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The landmark Mortensen’s Restaurant on the Berlin Turnpike in Newington will close at the end of the year and reopen as a smaller ice cream shop.
Rod Mortensen, of Mortensen’s Restaurant & Ice Cream Shoppe, said the family is “going back to their dairy roots” by closing the restaurant on December 31 and re-opening as an ice cream shop around April next year.
The restaurant portion of the venue will become a Moe’s Southwest Grille & Restaurant.
Mortensen’s has been known for its dairy products for almost 100 years, starting when Elmer Mortensen delivered milk by horse and wagon in Hartford, according to a news release from the company.
The restaurant has been a Berlin Turnpike landmark since 1940.
The Mortensen family does not view the closure as providing less business.
Rod Mortensen said they will “probably open a few more ice cream shops.”
The Mortensen family’s ice cream shop in Cromwell will stay open.


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August 1 - Apple reportedly updating one of its iPads. Plus, mobile gains for Yelp and Trulia.
Looks like another apple product is coming say this time it's the iPad mini. The Wall Street Journal that apple is working with suppliers like Samsung and developing many tablet with a high resolution retina screen. The device would be mass -- starting in the fourth quarter and would likely be the same size as the current model. The companies involved in making the iPad mini declined to comment. Earlier this week we got another sign of a -- hot iPhone being made. It can't report on apple employees interviewed about labor conditions at a factory in China. Shares of apple up fractionally today near 455. Dollars. Last week based -- busted the door open I'm all about ad revenues in its second quarter results. Other companies like Yelp Trulia and zillow are showing they can do it too. -- second quarter earnings were pumped up -- more about revenues the company users that almost 60% -- start on mobile's. Yelp also had more local businesses joint and companies are doing more advertising online which all means -- I'll ad revenues. Truly had the online real estate company is also think users shift to mobile's. Monthly -- about unique visitors doubled from the same quarter a year ago sells -- profit topped expectations. -- petroleum rising sharply along and actually competitors zillow which reports results next week. All three hitting new 52 week high. Continue down this mow about half move Auburn mr. couch potato you're losing out to the digital fat. New research firm from. TV this year. The average out all the spent over five hours a day online compared to four and a half hours watching TV. And at this time is shifting towards more wild with Internet use on Smartphones and tablets and wade from computers. Now soaring today is Stamps.Com. Online postage company reporting a better than expected quarter and raising its full year forecast sure is up 13%. Sputtering is -- beyond the technology services company -- small and medium businesses. Its quarterly revenue missed forecasts and it lowered its guidance shares down 12%. That's tech -- this Thursday you can follow us on Twitter at -- as tech but he. I just were not that big -- Reuters.

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By Ian Quinn13 August 2019
Poundland has announced moves towards a major shift in its pricing strategy, including trials for the rollout of permanent sub-£1 ranges for the first time.
The retailer will also test a “wider spectrum” of £1-plus price points, adding £1.50, £3 and £4 ranges to the £2 and £5 marks introduced in 2017.
Poundland has previously offered 50p items as “manager’s specials” and in post-Christmas sales. The pilot is the first time it has offered permanent dedicated ranges at the lower price points.
The trial will take place in stores in the Midlands, with examples of sub-£1 products including 500g Napolina Passata and 75g Prince’s Sardine & Tomato Paste at 50p, and 100ml Colgate Toothpaste at 75p.
The bargain operator claims the new pricing architecture will allow it to extend ranges to cover a larger proportion of the volume of items demanded by customers.
“We promise customers amazing value and we are committed to fulfilling that promise on the widest range of items,” said Poundland managing director Barry Williams.
“While three quarters of the products we offer will still be £1, it’s important we look to broaden our ranges elsewhere, whether above or below £1. These extended price points mean we can meet an even greater range of customers’ needs, while offering the same outstanding Poundland value.
“Our customers are among the savviest in the country. We know that and it’s why we’re moving at the pace they dictate to become the simple price retailer they want us to be.”
Clive Black, an analyst at Shore Capital, said the move could crank up competition between Poundland and discounters such as Aldi and Lidl.
“The move to more flexible pricing should give Poundland potential scope to deliver a more varied and arguably stronger value proposition, albeit shoppers will need to be brought along,” he said.
“If rolled out across its estate, the competitive intensity within the discount channel in the UK and Ireland – so bringing Aldi, Lidl and Savers into the pool – could intensify a notch, something that the value-based supermarkets will also, no doubt, be keeping an eye on too.”
The latest move by Poundland comes a week after The Grocer revealed it had demanded a 2% discount from overseas suppliers backdated almost a year, in a controversial move to increase its margins.
In a letter to suppliers dated 26 July, Poundland head of trading Tim Bettley demanded a 2% rebate backdated to 1 October 2018 and an ongoing 2% discount, payable in quarterly rebates.
Bettley’s letter pointed to Poundland’s fixed price points and resulting inability to manage “margin through price increases” as the reason for the demand.


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Organic relationships are difficult to consolidate in the competitive world of influencer marketing. Pairing spokespeople with brands they actually care about is no mean feat, and neither is creating impactful content which connects with users. Both sides of the social media spectrum need to cultivate trust - and this is tough to establish over direct messages.
As the influencer space only grows, with market estimates reaching $15 billion by 2022, events which connect brands and influencers away from the keyboard are gaining importance. Why? Well, because real connections between brand and spokesperson always make for better content and higher engagement.
It is in this context our team put together the inaugural Souler Symposium: An event which took the social media relationship offline for five days this October against the unforgettable backdrop of The Ranch at Rock Creek, a five-star luxury Relais & Châteaux ranch in Montana’s Big Sky country.
Over nightly cocktail hours, group dinners, live music and entertainment, attendees enjoyed the opportunity to meet some of the most influential people in the world and discuss issues pertinent to the influencer space.
This is something our industry just does not get the chance to do. Deals and discussion in the world of influencer media happen in private (message) - so to have the opportunity to speak in person with the industry’s movers and shakers was something which both sides of the influencer sphere relished.
Shannon Vaughn of Pursoma hosted a panel discussion on digital wellness and anxiety in the influencer space on night two, telling the story of how her personal story led to its founding.
Vaughn said the event offered the unique opportunity to network directly with potential spokespeople.
“I’ve always had a hard time finding people who would authentically be involved in the process and who used the products as part of their lifestyle … the opportunity to connect directly with influencers in a non-sales-y environment, that was appealing to me because then we could have face to face conversations, and for a company that promotes digital wellness, this was the perfect opportunity for us to connect in a non-technology environment,” she said.
“This week at the ranch gave the brands and tastemakers who attended the time to explore our interest together in a beautiful and natural setting.”
Noted digital entrepreneur and keynote speaker Jeff Bullas agreed, noting the importance of connecting makers, creators and influencers. “The online world is one thing but the offline world is where the real magic happens,” he said. “Many relationships and ideas were started and nourished in one of the most stunning places on the planet."
The Souler Symposium foregrounded the need for an ecommerce community that encourages meaningful in-person connections between brands and influencers. Rest assured, it is something which Souler will continue to encourage in the years to come.


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ISLAMABAD: What do you do when you are a startup and you have survived a ruthless pandemic? If you are Bykea, you raise $10 million from one of the world’s largest technology investors: Naspers.
For the stature of Naspers, it does not come in early as an investor. It also does not come in with small investments and it certainly does not come in unless the startup is making multi-million dollars in Gross Merchandise Value (GMV). Had it been a few years ago, Naspers wouldn’t have invested in Pakistan’s startups, for there were none that could meet its high standards.
But today, Bykea met those standards as the transport and logistics platform announced raising $13 million in its Series-B round, out of which $10 million has been put in by South Africa-based Naspers through its Netherlands-based spinoff venture arm Prosus Ventures. (For some context about Naspers’ standards, high-flying logistics startup Airlift also courted Naspers for their Series A1 round, but were unsuccessful).
Bykea’s recent round, which brought the total funds raised by the startup to $22 million, saw participation from existing investors Middle East Venture Partners and Sarmayacar. The funds put in by existing investors as well as the valuation of the company after the round remain undisclosed.
This is the first time Naspers has decided to invest in Pakistan directly and in one of its favourite verticals globally: transportation. Naspers has been sceptical of investing in Pakistan stating that it is a risky business environment, however, with the effects of pandemic wearing off, Naspers has finally decided to set foot in Pakistan for the first time.
This is not to be confused with Naspers’ investment in OLX or the recent merger with the Emerging Markets Property Group (EMPG). OLX is not an investment in Pakistan specifically, it was an investment in their global business, whereas EMPG is considered to be a transaction in the Middle-East with Pakistan being a part of it.
Bykea founder and CEO Muneeb Maayr told Profit, that despite this being a meagre amount in comparison to global investment and seed funding, the amount raised will have a substantial impact on Bykea considering how the business believes in austerity and is cost-efficient. Keeping in mind that all the money raised will be deployed and will be able to last three years.
As the pioneer and leader in motorbike taxi and on-demand delivery in Pakistan, Bykea plans to invest significantly in its platform strategy, leveraging its peak active driver fleet of over 30,000 riders in 2020 for cross-utilisation in e-commerce logistics, food and payment services in 2021.
The fresh capital will also be used to expand Bykea’s market reach in smaller cities where international players have struggled to grow their English-language platforms in a country where no more than 10% comprehend English.
“Bykea is one of the few internet businesses offering an interface in the Urdu language and we drive our competitive advantage from being highly localised. This approach has helped us become the preferred partner for part-time motorbike gig workers. Our brand is now widely used as a verb for bike taxi and 30-minute deliveries, and the fresh capital allows us to expand our network to solidify our leading position” said Muneeb Maayr.
The three cities Bykea operates in, Karachi, Rawalpindi and Lahore, have a combined population of 30 million people. Public transportation is underserved in all three cities, but these urban centres drive the economy of the fifth most populous country in the world.
Motorbikes are the rails for distributors, couriers, e-commerce retailers and restaurants to move goods and collect receivables, almost entirely in cash in one of the least banked countries in the world. With 17 million two-wheelers in Pakistan; four times the number of cars; Bykea offers millions of people the chance to earn an income by tapping into the tremendous opportunity in the country for both transport and hyper-local commerce.
Muneeb told Profit that Bykea is on its way to becoming the super-app that it intends to be, but reiterated that bike-taxi service will always remain the core of the company.
“Pakistan is primed to experience extremely strong growth in internet services over the next decade, with a rapidly increasing middle class. This growth provides immense opportunity for companies like Bykea that are transforming big societal needs like transportation, logistics and payments through a technology-enabled platform. Bykea has already seen impressive traction in the country and with our investment will be able to execute further on their vision to become Pakistan’s ‘Super-App’,” said Prosus Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Fahad Beg.
Commenting on the investment, Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar said that the investment is an important development for tech businesses in Pakistan and wished Bykea a successful future, with hopes that more such investments will also follow.
The Bykea deal is momentous for Pakistan’s startup ecosystem. Naspers’ experiment in Pakistan with Bykea would lure in other global technology investors of the same size and stature for instance SoftBank and Sequoia, to come and lead hefty rounds by Pakistani startups. It is also a test for the Bykea team to continue its growth trajectory and maintain the confidence of big investors in the world to invest further in Pakistan, a challenge that Muneeb says he understands and is ready to take on.


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Regardless of how you felt about Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, you’re most likely going to watch it again someday, right? That’s just kind of how Star Wars movies work. It’s virtually impossible to watch them only once (unless we’re talking about the prequels, which some people would probably recommend watching a negative number of times if at all possible).
Anyway, one of the most convenient ways to watch any of the Star Wars movies is on Disney Plus. If you have a subscription to the streaming service, you also have access to pretty much every Star Wars-related movie and TV show ever — but not The Rise of Skywalker. Now, that can’t come as much of a surprise. It came out pretty recently, after all. Don’t worry, though. The Rise of Skywalker is coming to Disney Plus — but when?
When will ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ come to Disney Plus?
After Frozen 2 dropped on the streaming platform early, Disney set a precedent of releasing material on the platform to help families cope with being cooped up thanks to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
They continued to prove that they would help families struggling to stay entertained by promising to release Pixar's latest film, Onward, on the streaming service. Although the film was only released in theaters on March 6, it struggled greatly at the box office. To make matters worse, most states began issuing shelter-in-place orders just few short weeks after it came out, forcing theaters to close. In order to allow fans to actually see the movie, Disney opted to release it on Disney Plus. It dropped on April 3.
It looks like Disney is continuing this trend of releasing films early on Disney Plus while we're all facing shelter-in-place orders. In honor of the very important Star Wars holiday, May the Fourth, Rise of Skywalker is coming to Disney Plus. It will be dropped the day of the holiday, allowing you to spend the day binge watching all your favorite films.
‘The Rise of Skywalker’ isn’t the only ‘Star Wars’ movie missing from the Disney Plus lineup.
There are at least two Star Wars films that haven’t made it to Disney Plus. Solo: A Star Wars Story came out all the way back in 2018 and it’s still missing from the Disney Plus lineup. That’s because it’s still only on Netflix. Solo is set to join the Disney Plus lineup with the rest of its Star Wars family on July 9, 2020 and that date doesn't look like it's changing.
But we can all agree that the true glaring omission from the Star Wars Disney Plus lineup is the Star Wars Holiday Special. This bizarre mistake of a movie aired once on CBS in 1978 and then was never seen again. At least, not on TV. Enterprising padawans can still find it on YouTube, but we can’t say we recommend the endeavor.
So, while The Rise of Skywalker will be on Disney Plus on May 4, 2020, we will probably never, ever see the holiday special on the streaming service. What a bummer.


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In China, middle class consumers regularly use social media to share consumption experiences. The numbers are staggering, and not simply because of China’s population of 1.3 billion people. The country has 618 million internet users, but 625 million active social media users (thanks to mobile use by 1.24 billion Chinese).
You’ve probably heard of China’s two big social media platforms, WeChat (Weixin) and Sina Weibo, with 355 million and 129 million users. A survey of China’s middle class consumers found that 63% of respondents agreed with the statement, “I believe in products recommended by people I follow on Weibo and WeChat and am interested in giving them a try.”
While you might think China’s social commerce experience is just like the social commerce experience in America, only scaled up for a larger population, you’d be mistaken. There are critical differences in social commerce in China and social commerce in the West – differences American companies can learn from.
Chinese Social Media Users Favor Content Creation Over Content Consumption
Whereas in the US, social media users are mostly content consumers, Chinese internet users are content creators, and influential ones at that. The sheer size of China coupled with small families drives more adults to use social media to interact with trusted friends and family. In China, around three-quarters of all internet users post purchase feedback at least once a month, compared to less than 20% of US internet users, so it’s easy to see how big a deal social commerce is in China.
Commerce and Social Media Have Been More Tightly Coupled in China than in the West
The rise of the middle class and its immense purchasing power in China has proceeded simultaneously with the rise of social media there. By contrast, in the US, there is a generation gap between those with maximum purchasing power and avid social media users. That means that in China, the confluence of those spending money online and those spending time on social media is far more dramatic than the intersection of those two populations in the US.
Why Weibo Is Such a Huge Shopping and Social Platform in China
Weibo is the top social app in the world, and an astonishing 82% of Weibo users shopped online during the third quarter of 2014. Weibo had 167 million monthly active users as of the end of September, 2014, a year-over-year increase of 36%. Most social media users in China shop online more than three times in a given month. Moreover, the biggest Weibo users are in the 20 to 35 age group, which coincides with the demographic with the greatest consumption capability.
Now let’s look at the figures for Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and Pinterest users and their habits. Sixty-nine percent of Facebook users purchased a product online in the third quarter of 2014, with 77% searching online for products or services. The figures were 73% and 79% for Google+ users, 73% and 79% for Twitter users as well, and 72% and 75% of Pinterest users. So in China, you have a higher percentage of social media users engaged in social commerce, coupled with a larger overall population, so the influence of social commerce is clearly significant.
Lessons US Brands Can Take from China’s Social Commerce Prominence
For those selling products in China, delivering social commerce is expected in order to have a strong social media presence. Social media simply as an advertising platform isn’t how it’s done. US companies can take a cue from this model, and most already know that continually using Facebook to push products alienates today’s savvy social media users. Whether or not Facebook succeeds in transforming an instant messaging app into something comparable to WeChat remains to be seen. Regardless, US social commerce can put a few lessons to work.
First use your digital properties for brand building rather than just advertising. That means using social interactions to encourage user-generated content, which serves as social commerce “proof” of the value of your brand. Second, if you haven’t already, you need to prepare your business for social commerce everywhere. In the future, social commerce won’t necessarily be a separate entity from commerce in general, and the best brands will integrate brand building, social media, and social commerce into seamless experiences that meet consumers wherever they are.
Mastering social commerce may require you to break down silos within your organization so everyone can share new criteria for success focusing on the needs of the consumer. China’s parallel rise of its middle class and its social media have worked out amazingly well for brands there, and companies elsewhere can learn from China’s social commerce experiences.


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Bitcoin crash”! The history of the biggest scam to collapse, a one trillion years of evaporation during this week recently, our big boss of virtual currency bitcoin has embarked on a crash mode, is falling down. We are also in the bankruptcy of the speculators farther and farther down the road, it is everywhere. Some netizens even said they had the highest value when bitcoin has invested thousands of yuan, up to now, thousands of Yuan had invested more than 2000 just now.
While bitcoin in this week’s big drop also make a lot of people are desperate, there are a lot of people have decided to leave. But the more senior game player said he had a loss of more than eighty-five percent, declared bankruptcy. The peak of the bitcoin a $19 thousand, up to now a $4000 bitcoin. It can be said directly fell several times. In this era, what does not earn steady pay it? Maybe no one knows.
In recent years, we made rich virtual currency can be said to be in the world of business history is not simply. But in the past few years began to wear the bitcoin currency a villa in the last year is so many people crazy. Many people in bitcoin last year peak of the non-stop to buy buy. But today the clearance. We had to sigh the ecological Yanliang time.
While this game bitcoin can be said to be very crazy, but his start and end for now people who are unable to imagine a thing. Who can think of a virtual currency can be turned in seven years or four million times crazy? Who can think of bitcoin is a bubble tragedy much for economic history? Behind this game, is not a hoax behind or at the time of the nnocently people know how much the currency no one knows, but it is a bubble in human history is the history of the largest one.
If the property market is the most crazy place, but the ratio of bitcoin or worse a lot, because even if the property market in the crazy, just doubled up even in a few years. But no one knows exactly how much value this virtual currency, so this is an outlet for people to gamble all of the rich, many people afraid of their own miss this chance to become rich.
In the last year, when bitcoin peak, a RMB $20000 in wealth creation myth. According to U.S. media reports, at the time Chinese bitcoin has the largest number of people is to lie. Because Lee revealed his hand to his owner at least six digit bitcoin. And we are in accordance with the minimum of six digits one hundred thousand to calculate, then Li Xiaolai can be said to be more than ten billion of the net worth.
But to Xiao Bian, the economy is just bubble will eventually disappear in the world. Now we know this is probably a huge scam, up to now, how much profit in this scam is not how many people know, because people are very low-key currency speculation. No one knows their worth. No one knows who they are. But in this game, how many people came a cropper also nobody knows, because it is a group of a group of people doing up billions of dollars of net worth.


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Bitcoin Fraud and Scams.
Do you know what is a bitcoin ? BitCoin is a revolutionary digital currency with the potential to take over all the other national currencies and establish itself as the global currency. But there are certain aspects of this new form of currency which stops many people from using it. The origin of this currency is still under dark shadows. No one knows who its actual developer was. Only speculations can be made about how its algorithm was developed. The known developer of BitCoins is Satoshi Nakamoto which is a pseudo name.
The currency is not regulated and anyone can use it to make a transaction worldwide. The currency is also a threat in many ways because of the possibility of money laundering and other illegal activities that can be done using BitCoins. The transactions of BitCoins do not leave any traces which means that it is very difficult to track down a transaction made via bitcoin wallet.
BitCoin system has some weaknesses which can be exploited by hackers. Recently a very powerful BitCoin exchange company Mt. Gox suffered huge losses and had to file for bankruptcy protection due to one such weakness of the system. The company claimed that it lost nearly 850,000 Bitcoinsthat was worth $477 million due to a weakness of the system. Mt. Gox happened to be the most influential company for exchange of BitCoins to various other currencies in a secure and reliable manner. It the claims of the company are to be believed, BitCoins are under constant threat of scams and frauds.
Follow the right BitCoin rules and you will avoid scams option
BitCoins are stored online in e-wallets. Most of the experts believe that if you follow the rules of transactions of BitCoins, there is no way you can be scammed. However, if you try something different based on trust on some person you met online and whom you don’t even know, you are flirting with danger. Something similar happened with JamieRussell, a Wisconsin man, who lost about $150000 after trying to exchange a part of his digital currency balance with physical bitcoin tokens.
Russell had been investing in BitCoins since it was trading at a price level of $5. After transferring the BitCoins, Russell was cut off from any sort of communication by the scammer. The matter was reported to the police but as mentioned earlier it is very difficult to link BitCoin transactions to a real person.
Another case of BitCoin fraud came up in Canada where an online BitCoin bank named Flexcoin suffered a loss of about $600,000. The company claimed it was attacked by a hacker team which took off with a big amount of BitCoins. The company claimed that it was in no position to recover from the attack and had to shut down. The Canadian police is currently looking into the matter.
BitCoin is still in its early phases and its price level has witnessed a lot of fluctuation in the past. Sometimes the price level of one unit of BitCoin has escalated by 50 times in just a few months and sometimes it has fell down to half the peak value in just a month. There are security risks as well. The hacking attacks are a very serious threat. But amid all this BitCoin continues to gain popularity.
Department of Defense to Investigate Bitcoin’s Terrorism Potential
Department of Defense to Investigate Bitcoin’s Terrorism Potential, BitCoins can be used to make anonymous transactions without the US intelligence not knowing about it.


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According to Editor & Publisher, both the NYT and LAT are denying Nikki Finke’s claim that they’re about to lose a whole lot of movie advertising because their readership is not sufficiently young to appeal to movie studio marketing departments:
In a written statement to E&P, the Los Angeles Times called Finke’s piece “misleading in its description of the state of newspaper readership and of the Los Angeles Times’ value as an advertising vehicle for movie studios.”
The paper then went on to cite a Scarborough Research report that shows that 52% of 18-24 year olds who go to three or more movies a month read the paper weekly. Among 18-24 year olds who usually go to movies on opening weekend, the Los Angeles Times says 43% read the paper each week.
New York Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis told E&P Wednesday that the Times has not felt the cutbacks Finke’s column portends. Furthermore, Mathis said the movie industry views the paper as a trade publication as well as a “highly influential ticket-selling vehicle in New York.” And finally, she said, The Times is increasing selling combined ad packages for print and online — presumably to snag that younger audience.
Well, since Finke portends cutbacks, I’m not sure why the fact that the NYT hasn’t felt them yet disproves her reporting. Anyway, we will see in the coming months if the Finke Prophecy comes into being.


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NEW YORK — Hermès is venturing to the west side of Manhattan today, opening a pop-up shop at the Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle with an omnichannel tie-in.
Coinciding with the launch of the brand’s first app, Silk Knots, the Silk Bar pop-up, will be open through Oct. 31 and will carry scarves — including the Maxi Twilly line introduced last week, which retails for $290; ties, and enamel accessories. This is Hermès’ first Silk Bar in the U.S. The concept had a month-long run in Taipei, Taiwan, this April.
An oval-shaped kiosk located in the lobby of the building will have a “youthful, fun” feel, possessing a “diner aspect,” said Robert Chavez, president and chief executive officer of Hermès USA, in an interview at the company’s 59th Street headquarters here. A retro diner was the inspiration, and an orange neon “Diner” sign that says “Hermès” will be affixed to the front and back of the kiosk.
“This is not like walking into our Madison Avenue store,” Chavez said of the installation, which is intended to give consumers a “sense of urgency” to visit the shop this month. He also said the highly trafficked location will help attract new as well as existing clients who might discover the silk collection in a different way.
A “menu” — or a neon chalkboard — will list the “Daily Silk Specials” and options for sale. According to Hermès senior vice president of communications Peter Malachi, the decor was conceptualized by Bali Barret, women’s universe artistic director at the company, who wanted to “shake up the image of Hermès a little, serving up a more playful and casual atmosphere.”
Consumers are urged to use the Silk Knots app while at the Silk Bar. The app educates shoppers about the brand’s scarves and is comprised of four categories — knotting films, knotting cards, video albums and collection highlights. Users are encouraged to post images of themselves in Hermès scarves.
Chavez called digital “the craftsmanship of the future,” and said 33 percent of the company’s media spend will be devoted to digital next year, up from 10 percent currently. He declined to reveal the firm’s total media spend.
Hermès was relatively early to e-commerce, unveiling a site in 2002 that sold scarves, ties and enamel accessories. The digital flagship added apparel two years ago, except for runway and editorial pieces.
Of all the brick-and-mortar locations in the U.S. — 27 boutiques spanning 16 states — the e-commerce site saw the company’s best increase in terms of sales last year.
“What the Web site did for business was open the door to millions of people,” Chavez said. “A year after it launched [in 2003], we were already shipping to all 50 states.”
Breaking News: @louisvuitton's men's artistic director @mrkimjones is leaving the French fashion house after nearly 7 years. Jones joined Louis Vuitton in 2011, following a three year tenure as creative director of British luxury goods brand Alfred Dunhill. Jones is to exit Louis Vuitton after showing his fall 2018 collection for the brand in Paris on Thursday. Read the full exclusive story on WWD.com. Link in bio. #wwdnews #wwdfashion
For men’s fall 2018, @giuseppezanotti drew on elements from streetwear, sport, biker, combat and rock ‘n’ roll. Pictured here are a pair of shoes from the collection, featuring zippers, rhinestones, and silver hardware. Head to WWD.com to see a roundup of the accessories from Milan’s men’s fall 2018 shows. #wwdfashion (📷: Andrea Delb)
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of @ralphlauren’s snowboarding collection, the brand is mining its archives. The iconic brand is reintroducing vintage styles and dropping new designs for a color capsule that will be available in Ralph Lauren stores and @openingceremony on January 25. The capsule will consist of 10 pieces, including the Snow Beach Pullover, pictured here, which is a collector’s item that rapper Raekwon wore in Wu-Tang Clan’s “Can It Be All So Simple” video. #wwdfashion (📷: Tom Gould)
For @rochasofficial’s pre-fall 2018 collection, creative director Alessandro Dell’Acqua channeled the sophisticated and intriguing Catherine Denevue in the film “Belle de Jour.” Polished collarless coats, midi skirts, suits and ’60s graphic motifs were all featured in the collection, adding a sense of discreet luxury. See the rest of the photos on WWD.com #wwdfashion
“We tried to produce clothing of that couture quality, but the most daunting part was that we only had a matter of days [to do it],” said costume designer Lou Eyrich, who recreated Gianni Versace’s iconic looks for @americancrimestoryfx. Eyrich searched online retailers and vintage shops for original pieces from the design house and for @penelopecruzoficial, who plays Donatella Versace. Head to WWD.com to read how she created the Versace world. #wwdfashion
Only three months after her stellar debut catwalk season, @kaiagerber has inked her first big design collaboration –– with @karllagerfeld. The collection blends Lagerfeld’s Parisian chic aesthetic and the model’s signature West Coast casual style via RTW, accessories, footwear and more. The #KarlLagerfeldxKaia collection will launch in September with a series of events. Get all the details on WWD.com. #wwdnews #wwdfashion
Harrods plans to remove the famous statue of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed from the bottom of the Egyptian escalators and hand it back to Mohamed Al-Fayed. “We are very proud to have played our role in celebrating the lives of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed at Harrods and to have welcomed people from around the world to visit the memorial for the past 20 years,” said Michael Ward, Harrods managing director. “With the announcement of the new official memorial statue to Diana, Princess of Wales at Kensington Palace, we feel that the time is right to return this memorial to Mr. Al Fayed and for the public to be invited to pay their respects at the palace.” More on the news, with reporting by @loreleimarfil, at WWD.com. #wwdnews


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-Los Angeles Times Announces 2012 Travel Show.
Travel Business Review - 15 April 2011
Los Angeles Times Media Group, a US-based media company, has announced that its annual Los Angeles Times Travel Show will be held from January 27 to 29, 2012.
The event will be held at Los Angeles Convention Center. The company will offer a special programme on Trade Day, catering to requirements of travel industry professionals.
Anna Magzanyan, the company vice president, advertiser marketing and events, said, 'We will be undertaking a campaign that puts more than USD2 million of promotional muscle behind the 2012 Travel Show. Exhibitors and sponsors will benefit immensely as we deploy across our print, digital, mobile and direct mail products, as well as TV, radio and outdoor.'
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By Simon Johanson & Carolyn Cummins
In property parlance they're dubbed 'fortress malls'.
They are the large shopping meccas, places like Chadstone in Melbourne's east and Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney, that Australia's big ASX-listed landlords are relying on to ring fence them against mounting retail pressures – falling sales in physical stores, flatlining earnings and online competition.
Landlords are moving swiftly to undertake mixed-use makeovers of these trophy assets, adding cinemas, apartments, hotels and extra shopping space in a bid to create "town centres", boost foot traffic and increase turnover and valuations.
But Citi Bank analysts say the strategy comes with risks and, as a result, have downgraded four pure-play retail landlords to a "sell" recommendation.
Those on the downside list include Charter Hall, BWP Trust, Scentre Group and SCA Property.
"The risk is that shopping centre owners continue to add space at a faster pace than is warranted by tenant demand," Citi's latest Australian Retail Property report says.
The report's authors – Adrian Dark, David Lloyd and Suraj Nebhani – cross-reference data from some of the country's largest retailers to conclude they are not rolling out stores quickly enough to keep pace with the growth in shopping centres.
Space in shopping centres is forecast to grow nearly 300,000 square metres next year.
"Our view is that market space growth needs to slow or the risk of higher vacancy/lower rents will continue to build," they said.
Less than a third of retailers are growing sales at or above a key 4 per cent benchmark. Most report modest growth of 2.8 per cent.
"Only 26 per cent grew sales at or above 4 per cent, the level of rent growth embedded in speciality leases," they said.
A large majority of retailers will face rising occupancy costs over the life of their leases and will seek to reduce rents when their lease expires.
"Feedback on a number of recent development projects highlights the risks of supply out-pacing tenant demand," they said.
It's not a view Vicinity chief executive Grant Kelley supports.
Vicinity is rolling out a mixed-use makeover strategy which this week saw it offload 10 poorer performing centres for $573 million to Woolworths' biggest landlord, SCA Property. Another centre sold to a private investor for $58 million.
Instead, the country's second-largest landlord will concentrate its energy on redeveloping and adding space in key shopping malls such as Melbourne's Northlands, Box Hill in the city's east, Victoria Gardens in Richmond and Sunshine Marketplace in the west, along with Chadstone.
"We see strong sales growth when we get the product right. That is from using the data we collect and offering centres that will get people in, increase dwell times and allow the customer a more valuable experience," Mr Kelley said.
"We are constantly improving the tenant mix and the quality of our retail offer through re-weighting to higher demand."
SCA Property's chief Anthony Mellows characterised the Vicinity centre purchases as a two-year turnaround play.
UBS analysts James Druce and Grant McCasker recently toured the Melbourne malls Vicinity has targeted for future development and mixed use opportunities.
"We walked away incrementally more positive with greater comfort Melbourne retail should remain resilient," they said.
Population growth was key to underpinning the business case to expand the centres. Vicinity's mixed-use opportunities were large and demand driven.
"The market does not look to be pricing in any value for mixed use or redevelopments," they said.
The group's value add efforts had a potential $1 billion upside, UBS maintains.


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The audit was carried out by DB specialists, who reviewed the quality management system at UWC, as well as the UWC-owned All-Union Research and Development Centre for Transport Technology (VNICTT) and the Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant (TVSZ).
UWC says the audit covered more than 20 aspects of UWC’s business, including the processes used for the design and production of new freight wagon models, quality assurance, warranty, and service maintenance. The final score was calculated as the sum of scores for all criteria based on a 100-point scale and was presented as a 360-degree chart. The holding company received scores in a range from 90 to 100 points on 18 counts and from 80 to 90 points on five counts.
TVSZ also passed certification to European standard in an audit carried out by TÜV Rheinland. UWC says employees at TVSZ underwent additional training to prepare for the certification, which included welding, non-destructive testing and the quality management system.
UWC says its status as a Q2 supplier to DB and the welding certification create promising new opportunities on the European market.
“We view DB as a strategic partner and look forward to successful cooperation,” says Mr Maxim Kuzemchenko, deputy CEO for business development at UWC. “We hope that DB’s assessment will serve as a signal to the whole of the European market. UWC is now the only freight wagon manufacturer outside the European Union which has the right to supply wagons to companies in Europe."
“DB has been seeking partners that meet our criteria in terms of quality, security of supplies and pricing policy all over the world,” says DB quality engineer, Mr Jens Baselt. “The audit conducted at UWC lets us expand our pool of potential vendors of freight wagons and their components. During the audit, we saw a highly motivated company with modern advanced infrastructure.”


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How have sours evolved from a niche product to a must-have in many breweries’ portfolios?
Four Australian brewers won medals at the UK’s International Brewing and Cider Awards.
South Australian barley grower AG Schilling decides to brew its own beer.
Gage Roads aims to open a brewery and taproom in Redfern in the next year.
The first beers from the new brand Fathom will be showcased at Brewsvegas.
Burleigh Bock won Grand Champion Beer at the Royal Queensland Food & Wine Show.
The decision means 25 million fewer rings will enter the environment each year.
The core range names have been inspired by adventurous activities in the High Country.
The Port Adelaide brewery will feature a 22-yard main bar, as well as a barbershop.
Black Hops has officially opened its second brewery and taproom – Black Hops II.
Modus launches a new core range beer and moves that core range into 375ml cans.
Brewmanity’s Beer March kicks off on Saturday with an event at Beer Fest.
Dainton Brewery is planning to open a second taphouse and a barrel-ageing program.
Two Birds Brewing’s Danielle Allen is a state finalist in the Telstra Business Women’s Awards.
The opening was attended by Noosa MP Sandy Bolton and mayor of Noosa Tony Wellington.
Manly Warringah Sea Eagles fan opens Beaver Brewery in Darwin’s Coconut Grove.
The crowdfunding campaign raised over $1.2 million for the brewery’s expansion plans.
Economic researchers have put a dollar figure on the economic contribution of beer in NZ.
The female-led brewery will officially launch the brewpub on International Women’s Day.
Collaborative brews with Lagunitas, Stone and Salt Brewery will be brewed again.
New beers from Modus, 4 Pines, BentSpoke, Balter, Hemingway’s, Stomping Ground, Pirate Life and more.
The solar installation will deliver nearly 40% of 4 Pines’ current electricity needs at Brookvale.
Sales increases in first half to the financial year have ‘provided a strong foundation’.
Foghorn Brewhouse will now be selling its beers in draft to local venues.


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Catch up on the week’s top headlines in just two minutes, including an exclusive interview with SunPower CEO Tom Werner, multiple new fab announcements and all the latest in the solar trade disputes.
PV Tech’s publisher Solar Media is pleased to announce the launch of a new site for the UK market: Next Energy News.
The week was bookended by two developments in the US-China trade dispute, with yield co-fuelled optimism in the middle and a debate on future of solar market royalty thrown in for good measure.
Previously confined to the R&D labs and academic solar PV roadmaps, PERC based c-Si cell capacity upgrades are starting to have a tangible impact on the PV industry. Finlay Colville investigates the drivers, myths, opportunities and the impact of PERC on PV capex and module performance.
Last week, nv vogt, a joint venture between Germany’s ib vogt and India’s APCA Power, announced it is to build an unsubsidised 6.25MW solar power plant in the Philippines. Talking to PV Tech, its managing director, Deepak Verma, reveals why the Philippines is seeing the beginnings of a ‘solar wave’.
From a simmering row brewing over US trade duties to the varying fortunes of two industry heavyweights, PV Tech reviews the week in solar.
The trade wars that have convulsed solar in recent years ultimately help no one. Ben Willis assesses the prospects for a permanent solution to a problem that has become a thorn in the industry’s side.
Although the dust has yet to truly settle on the second US anti-dumping investigation and the preliminary findings, mainstream media and financial analysts are already undertaking a post mortem and trying to pick the winners and losers.
Olivier Schäfer, president of the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA), tells PV Tech how a proposed global PV association, with Chinese and American participation, could help ease the sector’s trade disputes.
A BRICS development bank agreed last week has been hailed as a potentially important new source of funding for solar. But as Lucy Woods writes, the BRICS nations will have to overcome some significant internal tensions first.


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Logitech released the Logitech G Pro mechanical gaming keyboard back in 2017. Built with esports athletes in mind, the keyboard contained features players wanted and removed those they didn’t. Its main features included […]
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I’m a big fan of Logitech’s G-series gaming keyboards. The Logitech G512 is among my personal favorites. For the past week, I’ve had the chance to test out the new Logitech G915 Lightspeed […]
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This story is part of Amazon Prime Day, CNET’s guide to everything you need to know and how to find the best deals.
Short answer: Yes. If you’re looking to buy your first printer or to add to the printers you have, Amazon’s second Prime Day of the year is the time to do it. There are a lot of deals available for a lot of different companies and all of them benefit you.
While there are always budget options for 3D printers, Amazon’s Prime Day — Tuesday and Wednesday this week — is the best time for you to jump into the hobby. Major brands like Elegoo, Anycubic and FlashForge often have significant savings on the most popular printers as well as big discounts on the stock they’re trying to clear.
While there are some generous discounts on Prime Day, make sure the savings you are getting are real. More than one company raises its prices on or just before Prime Day just to reduce it back down and call it “savings.” It’s a dirty practice but one we’re constantly aware of.
In addition to making recommendations, we track the prices of these products as well in order to offer the best advice for Prime Day. Our 3D printer deals page will have the latest deals, so keep your eyes out this week.
Which 3D printer should you buy?
There are a lot of major 3D printer brands that will likely cut prices this Prime Day, and which model you buy will depend on what type of 3D printer you need. Most of the sales will center around the more common FDM printers — these create 3D prints from rolls of plastic filament, rather than liquid resin — so you’ll see the biggest discounts there.
Anycubic has recently announced an all-new lineup, so we can expect its older models like the Anycubic Vyper to have a good sales price this year, along with its older Mega series. The Vyper is one of CNET’s favorite printers and is currently on top for the best 3D printer of 2022, so any discount on that will be worth your time.


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Prague-based localisation and translation software provider Phrase has secured a debt funding facility of €12 million from CIBC Innovation Banking. The funding will be used by Phrase to further develop the next generation of AI-driven language tech.
“We are delighted to be supporting Phrase as their software platform continues to evolve. They saw a clear need from global businesses for localisation services and have capitalised by creating a platform that makes the entire process easier and more seamless. The CIBC Innovation Banking team is looking forward to supporting Phrase on their next stage of growth,” says Sean Duffy, Managing Director of CIBC Innovation Banking’s European office.
Around since 2010, the software firm which provides localisation and translation services to companies and brands across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and North America has now grown to 300 employees and cites the US as its major growth market.
“CIBC Innovation Banking’s financing will help us take our localisation technology to the next level as the latest innovations in AI and machine learning continue to take off. Our business has seen tremendous growth as we’ve delivered on supporting our global clients at scale via the ease of use and connectivity our platform provides, and this investment will allow us to capitalise on the high-growth AI market,” says Georg Ell, Phrase CEO.


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Sainsbury’s has become the first UK retailer to sell single origin from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Limited edition medium roast Sopacdi Fairtrade Ground Coffee is available in selected stores as part of the Taste the Difference range from 14 July 2013, priced at £3.49.
As part of a three-year project supported by the Department for International Development’s Food Retail Industry Challenge Fund (FRICH) and Comic Relief, Sainsbury’s entered into a partnership with the Sopacdi coffee cooperative, the roasters Finlays, and Twin, the ethical trading organisation working with smallholder farming groups in the developing world. By bringing this wealth of industry expertise together, Sopacdi has benefited from training and new facilities to improve quality, as well as support to become the country’s first ever Fairtrade certified cooperative.
The income from the stylishly packaged premium grade coffee will help Sopacdi deliver social projects to benefit the whole community and support ongoing efforts to improve quality. An extra 2 cents/lb on the sale of all coffee by Sopacdi supports female empowerment programmes and has so far contributed around $15,000 to support a women’s committee and small business ventures run by women.
Cecile Batumike, Sopacdi member, said: “I had to bribe the police to be able to cross to Rwanda by boat. I saw boats sink because the waves were huge. Many people in my village died that way leaving their children orphans and without any kind of assistance. With the income from the sale of our coffee, we are now able to send our children to school, we are able to feed our families and we are proud to know that our coffee is being sold in the international market.
Building on these successes, last year Sainsbury’s kicked off a second FRICH project in partnership with Finlays and Twin to continue supporting Sopacdi alongside a second Congolese coffee cooperative, Muungano.
Sopacdi Fairtrade Ground Coffee is not just a must-have for discerning coffee lovers; behind the subtle grapefruit and cherry flavours and hint of bright citrus is an inspiring story of triumph over adversity in a war ravaged country. The extraordinary beauty of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) eastern highlands provides fertile volcanic soils, rainforests and altitudes ideal for premium grade Arabica coffee. Despite these natural riches, the DRC’s coffee industry all but died out following the decade-long civil war sparked by the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
Many coffee growers were forced to abandon their farms to flee the violence. Those who remained had little choice but to smuggle their harvest across the giant Lake Kivu into neighbouring Rwanda, thousands drowning in the attempt. This tragedy, in combination with the conflict, left countless coffee widows in its wake struggling to support their families.In the face of these extremely challenging circumstances, the Sopcadi coffee cooperative set out to deliver better livelihoods for farmers and develop a premium grade coffee through a unique collaboration.


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There could be another dairy health scare brewing in China and this one starts in our backyard.
Displaying items by tag: Milk prices
Fonterra has for the first time passed all its forecast milk price rise to its cash-strapped farmer suppliers.
Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd increased its 2016/17 forecast farmgate milk price by 50 cents to $5.25/kgMS.
“A super start to spring” is how Rabobank dairy analyst Emma Higgins describes the third consecutive significant rise on the Global Dairy Trade (GDT) event platform.
Cheese prices have fallen to their lowest level in almost nine years in the local market, with overall food prices dragged down by cheaper dairy products.


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Instead of Black Friday Shopping, DNR Invites Hoosiers to #OptOutside
(INDIANAPOLIS) - Indiana's state parks are offering you a break from Black Friday shopping:
You can get in free today at any state park by downloading a coupon from the state parks Facebook page. It's part of the "Opt Outside" Black Friday promotion begun two years ago by outdoor-gear chain REI. If you pick Pokagon State Park, you can get an extra half hour of tobogganing time if you pay for an hour.
A second coupon will give you 20% off a meal at a state park inn.
The parks will hold a drawing at the end of the day to give away passes for next year and other prizes -- you enter by posting a photo of yourself to the page with the hashtag #OptOutside.
Ginger Murphy with the Department of Natural Resources says it's the second year Indiana's been part of the program. She says it's drawn a strong response -- the first photo was posted by a camper at the Raccoon State Recreation Area in Rockville at five minutes past midnight.
The outdoor-gear chain REI began the campaign the year before, closing its stores for Black Friday and lobbying state parks across the country to join in encouraging people to go outdoors instead.
Indiana Dunes State Park (Photo: Jeffrey Greenberg/UIG via Getty Images)


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Is nothing sacred anymore? Universal password storage service LastPass announced via its blog that a hacking attempt earlier this week potentially accessed its database of sensitive user information – namely, passwords. Still investigating the situation, LastPass announced on Wednesday it will “be paranoid and assume the worst”.
The service assured that users’ who use “strong, non-dictionary based password or pass phrase” should be safe. “Unfortunately not everyone picks a master password that’s immune to brute forcing,” Last Pass said, and advised that all users’ change their master passwords and that the site would be verifying their identities. Unfortunately, that backfired as the site was rushed with traffic from users scrambling to change their passwords and is now implementing an incremental switch to keep things moving.
LastPass admits this “may be an overreaction…but we’d rather be paranoid and slightly inconvenience you than to be even more sorry [sic] later.” And in light of PlayStation’s recent data disaster and alleged mishandling of the situation, overcompensating for the possible intrusion is LastPass’ best bet. The suit lodged against PlayStation claims that the company did not inform its customers of the hack in a timely manner, costing many of them stolen credit cards. CEO Joe Siegrist told PC World he’s extremely doubtful that mass amounts of user data was stolen, but says LastPass will continue to be overly cautious. Siegrist admits it’s more than possible some information was accessed, though he believes only the usernames and passwords to log into LastPass were penetrated, and that passwords stored in LastPass were not.
Siegrist says LastPass is probably acting a little “alarmist,” but is trying to do right by its customers and keep them as up to date on the issue as possible (LastPass’ team has been very responsive via Twitter). He also says the site is rolling out improved encryption standards and making sure users are logging in via familiar IP addresses as an extra precaution. It’s not an enviable position to be in, but it sounds like PlayStation could have taken a play out of LastPass’ book on how to act fast and inform customers on this one.
There are a slew of password storage sites online – Passpack, KeePass, Agatra – and if you’re a user, it’s time to strengthen your password’s security. You might hear these tips (and possibly disregard them) all the time, but a subtle reminder never hurts:
- Don’t limit yourself to common phrases. Use as much of the keyboard as possible.
- Use as many characters – and numbers – as allowed.
- Use both upper and lowercase characters.
- If you can use symbols, do.
- Many sites will notify you as to how strong your password is, but if you want an outside opinion, run it through Microsoft’s or HowSecureIsMyPassword’s verifiers.
- Don’t use personal information. This can’t be stressed enough.
- Dictionary words are easy to crack.
- Repetition is bad, as are easy to identify patterns (sequential numbers, QWERTY, repeated letters).
- LastPass reveals how it got hacked — and it’s not good news
- Hackers dug deep in the massive LastPass security breach
- Hackers just stole LastPass data, but your passwords are safe
- LastPass is scaling back its free tier. Find out if you need to pay
- Leaving LastPass? Here’s how to take all your passwords with you


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Francis Bacon's Figure Writing Reflected in Mirror has sold for $44.9m at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York, up 12.2% on its $40m high estimate.
The striking work, produced in 1976, features a depiction of Bacon and his lover George Dyer as a single figure.
First exhibited at Bacon's Paris exhibition in 1977, it was bought by the consignor directly from the exhibition, and had remained away from public view in the same private collection for more than 30 years.
Described as a "very, very serious painting" by Sotheby's worldwide head of contemporary art, Tobias Meyer, in the UK's Guardian newspaper, the piece is the most important work by Bacon to appear on the market since the sale of Triptych 1976 in 2008.
In that year Triptych 1976 broke the world record for a post-war painting, selling for $86.3m to the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.
That record was broken earlier this week, when Mark Rothko's 1961 work Orange, Red, Yellow sold for $86.9m at Christie's.
Contemporary art is a huge boom area; the sector saw growth of 35% in 2011.
Art critic Scott Reyburn believes art investors opted for safe haven "marque" names last year.
"Collectors sought proven artists for investment [in 2011]," he told Bloomberg. It appears that buyers are continuing the trend in 2012.
The May 9 auction also featured the $37.0m sale of Andy Warhol's Double Elvis [Ferus Type].


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Ford’s 1.0-liter EcoBoost three-cylinder engine has been named 2014 International Engine of the Year for an unprecedented third consecutive year. The tiny engine, which is already available in the Fiesta and coming soon to the Focus, managed to beat designs from the likes of Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes-AMG and was picked because of its driveability, performance, economy, refinement and technology.
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With an engine block small enough to fit in the overhead luggage compartment of an airplane, the 1.0-liter features a cylinder head with an integrated and cooled exhaust manifold that lowers exhaust temperatures for optimizing the fuel-to-air ratio. An innovative flywheel and front pulley design delivers improved refinement, while a compact, low-inertia turbocharger spins at up to 248,000 rpm—more than 4,000 times per second and almost twice the maximum rpm of the turbochargers used in the 2014 Formula One World Championship.
Speaking of Formula One, the sport's stalwart Ferrari this year took out the Performance Engine of the Year title, with the award going to 4.5-liter V-8 fitted to the 458 Speciale. The engine also took out the award for engines with displacement of 4.0-liters and above. This was the fourth year running a Ferrari engine has triumphed in the two categories.
Ferrari 4.5-liter V-8 gasoline engine
The international judging panel, which includes journalists from 35 nations, and all praised the Ferrari V-8’s unassailable blend of sophisticated engineering, power, throttle response, precision, performance and efficiency along with its peerless soundtrack. Sadly, the engine is expected to be the last naturally aspirated V-8 fitted to a Ferrari road car. An updated 458 is coming next year and is expected to pack a turbocharged V-8.
Interestingly, this year’s award saw the inclusion of an electric powertrain: the powertrain of the Tesla Model S. The setup saw Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] take home the award for Green Engine of the Year.
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Today the resident Android Geek at the Computerworld blog, JR Raphael, updated the Android 4.0 Upgrade List. Android 4.0? Yes. Back in late October Google unveiled Android 4.0 under the name Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Here’s a little bit about it from JR:
Android 4.0 introduces the biggest changes Google’s mobile platform has seen since the days of Froyo. The new OS delivers a sleek new design with layers of polish and loads of tasty fresh features.
The new OS has a fresh design with tons of new features like scrollable and resizable widgets, a new photo app with panoramic picture capability and no shutter lag so you can rapidly shoot pictures back to back, and new facial recognition biometric security so you can unlock your phone with your face! Those are just a few of the exciting new features. You can learn about even more of them at https://blogs.computerworld.com/19130/android_ice_cream_sandwich_10_reasons_to_be_excited.
So if you’re wondering now if your smart phone or tablet will get the Android 4.0 upgrade, you can visit the Computerworld Blog for an exhaustive and evolving list of everything they know about Ice Cream Sandwich, broken down by device.
You can see the full list of devices that have (or will) received Ice Cream Sandwich and read the full article I referenced above at: https://blogs.computerworld.com/19341/android_40_upgrade_list.


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Blog: Industry challenges and opportunities
Leonie Barrie | 9 April 2013
Always a good barometer of the latest challenges and opportunities facing the apparel industry and its supply chain, this year's Prime Source Forum in Hong Kong was no exception.
The over-riding message was that apparel sourcing has finally reached a critical turning point. Instead of continuing to chase the lowest costs around the globe, the industry focus is now shifting to collaboration between retailers and their vendors, and the creation of an integrated value chain.
There was also a growing awareness that the supply chain can contribute to improved efficiency and a competitive edge - and a call for the industry to collaborate when it comes to navigating the complicated mix of legal requirements, standards and certification schemes for managing chemicals.
Following its recent acquisition of Warnaco, apparel giant PVH has spoken about the lack of investment at the company. While there has been significant growth within Warnaco, largely driven by acquisitions of franchisees and licensees, a lot of those acquisitions weren't fully integrated into the business, it says.
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When Blue Apron filed for an initial public offering, market watchers including Jim Cramer thought the increasingly popular, tech-oriented meal kit service would blow investors away.
“That’s why the Blue Apron IPO was one of the most eagerly anticipated deals of the year. It seemed like investors were practically salivating for this one,” the “Mad Money” host said. “Yet the actual IPO, it’s been a total bust from start to finish, and, fairly or unfairly, its weakness is giving other digital startups a bad name.”
So Cramer decided to look into what the botched IPO means for both the IPO market and other venture-capital-backed tech-related startups interested in going public, especially considering how promising Blue Apron seemed before it came to the public market.
After all, Blue Apron is more than just a delivery service. The company gathers data to predict what its customers will want next, and its direct-to-consumer model lets it deliver highly perishable products fresh while giving customers deals and making more money.
Blue Apron’s financials were also notably strong. The company doubled its year-over-year revenue from $340 in 2015 to $795 million in 2016, with revenue growth of 133 percent last year.
Its gross margin, or what Blue Apron makes after subtracting the cost of goods sold, also grew by the high double digits in 2015 and 2016. But in 2017, both revenue and gross margin growth slowed dramatically — gross margins actually declined in the first quarter to 31.2 percent.
“For ages, this company’s fabulous margins were what made it stand out from traditional grocers, where the margins are razor-thin and continue to be pressured by ruinous competition every day. Yet now, Blue Apron’s margins are getting worse, too, and we’ve got to wonder if they may have peaked last year,” when they were 33 percent, Cramer said.
The main problem Blue Apron faces is a crowd of competing meal kit services including Plated, HelloFresh and Munchery, all of which threaten the newly public company’s profits.
But they are not the only threat. As Blue Apron’s business grows, the costs of marketing, products, technology, and other expenses grow with it.
That settled in when the company’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA, were lower in the first quarter of 2017 than the were in the last two full years combined.
“It’s unsustainable,” Cramer said. “As long as its costs keep rising faster than its sales, it’s hard to see how Blue Apron can become profitable, but if they cut back on their spending? Jeez, then the competition might steamroll them.”
While the situation for Blue Apron seems grim, Cramer did not want to tie it too closely to the IPO market for tech companies, specifically. He did not see its problems as emblematic of struggles in tech, but rather, as a symptom of problems in the grocery space.
“Here’s the bottom line: don’t freak out about Blue Apron. This is a company that came public too late, too late to cash in on the period of insane growth,” Cramer said. “It probably should’ve IPO’d a year ago if it wanted to get a better valuation. Could it be worth owning at some level? Look, I’m concerned about what Blue Apron’s first quarter out of the gate as a public company might look like, so my advice to you here is to stay on the sidelines for now and be patient. Maybe they can get the problems under control and you can swoop in at a lower level. Maybe.”
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There are here are a number of ways you can help those affected by Hurricane Harvey here at home.
Volunteers at the Central Texas food bank spent Tuesday morning packing hygiene kits to send to thousands taking shelter in Lake Conroe, north of Houston.
"This morning we shipped approximately 24,000 pounds of protein to San Antonio to help them. We've agreed to take in five emergency truckloads of supplies for Houston and store them here till they're in a position they can store and accept them themselves,” said CEO Derrick Chubbs.
Food bank CEO Derrick Chubbs is asking for financial donations, ready-to-eat food and volunteers to sort the items.
To help, click here: www.centraltexasfoodbank.org/
In East Austin donations poured into the Austin Disaster Relief Network's thrift store.
"As we started to hear about shelters opening in town we wanted to make sure the people when they arrive in Austin had stuff because it seem like they were coming with nothing. Just wanted to do as much as we could,” said Macon Blair.
People pulled up to the receiving dock with cars packed full of supplies. Right now the most critical needs are hygiene kits and cleaning supplies.
"Seeing the people having to have boats come and pick them up and take them out at the house and the destruction they're having to go through just if bringing a box of diapers helps that something simple just trying to help,” said Lee Eddy.
"People are at the end of themselves when they're coming. They're desperate,” said ADRN Founder and Executive Director Daniel Geraci.
Executive director and founder Daniel Geraci said the call center is preparing for up to 40,000 to reach out to them for help.
"Just the other day we had over 160 people from Rockport come in and they had nothing but what was on their backs and we're able to give away $17,000 in gift cards along with our emotional and spiritual team pull them out of their trauma and now they're comfortably in a shelter,” said Geraci.
Geraci is in need of financial support and volunteers in addition to thrift store items.
To help, click here: https://adrn.org/
In North Austin, the Austin Diaper Bank is loading trucks full of diapers to send to shelters across the state.
"It's a basic need and they have so many things they're worried about right now. We don't want them to have to worry about diapers,” said Executive Director Holly McDaniel.
To help, click here: www.austindiapers.org/XZlSZ/


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AMD Rembrandt allegedly in production: Ryzen 6000 with Zen 3+ cores and RDNA 2 iGPU could do a "Tiger Lake" on Cezanne
According to Greymon55, who has shared plenty of information pertaining to both Nvidia and AMD in the past, it seems Team Red hasn’t forgotten its legions of supporters in the semiconductor space. While a lot of CPU-related news lately has been about Intel’s upcoming Alder Lake chips, things have been relatively quieter about Zen, RDNA, Navi, Ryzen and the like. AMD fans will certainly be excited to hear that Rembrandt, which is the codename for Ryzen 6000, is allegedly already in mass production. On top of that titillating tidbit, the same source claims “six new products” will be churned out by AMD in the first half of 2022.
If that hasn’t got AMD loyalists feeling giddy, then the supposed makeup of Ryzen 6000 certainly will. Numerous roadmaps and leaked snippets have appropriately painted a majestic portrait of Rembrandt, and the APU series is already looking dangerous for its future Intel and Apple Silicon competitors. Not only will the APUs wield Zen 3+ or Zen 3D microarchitecture in their processing cores, but they will also be able to call on RDNA 2 architecture for graphics duties. Along with expected PCIe4, LPDDR5, and DDR5 support all on a 6 nm manufacturing process, there’s no wonder tech enthusiasts are looking forward to seeing what performances Ryzen 6000 parts will produce.
Interestingly, iGPU performance for Rembrandt is touched upon in one of the responses to Greymon55’s comments, by another prolific tech commenter, davidbepo. The latter source stated “remember when I said TGL iGP was gonna be the best, well this will too, but the margin is a lot bigger”. Intel’s Tiger Lake (11th Gen mobile) chips delivered much-improved iGPU performances over their predecessor Ice Lake counterparts thanks to the presence of Xe “Gen12” architecture. If Rembrandt can pull off similar Tiger Lake-like performance improvements over Cezanne, then along with their formidable Zen 3+ cores on offer the Ryzen 6000 APUs will be mouth-watering prospects.
Rembrandt is already in mass production.— Greymon55 (@greymon55) September 3, 2021
oh, youll love it indeed— davidbepo (big.shittle bad, golden best) (@davidbepo) September 3, 2021
remember when i said TGL iGP was gonna be the best, well this will too, but the margin is a lot bigger


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Even as Uber and Ola have made owning a car an almost non-necessity, a marketplace solely for on demand driver services is slowly catching on.
Zuver, a driver aggregator platform, which operates in Mumbai, Pune and Bengaluru is based on a B2C model where customers can request for drivers for their own cars on an hourly basis.
Zuver follows a 'Pay-Per-Use' model where customers are charged for the first hour and then per minute thereafter, thus saving cash burn for customers.
But with customers opting to give their own cars a miss in favour of hailing an Ola or Uber, how does Zuver ensure its survival, and a healthy one at that?
Sidhanth Mally, cofounder of the firm said, the use cases for both the models are very different and one doesn't affect the other.
"We are ahead of an Ola/Uber because of the crucial factors of comfort of one's own car and the flexibility to make multiple stops. When you make multiple stops or when the duration of a journey crosses an hour, there is no question of an Uber being cheaper," said Mally.
Zuver's confidence is echoed by UrbanClap which also offers Driver-on-Demand as one of the many services on its multi-service platform.
Varun Khaitan, cofounder of UrbanClap, said the platform has only increased in traction since it was launched last year. "The platform is one of the smaller categories for UrbanClap, but is still a successful one," said Khaitan. The platform offers daily local as well as outstation driver services but has hived off the service of monthly driver availability owing to low traction, a service that was available on the platform earlier.
Khaitan maintains that competition from cab aggregators has nothing to do with UrbanClap's decision to hive off the monthly driver hire services. Mally said drivers too are shifting from the aggregator plat forms of Ola/Uber to driver-on-demand platforms on the back of a better value proposition and significantly higher revenue stream.
The five-month-old company claims to have garnered 5,000 transactions per month across the 3 cities it operates in. Rohan Thakkar, joint MD at Hermes Group, one of the investors in Zuver, said investors' bullishness in the space is due to the fact that having a driver has become a necessity rather than a luxury in today's market.
But the exuberance is not the same across the board. Online home services marketplace Timesaverz has had to discontinue its Driver-on-Demand service a few months after its launch due to lack of demand and low revenue traction.