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MWW, a leading independent public relations agency, will announce on Monday that it is acquiring a firm that specializes in reaching consumers who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.
The ageny will acquire and absorb the Macias Media Group in Los Angeles, which offers services like marketing, public relations and corporate communications aimed at L.G.B.T. consumers. Financial terms of the deal were not being disclosed.
Stephen Macias, president at Macias Media, will join MWW as senior vice president and the lead of the L.G.B.T. practice. He will be based in the MWW office in Los Angeles and also spend time in the MWW office in New York.
The deal adds MWW to a lengthening list of agencies with practices devoted to the L.G.B.T. audience. Advertisers are increasingly interested in reaching these consumers not only through traditional measures like buying ads in L.G.B.T. magazines and sponsoring floats in pride parades but also by engaging with them in general-market media like television and social platforms.
The deal is also coming at the end of a month that has seen an unusually large number of blue-chip brands featuring L.G.B.T. consumers, celebrities and themes in mainstream ads, among them Banana Republic, Barneys, Chevrolet, Coca-Cola, Royal Caribbean International and Visa.
The L.G.B.T. market is “an area I have been particularly interested in,” said Michael W. Kempner, president and chief executive at MWW, which has its headquarters in East Rutherford, N.J., adding that it was a demographic group appealing in its own right but also for its “cultural influence” on mainstream consumers.
“We’ve done L.G.B.T. work for several clients over the last few years,” he said, and in the course of that “had done some work with Stephen and become impressed with him, his operation and his approach to marketing.”
Mr. Macias formed Macias Media in September 2012 after working as executive vice president and general manager at Here Media in Los Angeles, which specializes in the L.G.B.T. market. Macias Media became the marketing and public relations agency for Here Media; other clients have included the Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black,” the Vail International Film Festival and United for Equality in Sports and Entertainment.
“The L.G.B.T. space has been changing remarkably over the past couple years,” said Mr. Macias, who is 46, as more advertisers “look for an L.G.B.T. strategy.”
Current Macias Media clients become clients of the new L.G.B.T. practice at MWW, Mr. Macias said, and “we will be announcing some large” additional clients shortly, “large, corporate brands based on the East Coast.”


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Both equally organizations and shoppers alike built moves to slice down on their costs in 2020 as the pandemic continued to affect the worldwide financial system. Numerous corporations, for their portion, began to request out approaches to minimize the fees and inefficiencies in manual or outdated business-to-business enterprise (B2B) revenue channels to reply to these pandemic-pushed shifts.
This, in transform, has led to B2B firms’ surge in interest bordering on the net marketplaces, lots of of which are seeking to participate in the B2B eCommerce house in better figures. More businesses are citing payments processing speeds as a vital have to have, with a the latest PYMNTS report locating that 48 p.c of B2B businesses indicated it as a worry. Another review found that only 20 p.c of firms experienced a wish to go away from digital and back to guide product sales, a thing that shows virtual B2B payments and interactions are beginning to filter into the mainstream.
In the February edition of the Global B2B Payments Playbook, PYMNTS analyzes how the pandemic has accelerated the ongoing shift to eCommerce and digital payment tools for B2B companies around the world. It also normally takes a shut seem at how this B2B eCommerce migration is impacting the general function of B2B payments in just purchaser-dealing with commerce.
All around The World-wide B2B Payments World
1 industry where B2B eCommerce transactions have shot up fast is India. A latest analyze found that advancement within just the B2B on line sector rose 200 per cent more quickly than that of the country’s enterprise-to-shopper (B2C) eCommerce room in 2020. This indicates that B2B corporations are previously creating major moves in the eCommerce earth, and to obtain the digital resources and resources that have been used by their B2C counterparts for some time. The report also indicated that both of those India’s B2B and B2C segments turned their consideration to rising systems like automated or mobile applications that could offer them with speedier transactions, for illustration. Over-all cell orders within the place have considering that jumped by 8 p.c, and it is probably that cellular will keep on to increase in relevance as a essential channel both of those for B2B and B2C businesses.
Going B2B payments and interactions on the internet will come with several gains. 1 examine indicated that shifting to electronic product sales channels can help organizations improve their income, with electronic gross sales pushing revenue growth forward for 62 p.c of B2B entities in 2020. The examine also discovered that 29 percent of this kind of businesses expanded the range of electronic revenue they produced in the course of that year, some thing that demonstrates these corporations may perhaps be getting a better interest in eCommerce and its opportunity added benefits.
Greater profits is just just one of numerous positives of shifting to electronic marketplaces or solutions, a go that could also stage the taking part in discipline for smaller- to mid-sized enterprises (SMBs). These corporations could also faucet electronic remedies to compete on a extra degree playing discipline with their larger competition, discussed Anmol Bhansali, director for Goldiam Intercontinental in a the latest PYMNTS interview. Transferring to digital platforms could allow scaled-down corporations in the diamond industry to streamline areas of their offer chain for quicker order deliveries and payments, enabling them to a lot more evenly compete with industry giants. A lot of companies within just this business nevertheless take care of vital pieces of their offer chains offline, he described, even if they record their inventory or other companies on the net. Going the full provide chain on the web could enable to get rid of some of the frictions hooked up to these manual processes.
For more on these and other stories, stop by the Playbook’s Information & Developments.
Amazon Organization On Why B2B Providers Have to Remain On Top Of Electronic Payment Developments
Consumers’ expectations for pace and provider have developed exponentially since the start of the pandemic, a change that is also rippling throughout the B2B room. The B2B payments that underpin consumer-struggling with transactions will have to transfer quickly as effectively to guarantee that consumers’ transforming desires are met, and this may be why a lot of B2B firms are relocating to eCommerce marketplaces to interact with or shell out their associates with larger speeds. These marketplaces must be guaranteed that they are accommodating these payment requires in order to preserve businesses’ fascination, on the other hand, explained Ragui Selwanes, director of business enterprise payments for Amazon Enterprise in a new PYMNTS job interview.
To learn extra about why supplying versatile payment strategies will be critical to the success of B2B corporations and on the web marketplaces, visit the Playbook’s Attribute Tale.
Deep Dive: How The Pandemic Is Affecting B2B Payments’ Purpose In Accelerating eCommerce B2B and B2C Transactions
Firms of all styles across all industries have experienced to adjust speedily to how day by day small business functions can be carried out due to the fact the pandemic started off. Lots of have moved to electronic platforms to discover new partners or conduct payments, accelerating an present go to eCommerce that has been ongoing within just the B2B area for quite a few a long time. On the web B2B income attained $1.3 trillion by the conclude of 2019, for instance. B2B companies’ flock to digital marketplaces would make it much more than possible that these product sales figures will proceed to improve, in particular as people continue their very own transfer to digital channels — placing strain to innovate the B2B transactions that make buyer-struggling with eCommerce’s trademark velocity attainable. Participating in this emerging B2B eCommerce entire world may be difficult for organizations that have yet to adopt electronic payment answers for their enterprise transactions, however. These corporations ought to examine what solutions could finest tie into the requires of their consumers and associates to very best compete on these platforms.
To master a lot more about how the pandemic is affecting the B2B eCommerce area, primarily about payments, pay a visit to the Playbook’s Deep Dive.
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The World B2B Payments Playbook, a PYMNTS and Worldpay collaboration, examines the latest headlines in the cross-border B2B payments space and details why companies are gravitating towards electronic alternatives to retain seamless and sturdy worldwide small business relationships.


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There is an abundance of spectrum in the millimeter
Wave bands, but offering “unlimited bandwidth” in 5G still
requires expensive backhaul (and fiber)
The mobile industry has set very aggressive targets for 5G such as: 1-10Gbps delivered connection speed (not theoretical maximum), and 1000x bandwidth per unit area (see my previous article). What will make this possible is the ability to use spectrum in the millimeter wave bands (30-300 GHz), and […]
Pointing toward the future (Ericsson CEO, MWC Barcelona)
Bold targets, but is the industry
promising more than it can deliver?
The mobile industry’s vision documents for 5G mobile are promising fantastic leaps in performance over current networks (links below). But as 5G evolves over the coming 10 to 15 years, it will most likely be a repeat of the pattern seen in 3G and 4G mobile.
The first step in the […]
I don’t usually pay much attention to Sony Ericsson’s products but last week I saw a billboard in the subway stating that the Xperia Arc sported a camera with excellent low light capabilities. A quick google search revealed that SE is pushing the 8 Mpix low light camera as a major selling point. The low light capabilities come from Sony’s new sensor technology Exmor R.
It looks like SE’s […]
Sometimes I get the impression that the industry believes the iPhone and iPad represent the pinnacle of human technology. Even though the majority of the market attention is on these form factors, several new UI technologies are already out of the labs. These technologies have the potential to disrupt the traditional smartphone/tablet market and might pave the way for new types of products.
Here are a few examples that point toward […]
Update: According to The Next Web’s internal sources, HP is NOT going to sell or shut webOS down, just the underperforming hardware device division. HP communicated this in a clumsy way which gave the erroneous impression that webOS was dead or for sale. HP’s plan seems to be to license webOS to hardware partners. But if HP is going to sell their PC division, they can’t force the […]
webOS from HP/Palm on different screens
The Google/Motorola deal suddenly makes it relevant to take a closer look at the other OS platforms on the market. Most industry observers in the mobile space have already written off HP/Palm’s webOS as a dead platform. From a smartphone perspective, this is obvious at first sight. With two percent of smartphone users in their only market (US), negligible global sales, and a thin […]
This article has previously been published on VisionMobile’s blog.
The Android vs. iOS vs. Windows Phone platform battle has been the talk of the industry for the last year. But the market share battle between handset platforms might not be as critical for the industry as many believe.
A popular view in the industry is that the market is inevitably moving towards an Apple-Google duopoly. Apple’s app store has […]
The hype created by the promise of HTML5 has almost reached fever pitch during the last quarter. With HTML5/CSS3 it will be possible to run most types of applications directly in the “browser” and the need to install apps that execute native code will be a thing of the past. HTML5 can run from a cache in your smartphone/tablet/PC even if you are offline and the app can access the […]
Eventually the mouse and keyboard will be replaced as our primary way of interfacing with the digital world by something else. Voice input, and pen/finger based touch screens are the most well-known candidates but there are several other more advanced technologies being developed.
One example is I-Tech’s Virtual Keyboard (introduced in 2005) with a red laser that projects a keyboard on to any surface. You type and the sensors will detect […]
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All mobile phone vendors hope to repeat the success of Apple with a new Jesus phone. Sony Ericsson’s candidate is Satio (previous working name Idou) and they are positioning the integrated 12 megapixel camera as the “killer app” that will lift Satio above the other smartphone competitors when it hits the shelves this fall.
Unfortunately, I think they have made a serious design mistake in their choice of […]
Will financially burdened telco operators postpone investments in the 4G technology LTE? This has been an ongoing topic within the industry for over a year. LTE provides the operators with higher capacity, spectral efficiency, and data rates but requires heavy investments in new infrastructure. The alternative is to settle for the 3G upgrade HSPA or to upgrade the installed networks with HSPA+ (“turbo 3G”). An investment in HSPA+ is both […]
Today it is obvious that business models that are based on public Wlan networks will never live up to the hype from 2002-2004. The dramatic price pressure for mobile data via 3G/HSPA undermined the market for Wlan operators. The choice is easy between spotty Wlan coverage and comprehensive geographical service with a 3G dongle.
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Prices for Manhattan apartments kept up their steady rise in the first quarter, although a large number of high-priced closings at elite buildings helped skew prices up, according to several market reports.
The brokerages also reported a slowdown in sales and an increase in inventory.
Real estate appraisal firm Miller Samuel, in a report released by brokerage Prudential Douglas Elliman, said that the average apartment price reached $1.7 million, up 33.5 percent from the same period last year. The median price for an apartment rose to $917,000 from $840,000 over the same period, the report said.
Miller Samuel reported that sales fell by 34 percent compared to last year’s first quarter, down to 2,282 apartments from 3,474. The firm also reported that 6,194 apartments were on the market, compared to 5,923 last year.
A Brown Harris Stevens market report showed that the average sales price for an apartment in Manhattan was $1.69 million, an increase of 18 percent compared to the previous quarter. The apartment sales price was up 46.5 percent from $1.15 million in
the first quarter of 2007.
Prices of sales at the highest-end of the market – especially at The Plaza and 15 Central Park West – drove the average prices up, said Greg Heym, chief economist for Brown Harris Stevens.
Compared to the first quarter of 2007, the number of sales closed at over $10 million has increased by 318 percent, he said.
About 40 percent of the closings recorded for the first quarter of 2008 were new developments, Heym said. These units in particular take a long time to close, he said, which means that there were many deals recorded that were probably signed “pre-credit crisis,” he said.
Co-ops increased 24 percent to $1.33 million this quarter, compared to the previous quarter. The average sales price of condos rose less, up 8 percent to $1.99 million in the first quarter, compared to the previous quarter.
“It’s really an unprecedented time in the market right now,” Heym said, referring to the high number of layoffs expected in the financial service industry. “Buyers are processing all this, and it is making them hesitant in certain circumstances, but this doesn’t really affect the high end of the market.”
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Florida orange growers are harvesting their smallest crop in nearly 90 years, the result of an ill-timed freeze, two hurricanes and citrus disease that is laying waste to its groves.
The Sunshine State is expected to produce just 18 million 90-pound boxes of oranges, the Agriculture Department said last week. That would be less than half the size of last year’s poor crop and a 93% decline from Florida’s peak output in 1998.
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Did Petailing2010 work for you?
More than 100 retailers, manufacturers and distributors attended the two-day conference, hosted by Pet Business magazine and the American Pet Products Association (APPA), in Las Vegas in late October.
Most came to find out what measures they could take to build sales at the retail level and how to implement a wide range of merchandising and marketing strategies to ensure that they have a chance with today’s increasingly fickle consumer.
Pet Business and APPA created Petailing because many retailers were asking us for more information on how to develop and run their businesses. The retail pet industry, as we all know, is being squeezed on all sides, and merchants need to understand all of the opportunities and risks. The event was also designed to help the pet industry learn as much as possible about consumer shopping patterns and what can be done to attract them to pet stores and down the pet aisles of the nation’s retailers.
I think we accomplished our mission. Petailing2010 brought together industry officials in a forum that fostered communication and helped spur ideas on what was needed to help the pet industry grow. A variety of speakers, including officials from Nestlé Purina, Packaged Facts, Accenture and Fetching Communications, as well as several retailers, gave attendees a laundry list of consumer behaviors, actions and data that should serve as a foundation for the development of a sound merchandising approach. Two panel discussions, one consisting of retailers and the other of wholesalers, helped to explain the challenges ahead for retailers, wholesalers and the entire industry.
But what made this event really stand out was the opportunity for industry officials to share ideas amongst themselves, through informal meetings and during meals.
This was the first go-round for Petailing, and we are sure that with the help of APPA and our sponsor partners–including Nestlé Purina, Furminator, Hartz Mountain, Bayer Animal Health and the New York City Pet Show–next year’s event will offer even more information for the industry to use to their advantage. Details about next year’s event will be published in the near future. In the meantime, Pet Business has thumbnail drives with the presentations on them. If you would like a copy, email a request to firstname.lastname@example.org.


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Mahindra and Mahindra plans tractor plant in TanzaniaMarch 25th, 2008 - 1:48 pm ICT by admin
Mumbai, March 25 (IANS) Utility vehicle manufacturing leader Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M) is all set to put up a $1 billion tractor assembly plant in Tanzania, says Tanzanian Industries, Trade and Marketing Minister Mary Nagu. “The talks with the automotive major are at an advanced stage and most of the final modalities are just being given the final touch,” said Nagu, a part of the 32-member delegation from the African country led by Tanzanian Vice President Ali Mohammed Shein.
Apart from the modalities of the proposed joint venture, which is going to use the public private participation route, a team from M&M will be visiting Tanzania in the coming months to finalise the location of the plant.
“In the first phase, after the plant completion, the company intends to roll out 3,000 tractors in a year,” Nagu told IANS Monday night.
“We are very keen on this project. Our country is primarily an agriculture country and tractors are necessary farm equipment; moreover, Mahindras are well known in Africa for their automobiles. Thus, for us, instead of importing utility vehicles, it is better that we have a plant in our country and maybe we can even export auto units from our country in future,” the minister said.
The high level delegation has also visited several fertiliser companies and met the top officials of the Pune-based Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd.
“The talks are still at a very initial stage and I cannot say more on this. But then we are very keen for agrarian entrepreneurs in India to scout and invest in our country which has a massive chunk of arable land waiting for reaping a rich harvest,” she said.
Besides, the delegation met sugarcane farmers and agro-based companies seeking investment in Tanzania’s agrarian sector.


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Merchants in downtown Phoenix and Glendale are offering some less hectic and less suburban alternatives to the Black Friday shopping frenzy.
Stores and business in downtown Glendale are promoting more laid back venues on the Friday after Thanksgiving. They are also part of Small Business Saturday along with hosts of other local independent stores and shops in other parts of the Valley.
Those indie shops are offering various deals and promotions both days.
In downtown Phoenix, shops at the CityScape development are promoting a more laid back Black Friday than offered by the outlets, malls and general suburban consumerism.
That includes ice skating at CityScape’s small rink and sales at shops such as Urban Outfitters and Charming Charlie.
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Alteria Capital said on Monday it has made the final close of its first venture debt fund at $140 million (Rs 960 crore).
The firm, which was founded last year by former top InnoVen Capital executives Ajay Hattangdi and Vinod Murali, had a target corpus to raise Rs 800 crore with a greenshoe option of another Rs 200 crore.
Azim Premji Foundation and Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal have joined as Limited Partners (LPs), or investors, in the fund, Alteria Capital said in a statement. Kiran Reddy, a promoter of SPI Cinemas, which was bought by PVR last year, also invested in the fund.
Other LPs in the fund include private-sector lender IndusInd Bank, Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), several large domestic banks and family offices, it added.
SIDBI's contribution is its single-largest commitment to an entity under its startup fund of funds programmes, it said. It has allocated Rs 157.5 crore to the venture debt firm.
Alteria Capital had marked the first close of its fund at Rs 356 crore in March last year followed by the second close at Rs 625 crore in October.
Co-founder Murali said the fund will end up deploying around Rs 1,800 crore since it has the ability to recycle capital.
"We are seeing a very strong pipeline of startups across technology, healthcare and consumer segments to absorb this capital over the next couple of years," he added.
The venture debt firm had made its first investment in ready-to-cook food startup Fingerlix. It followed this up with investments in Sachin Tendulkar-backed celebrity fashion firm Universal Sportsbiz Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai-based ed-tech startup Toppr Technologies Pvt. Ltd and home healthcare services Portea.
Its other investments include Delhi-based student accommodation platform Stanza Living, scooter-sharing startup Vogo and Rebel Foods, an internet kitchen platform that owns and operates a number of brands including Faasos and Behrouz Biryani.
Last month, it wrote a Rs 80 crore ($11.5 million) cheque to digital lending startup Lendingkart, in one of the largest venture debt cheques written to an Indian company.
Venture debt is becoming an attractive tool of funding for startups as it rarely involves stake dilution by the promoters. It also provides companies more time to grow.
Still, there are only a handful of players providing venture debt in the market.
In May, venture debt firm InnoVen received an additional $200 million (Rs 1,400 crore) funding commitment from shareholders Temasek Holdings and United Overseas Bank Ltd.
Trifecta Capital is raising capital for its second investment vehicle, for which it has made “great progress” and aims to have an investible corpus of Rs 1,500 crore, Trifecta Capital managing partner Rahul Khanna had told VCCircle earlier this year.
The latest entrant in the market is BAC Acquisitions, floated by Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal last year. Although it has not positioned itself as a pure play venture debt firm it has been issuing venture debt cheques to companies like BoAt and Bounce.


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A look at the fine print on the Tesla website confirms that its futuristic Cybertruck will need more time before delivery.
The electric light-duty truck prototype was unveiled in Nov. 2019 and was supposed to go into production by the end of 2021. As recently as the end of July, the Cybertruck order page on the Tesla website noted: “You will be able to complete your configuration as production nears in late 2021. Single Motor RWD production is expected to begin in late 2022.”
But as of Saturday morning that language changed. It now states on the website: “You will be able to complete your configuration as production nears in 2022.”
The new 2022 date is likely for the dual- and tri-motor configurations. The tri-motor is the most expensive, starting at $69,900, but it offers the most range at an estimated 500 miles. The more affordable ($39,900) single-motor truck production was already slated for 2022, but could be pushed back further given the new delay.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has posted and talked about redesigns, supply chain issues, and manufacturing hurdles for the truck. The Cybertruck will be built at the new Tesla factory in Austin, Texas. It is still under construction, so it’s not clear when in 2022 the pickup will finally start production.
Tesla bumps up Model S price
The delay hasn’t stopped a reported 1.25 million reservations (at $100 a pop and fully refundable) from flooding in for the futuristic pickup. Mashable reached out to Tesla for clarification on the timing change and we’ll update this story if we hear back.
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Today, Chen Jin, general manager of Lenovo’s China mobile phone revealed the Moto X30 Pro, which is Motorola’s annual flagship to be released on August 2. According to reports, the Moto X30 Pro will be the world’s first 200MP smartphone. This device will use a Samsung HP1 sensor and the size of this sensor reaches 1/1.22 inches. The target model of this smartphone is the Xiaomi 12S which uses a Sony IMX707, with a 1/1.28-inch sensor.
In addition to the large sensor, another advantage of this sensor is its high pixels. This means that the device will have a strong resolution. When shooting the same scene, the high-resolution photo will have very high resolution and richer details. Previously, Chen Jin had posted a sample image taken with the Moto X30 Pro. The size of this image exceeds 13MB, and the details of the picture were excellent.
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Moto X30 Pro image output size is quite large
However, the Moto X30 Pro has the capacity to compress the image. After compression, it will lose some details and the size will be significantly lower. Chen Jin points out that the 200-megapixel Moto X30 Pro has added a new self-developed intelligent high-resolution mode. This sensor can also output 50-megapixel high-precision images in automatic mode.
In terms of core configuration, the X30 Pro will come with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 flagship processor. This device will also have a 50-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera and a 12-megapixel sub-camera (not a telephoto). The screen size is 6.67 inches, the resolution is FHD+, and the refresh rate is 144Hz. Under the hood, this smartphone will come with a decent battery capacity. However, at the moment, there is no information regarding the battery size of this smartphone. Nevertheless, there are reports that this device will support a 125W super flash charge. This is one of the fastest smartphone charging capacities in the industry.


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Even if this does result in a slimmer Vita for North American and European regions, I still say they need to focus on the games. That's critical.
Anyway, it appears that Sony is about to announce something that involves the concept of "slim." An invitation has been sent out to the media (pictured here) and it says:
"Following the biggest launch in PlayStation history, join us for an introduction to the slimmest."
Sony launched a slim model of the Vita in Japan last year. That was supposed to be 20 percent thinner and 15 percent lighter, but it lost that gorgeous 5-inch OLED screen. Instead, they replaced it with an LCD display, which I personally wouldn't like as much. At the time, Sony said they had no plans to distribute the slimmer version outside of Japan, but that stance may have changed.
Then again, there's a chance that Sony slimmed down the PlayStation 3 even further. That typically happens soon after a new hardware launch; the last-gen machine gets a "small" treatment. The PS2 shrunk like mad, remember? We'll have to wait and see what Sony has in store…


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Rihanna and A$AP Rocky welcomed their second child earlier this month, according to multiple sources. The rapper and Fenty Beauty founder couple have kept a low profile since late June, seemingly in preparation for their growing family.
With speculations of the baby name not being revealed but starting with an R. The couple are already parents to a one-year-old son, RZA Athelston Mayers, born in May 2022.
Rihanna announced her second pregnancy during the Super Bowl Halftime Show, showcasing her baby bump in a Loewe jumpsuit and Alaïa coat, which gave off super mom vibes since she had just given birth to RZA. Throughout her pregnancy, she made fashion statements; who can forget the Valentino Haute Couture silk faille dress with a cape covered in 30 giant camellia appliqués she wore to the 2023 Met Gala? Definitely not us.


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Apple Tops Best Global Brands Report: Top 5 List Includes Facebook, Amazon and Nissan
Apple tops the Best Global Brands report for 2016. (Image: AFP PHOTO/CHRISTOF STACHE)
Apple, Google and Coca-Cola have been deemed the top three most valuable brands in the latest edition of the Best Global Brands report.
Prepared by global brand agency Interbrand, the 17th edition of the report looks at financial performance, influence and brand strength to compile the ranking.
For the fourth year in a row, Apple and Google claimed the top positions. Apple's brand value grew by 5 percent to $178.1 million USD in 2016, while Google's brand value rose 11 percent to $133.3 million.
Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Toyota, IBM, Samsung, Amazon, Mercedes-Benz and GE round out the top 10 list.
Dior and Tesla also cracked the top 100 list for the first time, at #89 and #100 respectively.
The top five growing brands include Facebook (48 percent growth), Amazon (33 percent), LEGO (25 percent), Nissan (22 percent) and Adobe (21 percent).
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As you have probably already heard by now, the iconic JC Penny store in the city of San Fernando will be closing its doors for good this Saturday, July 28th, 2012 as reported by the Daily News. There have been attempts by locals including the Valley Economic Alliance to try to save this historic site which has been in existence since 1920 which moved only once to a 60,000 sqft building on the corner of San Fernando Road and San Fernando Mission Boulevard in 1953.
You can sign a petition at SaveSanFernandoJCPenny.com which also has support from a fellow San Fernando native George Lopez (who now lives in Toluca Lake). While the efforts to save JC Penny are much appreciated and admired, I doubt anything will change for the two simple reasons that San Fernando itself is slowly deteriorating from a lack of blue collar jobs and overall investment. Additionally the San Fernando Mall is no longer a popular spot as people flock to the indoor malls like the Topanga and Promende Malls both operated by the Westfield Company.
Speaking of investments, compare the San Fernando Mall to the proposed expansion at the Village at Westfield Topanga which is surrounded by big and small stores within a 1 mile radius. These expansions are taking place in the West Valley and not in places like San Fernando which appears to be that investors dont want to pursue any development as evidenced by JC Penny shutting its doors. But who knows, maybe there will be a turning point.


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The Financial Times reported the evening of May 24 that Michael Dell is pruning his portfolio with the likely sale of ValleyCrest to Brickman, a rival backed by buyout group KKR, in a deal that will create the US’s largest horticultural management business.
The sale will allow KKR to merge ValleyCrest, which manages and designs gardens for companies including Disney and AT&T, with Brickman, which it bought last year for $1.6bn.
An exact value could not be ascertained, but people familiar with the matter said ValleyCrest was expected to fetch about $1 billion. The talks are understood to be advanced, but those people cautioned a deal was not certain.
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Real estate news in brief (Feb. 21)
Bank of America Cool Springs Vice President and Home Loan Manager Chris Tabscott has been watching the indicators that affect home loan rates: mainly, inflation indicators like the Consumer Price Index.
Inflation at the consumer level has the potential to negatively impact bonds and home loan rates if it begins to rise.
The Consumer Price Index measures the average price level paid by consumers for a representative basket of goods and services in more than 200 categories. The December index showed there is not much inflation pressure at the consumer level. But the Producer Price Index, which measures inflation at the wholesale level, rose in December for the first time in three months, which could affect decisions made by the Federal Reserve Board to further taper its purchases of Treasurys and mortgage bonds.
Tabscott said that could have a big effect on home loan rates this year, and that’s an important story to continue monitoring.
RepairClinic.com®, an online store for replacement parts for home appliances, outdoor power equipment and heating and cooling equipment, shared a list of money-saving tasks that will prevent problems for homeowners this spring.
• Inspect for wear and damage on lawn mowers, pressure washers, string trimmers, edgers and other outdoor power and landscaping equipment. Review owner’s manuals, replace worn or damaged parts with new components and clean the equipment. Stock up on degreaser, filters, spark plugs and other essentials.
• Prune trees and shrubs. “By mid to late winter, your trees and shrubs have been dormant for a significant period of time,” said Jeff Linderman, RepairClinic’s resident landscaping specialist. “They may also have winter-storm damage. Now is an ideal time for pruning to enable spring growth.”
• Replace the batteries in smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and then test them. Check the expiration dates on first-aid kits and fire extinguishers and replace as needed. Review fire escape and other emergency plans.
By now everyone’s heard tales about how hot the Nashville real estate market is and how a lot of homes are selling for full price after just a few days or weeks on the market. What’s missing from those stories, however, is the work that went into getting those homes ready for sale.
Some of that work was catching up on deferred maintenance.
But more homeowners and Realtors are turning to home stagers to capture buyers with design.
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A couple of weeks ago, most people were rightly criticizing Ford, Chrysler and GM's CEOs for their arrogance or ignorance in flying to DC in private jets. This week Ford's CEO has been the first to show understanding of what transpired. Ford's answer is not only to rectify a mistake, but also to show forward thinking out of recession.
In refusing the bailout money, Ford is rectifying a really bad marketing and public relations mistake with a real win. Judging by the massive outpouring of goodwill on the web since this step was announced, Ford's future looks rosy once consumers have the money to buy new cars. In fact, in my opinion, as cars are necessary to the bulk of Americans, and as Americans will want to help the US economy, Ford is likely to win market share even in the recession.
Secondly, in refusing bailout money, Ford has separated itself from GM and Chrysler. Ford now looks like a healthier, more forward looking enterprise, and that "feel" will transfer to perception of its cars. It's a shame for Chevrolet (GM) as its marketing of the new Malibu was pretty nice. The rest of GM and Chrysler in toto really don't seem to have done anything for the longest time.
Ford's decision should encourage businesses to look to the future and to recognize the critical importance of its positioning at this juncture. This recession is levelling competition and public relations and marketing coups won through this hardship will be worth double those made in a strong economy. The timing for Ford couldn't be better as Toyota (of Lean Management fame) just posted its first loss in 70 years. If it markets well, and if it ensures a quality product, who knows where Ford may end up in 2 years. Yes, it will still be a challenge for Ford over the next year, but I would be willing to bet it ends 2009 in a much healthier position than GM or Chrysler.


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Not so long ago, it was confirmed that Nokia 3 will be among the three devices that HMD Global will be unveiling at the Mobile World Congress 2017 event in Barcelona, which takes place after next week.
HMD Global took over operations at Nokia and it will reportedly be using the brand name for the next 10 years. Last month, the first product of this relationship showed up – the Nokia 6. Since launch, no market other than China has been able to buy this phone. But the company will be making it official at this month’s MWC show in Spain. The third device to join the party will be the Nokia 5.
Earlier on, specs of the Nokia 5 were revealed, confirming a 5.2-inch 720p display screen, the same Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 SoC like the Nokia 6 but a smaller RAM of 2GB. Well, it is now the turn of the Nokia 3 and according to the latest reports, HMD Global will equip the 3 with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 SoC alongside a RAM of 2GB, same as the 5.
Apparently, the Nokia 3 will keep the same 5.2-inch 720p display screen used on the Nokia 5 while the 16GB expandable storage will also be retained. On the back of the phone will be a 13MP snapper while the front will ship with a 5MP lens for selfies. As for the software, the previous leak had confirmed that Android 7.0 Nougat will be running the show.
Another aspect that was also confirmed in the previous report was the price. Where the Nokia 3 will be priced at 149 euros, the Nokia 5 will be valued at 199 euros. The Nokia 6 is currently valued at an equivalent of 230 euros (CNY 1,699).
Remember that this is just a rumor and like any other unconfirmed report, be sure to take this one with a grain of salt.


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The Beijing-based company will auction limited-edition notebook PCs inspired by the Lenovo-designed 2008 Olympic Torch. Many of the computers will be autographed by athletes sponsored by marketer, such as Gail Emms, a British badminton player; Australian swimmer Libby Lenton; American beach volleyball players Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh; and Chinese track-and-field star Liu Xiang.
Each week until August, as the torch travels around the world, Lenovo will begin an auction for the computers in a different country. Besides the U.K. the auction will run in the U.S., China, Japan, Australia, France, Russia, Hong Kong, Argentina, India, Brazil and Canada.
Bids can be made at www.lenovohopefundauctions.com in 10-day intervals for each market. Iin the final week of the program leading up to the games, 12 notebook PCs, one from each of the participating countries, will be auctioned. Thirty-six computers will be auctioned around the world.
All proceeds from the auction will be distributed through the Lenovo Hope Fund to charities such as Right to Play, an athlete-based organization that emphasizes sports to aid the development of children and youth in underprivileged areas of the world.
The auction is just the latest bid in Lenovo's long-term plan to become a global brand, an ambitious play that started with its takeover of IBM Corp.'s PC division for $1.25 billion in late 2005. Since then, it has come up with witty ad campaigns created by its three agencies, Ogilvy & Mather, JWT and Dentsu. It has improved its product portfolio with high-tech laptops, desktops and mobile phones. And, of course, it has invested tens of millions to become the only Chinese company that is a global sponsor of the Olympic Games, this year in Beijing and two years ago in Turin, Italy, and millions more to advertise its sponsorship.
The strategy appears to be working. Lenovo's worldwide market share of PCs shipped, according to IDC's third-quarter survey last year, was 8%, putting it in third place behind Hewlett-Packard and Dell. This year, it began selling computers under its own name -- rather than IBM's name -- in the U.S. and Europe for the first time, which meant jettisoning Big Blue's logo two years ahead of schedule.


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Someone's building a battery good for a 621-mile range
A Swiss company reckons it has solved the problem of EV range anxiety
Is this the electric car battery that’ll solve, once and for all, the problem of range anxiety? A Swiss company called Innolith AG claims it has developed a battery that can theoretically offer 621 miles of range on a single charge.
It is, they claim, the world’s first 1,000 Wh/kg (watt-hours per kilogram) rechargeable battery. When installed into An Electric Car, it’s capable of 1,000km.
Innolith said its new battery uses “non-flammable, inorganic electrolyte”, as opposed to regular electric car batteries that rely on flammable organic electrolytes. They also say that due to the battery’s avoidance of “exotic and expensive materials”, it’ll be cheaper too.
Innolith say they’ve used a new “conversional approach in the chemistry” of its batteries to create such high density. “This new breakthrough has been made possible by years of dedicated research into all aspects of inorganic electrolytes and their application to rechargeable batteries,” explains Innolith chairman Alan Greenshields.
“Simply put, the experience gained in how to build high power batteries with exceptional robustness and cycle life has proved to be the right basis for building high energy products too,” he adds.
The company will start with a pilot project in Germany, to then licence it to “major battery and automotive companies”. They reckon it’ll take up to five years – so 2024 – for it to be fully developed and ready for proper production.


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The good folks over at Renault are looking to push things into the future. Today they are back with something new and futuristic for our transportation needs. Today we take A Look At Renault’s Ez-Go Driverless Transport System. Renault has created a concept that could change the way city dweller get around the metropolis. Renault’s Ez-Go concept is part car, part ride sharing serving, letting you move around the city effortlessly.
The design can accommodate up to six passengers and was designed for riding alone, with friends or family, or shared with other ride-hailing users. Renault released a statement saying “The future of mobility is electric, connected and autonomous.” They went on to add “People will choose whether they want to drive or be driven, with or without a driver on board.”
The Ez-Go service can operate around the clock, working an alternative to public transportation and car ownership. Have a look at this futuristic designs below and keep it locked for more from Renault coming soon.


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The city's public app now displays what3words addresses to help emergency callers communicate precise locations, and enable operators to send help exactly where it's needed.
California State Parks dispatchers will now use what3words to assist lost or stranded visitors.
Eirad has adopted what3words into its in-flight communications and retailer API, enabling ecommerce businesses to offer their customers deliveries to any 3m square in the Kingdom.
Consumers and businesses across Vietnam can use Vietnam Post’s digital address system to find their what3words address by searching in the address field or clicking on any point of the map.
Eniwa City Council is the first council in Japan to adopt what3words for precise incident reporting, allowing maintenance teams to accurately locate issues and resolve them as soon as possible.
Lynk & Co., the membership based car company, announces that it is adding what3words to its European fleet so drivers can say 3 words into the navigation system to find any precise destination.
Alpine Marketing Co., Ltd has partnered with what3words to innovate its car navigation system ‘Big X Connect’, enabling customers in Japan to easily navigate to any precise location using just thr
iNavi has announced that it has integrated what3words into its consumer navigation app, iNavi Air, enabling users to easily search, discover and navigate to any precise location in the world.
This week public safety teams across the US are taking part in a spring safety campaign to raise awareness of the free what3words app and how it can be utilized in an emergency.
Blue Dart has partnered with what3words. Retailers can add a what3words field for customers to use at checkout so Blue Dart couriers can make precise deliveries to any 3m x 3m square in India.
what3words has announced its partnership with catering services company Shuttle Delivery. Enabling customers to specify their delivery location to any precise 3m x 3m square in South Korea.
Global location technology, what3words, has announced today its partnership with TMAP Mobility, South Korea's largest mobility platform, for accurate location services and technical support.


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Wednesday night, after market close, Tesla released the company’s Q3 2023 earnings report. Soon after, Tesla also held an earnings call in which executives including Elon Musk gave us information regarding Tesla’s future plans.
The earnings report and adjoining call touched on several aspects of Tesla’s business including profitability, vehicle production guidance for the entire year, FSD progress, the status of the company’s several manufacturing plants, energy business, and so on.
This was all good and well, however, the most exciting updates during the earnings call and report mostly had to do with the Cybertruck.
So what new information did we learn about the Cybertruck? First, in the company’s earnings report, Tesla gave us a couple of new tidbits about the Cybertruck. In the section titled “Core Technology” under “battery powertrain and manufacturing” Tesla said…
“For very heavy vehicles, a high-voltage powertrain architecture brings notable cost savings, which is why Cybertruck will adopt an 800-volt architecture.”
During the Tesla Semi delivery event Musk had hinted the Cybertruck would share the higher voltage powertrain of the semi which comes in at 1000 volts however, this is the first time Tesla has confirmed the vehicle will be built on an 800-volt architecture.
Currently, all Tesla vehicles except the semi use a 400-volt battery and powertrain architecture. However, going to an 800-volt battery architecture on the Cybertruck will allow the vehicle to have faster charging speed and higher efficiency.
Given the larger battery pack size of the Cybertruck, in addition to the vehicle's 800-volt architecture, it’s now all but confirmed that the Cybertruck will be able to charge faster than the peak 250KW all Tesla vehicles tap out at currently,
Tesla has confirmed that V4 superchargers' peak charging capacity is 350KW and the Cybertruck should be able to take full advantage of the increased power. In addition to peak charging speed, the Cybertruck should be able to sustain higher charging speeds throughout the charging session thanks to its 800-volt battery architecture.
The next new information we learned about the Cybertruck is that Tesla already has an installed production capacity of 125,000 Cybertrucks per year. Making this achievement even more impressive, Tesla said the 125,000 production rate is on the Cybertruck “pilot” production line.
Tesla did not say what the annual production rate for the Cybertruck will be when fully ramped but, Musk during the earnings call said that he expects Tesla to reach a run rate of 250,000 Cybertrucks per year by the end of 2024.
In addition, Musk also noted that it’ll take Tesla roughly 18 months after the first Cybertruck deliveries before the truck is able to meaningfully contribute to Tesla’s profitability.
This is all the information we got regarding Cybertruck’s production ramp however, during the earnings call, Tesla unintentionally also confirmed one new spec for the Cybertruck. In the section of the earnings call explaining the differences in complexity between the Cybertruck and Tesla’s next-generation vehicle, Tesla’s VP of Vehicle Engineering, Lars Moravy let slip that the Cybertruck has 14 inches of suspension travel.
This means there will be a 14-inch difference in the Cybertruck’s ride height between the truck’s highest and lowest settings. To put this into perspective, the Rivian R1T, which is expected to be the Cybertruck’s main competitor when the latter begins deliveries, has 6.5 inches of suspension travel.
With 14 inches of suspension travel, the Cybertruck is expected to be one of the best vehicles for off-roading. Tesla has recently tested out the Cybertruck’s off-road capabilities with a 1280-mile drive through the Baja peninsula in Mexico.
With all these new features, the Cybertruck is shaping to be a once-in-a-generation vehicle. And for those who can’t wait to see the truck out on the roads, Tesla has also finally confirmed the Cybertruck delivery date.
Through the company’s official X page, Tesla revealed that the first Cybertruck delivery will be held on November 30. This is exactly 4 years and 9 days since Tesla first showed off the Cybertruck back in 2019.
With the delivery event so close, there is still a lot we don’t know about the truck including range, acceleration, top speed, battery size, and so on. However, we’ll be sure to keep you posted when we learn more about the Cybertruck.
Until then, make sure to visit our site torquenews.com/Tesla regularly for the latest updates.
So what do you think? Excited to learn new details about the Cybertruck? Also, do you think Tesla will indeed deliver the Cybertruck on November 30? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
Image: Courtesy of Tesla, Inc.
For more information check out: Tesla Shares a Video of FSD 12 Autonomsly Driving Around Austin, Texas
Tinsae Aregay has been following Tesla and The evolution of the EV space on a daily basis for several years. He covers everything about Tesla from the cars to Elon Musk, the energy business, and autonomy. Follow Tinsae on Twitter at @TinsaeAregay for daily Tesla news.


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Giant tentacles are snaking their way out of Leadenhall Market’s Victorian windows ready to catch visitors unawares, as part of the iconic Market’s 700-year anniversary Halloween celebrations.
The monster six metre appendages appeared today in the run-up to Halloween – in time for half term – alongside a family treasure hunt, a Museum of London pop up and a new series of atmospheric walks around the cobbled walkways, run by City of London guides.
Treasure Hunt and Book Nook: Parents looking for half term inspiration can download a self-guided treasure hunt from the Leadenhall Market website – spotting hidden secrets within Leadenhall Market’s stunning architecture in return for a £5 gift card from Waterstones in the Market. Halloween themed books are also available in the two new book nooks placed in the market – visitors can rest, read and then return the books for others to enjoy.
Museum of London’s Windows into History: As part of the Leadenhall 700 celebrations, the Museum of London are taking over the windows of 43 –45 Leadenhall Market from today to give visitors an insight into iconic moments from Leadenhall’s history. From alternative currencies to royal proclamations, discover 4 objects from the museum’s collection that highlight life at the market over the past seven centuries.
City of London Guided Walks: As the days draw in, Leadenhall Market’s dark side will be revealed in the ‘Burials, Bombs and Fantastic Beasts’ walking tours, taking place on Wednesday 20th and 27th from 6.30pm – 8pm. Although Leadenhall Market itself dates back to 1321, there have been people living and working in this area since Roman times and the walks will explore some of their sinister history – with witchcraft, murder and death at almost every turn. Tickets need to be booked in advance and are available at the subsidised price of £7 (plus fees) from Eventbrite.
2021 marks the 700th anniversary of Leadenhall Market, which dates back to 1321 and is situated in what was the centre of Roman London. Located in the centre of the City of London’s financial district, the market was originally a meat, poultry and game market but is now home to 35 boutique retailers, restaurants, cafes, wine bars and an award-winning pub, The Lamb Tavern.
For more details on how Leadenhall Market will be celebrating its 700th anniversary this year, visit www.leadenhallmarket.co.uk. Visitors to the market – past and present – are being asked to share memories via the Market’s social channels using #Leadenhall700 @LeadenhallMkt.


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2) Sell your Bitcoin Cash on an exchange. For those whose bitcoins were held on an exchange which split BCH from BTC and offers a market.
Us Dollar Price Chart 10 19 Aug 2016. Chart 1 shows the movements of four major currencies relative to the U.S. dollar in 2015: the European Union euro, the Japanese yen, the. Gold is starting off the week on a tear, adding over one percent to last week’s 2.4 percent advance to breach the $1760 level. April despite no appreciation
Buy and Sell Bitcoin Cash. Since August 1st, Bitcoin cash has become a popular cryptocurrency that attracts.
Also, the existence of auto trading platforms such as Bitcoin Evolution has made it easier for everyone to invest and earn a daily income from the cryptocurrency market. The market trends have shown.
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Bitcoin Cash (sometimes referred to as Bcash, and mostly using the tickers BCH or BCC) launched today. Anyone who held bitcoin at 12:20 p.m.


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It was a contentious day at the Nebraska GOP Convention on Saturday, which saw a change in leadership for the state party, with the emergence of the unofficially termed Patriot Delegates taking control.
This marks the overturning of Governor Pete Ricketts stranglehold on the party in the state. Malia Shirley of the Nebraska Freedom Coalition told The Post Millennial that “the Ricketts machine lost control of the party” on Saturday. In the days leading up to the convention, six delegates were informed that their credentials had been cancelled . Among those were Fanchon Blythe and Matt Innis of Lancaster County, […]
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Mumbai: India gold prices neared their record high on Thursday, with traders reluctant to stock the yellow metal even as festivals neared, dealers said.
Gold futures on the continuation chart was 0.31% higher at Rs15,958 at 2:27pm, after hitting a high of 15,968, nearing their previous record of Rs16,040, struck on 20 February.
“Demand is dull and no one is committing to buy with prices nearing the peaks. The overall appetite has been hit,” said Pinakin Vyas, chief manager-treasury, IndusInd Bank in Mumbai.
Dealers said traders sought lower prices to stock the yellow metal for festivals, starting later this month.
“The volatility is killing the buying appetite, if prices stabilise below $990 (an ounce) level, we could see demand re-appearing,” said a dealer with a state-run bank.
India celebrates Dussera festival later this month and Diwali and Dhanteras in October, which is expected to revive sagging gold sales.
The World Gold Council’s January to June figures show India’s gold imports fell 55 percent to 126.7 tonnes from 282.3 tonnes a year earlier.


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Sony have revealed that players will be able to have up to 2,000 people on their friends list on their PlayStation 4.
The PlayStation 3 currently only lets players have up to 100 friends on their friends list but that figure is set to be blown away by the upcoming next-generation console.
The news was revealed during a new Q&A video about the PlayStation 4. The video can be seen below and let us know your thoughts via the comment section below.
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London-based insurtech Lukango has successfully closed a £275k pre-seed round which will see funding deployed to accelerate the build and launch of its tailored products and platform.
Founded to reimagine how a new generation of microbusiness owners interact with insurance products, Lukango puts digital-native customers at the heart of the insurance product experience.
The startup’s connected platform, diverse community and accessible language combines with its innovative, dynamic products to support today’s entrepreneurs on their business journeys. The use of data and smart algorithms allows customers to flex and change the amount of protection needed as their businesses grow, putting small business owners in control of how much and when protection needs to be in place. Lukango’s unique proposition creates a partnership model many products lack.
The award-winning founding team of three brings decades of experience. CEO Joanne Safo and COO Mark Dennis are a founding team member and co-founder respectively of Munich Re’s Digital Partners business and have helped build, launch, and grow over 20 Insurtech startups. Marketing Lead Selina Bilton’s extensive experience developing and communicating business strategies has included roles as Chief of Staff at Unilever, Ikea, and BAE Systems.
Joanne Safo said, “We set out to champion the underserved microbusiness community and change the face of the insurance industry and are incredibly proud to have the backing of experienced investors that truly believe in our vision. Our skills in the use of technology in the insurance industry and innate strategic, scaling and execution capabilities are significant assets on our journey to better serve today’s microbusiness owners. They combine with our passion for innovation, creativity, building teams, and our purpose - to make business insurance fairer, smarter, and human.”
Early investors include former CEO of Bupa and board member of Admiral Group Evelyn Bourke, former Founder & CEO of Munich Re’s Digital Partners Andrew Rear, and former Senior Advisor to Nasdaq and CEO of Inbotiqa Mark Hunt.


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A serial telecoms entrepreneur has invested £1.2m for a stake in a Manchester company with a plan to build it into a business worth £50m in two years.
Farid 'Freddie' Fazelynia has taken a significant stake in Geezer Telecom, based in Dale Street, which plans to use the cash injection to expand its range of services.
Mr Fazelynia founded Manchester-based mobile telecoms provider Yes Telecom in 2000.
By 2005 it enjoyed sales of £40m with 300 business customers and a staff of 184, and in 2006 Mr Fazelynia sold it to Vodafone for almost £30m.
A previous mobile telecoms venture, 3A Telecom, was bought by Vodafone for £8m in 2000.
Mr Fazelynia said today: “Geezer has a good platform from which to expand and we want to build a national company to rival players such as Daisy Group.
“I have a team of people who have been with me for 20 years and they will be able to bring more corporate values to the company and improve its performance.
“I want to build a company worth £50m in no more than two years.”
Geezer, established in July last year, provides fixed-line phone and broadband services to 9,000 small and medium-sized firms.
It plans to launch a mobile division within three months and a corporate division targeting larger customers with a broader range of services, including web hosting and email.
Geezer, which has 75 staff, has sales offices in London and Belfast and expects to establish a presence in Dublin by the autumn after signing a deal with the Eircom network.
The company was founded by Alan Gray with a £400,000 investment. Since then, it has received a further £800,000 from Mr Gray, his family and friends.
Geezer is named after the bulldog owned by his fiancé Liga. It prompted a search that gained national TV coverage when it disappeared, before it was found unharmed.
Mr Gray said: “Freddie was looking for a way back in to the mobile sector and I wanted to create a mobile division.
“ This will very much be a partnership. He has the know-how and the finance to take us to the next level.”
Mr Gray, a former meat wholesaler and retailer in Ireland, spent two years working in telecoms in Manchester before setting up Geezer.
Mr Fazelynia also owns Atrincham-based software house Skuuudle, which has clients including Asda, Tesco and Argos.


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Apple & Google ‘woke-ify’ virtual assistants to educate users on Black Lives Matter
Apple and Google have programmed their trademark voice assistants to respond to questions about the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as to scold those who ask them about ‘all lives matter.’
Business Insider reports that tech companies across the board are training their voice assistants to respond to questions on the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.
On Sunday, sports blogger David Gardner tweeted a video showing his Google Home smart speaker responding to the question “Do black lives matter?”
In response, Google’s voice assistant parroted the party line: “Black Lives Matter. Black people deserve the same freedoms afforded to everyone in this country, and recognizing the injustice they face is the first step towards fixing it.”Also on rt.com UCLA ‘white privilege’ scandal: College professor fired for... not being racist enough?
When Gardner then asked “Do all lives matter?” the Google Home responded: “Saying ‘Black Lives Matter’ doesn't mean that all lives don’t. It means black lives are at risk in ways others are not.”
Business Insider reports that Apple’s Siri gave a similar response.
However, as seen in this video, when asked “Do white lives matter?” Siri becomes confused and is unable to give a response.
I know y’all already ask Siri do black lives matter.... but have y’all asked her do white lives matter? Lmfaoooo pic.twitter.com/B0G2GuRTym— kri (@kristaboricua) June 7, 2020
The pre-recordings come in the wake of a deluge of statements from the heads of major tech companies.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, announced a series of initiatives in support of the black community.
Apple CEO Tim Cook published an open letter on racism on June 4, after being criticized for staying silent during the protest.
Throughout the BLM protests, after years of stating that words are violence, a new rallying cry, ‘silence is violence,’ is being used against those who fail to make overt comments in support of BLM.
On Friday, Alex Ohanian, founder and former CEO of Reddit, stepped down from the Reddit board, asking to be replaced by a person of color.
Finally, on Sunday, Jeff Bezos of Amazon shared an email from a disillusioned customer against the Black Lives Matter banner on the Amazon website.
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Enterprises invest in technology from vendors to help filter out bad Web sites from touching their networks, but the same technology, at least some of it, can be had by consumers for free.
And for networking vendor Blue Coat (NASDAQ: BCSI), the strategy is paying off. While Blue Coat is best known for Web filtering for enterprise customers, its free, K9 consumer product is making waves, having hit the million-download milestone.
It might not be surprising that K9 is seeing a great deal of traction, considering it uses the same filtering technology as found in Blue Coat’s widely deployed enterprise edition.
The application’s success also may not be surprising considering that the need for Web filtering has become increasingly important lately. In addition to malware sites, legitimate sites are also being targeted for malware distribution, making it even more critical that users have proactive Web filtering.
“We’ve had a million downloads for K9, so there is quite a large user community using K9 today to protect their computers from malware, and it’s used a lot as a parental control tool to keep kids off sites that parents don’t approve of,” Mikko Valimaki, chief scientist at Blue Coat, told InternetNews.com.
With such demand, why give away the technology?
To Blue Coat, the idea behind K9 is twofold. The company has an altruistic goal of protecting users, but it also uses the information it learns from consumers and the sites they visit to protect paying enterprise customers.
“We decided that we’re not in the consumer business — Blue Coat sells to large organizations and that’s where our focus is,” Valimaki said. “But we figured it was important for us to be part of the community and have visibility into what is going on the Web.”
In so doing, Valimaki argued that Blue Coat is part of the broader solution to help combat malware sites. Specifically, it can glean additional visibility from consumers that enables it to better identify and fight malware sites.
That makes for a compelling reason for consumers to download K9, which in turn helps Blue Coat — even though it’s essentially giving consumers free access to the same anti-malware cloud service that powers its enterprise offering.
“In effect, the free K9 home product is using the same knowledge and intelligence in the cloud as our corporate solution, the Blue Coat Web filter,” Valimaki said.
K9 relies on Blue Coat’s cloud-based WebPulse service to filter site requests based on categories — like gambling or pornography — as well as malware site blocking. WebPulse is also used by Blue Coat’s ProxySG appliance, which also provides Web acceleration capabilities for businesses. Valimaki claimed that K9 users get the same speed of service that enterprise gets and Blue Coat does not throttle the service.
Valimaki explained that Blue Coat has four datacenters worldwide that receive K9 requests. When a user hits a new site, K9 triggers a lookup on the WebPulse cloud service about the site’s category, enabling K9 to make a policy decision about whether to block the site.
If a site request is not in the existing WebPulse database, Blue Coat’s technology makes a decision based on what Valimaki described as the site’s “reputation.”
“Consider you have a dot-com domain being a referrer to a domain in China, and it was just recently brought online, and it’s hosted on the same IP address that has previously pushed malware,” Valimaki explained. “We can fairly easily determine if something is suspicious just based on the request.”
K9 also takes something of a unique approach when it runs into legitimate sites that are unwittingly hosting links to malware, blocking just the link instead of blocking access to the entire legitimate site.
Valimaki noted that he is not aware of K9 users migrating up to Blue Coat’s commercial enterprise offerings. Still, he did say that Blue Coat gets lots of requests from people with small office that wonder about how to buy K9.
Despite the potential allure of a small-business offering, Blue Coat does not have licensed version of K9 that it sells to small office users.
There are, however, a few different commercially available options for Web filtering that could benefit consumers and small offices.
Symantec offers Norton Safe Web, which provides site reputation and filtering capabilities. Security vendor Webroot also has filtering technologies for consumers and enterprises, which it extends to consumers through Webroot Parental Controls, and which enables users to set time limits on usage as well as blocking objectionable sites.
Both Symantec and Webroot declined to comment on their offerings’ capabilities.
Challenges of Web filtering
Yet while Blue Coat says it’s seeing K9 pay off, Valimaki said there’s still a number of issues to sort out when it comes to Web filtering.
For instance, the industry has a difficult time getting its arms around what he called “gray” pages on the Internet — the many marketing sites with links to wares like pharmaceutical products. Technically speaking, those pages are not malware, so Web filtering companies can’t be sure how to categorize them. However, such link-heavy pages are often hit by users who are lured by search engine results. The sheer volume of those types of pages is a challenge, Valimaki said, as is the process of determining how they all should be treated.
“Five years ago, if you asked about URL filtering it was typically about blocking pornography from the workplace,” Valimaki said. “While that remains a key component, blocking malware and suspicious stuff is now the talking point. “
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Although it constantly battles with the cities it is in, Airbnb ($PRIVATE:AIRBNB) is changing the hospitality industry. What was once a solid platform for homesharing — or couch surfing — is now a burgeoning threat to legacy players that travellers relied on since the early 1900’s such as Marriott International ($MAR).
Even though at a $48 billion market capitalization Marriott reigns in the world of bellhops and room service, Morningstar’s estimate of Airbnb’s $53 billion to $65 billion valuation effectively dwarfs everything else in the hospitality industry.
When looking at Marriott International should have little to fret over. The merger between it and Starwood Hotels in 2016 turned the Bethesda, Maryland company into the largest hotelier in the world, and by the middle of last year, “one in seven hotels in North America, and more than one in 14 worldwide, [were] controlled by Marriott,” according to Fortune. Today, the company has 6,800 properties across six continents.
The merger didn’t just make it the dominant player in the hotel space, but also created the largest hotel rewards program in the world. Between the time shortly after the merger and early October, the ranking of Marriott Rewards, the app used to keep track of and redeem rewards across the company’s line-up of properties, was cut down by nearly three-quarters.
But it’s also been positively diving for Airbnb, and while Marriott can celebrate its newly one place at around the 2000th most popular app according to Facebook logins, Airbnb sits cozy in the low double digits.
Airbnb’s success has led to an awkward imitation game: In May 2017, the company unveiled a tourism product similar to Airbnb’s “Experiences”, wherein people group up for microbrews or specialty coffee or all else that falls within the Squarespace-esque world of Airbnb. “The company won't be renting out private homes anytime soon,” Business Insider assured. About a year later, it did precisely that.
And although app logins are up, website visits are not, falling rather precipitously since 2016, even at the supposedly safe Ritz Carlton.
Meanwhile, despite some peaks and valleys, Airbnb is looking like a solid investment to have made in 2009. Year-over-year, its traffic remains steady at over 3.75 million monthly unique visitors since the Spring of 2017, much thanks to its expansion outside of the U.S. and its addition of its experiences.
That viewership is nothing short of impressive; not only does Airbnb's September monthly unique visitor count double that of Marriott's main website, but it is more than all of Marriott's websites tracked on the Thinknum database combined.
Airbnb may still have to fight plenty of regulation battles with new cities, such as Washington D.C., declaring war on it regularly. For now, it remains a worthy opponent to the hotel industry, and a company to watch as the world’s largest hotel chain grows closer to a century in operation.


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Okay, Dan Larimer officially resigns from Block.One and it has affected the price of EOS really bad but this is not what i am here to discuss today on my post. Just like Dan Larimer is a Millionaire or Probably a crypto Billionaire with the rice in Bitcoin, there are a few people who we think will reach the Trillionaire status in dollars soon. Currently, Apple, Amazon, Google and a few more companies like if you say Facebook (although its stock price has been plumating for a while now). The value of a publicly company and an investor is determined by the price of stocks and as usual, the price of the stock market is very volatile, just as it can go up to its peak, simple events and news can destroy its All Time High [ATH] to a far deep.
DO not forget that at a time, it looked impossible for companies to become a trillion dollar company but Apple broke the title, Amazon joined, followed by Microsoft in 2019, Alphabet then joined.
In the past, we had Billioanaires like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Carlos Helu Slim, and so on, holding the title and we knew their wealth was going to remain at a level or go down a little because the increase in their wealth was dependent on innovation, improving tech, and taking greater risks. Facebook's Mark Zuckerburg seems to be interested in the social media world and has not improved on anything innovative for a while so it wasn't an option for him to reach the trillionaire spot, other billionaires are either retired or fall under the same category with Mark of Facebook but there are two players in the billionaire list who have the prospect of becoming a Trillionaire anytime soon, they are Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
Jeff Bezos is Amazon CEO, a company with a market capitalization of $1.65 Trillion of which over 70% of it was accumulated in the space of 2020. Jeff holds 11% of Amazon shares which is about 50 million shares. Amazon, Whole Food, Alexa, and many more, including Blue Origin (a company aimed at reducing th cost of space travel). Jeff saw an increase in over $70 billion in 2020 during the pandemic. It is no doubt that the next ten years is going to be a year of space technology, and the tech mogul is in the industry already.
Elon Musk, saw an increase in wealth with over $133 Billion in one year. Tesla stocks increased this year and so did his production as well. Currently, the company has produces and delivered about 500,000 cars , although not up to Toyota which is the largest producer of cars. Elon Musk among all billionaires is a very good contender for the $1 Trillion race. Elon is looking at creating the $21 thousand cost for a car, reaching self automation, Robo Taxi, Solar Technology, Artificial Intelligent, Hyperloop, SpaceX and Starlink. This markets are very big and in the future when the industry is fully operational, there is a possibility that the two Moguls will become trillionaire.


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Samsung’s latest Galaxy Buds+ offer some of the best battery performance on the market, with these mini music makers able to keep on going for over 10 hours on a single charge. That’s mightily impressive and makes Apple’s AirPods – which last for around 5 hours – look pretty inferior.
However, Apple’s pricier AirPods Pro still hold one big advantage with the inclusion of noise-cancelling technology, which some would say is far more important than a bit of extra battery power.
Samsung has long been criticised for not bringing sound-blocking abilities to its earbuds and it seems the Korean firm may finally have listened. It’s already been widely reported that Samsung is about to launch some new wireless earbuds, dubbed Galaxy Buds Live, at an event next month.
Leaked pictures, which have appeared online, have shown a pretty unique bean-shaped design and numerous colour options which includes a very striking rose gold design.
Now a new leak has suggested that the Galaxy Buds Live will finally bring noise cancellation to Samsung’s range of wireless in-ear headphones. Posted on Twitter by top tipster WalkingCat, the tweet reveals what appears to be an official advert from Samsung.
The short clip shows the Galaxy Buds Live with a caption stating, “Keep the noise out. Let the sound in.”
There’s no confirmation from Samsung that their next audio products will feature noise cancellation but this has to be one of the biggest indications yet that this technology is finally on its way.
Another piece of good news is that some websites are speculating that the Buds Live could be much more affordable than Apple’s £259 AirPods Pro.
In fact, it’s thought the news Buds could cost around $ 150 (£120) and, if true, that could be a very tempting price. We’ll have to wait and see if any of these rumours become a reality but hopefully, there’s not too long to wait until we find out more.


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Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer, Vice President of Business and Marketing Partnerships David Fischer, Chief Product Officer Chris Cox, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Financial Officer David Wehner, VP and General Counsel Colin Stretch, Chief Accounting Officer Jas Athwal and Director Susan Desmond-Hellmann detailed their trading activities with regards to exercising restricted stock units and selling off shares in the company in Form 4 filings Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
A recent survey from multichannel loyalty and engagement platform PunchTab revealed that 75 percent of moms do NOT intend to use social media for back-to-school shopping this year. And yes, that includes Facebook. Whaaat?
Facebook has sharpened its focus on retailers in recent months, and the social network shared a guide for its Preferred Marketing Developers on the best way to target and position those advertisers in a post for the PMD News group.
Facebook offered an update on the state of the deployment of the STARTTLS encryption standard, which it originally wrote about in May, saying that 95 percent of its notification emails are now successfully encrypted with both Perfect Forward Secrecy and strict certificate validation.
Facebook users about to join the work force for the first time: The photo above is not a wise choice for your profile picture on Facebook (and probably shouldn’t be posted at all, but that’s another argument for another day), and you should probably examine its privacy settings in order to ensure that no potential employers see it.
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has been red-hot on Facebook, and the social network offered an update on just how hot, saying that 28 million users posted, commented on or liked related posts from June 1 through Aug. 17.
Social marketing platform Shift, a Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer, has a new vice president of agency partnerships: Andrea Wolinetz, former managing director of connected platforms at PHD.
One of the biggest advantages that Facebook offers to advertisers is the ability to conduct precise interest targeting. Brands have the ability to target their Facebook updates directly to precise niche audiences based on people’s interests that they have shared with Facebook.


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The Cannabis Industry Has A Big Problem. Kanye’s Manager Just Joined A Company Fixing It
Just 3% of the cannabis industry’s market share is currently owned by Black people. Village is a national conglomerate fighting for equity for Black-owned brands, and Kanye West’s manager, John Monopoly, just joined the team.
Former NBA player Al Harrington and Dan Pettigrew co-founded Village two years ago when they realized there was a lack of Black entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs of color in the cannabis space.
“We eventually see our company as being, almost, a distributor throughout this space. And we want to be able to help as many people of color be able to enter into the cannabis space and actually be able to be successful at it,” Harrington said.
The lack of racial diversity in the market is often credited to financial barriers to entry. Startup costs to open a dispensary can be hundreds of thousands if not over of a million dollars.
But there’s community trauma as well. There can be hesitation and fear around starting a business within an industry that has historically criminalized your community.
“Statistics show that while Black people were nearly four times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana possession, they make up only a small number of those profiting from the multibillion dollar legalized pot industry,” a Wall Street Journal video explains.
In the future, Harrington said Village will provide educational content as well since resources on how to jump through all the hoops needed to open a cannabis business are often lacking.
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“One of the things that I don’t like about athletes and entertainers is a lot of times we don’t work together. And you know, we talk about it all the time,” Harrington said, “but a lot of times it doesn’t happen.”
Monopoly, who manages Kanye West, has decades of experience in the music industry. As he joins Village, he is bringing the power of his experience and connections within music. His vision for Village is all about maximizing impact by uniting people from across industries.
“We plan to use all of our skill sets to support each other’s initiatives. With the team’s strong knowledge and expertise in the space coupled with my 30-year-plus career centered in music and culture, we plan to use expertise, influence and access to grow and develop a cannabis brand that will be inclusive and impactful,” Monopoly said in an emailed statement.
“Our plan is two-fold,” Monopoly said. “Firstly, Village is 100% minority owned. By adding local minorities through partnerships with each individual state we’re in, we will ultimately increase Black ownership in every state where we operate.”
Monopoly said the second part of Village’s strategy “expands beyond ownership directly in Village by affiliating with Black and minority owned cannabis brands that we can onboard in the states where we own licenses.”
Village recently added former NBA player Wilson Chandler’s cannabis brand, Nobody’s Home, to its roster. The dispensary and lifestyle brand is based out of Benton Harbor, Michigan, where Chandler is from.
Being part of Village, Chandler said, means having extra support and constantly learning from Harrington by “going through the fire with him and seeing him build his brand and build his business.”
To kick off their partnership, Chandler put together a free music festival in Benton Harbor, happening Labor Day weekend and featuring artists like Rick Ross, G Herbo, Chase B and Freddie Gibbs.
Music moguls like Jay-Z, who launched a fund to help minority-owned cannabis startups, have also put their resources to increasing Black equity in this industry.
Village isn’t the first case where entertainers push for equity in the cannabis industry. But, Village says it’s the largest conglomerate working on the issue and is bringing leaders together from different industries.
As the group grows, its ability to bring power players together from different industries will determine how powerful it can grow and, thus, how much Village can influence a more equitable cannabis industry.


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- The U.S. is taking the blame for trade tensions that were started by other countries, says former Office Depot CEO Steve Odland.
- "It's China that has been doing the bad behavior for a number of years," he says.
- The U.S. style of negotiation is being wrongly interpreted as wanting a trade war instead of a negotiation, Odland says.
The United States is taking the blame for trade tensions that were started by other countries, said Steve Odland, president and CEO of Committee for Economic Development, a Washington think tank.
"It's China that has been doing the bad behavior for a number of years," Odland told CNBC, referring to the Asian nation's history of alleged unfair trading practices.
Odland, who was chief executive officer of Office Depot from 2005 to 2010 and AutoZone from 2001 to 2005, pointed out that the European Union has imposed tariffs on the U.S. in the past.
"We're essentially following the Europeans," said Odland, who is also a CNBC contributor.
But Odland said he's spoken with a number of business leaders in Europe, Latin America and Asia, who have told him that the U.S. is instigating trade wars.
"That is totally unfair," he said Friday on "Power Lunch."
"I think [other countries are] not accustomed to this style of negotiation and diplomacy," he said. "It's not a typical way for the U.S. or other countries to carry out diplomacy. So they're reading it not as a negotiation, but as a trade war."
"That's what's spooking them," he said. "Their interpretation is that this is the new-brand America and they don't like it. It's been confusing for people, obviously nations."
President Donald Trump on Tuesday unveiled a list of Chinese imports he plans to target with his tariffs, in what he has said is an attempt to correct unfair trading practices. The list includes products from sectors such as robotics, information technology, communication technology and aerospace.
On Wednesday, China responded with plans to impose tariffs of its own on 106 U.S. products. The Chinese levies would hit soybeans, cars, aerospace and defense products.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told CNBC's Steve Liesman on Friday that the administration's "objective is still not to be in a trade war" with China, but acknowledged that "there is a potential of a trade war."
While Odland said he thinks the U.S. is getting a bum rap for other countries' deeds, he acknowledges that public perceptions do matter.
"This is hurting America," he said. "People are misunderstanding what the administration is trying to do. They're trying to get China to follow WTO rules, stop dumping and stop stealing IP."
"The way the administration has been conducting negotiations is not working, so they're trying something new," he said.


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Tesla Shares soared in anticipation of Elon Musk’s departure from Twitter.
Tesla shares were up 5.3% before the start of regular trading on Monday. Since Musk revealed he had acquired his Twitter stake in early April, the stock has plunged 58%, trailing his 15% decline in the S&P 500 index.
Musk, 51, tweeted on Sunday that he would follow the results of a poll asking whether he should step down as Twitter’s head. Users voted him over 17.5 million votes, with 57.5% in favor of relinquishing his role.
The Tesla CEO has previously taken tips from Twitter users on decisions ranging from whether he should cut his stake in the car company to whether he should reinstate former President Donald Trump’s account. I came. While Musk’s decision after these polls was a relatively simple one, it’s less clear what he’ll do next on Twitter. Musk tweeted that it would be difficult to find a next CEO, writing that the company was “in the fast lane to bankruptcy since May.”
“Nobody wants a job that can actually keep Twitter alive,” he said in another post.
Tesla closed at a two-year low last week, putting Musk at the top of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The company’s CEO is smitten on his Twitter account as the automaker cuts prices and production in China to encourage customers to deliver cars in the United States.
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