleportation."


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JWT Cairo’s Vodafone “Fakka” campaign has won the biggest prize at the biggest planning festival in the advertising industry’s calendar walking away with a Gold and the Grand Prix at this year’s American Association of Advertising Agencies’ (4A’s) Jay Chiat Awards for Strategic excellence in Advertising. Adding the new wins to Fakka’s list of accomplishments at awards shows in 2013, the campaign is now the most internationally awarded piece of work from the MENA region, to-date this year.
To win the coveted Grand Prix, JWT Cairo’s Vodafone “Fakka” entry was deemed the best paper presented out of all 35 shortlisted entries across the award festival’s 5 distinguishing categories, by the executive judging panel.
The 4A’s is the leading trade association for the advertising industry in America. The global Jay Chiat Awards honour strategic thinking and recognize professionals who have developed strong, innovative insights and initiated their work through creative campaigns that inspire both consumers and business.
JWT MENA’s CEO Vatche Keverian spoke about the win saying, “JWT is the home of planning and the 4A’s Jay Chiat awards are recognized as the industry’s benchmark for planning excellence. The Fakka campaign for Vodafone Egypt has delivered more than just business results. It has garnered the most awards for a single idea from any agency in the MENA region, putting the JWT Cairo client-agency team on the global planning and innovation map, clearly demonstrating how strategic local insight delivers big value for clients. That is what JWT’s Worldmade philosophy is all about.”
The Vodafone “Fakka” campaign saw JWT reinvent the positioning for mobile phone recharge cards. By creating micro-recharge cards, which can be substituted for ‘small change’, the agency’s solution addressed a pressing market need. In Egypt, there is not enough small change circulating in the economy. To compensate their customers, retailers and shopkeepers alike proffer valueless items such as chewing gum or sweets instead of the correct amount of small change.
In Arabic, fakka means ‘small change’, so the Vodafone Fakka cards were released in 4 small currency denominations, specifically designed to fit inside the cash register. As a result, retailers and shopkeepers now proffer change in the form of valuable airtime with the Vodafone Fakka cards.
Amal el Masri, Chief Strategy Officer at JWT MEA explained the significant insight that led to the creation of the Vodafone Fakka cards “Our research identified a genuine issue in the daily lives of most Egyptians, they have a very limited amount of cash they can spend. We wanted to address that need and by positioning the cards as a ‘currency replacement’ the market took to the innovation, opening up 46,000 new distribution outlets for Vodafone across the country in the process.”
Vodafone “Fakka: has won 13 international awards for JWT Cairo including a Gold plus Special Jury Prize for Best Channel Planning Strategy at the APGs in London this October, a Gold and Silver Lion at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, a Gold Medal at the New York Festivals® and a Grand Prix at the Dubai Lynx.view more - Awards and EventsWunderman Thompson Europe, Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:52:03 GMT


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US economy expands, beats forecasts
Signs of deepening recovery re-emerged Wednesday, according to the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, which released highly-anticipated second quarter GDP figures. Gross domestic product, the value of all goods and services produced in the United States, rose at an annualized rate of 1.7 percent following a 1.1 percent gain the previous quarter. The second quarter gain beat expectations for a 1.2 percent hike after US inventories rose unexpectedly. Job gains, improving home prices and a boost in automobile sales have shored up consumer confidence in the US, which has managed to put the worst of the financial recession behind it.
The GDP figures showed the economy expanded on strong consumer spending and growing enterprise investment in new equipment and construction projects. Combined with the rise in durable goods orders, analysts believe the gains can be sustained throughout the second half of the year. Durable goods orders rose 4.2 percent in June, following a 5 percent rise in May. Consumer consumption, which represents 70 percent of the economy, climbed 1.8 percent, beating the Bloomberg forecast of 1.6 percent. Consumer spending cooled over the previous quarter, when it grew 2.3 percent.
Employment rose by 200,000 in July following a gain of 198,000 the previous month, according to the ADP Research Institute. The numbers topped the Bloomberg consensus, which called for a gain of 180,000. Official nonfarm payroll data will be released by the US Department of Labor Friday, accompanied by the unemployment rate. The government report could show a rise of 185,000 payrolls for July after a 195,000 hike the previous month, according to the Bloomberg consensus. The unemployment rate is expected to drop to 7.5 percent for July.
The benchmark gauges all advanced on Wednesday’s data, before tumbling on Fed woes. The Standard & Poor’s 500 remains poised for its biggest monthly gain in almost two years, closing the New York trade at 1685.73. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was also up more than 0.3 percent before tumbling to 15,499.44. The NASDAQ Composite extended its gains Wednesday, closing at 3,627.14 a gain of 0.27 percent.
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Renewed Sanity On Campus? Yes To Free Speech, No To Football?
The Harper's Magazine letter by prominent academics was a wonderful reaffirmation of the important of free expression, as was the Ivy League and Big Ten retreat from full-time college football this fall.
How Will America's Universities Safely Feed Students During The Pandem...Colleges and universities have gone to great lengths to protect their students during the pandemic, but there may be no greater worry among students and parents than food service. Here's the scoop on campus dining.
Travel startups cry foul over what Google’s doing with their dataAs the antitrust drumbeat continues to pound on tech giants, with Reuters reporting comments today from the US Justice Department that it’s moving “full-tilt” on an investigation of platform giants including Google parent Alphabet, startups in Europe’s travel sector...
Omega’s $51,900 Platinum James Bond Watch Coincides With Fall Release ...Omega has released a second James Bond watch, timed to correspond with the release of No Time To Die, which was postponed due to the Coronavirus this summer and is now tentatively scheduled for release on November 25.
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Late Summer Wines That Work With Late Summer’s FoodIn Late Summer the flavors turn towards autumn and a wide range of wines make it a superb season for trying something new.
The Constitution Is Perfectly Clear About CitizenshipThe persistence of birtherism is a depressing feature of our corrupt and hateful national dialogue.
Mental Health Issues Soaring During COVID PandemicThe findings, based on surveys conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from June 24-30, also show that "one quarter of [survey] respondents reported symptoms of trauma- and stressor-related disorder."
Fast Food Makes an Unhealthy Comeback Among KidsThe data, from before the beginning of the pandemic, shows that after a period of improvement, U.S. kids are eating as much fast food as they were in the early 2000s.
EVs Storm To 500,000 Sales In Europe, But Where Is Tesla?The Electric Car Report shows that Europe swallowed up half a million electric (EV) and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) cars in the first half of the year and is on track to sell a million plug-in cars this year for...
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The five-door Hyundai Verna, as you all know, has been in the offing for quite some time now. The Korean car maker has now said that the new model will soon debut at the Motor Show that will open in Ghangzhou, China.
Tailor made exclusively for the Chinese car mart, the 5-door Verna will hit dealerships early January. The new model follows close on the heels of the earlier 4-door variant that debuted during August last.
To be driven by two petrol engines, the car will be built at a plant in Beijing. While the 1.4 liter Gamma engine would provide a total of 108 PS (79 kW) and 135 Nm of torque, the 1.6 liter Gamma engine will return 124 PS (90 kW) and 155 Nm of torque.
The Ghangzhou Motor Show will also have yet another model from the Hyundai stables, in the form of the mid-size Sonata sedan.


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Many businesses in North America are still working their way back from the pandemic and wondering what steps they should take next. Industries around the world were hit hard when everyone had to stay indoors, and companies had to close their physical locations during stay-at-home orders.
In the US, 73.1% of surveyed companies stated the pandemic had a moderate or large negative impact on their business. In Canada, small businesses with between 1 to 99 employees said Q1 2020 revenues were down over Q1 2019 by between 48% to 60%.
Companies are looking for the best way forward, but money is tight, so they also want to find the best return on their investment.
One industry that’s done very well during the pandemic is technology. Microsoft Teams saw user counts increase by 475% between Nov. 2019 and Oct. 2020. Internet providers have also seen a big increase in bandwidth use and have been racing to keep up.
In a pandemic world where most people are staying indoors and spending more time online, the place that companies looking to drive more sales want to be is the internet.
How do you get found on the internet? Through strategies like content marketing, search engine optimization, social media marketing, and PPC ads. Businesses that want to stay competitive and get out of the pandemic downturn need to invest in their online marketing strategy.
Why Content & Digital Marketing is Key Right Now
Your website is akin to your storefront and digital marketing is like your physical advertising. People are doing more things online due to COVID-19, so while traffic may be slow outside your physical building, traffic has dramatically increased online. With the right online content, you can take advantage of that.
Why is online marketing so important? Here are a few statistics that tell why:
- Digital inbound marketing costs 62% less per lead than traditional marketing.
- The average ROI for email marketing is 4,400%.
- 43% of traffic to eCommerce sites comes from organic Google searches.
- 74% of online conversion rate optimization efforts increase sales.
While you may be cutting back on spending, one area that increasing it can deliver fast and lasting results is digital marketing.
What’s Involved With Digital Marketing?
Digital marketing is marketing for your business in the virtual world. It involves a number of integrated tactics to get your business found by potential buyers online, drive them to engaging content, and convert them to leads and sales.
The main components of digital marketing are:
- Your Website (optimized for speed & conversions)
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Social Media Strategy
- Email Marketing
- Pay-per-Click (Google Ads, Facebook Ads, etc.)
When these five components are working together, you can significantly increase online traffic to your site > which increases people contacting you > which leads to sales conversions.
Here are several reasons that digital marketing is vital to business success.
Online Conversions & Purchases Have Increased
Because people are more restricted in where they can go physically due to the pandemic, they are moving most of their product/service searching and purchasing online.
Comparing January 2021 to January 2020, global online transactions were up by 39.7% and conversion rates increased by 40.3%.
Government stimulus payments to people in Canada, the US, and other countries have also been a benefit to businesses and have helped increase online sales.
People Still Need to Live Their Lives and Buy Goods/Services
We’re about a year into the pandemic now and people still have needs for goods and services so they can live their lives.
Only now, many are purchasing those online rather than in person. If your business isn’t one that comes up on the first page of a Google search, then your competitor will get that business instead of you.
Digital Marketing is Lower Cost & Faster Reward Than Offline
Digital marketing has a higher ROI than traditional because it’s generally much lower cost. For example, you can do an email marketing campaign for just a fraction of what mailing postcards out to people will cost.
Digital marketing also gives you a faster reward. When you do print advertising, it’s a long process of sending in your ad, waiting for the publication to come out, and then waiting for people to read it.
On the other hand, putting up a paid Google Ad can get you results within hours of putting the campaign online. Things move faster in the digital world, which means you can pretty much reach people in real time and impact your sales today with a digital strategy.
Put an Affordable Digital Marketing Strategy in Place to In Increase Sales Right Now
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The Little Daiquiri Factory That Could
The story of a man with a daiquiri and a dream.
There’s an unassuming plot of land in the middle of Johnston Street in the heart of Lafayette, Louisiana. It’s now home to a used car dealership. Thousands of cars drive by it every day, without a second thought, but it’s on that plot of land that a man from the small town of Ruston, Louisiana, would forever change the Pelican State.
In 1982, David Ervin opened the state’s first drive-thru daiquiri stand, called the Daiquiri Factory, as a novel way to sell a novel drink. Months in the making, Ervin struggled with questions of legality and whether or not he’d be able to sell his drinks to drivers without them having to leave the comforts of their car. He poured over legal documents to find any sort of clarification but, as he said in an interview with local news station KATC, “It never said you could do it — but it never said you couldn’t. So I figured I’d try it for a week, and if I didn’t get arrested, it was legal.”
Loan in hand, he secured a small plot of land on what was then the end of Johnston Street. The terms of the lease stated he could use it as long as no permanent structures were put in place. A small metal building with an oyster bed driveway was (temporarily) placed on the empty property, and the nation’s first drive-thru daiquiri shop was born.
Terrified of a failed business and owing money to his investors, Ervin’s opening day was anticlimactic. The open sign illuminating the small Daiquiri Factory stand went unnoticed among the hustle and bustle of Johnston Street. Thinking the worst, Ervin turned his thoughts to a backup plan and wondered how he would pay back the money he had borrowed. But as the sun dipped below the horizon, the cars started to arrive.
It wouldn’t take long for word to get out and the business to become a hit, aided largely by a massive media blitz and catchy radio jingle urging customers to “come on down” to the daiquiri shop. The public had taken notice of the Factory — and so had the police. According to Ervin, police would stake out the business, trying to catch drivers who might have over-indulged on their way home. In the meantime, Lafayette City Council was set to pass a city ordinance banning open containers in a vehicle.
Unsure of what was considered an open container, Ervin sent letters asking for a definition so that his business could comply. He never received an answer, so he took matters into his own hands: He decided that if there was tape sealing the lid, it was considered “sealed.” The day the ordinance went into effect, Ervin offered a big promotion to ensure business: 4,000 bottles of champagne to the first 4,000 customers.
The promotion also caught the attention of the local police, who promptly issued more than 40 citations to customers clogging traffic. Furious that his customers had been the target of the police, Ervin sued the city to get the tickets expunged. At the heart of the suit was the question of the open container. A favorable ruling for Ervin would set the precedent for what was to be considered an open container moving forward.
As luck would have it, the ruling came down in Ervin’s favor, and drive-thru daiquiri shops began popping up all over the state. The Daiquiri Factory closed its doors in 1987 — a victim of collapsing oil prices — but with hundreds of drive-thru stands opening across the state, it had forever changed the landscape of Louisiana.
To learn more, watch Daniel Phillips' four-part local news segment on David Ervin and his Daiquiri Factory.
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Aberdeen business owners have spoken of their delight and relief that Broad Street has reopened.
Cat in the window cafe
The owner of Aberdeen’s only cat cafe today said she was “surprised and overwhelmed” after the public rallied to save her business from soaring business rates.
Aberdeen's only cat café says it is facing closure after a hike in business rates.
Aberdeen's first cat cafe has welcomed around 5,000 people through its doors since opening six weeks ago.
ABERDEEN could soon have its very own cat cafe, after a crowdfunding campaign reached its £5,000 target.


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Taiwanese manufacturing giant Delta Electronics, the world’s largest provider of power supplies, is seeking the support of the UK channel as it looks to leverage its manufacturing muscle with its own consumer brand, Innergie.
The Taiwanese firm is seeking to create a strong and well-recognised brand in order to position itself as a market leader ahead of standardisation of power supplies. To do so, it has created a range of consumer facing power supply products and accessories that will
appeal to mobile device users.
“We believe that, at this moment, both high-power and low-power products are going to be a much more important category for the consumer,” Innergie’s EMEA director, Samy Moustafa told PCR.
One of the first products, the mCube Slim, a universal power adapter that is no bigger than an iPhone will be unveiled at IFA, with other devices in the pipeline.
A key focus for the company is the reseller and independent retail channel, due to their unique ability to communicate the benefits of a product to their customers.
“I think that is a huge benefit to any company that wants to educate the customer before they purchase,” said Moustafa. “These guys will make sure they’re matching the right product to the customer because in the end they’re the face of the company to the customer. They’re an expansion of any brand."


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There are 10 to 12 high profile inmates that will testify kasama si Colangco dun (Colangco is one of them),' Aguirre said.
Aside from the high profile inmates, Aguirre said a former NBI director and NBI agents will testify against De Lima.
It will be impossible to approach all members of Executive Committee to get favorable findings/results in high profile
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Huami has published a fresh financial report that touched on future plans for Xiaomi smart bracelets and its own wearable devices under the Amazfit and Zepp brands.
What to wait
So, the report says that the new model Xiaomi Mi Band 6 has already been launched into mass production. Recall that Huami is engaged in the production of Mi Band series gadgets. So, most likely, the official presentation of the Mi Band 6 is just around the corner. Although last year’s Mi Band 5 only debuted in June.
Recall that the new product is credited with an enlarged display, as many as 30 sports modes, support for the voice assistant Alexa, a sensor for measuring blood oxygen levels and the ability to respond to messages.
In addition, Huami also promises to add functions for measuring electrocardiogram, blood pressure and glucose levels to some models of fitness bracelets and smartwatches of Amazfit and Zepp, as well as integration of the Spotify service.


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The annual festival has not altered any plans yet in face of global threat, but a few would-be attendees have already pulled out.
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The high stake game between Microsoft and Motorola has taken another twist with U.S. International Trade Commission Judge Theodore Essex delaying a key ruling for another 4 days.The case is the first real test of Microsoft’s claim that it effectively owns large parts of the Android OS through patents, and a win would bar certain Android phones and the Xoom tablet from being sold.
The new date for a decision, which was due today, is December 20th.
Most of the specific model phones named in the ITC complaint, which was launched in August, are either now discontinued or on the way out, but a victory could possibly put the entire future of Android in doubt.
Motorola claims that the Microsoft Windows Phone violates a number of Motorola patents. Motorola Mobility is currently in the process of being acquired by Google, which could change the nature of the dispute and make Google directly liable should Microsoft prevail in both cases.
Microsoft has encountered considerable success in pressuring handset manufacturers into licensing Microsoft patents it claims are infringed in Android, but the claim has not been tested in court.


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Apple has recently admitted to intentionally slowing down older iPhone models to prevent the devices from shutting down due to old batteries. Both suits came a day after Apple confirmed what high-tech sleuths outside the company already observed: The company had deployed software to slow some phones.
iPhone users for years have speculated that Apple was responsible for their phones acting up after the release of a newer model.
Al Jazeera's Charlotte Bellis reports.
Harvey has sued Apple for alleged fraudulent concealment and alleged violations of the Consumers Legal Remedies Act and Unfair Competition Law. Should you go that route, Amazon is discounting a handful of battery replacement kits for the iPhone 6 through iPhone 7 as seen below.
Finally, as people do their last-minute holiday shopping, AirPods are once again out of stock from Apple and most third-party retailers.
Liverpool 'under pressure' in Champions League race - Jurgen Klopp
This kind of capitulation has been sadly commonplace with Liverpool this season. The first came a minute after Salah's goal thanks to an Alexis Sanchez header.
Bogdanovich and Speas are trying to get the case certified to cover anyone in the United States who owned an Apple phone older than the iPhone 8.
"Corporations have to realize that people are sophisticated and that when people spend their hard-earned dollars on a product they expect it to perform as expected", James Vlahakis, the attorney representing the plaintiffs in the Chicago suit, told the Sun Times.
Apple has not publicly responded to the lawsuits. The lawsuit was filed in the federal Northern District Court in San Francisco.
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HOUSTON (TIP): An e-commerce company and its top executive of Indian origin have agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to fix prices for customized promotional products sold online to customers in the United States. Zaappaaz Inc. (d/b/a WB Promotions Inc., Wrist-Band.com and Customlanyard.net) and its president Azim Makanojiya agreed to plead guilty to a one-count criminal violation of the Sherman Act.
Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez, Acting Assistant Attorney General Andrew Finch of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI’s Houston Field Division made the announcement.
According to the felony charges filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Houston, the conspirators attended meetings and communicated in person and online. The investigation has revealed that the conspirators used social media platforms and encrypted messaging applications, such as Facebook, Skype and WhatsApp, to reach and implement their illegal agreements. Specifically, the defendants and their co-conspirators agreed, from as early as 2014 until June 2016, to fix the prices of customized promotional products sold online, including wristbands and lanyards. In addition to agreeing to plead guilty, Zaappaaz has agreed to pay a $1.9 million criminal fine.
“As today’s charges show, criminals cannot evade detection by conspiring online and using encrypted messaging,” said Finch. “In addition, today’s charges are a clear sign of the Division’s commitment to uncovering and prosecuting collusion that affects internet sales. American consumers have the right to a marketplace free of unlawful collusion, whether they are shopping at retail stores or online.”
“Schemes like the defendants’ cause financial harm to consumers who purchase goods and services and to businesses who sell goods and services in compliance with the laws of the United States,” said Martinez. “The United States will continue to investigate and prosecute individuals and businesses who seek to gain an illegal unfair advantage.”
“The FBI stands ready to protect consumers from unscrupulous business practices,” said Turner. “Antitrust laws help protect the competitive process for the benefit of all consumers.”
Makanojiya is charged with price fixing in violation of the Sherman Act which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison and a maximum fine of $1 million for individuals. The maximum fine for an individual may be increased to twice the gain derived from the crime or twice the loss suffered by the victims of the crime if either of those amounts is greater than the statutory maximum fine.