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The Borders Group may face liquidation after a committee of its unsecured creditors on Wednesday rejected a proposed takeover by the Najafi Cos.
The Wall Street Journal cited unnamed sources who said Borders has designated a group of liquidators as the opening bidders in a bankruptcy court auction that is scheduled to begin on July 19.
The developments raised the possibility that the remaining stores in Silicon Valley and the surrounding area, in Palo Alto, Sunnyvale and Monterey, may join those already shuttered in San Jose, San Mateo, Fremont, Los Gatos, Milpitas, Santa Cruz and Union City.
The New York Times reports that the committee was concerned that Jahm Najafi, whose private equity firm own the Book of the Month Club, would buy the company at a low price and then liquidate Borders later without letting creditors benefit.
Borders has reportedly had trouble getting publishers to ease the terms for shipping merchandise to its remaining stores.

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LG Windows Phone 8 line-up includes 5.5-inch HD
Smartphone manufacturer LG has been busy in the last few months getting ready a number of flagship devices that run on the Android operating system. It seems though the company is looking to strengthen its smartphone range with reports suggesting LG is going to offer some Windows Phone 8 handsets, and the line-up is thought to include a 5.5-inch HD handset.
At the moment the biggest players on the Windows Phone 8 platform are the likes of Nokia, HTC, and Huawei, but LG Electronics are now reportedly going to offer handsets on the platform at some point this year. The company is looking to sell around 75 million devices during 2013, which is up from the 55 million it achieved last year.
It hopes that sales for this year will include around 45 million smartphones, which would prove more lucrative for the company, with the rest of the numbers being made up by cheaper feature mobile phones. LG is hoping to ship at least ten million smartphones every quarter with efforts to try and achieve higher than that.
We have already heard of the company’s plans to release a flagship smartphone early this year, and now there is talk the 5.5-inch device that will have a resolution of 1920 x 1080 could also find its way onto the Windows Phone 8 platform.
A senior executive has told the Korea Times about its plans for the rest of the year and stated it had “a number of new Optimus devices this year and LG also has some new smartphones in the works, that will run Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8”.
It makes sense for the company to branch out into the WP8 platform as the market for devices running the software is currently a lot less crowded than Android is. Microsoft has strict rules regarding hardware released on the platform, and the majority of the handsets have higher specifications that in turn mean higher profits for the manufacturer.
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Multiple barriers exist for people trying to access weed as a harm-reduction tool: study
published on May 27, 2020 by Michelle Gamage in Mugglehead
The regulated cannabis industry is blocking marginalized people from buying weed, according to a new study.
While working as a post doctoral fellow in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside from 2017 to 2019, cannabis researcher and harm reduction expert Jenna Valleriani didn’t meet a single person who accessed cannabis through the regulated market.
She was working at the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use and researching how people use cannabis, but changed her research to ask why people weren’t buying legal weed.
While interviewing 23 people who lived in the DTES and self reported using drugs, Valleriani heard that the price of regulated cannabis and lack of product selection were some of the top reasons people bought from their friends or an unregulated retailer…View the full article


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Get excited. Three of fashion’s most highly-anticipated collabs are coming to a J.Crew near you–and really soon. As a follow-up to last year’s collaborations with CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winner Billy Reid and runners-up Eddie Borgo and Prabal Gurung, J. Crew has teamed up with this year’s honorees: Altuzarra, Pamela Love and Creatures of the Wind. [...]
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Dole Fresh Vegetables recalls some garden salad items due to the possibility of Listeria monocytogenes contamination. According to a corporate notification issued on the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website, a single sample of garden salad tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes during a random sample test by the Georgia Department of Agriculture. As a result, even though the items have passed their “best if used by” date and are thus unlikely to be found on shop shelves, people should check their food items to see whether they purchased them and still have them.
What is Listeria?
Listeria (also known as Listeriosis) is a dangerous infection that can be deadly in certain persons, such as small children, the elderly, and those with weaker immune systems. The health officials said Listeria infections may “most likely” affect those people who belong to these categories. Pregnant women may experience miscarriages and stillbirths as a result of the sickness.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), over 1,600 persons in the United States get listeriosis each year. The health agency added that Listeria is more likely to be found in soft cheeses made with unpasteurized or raw milk, raw sprouts, melons, and cold cuts because the deadly bacterium may “hide” in many foods.
States Affected By Dole Recall
No other Dole goods (or Dole-manufactured items) are affected by the recall, according to the company’s release.
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia were among the states that received these items. Both the FDA and the Dole websites provide images of the goods’ packaging.
Those who discover they still have the contaminated goods in their homes are encouraged to throw them away rather than eat them.


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How many times have you click on an adwords ad link thinking you were going to a certain website, only to be taken somewhere else? Obviously it has been happening to too many people. Google today announced that it will display the landing page’s domain name as part of the headlines on top placement ads.
The change should increase click thru to adsense ads that have strong generic domains. This is another reason to own prime generic domains for your business.


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This article started out as a rant, by me, in the Zero Waste Ireland Facebook group, but I feel so vexed about the confusion surrounding this issue I felt it warranted an article too.
The much-lauded bottle deposit scheme that has just been introduced in England and proposed for here is a fantastic anti-litter initiative but it is not, I repeat not, despite all the spin you’ll hear, a waste reduction measure.
I have no doubt that paying people to put their bottle in a ‘reverse vending machine’ instead of chucking it at the side of the road or placing it in a bin will really help to clean up the litter blight we see around our fair isle. Do you know what else would have worked and with have the added benefit of reducing our overall consumption of plastic, glass or metal? Investing in public fountains and subsidising soda / milk vending machines! If this was the initiative that our politicians were putting their support behind we’d be able to benefit from cheaper (or free) liquids and reduce the number of disposable bottles littered around the country.
You might well ask what’s the harm in installing these ‘reverse vending machines’? Answer: none except for the expense and energy involved in making, transporting, and running them. Plus it’s an completely missed opportunity; yet again our politicians have missed the chance to move society towards waste reduction. Worst still some are even claiming that these bottle deposit schemes are in some way a waste reduction manner. Really? Explain how paying someone to put packaging into a machine will discourage them from buying it in the first place.
In fact in Germany where bottle deposit schemes have been in place for over 15 years they’ve seen retailers switch from reusable glass bottles to single-use plastic bottles.
I would also be concerned about unintended consequences in relation to bin collection charges. If people start exchanging plastic bottles in their green bin for money at these vending machines, will the bin collection companies start increasing collection charges to cover any loss?
I get why their is confusion around this issue. When I first heard this suggested, I thought it was a great idea. It’s only when you really sit down and think about the logic behind it that as a waste reduction measure that you start the see the flaws. Most people don’t have the time (or interest) to do this, which is why I feel compelled, as a waste geek, to clarify some aspects of the debate. If given all the facts and possible alternatives people still want these reverse vending machines, well and good, but I’d hate to think people are supporting this initiative in the misguided belief that it’ll helping reduce waste.


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Daily Briefing – Thursday, November 2, 2017
FED Gov. Jerome Powell will be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, according to the Wall Street Journal. Powell is a hawk, backing interest rate hikes, shrinking the bank’s assets portfolio, and not relying on formulas to determine policy. He favors easing Dodd-Frank and bank stress tests, and would like to see Fannie May and Freddie Mac privatized. A multi-millionaire, Powell is the richest former investment banker to guide the institution. Meanwhile, in its statement last night, the FOMC left policy unchanged by upgraded growth expectations from solid to moderate – increasing chances drastically of a December rate hike. The Atlanta Fed projects Q4 GDP at 4.5%, following a rise in Markit’s Manufacturing PMI yesterday (+0.1 to 54.6) and a less-than expected drop in ISM’s Prices paid (68.5). The institute’s PMI, however, dropped 2 points to 58.7. In Canada, manufacturing also fell a point to 54.3 in October.
After 55 years of steadily increasing prices, Australia’s real estate bull market may finally be over, thanks – among others – to restrictions on foreign investments in major cities. Building permits rose 1.5% MoM in September but contracted on the yearly scale, and the nation’s trade surplus doubled from August’s $873mn to $1.745mn – a 4-month high. Elsewhere in Asia, indexes ended in the red, except in Japan, where the Nikkei closed at a 0.53% gain, driven by Honda and Sony earnings. And China is expected to raise the value of the Yen ahead of Trump’s visit next week, to head off criticism over devaluation aimed at promoting cheaper exports. Chinese indexes weakened overnight over potential liquidity tightening.
As markets await today’s expected rate hike from the Bank of England, the first in a decade, traders were pleased to see UK manufacturing rise half a point to 56.3 in October, as housing prices rose to 2.5%. On the mainland, markets are expected to open in the green, continuing to respond to Tuesday’s positive data and lacking major input yesterday and today – save Germany’s unemployment this morning and manufacturing PMIs today from Germany and the Eurozone.
CoinDesk reports that Amazon has registered 3 cryptocurrency web domains – a signal that it may be the first major retailer to adopt Bitcoin as a payment form. The commodity this week surged above $6600. Strong Winter demand in oil produced a less-than-expected 2.43 mB withdrawal in the EIA report, leaving WTI prices nearly flat at $54.36, below Tusday’s peak at above 55.
Tesla yesterday disappointed investors, reporting that its revenue was only $50mn above expectations. Spending is currently $1.4bn, M3 deliveries are a fraction of the anticipated, and shares fell 5% on the announcement. Facebook, on the other hand, delivered $10,3bn revenues – 1½ times expectations with an EPS of $159, over the 1$1.28 expected. Shares peaked, then returned to the 150 zone. Today, Starbucks reports after the closing bell as wages grow and the company invests in technology. EPS is expected to come in 55 cents (down from last year), on revenues of $5.81bn (up 100mn YoY). Apple expectations are mixed, although the company is expected – as usual – to beat expectations of $1.86 EPS on $51.17 bn earnings – an 11% increase YoY. iPhone sales representing 65% of total revenues, a lot hinges on the success of the iPhone-X release tomorrow – this after a relatively limp reception afforded the iPhone-8 last month.
|8:55 AM GMT||Germany: Unemployment & Markit Manufacturing PMI, followed at 9 by the EU’s index.|
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With snow on the ground, some people think it is time for farmers to put their feet up by the fire and relax, but they obviously have not visited the Dawson Creek winter farmers' market.
"Obviously, there are no vegetables here," said Gordon Parslow, the vice president of the farmers' market.
"There's some farmer products, we have a little bit of honey – and there's Victoria with her wool and Michael with his beef. We do what we can," said Parslow.
While the winter market doesn't offer all the same items that the summer market does, there were approximately 15 venders on Saturday, Feb.15 with many different items available for sale.
"This will be our second winter," Parslow added.
"It's slow, but it's picking up," said Ken Munro. "Every weekend it gets busier."
Honey, jams, beef, bread, baked goods, jewelry, wool items, pens, soap carvings, moccasins, clothing, dish towels and spices are just some of the goods people can expect to find at the farmers' market during the winter months. However, the market offers more than just products.
"I think it's a good meeting place for like minded people," said Michael Nimitz, the incoming president of the farmers' market.
"I think it proves your sense of community, when you can buy off people you know and trust more than Safeway or Wal-Mart."
Even though the market has only been open for a couple weeks and it's admittedly a slower market than in the summer, there are still many people who take time out of their Saturday to come peruse the stalls.
"I like to visit the nice friendly people and get good products that you can't get in the stores. It's a unique market with good variety," explained Frank Rippley, who enjoys going to the farmers' market on the weekend.
Many of the items available at the market cannot be found in local stores.
"Your hand crafted things – it's really the only venue for those," said Nimitz.
It is also a place that many get diet-specific products, such as gluten or dairy free items. Many of the goods are organic or made with organic elements.
"It's a great place to meet your neighbors, people new to the area and you can get stuff you can't get in the Co-op," said Victoria Manson, who is a vender at the market.
In fact, it seems as though the farmers' market in Dawson Creek is starting to really make a name for itself, attracting vendors from all over the Peace Region.
"This is my second trip to the Dawson Creek," said Phyllis Brennan, a resident of Teepee Creek, Alberta.
Brennan, who has been participating in farmers' markets for a number of years selling her magnetic jewelry, scarves and clothing, likes the Dawson Creek market and looks forward to continuing to come in the summer.
"I meet all my old friends here," said Munro.
Michelle Van Der Horst also enjoys the social aspect of the market.
"I think it's great. We have people interested already. I like meeting people every week and seeing some of the same faces," she said.
Others participate in the market because it gets them out of the house.
"It gives me something to do. I'm retired and it's a way of getting my handy work out," said Keith Sundquist, who sells fine pens.
The farmers' market is one thing that people can count on to grow during winter, according to Dawson Johnston, acting president.
"We're the fastest growing farmers' market with new members this year."


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The MWC 2017 is almost a month away and it is time for the smartphone makers to unveil their flagships at the show. Sony Xperia XA was launched at the MWC 2016 and we can expect its successor to be unveiled next month in Barcelona.
Earlier, the renders of the alleged Sony Xperia XA (2017) hit the web and now the same has popped up in a leaked video. The video shows some of the prominent features of the smartphone such as the front-facing camera and USB Type-C port. The smartphone seems to feature a sleek new design.
The 2-minute video has been uploaded on YouTube by TechLover HD and it shows a device carrying the model number G3121 and no name seems to be mentioned, though we believe it to be the Sony Xperia XA. The video has captured the smartphone in different angles and shows the display in operation.
The video reveals that the Xperia XA has received a security patch on January 5. The device in question is a prototype version and it is confirmed that it will be announced at the MWC 2017 show. As of now, nothing much about the specs of the alleged smartphone is known, but it is believed to arrive with narrow bezels at the sides and wider bezels at the top and bottom edges.
Take a look at the video that was uploaded on YouTube showing the Sony XperiaXA (2017)'s features and device in action from below. However, there is no official information about the same from the manufacturer.


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Alert: Someone is leaving poisoned meatballs in the Twin Peaks neighborhood of San Francisco
Earlier this month meatballs that were tainted with poison were strategically planted around a popular trail where pet owners walk their dogs. It is suspected the meatballs were there to poison or harm pets. Signs have been posted alerting pet owners to the hazard and SF’s Animal Control has asked people to report any suspicious behavior. They are investigating the matter and hope to have answers soon.
This is the second time poison has been discovered hiding in food intended to harm animals. Pet owners are advised to keep pets on short leashes and curb their pets from sniffing and exploring around bushes and shrubs where the meatballs were found. If your pet has a habit of picking things up in their mouth, pet owners are urged to curb that behavior for their own pet’s safety. Cat owners are also being urged to keep their cats indoors until this matter is resolved.
Back in July of 2013, hundreds of tainted meatballs were found in Twin Peaks and Diamond Heights containing poison.
If you have any information, please call the SF Animal Control. And please, be careful and keep your eyes open for any dangerous objects when walking your dog: food, broken glass, sharp objects, thorns from bushes, etc.
For more information, view the article from Mercury News
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Dear Valued Customer,
Scania has taken the decision to close the assembly plant in Samut Prakan. The commercial operation confirm to remain and be developed even further, with full commitment to our customers.
Scania is globally facing one of its most challenging times in the company’s modern history. The economic recession in Thailand, together with the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to a decrease in vehicle demand. And we have not been able to use the export potential in the ASEAN region, as initially planned.
Scania has therefore decided to change production strategy, by importing vehicles from European production for customers in Thailand. The commercial organisation, Scania Siam remains fully committed to support both existing as well as potential customers.
With our long term establishment in Thailand, Scania strongly believes in continuing the journey towards by building a more sustainable transport solution. We are celebrating our 35th anniversary in Thailand 2021, and are launching service expansion plans as well as our new service offering in the near future.


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Ford, a consistent buyer in radio’s top ad category, has tapped Suzy Deering as its new Chief Marketing Officer, effective Jan. 4. Deering most recently held the same position at eBay North America, exiting in October.
She succeeds Joy Falitico, who will focus on her role as President of the Lincoln brand. Falitico had been overseeing both brands for the past three years.
“We’re putting more decision-making in the hands of our people who are closest to customers,” Kumar Galhotra, President, Ford Americas and International Markets Group, said in a release. “That makes marketing more important than ever and Suzy’s world-class background will be vital to modernizing our approach, dialing-up our understanding of customer ambitions and redefining our brands to help us grow.”
According to the release, Deering is accomplished at using technology, data and analytics to anticipate customer needs and fulfill them with human-centered products and services. At Ford, she will be the global leader for modernizing marketing, driving brand strategy and best practices, and developing marketing talent. Additionally, she will run all marketing operations in North America, which accounts for more than 70 percent of Ford’s automotive revenue, including customer intelligence and product and consumer marketing.
“Technology will be a powerful part of Ford’s transformation and how we enhance and release the huge value of our iconic brands,” Deering added. “My team will be involved from end-to-end on behalf of customer—better connecting with them, using data to foresee and deliver what they need, and earning and keeping their trust.”
In other company news, Linda Cash has elected to retire from Ford effective Jan. 1, after 36 years with the company, the last three as Vice President, Quality and New Model Launch Program.
The moves come after the recent appointment of Jim Farley to CEO last month.


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HIGHER consumer demand for various products and services as well as the reopening of the economy made businesses in the country optimistic about the next 12 months, according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).
Based on the data, business confidence for the next 12 months rose to 61.9 percent from 46.2 percent in the last quarter of 2022.
However, the optimism of businesses was not as high as the 69.8 percent level recorded in the first quarter of 2022, as businesses expect more borrowings and higher inflation at least for the first quarter of 2023 and in the near-term.
“Business firms expressed stronger confidence in the economy for Q1 2023, Q2 2023 and the next 12 months as the overall confidence indices [CIs] during these periods significantly increased from the previous quarter’s survey result,” the BSP said.
“This means that the percentage of optimists increased and outweighed the percentage of pessimists during the reference periods,” it added.
Other reasons cited by the BSP for the rise in optimism were the increased business activities and sustained economic recovery as well as expansion and new business opportunities in health care, manufacturing, and construction subsectors.
In terms of inflation expectations, businesses said they expect inflation to breach the upper end of the national government’s 2 to 4 percent target for 2023 and 2024.
Businesses expect inflation for the first and second quarters of 2023 to average 7 percent and 6.9 percent, respectively. However, in the next 12 months, inflation is expected to be lower at 6.6 percent.
“Firms expected that their financial condition and access to credit to be less tight for Q1 2023 as their corresponding indices improved, but remained negative,” BSP said.
“The CIs [Confidence Indices] of all sectors [i.e., industry, construction, services and wholesale and retail trade sectors] increased in the first quarter 2023, suggesting a more optimistic business outlook for the current quarter,” BSP added.
The Q1 2023 BES was conducted between January 13 and March 6, 2023. There were 1,554 firms surveyed nationwide, consisting of 582 companies in the National Capital Region and 972 firms in Areas Outside the National Capital Region, covering all 16 regions nationwide.
Samples were drawn from the Top 7,000 Corporations, ranked based on total assets in 2016-2017 from the Bureau van Dijk (BvD) database.
The nationwide survey response rate for this quarter was slightly lower at 60.6 percent (from 61 percent in Q4 2022). The response rate was higher for the NCR at 61.3 percent (from 57 percent) but lower for AONCR at 60.2 percent (from 63.6 percent).
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Unikrn & Dash Radio to launch Unikrn Radio: Crypto & Esports Show to Millions of Listeners!
The audience for UnikoinGold is getting much bigger very soon.
From its inception, UKG has been a monster project, as we seek to reinvent the way gamers are able to exchange, engage and earn from playing, watching, and betting on their favorite games. Last week, we announced UKG’s first partner, GUNNAR Optiks, is accepting UKG as a means of exchange for all GUNNAR products, and they won’t be the only ones.
Today we’re pushing out in a totally new way: the airwaves.
If you don’t know Dash Radio, you’re in for a treat. Think satellite radio, available anywhere, anytime, for free, no commercials, with personally curated experiences by the leading experts. For example, they’ve run channels by leading musicians such as Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne and B-Real of Cypress Hill (among others).
Dash Radio is DJ Skee’s personal baby and it’s gaining significant momentum. So who does Dash Radio look to as their experts to create a curated experience for crypto and esports? Unikrn.
Starting at the end of this month Unikrn will be bringing you Unikrn Radio, a channel on the Dash Radio network, which will be dedicated to Crypto and Esports. This is a continuation of our much-requested conversation series hosted by myself and Kingsley Edwards.
For a taste of what that content will look like, go no further than the Unikrn YouTube, where a few pilot episodes were dropped in preparation for this deal. The response we’ve received from our community has been overwhelming: everybody wants more. So we’re making more.
The difference is that now we’re instantly opening the gates for you to share with your friends, listen in your car, on your phone, on your tablet, in your kitchen, to seemingly every device known to man. Seriously, I’ll include a list at the end of this blog and you’ll probably find your microwave on there at some point. Dash Radio is huge, and we’re anticipating a much larger audience of Unikrn Radio listeners.
And we’re also bringing our expertise and completely unique content to the MILLIONS of listeners already using Dash Radio. DJ Skee, told us that many of their existing user base has been clamoring for a show like this. They’ve been asking for it, and Unikrn is the only company in the world with the unique mix of insight, success, existing product and endemic overlap to be able to bring it.
This means great crypto content — as well as esports, gaming and startup content — across the board, and a whole lot of new and interested people getting exposed to UnikoinGold. It’s a major win/win, and we’re especially excited about how this is allowing us to cast a wider net and engage a whole new audience of interested users who otherwise may not have become interested in UnikoinGold for months or more into our steady growth.
I believe everybody in gaming would hear about UKG sooner or later, but with the content on Dash Radio, a whole lot more people are going into the sooner category.
For you, the fans already in our corner, there’s even more reasons to listen: we will be joined by special guests and experts in crypto and esports, and we’ll offer Q&A sessions for members of Unikrn’s growing Discord community.
Unikrn’s Dash Radio listeners will also become eligible for UnikoinGold and other giveaways, exclusive first-access to news and a ton of content for enthusiasts of crypto and esports.
To start, it’ll just be honing and continuing the show we piloted earlier this month. As we expand, we have a ton of ideas to help bring our audience the best coverage possible by tapping our extensive staff. I’ll also bring on a CEO from one of the world’s largest exchanges to talk about his impressive journey; it’s a crazy story.
We have top-of-the-line experts — we’re talking hired-by-publishers as analysts because they’re so good — on the world’s best esports, we have some of the most technically sophisticated crypto staff on the planet, we have a company chock-full of leading voices on gaming, business, betting and blockchain.
This is not just a beginning, but it is just the beginning for a new media future here at Unikrn.
PS Here’s that list I promised you:
Dash Radio brings distribution options to every corner of the listening market across a litany of devices and vehicles. The list of eligible devices include: Amazon Alexa, iOS, Android and Amazon Fire mobile devices, Apple TV, Chromecast, Amazon Fire Stick, Pluto TV, Apple Carplay, Android Auto, AT&T Drive, MirrorLink, aftermarket products from Pioneer, Bosch, Clarion, Harman and cars from most of the world’s major manufacturers such as GM, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Acura, Chrysler, Honda, Maserati, Mazda, Porsche, Scion, Subaru, Hyundai, Kia, Buick, Jaguar, Land Rover and more.


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DENVER BUSINESS JOURNAL - A Colorado company has opened a facility in New Jersey, making it a little easier for East Coast residents to get healthy and organic meals delivered right to their doors.
Boulder-based meal kit delivery company Green Chef had been operating out of the Denver area, servicing the western half of the nation, but now it's making strides to amp up its East Coast expansion.
Green Chef has opened an 85,000-square-foot facility in Swedesboro, Gloucester County, New Jersey, more than a year after the company was founded in September last year.
Read more at the Denver Business Journal: http://bit.ly/1QjpkgM
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For eCommerce firms, boosting sales of high-priced products such as TVs, refrigerators and washing machines has been crucial. While everyone has played well at lower price range, the other end of spectrum has been not-so-profitable for online retailers, partly because of the price sensitive economy of the country besides lack of payment options with consumers.
Offering a thrust to its sales of higher-priced products, Indian eCommerce major Flipkart has initiated interest free monthly installments to its customers. The offering will be valid on products such as premium smartphones, televisions, home appliances and other electronics.
Flipkart has tied up with lender Bajaj Finserv Ltd and electronics brands to allow consumers to buy electronics costing over Rs 5000 and pay in equal monthly instalments (EMIs) without paying any interest or down-payment charges.
“According to our surveys, consumers are willing to pay more over time for essential things,” said Surojit Chatterjee, senior vice-president, product, Flipkart. “In the three weeks that we’ve launched the no-cost EMIs, we’ve seen customers have upgraded their purchases because of it. We’re thinking of affordability as an overall problem to solve. We will come at this problem from different angles.”
The launch of the interest-free EMIs comes as Flipkart is trying to turn around its business, rev up sales growth and stem market share losses to Amazon.
Yet, until now, the online sales of these products haven’t picked up in a big way, partly because of a lack of payment options for customers. The other main reason for the limited growth of digital products is the poor reach and quality of the supply-chain network of e-commerce firms.
In late 2013, the Reserve Bank of India banned banks from offering interest-free EMIs to credit card-holders, saying these schemes violated its lending regulations, in a move that affected the sales of higher-priced products at online retailers. This time, Flipkart is offering customers the option of paying through debit cards, credit cards and other digital payment methods.
Once a customer buys a product on Flipkart, Bajaj Finserv will take up the task of collecting the payments. All the three parties—Flipkart, Bajaj and the electronics brand—will share the cost of offering the EMIs.


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As part of the partnership, Castor & Pollux will provide 1,000 pounds of petfood monthly to the shelter and will create a coupon program that gives a percentage of coupon-attributed sales to APA. The company will also provide "starter kits" for adoptive pet parents at all adoption outreach events that APA holds.
In celebration of the partnership, Castor & Pollux will donate a pet meal for each new Facebook fan both APA and Castor & Pollux's Facebook page until Wednesday, August 17.
“Our goal is to save 5,000 cats and dogs in 2011, which requires an enormous amount of food that is difficult for a non-profit to afford. Our partnership with Castor & Pollux allows us to use our limited resources to save more pets," said Ellen Jefferson, executive director of APA. “In Castor & Pollux we’ve found an ideal partner - not only are they serious about cementing their legacy by helping pets in need, but their products offer our pets an ideal start in their new lives with their nutritious, all-natural and organic food.”
By Tim Wall
In 2020, pandemic driven demand alternative pet market, reducing owner preparation and diligence as people scramble to buy what puppies they could, without investigating the source, or even seeing the young dog.
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Action-camera maker GoPro ( GPRO ) took an ugly spill on Friday, a day after it reported mixed Q1 earnings results and postponed the launch of its flying-camera drone. GoPro shares tumbled more than 7%, below 10, in morning trading on the stock market today . GoPro stock started the year near 18. Investors have dumped GoPro shares in recent months on concerns that the company is a one-hit wonder that has largely saturated the market for its wearable cameras. In the March quarter, San Mateo, Calif.-based GoPro lost 63 cents a share, compared with earnings per share of 24 cents in the year-earlier period. Sales fell 49%, $183.5 million. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected GoPro to lose 60 cents a share on sales of $169.1 million. GoPro pushed back the launch of its Karma drone by about six months to the holiday season from the end of Q2. GoPro needs Karma to be a hit, Dougherty analyst Charles Anderson said in a research report Friday. “It is incumbent upon GoPro to release a great drone, not merely a good one, considering how strong the competition is,” Anderson said. “So if they need more time to work on it, we endorse the idea.” Anderson rates GoPro stock as neutral. “Until investors can judge the commercial appeal of Karma and the forthcoming Hero 5 camera, we don’t see any upside or downside catalysts for the stock,” he said. GoPro is preparing to launch a consumer drone at a time when current vendors, such as DJI, Parrot and 3DR, are cutting prices, Piper Jaffray analyst Erinn Murphy said in a report Friday. She rates GoPro stock as underweight. “Pricing has slipped from the $700-$900 range to the $400-$600 range, and we are continuing to see promotional activity accelerate in the space,” Murphy said. “GoPro will be releasing its drone at a time where the consumer has not only seen growing options of drones, but following what amounted to be an increasing promotional environment for the category since last holiday.” GoPro Promises Drone With ‘Revolutionary Features’ On the company’s earnings conference call with analysts late Thursday, GoPro CEO Nick Woodman said Karma will have “revolutionary features” not found on other drones currently on the market. “Karma includes revolutionary features that differentiate it from other drones — features that make it much more than a drone and deliver the versatility, value and performance that consumers expect from GoPro,” Woodman said. “To give ourselves more time to fine-tune these features, we have made the difficult decision to push Karma’s launch to the holidays.” Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter remained positive on GoPro’s longer-term prospects. He reiterated his outperform rating on GoPro stock, with a 12-month price target of 13. “After a series of high-profile missteps, including the disastrous Hero 4 Session launch, the lack of new Hero cameras at year-end, and a negative pre-announcement in January, 2016 presents an inflection point for GoPro stock,” Pachter said. “Given its history of innovation, we are willing to give GoPro the benefit of the doubt for the time being, and see upside if the Karma drone and the Hero 5 are well-received. “However, the delay of the Karma launch suggests delayed gratification for investors, and we do not expect investors to return to GoPro stock until there is greater visibility into the company’s product launches.” GoPro maintained its full-year revenue guidance, but might be too optimistic, Pachter said. “In order to hit the high end of its guidance, GoPro would have to have wild success with its next motion-capture devices, and the Q4 Karma launch would have to drive all-time record quarterly sales,” Pachter said. “While we think that these outcomes are possible, we are reluctant to remain Pollyannaish about GoPro’s prospects.” GoPro expects full-year sales of $1.35 billion to $1.5 billion, or $1.43 billion at the midpoint. Wall Street had been modeling full-year sales at $1.37 billion. In 2015, GoPro posted sales of $1.62 billion. Shares of Ambarella ( AMBA ), which makes image processing chips for GoPro cameras, were flat, near 38, in morning trading Friday. RELATED: GoPro Adds Developer Program After Snatching Apple Designer
Action-camera maker GoPro ( GPRO ) late Thursday reported a wider-than-expected loss for the first quarter, but sales beat forecasts. GoPro also reaffirmed its full-year revenue guidance. GoPro stock fell nearly 3% after-hours trading, following the earnings news release. GoPro stock fell 6.1%, to 10.71, in Thursday’s regular session. GoPro also announced that it is delaying the launch of its Karma flying-camera drone until the holiday shopping season. It had been scheduled for release this quarter. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company lost 63 cents a share in the March quarter, compared with earnings per share of 24 cents in the year-earlier period. It posted sales of $183.5 million, down 49%. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected GoPro to lose 60 cents a share on sales of $169.1 million. GoPro did not give Q2 guidance, but said it continues to expect full-year sales of $1.35 billion to $1.5 billion, or $1.43 billion at the midpoint. Wall Street had been modeling full-year sales at $1.37 billion. GoPro is facing concerns about market saturation and pricing pressure from competitors, including Garmin ( GRMN ), Sony ( SNE ). Possible catalysts for the company include its upcoming drone and devices for recording 360-degree videos for virtual reality headsets like Facebook ’s ( FB ) Oculus Rift.
Square ( SQ ), GoPro ( GPRO ), Herbalife ( HLF ), CyberArk ( CYBR ) and FireEye ( FEYE ) were among those reporting late Thursday. Square Square reported an adjusted net loss of 14 cents a share, missing expectations for a 9-cent per-share loss, as operating costs soared 72%. Revenue grew 51% to $379 million, beating expectations for $343.6 million. Square’s adjusted revenue excludes transaction revenue from its Starbucks ( SBUX ) deal, which is set to expire in Q3. Gross payment volume jumped 45% to $10.3 billion. The mobile payment company raised its full-year adjusted revenue outlook to $615 million-$635 million from $600 million-$620 million previously. Shares 12% late, after closing down 2.5%. GoPro GoPro swung to a loss of 63 cents a share in Q1 from a profit of 24 cents a share last year, missing analyst estimates for a per-share loss of 60 cents. Revenue dropped 50% to $183.5 million, beating projections for $169.1 million. The action camera maker reaffirmed its 2016 revenue guidance of $1.35 billion-$1.5 billion, while analysts have estimated $1.375 billion. Shares initially rose after hours, but reverse to trade down 1%. GoPro fell 6.05% during the regular session. Herablife The nutritional supplements firm earned $1.36 a share in Q1 excluding various items, up 5% vs. a year earlier, defying forecasts for a fifth straight year-over-year decline, to $1.09. Sales rose 1% to $1.11 billion, its first increase in six quarters. Sales rose 11% excluding currency swings. Herbalife also said that talks with the FTC over its marketing are at an advanced stage, saying it expects to pay about $200 million in a settlement. Herbalife sees Q2 EPS of $1.10-$1.20 raised its full-year EPS target to $4.40-$4.75 from $4.05-4.50. Analysts had expected $1.16 in Q2 and $4.65 for 2016. Herbalife stock shot up 14% in after-hours trading to 66.46 on its strong Q1 results and hopes for an FTC resolution. That would be the highest in nearly two years and above a buy point at 63.69. CyberArk Software The cybersecurity company said Q1 earnings grew 44% to 23 cents a share. Revenue grew 43% to $46.9 million, said CyberArk. Management sees Q2 EPS of 18-20 cents on $47.5 million-$48.5 million in revenue, the midpoints of which are above current analyst views for 18 cents a share on $47.5 million. For the year, CyberArk expects EPS of 87-91 cents on $209.0 million-$211.0 million in total revenue vs. forecasts for 87 cents a share on $206.9 million. Shares fell about 4% late after closing up 1.6%. FireEye FireEye announced several leadership shuffles, notably that current President Kevin Mandia will become CEO of the cybersecurity software firm, with current CEO and Chairman David DeWalt becoming executive chairman of the board, effective June 15. In Q1, FireEye lost 47 cents a share, slightly narrower than the prior-year quarter’s 48-cent per-share loss and ahead of views for a 50-cent per-share loss. Revenue rose 34% to $168 million, short of estimates for $171.8 million. Q2 guidance for a loss of 38-40 cents a share and $178 million-$185 million in revenue is worse than views for a 36-cent per-share loss on $192.8 million in revenue. For the year, it sees a per-share loss of $1.20-$1.27 on $780 million-$810 million in sales vs. views for a $1.25 per-share loss and $828.6 million in revenue. Shares sank nearly 7% after hours.


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You’ll probably like the Ford Bronco when it gets angry.
Ford has confirmed it will be launching a Bronco Raptor next year that will be in the same vein as the high performance F-150 Raptor pickup.
The automaker only revealed the logo and a teaser image that shows a Bronco with wide fender flares and finished in the F-150 Raptor’s signature orange paint.
Camouflaged prototypes of what appear to be the Bronco Raptor have been spotted on public roads with the wide bodywork, 17-inch wheels with oversized all-terrain tires and the same type of Fox Live Valve shocks used by the F-150 Raptor, which allow it to be driven at high speeds and jumped off-road.
The Ford Authority insider website has reported that the Bronco Raptor could come powered by a version of the the 400 hp turbocharged 3.0-liter V6 currently featured in the Ford Explorer ST as well as the 494 hp plug-in hybrid powertrain used by the Lincoln Aviator Grand Touring, neither of which has been officially confirmed by Ford.
Ford announced the Bronco Raptor the same day as the redesigned 2022 Expedition, which will be offered for the first time in a Timberline model designed for serious off-road driving.
Gary Gastelu is FoxNews.com’s Automotive Editor covering the car industry and racing. Follow @foxnewsautos


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* BOJ keeps ultra-loose monetary policy
* Subaru tumbles after co says it halted output at sole factory in Japan
* Bridgestone falls after it says to buy Tomtom's Telematics for $1 bln
* Dec exports fall more than expected
By Ayai Tomisawa
TOKYO, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei ended lower on Wednesday as weaker-than-expected December exports and concerns over U.S.-China relations added to worries about the outlook for the trade-reliant economy, though a softer yen offset pressure on exporters.
The Nikkei share average .N225 ended down 0.1 percent at 20,593.72, after flitting between negative and positive territory.
The broader Topix .TOPX underperformed and ended 0.6 percent lower at 1,547.03. Declining issues outweighed advancing ones 1,586 to 469.
As expected, the Bank of Japan trimmed its inflation forecasts but maintained its ultra-loose monetary policy at the end of a two-day meeting on Wednesday. the trade dispute between the United States and China was the key worry of the day.
A report by the Financial Times that the United States had rejected China's offer for preparatory trade talks rekindled worries about their dispute, though White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow later denied it. to the market open, Japan reported exports in December fell the most in more than two years and by more than expected, dragged by plummeting shipments to China and regional markets as weak global demand and U.S.-Sino trade frictions take their toll on the economy. is in a difficult position because of its economic reliance on the United States and China. Japan's cyclical stocks depend on demand from the two counties," said Takatoshi Itoshima, a strategist at Pictet Asset Management.
Subaru Corp 7270.T stumbled nearly 7 percent at one point after the automaker said its sole car factory in Japan had halted output a week ago after it discovered a defect in a component. The company later recovered some ground and ended 3.4 percent lower after it gave further details. Corp 5108.T shed 1.7 percent after the tire maker said it will buy TomTom's TOM2.AS fleet business Telematics for $1 billion. Display Inc 6740.T jumped 19 percent after the Wall Street Journal reported that the company is in investment talks with Taiwan's TPK Holdings and Chinese state-owned Silk Road Fund.
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USA Today’s For the Win goes beyond social for sharing
Almost any social media 101 blog post will tell you that in order to go “viral,” your content needs to resonate with the masses on Twitter.
But USA Today sports blog For The Win has found that its mobile readers don’t share much through Twitter, according to Chris Pirrone, general manager of USA Today’s digital sports properties. It’s actually so negligible that FTW, which is solely focused on social media distribution, dropped Twitter sharing buttons from its mobile stories in late 2014 in favor of SMS-sharing buttons.
The early results have been staggering: the SMS button has been used three to four more times more often than the Twitter button ever was, according to FTW’s editorial director Jamie Mottram.
“It’s not that Twitter is insignificant for us, it’s just that mobile users weren’t really using the tweet-to-share buttons, so we took them away,” Mottram said. “It was an experiment at first, but share rates went up, so we stuck with it.”
There are differences between the two, or course. Texting is designed to share a story to a limited, specific number of people, whereas tweeting a link blasts it out to all of a person’s followers and includes the potential of being retweeted to countless others.
FTW is essentially doubling down on its long held belief that messaging apps will be the primary mobile sharing platform that is not Facebook. It introduced a WhatsApp sharing button to its mobile stories last May. BuzzFeed has experimented with a WhatsApp sharing button, as well, as have music app Shazam and photo editing app Aviary.
Now, three of FTW’s four sharing buttons — email, SMS and WhatsApp — are message-based (the final button being Facebook). Facebook and email remain the first and second most-used sharing tools on FTW stories, respectively, Mottram said. Facebook is the single most popular sharing button on FTW’s mobile stories, but message sharing — aggregated across the site’s email, SMS and WhatsApp buttons — now accounts for a majority of FTW’s mobile shares.
FTW decided to keep the Twitter sharing button on for desktop, where texting is not an option.
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Apple, Samsung hearing: Judge Lucy Koh will hold a hearing on damages in the patent case between Apple and Samsung on Thursday in the Northern District of California court.
The hearing is set for 4:30 p.m., Eastern. Koh will consider a variety of issues, including final damage awards, whether there was jury misconduct in the first trial and whether or not to issue a sales injunction against Samsung.
In August, a jury ruled that Samsung owed Apple more than $1 billion in damages for infringing on software and design patents. Since that verdict, Samsung has said it believes that the jury foreman in the case did not adequately disclose past suits with which he was involved.
Media ownership: Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) added their voices to criticism of Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski’s proposal to change media ownership restrictions.
The senators held a joint press conference Thursday morning to talk about their concerns. They also sent Genachowski a letter, saying they believe the media ownership rules as they currently stand better promote diversity and localism in the American broadcast system.
Mobile privacy: The Senate Judiciary voted Thursday to hold over its consideration of a mobile location privacy bill proposed by Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.).
The bill, called the Location Privacy Protection Act of 2011, would require app store providers such as Apple and Google to create consumer disclosure policies when apps track location information. Ahead of Thursday’s hearing, the Software & Information Industry Association said that the government should give app makers more time to come to an industry consensus before passing legislation.
“It is time for the industry to step up and make progress on setting its own rules of the road,” wrote SIIA public policy director David LeDuc. “If we don’t we have only ourselves to blame if state, national or international governments feel compelled to step in to protect the public.
T-Mobile USA to get the iPhone?: In a release Thursday, T-Mobile US A parent company Deutsche Telekom announced that the carrier will be getting Apple products in 2013. T-Mobile, the nation’s fourth-largest carrier, is the largest national wireless carrier not to have the iPhone — a glaring hole in the company’s smartphone lineup.
The announcement came in an off-hand way, as part of a larger release on Deutsche Telekom’s plan for the new year. “T-Mobile USA has entered into an agreement with Apple to bring products to market together in 2013,” the company said in the release.
Rumors had been circulating that the company would get Apple products soon, though there was skepticism that the company’s current network would be able to handle the additional load, particularly given the level of its 4G LTE network buildout. The statement indicates that the companies will work together moving forward to provide Apple products to customers.


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At the Ukraine Reconstruction Conference to be held in Rome at the end of April, Italy intends to present a project for the creation of entry and exit terminals for the Ukrainian economy in the northeastern region of the country.
Italy’s Minister of Economic Development Adolfo Urso said this at a round table of the Italian Confederation of Trade Unions in Venice.
He noted that the Italian government intends to create an intermodal transport highway along the route of International Transport Corridor No. 5 (Venice – Trieste/Koper – Ljubljana – Maribor – Budapest – Uzhgorod – Lviv – Kyiv).
This will provide an opportunity to unblock the exports of Ukrainian goods, including metallurgical products.
"The Black Sea is in fact closed (for Ukraine) because of hostilities. In this situation, there is no other option (to unblock Ukrainian exports) than to ship the goods to the Adriatic using existing railways and roads," Adolfo Urso explained.
To implement the project, a logistics platform will also be created to establish a land connection between Ukraine and the intermodal port of Quadrante Europa in Verona and further with sea ports in the Italian northeast, including Trieste and Venice.
"Therefore, we will provide a new and safe access to the sea for Kyiv, considering the difficulties in using Ukrainian ports at the Black Sea," the minister emphasized.
According to the minister, the logistics corridor between the Quadrante Europa intermodal port in Verona and the Horonda logistics platform in Ukraine’s Zakarpattia region on the border with Slovakia will be completed by the start of the conference in Rome at the end of April 2023.
He added that the project of the Italy—Ukraine logistics corridor will be presented at the Verona logistics fair on March 10.


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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has proposed the first use for its product intervention powers will be addressing significant consumer detriment in the short-term credit industry.
These powers would allow ASIC to intervene where financial and credit products had resulted in, or were likely to, result in significant consumer detriment. This particularly targeted a model where products provided consumers on low income or in financial difficulty with short-term credit at high costs.
One specific model used by two firms, Cigno Pty and Gold-Silver Standard Finance Pty, involved a short-term credit provider and associate who charged fees under separate contracts, which added up to around 990 per cent of the loan amount.
ASIC commissioner, Sean Hughes, said it had already received ‘many instances’ of these types of products affecting consumers.
“Sadly, we have already seen too many examples of significant harm affecting particularly vulnerable members of our community through the use of this short-term lending model. Consumers and representatives have brought many instances of the impacts of this type of lending model to us.
“Given we only recently received this additional power, then it is both timely and vital that we consult on our use of this tool to protect consumers from significant harms which arise from this type of product.”
ASIC said it would consult with affected and interested parties before exercising these product intervention powers and people would have until 30 July 2019 to submit their input via [email protected]


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Vanillaware President George Kamitani recently talked to Famitsu for their weekly issue and explained some interesting details about their past titles. The company struggled to get their games published by SEGA, Atlus and Capcom at the time. Luckily, they were fortunate enough to have Marvelous help out with Muramasa: The Demon Blade for the Wii. Muramasa went on to become a success for Vanillaware even though publishers doubted the title.
Dragon’s Crown is another case of development and publishing gone differently than anticipated. Most fans recognize Dragon’s Crown as a PlayStation title showing up on the PS Vita and PS4. However, it was originally in development for the Wii just like Muramasa. The project was pitched to Capcom and seemed to go according to plan until a higher-up showed up. The Capcom higher-up asks “But can it sell like Monster Hunter?”. From there, ties were cut with Capcom and Ignition Entertainment would pick up publishing rights to Dragon’s Crown. The publishing rights were then transferred to Atlus in 2012. In a case of irony, Vanillaware’s games would eventually come to be under the SEGA/Atlus umbrella.
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Low consumer spending due to the economic crisis was not the only issue that snacks players faced in 2023 as the falling exchange value of the Sri Lankan rupee, limited access to foreign currency, supply chain issues and interruptions to the power supply all posed huge challenges to industry players. On the consumer side, smaller packs became more popular as consumers looked to reduce their spending on snacks, while premium brands benefited from robust demand among more affluent segments.
While 2023 finally saw an end to the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic crisis that first struck Sri Lanka during 2022 continued to have a significant impact on the operating environment across all categories of snacks throughout the year. The substantial devaluation of the Sri Lankan rupee led to significant increases in imported raw material prices and high inflation at local level, putting huge pressure on discretionary spending.
Supply chain disruptions continued to plague all fmcg industries in Sri Lanka throughout 2023, with sharp increases in raw material prices exacerbating pre-existing challenges relating to the procurement of essential raw materials for the production of all types of snacks. This came at a particularly inopportune time for industry players as demand patterns that that had begun developing during 2022 intensified, specifically the shift towards lower-priced brands and products in smaller pack sizes.
The impact of Sri Lanka’s deep and seemingly intractable economic crisis notwithstanding, 2023 saw key brand owners across virtually all categories of snacks continue to offer different products and brands that target consumers, usually but not always on the basis of income level. For example, in bulk ice cream, Ceylon Cold Stores (CCS) targets mass consumers market with the mainstream umbrella brand Elephant House.
Among the major impacts of the socioeconomic crisis on Sri Lanka during 2023 were major inflationary pressures and significant fuel price hikes and this led to substantial increases in the cost of transportation and logistics. As a result, the country’s entire snacks industry spent the entire year under considerable strain as margins were stretched to the limit.
Sri Lanka’s snacks industry is expected to continue facing major challenges in the short-to-medium term due to the current macroeconomic challenges that the country is likely to continue facing during the first half the forecast period, at least. The sharp increases that have already been seen in inflation and interest rates, combined with impending fiscal consolidation measures, are likely to result in a far more moderate and circumspect approach to discretionary spending among the majority of consumers and this can be expected to suppress growth in demand for non-essential items such as snacks in the short term.
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KS: GM Invests $600 Million in Fairfax Plant in Kansas City
29 Jan, 2013
General Motors announced a $600-million investment in the Fairfax Assembly and Stamping Plant, including the construction of a new 450,000 square-foot paint shop, the installation of a new stamping press and other upgrades.
It is one of GM’s largest plant investments ever, and builds on nearly $2 billion invested in Fairfax in the last decade. Earlier this month, GM announced it would invest $1.5 billion in North American facilities in 2013. This Fairfax investment comprises a large part of that commitment.
Construction at the 3.2-million-square-foot plant begins later this year and is expected to take about two years to complete, increasing the footprint of the plant by about 15 percent to 3.7 million-square-feet. Vehicle production schedules will be unaffected by the construction, keeping the plant’s three shifts of nearly 4,000 hourly and salaried employees on the job.
“This major investment is a vote of confidence in the employees and leadership of this plant and will allow them to continue producing beautiful, world-class vehicles like the Chevrolet Malibu and Buick LaCrosse – with the same quality workmanship that has defined the Fairfax complex for nearly 70 years,” said GM Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson.
The all-new paint shop includes substantial upgrades in technology, and will occupy a new building at Fairfax, with new tooling, robots and state-of-the-art environmental and efficiency enhancements. Some of the upgrades include:
Up to 20-percent smaller footprint, up to 50-percent less energy use per vehicle and reduced Volatile Organic Compound emissions
GM-patented Radiant Tub Ovens, designed to use 20 percent less natural gas and 40 percent less electricity
Thin Film Technology, which reduces water use and maintenance and eliminates hazardous chemicals from the waste stream
Hyper Throw E-COAT, which places more coating in cavities and recesses for optimal corrosion protection.
In the stamping facility, the upgraded AA3X press will replace the current middle press used to create some of the structural reinforcements for vehicle body frames. The upgraded press is expected to enhance quality and reduce waste through greater accuracy.
"The United Auto Workers have proudly built vehicles in Fairfax for decades and looks forward to being part of the upgrades that will be taking place in the plant," said UAW Vice President Joe Ashton, who directs the union's GM Department. "This commitment to the future of the plant and the workforce is a reminder to all of us that we build the world's best vehicles, with the world's best people."
GM’s Fairfax Assembly Plant has a rich and important history in Kansas City, dating to 1945. The plant has employed several hundred thousand people over nearly 70 years, built some of GM’s best vehicles, and, during World War II, was the first industrial facility to make automobiles and jet fighters in the same building. The current plant opened in 1987. Since beginning production in Kansas City in 1945, more than 12 million GM vehicles have been built at Fairfax.
The Fairfax plant currently builds the Buick LaCrosse and Chevrolet Malibu. The Malibu was the first 2013 midsize car to earn a 5-Star Overall Vehicle Score in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s New Car Assessment Program and a 2012 Top Safety Pick by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The Buick LaCrosse eAssist model was named among the “Best of What’s New” technologies by Popular Science magazine.
“General Motors is one of the largest employers in Kansas and Kansas City and this announcement plays an important role in continuing to grow the economy of Kansas,” said Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback. “We build great things in Kansas and GM’s commitment means we will continue to do so for years to come.”
Fairfax by the Numbers
Year opened (current facility): 1987
Employees: 3,877 (3,561 hourly / 316 salaried)
Union: UAW Local 31
Facility size: 572 acres
Manufacturing area: 85 acres under roof
Manufacturing floor space: 3,044,561 square feet (pre-construction)
Vehicles produced in 2012: 283,213
Decade of Investments
$20 million in 2011 for upgrades related to the LaCrosse eAssist,
$136 million in 2010 for the New Generation Malibu
$158 million in 2009 for the launch of the all-new Buick LaCrosse
$208 million in 2007 for the launch of the all-new Chevrolet Malibu
$651 million in 2006 for the launch of the all-new Saturn Aura
$722 million in 2003 for the launch of the 2004 Chevrolet Malibu
General Motors Co. (NYSE:GM, TSX: GMM) and its partners produce vehicles in 30 countries, and the company has leadership positions in the world's largest and fastest-growing automotive markets. GM’s brands include Chevrolet and Cadillac, as well as Baojun, Buick, GMC, Holden, Isuzu, Jiefang, Opel, Vauxhall and Wuling. More information on the company and its subsidiaries, including OnStar, a global leader in vehicle safety, security and information services, can be found at http://www.gm.com.


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Anticipation was high as businesses from Antrim, Crumlin and Randalstown waited with baited breath at the Old Courthouse on Friday to hear the Mayor of Antrim, Councillor Roderick Swann, announce the results of Antrim Borough Council’s Christmas Window Display Competition.
Antrim’s first prize winners were Nanabelle’s, Mid Antrim Animal Sanctuary and Dunnes. Runners-up prizes went to Nua Floral Designer, Girassol and Bags.
Highly commended awards went to The Seamstress, Northern Ireland Hospice Shop and Quiz Clothing.
Randalstown’s first prize winner was Vintage Rose Wedding Centre, runner-up went to The Kandy Shop and the highly commended award went to Budding Design and Tan Stand.
Announcing the winners, Mayor of Antrim, Councillor Roderick Swann said: “This competition recognises the contribution and hard work businesses put into making the Borough more festive and welcoming for residents and visitors.
“I was very impressed with the number of businesses that participated, 25 in total, which makes the competition even more exciting and challenging.”


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Samsung is working on an entirely new series for the India market. A few days, we had reported that the company is gearing up to launch the Galaxy F series in India by end-September. The first device under the new F series has now surfaced on Google Play Console.
According to a report by 91mobiles, the Samsung Galaxy F41 was recently spotted the Google Play Console database. This could be the first device in the series The listing reveals several key features of the device along with an image of the device, which gives us a glimpse at how the device might look like.
For starters, the Samsung Galaxy F41 is said to come with in-house Exynos 9611 chipset. The same chipset is also powering the recently launched Galaxy M31s. It is an octa-core chipset built on 10nm fabrication process. It has four Cortex A73 CPUs running at 2.3GHz and four Cortex A53 running at 1.7GHz. The Mali-G72 MP3 GPU will take care of the graphics.
The device will come with 6GB of RAM as per the listing. However, we can also expect other variants from Samsung. Furthermore, the screen resolution is said to be 2340 x1080 pixels on the upcoming Galaxy F41, which is a Full HD+ panel. The DPI is also mentioned as 420 here which translates to around 6.1-inch to 6.2-inch screen size. And lastly, the device will run on Android 10 out of the box with Samsung One UI skin on top.
The image on the listing revealed a very popular and familiar design of the device. The Galaxy F41 looks strikingly similar to any other Galaxy M series device from Samsung. It is likely to feature a dew-drop notch which Samsung calls as the Infinity-U display.
Tipster, Ishan Agarwal also shared the design images of the device. According to those images, the Galaxy F41 will sport a triple rear camera stack with a rear fingerprint scanner. The device is also said to feature USB Type-C port. And lastly, he also mentioned that the tagline for the F series will be “Full On” for the Indian market.
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Game Republic Affiliate Member – Plus Accounting Chartered Accountants kindly gave us their take on the latest budget announcements in March 2023 and in particular the new reforms of Video Games Tax Relief. Luke Thomas (pictured) shares his assessment here:
The UK Games Industry has been given a major boost with the announcement in the budget that the Video Games Tax Relief (VGTR) is being replaced with a new ‘Video Games Expenditure Credit’ from April 2025.
The existing Video Games Tax Relief has been in place since 2014, in which time the UK Games Industry has witnessed significant growth. The UK government has clearly identified the Games sector as a key part of the UK economy and wishes to provide specific support to ensure it continues its success.
The government recently issued proposals to reform VGTR with the aim of modernising the relief, maximising the industries impact on the UK economy, simplifying the claims process, and preventing abuse of the relief.
There are several features of VGTR that are changing, some of which will have a significant impact on UK Games companies and the relief they can claim.
The key changes are:
- The headline rate of relief is increasing to 34% from 25% under the current VGTR.
- Qualifying Core Expenditure will only be available on goods and services ‘used or consumed in the UK’, as opposed to the existing rules which allow for costs incurred within the European Economic Area.
- The cap on qualifying expenditure will be held at 80%.
- The current £1million cap on subcontractor costs (per game) will be removed.
The government has made it clear that any games in development prior to 1 April 2025, can continue to use the existing scheme until April 2027. However, any expenditure credits available under the new rules can be claimed from 1 January 2024.
A brief look at the numbers suggests that under the new rules, the relief available will be the same whether the company is profit or loss making.
Under the current rules a profit-making company attracts relief of 80% x 19% = 15.2% on the qualifying costs it incurs, whereas a loss making company attracts relief of 80% x 25% = 20% on its qualifying costs.
Under the new tax credit rules both a profit or a loss-making company would attract circa 20% tax relief by way of either a corporation tax saving or repayable tax credit, which seems fair, but not quite as good as the headline 34% rate of relief might initially lead you to believe.
There are clearly some concerns with the removal of EEA expenditure qualifying for the relief and some will need to factor this into future plans. For some, careful consideration of structures in place will be needed once details of the Anti-abuse measures are clarified.
Overall, this should be seen as a significant boost to the UK Games Industry. It gives recognition of the importance of the sector to the UK economy, certainty of the changes coming into effect well in advance to enable planning and a guarantee of ongoing financial support for the foreseeable future.
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I recently published a new post on Forbes titled, “Kroger, Walgreens Pilot Expansion Is An Important Leading Indicator Of The Future”
A quick excerpt —
The Kroger, Walgreens grocery experiment shows why the grocery industry soon may not need ‘grocery stores’ in the way the world knows them today.
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Advice from the trenches of e-commerce
By T.K.MALOY, UPI Deputy Business Editor
CHICAGO, April 6 (UPI) -- What does the new e-commerce landscape look
like -- and how does a company survive it profitably? That was the question
being asked by many of the attendees at the 2001 Spring Comdex technology
trade show in Chicago.
Michael Drapkin, chair of e-commerce management at Columbia University's
Advanced IT Management Program, speaking at Comdex about his new book "Three
Clicks Away: Advice from the Trenches of eCommerce," published in April by
John Wiley & Sons, said that while there is much to be skeptical about
regarding dot-com excesses, there are also some pioneering lessons that
brick-and-mortar companies may find valuable to emulate.
Where the dot-coms went wrong, Drapkin said, was that many of the pure-play
Internet companies "did not have a viable business model behind them," in
terms of revenues, making a profit, and, ultimately, staying in business.
"You've got to figure out your financial end," Drapkin said. "They
(dot-coms) thought they were going to become an industry unto themselves."
He added that those dot-com business that "grew organically -- off of their
own profits -- now seem like geniuses," versus those whose growth was
propelled by massive stock market overvaluation.
Drapkin, who also heads Drapkin Technologies, which consults on e-commerce
issues for business, gave the following short overview of tips for those
whose business is using e-commerce for sales or considering a jump into
-- Strategy First. E-commerce strategy is not the old corporate strategy
that has long been the domain of market analysts and management consultants,
Drapkin said. He added that there have been millions of dollars "literally
thrown away by old-guard strategists who were arrogant enough to think that
their analytic techniques would translate successfully to e-commerce."
In general, these techniques "don't translate," Drapkin said.
-- Performance Measures. Drapkin said that while it's easy to mock dot-com
pioneers for ignoring traditional business channel markers like
profitability -- those in business should not swing too far the other way
and assume that traditional measures are adequate to plan and grow an online
-- Flat Organizational Structures. Drapkin said though there is now
widespread skepticism about the nonhierarchical structures that the dot-com
companies popularized -- "in spite of the foosball-type excesses, the core
principles of close collaboration between different teams is an essential in
tech-heavy, fast-changing businesses."
-- Channel Harmony. According to Drapkin, one of the fundamental principles
of e-commerce is disintermediation: reducing to zero the number of
intermediaries between a business and its customers. "However,
disintermediation can be the beginning of an internal nightmare known as
channel conflict," he said.
Drapkin gives the example of Gateway Computers where initially Gateway's
phone-sales representatives were sabotaging Web orders.
According to Drapkin, Gateway partially solved the problem but never went
the next step so that general sales reps were willing to cannibalize their
own business and tell their customers, "Use the Web site. It's great."
His final piece of advice to those in selling through e-commerce -- "Be
smart, learn from the experience of others."
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Seattle Startup Buzz is for and about the startups and trends impacting new ventures in Seattle, Washington State and the Northwest. The truth is that economic growth and recovery in the Northwest will be driven one new venture at a time. Tell us about your new venture and why it will impact the Northwest.
Yearly Archive for 2010
As the home of Amazon, Seattle can make the case we’re the e-commerce capital of the world though I’m sure Silicon Valley would beg to differ. One of the other feathers in Seattle’s e-commerce hat is Blue Nile. Some of the key players from Blue Nile are now running the Maveron-backed Zulily that is part of one of the hottest trends in e-commerce – Private Sales. [Read More]
Seattle-based and Intel-backed Delve Networks has shown themselves to be smart about drafting off of national news to demonstrate their capabilities as I blogged about last year. Delve’s iPad support is the latest example. Last year, Delve showed in one of the coolest demos I’ve seen how they were the only “intelligent” video platform by showing their Search Inside feature using the Obama Inaugural. Delve has claimed that their customer’s who use the Search Inside feature see a 300% increase in … [Read More]
Based on today’s news from local energy efficiency startup, Optimum Energy, it appears that the University of Texas is ahead of where universities and colleges are in Washington. In these budget-constrained times, I hope the leaders of these universities will join Texas in taking advantage of the technology from a local company. Read on for the release… [Read More]
You may not think of social media as a component of your company’s lead generation strategy, but perhaps you should. There are an increasing number of success stories across the Web – and from the Pacific Northwest specifically – demonstrating how social media communities can make measurable impacts on demand generation and, ultimately, sales results. [Read More]


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U.S. Mobile Phone Market Now Half-Smart
The smartphone market is about to reach a tipping point that you may have assumed it already hit: 50 percent of the U.S. mobile market. According to a new report from research outfit Nielsen, as of February, 49.7 percent of U.S. mobile phone users owned smartphones. That’s up from 36 percent a year ago.
So the trend line here is skewing upward, and at an increasingly steep incline. According to Nielsen, more than two-thirds of new phone buyers in the last three months opted for smartphones over feature phones.
And the choice of device they made is about what you’d expect: 48 percent went with an Android handset, 43 percent opted for an iPhone, and 5 percent purchased a BlackBerry. That breakdown is similar to the figures for all U.S. smartphones, but with one significant difference: The iPhone has grown more popular among new smartphone owners, rising 11 percent; while Research In Motion’s BlackBerry has declined, dropping 7 percent.


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An “artificial-intelligence attorney” created using technology from IBM’s Watson has snagged its first customer, but that doesn’t mean it’ll be appearing in the courtroom anytime soon.
Quaker Oats is being sued over the big “100% Natural” label on the front of its box. What else is in that bucket o’ oats that makes the label a lie? Nothing, say the plantiffs—it is, indeed, just oats. Their complaint is that the oats were grown using pesticides. That, they claim, should be sufficient to keep the…
In 2012, the Department of Justice clamped down on Android app piracy and now convictions are being made—along with the announcement of some incredible figures.
Amazon takes its reviews seriously. That much is clear from the multiple lawsuits the company has already filed against websites offering fake Amazon reviews. The latest round of legal action just reinforces that you probably shouldn’t mess with Amazon’s reviews system.
Following on the heels of CBS’ extremely detailed lawsuit against the fan film Axanar, we now hear that another Star Trek fan film has been told that it should probably stop. This time, it’s Star Trek: Federation Rising.
In 2015, the FBI hacked Tor to identify users of child sex websites. Now a judge has thrown out evidence acquired during the investigation.
Google has received formal antitrust charges from the European Commission today, which the claim company has “abused its dominant position by imposing restrictions on Android device manufacturers and mobile network operators.”
Uber is currently embroiled in hundreds of lawsuits around the world, but after today, it can cross one off the list. The cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco sued Uber in 2014 over its background check procedures. The company has now settled out of court for at least $10 million.
The current scrap between Apple and the FBI feels timely and relevant to most of us. But as a new Bloomberg feature explains, it’s been brewing for at least 18 months.
The Justice Department has announced that it wants to overturn a ruling that currently protects an iPhone in New York from being unlocked.
The fight between Apple and the FBI over unlocking an iPhone continues. Now, Apple’s VP for software engineering, Craig Federighi, has spoken out, warning that legal arguments overlook the fact that criminals—as well as tech companies—continue to innovate.
The Associated Press is reporting that Apple will tell federal judges this week that it believes its fight with the FBI over unlocking an iPhone should be passed on to Congress.
Apple is currently developing a legal response to the government’s request that it create software to help the DOJ unlock an iPhone connected to the San Bernardino shooting. It seems part of its argument will, apparently, include defending code as a form of free speech.
Bill Gates has come out in support of the FBI over its battle with Apple about unlocking an iPhone as part of the San Bernardino case.
Apple’s latest whizzy user interface technology is found in Force Touch and 3D Touch, both of which use haptic feedback to make touchpads and screens come to life. But it might not have been so new after all, because now Apple’s being sued for allegedly infringing three patents over the tech.
The protested become the protesters. Uber is shutting down services in Paris today, to join other drivers from across the city in protest against regulations that could hurt non-taxi driving services.


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In 2016, Jony Ive was fighting growing anxiety within Apple’s design team. Ive has resigned from his day-to-day administration and Richard Howarth has been promoted to Vice President of Design. This created tension as Howarth changed from a regular member to the leader of a close group of about 20 people.
Ive has been working for Steve Jobs for over a decade to become one of Apple’s most powerful figures. His words were final. However, Haworth did not have such a position. The absence of Ive created a gap, and other leaders in the company tried to fill it. For all of Howarth’s talent as a designer, he could be defensive and passionate when an engineer challenged him. Such explosions increased as operational-interested executives and seniority engineers sought to increase their design influence.
The team he led spent a year completely redesigning the iPad. Designer Danny Coster led the effort. Kiwi was instrumental in creating the translucent iMac and contributed to the birth of the name “Bondai Blue” after the beaches of Australia. He has developed a refreshing iPad with more sophisticated curves and a lighter body that feels natural in people’s hands. Some of the product designers working on it thought it was so elegant, so they said it would be the first model to gladly buy at retail prices.
However, Apple’s operations team decided that creating an iPad would require creating some new features from scratch. Initial costs for new machines, new logic boards, and other components can reach billions of dollars, making a payback investment that can take years. Due to these so-called non-recurring engineering costs, Apple’s business unit has suspended the iPad.
These cost-conscious decisions have frustrated some members of the product team. That led Coster to leave Apple and join the action camera company GoPro as design director. This was the first attention-grabbing exit of one of Apple’s core design team members. He has been with Apple since 1994. He was not the last asylum of the design team.
When Apple’s smart speaker, the HomePod, was done, project lead designer Chris Stringer decided he was ready to migrate from Apple. He joined the company in 1995 and has been deprived of his work for the past 20 years. He approached Ive in February and advised him on his plans to leave. Stringer was dissatisfied with the HomePod because, in addition to his diminished interest, Apple treated the HomePod as a hobby and took the focus between departments that were generously focused on core products such as the iPhone and iPad. Its development was delayed, partly because Apple’s digital assistant, Siri, couldn’t order products, food, or Uber like Amazon’s rival Echo. At the bottom of his heart, he imagined the possibility of a more sophisticated speaker. It was a project he knew Apple would never pursue. Speakers never cleared Tim Cook’s threshold to become a $ 10 billion business, so Stringer eventually set up his own audio company.
With the development of the 10th Anniversary iPhone, a similar restlessness pervaded the software design team. Imran Chaudhri, one of the top software designers, has begun planning his own exit. A British-American who shaved his head and wore a black T-shirt and jeans joined Apple as an intern in 1995 and solidified his role at Apple as part of the team that developed the iPhone’s multi-touch technology. He worked for years under Scott Forstall before being tapped by Ive to join a small group that developed the Apple Watch interface. He also announced in one of the company’s recent developer keynotes. Over time, he began to work on what the company seemed to be reducing its innovative leap.
Feeling a little creatively unfulfilled, he decided it was time to leave Apple. Following common practice in the company, he told Ive and Alan Dye that he would leave within a few months after collecting the shares he plans to acquire as part of his compensation. Such arrangements have become more common at Apple under Tim Cook. It was in contrast to Steve Jobs, who punished the deserters, refused to rehire them, and treated their departure like a despised lover.
A month before departure, Chaudhri wrote an email to a colleague informing him of his upcoming departure. He told them that he wasn’t in the design studio, but was available by email until his last day. He reminded them of what they did with Apple to make products that empower people, and told them it was an honor to work with many of them. He liked the words of the Persian poet Rumi and said, “When you do something from your soul, you feel the river moving in you, it’s a pleasure.” Chaudhri wrote, “Sadly, the river dries up, and I’m looking for a new one,” while playing that line.
The email surprised Ive and Dye. They were afraid that the message Chaudhri sent might be interpreted as meaning that Apple’s best days had passed. The river was dry. For outsiders, the company was no longer innovative, but the criticisms of those who helped create the iPhone’s multi-touch technology were completely different. They worried that it might be demoralizing and worked to contain the damage.
Shortly after the email, Dye fired Chaudhri.
This move has had a negative economic impact. Chaudhri will no longer receive his shares. Being stabbed, he complained to his friends about his dismissal and told them that Ive and Die misunderstood his comments about the river. He explained to them that this email was a personal reflection of his own lack of joy, not a comment about Apple.
Still, it was interpreted as a personal attack within the company struggling with its anxieties in the aftermath of the co-founder’s death.
from After Steve Trip Mickle Copyright © 2022 by Tripp Mickle. Reprinted with permission of William Morrow, publisher of HarperCollins Publishers. Tripp Mickle New York Times, Covers Apple.He previously reported about the company The Wall Street JournalHe also wrote about Google and other Silicon Valley giants.