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From in the ring and on the track, vegan athletes are proving that people don’t need dairy products and meat to compete. Meat-free athletes include mixed martial arts fighters Jake Shields and Mac Danzig and ultra-endurance racers Rich Roll and Brendan Brazier, amongst many others. And it seems vegan diets are even spreading to cricket pitches.
Peter Siddle, the Australian bowler, has recently ditched meat from his diet: “I did a lot of research, read up on a lot of other athletes and people around the world who live like that, … Read more.
Tattooed heartthrob Jade Dernbach may not fit the typical image of an English cricketer, but with his new ad for PETA, he’s decisively bowled cruelty out. The South African–born fast bowler, who plays for Surrey, is the latest star of our “Ink, Not Mink” campaign, which highlights the barbarity of the fur trade.
To say that locking minks in tiny cages, anally electrocuting them and ripping the skin from their backs while they’re still alive (and sometimes conscious) is just not cricket is the understatement of the century.
Jade explains why he … Read more.
Cricketer Wayne Parnell has set his sights on a new opponent: circuses that force wild animals to perform unnatural and painful tricks. In a new anti-circus ad for PETA, Parnell, who plays for the South African national team, appears shirtless and bound by chains next to the words, “Try to Relate to Their Fate. Say NO to Animal Circuses”.
“I choose to participate in sport, but the animals used in circuses aren’t given any choice at all”, says Parnell. “Animals in circuses suffer a lifetime of abuse – all for a few … Read more.


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The popular Goblintown ETH collection continuously gains traction despite last year’s non-fungible token (NFT) market downturn. However, the team behind the project are facing accusations over “rugging” its holders.
Truth Labs replaced its NFT project’s artwork with animated GIFs featuring a middle finger accompanied by three more middle fingers, among a sarcastic message that protests against marketplaces implementing low royalty fees.
- Truth Labs advocates for higher creator royalties, responding to significant marketplaces like OpenSea and Blur lowering fees to 0.5%.
- As a consequence, the company deactivates Goblintown’s trading on Blur and OpenSea. Moreover, it moves the NFTs to a new smart contract enforcing total royalties.
- The NFT curators promise to restore the original artwork to holders’ wallets by Sunday.
Goblintown’s Artwork Changes
All 10,000 Goblintown NFTs now showcase middle fingers reading, “Forget royalties. Forget supporting builders and creatives. Flipping is the essence of Web3’s uniqueness. Salute the flipper, and dismiss the community. Long live the slow rug.”
These sudden changes occur as Truth Labs’ ongoing advocacy for upholding creator royalties. The curators made the changes in response to significant marketplaces like OpenSea and Blur implementing 0.5% creator royalty fees instead of 5% to 10%.
The curators behind the popular project took to Twitter to announce its updates and reasons for doing so:
Truth Labs declared that it has deactivated all listing, bidding, or trading of Goblintown NFTs on the secondary marketplaces. Subsequently, transferring all digital assets to a new smart contract that enforces total creator royalties on the blockchain. The smart contracts comprise the code that enables autonomous decentralized apps (dapps) and NFT projects to function.
The Communities Response
Over abruptly changing the NFTs’ artworks and failing to live up to its promises, Truth Labs faces accusations of “rugging” the project.
Community members, including this one, are voicing their concerns on Twitter:
Truth Labs announced that it will automatically distribute a new version of each affected NFT—featuring the original artwork—to the holders’ wallets by Sunday.
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There are few bigger targets for cyber criminals than credit card companies. With trillions of dollars flowing through their systems, they’re tempting targets. Which is why the U.S. alone had over 270,000 reports of credit card fraud in 2019, double the 2017 rate.
So what’s a credit card company to do?
Use artificial intelligence to sniff out fraud and block it.
“We believe at American Express that we have the world’s largest and most advanced machine learning system in the financial services industry,” American Express’ VP of risk management Anjali Dewan told me recently on the TechFirst podcast. “And these models are ... monitoring 100% of these transactions and returning 8 billion credit and fraud risk decisions in real time.”
American Express provides 114 million credit cards in 106 countries which customers use to buy $1.2 trillion in goods and services annually. So that’s a lot of transactions and a lot of decisions.
The company has been working on AI fraud management for over a decade now, and is just about to release the tenth major model for monitoring and reducing fraud risk.
Watch the interview for this story:
The interesting part is that while AI is hot right now, American Express started using AI back in 2010, a full decade ago, and turned all of its risk management models over to AI in 2015.
That’s seriously early.
If you look at the Gartner hype cycle for artificial intelligence from 2019, for instance, you can see that technologies like AI cloud services, Machine Learning, Insight Engines, and Cognitive Computing were all years from the “peak of inflated expectations,” and therefore even more years removed from “the slope of enlightenment” and the much-longed-for “plateau of productivity.”
The conclusion, therefore, is that American Express was not only an early adopter, but also is well ahead of the curve in actually extracting value from AI. It’s already on the plateau of productivity, in other words.
“100% of our models are AI-powered and it cuts through the customer life cycle ... starting from new account origination, limit assignment, customer management, and fraud detection,” Dewan told me. “If you go by the Nilson Report, you’ll see that American Express for 13 years has come out as the lowest in the fraud space — and not by a little, but by half.”
Listen to Anjali Dewan on AI and fraud on the TechFirst podcast
And despite the fact that credit card fraud has gone up since Covid-19, Dewan says that the company’s fraud losses have remained very low.
This is important for multiple reasons.
Not only does fraud cost money when it is executed successfully — costs that are ultimately covered by a credit card company’s customers — but it costs when it fails. Customers who can’t complete purchases when they want to buy something but their card gets flagged for fraud in a false positive and therefore declined get annoyed, and perhaps embarrassed. Over time, that ads up to negative brand impressions, less satisfied customers, and potential customer defection.
Dewan says American Express has improved on both sides.
“Since 2014 when we deployed our AI solution for fraud, our resolution rate, digital resolution rate for fraud has improved by 100%,” Dewan says. “Point of sale disruption has been reduced by 21% since 2014, which is absolutely fantastic for our customers.”
Dewan is a little cagey on the technology hardware and software behind this feat, but did say that Amex is just about to release the tenth major iteration of its global fraud detection model, and uses both generative adversarial networks (GANs) and sequential recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to process risk decisioning.
GANs are important because they can upscale your model’s efficiency quickly: they are a species of machine learning frameworks in which neural networks compete against each other to improve, enabling optimization at machine speed. RNNs, or recurrent neural networks, are important because they don’t just process inputs and move on to other data; they store the results of that data while processing the next set of data, enabling more intelligent and nuanced decisions.
Ultimately, all that back-end technology has front-end customer-facing impact.
Just one example: when you fly to a foreign city and try to make a purchase (assuming we can ever do that again).
“What’s going on in the background is within 15 seconds our machine learning algorithms are initiating a personalized communication with this card member … which could take the form of an email, it could take the form of a push notification, it could take the form of a text,” Dewan says. “And that allows us to real-time communicate with the card member and resolve the fraud concern.”
There’s a lot more data involved, of course.
Dewan says that because American Express is vertically oriented — issuing cards, setting up merchants, and running its own payment network — it has essentially a platform advantage over its competitors: more data on which to base smarter decisions.
According to Dewan, it’s getting more sophisticated all the time.
“If you go back to pre-2014, we used to have 150 models to manage fraud detection across the globe, across countries, across our consumer and commercial portfolios,” she told me. “And the model as it stands today, is a single global model which has a view to the $1.2 trillion flowing through our networks, and a new model that’ll come out next month will have just the freshest data and very powerful new features.”


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Top Brands and Suppliers Stand Out at Cosmoprof Asia
HONG KONG, Nov. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The 24th edition of Cosmoprof Asia, the calendar’s most important beauty industry event for business development, will be welcoming professionals from around the world from 12 – 15 November.
Asia’s premier cosmetics trade show and trend hub this year will feature around 3,000 exhibitors from 47 different countries and regions, ready to showcase their products and services over four exciting days.
Cosmoprof Asia has become synonymous with new-to-market products showcasing beauty, cosmetics and skincare and innovative packaging solutions, as well as in-depth conference presentations and market updates. The mega-event gathers the best of the beauty industry under two roofs.
Cosmopack Asia 2019
Cosmopack Asia will take place at the AsiaWorld-Expo (AWE) from 12 - 14 November, with spotlights on innovation and sustainability. Exhibitors will introduce visitors to revolutionary raw materials and ingredients, showcasing the most cutting-edge machinery and automation and providing solutions for contract manufacturing and primary and secondary packaging.
Visitors will find innovations at the MEXME Factory, which will uncover the behind-the-scenes journey combining technology and creativity that results in the Me by Me eye and lip makeup combination.
“Today, the Asian market is everybody’s priority. This is the place where the highest share of turnover for major beauty multinationals is made, with most of this growth coming from Prestige brands and actives in skincare,” says Dario Ferrari, founder and president of Intercos Group in Italy. “In the next five to seven years we are going to see one billion new consumers. The future belongs to companies that are able to understand what those consumers will need.”
The focus on the wellbeing of the planet is front and centre of many manufacturer’s priorities today, and Cosmopack Asia is the place to find the most planet-friendly solutions.
“For 2019, we are looking to introduce refillable/cartridge style packaging in jar, lotion, and airless bottles,” says Wang Yue, marketing director from Queens Packaging in China. “This type of packaging is special because it drastically decreases the amount of packaging that gets discarded once the product runs out.”
Innovation is always a key trend at Cosmopack Asia, with companies stepping up to the challenge of pushing boundaries in this fast-paced and constantly evolving marketplace.
“We chose to participate in Cosmoprof Asia because it has become a symbol for international beauty and cosmetics leaders,” says Patrick Leung, vice president for Hong Kong’s Global Cosmetics. “We believe this trade expo can bring our exposure to a new height of being an international cosmetics one stop service production company.”
“As an increasingly wide-reaching international trade fair, Cosmoprof Asia allows us to interact with cosmetic brands from all Asian countries but also from other global regions – a big advantage for us,” says Sonia Huneau, manager public relations from Schwan Cosmetics, based in Germany.
Cosmoprof Asia 2019
Cosmoprof Asia at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) will run from 13 - 15 November, presenting an invaluable view of the most on-trend finished goods spanning cosmetics, beauty salon and spa, hair and nails, perfumery and accessories.
“One of our key markets is the Asian market, which is growing by 20 percent annually,” says Tal Zehavi, marketing manager from Israel-based skincare company Christina. “Cosmoprof Asia is a key platform on which to unleash new products and an amazing opportunity for an honest, personal and intimate encounter with the local new consumers and loyalty costumers.”
“Cosmoprof Asia, as one of the most important and impactful B2B beauty trade shows in the world, provides a good opportunity to demonstrate market position and strengthen the corporate brand,” adds Yi Yangming, marketing manager, Guangdong Beihao Biotechnology. “This is also a critical gateway opening the door to help our Chinese mask culture go global.”
“We would like to introduce our comprehensive and varied product range,” says Maarja Rousset, sales manager international export, Glamlac in Estonia, who will introduce their Glamlashes Brow Lamination Starter Kit. “We use the most advanced technologies and materials and we guarantee that we adhere to all guidelines, providing comprehensive product documentation and international product registrations.”
“This is our 19th edition of Cosmoprof Asia,” says Jackie Chung, director Beautisky Int’l Ltd, Hong Kong. “Every edition, we bring our customers the latest medical beauty technology. This year, we are going to launch our latest project Salus Talent A, a non-invasive electromagnetic therapy for muscle building, fat loss and pain applications. We are very confident that Salus Talent A will be the next wave in professional beauty.”
The event’s main focuses highlight all things natural and organic, in keeping with the mega-trends playing out worldwide.
“Expanding and reinforcing our presence on the Asian market is part of our three-year development plan. Therefore, we consider our attendance at the exhibition as a cornerstone of our strategy to achieve our targets,” says Felice Fratini, export sales director of Kemon in Italy, who are marketing organic hair care line Actyvabio.
“We participate to introduce our start-up brands that can provide new experiences,” says a spokesperson for Amorepacific in Korea about their mask specialty brands. “We look forward to attracting the whole world’s customers and buyers through this exhibition.”
A finalist in the Natural & Organic Award at the Cosmoprof Asia Awards, INNA ORGANIC’s Frankincense Rich Revitalizing Facial Mask will focus on anti-aging. “Joining Pledge 1% project, INNA ORGANIC contributes one percent of revenue to child education,” says Cecily Pan, co-founder of the Taiwan-based company. “We are looking forward to meeting like-minded partners at Cosmoprof Asia.”
Visit 24 Country and Group Pavilions
Cosmoprof Asia will feature 24 national and regional pavilions this year, bringing together an unprecedented range of products and services from around the world, and making it easy for visitors to meet with leading trading partners in dedicated areas of the show floor. Korea as the Focus Country will present around 600 companies across all sectors, while for the first time Russia will join Cosmoprof Asia, with 8 companies to showcase.
In addition to the unrivalled business opportunities at Cosmoprof Asia, visitors will find a wealth of information and insights through an information-packed programme of events.
The four-day CosmoTalks itinerary is full of expert-guided practical ideas for product development, market interaction and emerging trends, as well as the most useful business solutions for real results.
CosmoTrends at HKCEC unveils the most striking trends spotted among exhibitors of Cosmoprof Asia and showcases the shortlisted brands and products.
Onstage at HKCEC is where talent from across the world presents thrilling live shows and demo sessions, putting innovative products, new techniques and fresh treatments in the beauty, make-up, nail and hair categories to rigorous test.
The show gets ready!
Cosmoprof Asia will go ahead as scheduled on 12 - 15 November 2019, and the organisers look forward to welcoming visitors and exhibitors to Hong Kong. New measures and benefits have been launched by the organisers to ease the participation of attendees such as diverse hotel choices, complimentary shuttles and security measures at the show venues. Cosmoprof Asia is also providing updates on its website ( www.cosmoprof-asia.com ) and social media channels.
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BolognaFiere Group is the world's leading trade show organiser in cosmetics, fashion, architecture, building, art and culture. The Group has more than 80 international exhibitions within its portfolio, notably Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna, the most important meeting point in the world for beauty professionals, established in 1967 and held in Bologna, Italy. For the 2019 edition, Cosmoprof registered more than 265.000 attendees from 150 countries in the world, with an increase by 10% of foreign professionals, and 3,033 exhibitors from 70 countries. The Cosmoprof platform extends throughout the entire world, with its events in Bologna, Las Vegas, Mumbai, and Hong Kong, China (with Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna, Cosmoprof North America, Cosmoprof India, and Cosmoprof Asia). Recently the fifth exhibition of the network has been announced: Cosmoprof CBE ASEAN, in Thailand, will focus on the cosmetic industry in South-East Asia. In 2020, South China Beauty Expo, a new show in Shenzhen, China, will be scheduled in July. The Cosmoprof platform will reinforce its influence in Europe, thanks to the acquisition of the German group Health and Beauty, in South America, thanks to the collaboration with Beauty Fair - Feira Internacional De Beleza Profissional, and in Asia.
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PHNOM PENH—Cambodia's highly dollarized economy could benefit from a rush of foreign capital into Asia unleashed by the U.S. Federal Reserve's latest economic stimulus, unlike some of its Asian neighbors, as it lifts demand for real estate and garment exports in the developing country, a senior official at the country's central bank said.
Authorities across Asia have been grappling with the threat of asset-price inflation amid rising capital inflows from developed economies, warning that liquidity flows could surge following the recent announcement of new bond-buying programs from the U.S. Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of Japan. Singapore's central bank, for instance, last month imposed tighter rules on new home loans to head off a property-price bubble.
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Official advisers to Washington Prime Group Inc. stockholders, skeptical of the Columbus-based company's proposed sale to SVPGlobal, are trying to slow down the mall landlord's bankruptcy.
A government-appointed group of Washington Prime stockholders has asked Judge Marvin Isgur to extend key deadlines in the insolvency proceedings by more than a month, arguing in court papers that the group's advisers don't have enough time to evaluate the real estate investment trust's Chapter 11 exit plan. Washington Prime may be worth more than the plan implies, but more time is needed to figure that out, the group says.
Washington Prime entered bankruptcy last month after the pandemic forced shoppers to stay home, crushing its tenants and sapping revenues. But rising vaccination rates and a resurgent U.S. economy have begun to reverse the company's fortunes, making it difficult to pin a value on its portfolio of roughly 100 shopping centers across the U.S. The company's website indicates it has nine malls in Ohio, including Great Lakes Mall in Mentor and Southern Park Mall in Youngstown.
The company plans to exit bankruptcy by handing ownership to investment firm SVPGlobal in exchange for debt forgiveness, assuming no better offers come in. But the plan's August approval deadline leaves relatively little time for competing bidders to make moves, and the company has said new offers must be all-cash and exceed $2.3 billion.
Critics say the timeline is especially cramped given the size and complexity of the company, while Washington Prime's lawyers have said its sale process is more than adequate. The stockholder group said its valuation consultant — Newmark Valuation & Advisory — needs more than the three weeks currently allotted to determine whether the sale to SVPGlobal is fair.
"With so much positive change in such a short period of time, it is very difficult today to discern the Debtors' worth, other than to say it is undoubtedly on the upswing," lawyers for the stockholders wrote in court papers. Through the proposed deal, "SVP seems to be 'buying' the Debtors' assets and business for a price that may not reflect true inherent value but is, rather, exploitative of momentary economic disruption."
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Epson Recycles Paper to Make Face Masks
Seiko Epson Corporation will use its office paper recycling technology to start making face masks by the end of May.
According to Japan Times, production will take place at two of its Japanese plants which will eliminate the need to outsource masks for its employees. The company based in Nagano Prefecture will also donate 100,000 medical-grade masks, originally intended for internal use, to hospitals.
It has also decided to donate 5,600 face shields, planned to be used by its employees in Japan and abroad, to the prefectural government to help ease medical supply shortages.
The company has not yet decided whether it will sell any of the masks it produces to general consumers.
Epson is using the PaperLab recycling machine developed in 2017. The large device (pictured) produces paper from used office paper without the need for any water.
Epson, claims the PaperLab was the world’s first dry process compact office papermaking system. It’s capable of producing new paper from securely destroyed waste paper using a dry process and can produce thousands of sheets of recycled paper a day. Epson also states its PaperLab is ideal for organisations that need to securely destroy confidential information as well as recycle paper in an environmentally friendly, eco-efficient and sustainable way.
The PaperLab is intended to satisfy those organisations wanting to print and then recycle all the paper they want. Epson is hoping that if the demand is high enough, it can develop PaperLabs of all sizes and see them used in factories, in offices and even in the home producing paper of various sizes, thickness and types, from office paper to business card and coloured paper.
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New iPhone expected Sept. 10
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Apple is expected to unveil its latest generation of the iPhone on Sept. 10, according to technology blog AllthingsD.
The company has not commented Monday, but the blog cited unnamed sources who said Apple’s next smart phone will make its debut at a Sept.10 special event. The timing would allow the new phone to hit shelves before the holiday shopping season.
Reuters reported recently that Apple was exploring launching iPhones with bigger screens, as well as cheaper models in a range of colors over the next year.
Separately, several media outlets reported Monday that Samsung will introduce its next-generation Galaxy Note on Sept. 4. CNN said that the Samsung phone will be unveiled in Berlin two days before the opening of a major technology conference.
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A person of simple wants, Yun Shan finds wonder in the ordinary daily life in Cambodia. She would take photos of every thing she sees if she could, but writing is equally as important and easier to edit. The best way to engage her is handing her a packet of tissues, a blanket, some warm water and settling on a comfy couch to talk to her about something you care about.
The Cambodia Investor Club Association (CiC), Cambodia’s first investment platform, is now calling for applications from local SMEs to join their business accelerator programme, BIO Accelerator Programme!
Through a survey of its members, CiC found that local SMEs face challenges in growth such as limited access to finance, inefficient HR management, inadequate development of business … More
SmartSpark, the business incubation programme organised by Smart Axiata and Impact Hub, is back with a brand new focus on Cambodian startups aiming to protect the environment!
According to an article by Open Development Cambodia, the Cambodian agricultural industry contributes to 35 percent of the Gross Domestic Product and employing about 60 per cent of … More
Via ID, a business accelerator that had popular Indonesia-based ride-sharing app GoJek as one of its beneficiaries is eagerly inviting Cambodian startups to move the future of mobility technology together with their Mobility Startup Challenge!
The challenge aims to find “daily, smart and sustainable” solutions for urban areas in four categories:
The Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society is looking for female founders to grow and establish their businesses through the AccelerateHer Startup Pitch Contest!
The contest, which is a partnership between the Forum, reputable international business school INSEAD and Facebook, is open only to female founders of Asian-based early stage or seed-level tech-centred startups … More
The Women MSME FinTech Innovation Fund is rewarding companies that can assist the digitalisation of women-led micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in countries such as Cambodia.
The fund, a joint collaboration by the UNESCAP and UNCDF, is looking for tech solutions that:
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The PC market saw another boom quarter in the second quarter of 2021, but analyst firm IDC also found “mixed signals” regarding future demand.
IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker, announced today, reveals that global shipments of traditional PCs – desktops, laptops and workstations – reached 83.6 million units in 2Q21. That’s a 13.2% jump from the second quarter of 2020, when the world went home to work.
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|2. HP Inc.||18,594||22.20%||18 104||24.50%||2.70%|
|3. Dell||13 976||16.70%||12,010||16.30%||16.40%|
|4T. Apple||6 156||7.40%||5 630||7.60%||9.40%|
|4T. Acer||6 088||7.30%||5 177||7.00%||17.60%|
When considering these numbers, The register was hit by the 2.7% year-over-year growth and the shrinking market share of HP Inc. HP cannot be satisfied with this result. At least it doesn’t appear to have lost to its bigger rivals, as the sheer number of “other” vendors has grown faster than Lenovo and Dell. Apple also fell slightly in market share.
IDC noted that while the 13.2 percent growth in shipments is a figure that the PC industry would have been very pleased with at almost any point in previous years, it is well below the above growth. 55.9 percent in the first quarter of 2021 and 25.8 percent in the fourth quarter. 2020.
âThe market is facing mixed signals when it comes to demand,â said Neha Mahajan, senior research analyst in IDC’s Devices and Displays group. âWith the reopening of businesses, the demand potential in the commercial segment looks promising. However, there are also early indicators of slowing consumer demand, as people shift their spending priorities after nearly a year of aggressive PC buying.
The analyst firm also noted that the growth of desktops exceeded that of laptops, attributing the blow to “shortages that have had a huge impact on the supply of laptops” rather than a revival. strength. Â®
Starting note. IDC ranks Apple and Acer tied for fourth, according to its practice when there is a difference of one-tenth of a percent (0.1%) or less in shipping shares between two or more vendors.


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Got the Brexit fear? Keep calm and keep using AWS – Amazon UK boss
UK region still on way despite Gartner warnings
AWS Summit 2016 Amazon has urged customers to keep investing in cloud in the wake of British voters’ decision to leave the European Union.
Gavin Jackson, AWS UK, Ireland and Europe managing director, said today that the best approach is to "keep calm and carry on". He was opening the AWS London Summit and tackled Brexit head on in front of 5,000 attendees.
He said Amazon’s own plan to open a UK region, announced last November and due to open later this year or early next, is going ahead unchanged.
AWS currently has two regions in Europe, one in Ireland and the other in Germany.
“Post Brexit vote, I wanted to reassure our customers we see the UK as a fast innovator, a huge talent pool and a fast adopter of technology trends.
“We at AWS will continue to be an inward investor in the UK and will continue on a path to launch a UK region at the end of the year.
“Our message is to keep calm and keep on innovating in the UK, in cloud computing and AWS,” Jackson said.
Separately, Gartner today predicted the Leave vote will quickly affect IT spending in the UK and in Europe, while other changes will take longer.
Staff may be the largest immediate issue under the category of "other." The long-term uncertainty in work status will make the UK less attractive to new foreign workers. Retaining current non-UK staff and having less access to qualified new hires from abroad will impair UK IT Departments.
Amazon will be eager that uncertainty on IT spending in Britain does not feedback into the fortunes of its fast-growing AWS business.
John-David Lovelock, Gartner research vice president, said in a statement: "With the UK's exit, there will likely be an erosion in business confidence and price increases which will impact UK, Western Europe and worldwide IT spending.
He spoke as Gartner today released its figures for predicted IT spend for the year.
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to be flat in 2016, totalling $3.41 trillion - up from last quarter's forecast of negative 0.5 per cent growth. The change in the forecast is mainly due to currency fluctuations.
The UK represents a quarter of Western Europe’s IT spend and five per cent globally.
Immediately following the Brexit vote, Gartner downgraded its predicted spending on IT in the UK for 2016 and 2017, from growth to negative calculating Brexit will wipe $4.6bn off spending this year.®


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Three months ago, AMD told us it planned to introduce speedier Phenom processors in the second quarter. We later heard reports that the chips wouldn't show up until May or June, but now DigiTimes says it has learned that AMD has updated its launch schedule and plans to unveil higher-clocked Phenoms much sooner than that.
Citing its usual informants at motherboard makers, DigiTimes says AMD has five B3-stepping Phenom processors lined up for a release "within the next 1-2 weeks." Among the five will be Phenom 9650 and Phenom 9550 offerings—TLB-erratum-free versions of the existing 9600 and 9500—as well as speedier 9750 and 9850 models and a slower Phenom 9150. DigiTimes says the Phenom 9850 will be clocked at 2.5GHz, and we presume the 9750 will run at 2.4GHz. As for the 9150, that model is expected to run at only 1.8GHz.
That's not all. According to DigiTimes, AMD also has three B3 triple-core Phenoms with 8750, 8650, and 8450 model numbers scheduled for late April. A 2.3GHz Phenom 8600 and a 2.1GHz Phenom 8400 have already started showing up in some pre-built PCs, so the 8650 and 8450 will likely be B3 versions of the same models. If AMD stays consistent with its naming scheme, the 8750 should run at 2.4GHz.
Finally, DigiTimes adds that AMD has several new dual-core processors up its sleeve. The chipmaker is cooking up Phenom-based Athlon 6250 and 6050 processors for the end of the second quarter, DigiTimes explains, and additional Athlon 64 X2 5800+ and Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Black Edition chips are due some time between now and the end of April.
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World Osteoporosis Day Celebrated on 20th October 2014
Pakistan, along with the rest of the world, celebrated world osteoporosis day on the 20th of October. This awareness day is officially promoted by the World Health Organization. Osteoporosis is caused by a calcium and vitamin D deficiency which leads to brittle bones. The disease becomes evident slowly and gradually, and is often diagnosed when it has already progressed enough to cause bone fractures. To avoid the disease, experts recommend getting ample exposure to morning sunlight, regular exercise, eating fresh vegetables, and consuming dairy foods such as milk, yoghurt and cheese.


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HE’S the brazen entrepreneur who snubbed a £75,000 offer in the Dragons’ Den to blaze his own trail.
Now the boss behind Mallzee, the personalised shopping app, has secured more than 30 times that amount in funding after investors pledged £2.5 million to help his ambitious venture take over the world.
Launched just 18 months ago, Mallzee already boasts hundreds of thousands of customers in 125 different countries and is now looking to double its 15-strong team and expand even further.
Dubbed “Tinder for fashion”, the app allows savvy shoppers to access more than 100 retailers with a single swipe – with its technology matching unique style profiles to every individual.
Cally Russell, Mallzee founder and chief executive, said the company – based in Greenside Row – was now “totally focused on growth”.
The 27-year-old featured in this year’s Dragons’ Den, turning down an offer of £75,000 investment from telecom and retail entrepreneur Peter Jones.
He said: “It wasn’t the right deal at the right price. It was heartbreaking, but I think it was the right decision to make.
“This round of investment is going to allow us to become the leading fashion shopping app in the world and the mix of investors is going to be vital to allowing us to achieve this.
“Fashion shopping on mobile is becoming a very hot space and Mallzee has always been at the forefront, having been the original personalised shopping app.
“This round of investment will allow us to grow this further but it will also enable us to offer our new insights tool to retailers to enable them to gain actionable insights into what products to market and stock.”
The latest funding boost saw investment from the Royal Mail Group, the Scottish Investment Bank and Par Equity, as well as a raft of top technology entrepreneurs such as Gareth Williams from Skyscanner – Scotland’s first ever $1 billion web company – and Chris Van Der Kuyl and Paddy Burns from East Lothian video game makers 4j Studios.
But Lynne McCrossan, fashion expert and brand guardian of DC Dalgliesh, said the app would have its work cut out if it wanted to crack the fashion market in the long term.
She said: “Our technology community in Edinburgh is incredible right now – we are in an incredible little tech bubble.
“Whether or not Mallzee is the real deal fashion-wise, I don’t know. But as a tech company they are incredible. Fashion tech is a really difficult thing to crack, and there’s not been the crossover between the two communities that has really cracked it yet.
“The way that fashion works is a total science, and the science of shopping is a huge business. I think that Cally is incredibly smart – he is so gifted, and with that kind of money he will be able to employ more gifted people.”


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The study also reveals that 97% of organizations believe that current last-mile delivery models are not sustainable for full scale implementation across all locations, and that free shipping costs cannot be maintained unless delivery costs are reduced thr
Having a well equipped warehouse to store products and peripherals is very important for any retail brand. Technology has undoubtedly enhanced the process of storage and supply chain, but can robotics technology be the next big thing? Let's find out.
With the volume of e-commerce transactions growing at an astounding pace all eyes are under the lens are on the logistics industry and its growth and innovation is being looked upon as a key step for survival.
With India's logistics space set to grow 10-15% annually, need for efficient supply chain mechanism is vital. This article talks about the strategies every retail startup needs to know to make their logistic program future driven.
Right from its initial days in India in 2014, Amazon has been experimenting with various supply chain initiatives to improve last mile performance and reduce cost, while delivering consumer convenience in the process.


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Plus Acer says that Vista is a clever disguise for a Windows price hike
In other potentially unsettling Windows Vista news, top OEM Acer claims that the most basic version of Vista (Home Basic) is so poorly featured that consumers will simply reject it, according to PC Pro.
"The new [Vista] experience you hear of, if you get Basic, you won't feel it at all," said Jim Wong, senior corporate vice president at Acer. "There's no [Aero] graphics, no Media Center, no remote control."
Wong says that part of the problem is that many of the new features that Microsoft have advertised about its upcoming OS are not found in Vista Home Basic, but rather Vista Home Premium, which he calls "the real Vista."


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Companies in the health and nutrition industry are increasingly using social media platforms to engage consumers and promote brand loyalty. However, the best-laid strategic marketing plans may fail if they don’t include the recommended dose of legal and regulatory compliance and business acumen. To influence your chances of staying healthy, Penton Media has assembled a panel of authorities to participate in a unique educational certification program called “Social Media for the Health and Nutrition Industry.”
Manatt’s own Ivan Wasserman, a partner in the Advertising, Marketing & Media practice who counsels national and international food, dietary supplement and cosmetics companies on the legal and regulatory aspects of marketing, serves as one of the instructors. Our editors checked in with him this week to learn more about the benefits of Penton’s certification program.
Editors: Tell us about how the program works and what the certification means.
Wasserman: The program is an online education certification program for busy marketers who need to stay on the cutting edge of their field. To complete the program, you watch four core sessions and two electives, all taught by experts in the field and designed to teach health and nutrition companies how to successfully navigate the social media space. The four core sessions are “Building the Strategy,” “Content,” “ROI & Measurements,” and “Time and Resource Management.” My session is an elective entitled “What FDA and FTC Won’t Let You Do on Social Media.”
Each session concludes with an exam. This ensures your comprehension, and you’ll develop your social media skills in less time than you imagine. You will receive your certificate after completing sessions and tests.
Editors: Who do you expect would most benefit from attending your course “What FDA and FTC Won’t Let You Do on Social Media,” and can you give us an example of a “do” and a “don’t”?
Wasserman: Anyone can benefit! In particular, the program is designed for anyone in marketing, legal and regulatory, customer service, operations, and public relations. A “do” is to understand that even though social media is new and exciting, the FDA and FTC rules that were created for traditional advertising also apply to social media in ways that you may not expect. A “don’t” is don’t assume that because your company did not create or authorize claims made in social media by bloggers or others that you cannot get in trouble for those claims!
Editors: Is there a particular social media tool or strategy that health and nutrition marketers are using with increased frequency today that is presenting new challenges from a legal and regulatory standpoint?
Wasserman: Like marketers in other industries, everyone is using Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms to connect with their customers. While these new platforms offer exciting and unprecedented opportunities to connect with and educate consumers about products and services, it is vitally important that companies understand the rules and have company policies in place to help ensure compliance.
Editors: Thank you for your time today, Ivan.
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Twitter announced that the microblogging site is joining the ranks of companies that honor user do-not-track requests. Despite the switch, federal lawmakers are still questioning the site’s data collection and retention practices.
In a recent blog post, Twitter announced a new system in which it will suggest interesting accounts to its users based on their Internet activity and other information gleaned from sites that have integrated with Twitter using buttons or widgets.
But following in the footsteps of entities Yahoo and Apple, Twitter will also allow users to adjust their account settings to stop such recommendations. In addition, Twitter will also recognize the use of a do-not-track header.
“If you have [do-not-track] enabled in your browser settings, we will not collect the information that enables this feature, so you won’t see any tailored suggestions,” the company wrote in its blog post. “We hope that our support of [do-not-track] highlights its importance as a privacy tool for consumers and creates even more interest and wider adoption across the Web.”
The move generated praise from the White House, with Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Internet Policy Danny Weitzner calling it “an important step [that] is part of a larger Obama Administration strategy to encourage more consumer privacy protections on the internet.”
Even while applauding Twitter’s support for do-not-track, however, two federal lawmakers requested that the company disclose information about its data collection and tracking practices as part of its recommendation system.
Reps. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) and Joe Barton (D-Texas) sent a letter to the site seeking answers about what kind of personally identifiable information is collected by Twitter, how it is collected, how it is stored, how long information is kept, and how the site will honor opt-out requests from mobile devices. The legislators requested a response by June 15.
To read Twitter’s blog post about the policy changes, click here.
Why it matters: Twitter’s acceptance of do-not-track reflects mounting support for the movement. Over the last year, sites such as Yahoo and Apple have similarly indicated their support for user preferences, while Mozilla and Microsoft have developed do-not-track settings for their browsers. It remains to be seen, however, whether such efforts by industry will stave off legislation in this area.
A major battle is brewing between Dish Network and the broadcast television networks, with lawsuits filed on both coasts amid allegations that the satellite provider’s new on-demand service could destroy television programming as it currently exists.
In March, Dish introduced a new HD DVR called the “Hopper.” Its most prominent – and promoted – feature: PrimeTime Anytime capability, which allows viewers to record high-definition PrimeTime broadcasting on all four networks at once. Using the “Auto Hop” feature, subscribers to the service can then replay the programming and skip all commercials.
Threatened with lawsuits from the broadcast networks, Dish filed a preemptive federal suit in New York, seeking a declaratory judgment that the service does not directly or indirectly violate any copyright owned by the networks.
Consumers can fast-forward through commercials using a traditional DVR, the Colorado-based satellite provider argued, and the PrimeTime Anytime service does not erase or delete commercials, which remain on the recording and can be watched if the customer chooses. “The Dish Auto Hop feature does not alter or modify the broadcast signal,” the company said in its filing.
But three large networks disagreed and filed separate lawsuits in California against Dish, arguing that the Hopper violates its copyright. In one suit, a network distinguished the Hopper from a traditional DVR, which it said is controlled by the consumer. The Hopper, the network argued, actively controls, causes and carries out the unauthorized copying of the networks’ broadcasts, resulting in an adulterated version of the network’s copyrighted broadcast.
In addition to a declaratory judgment that the Hopper violates their copyrights, the networks seek an injunction halting its sale and compensatory and statutory damages under the Copyright Act.
To read the complaint in Dish Network v. ABC, click here.
To read the complaint in Fox v. Dish Network, click here.
Why it matters: “Ultimately, this case is about freedom of consumer choice, individual families’ choice to elect, if they want, to time-shift their television viewing and watch recorded television without commercials,” Dish argued in its complaint. Not surprisingly, one network framed the issues differently in its filing, saying the outcome of the case could end broadcast television and its advertising model as we know it. “This lawsuit is not about Dish enhancing consumer choice,” the network retorted. “By stealing [our] broadcast programming . . . Dish is undermining legitimate consumer choice by undercutting authorized on-demand services and by offering a service that, if not enjoined, will ultimately destroy the advertising-supported ecosystem that provides consumers with the choice to enjoy free over-the-air, varied, high-quality PrimeTime broadcast programming.” Dish won the first round of the battle on May 31 when U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain granted a temporary restraining order halting the California suits. Judge Swain set a hearing for July 2 to consider whether all of the cases should be consolidated.
Apple is facing a number of consumer class actions claiming that Siri, the voice-activated assistant feature on Apple’s iPhone 4S, is falsely advertised.
Unlike Siri’s performance in television commercials, named plaintiff Frank Fazio charges that Siri could not provide directions to a given location or locate a nearby store and that it often claimed not to understand the request or took an inordinate amount of time to respond and still provided incorrect directions.
Although Siri is in fact in beta testing, “the bulk of Apple’s massive marketing and advertising campaign, including its dominant and expansive television advertisements, fail to mention the word ‘beta’ and the fact that Siri is, at best, a work-in-progress,” Fazio alleged.
According to Fazio and the other plaintiffs in the suits consolidated in the Northern District of California, Apple engaged in “fundamentally and designedly” false and misleading advertising that permitted the company to charge a significant price premium for the iPhone 4S.
The suits seek injunctive relief, compensatory and statutory damages, and restitution for violations of California’s Consumer Protection Act.
Apple quickly responded with a motion to dismiss the suits, arguing that the plaintiffs failed to specify the particular representations on which they relied and only described their disappointment with Siri. The motion notes that although the plaintiffs all claim they became dissatisfied with Siri’s performance “soon after” purchasing the iPhone, none of the plaintiffs availed themselves of Apple’s 30-day return policy.
Further, the company was upfront about Siri’s beta status, Apple argued, and disclosed it was developing technology during the press conference announcing the product, in the accompanying press release, and on the Apple Web site.
A hearing on the motion to dismiss is scheduled for June 21.
To read the complaint in Fazio v. Apple, click here.
To read Apple’s motion to dismiss the consolidated suits, click here.
Why it matters: Apple raises several arguments in defense of Siri and its advertising, although its strongest contention may be its own acknowledgement that Siri is still in beta. While calling the feature “cutting-edge technology,” the company explicitly advised consumers that they “can’t ask [Siri] everything, and it’s not perfect” at the press event launching the iPhone 4S. In addition, Apple’s Web site “prominently” discloses its beta status on several pages in the Siri features section, the company said.
Consent given by the prior owner of a phone number terminates when the number is reassigned to a new owner, the 7th Circuit ruled in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case.
It was the first time a federal appellate court had examined the issue.
Two plaintiffs alleged they received 18 and 29 automated or recorded calls from a bill collector that were intended for the prior user of the cell phone number they now owned.
Although the bill collector argued that it had received consent to call the number from the prior owner, the panel held that a “called party” under the TCPA refers to the current owner of the number, not the “intended recipient” of the call.
“Consent to call a given number must come from its current subscriber,” the court said, noting that such automated calls result in not just annoyance to a subscriber but consumed minutes from cell phone plans and added expense for owners. Consent to call a given number “does not authorize perpetual calls to that number after it has been reassigned to someone else,” the court added.
Recognizing that advertisers or bill collectors may be unwilling to part with predictive dialers, the court offered three suggestions for their continued use:
To read the decision in Soppet v. Enhanced Recovery, click here.
Why it matters: While the 7th Circuit’s decision may present obstacles to companies utilizing predictive dialers, it also offers three possible solutions for their continued use. Companies that make automated or recorded calls to cell phones should consider their options in light of the court’s opinion or face the potential of a TCPA suit and $500 per violation in damages.
The Food and Drug Administration recently sent warning letters to 10 marketers of diet supplements that tout themselves as “workout boosters.”
The supplements, including Jack3d and OxyElite Pro, contain dimethylamylamine, or DMAA, which the manufacturers claim can increase energy, concentration and metabolism, often referring to it as a “natural” stimulant, the agency said.
But the FDA cautioned that the safety of DMAA has yet to be demonstrated, noting that it can narrow blood vessels and arteries, causing elevated blood pressures which in turn can result in cardiovascular events such as shortness of breath or heart attacks.
DMAA is not a “dietary ingredient” because it is synthetically produced, the letters noted, and therefore cannot be lawfully marketed as a dietary supplement.
“Before marketing products containing DMAA, manufacturers and distributors have a responsibility under the law to provide evidence of the safety of their products. They haven’t done that and that makes the products adulterated,” Daniel Fabricant, Ph.D., Director of the FDA’s Dietary Supplement Program, said in a statement.
The letters warn the marketers and manufacturers to cease distribution immediately or face an enforcement action by the agency.
Recipients of the letters questioned the FDA’s action. A lawyer for USP Labs, which markets Jack3d and OxyElite Pro, told The New York Times that DMAA is “lawfully marketed as a dietary ingredient under federal law and the company will present a full defense of the ingredient.”
To read the FDA’s warning letter to USP Labs, click here.
Why it matters: DMAA has caused controversy before. Canada’s government health agency classified the ingredient as an “amphetamine-like” drug that cannot be used as an ingredient in dietary supplements in that country. Manufacturers of dietary supplements are well advised to exercise caution when developing and disseminating claims for their products.
On June 12, 2012, Advertising Age and AdWeek sought guidance from Manatt partners Linda Goldstein, Jacqueline Wolff and Marc Roth on regulatory developments of significance for advertisers and marketers.
Ms. Goldstein and Ms. Wolff coauthored an article for Advertising Age titled, “What You Need to Know About the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,” highlighting activities ripe for regulatory scrutiny under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and outlining steps to mitigate risks. The article discusses who may be liable under the law, including individuals and principals; for example, an advertising agency that hires a consultant to obtain permits when shooting commercials overseas could be liable if the consultant bribes a foreign official and the agency did not take steps to prevent it.
To read the full article, click here.
Mr. Roth’s commentary was featured in an AdWeek article regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s settlement with Internet data broker Spokeo on charges that it violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act when it marketed consumer profiles to companies that used them for employee screening.
As the first FTC case addressing this issue, Mr. Roth noted that it could signal more to come. “[The Spokeo case] brings together a perfect storm of issues on the FTC’s plate and puts teeth in their bite,” he said. “The FTC needs to show Congress there are cases out there of consumer abuse.”
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435 Just a couple of months ago, the most powerful mobile AnTuTu they were carried out by processors of the…
Just a couple of months ago, the most powerful mobile AnTuTu they were carried out by processors of the last year but of great characteristics like the Kirin 970 that impels the Huawei Mate 10 Pro and Mate 1 0. However, the emergence of the Snapdragon 845 has overturned this classification and the most powerful phones of May 2018 according to AnTuTu they are all equipped with the latest Qualcomm processor.
The update of the list of the 10 best-performing phones tested on the platform between May 1 and May 31 includes newly launched smartphones like the OnePlus 6 or the Xiaomi Black Shark. Precisely the smartphone of OnePlus is the one that reaches, by little, the first positions, with a score of 274,910. The Smartisan R1, smartphone exclusively sold in China and also works with the same CPU ranks second, with 272.520 points. The podium closes with another Chinese smartphone presented a few weeks ago, the Xiaomi Black Shark that includes the same SoC and that obtains 270.235 points.
He Samsung Galaxy S9 and the Samsung Galaxy S9 + , smartphones that became the most powerful Android phones from March 2018 Some posts are down on the list, a situation that will surely be reversed as soon as the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 lands on the market in late summer. He Xiaomi Mi MIX 2S now moves to sixth place with a score of 261,719, followed by another smartphone for gamers recently released to the market, the Nubia Red Magic. In this case, the smartphone reaches 215,904 points.
They close the mobile list that a couple of months ago, as we have related before, reached the Top 3 of most powerful mobile phones in the market according to AnTutu: the Huawei Mate 10 Pro , he Huawei Mate 10 and the Honor V10. These phones have 212,001, 211,566 and 210,616 points respectively. These three phones work with the Kirin 970 chipset. It is striking not to find in the list the Huawei P20 Y Huawei P20 Pro with Kirin 970 engine that were launched in March of this year, but already last month we saw how both terminals were behind, in terms of power, Huawei’s current high-end phablets.
It is expected that the most powerful mobiles of June 2018 give a special prominence to Xiaomi Mi 8 , a phone capable of overcoming the barrier of 300,000 points in anTuTu according to the manufacturer. Then we will check how much these statements really do.


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Latest UpdatesSuccess Story: NTQ Japan
May 23, 2018
Vietnamese ICT company NTQ Solution successfully completed development of its PC security product “iLUTon” in collaboration with Japanese systems developer A.C.T. in August 2017. NTQ Solution established NTQ Japan, a Japanese subsidiary in February 2016, which is now based in Yokohama and provides customer support for product development aimed at Japanese companies. Taking a step forward from offshore software development, the conventional IT outsourcing model, NTQ has presented a new Japan-Vietnam partnership model for joint development. NTQ talks about its business in Japan.
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Watchdog targets asset managers
The UK’s new City regulator is swooping on the London offices of the world’s biggest banks and asset managers in a new probe aimed at a lucrative City business – helping pension funds make big changes to their investment portfolios. The site visits are the most dramatic example yet of the Financial Conduct Authority’s focus on ensuring that wholesale markets participants protect the interests of end users, such as retail fund investors and pensioners, when contracting for services.
Doubts over gas price benchmark
Key energy companies, trading houses and banks have stopped submitting European natural gas quotes to price-reporting agencies, raising questions about the benchmarks that underpin billions of dollars in trading and household energy bills.
Universities trim Treasury holdings
Some of the smartest money in America is getting out of US government debt.
Many university endowments have scaled back their holdings of Treasury securities from as much as 30 per cent in 2008-09 to zero in some cases.
Soros repeats trick with Aussie dollar
Three weeks after being mistakenly declared dead, George Soros is thought to have raked in profits of up to £40m in only one day this week, by shorting the Australian dollar.
Modest farewell to Boris Berezovsky
The man who once boasted that he controlled more than half of Russia’s economy was laid to rest in Surrey yesterday. Boris Berezovsky’s funeral was held at a cemetery near Woking, and attended by only a few dozen friends.
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M&S opens online distribution centre
Marks & Spencer has unveiled a new distribution centre the size of 11 Wembley football pitches in Castle Donington as its chief executive, Marc Bolland, seeks to persuade investors that the retailer can become a force to be reckoned with in online shopping.
Ports boss offers help to exporters
John Meredith, the boss of the world’s biggest ports group Hutchison Port Holdings, has made a personal pledge to help UK exporters in “any way” to break into new markets in Asia and Latin America.
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EU plans tariffs on Chinese solar gear
Chinese solar-panel manufacturers will face import tariffs of up to 67.9 per cent at EU borders under a plan from the 27-nation bloc’s executive body. European manufacturers say Chinese firms are selling their products well below fair-market prices in a bid to dominate the world market for solar panels.
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Activision Blizzard said its cash cow World of Warcraft fantasy game is losing subscribers, and new game consoles may not lead to the growth investors expect.


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Slot provider expands in Swiss online market with top tier operator
Award-winning casino software supplier Red Tiger has launched its games with renowned Grand Casino Luzern of Switzerland.
Having certified 30 of its most popular games in the territory, the provider is now up and running with one of the first four operators to go live in the newly regulated online market.
mycasino.ch players will have access to Red Tiger’s award-winning titles including hit releases such as Pirates’ Plenty, Mystery Reels, and the more recent Jack in a Pot.
Chris Looney, Commercial Director at Red Tiger, says: “We are delighted to be launching with Grand Casino Luzern and are looking forward to introducing a host of new players to our titles.
“Red Tiger is always looking to expand in exciting new markets such as Switzerland, and we’re proud to partner with a well-known, reputable brand and look forward to our future there.”
Wolfgang Bliem, CEO at Grand Casino Luzern, says: “Red Tiger’s games have been gathering fans around Europe for some time now and it is a real coup to have access to them.
Its most recent titles in particular are proving to be real hits, so we can’t wait to see what else they have in store, and are excited to offer their games on mycasino.ch.”
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Should Radiation Information Be Required for Greening Gadgets?

The news that the city of San Francisco will likely require cellphone makers to disclose their products' radiation emissions could portend a new front in the growth of green IT.

The news that the city of San Francisco will likely require cellphone makers to disclose their products' radiation emissions could portend a new front in the growth of green IT.
Last week, the city's board of supervisors voted 10-1 to require cellphone retailers to show how much radiation their phones emit. Mayor Gavin Newsom is expected to sign it, making it the first such law in the nation.
In response, the wireless industry's trade association, the CTIA, has cancelled its annual, SF-based trade show after the already planned event for fall 2010 in the city because of the move.
"Rather than inform, the ordinance will potentially mislead consumers with point of sale requirements suggesting that some phones are 'safer' than others based on radiofrequency (RF) emissions," Walls said in a statement. "We are disappointed to announce that the 2010 CTIA Enterprise and Applications show in October will be the last one we have in San Francisco for the foreseeable future."
Sidestepping the question of how big an impact the CTIA's move will have on the San Francisco economy, and how much impact S.F.'s bill will have on the industry as a whole, this notion of the hidden impacts of technology seems to be one that is steadily moving to the forefront.
Fears about cellphone radiation are enduring and widespread, and despite any number of studies of varying depth and range showing "inconclusive" impacts on human health from cell phone radiation, there's a pervasive belief in the dangers of cell phones, and a search for the safest possible phones.
And there are signs that these kinds of concerns could expand beyond cell phones: There is currently a movement afoot that is questioning the safety of smart meters for their radiation emissions, and other gadgets in our increasingly wireless world could certainly come under scrutiny.
It's certainly a conceptual stretch at this point, if concerns about radiation from electronics takes root, I could envision a concerned citizen measuring the levels in your average data center and raising red flags about impacts on IT workers and employees in tech-heavy buildings.
All of which is simply to say: Could measuring and reducing radiation from electronics gadgets be a new facet of green IT?
Although in the U.S. the health and human-rights legs of the three-legged stool of sustainability are often much shorter than the environmental leg, it seems that addressing radiation concerns could be a competitive advantage and market differentiator for the first firm to get their hands around what their gadgets are emitting.
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Clearink was recently sold to a number of investors and their entire operation is shifting over to China. Some of the old management will continue to an executive capacity, but it doesn't look like we are closer to a commercially viable product, despite Clearink getting millions of dollars in orders placed. Today, the Clearink website is down. It looks like the domain is still … [Read more...] about The Clearink Website is Down
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E Ink has new color e-paper technology that is coming to a bunch of new e-readers and smartphones later this year. The Hisense A5C is the only color e-paper smartphone that is available to purchase and ditto with the iReader C6, although it is only available in China. The purpose of this review is to give you a sense on how a color smartphone compares to a color e-reader. This … [Read more...] about Color E Ink Smartphone vs Color E Ink e-Reader
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CLearink E-paper has been in the prototyping stage since 2012, when the company was first founded. The company has never released a commercially viable product and none of their partners have used their technology. Today, Clearink has announced that they have changed the ownership structure and are shifting their focus to Asia to enable faster product development through … [Read more...] about CLEARink is shifting its focus to Asia and changing ownership
E INK has just struck a partnership with Innolux, a leading supplier of TFT-LCD panels. The two sides will jointly create and promote a 28 inch Advanced Color E-Paper screenAdvanced Color E-Paper screen that will be used for IoT and Smart City applications.The 28-inch bar type color ePaper using E Ink Gallery will be mainly used for in-vehicle advertisement signage and … [Read more...] about E INK is developing a 28 inch color display
E INK has just developed a new timing controller in-house for a myriad of future e-readers. It will be incorporated into their image algorithm and waveform technologies, supporting Android, Windows and Linux systems optimized by e-paper power management. It was originally announced in late 2019, but the technology is finally ready for commercial products.The TCON T1000 … [Read more...] about E INK develops new timing controller for faster page refreshes
E INK is best known for e-readers, such as the Amazon Kindle or Barnes and Noble Nook. The e-paper technology is also employed for e-notes or digital note taking devices, such as the Onyx Boox MAX 3 or Remarkable 2. There are other lesser known uses, such as smartphones, grocery store price tags, digital signage and secondary monitors! Today, Good e-Reader has a new video that … [Read more...] about What is E INK? What type of products are out there?
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E Ink is introducing a new technology, Print Color, for eReader and eNote applications. This is the same technology that Good e-Reader got the worldwide exclusive at the Wac0m Connected event in Tokyo. This new ePaper platform utilizes a new printed Color Filter Array (CFA) technology in conjunction with E Ink’s second generation, faster and brighter, Carta 1100 ink. The new … [Read more...] about New Print Color ePaper Now Available for eReader and Education Applications
There has been a strong movement by Apple and Google to adopt warmer colors on the screen, to help you fall asleep faster. Common wisdom was that blue light was more disruptive to people's circadian rhythm than warm colors. Some past studies have suggested that blue light suppresses melatonin, a hormone that influences sleep. This might not be the case, according to a new … [Read more...] about Warm Light disrupts sleep more than Blue Light
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The European Commission is in the process of shaping a new comprehensive approach to the blue economy. A stakeholder consultation on the future of the blue economy is currently underway and open till 7 December 2020.
To launch the stakeholder consultation on the future of the blue economy, on 27 October 2020 the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (MARE) held a webinar with more than 300 blue economy stakeholders.
Representatives of maritime clusters, NGOs, scientists, regions and finance experts presented their outlooks on challenges to tackle and opportunities to grab towards a sustainable blue economy, contributing to an interesting interactive debate opened by Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius.
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- 26 November 2020
- Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries


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MD Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation calls on Ganai
JAMMU, JANUARY 31: Managing Director, Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Limited, R S Sodhi along with members of Board of Directors of Jammu and Kashmir Milk Producers’ Cooperative Limited (JKMPCL) today called on Advisor to Governor Khurshid Ahmed Ganai and apprised him about the progress on various dairy development activities undergoing in the State.
The Advisor was informed that Milk procurement of JKMPCL has increased from 11.8 lakh Kgs per year in 2004-05 to 121.8 lakh Kgs per year, which shows growth of 930 percent in last 14 years.
During the year 2017-18, JKMPCL had procured 121.8 lakh Kgs milk per year from more than 17000 milk producer members through 450 Village Dairy Cooperative Societies and there are 230 VDCS operational in Jammu and 220 VDCS in Srinagar, the Advisor was further informed.
For Social upliftment and economic empowerment of milk producer members, the MD said that JKMPCL has focused on hand folding the marginalized and under privileged communities by providing them a remunerative market for their produce throughout the year.
JKMPCL has established State of the art plants each at Jammu and Kashmir with 50,000 litres per day capacity of manufacturing milk, butter milk, curd, ghee for consumers with financial support from state and central governments.


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What you need to know
- Apple Watch ECG app coming to Canada.
- Tiiming still TBD but "as quickly as possible"; likely next update.
- ECG app allows single-pad-equivalent tests on-demand.
There's been a lot of speculation and misinformation and the ECG app for Apple Watch and when it would be arriving in Canada. That's thanks to some incredibly unhelpful tweets and posts from Health Canada that lacked anything remotely resembling clarity and context.
Now, though, we're finally starting to get some official word.
From the CBC:
[Apple] says in a statement to The Canadian Press that it will bring the heart health features of Apple Watch Series 4 to Canada "as quickly as possible" but a spokeswoman declined to provide an estimated time of arrival.
"As quickly as possible" probably means the next public watchOS release.
A person with knowledge of Apple's procedures said on background that the heart features will be enabled in Canada when the company updates the watch's operating system software but the timing of the update wasn't known.
I've used the ECG app on a US Apple Watch and it's worked well. Can't wait to have it in Canada.
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European consumer group demands compensation from Apple over batterygate
A consumer association is demanding compensation from Apple over claims it slowed down user's iPhones.
iPhone 12's 'high-end' camera production 4-6 weeks behind schedule
Estimates suggest production is currently 4-6 weeks behind.
Analyst claims Apple has a 10-year lead in wearables, and that's being kind
Apple analyst Neil Cybart has a new, lengthy post up touting Apple's wearables market amongst other things.
Wear your patriotic spirit on your wrist this Fourth of July
Celebrate America's birthday in style. We've rounded up the best red white and blue Apple Watch bands for a festive look.


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JANUARY 5, 2013 - National Shop at Hobby Lobby Day! Dec 31. 2012 | Comments (0)
Remember the "Chik Fil A Day" that set world sales records at the Christian owned restaurant chain Chik Fil A? Now we get to do it again, just this time it's at Hobby Lobby!
Hobby Lobby is standing up for religious freedom by refusing include abortion-inducing drugs in its employees' healthcare plans, and could face fines of over $1 million per day for doing so.
Please find you nearest Hobby Lobby store and have some fun shopping there on January 5th!!
To learn more about Hobby Lobby's fight for religious freedom go to www.becketfund.org/hobbylobby.


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The Unimaginable Burger is nothing wanting a breakthrough, but when maker Unimaginable Meals shouldn’t be capable of sustain with demand, the meat-like patties might quickly be unimaginable to search out.
Restaurant chains Purple Robin and White Citadel are affected by shortages of Unimaginable Meals’ patties, amid a nationwide growth with Burger King. In accordance with Bloomberg, calls to a dozen every of Purple Robin and White Citadel areas found that solely two of every had the Unimaginable Burger accessible.
The unpredictable availability of Unimaginable Meals merchandise on the restaurant chains, which every have a whole lot of areas, are along with the shortages that mom-and-pop eating places have suffered for weeks.
Unimaginable Meals is beneath stress to fabricate sufficient provide of the Unimaginable Burger to meet up with demand, as rivals akin to Past Meat are knocking on its doorways.
The shortages coincide with the launch of the Unimaginable Whopper at Burger King, which began testing in St. Louis in April earlier than increasing to cities that embrace Miami, Florida and Columbus, Georgia. The patties are anticipated to be accessible in all the greater than 7,300 Burger King areas in the USA by the tip of the 12 months.
Unimaginable Meals spokeswoman Rachel Konrad instructed Bloomberg that the Unimaginable Burger scarcity of Purple Robin and White Citadel “has nothing to do with Burger King.”
In the meantime, White Citadel stated that the beef-like meatless patties will likely be again in inventory no later than June 17. The restaurant chain will likely be altering the form of its Unimaginable Sliders to sq. from spherical, which it stated resulted in short-term shortages.
Unimaginable Meals will likely be promoting its merchandise in stores throughout the 12 months, which ought to give followers of the Unimaginable Burger an choice to prepare dinner them at dwelling if eating places hold experiencing provide shortages.
The Unimaginable Burger 2.zero was Digital Developments’ Total Winner for CES 2019. The brand new-and-improved model of Unimaginable Meals’ authentic plant-based hamburger strikes the product nearer to the profile of an actual hamburger, by way of aroma, coloration, texture, and taste.
The Unimaginable Burger is constructed from vegetation and plant-derived compounds that come collectively to shrink the flavour hole between actual meat and pretend meat, which makes it simpler for everybody to make extra environmentally acutely aware meals decisions.


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SAN FRANCISCO—Don Lorenz decided to hold off on splurging on a new boat until he was convinced the economy had stabilized.
The right moment came this summer, when the 63-year-old chief investment officer for a real-estate firm paid $75,000 for a 20-foot water-skiing boat for his family's lake trips in Northern California.
"I wouldn't have bought one earlier because the recession and uncertainty were severe," said Mr. Lorenz, a resident of Menlo Park, Calif., who last bought a boat eight years ago and plans to keep using it, in addition to the new one. "I was trying to maintain my liquidity."
Buyers like Mr. Lorenz are helping to drive a boating recovery in California. Sales of powerboats are revving up in the state for the first time in five years, part of a national resurgence in a corner of the luxury sector that signals the economy is improving.
Sales of individual boats in California grew 2% to 3% in 2012 from the previous year, said Dave Geoffroy, a vice president of the National Marine Manufacturers Association, marking the first increase since California's boating industry began a long swoon in 2007.
The California rebound is lagging behind an earlier, sharper recovery for powerboat sales nationwide, which grew 10% in 2012, according to unofficial estimates by the Chicago-based trade group.
The U.S. boating industry generates about $30 billion in annual revenue, with powerboat sales a closely watched segment because they often shrink early in a recession and rebound late, said Thom Dammrich, president of the National Marine Manufacturers Association. Unit sales nationally fell 48% to 142,330 in 2010 from 274,100 in 2007, then inched up to 142,830 in 2011 and rallied to 157,000 in 2012, the group estimates.
In Lake Geneva, Wis., sales of new and used powerboats at Gordy's Marine jumped 10% this year from 2011, after falling every year since 2008, said Tom Whowell, the store's owner. "People have seen the world is not ending, that getting a boat is an important part of [their] family's escape," Mr. Whowell said.
In 2007, California ranked third in the country in new-boat sales, recording $976.9 million in revenue and trailing only Texas and Florida, according to the National Marine Manufacturers Association. By 2010, the most recent year comparisons between states are available, California had fallen to 11th place, with sales of $310.3 million.
The slower rebound in boat sales mirrors California's patchier overall recovery compared to most other states. The Golden State's 9.8% unemployment rate for November, though down considerably from a 2010 peak of 12.4%, remained above the national rate of 7.7%, according to estimates by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Some boat dealers in coastal cities with stronger economies saw a rebound earlier than those farther from the ocean.
Sun Country Marine Inc. of Ontario, Calif.—an inland city east of Los Angeles—returned to profitability in 2012, the first time in five years it was in the black, said president Mike Basso Jr. The dealership, which offers boats ranging in price from $30,000 to $2 million, sold 300 new and used boats this year, or almost 100 more than in 2011, Mr. Basso said.
Sun Country had already boosted its boat sales in 2011 from a low mark of about 100 in 2009, but relied on price cuts to drive unit sales higher. This time, Mr. Basso said, the dealership managed to increase unit sales while also raising prices about 5%. The dealership, which sold 700 boats in 2007, broke even last year after losing money between 2007 and 2010.
"I think people have increased savings," Mr. Basso said, "and have a little bit of discretionary income they didn't have before."
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Is The Smart Home’s Future Under A Cloud?
The news for the smart home seems grim. You might think that users had decided that flicking a light switch in the corner is easier than asking Siri or Google to do it for you. But there’s more to smart home device numbers released by IDC, and the longer term prognosis still looks promising.
According to IDC, global shipments of smart home devices continued to decline in Q1, 2023, with shipments falling 5.6 percent year-on-year to 186.0 million units. The biggest culprits appear to be smart speakers and networked video entertainment devices. They faced the steepest declines in Q1, down 15.4 percent and 7.8 percent respectively compared to the same time last year.
Looking ahead, the immediate prognosis doesn’t look rosy either, especially with the current economic conditions. “IDC expects the market to decline by 1.8 per cent overall in 2023 as weak consumer demand and economic volatility continue to put significant downward pressure on the market,” it says.
But longer term there is optimism. “Although much uncertainty exists, IDC expects the market will return to growth in 2024 and continue through 2027 with device volumes reaching 1.1 billion shipments in 2027”.
In other words, IDC is predicting an almost 6-fold increase in global smart home device shipments in just four years.
So why the disparity? The problem is a lack of upgrades. Users have already bought all the Apple HomePods, Alexa and Google Home units that they need, for now, and there’s little motivate for them to upgrade or replace them. The launch of Matter, a protocol that lets Google, Apple and Amazon smart home devices interact with one another, hasn’t put sparkle into the market yet.
“While there have been pockets of growth, the market has largely stalled due to lack of meaningful upgrades between one generation of devices and the next,” says Jitesh Ubrani, research manager for IDC’s Mobility and Consumer Device Trackers.
“Even the launch of the Matter standard has not been enough to spur demand despite offering some ease of use.”
One of the issues is the length of time it is taking for smart home concepts to take off in the broader population. Many people don’t see this technology saving them time or money. At the moment, the smart home remains a niche market for the tech savvy.
In its longer term, more positive projection, IDC expects the benefits of smart home technology to penetrate the broader population, and new, emerging markets to develop.
“Apart from smart speakers and networked video entertainment devices, many other smart home categories such as lighting, thermostats, and home monitoring and security devices are expected to witness high growth over the next five years in part due to rising consumer awareness of smart home devices in many parts of the world and the rise of emerging markets.
“In more mature markets like the United States, high installed bases of devices coupled with issues of underutilization, ongoing disruptions form supply chains, logistics issues, high inflation, and record high credit card debt have impacted the market’s growth in 2022 and the first part of 2023 and are expected to continue to put downward pressure on the market for the foreseeable future,” says IDC.
“But other regions that are earlier in their adoption curve like Latin America and parts of Asia/Pacific have much opportunity for growth.”
IDC predicts 857 million smart home units will be shipped by year’s end, with video entertainment (279 million), and home monitoring and security (192 million), the biggest categories. They come in well ahead of smart speakers (107 million) and lighting (101.9 million).
The proportion of home monitoring/security and lighting smart devices shipped will continue to rise to 2027, while the proportion of video entertainment, smart speakers and thermostat devices among smart home devices sold will drop over the years.
Nevertheless, IDC is still banking on the public at large warming to smart technology. That will depend on the innovation ahead.


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Last year was a pretty good year for Rare. We saw the release of Kinect Sports Gems, Kinect Sports Rivals: Preseason and revival of Killer Instinct (developed by Double Helix with some assistance from Rare). This Spring, the full Kinect Sports Rivals game will be available on Xbox One. Beyond the inevitable KS Rivals DLC is anyone’s guess. There is the remote possibility that we could see the announcement of another of their classic franchises once E3 rolls out in June. Rare’s Head of Studio, Craig Duncan, said back in August that the team had ideas for Viva Pinata, Perfect Dark, Conker and Banjo. Of course, a brand new IP is not out of the question either.
If anything were to be revived from Rare at this point, it should certainly be Banjo. If there’s one thing that the Xbox platform has been missing throughout the years it’s a decent, exclusive platformer and a new Banjo-Kazooie developed in the vain of the original games would fill that void. Would it be released this year? Unlikely, but an announcement would be excellent!
What are you hoping to see from Rare this year? And are you excited about the forthcoming release of Kinect Sports Rivals? Let us know in the comments!


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The highly anticipated launch of Apple’s iPhone 15 has generated immense excitement among tech enthusiasts. However, for many eager customers, the journey to secure a preorder for this technological marvel has been fraught with frustration. Users have encountered obstacles while accessing the Apple Store website and app, resulting in wait times of up to 30 minutes. In this article, we’ll delve into the reasons behind these preorder issues and provide potential solutions for those eager to get their hands on the iPhone 15.
The Agonising Wait for the iPhone 15 Preorder
Apple enthusiasts are accustomed to the frenzy that accompanies preorder events. Still, this year’s iPhone 15 launch could be much better. Users reported encountering the “We can’t wait either” screen on the Apple Store website more than ten minutes after preorders were set to go live. Even after gaining access, many faced error messages when attempting to add the new iPhone to their shopping cart. This has led some to question whether Apple’s infrastructure can adequately handle the overwhelming demand.
Potential Solutions for iPhone 15 Preorder Woes
If you find yourself stuck in the preorder process, consider the following steps:
Dealing with Upgrade Hiccups
Upgrade-related issues can be a hurdle, but they can often be resolved.
Navigating payment predicaments
Payment problems can be a frustrating experience. Here’s how to handle them:
Quick Tips for Resolving Preorder Problems
In the rush to secure your iPhone 15 preorder, time is of the essence. Here are some quick tips:
In conclusion, the journey to preorder the iPhone 15 has been a rollercoaster ride for many. While glitches and hiccups are part of the process, these tips and tricks should help you navigate the maze and secure your new iPhone. Don’t despair; your sleek and cutting-edge iPhone 15 is just around the corner!


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Sirius-XM Merger Blessed By DOJTue Mar 25, 2008 @ 10:05AM PST
Posted by Eriq Gardner
Lawyers for the DOJ concluded that the proposed merger would not be an anticompetitive threat thanks to emerging radio markets. "The likely evolution of technology in the future, including the expected introduction in the next several years of mobile broadband Internet devices, made it even more unlikely that the transaction would harm consumers in the longer term," the Justice Department said.
So what comes now? Before the deal becomes official, the FCC must also bless the deal. That's very likely to happen. The stock has been hit hard in recent months, and there's some chatter on message boards about a shareholder suit, but that's nothing compared to the lawsuit that the Justice Department faced had they nixed the merger.


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Swan, flamingo, pizza slice — we hardly knew ye. That seems to be the mantra among vacationers who are obsessed — we mean obsessed — with floaties, and then ditch them as if they never even cared.
Indeed, according to a poll conducted by OnePoll for Hotels.com, inflatables are the second most common item left behind on vacation — right after sunscreen, which came in at No. 1, and sunglasses, which came in at No. 3. And the poll also found that nearly half (half!) purchased an inflatable toy for their holidays, but only 28 came home with them. The results came responses by 2,000 vacationers in Britain.
So what becomes of all these left-behind inflatables when their owners cast them off? Well, a hotel in Majorca has come up with a novel idea to preserve and honor them. According to The Telegraph, visitors to the Hipotels Gran Playa de Palma hotel can "adopt" floaties from a sanctuary and give them new life while they’re on their own vacations.
So take heart, donut and unicorn — you are not forgotten, and you have much more to give (at least if you’re abandoned in the vicinity of Majorca).
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Ford allocates 40% of annual marketing budget to festive season: Anurag Mehrotra
With three key launches in a span of 6-9 months, Ford plans to amplify festive season sales. Anurag Mehrotra, Executive Director for Marketing, Sales & Service at Ford India, shared insights on marketing, advertising and key targets for the festive season
Ford India has launched the new Figo hatchback in India. This comes six years after the first-gen model was launched almost a month after the launch of compact-sedan, Ford Figo Aspire. The new Ford Figo is aimed at the Maruti Suzuki Swift, Hyundai Grand i10, and Honda Brio. In an interaction with exchange4media Anurag Mehrotra, executive director for Marketing, Sales & Service at Ford India, shared insights on marketing, advertising and key targets for the festive season. Excerpts:
Is this launch part of the festive marketing/sales? Are you planning some other launch to kick start the season?
We were committed that in six-nine months we will have three new products in the market. The first one was Aspire, the second is the new Figo, and the third is the Endeavour coming in the next couple of months. So, in festival what we do is introductory pricing. It is the price that we share in the introduction of the festival season and after that we look at increasing the price. In the festival season, everyone wants to get something new in their homes. So, the intent is that let’s get more and more families to get Ford home in the festive season.
What about festive spends?
There are two factors to it. It is sure that we spend more in the festival season and then what takes it to a different level are the launches. And it gets even more amplified if it is a festival season. If you look at our spend in the 30-60 days, it would be at least about 40 per cent of our total budget.
The festival season is going to be very really good. The industry is growing at about six per cent but the segment in which Figo is launching is growing at 30 per cent. Unbelievable is the growth that this segment has seen. And we are very happy to launch a brand new product.
Please share the marketing spends/mix for the new Figo.
The spends are about 70 per cent higher than what we have spent for the Aspire. The mix that we are looking at is about is 15-20 per cent in digital, Ford typically focuses on digital. We will be spending 30-35 per cent each on TV and print, and the rest is Radio and Out of Home. We believe that the big bet for marketing is really going to be mobile. That’s going to be our focus. We are doing a significant program initiative with Google.
There are roughly 21 million people who get on to the internet in India everyday. Now, the question is how do I get them to see my ad as quickly as possible. We are looking at social media to amplify our campaign in a major way. One major part of our digital campaign is that, instead of reporters and journalists doing reviews of cars, we thought, why not give a chance to the consumer to reviews the cars. And we are going to run a contest, something which creates a platform for people to review the car and send their video reviews of the car. Then we will select a certain number of people who are very good.
There is an interesting thing that we do on Ford. We create Ford Dealer Advertising Fund. In this, dealers contribute a certain amount of money, we contribute a certain amount of money and we create a pool of fund. And that fund is used for Experiential Marketing Process. So, that would be roughly about five to ten per cent of the money.
In terms of print and outdoor, what kind of acceleration are you looking at?
We are looking at a little over 50 cities for Outdoor and we would also look at airports in key cities to Outdoor. We have prepared a marketing plan called ‘Zero to hundred per cent acceleration in 48 hours’. And basically, in the next 48 hours we are going to light up all the mediums. More importantly, the challenge becomes a little easier for us because the equity of Figo is very strong in the market place. What we need to communicate a little bit harder is going to be the fact that this is the second generation Figo.
And how will you communicate that?
Our TVC, the print and the digital stuff as well, the intent is really to talk about power, fuel efficiency to start with, which will be the power that we need and packed with the features that we need. We are talking about how clever the packaging is, and all the features that are there. One of the things about the Ford Cars is not just the technology but the drive dynamics which is also a subset of technology in a way. The drive dynamics for the car are best felt when you drive it.
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