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Before COVID-19, there was beer. Doug Ford couldn’t get enough of it.
Our populist premier is a teetotaller who doesn’t touch the stuff. But our man of the people wanted it within reach for the everyman.
Remember “beer in corner stores?” The campaign slogan juiced Ford’s march to power.
Never mind. Beer is already here — everywhere, in fact, except corner stores.
Thanks to the perfect storm of a pandemic, takeout beer can now be sold by any bar or licensed restaurant on any street corner across the province (not to mention the LCBO and many supermarkets). And so the campaign controversy that bubbled over into a billion-dollar gamble by Ford — exposing the province to massive court damages if he ripped up a binding contract with the Beer Store oligopoly — is fizzling fast.
Ford can thank a quirk of fate for a fait accompli.
In mid-pandemic, alcohol was deemed an essential service for thirsty Ontarians — and a lifeline for cash-starved restaurateurs. The Beer Store went along with change — for the time being.
Post-pandemic, booze is likely to flow for as long as restaurants continue to bleed. Which will be a long time.
It is an inconvenient truth, however, that convenience stores were left high and dry as Ford’s campaign promise was overtaken by events. The Beer Store has also been boxed in by COVID-19 as new competitors siphon off sales.
There may be no turning back. The vast majority of Ontarians like the idea of licensed establishments dispensing affordable takeout booze, according to a poll this month by Campaign Research.
The question is whether the premier is prudent enough to quit while he’s ahead. Is he wise enough to declare victory, now that alcohol distribution has been expanded beyond anyone’s expectations, knowing that the Beer Store is hemmed in by public opinion?
After all, it’s not just their drinking customers who like the new arrangement. All those bars and restaurants now selling takeaway to the public are also commercial customers of the Beer Store, which still presides over wholesale distribution (on behalf of its major owners, the big multinational brewers).
Or will Ford resume his crusade to bring beer to corner stores, knowing that the big brewers — Molson Coors and Labatt — will launch a costly legal battle based on their contract with Ontario’s government? For all the fuss over convenience stores, it has always been a hard sell with questionable trade-offs.
In 2015, Kathleen Wynne finally achieved the liberalized beer distribution that had eluded previous premiers. Aided by former TD Bank CEO Ed Clark, she negotiated access for beer (and wine) sales in supermarkets — which are eminently cost-effective — but rejected the convenience store lobby for fear of raising costs and reducing provincial revenues (from lower supermarket license fees).
It was an elegant compromise that enhanced distribution without litigation. But Ford figured he could do better than Clark ever did.
His new Progressive Conservative government embarked on a high stakes game of chicken with the brewers. Goaded by his former chief of staff Dean French, emboldened by crony Chris Froggatt (a public affairs consultant), enabled by his obedient finance minister of the day, Vic Fedeli, the premier charged ahead.
A year ago, the ground shifted. French quit in a scandal, Froggatt found himself squeezed out and Fedeli was shuffled out of the finance portfolio, replaced by Rod Phillips, who offered more sober advice to a teetotalling premier still drunk on power.
The Tories quietly moved from confrontation to negotiation. Then came COVID-19, which changed the lay of the land.
Now the Beer Store is losing market share and losing money — $46.5 million in 2019 — much as Wynne and Clark privately predicted five years ago when they inked their deal. Now, rather than rip up a 10-year contract at the midpoint — and pay the price in penalties that could add up to hundreds of millions of dollars — the Tories are taking their time.
“Time is the government’s friend,” mused one well-placed source.
The longer negotiations drag on, the shorter any breach period in the 10-year deal that ends in 2025, and the more revenue that flows to the big brewers from restaurant and bar sales — diminishing damages claims and making it easier to reach a new understanding. The passage of time also has a calming effect on Ford’s Tories, who may discover that Ontarians like buying beer from restaurants and bars that have varied selections, rather than searching in the back of a convenience store for stale commodity beer.
Asked about recent rule changes in the alcohol sector, the premier acknowledged that it’s working well: “We’ve been pretty flexible — we wanted to make sure that companies can stay open and have the flexibility to deliver their products to the public,” he told reporters Wednesday.
Why add the complications — and court costs — of breaching a contract to bring in corner stores, when Ontarians now have potentially thousands of new points of sale from bars and restaurants? Just as necessity is the mother of invention, a pandemic can be the progenitor of improvisation in distribution.
Restaurants and bars desperately need a boost. But breaking a binding contract in order to shift sales from dilapidated Beer Stores to dreary convenience stores would be like downgrading from economy class to steerage — and paying a stiff penalty for the privilege.
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During the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference 2013, SECO unveiled in a first-ever preview of its latest energy-efficient DevKit – powered by the NVIDIA® Tegra® 3-based Qseven module on a Mini ITX form factor carrier board – the SECO mITX GPU DevKit (Kayla Platform).
21/09/2012QSEVEN® SPECIFICATION REVISION 2.0 Today, the Qseven Consortium has approved unanimously the Qseven Rev. 2.0 Specification, whose main purpose is the ARM Integration. Among the changes from Rev. 1.20 to Rev. 2.0, the most important is Qseven Halfsize Mechanical Outline.
17/04/2012AMD PRESENTS SECO G-SERIES PRODUCTS AT DESIGN WEST 2012 AMD had a variety of boards on display at DESIGN West 2012 based on their Embedded G-Series platform, which combines a low-power CPU with a discrete-level GPU, making it ideal for HD streaming and video games.
The kit's hardware will be developed by SECO and is expected to be available in the first half of 2012. Nvidia says it will support the hardware with its own proprietary CUDA parallel programming toolkit.

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New device will run Android 2.3 and be available worldwide in May 2011
ZTE has launched it flagship “skateboard” influenced Android phone the ZTE Skate (pictured) at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The device which weighs 120 grammes has a 4.3 inch screen,800MHz processor and a five mega pixel camera uses the Android 2.3 operating system.
It also has a Adreno 200 graphics processing unit (GPU) enabling it to support widescreen and high definition display.
The device is expected to be available across the world in May this year.
The launch of the ZTE Skate also kicks off ZTE’s “Light Your Smart World” smart product strategy which saw the Chinese company unveil a range of devices.
These included the Android based Amigo slide and Blade and the F952 which runs Brew MP and supports the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC).


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JBS recalls 20 tonnes of meat from the market
Almost 20 tonnes of beef were recalled from the market by JBS Plainwell due to possible contamination with extraneous materials, specifically, pieces of hard plastic, informs the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
The items were produced on March 20 and shipped to retail locations in Michigan and Wisconsin. The problem was discovered when the establishment received two complaints of green hard plastic in the ground beef products. FSIS is concerned that some product may be frozen and in consumers’ freezers. Consumers who have purchased these products are urged not to consume them. These products should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase, recommended the service.
So far, there have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions due to consumption of these products.


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Dan Sandberg, president and chief executive officer, Brembo North America and Andrea Abbati Marescotti, chief executive officer, Brembo SpA, (center) receive 2015 General Motors Supplier of the Year Award.
Brembo has been named a GM Supplier of the Year by General Motors during its 24th annual Supplier of the Year awards ceremony held Thursday, March 10 at Cobo Center in Detroit, Mich.
GM recognized 110 of its best suppliers from 17 countries who have exceeded GM’s expectations, created outstanding value, or brought new innovations to the company.
This is the first time Brembo has received the award.
“We are focused on building positive supplier relationships, bringing new, customer-centric innovations to GM, and being the OEM of choice among suppliers,” said Steve Kiefer, GM vice president of global purchasing and supply chain. “The companies we recognize tonight not only have brought innovation, they delivered it with the quality our customers deserve.”
GM’s 2015 supplier recognition represents a nearly 40 percent increase in the number of suppliers honored compared to 79 recipients in 2014. More than half of the suppliers are repeat winners from 2014.
Winning suppliers were chosen by a global team of GM purchasing, engineering, quality, manufacturing, and logistics executives and selected based on performance criteria in product purchasing, indirect purchasing, customer care and aftersales, and logistics.
“It is an honor to be acknowledged by General Motors and receive the GM Supplier of the Year award,” said Dan Sandberg, president and chief executive officer, Brembo North America. “GM products are some of the most exciting on the market today and we are glad that many are fitted with Brembo’s highly engineered and innovative brakes. To receive this prestigious award reinforces Brembo’s position as a key supplier to General Motors and we look forward to continuing to design and engineer the best brakes for General Motors vehicles.”


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Microsoft is about to reveal two new phones, including a high-end model and a selfie model, code named ‘Superman’, according to a report.
The Verge reported that Microsoft’s head of devices Stephen Elop showed off the two new models during an internal company meeting earlier this week. Both devices are expected to be announced and launched relatively soon.
The Superman model’s features are understood to include a 5MP front-facing camera for better selfie shots with a standard 4.7-inch display. The public first became aware of the device back in April, when the company released initial details.
The second high-end phone Microsoft will reportedly launch is the code named ‘Tesla’. This phone will more than likely be a replacement for the Nokia Lumia 720 with its PureView camera included in a bid to tackle the more affordable range of high-end phones.
The news comes shortly after Jo Harlow of Microsoft also suggested the company will continue to roll a number of “high-end products” off the production line in the coming months. The company will also be rolling out its Windows 8.1.1 update.


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In response to feedback, conference organizers are expanding the demo room to 50 slots. There will be just 15 showcase spots available this year. Showcase companies present on stage. The deadline for companies to register as presenters is July 17. The same application can be used to register to be for the demo and showcase spots. A selection committee will review applications; the lineup will be announced in early August.
The annual tech venture conference is scheduled for Sept. 16 and 17 at the Raleigh Convention Center. The theme of this year’s conference is “The Internet of (Every)thing.” Confirmed speakers include Phillip Alvelda, CEO of TaDa and founding CEO of MobiTV; Vince Padua, director of product management and strategy, IBM Watson; and Bandwidth CEO David Morken.
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KAILUA (HawaiiNewsNow) - Car enthusiasts from across Oahu had the chance to show off their sweet rides Sunday.
They gathered at Mike McKenna's Ford in Kailua for the 20th annual Mustang Madness Show.
The event featured all sorts of ford models, some dating back to the beginning of the century.
One of the car's owners started a club in 1979 just for people who own mustangs.
"We have a lot of mustang friends. We are a family, big family. Every meeting we have, we always talk about cars and so forth, and it's a language only mustang owners know and we love that", said Aloha Mustang Club Founder Paul Olivas.
"It's 624 horsepower. It's my mustang hybrid. It burns gasoline and rubber", said Mustang owner Don Johnston.
Mike McKenna's Ford hosts the event every year.
All proceeds are donated to the Hawaiian Humane Society


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The company is restructuring again and folding Black Label into men's Purple Label and women's Collection.
— May 13, 2015
For the first four months of 2015, there were over 800 labor disputes in China, compared to more than 250 during the same period last year.
— May 4, 2015
Leather goods drives results.
— March 12, 2015
Company crosses $1 billion sales milestone for year.
— February 26, 2015
The Australian-based activewear brand that specializes in engineered compression apparel is launching its first global marketing campaign.
— February 24, 2015
J.Mendel, the luxury fur, ready-to-wear and accessories company, is in play.
— February 23, 2015
Releasing preliminary figures, the Italian luxury group cited a slowdown in the Far East and weak demand in Europe.
— February 22, 2015
The retailer signed a 10-year global licensing agreement for watches under the Kate Spade New York brand with Kate Spade & Co.
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It is the first public listing in the country’s fashion industry since Moncler’s in December 2013.
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Tesco Seems to Be Losing the Grocery Battle with Sainsbury’s
On 3 October 2012, Tesco (LON:TSCO), the UK’s largest supermarket company reported a first fall in profits for almost two decades. Meanwhile, one of the retailer’s biggest competitors, J Sainsbury (LON:SBRY), expectedly saw a rise in sales of more than one percent, taking the lead in the grocery battle with Tesco.
As noted in the company report, Tesco’s profits before tax for the first half of 2012 declined by 11.6 percent to £1.662 million, whereas underlying profit before tax fell by 8.5 percent to £1.759 million. In addition, Bloomberg reported that the Cheshunt-based retailer maintained their first-half year dividend at 4.63 pence, the first time this century that it has not increased the payout.
!m[The Two Retailers Release Half-Year Results](/uploads/story/507/thumbs/pic1_inline.png)The Times reports that the main reason for the disappointing results are the additional costs associated with a plan announced in April for the investment of £1 billion aimed at stemming a decline in sales. In addition, the retailer recruited an additional 8,000 permanent staff so as to deliver better service, and increased spending on Internet and mobile shopping services.
“We continue to act decisively to tackle challenges and seize opportunities across the group. I am encouraged by our customers’ initial responses to the changes we have made – but there is much more to be done,” notes Tesco’s CEO Philip Clarke in the company statement.
As reported by The Times, while Tesco’s group sales increased by 1.4 percent, the retailer’s like-for-like sales in Asia and Europe fell in to the red due to shopping hour restrictions in South Korea and the Eurozone crisis, which had a negative impact on Tesco’s performance in Europe. China’s slowing economic growth has also affected Tesco’s profit and in addition, the Californian Fresh and Easy franchise has not managed to crack the US market, although it delivered a small reduction in losses, with sales performance improving throughout the first half of the year.
The Irish Times reports that Tesco’s share of UK grocery market fell to 30.9 percent in August 2012, from 31 percent last year. Competitors such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s Asda and Sainsbury’s as well as discounters such as Lidl have been eating into Tesco’s market share. Sainsbury’s in particular increased its share by 4.6 percent to 16.5 percent of the market.
J Sainsbury’s half-year results are expectedly more positive, with the retailer reporting a 1.7 percent rise in like-for-like sales, excluding fuel but including VAT, in the first half of the financial year ended September 29. “This has been a unique and special summer, during which we have delivered another quarter of good sales, outperforming the market in what remains a challenging retail environment,” noted Justin King, J Sainsbury’s chief executive in the company press release.
Sainsbury has been attracting customers with its Brand Match strategy which offers shoppers a coupon if the same product is available for less at a rival store. “We are positioned to perform well coming into the important Christmas period,” points out Mr King.
Bloomberg reports that Sainsbury’s shares rose by 0.3 percent to 346.8 pence in London trading on October 2, extending 2012 gains to 14 percent. Tesco’s shares on the other hand have posted a 17 percent loss in the year to date.
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Paytm and Shriram Finance to boost digital loan distribution
By Leandra Monteiro
One97 Communications Limited (OCL) which owns the brand Paytm, an Indian payments and financial services company, announced a partnership with a retail NBFC in India, Shriram Finance Limited to offer financial services to its users including loan products.
Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder and CEO, Paytm said, “Our commitment to expand credit distribution gets further boost with our new strategic partner Shriram Finance. We are happy that together we will be able to create credit offerings to serve small merchant partners and entrepreneurs of India.”
Shriram Finance’s products will now be made available on Paytm’s platform digitally to further expand access to credit and drive financial inclusion in the country.
This strategic partnership combines Paytm’s wide reach and technology infrastructure with Shriram Finance’s lending expertise as a large retail NBFC in India. Powered by Paytm’s FinTech leadership as a loan service provider (LSP) focussed on compliance and quality of loans, this partnership will integrate Shriram Finance wide geographical presence across the country especially rural areas.
To start with, merchants on the Paytm network will get a chance to avail loans from Shriram Finance and then it will be extended to consumers loans.
Umesh Revankar, Executive Vice Chairman – Shriram Finance Ltd said, “India is witnessing high growth in retail credit demand, it is only likely to increase with greater participation from rural and semi-urban India. A lot of this demand will come from digitally literate, young generation brought up in mobile telephone proliferation era and those having comfort in having all their transactions through handheld devices. To take advantage of this opportunity while staying true to our ethos of serving the unserved and underserved, and vision of becoming the most preferred financial services destination, Shriram Finance has collaborated with the pioneer of mobile payments, Paytm, across the country.”
Bhavesh Gupta, President and COO, Paytm said, “Through digital distribution of credit, we are deepening access to financial services with our wide range of loan products distributed in partnership with marquee lenders. We are happy to onboard Shriram Finance as our latest marquee partner, as we continue to drive growth momentum in the credit distribution business while remaining focussed on digital lending compliance and quality of loans. With Shriram Finance’s strong presence, especially in Southern India, we aim to boost access to credit by empowering users across the country with simplified loans distribution.”
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Borders will be closing its doors by the end of September, liquidating its remaining 399 stores starting as early as this week. The closure comes as the United States’ second-largest bookstore struggled and ultimately failed to find a buyer to keep the company going.
The final decision to cancel a bankruptcy-court auction scheduled for today was fueled by a general lack of interest from buyers. Since filing for bankruptcy-court protection in February, Borders has struggled to receive merchandise on advance from publishers, causing the company to further hemorrhage money. The company currently has around 10,700 employees.
Borders’ defeat marks the beginning of a new era, where online book sales and digital downloads for e-readers dominate the market. "We were all working hard toward a different outcome, but the head winds we have been facing for quite some time, including the rapidly changing book industry, [electronic reader] revolution and turbulent economy, have brought us to where we are now," Borders President Mike Edwards said.


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SENIOR RESOURCES AND UNITED WAY VOLUNTEERS will close out the CityServeColumbia project with a pet food drive for Meals on Wheels pets in need 9 a.m.-noon Friday in the Senior Resources parking lot, 2817 Millwood Ave. You don’t even have to get out of your car to help Meals on Wheels pet owners; you also might want to check out volunteer opportunities. (803) 252-7734, ext. 256
THE DRYCLEANING AND LAUNDRY INSTITUTE has launched a wire hanger recycling campaign, reusing as many as possible and sending all unusable hangers to a recycling agent. Local folks may drop off unwanted wire hangers at any Ed Robinson Laundry & Dry Cleaning location — 4903 Forest Drive, 800 Sparkleberry Lane, 317 Royal Tower Drive, Irmo, and 1615 N. Beltline Blvd.
BI-LO GROCERY STORES are hosting the annual PAWS “Feed the Love” campaign, a pet food drive in which food donations go to local area food banks for families in need to provide food for the four-legged members of their families. Nationally, approximately seven million pets are surrendered to shelters each year due to the inability of the owners to pay for food. Shoppers may purchase a $5 bag of pet food with their BI-LO Bonus Card and the food will be delivered to the store’s food bank partner for distribution. The bag contains a week’s worth of dry and canned packages of PAWS Premium, BI-LO’s brand of cat and dog food.
PALMETTO ANIMAL ASSISTED LIFE SERVICES (PAALS) has launched its new V.I.P. program, Veterans’ Important PAALS, and is looking for interested local service members and veterans. The program will incorporate qualified rescue dogs that have been obedience-trained by Prison PAALS members to go to service members and veterans (at no charge) in need of a safe, loyal, well-behaved companion. Two dogs are available for immediate placement with more becoming available on a regular basis. PAALS already places service dogs with soldiers and veterans with combat-related injuries, whether they aid them mentally or physically. Some of the PAALS service dogs in training do not meet all of the requirements for a full-fledged service dog, so the V.I.P. program was created to place these dogs as companions. (803) 788-7063; http://www.paals.org
SUDDETH AUTOMOTIVE is offering free car care inspections 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. weekdays through April 30 at 1410 N. Millwood Ave. Each multi-point inspection takes about 30 minutes. Participants will receive a completed copy of the inspection form and an opportunity to review the results with a service adviser. Call (803) 256-2110 to set up an appointment; drop-ins are also welcome.
THE CITY OF CAYCE is participating in the free prescription discount card program for residents. The program, sponsored by the National League of Cities, saves city residents an average of 23 percent off the retail price of prescription medications. To obtain a card (good for the whole family), go to http://www.caremark.com/nic or pick up a card at Cayce City Hall, 1800 12th St.
DINING OUT FOR LIFE®, a national fundraiser for those affected with HIV/AIDS will be Thursday at several restaurants in Columbia. Dine out at a participating restaurant and a portion of your check will go towards the registered local AIDS service organization. Here are your choices: Blue Fin Seafood Restaurant and Bar, 461-4 Town Center Place; Deli Say No More, 1616 Taylor St.; Drip, 729 Saluda Ave.; Food Gallery, 3702 River Drive; Kiki’s Chicken and Waffles, 110-A Columbia Northeast Drive; Momo’s Bistro, 2930 Devine St.; Mr. Friendly’s, 2001-A Greene St.; Rosso Trattoria Italia, 4840 Forest Drive; Tombo Grille, 4509 Forest Drive; Village Idiot Pizza, 4517 Forest Drive; and Yesterday’s, 2030 Devine St. Revente Shop Til You Drop, 737 Saluda Ave., will donate 20 percent of their Thursday sales to the S.C. HIV/AIDS Council in honor of Dining Out for Life. http://www.diningoutforlife.com
FELICIA’S DANCE 4LIFE, a line-dance fundraising party will be 4-8 p.m. May 4 at Polo Road Park, 730 Polo Road; $10 per person. Proceeds will benefit Felicia Robinson, who has sickle-cell disease and needs a kidney transplant. (803) 360-5923


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The semiconductor sector wrapped up the June quarter on a high note, except for a few misses, thriving on the fast-growing datacenter and gaming businesses. When it comes to the quarterly performance of Nvidia (NVDA), the ongoing slump in cryptocurrency remains a cause for concern, considering the company’s relatively bigger exposure to that sector.
In all likelihood, Nvidia will shrug off the crypto blues sand sustain the recent momentum, supported by the other high-growth business segments. Being its fastest-growing target markets, the company needs to ramp up the datacenter and gaming product portfolio with the required intensity. Though the autonomous and electric vehicle market is a promising avenue, production-related complexities continue to be a dampener as far as orders are concerned.
The ongoing slump in cryptocurrency remains a cause for concern, considering the company’s relatively bigger exposure to that sector
Nvidia will be announcing results for the second quarter of 2019 on Thursday after the market closes. Analysts expect that earnings will more than double to $1.66 per share on revenues of $3.11 billion, which represents a 50% growth compared to the year-ago quarter.
The company enjoys the rare distinction of posting above-consensus profit for all the trailing four quarters. In the first quarter, earnings jumped to $1.98 per share aided by broad-based demand growth across all categories.
Earlier this week, Nvidia unveiled its advanced Turing architecture and the GPU that carries the technology, offering near real-life lighting effects in graphics, which according to the company is a first in the industry. That followed reports that the company has been doing the groundwork for the closely-followed launch of the GeForce GPU update before year-end.
Among the other chipmakers, Intel (INTC) posted a 78% growth in third-quarter earnings aided by a surge in its data-centric business. California-based Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) staged a turnaround in the most recent quarter and posted adjusted earnings of 14 cents, beating estimates.
Nvidia’s shares made significant gains over the past 12 months, growing about 62% and crossing the $260-mark. Though the stock dropped soon after opening on Tuesday, it pared the losses as trading progressed and ended the session up 2%.
Agilent Technologies (A) reported a 35% jump in earnings for the third quarter as the global pharma and chemical & energy end markets drove the top-line higher. The scientific instrument maker raised the outlook for the full year 2018 after the bottom line exceeded the Street’s expectations.
Net income for the quarter soared 35% to $236 million or $0.73 per share. Adjusted earnings increased by 14% to $0.67 per share.
Revenue grew by 8% year-over-year to $1.2 billion helped by the strength across its business segments.
Looking ahead into the fourth quarter, the company expects revenue to be in the range of $1.24 billion to $1.26 billion, and non-GAAP earnings in the range of $0.72 to $0.74 per share.
For the fiscal year 2018, Agilent lifted revenue outlook to the range of $4.86 billion to $4.88 billion from the previous estimate of $4.85 billion to $4.87 billion. Adjusted earnings guidance was lifted up to the range of $2.69 to $2.71 per share from prior forecast of $2.63 to $2.67 per share.
Revenue from Agilent’s Life Sciences and Applied Markets Group for the third quarter rose by 6% year-over-year helped by the strength in the chemical & energy and pharma end markets. Revenue from Agilent CrossLab Group grew 10% as both services and consumables saw strong growth across all end markets and geographies. Revenue from Agilent’s Diagnostics and Genomics Group increased 9% driven by the strength in genomics and China.
During the third quarter of 2018, the company repurchased $243 million in shares, paid $48 million in dividends, and invested $430 million in mergers and acquisitions.
As of July 31, 2018, Agilent has spent more cash in the daily running of the business as the balance sheet showed a 20% dip in cash and cash equivalent from October 31, 2017. Long-term investments have fallen by 49%, while goodwill and other intangible assets rose by 16%.
The company had paid off all of the short-term debt and also reduced long-term debt by 0.1%. An increase in accumulated deficit has dragged total equity lower by 5.5%.
Shares of Agilent ended Tuesday’s regular trading up 1.23% at $66.75 on the NYSE. The stock has fallen more than 3% for the past three months, while it has risen by more than 11% for the past year.
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'A very sad day:' Iconic piano store closes after more than a century
SEATTLE -- You don't have to own or even play the piano to appreciate the mark Sherman Clay & Company has made on the local music and arts community. If you've ever witnessed a performance by Pacific Northwest Ballet or listened to a concert inside Benaroya Hall, more than likely you've been touched by the music company.
But after more than 100 years supplying pianos for performances throughout the Puget Sound, a final curtain will fall on the piano dealer next month.
"It's a very sad day for us," said Tom Austin, president of the retail division for Sherman Clay. "Serving the musical needs of Seattle residents has been a privilege."
The Schwartz family, who took ownership of the San Francisco-based music company in 1960, announced plans to close their only remaining retail shop, in downtown Seattle, by the end of September. The closure will mark the end of the company's nearly 143-year run in the piano retail business.
"The family didn't have any more family members that wanted to focus on this part of the business they own," Austin said. "They made their decision to focus on other businesses."
Since taking over Sherman Clay, the Schwartz family has expanded the scope of their business to include commercial real estate, retail sales financing, and paper manufacturing - all areas the owners have decided to dedicate their time and attention to.
The Seattle location is the last of the piano retail shops to close. The San Francisco stores were bought by Steinway & Sons and closed last spring, and the Portland location closed last winter. Austin said Sherman Clay operated 60 retail stores around the country during its peak.
Four employees work at the Seattle location, but Austin said with their connections, musical knowledge, and passion for playing, he believes they will have no problem finding new positions.
Sherman Clay is not only known for selling pianos. The Seattle shop has also provided a place for local teachers and students to hold recitals, performances and conduct meetings.
Austin said in the coming weeks a successor to the company will be made, and he believes the needs of the local arts and music community will continue being served.
The store plans to hold a final sale on all its merchandise, including new and used Steinway, Boston and Essex pianos, starting mid-August.


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If you’re thinking about buying a car from General Motors (GM) in the near future, specifically
one of its new electric vehicles (EVs), you may find yourself using a completely new infotainment system
The automotive firm recently announced that it would be phasing out the two most widely-used vehicular infotainment systems – Apple CarPlay and Android Auto – in favor of built-in proprietary infotainment systems it is set to develop with Google. The two aforementioned systems allow users to view or listen to content from their smartphones through their car’s dashboard displays.
According to a company spokesperson, GM’s decision to do away with these mirroring apps in upcoming EV models, particularly the Chevrolet Blazer slated for 2024, could help it glean additional data regarding the way EV owners drive and charge their vehicles.
GM’s design team will work closely with several Google experts on the design of the EV-specific onboard navigation and infotainment systems.
This is actually a key milestone in the two companies’ working relationship, which was initially established in 2019 to develop the digital framework for proprietary infotainment systems closely integrated with other critical systems like the GM Super Cruise driving assistant. Likewise, GM is also fast-tracking a way by which its EVs could double as platforms for a number of online subscription services.
The End of an Era?
But not everyone is happy with GM’s decision to scrap third-party mirroring apps from its EV line. Apple, in particular, sees the phaseout as a setback in terms of claiming more digital real estate on car dashboards throughout North America.
Indeed, it wasn’t too long ago since Chevrolet touted the fact that it offered more models featuring either CarPlay or Android Auto than any other car brand.
But even as the car manufacturer is set to phase out the production of new light combustion vehicles within the next decade, its own people see how it stands to benefit by focusing its people and finances on a single integrated approach for connecting in-vehicle infotainment and navigation features with a number of critical aspects like assisted driving.
According to Mike Hichme, executive director of GM’s digital cockpit experience, the company has a number of upcoming driver assistance features that should be tightly coupled with navigation systems. As such, GM engineers don’t want to design these to be dependent on a car owner accessing such features through their mobile phone.


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Samsung says public One UI 3.0 Beta coming to Galaxy S20 lineup soon
Samsung’s Beta manager in South Korea has confirmed that the Samsung Galaxy S20, S20+ and Galaxy S20 Ultra will be getting the public One UI 3.0 Beta based on Android 11 “soon”. Although the future update firmware is already available as a closed Beta, it will soon be available for everyone to test out.
As is customary, interested participants with an eligible device should sign up through the Samsung Members app. The One UI 3.0 Beta is first coming to the phone maker’s home market of South Korea, but we anticipate availability for testers in EU and the US will follow soon after.
The Samsung Galaxy Note20 duo should see the Beta not long after the release of that for the Galaxy S20 lineup. One UI 3.0 will bring improved gesture navigation, refined privacy and granular permissions, built-in screen recording, smart home controls, and conversation bubbles.
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Another Xbox One Update Will Be Available for Preview “Soon”
The new Xbox One March update has just landed on Microsoft’s new console bringing Twitch streaming and a whole lot of improvements, but looks like the development team isn’t resting on laurels, and more is on the way.
A new announcement posted by Microsoft on the private beta preview forums mentions that the next preview is going to come “soon,” as related by Reddit user FLASH2000.
Q. When will we get another update to preview?
A. We’re still working on the exact date, and will let you know when as soon as we can, along with what changes will be present in the new build. But it will be SOON!
At the moment the improvement that the next update will bring aren’t known, but if one that was just released is any indication, Xbox One users have reason to be excited by the progress being made on the console.


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Welcome back to Spatial Beats. This week, we look at tech stocks, Quest 2’s continued rise, Google’s VR sunsetting, and horsing around with Snapchat See the full roundup below.
Tech Stocks Had A Great Q4. The market has responded today by falling 600 points. The NASDAQ is down 2.4%, taking back nearly half the month’s gain, as trading continues. Clever day traders, now is your chance.
Zuckerberg says Quest 2 will be the first mainstream VR headset. In a Q4 2020 earnings call, Zuck notes the launch of Quest 2 drove a 156% increase in the company’s non-advertising revenue. Zuckerberg also stated that the Quest 2 successor is in development already and that smartglasses and AR glasses will come in the near future. The CEO said they have but one competitor, Apple, which hasn’t yet announced any XR, AR or VR, products.
Tilt Brush becomes open source. Google’s solution to Tilt Brush’s problems is to give away the source code on GitHub and torch its free 3D asset store Poly, the only asset store compatible with Tilt Brush’s animated brushes. What is up with Google and XR? Seems like they’re zeroing in on Maps as the sweet spot for XR and tossing everything else, like their Daydream headset, their investment in Magic Leap, Poly, and finally Tilt Brush, overboard. In the long run it could be a good thing. Perhaps a developer will release a more sophisticated, multi-user version, which would definitely get me to buy it again. Of course, for long term success, there has to be a source of recurring revenue, which leads us to this next story.
Shutterstock buys TurboSquid for $75M, to create another marketplace for 3D assets. The acquisition will make Shutterstock the world’s largest 3D marketplace by revenue, according to Shutterstock CEO Stan Pavlovsky. Their biggest 2D competitor, Getty Images, doesn’t have 3D assets. Yet. There is this thing called Poly. I’m not saying it has to be free, but someone could get a lot of 3D developers as a result of providing this service.
‘Gravity Sketch’ is now free to individual users. The product is a 3D modeling software for PC VR and Oculus Quest headsets. The price used to be $25, but now it is free for individual users.
Valve and OpenBCI announce partnership to use brain-computer interface tech in VR. Gabe Newell, Valve’s CEO, believes this technology will create a new road to immersive, high-fidelity experiences by having the brain read technologies built into a headset. In November, OpenBCI announced Galea which is BCI designed for VR/AR headsets. Further info of the partnership is not known at this time.
Snap acquires Ariel AI. This team is dedicated to developing ways to track the human form in AR with accuracy. The acquisition aligns with Snap’s goal to improve the seamless capability to human and object mapping.
Sundance Film Festival brings VR Storytelling and Movie Premieres to your home. The Sundance film festival kicked off on January 28th and is allowing users for the first time ever to enjoy the fest online. You can join virtual environments for festival mingling or join Q&As and drop into post-premiere parties. In addition, the New Frontier program, the tech-heavy VR focused branch on cutting-edge storytelling is showcasing over a dozen XR experiences. And you don’t need a headset. Most will also allow you to participate in the experience via PC.
HaptX Ready To Ship Enterprise Data Gloves. HaptX, makers of force-feedback VR gloves, announced today they are ready to ship their advanced force-feedback gloves, dubbed the DK2 (Developer Kit 2). According to the company, the HaptX DK2 is the first true-contact haptics available to purchase on the market, utilizing 130 points of feedback on a user’s hand.
Snapchat AR takes filters to the next level. Snapchat adds a horse filter, KISS filter, and virtual being filter which maps your face or environment and augments them. The AR filters, especially those which are community built, allow Snap users to have access to AR at their fingertips. Face tracking, body tracking, and environment mapping will only improve and so will the fidelity of filters.
Former Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz launched his new company Sun and Thunder at the VentureBeat Conferences on Metaverse(s) this week. Never one to think small, Abovitz plans to create virtual AI-driven beings. The famous inventor thinks he can imbue these virtual beings with so much creative intelligence that they can then help the company make better virtual beings.
GoodTrust Raises $2.3 Million in Seed-Funding Round and launches a new digital-legacy program. The seed-round investors include Bling Capital, Azure Capital Partners, Synetro Ventures as well as private investors including Nikesh Arora. The new digital legacy platform will protect digital assets (photos, social media accounts, etc.) and memories to organize, protect, and preserve a person’s “digital afterlife.”
This Week in XR is now a podcast hosted by Paramount’s Futurist Ted Schilowitz and Charlie Fink, the author of this weekly column. You can find it on podcasting platforms Spotify, iTunes, and YouTube. Watch the latest episode below.
Charlie Fink is an author and futurist focused on spatial computing. See his books here. Spatial Beats contains insights and inputs from Fink’s collaborators including Paramount Pictures futurist Ted Shilowitz.


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Norwegian Cruise Line’s acquisition of Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises will give it the courage to base a ship in Southampton or Dover, according to Norwegian chief executive Kevin Sheehan.
He said it was too much of a risk to commit so much capacity to the UK market when you have only 13 ships, but with 21 in the combined group, it would definitely be a consideration now.
Sheehan said the deal was financially beneficial but also brought other benefits.
“It helps us withstand economic situations like recessions – the type of customers who travel with Oceania and Regent have a lot of money and that top end of the industry weathered the downturn well.”
It also helps it become more resilient to geographical situations and makes it operationally “smarter”.
But he said “synergies” across the three brands would be created “behind the curtain” initially.
“Certainly for a period of time because we don’t want to do anything stupid, we will continue selling and marketing the three brands individually as it’s worked well and we don’t want to mess that up.
“I don’t want to keep changing strategies like Royal Caribbean has, so we will stay as we are for quite a while,” he said.
But he said sales and marketing teams for each of the three brands would start to share knowledge and best practice.
And commenting on Royal Caribbean chief executive Richard Fain’s recent declaration that he wanted his company to be the best, Sheehan added:
“He can say he wants to be the best, but the report card comes out once a quarter and then we will see who’s best.
“We are bringing together two excellent businesses. Norwegian has gone from being a joke in this industry to the best in class in terms of yields, operational profit and onboard spend. It’s very positive and is only going to become more so.”
Sheehan said the deal had been financed by raising cash, selling some equity and raising money from banks including JP Morgan, Barclays and Deutsche Bank adding that every other bank had fallen over themselves trying to be part of it as “they could see how compelling the transaction was”.
Sheehan said bringing Oceania and Regent parent company Prestige Holdings into the fold had always been on his mind, but talks had never got far.
“I brought it up a couple of times but it never really got going. It was always too complicated or things were happening and getting in the way, like launching ships or taking the company public.
“But then Frank del Rio and I started a romance – we went for dinner and got to where we are now. It’s extremely exciting.”
Sheehan said he was not looking for any further acquisitions in the immediate future.
“We’re a conservative group of guys and girls and our hands will be full for a while. Our focus now is to ensure we have a very successful launch of our new Norwegian ship, Escape, next year and of the new Regent ship in 2016.”


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Call of Duty: WWII will slow the action down by making a major change to movement.
Digital Extremes, the team behind Warframe, has unveiled Keystone, a new competitive first-person shooter.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's next event will introduce all-new Operation Hydra Events.
A new update is now available for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare alongside two new pieces of DLC.
Cliff Bleszinski and Boss Key Productions multiplayer shooter Lawbreakers has been announced for PlayStation 4.
Following the Destiny 2 gameplay reveal, the cost of a WoW Token reached an all time high.
Bungie has decided to move away from Destiny's controversial Grimoire card system in the sequel.


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Home Depot (NYSE: HD) this week announced solid sales and profit growth as the retailer took full advantage of a continued rebound in the housing market. Following the results, CEO Craig Menear and his executive team held a conference call with Wall Street analysts to put the latest business trends into perspective. Here are the key points management wanted to get across to investors in that presentation.
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Management stressed the balanced nature of growth this quarter. Not only did all of its product departments expand, but gains were broad-based geographically as well. Every region of the county posted positive comps, led by the south. The Mexican and Canadian markets churned higher, too, and posted their 52nd and 20th consecutive positive comp quarters, respectively.
Home Depot also enjoyed a healthy mix of customer traffic gains and average spending increases. The company served 2.4% more customers this quarter, customers who on average spent 3.1% per trip. That produced a 6% overall comps gain that trounced rival Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) 3% increase.
Winning with the pro customer
Home Depot dominates the consumer side of the home-improvement business, but much of its growth lately has come from professional contractors. Executives refer to this segment as the "pro" niche to distinguish it from do-it-yourself shoppers.
Pro sales grew faster than the DIY segment, with transactions valued at over $900 spiking higher by 11%. That marked an acceleration over the prior quarter's 8% uptick and largely explains how the company managed to speed up its overall comps growth to 6% this quarter from 5% last quarter.
Image source: Home Depot investor presentation.
Home Depot poured resources and management time into the e-commerce sales channel this quarter. To name just a few examples, it launched a complete redesign of its website, rolled out new buy-online-ship-from-store functionality, and shifted products between its three fulfillment centers. As a result, delivery costs and times have both declined, improving the customer experience in the process. The impressive 6% of sales that e-commerce represents for Home Depot shows that investments like these are paying off for the business.
Buying more stock
The business is generating plenty of money, with operating cash flow reaching $7.9 billion through the first three quarters of the year, up from $7.4 billion last year. Home Depot decided to supplement those funds with more debt this quarter, though. Reflecting its strong retailing position, the company secured half of the debt at a record 3.5% interest rate paired with a 40-year maturity.
All of the proceeds will go toward stock buybacks, which means the company will now return $7 billion to shareholders through that channel (up from the $5 billion original plan) and $3.5 billion through dividends.
Tough fourth quarter ahead
Home Depot faces a difficult fourth-quarter for growth because the comparable period last year was powered by unusually warm winter weather. Comps soared 9% to end fiscal 2015 thanks mainly to a December that was the hottest on record going back 121 years.
The company isn't likely to post huge gains over those inflated figures this time around, but management still sees comps rising by 5% for the full fiscal year. That's easily enough to ensure more market share gains over Lowe's, which projects its comps will rise by just 3.5% in 2016.
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Wearing merch is no longer just a way to identify one’s favorite music. The idea has now entered the fashion consciousness, and artists are stepping up their merchandise offering to reflect that. Rapper Kanye West played a key role in this shift: Yeezy fans will remember when he ignited a frenzy for his own Life of Pablo merch a few years back, which he smartly dropped at the height of the streetwear craze. Soon after, virtually every artist seemed to recognize the symbiotic relationship between music and fashion: Everyone from Beyoncé to Rico Nasty have launched their own fashion-forward merch lines.
Now, a new label is tapping this merch movement in its own way and has already caught the eye of at least one major artist. Visaroot Chantajhon is a 21-year old artist based in Bangkok, Thailand, who goes by the nickname Gunner. Through his label Rocheboy, he repurposes vintage band tees into patchwork sweaters, occasionally designing hybrid jeans and vests as well. (After all, new merch lines don’t compare to the vintage sort, which have been specially worn with love over time.) As a longtime lover—and wearer—of merch, Gunner wanted to make something unique out of his rock band tee collection. “My dad introduced punk and grunge music to me when I was 10 years old,” he says, adding that he spent his childhood listening to Sex Pistols, Misfits, Blink-182, and many more. Around 2018, he began mixing and matching these pieces, sewing them into something new altogether. “I started learning to sew by myself on YouTube,” he says. “I started from zero.”


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What started as a conversation between two former junior high school classmates on a downtown Tulsa sidewalk has evolved in the more then 50 years since to QuikTrip, a socially responsible (the company donates 5% of its annual net profit to qualified 501(c)3 agencies) c-store chain that was selected as the 34th best company to work for by Fortune this year.
- Headquarters: Tulsa, Okla.
- Founding year: 1958
- Number of locations as of January 2011:
- more than 570
It’s not the first time QuikTrip was named as one of the best, however. This year marks its ninth consecutive term on the list. “QuikTrip is honored to receive such prestigious recognition as one of the best companies to work for,” said Chet Cadieux, president and CEO of QuikTrip.
“As our country continues to experience turbulent economic conditions, QuikTrip has stayed true to our culture and core values. The end result has produced tremendous store growth, which has allowed us to hire hundreds of new employees as well as give existing employees the opportunity to move up with the company.”


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The Beastie Boys have taken a firm stance throughout their career on not allowing companies to use their music for advertising purposes. Just a few years ago they sued Monster for using “Sabotage,” “So Whatcha Want,” and “Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun” in an ad campaign. Now they're at odds with a San Francisco-area start-up who have parodied Beastie Boys' 1986 record "Girls" to promote their toy company.
The parody, which can be viewed above, was created by GoldieBlox. They fashion themselves as a company who "believe there are a million girls out there who are engineers. They just might not know it yet. We think GoldieBlox can show them the way." The video follows by utilizing toys and logic for some pretty innovative and entertaining visuals.
The Beastie Boys have responded to the "Girls" parody with an open letter that also draws on their recent encounter with the company. According to Mike D and Ad-Rock, the two surviving members of the group, they reached out to GoldieBlox last week and requested the video be taken down. GoldieBlox responded by suing the Beastie Boys and also claimed they "created its parody video specifically to comment on the Beastie Boys song, and to further the company’s goal to break down gender stereotypes.” You can read Beastie Boys' open letter below.
Like many of the millions of people who have seen your toy commercial “GoldieBlox, Rube Goldberg & the Beastie Boys,” we were very impressed by the creativity and the message behind your ad.
We strongly support empowering young girls, breaking down gender stereotypes and igniting a passion for technology and engineering.
As creative as it is, make no mistake, your video is an advertisement that is designed to sell a product, and long ago, we made a conscious decision not to permit our music and/or name to be used in product ads.
When we tried to simply ask how and why our song “Girls” had been used in your ad without our permission, YOU sued US.


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Garnell Whitfield is still traumatized by the loss of his mother to racist violence in a Buffalo supermarket.
Whitfield claims that the subsequent mass shootings, as well as Republican lawmakers’ refusal to support stricter gun laws, have made it even more difficult to cope. He is also concerned that many elected officials and religious institutions have been deafeningly silent about the impact of White supremacy.
“You go from being sad and missing your loved one to being furious,” Whitfield explained. “Knowing that other people are going through the same thing is a lot to take in.” It means a lot to know that people in positions of authority are essentially giving the go-ahead for this nonsense.”
Tops Friendly Markets will reopen its Buffalo store on Friday, two months after Whitfield’s 86-year-old mother, Ruth E. Whitfield, and nine other people were killed when a White supremacist opened fire there. Tops Friendly Markets said in a news release that the supermarket has been completely renovated, with additional safety and security measures in place, as well as the creation of an inside memorial for the shooting victims. Improved video monitoring systems, an emergency evacuation audio/visual alarm system, the installation of additional emergency exits, and increased professional security both inside and outside the store are among the new security measures in the supermarket.
While the Tops store is desperately needed in the neighborhood, many Buffalo residents are still traumatized by the massacre, according to community members. Families and survivors are still in mourning. Residents are concerned about another attack. And there is still apprehension among neighbors when they see a White person walking through Masten Park, a predominantly Black neighborhood. Local activists say they don’t expect many people to shop at the store in the first few weeks after it reopens, but they hope that isn’t the case. Before Tops opened in 2003, the east side neighborhood was a food desert, and residents fought hard to get a grocery store.
“I think there will be people who don’t want to go there and will never go there again,” former Buffalo fire commissioner Garnell Whitfield predicted. “However, convenience and necessity take precedence, and that store will remain a viable part of that community.”
Thursday afternoon’s dedication ceremony for the store’s reopening included a community prayer and a moment of silence for the shooting victims.
Liz Bosley, a community activist, said she has spoken to many residents, particularly the elderly, who are terrified of returning to the Tops location. Some wish Tops had demolished and rebuilt the store so people wouldn’t have to relive the devastation, she said.
Residents, according to Bosley, have been going to a makeshift market set up by volunteers after the shooting, where free groceries and hot meals are distributed. Others have taken buses or Uber rides to other parts of town to do their grocery shopping. Still, Masten Park requires a traditional supermarket, according to Bosley.
Bosley is applying for a job at Tops in the hopes that residents will see her working there and feel more at ease shopping there.
Other community leaders hope to persuade residents to shop at the reopened store as well.
Bishop Perry Davis of Buffalo’s New Life Harvest World Ministries said he planned to be at Tops when it reopened on Friday to console the community and comfort anyone who shows up. The reopening of the store, according to Davis, will reopen old wounds for many in the neighborhood.
Davis, on the other hand, is encouraging the community to show its strength by patronizing Tops, which he describes as a neighborhood necessity.
Mark Talley, whose mother, Geraldine Talley, was killed in the attack, agreed that Buffalo’s east side must remain strong and Tops remain open.
But Talley has stated that he will not be deterred by the tragedy. He expresses his grief by assisting in the distribution of groceries to residents at the makeshift market. Talley stated that the market has drawn large crowds each week, demonstrating that it filled a void in the community while Tops was closed.


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A few hours after the presentation of the logo of its new Street Fighter 6, Capcom faces the revolt of Internet users who discovered that it is a design purchased on Adobe Stock.
A few hours ago, Capcom revealed its new fighting game Street Fighter 6 after a week-long teaser. If the first trailer only showed two fighters, including a Ryu closer to the Hulk design (that of Edward Norton, not the wrestler Hulk Hogan), he especially unveiled the new logo, very stylized and therefore very far from the usual.
Fans have since scoured the net for inspiration, accusing the designers of being too lazy”. And after a fairly quick search, some have come to the conclusion that Capcom didn’t bother: the logo can be found on a bank of free photos. Not even on an obscure site, since it is Adobe Stock, sold at 80 dollars. The simple difference remains the addition of the 6 on a circle in the form of a spray (it’s djeunz).
Several influential Internet users have therefore asked SNK and Capcom to review the copy before the game is released. Some have also proposed alternatives that are not much more expensive for a company the size of Capcom: using creation platforms that pay unique artists, for example. Obviously, all this has also given rise to hijackings on the networks.
Please @CapcomUSA_ If there’s one thing w/ #StreetFighter6 that practically EVERYONE has come to an agreement on is the logo. We understand 6 will be different than previous SF’s, visually & otherwise. But -something- has to be done abt the logo. Praying for the best in 4 months. pic.twitter.com/AIy8JyGnbT
— Maximilian Dood (@maximilian_) February 21, 2022
The story does not say if Capcom contacted the original author of the image to get his logo back against a real contract. Moreover, by digging a little, the creator has also designed a logo that looks like the esports team Team SoloMid.


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Food supplements do little for malnourished children’s weight
by Gary Finnegan – World Health Matters (Belgium) –
Providing energy-dense food supplements to malnourished children in developing countries has limited effect on the weight of malnourished children, according to a new study led by a Belgian university.
In emergency situations, international aid organisations support affected populations by distributing food and sometimes by also providing children with nutritional supplements such as RUSF – Ready-to-Use Supplementary Food (RUSF), a lipid-based nutrient supplement.
However, this practise has been brought into question by a cluster randomised controlled trial by researchers from Belgium and France. The study, coordinated by Lieven Huybregts from Ghent University in Belgium, investigated the effect of a targeted daily dose of RUSF in children aged between 6 and 36 months in the city of Abeche, Chad.
All households included in the study received a general food aid parcel that included staple foods but eligible children in the intervention households were also given a daily RUSF ration.
The study found that giving energy-dense food supplements to young children in addition to a general food package in a country with food shortages did not reduce levels of wasting (low weight for height, a sign of acute under-nutrition) but slightly increased their height and haemoglobin levels.
The study was facilitated by the international non-governmental organisation Action Against Hunger-France (ACF-France) in collaboration with European researchers and was published in the PLOS Medicine.
“Adding child-targeted RUSF supplementation to a general food distribution resulted in increased haemoglobin status and linear growth, accompanied by a reduction in diarrhoea and fever episodes. However, we could not find clear evidence that adding RUSF to a household food ration distribution of staple foods was more effective in preventing acute malnutrition,” the authors said, suggesting that alternatives for preventing acute malnutrition should be explored.
Kathryn Dewey and Mary Arimond from the University of California, who were not involved in the study, said more research is needed to understand the potential for lipid-based supplements in promoting growth.
“High-quality programmatic studies can help provide urgently needed information on the cost and comparative cost effectiveness of different integrated strategies for filling nutrient gaps and promoting healthy growth,” they wrote in a commentary paper responding to the findings.


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STOCKHOLM Reuters reported on Thursday a surprise operating profit for the December-February period, despite the weak demand of consumers as they curtailed spending in the wake of soaring inflation.
In the first quarter of the Swedish group's fiscal year, the Swedish group's operating profit was 725 million Swedish crowns $69.73 million against a 458 million profit a year ago and a mean loss of 1.10 billion, according to a Refinitiv poll of analysts.
The company said that it had boosted earnings by about 1 billion crowns, as a result of consolidating the earnings of the Sellpy second-hand platform.
H&M showed signs of bringing its costs under control, but it still struggled to compete with big rivals Inditex, owner of Zara and other brands, as well as rapidly expanding fast fashion online retailers such as SHEIN and Temu.
The external factors that influence purchasing costs continue to improve, work on the cost and efficiency programme is at full speed and many of the changes we have made in recent years are beginning to have an effect, Chief Executive Helena Helmersson said in a statement.
H&M's first quarter revenue, released separately on March 14, was worse than feared, as the small increase in sales missed most estimates, analysts said at the time.
After the pandemic, H&M's more cost-conscious base has resisted as inflation eats into purchasing power, while SHEIN and Temu won success online with cut-price items such as $10 dresses.


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According to Auto Express, the redesigned A3 could be previewed late next year with an evolutionary styling that brings it closer to the A4. And like you, we’re not so sure what that means, as the current A3 already looks like a smaller packaged A4, something that applies to Audi’s entire lineup these days.
A variety of different body styles will be available and rumors suggest the lineup could be expanded to include a coupe.
Little is known about the car’s interior, but it will likely adopt an assortment of familiar technologies including the company’s virtual cockpit system. Other possibilities include a WiFi hotspot, a wireless smartphone charger, and some semi-autonomous driving technology.
Underneath the skin, the A3 will ride on an updated version of the MQB platform which will also underpin the next-generation Volkswagen Golf. The platform is expected to grow in size, so backseat passengers will probably find a more accommodating cabin. Despite being slightly larger, the model could actually weigh a little bit less than its predecessor.
Engine options remain unconfirmed, but there will likely be an assortment of familiar gasoline and diesel units with updates to improve performance and fuel efficiency. Speaking of the latter, rumors suggest the company will offer an eco-friendly e-tron hybrid as well as several mild hybrids which use the company’s 48-volt electrical system.
The redesigned Audi A3 is expected to be introduced in 2019 with slightly higher prices than the current model.
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Although there has been a lot of rumors and even renders of the upcoming GTX Titan Black graphics card, we now have the first picture of the new GTX Titan Black, and it is not as black as we hoped it would be.
Based on a fully unclocked 28nm GK110 GPU with 2880 CUDA cores, 240 TMUs, 48 ROPs and a 384-bit memory interface paired up with 6GB of GDDR5 memory, the new GTX Titan Black looks exactly like the old one, just with black embossed Titan letters and slightly darker shroud accents. Unlike the rest of the GK110 based graphics cards, the GTX Titan has full Double Precision Floating Point performance.
The new GTX Titan Black is expected to launch sometime next week with a price of around US $1,000.
More info over at Videocardz.com.


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July 11, 2017
Looking into the near future, everyone expects a lot out of AI. At least 32% of executives believe that by 2020, AI will be helping to guide their sales, marketing or customer service functions. Another 20% see AI's greatest potential impact in non-customer facing corporate functions, including finance, strategic planning, corporate development, and HR.
However, the survey's authors caution, "it’s clear that most companies are still quite unsure where they should be using cognitive technologies. This is the case for even the most advanced users of the technology — the leaders in our survey."
The TCS survey report's authors point to potential examples of AI at work: "AI systems used in finance can spot customers with credit problems before credit is granted. HR departments have huge amounts of digital data today that they could use to identify unhappy, highly productive, highly influential, and other employee types. AI is guiding customer service representatives to more quickly resolve customer problems and anticipate future purchases, quickly and securely reconciling mass overnight transactions for financial institutions."
Unfortunately, as feared, there will be some job losses dues to AI. Executives in the study estimate AI will eliminate somewhere between four and seven percent of job roles by 2020.
At the same time, those companies in the TCS survey charging full speed ahead - seeing revenue and cost improvements from AI - expect to also need at least three times as many new jobs in each function by 2020, due to expanded business opportunities.
The survey's authors identified companies with the greatest revenue and cost improvements from AI as the ‘leaders’ in the sample, while the ‘followers’ are firms with the smallest revenue and cost improvements. Leaders outspent followers by a factor of five (in terms of spending as a percent of company revenue). Leaders generated average revenue increases of 16% from AI initiatives in 2015, versus 2014, whereas laggards saw a modest 5% revenue growth.
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Schwarz, 33, has been with Capital since 1998 when she joined from law firm Clifford Chance. She has led most of the group's recent takeovers, including Border Television, Beat FM and last week's Choice FM.
She also set up the joint venture with Walt Disney to create a children's radio network. As strategy and development director, Schwarz will oversee digital radio within the group.
Capital has also brought in Selfridges chief executive Peter Williams as a new non-executive director. Williams, 49, also chairs the London Retail Consortium.
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New York Senator Charles Schumer has called on the Food and Drug Administration to investigate whether a new caffeinated peanut butter is safe. The spread in question is STEEM Peanut Butter, which has 150mg of caffeine per two-tablespoon serving and 1,200mg in a jar. At that dosage, one sandwich could have more caffeine than two cups of coffee, and the average consumption of 200mg per day. According to the FDA, safe doses top out around 400mg per day. It's worth noting, however, that a venti brewed coffee at Starbucks clocks 415mg.
Schumer's biggest concern is over accidental consumption by children. Caffeine can cause increased heart rate and blood pressure, and even be fatal in the case of an overdose. While most parents don't have to worry about kids getting into their coffee, Schumer points out that peanut butter is a near-universal food for children.
"Last night I was with my three- and six-year-old cousins, and all they wanted for dinner was peanut butter," says Lisa Goldberg, a licensed clinical nutritionist. "Should they somehow get this peanut butter outside of their home, it could have grave side effects on such young bodies."
At the moment, STEEM can only be found online and in select stores in Massachusetts and Connecticut. If Senator Schumer gets his way, this wouldn’t be the first time the FDA pressured a caffeinated product off the shelves. Wrigley’s Alert Energy gum, which had 40mg of caffeine per piece, was discontinued, and the notorious Four Loko caffeinated alcoholic beverage had its formula drastically altered.
"To think that peanut butter, one of the snacks most closely associated with children, might have to be stored in the medicine cabinet as opposed to the kitchen cabinet should serve as a jolt to the FDA," Schumer stated.
Though STEEM is clearly marketed toward adults, Goldberg says parents looking for that caffeine buzz should hit Starbucks or the corner deli for some coffee. However, if kids aren't in the picture and you could use an extra jolt from your morning toast, cut back on your coffee intake, or switch to decaf, to make room for STEEM.
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As mega-retailer Walmart announced it would close its Boulder Neighborhood Market after a brief four years, much of Boulder cheered. A Daily Camera story on the planned exit drew dozens of gleeful comments on Facebook, and a handful of individuals — the same ones who protested the superstore’s opening — came out on closing day to celebrate its demise.
But Jan Lagomarsino Brummett was trying to figure out where she would now shop for groceries. Where else could she find organic produce at such affordable prices, or canned goods that were sometimes three times cheaper than at neighboring stores? Where else could she go and, in one trip, get luggage and bandages, vitamins and her favorite brand of natural tea?
It wasn’t that Brummett suffered from a lack of choice: Boulder is home to more grocery stores than nearly anywhere in the nation. But, as a senior counting, if maybe not every penny, then at least watching them closely, Brummett turned to Walmart because it helped her practice responsible spending.
“If you have two cans of organic peas, and one costs 50 cents and the other costs $1.50, why would you go to the store with the $1.50 one?” she said. “I’m not wasting my dollars when I could make the savings (and) have that money for something else. It’s responsible spending.”
As Boulder property values skyrocket to new and once-unimaginable heights, stores catering to those of more modest means have fled. In the past four years, Boulder has lost its Walmart, a Savers thrift store and its only dollar store, a Dollar Tree. In recent months, discount home goods store Tuesday morning left Table Mesa Shopping Center in South Boulder, and Ross shuttered its Boulder location in Market Square at the intersection of 30th and Walnut.
Industry insiders are puzzled by the moves, and policy experts worry that lower-income residents — already burdened with the double yoke of rising housing costs and stagnating wages — will be left will fewer affordable options for buying basic necessities.
Everywhere but here
Retail experts are largely stumped as to why stores would be leaving Boulder at a time when the city’s economy — and the performance of off-price retailers — has never been better.
With the exception of Walmart, all the publicly traded departed stores are in the midst of expansions. (Information on Savers was not available; officials for the private company did not respond to requests for comment, though its website lists three new or soon-to-be stores in Canada.)
Two off-price stores remain. TJX Companies operates the slightly higher-priced Marshalls and HomeGoods. A spokesperson declined to comment on the performance of the stores.
“There’s almost no closures going on” among those retailers, said Jan Kniffen, who heads his own retail consulting firm in the New York area. “They’re not closing stores (and) they’re seldom leaving areas (where) they’re already established.”
Savers and Dollar Tree left when the building they were in sold, to be redeveloped into a Lucky’s Market. A spokesperson for Dollar Tree did not directly answer a question on why it chose not to relocate elsewhere in Boulder, except to say the brand carefully reviews “market demographics (and) “the competitive landscape” before opening a new store.
As a company, Dollar Tree is flourishing, said analyst Kelly Crago, with New York-based Buckingham Research Group.
Rising lease costs?
It’s less clear why Ross and Tuesday Morning left; the former did not respond to requests for comment and the latter declined. Lease costs could have played a role, as property values across the county have increased some 37.5 percent between 2013 and 2016. Those costs are often passed along from landlords to tenants in the form of higher rents.
Crago said that non-department stores such as Dollar Tree typically set up in markets with rents in the range of $15 to $18 per square foot. Boulder’s median (excluding the high-price downtown market) ranges from $18 to $26 per square foot, according to a fourth quarter report from Newmark Knight Frank of Denver.
But Allen Ginsborg, developer of Longmont’s Village at the Peaks, argued that rents are inconsequential to retailers — so long as sales are high enough to offset the cost.
“They’re really focused on sales volume,” Ginsborg said. “Their return on investment is measured on the amount of sales they can produce.”
Kniffen, too, said these retailers are not leaving other areas that have experience rapid rent growth. Boulder, he posited, is “an outlier,” possibly due to local factors such as the historically low unemployment making it difficult for national chains to recruit and retain workers.
“It’s not a story I’ve heard” elsewhere, he said. “It seems very odd to me that those names would be exiting Boulder.”
Reduced demand is a possible explanation. Census data suggests that Boulder’s population of low-income earners are shrinking as a share of the total population. Specifically, the group making $15,000 to $25,000 (adjusted for inflation), which made up 10.3 percent of the population in 2011, by 2016 made up only 8.3 percent.
Jennifer Greany, owner and Manager of the ARES Thrift Store in Boulder, said her regular group of needs-based customers has noticeably diminished in recent years.
“We have hundreds of regulars within a 10-block radius that pop in three, four, seven times a week, and we count on them (to) provide the backbone of our sales,” Greany said. But there are fewer of them now — “especially since 2014. Some come back to visit and let us know they had to move to Broomfield or Longmont.”
Thrift stores are often among the first to go in communities with increasing costs, said Derek Hyra, an associate professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at American University who has studied the effects of neighborhood change on housing, urban politics and race.
An abundance of thrift
That hasn’t happened yet in Boulder. The city has an abundance of places to buy used goods: six thrift stores, plus twice as many consignment shops, and sellers of pre-owned sports gear and books. And business is booming: The Boulder Goodwill is one of the top-performing along the Front Range, averaging over 600 customers a day during sale weekends.
Because of the relative wealth of Boulder, the quality of used goods available at thrift stores is often higher than for new products on shelves at off-price stores. Boulder shoppers appreciate that value, said Diane McCarthy, who manages the Greenwood Wildlife Thrift Shop and Consignment Gallery, which supports Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center.
“We have high-end, brand-name clothing, furniture, decor, jewelry,” McCarthy said. “You can find pretty nice things.”
Thrift stores also play to Boulder’s love of sustainability and upcycling, as well as the element of giving back. Sans Savers, all of the city’s thrift options support various nonprofits.
Still, things are tough. Greany said she has offset ARES’ rising rent by increasing the amount of product it processes some 20 to 30 percent, with staff working late into the night to prepare inventory.
“How long we can be sustainable,” she said, “that’s the magic question. Time is of the essence when supporting small business.”
Though their numbers may be dwindling, Boulder is still home to many low-earners. Nearly one-third of households earned less than $35,000 in 2016, according to Census data.
Advocates warn that thrift stores are not viable alternatives for the low-income populations: inventory is limited; searching for items can be time consuming; and, crucially, they don’t sell food, one of the biggest expenses for a family or individual.
The average American spends 12.4 percent of his or her annual budget on food; with at least one child in the home, that rises to 14.8 percent, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The expense is second only to housing — 36.7 percent for single person — and transportation, 15.9 percent.
Numerous studies on food deserts show that when affordable food is not available locally, residents will travel long distances to get it, or spend more on nearby, but usually less healthy, items. When it comes to other segments of retail, research is lagging, Hyra said.
“Not enough people are really trying to understand (the) amenities that low-income people utilize,” Hyra said, instead focusing on access to affordable housing.
Because housing gets subsidized by various government entities, low-income populations often outlast the stores and services catering to them.
“If you can preserve affordable housing but not amenities for low-income residents, where does that leave them?”
A better place?
For many in Boulder, it doesn’t matter why Walmart or many of these other stores have left town — simply that they are gone is enough. Brummett was well acquainted with Boulderites’ negative opinions of the store, going to great lengths to hide her shopping bags from neighbors.
Although she doesn’t count herself among the group that “had to” shop there, she liked being able to afford organic produce, and saving money to spend on other things: rent, clothing, a meal out. The jubilation over Walmart’s demise is “very self-centered and selfish,” she said. “It doesn’t make Boulder a better place to be.”
Brummett has found somewhere better: Arizona, where she moved in recent months when she realized her housing options had become limited. Her long-time “discount shopping buddy,” Andrea Tuttle, remains, though she has begun to take more of her dollars out of town.
“I go to Longmont a lot,” said Tuttle, a retired educator. The city is home to most of the stores that have recently left Boulder — two Walmarts, three Dollar Trees, a Ross, a Tuesday Morning — plus several more affordable shops such as Big Lots and discount grocery store Save-A-Lot.
“Longmont has everything,” Tuttle said. “You learn to shop where you know things are.
“We used to just be so happy that everything we needed was right in town,” Brummett added. “Garage sales and thrift stores” are nice, she said, “but there’s a point you just don’t find what you need.”


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Global Market Insights, Inc. predicts that the European e-learning market will reach $ 130 billion by the end of 2026.
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in European economies has disrupted various types of businesses, including the large-scale construction and automotive industries around the world. Ironically, the pandemic has failed to affect the growing dynamics of the e-learning industry across the continent. In fact, the coronavirus pandemic has given a significant boost to the entire e-learning market in Europe as educational institutions and corporate offices have moved to online modes of connection, implementing digital learning methods to keep businesses running smoothly, and looking forward to meeting social distancing norms.
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Government intervention to expand the use of e-learning platforms during a pandemic
While countries across Europe, including Italy, have faced the wrath of the COVID-19 infection, paralyzing several businesses and witnessing a nationwide lockdown, state and central governments have come up with the idea of digitalizing corporations and educational institutions. In addition, these governments have begun to take the necessary steps to expand the use of e-learning platforms to keep the education and corporate sectors running smoothly.
For example, the Italian government in early 2020 developed a website to support schools activating vibrant forms of online learning during the isolation period imposed by the pandemic. Links to multiple sections of the page allow users to connect for free to tools and platforms available to educational institutions and use them in accordance with specific protocols signed by the Ministry of Education.
In line with this, the European Union has also allocated funds for the development of a European Data Portal to facilitate e-learning to provide a clear introduction to open data, offer support materials and provide training on the basics. Such initiatives are likely to offer a positive growth trajectory for the entire e-learning market across Europe.
A technological breakthrough in e-learning
Over the past few years, Europe has seen a tremendous technological and digital transformation in the field of e-learning. Reports indicate that a strong technology landscape across the region is expected to make a significant contribution to the regional e-learning market.
The German government has developed a framework for action under the 5G strategy, which launched in 2017, with the aim of driving network expansion and promotion of 5G applications in the country.
Needless to say, strong connectivity and reliable telecommunications infrastructure in various countries will potentially increase the deployment of e-learning technologies in the region in the coming years.
Growing penetration of mobile e-learning
Europe boasts a huge network of mobile phone users, which explains the growth of the e-learning market throughout the region. According to various reliable sources, smartphone ownership is around six out of ten in various developed countries such as Poland, Russia and Greece. This allowed the mobile e-learning market to gain a huge boost in the near future. In addition to this, the rise in penetration of reliable Internet connections, coupled with the growing proliferation of smartphones, will positively impact the overall market growth.
Broader picture of e-learning adoption in the corporate sector
In a pan-European e-learning market strategically driven by a vast array of applications, the enterprise sector is poised to make huge strides in the coming years, perhaps by incorporating the latest technology to maximize productivity and profitability. Employers place great emphasis on implementing training methods that allow them to reduce training time during working hours, while providing the flexibility they need.
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These factors appear to be driving demand for mobile learning solutions that offer employees access to video on the go.
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3.3. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
3.4. Value chain analysis
3.4.1. Company product snapshot
3.5. Innovative landscape
3.6. Regulations and directives
3.7. Drivers and Limitations
3.7.1. Market Drivers
3.7.2. Market restrictions
3.8. Industry analysis – Porter’s
3.9. Competitive Benchmarking 2019
3.9.1. Strategy dashboard
3.10. PEST analysis
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More than 20,000 rotorcraft aficionados descended on Orlando, Florida, for this year’s Heli-Expo, held at the Orange County Convention Center from March 6 to 8. Helicopter manufacturers unveiled several new models at the show and offered special pricing that for many apparently was too enticing to let pass. Eurocopter kicked things off with the introduction of the new EC145T2, notable for featuring a fenestron, Turbomeca Arriel 2E engines that provide 25 percent more power, and upgraded avionics. Also new were the Model 407GX and 407AH variants that Bell Helicopter unveiled on the show’s opening day. The Bell 407GX features a Garmin G1000H cockpit with synthetic-vision technology while the 407AH is a commercially available armed helicopter targeted primarily at the export market.
Swiss engineering firm Marenco, meanwhile, unveiled a light single-engine helicopter called the SKYe SH09 Swisshelicopter that the company said will be capable of carrying as many as eight passengers up to 430 nautical miles and have a maximum cruise speed of 145 knots. Certification and first deliveries are planned for 2015.
AgustaWestland didn’t introduce any new helicopters, but it showed off a mockup of its new AW169 light twin, unveiled at last summer’s Farnborough Airshow in England, and the latest offshore oil and aeromedical versions of its hot-selling AW139. Sikorsky’s X2 twin-coaxial-rotor demonstrator was the big draw at its show floor exhibit, which also featured an S-92 and S-76D. Eurocopter, meanwhile, hinted that it could launch its highly anticipated X4, a replacement model for the EC155 Dauphin, as early as this spring, and has added “e” designators to four models (the first being the AS350 B3e due for certification this summer) that offer enhanced capabilities.
With the helicopter market clearly on the rebound after a few tough years, all of the major OEMs predicted sales would begin rising in earnest by next year. Indeed, Heli-Expo 2011 already appeared to hint at the turnaround, as helicopter manufacturers announced scores of sales throughout the show, which itself set records for attendance and size, according to the Helicopter Association International.
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early on in 2020. We’re expecting the new iPhone 11 to launch in mid-September, so the AirPods 2 release date could well coincide with this – although, we’re not sure this is likely so soon after the . This year, the likeliest dates for an Apple event are Tuesday But it’s widely reported that Apple won’t launch a 5G handset until 2020. The top-secret iPhone 11 is tipped to be available in an all .
So will the new iPhones be 5G? Will they have a triple lens camera? And what about the release date and prices It’s been widely reported that Apple won’t release a 5G iPhone until 2020. . You’ll probably have to wait until 2020 for a major redesign with a smaller SoftBank President Ken Miyauchi reportedly leaked the 2019 iPhone’s release date during an earnings call. He claims the .
The general rule is that the newest phone will go on sale around two weeks after the release date. Preorders will suggest Apple will ship two new iPhone models with 6.1-inch and 6.5-inch . The iPhone 11 (or iPhone XI) first made headlines in May, but details about the phone have been sparse since then. MacWorld has now shared an update, and the release date is closer than you might .
New Iphone Release Date 2020 : With the event going on over the past few days, Konami continues to reveal new items arrive for PES 2020. Meanwhile, there’s a free PES 2020 demo available on select consoles to test out ahead of . “Samsung is almost metronomic with its product release cycles,” Ben told The Sun. “So it’s highly likely we’ll see the next generation of Galaxy S devices in February 2020 be big for new .