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Delivery is working for Momofuku.
The popular New York restaurant empire just fully launched its delivery-only restaurant, Ando. Six weeks later, demand is high enough that its needs to expand.
The lunchtime menu has been available only to customers in New York's office-heavy Midtown East neighborhood, and only through an iOS mobile app. Ando is launching a web app today to reach new customers.
"If we had a [physical] line out the door, it would be almost four miles long," said Ando General Manager Anoop Pillarisetti, although the company isn't sharing specific numbers. "It's been pretty stunning."
The web app's goal is to make ordering accessible for both desktop and Android users.
Ando makes its food (designed specifically to taste better later, after delivery) in an undisclosed Midtown location. David Chang, the famed Momofuku restaurateur, designed the menu with chef J.J. Basil. Its most popular items are a $12 cheesesteak and $11 fried chicken.
Ando's two main priorities are food and technology. UberRush handles the logistics of delivery. (Ando co-founder Hooman Radfar is an Uber investor, and comes from a tech background.)
Its Midtown-based users are a mix of businesses and individuals. Some already love Momofuku, but others just want food delivered for lunch. The more fanatical customers have posted up in a Midtown Chipotle to order Ando since they live or work outside the small delivery zone, Radfar said.
A bonus for Ando is that it doesn't have to completely win over customers to its app to be a success.
"Where this business is very different than traditional tech-only businesses is that everyone eats," said Radfar, who has invested in Sweetgreen and other restaurant concepts. "We've seen a lot of overlap between us and other folks. People like to eat different things on different days of the week."
So does Ando's success prove the viability of delivery-only concepts?
For Momofuku at least, streamlining its delivery efforts through a focused concept rather than high-end restaurants that were never going to excel at delivery has proven wise.
"If you go to Seamless, it provides you with choice, but most of the food is not designed to hold for delivery," Radfar said.
Making food better when it's delivered is the "last mile of innovation that needs to occur," Radfar said.
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The number of Nepalese ecommerce users started increasingly after the first lockdown that was imposed on March 24,2020. As people were sitting at home, a rising number of consumers started shopping online during the second lockdown which started on April, 2021 and lasted for four months.
Though the markets opened after the stay home orders were withdrawn in September, e-retailer were very successful in retaining their customers and their business did not decline.
Ecommerce entrepreneurs said that demand for online service was high during second lockdown compared to last year because people had become more confidence about the service provided by the retailers. Daraz and Sastodeal are the emerging ecommerce not only in Kathmandu valley but also outside in more than five cities.
The growth of ecommerce is supported by multiple factors like the rising adoption of social commerce, faster and timely delivery and rising adoption of digital payment coupled with greater internet penetration.
According to Nepal Rastra Bank, online transactions in mid-October and mid-November 2021 reached to Rs 4.93 trillion in the same time period last year. The number of transactions also expanded reaching Rs 48.66million during the review period up from Rs 34million transactions previously.
Digital payment entrepreneurs say that digital literacy, digital divide and trust are the major challenges for the industry. “when it comes to trust, it is about behavioural change, as people still believe in cash transactions. But it is a gradual process, and online payments will be growing in the upcoming days”, said Amit Agrawal, director and co-founder of digital wallet service Khalti in an interview this year.
Banks are seen promoting digital payment as it increases efficiency, reduces transaction cost and promote transparency. The inter-bank fund transfer cost decreases. It also saves expenses of printing paper money. It will also help bring transactions under tax system due to transparency, said the central bank.
Internet penetration had reached 116.91% as of mid-November , 2021, up from 80% during the same time in 2020. Fastmoving consumer goods, personal care and grocery items are the key segments driving ecommerce growth, followed by consumers electronic goods, fashion and accessories and wellness.
Though the year 2021 was a growth year from business point of view, it was quite tough time with challenges that the sector faced in many areas.
In the absence of law governing e-commerce, customers have been complaining of being cheated in terms of getting damaged products, getting a product other than they had ordered, price differentials and lack of return and refund policy of sellers.
Maintaining the supply chain and logistics remained major challenges for e-commerce companies. Supply chains were disrupted globally, creating shortages of goods and a hike in prices which affected the market.
E-commerce entrepreneurs says that logistics is one of the biggest challenges for e-commerce, and a huge budget is needed to manage the logistical infrastructure.

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Feds to expand E.coli tests to include 7 strains
WASHINGTON -- For years government officials have tested meat for only one strain of E. coli. Now they will test for seven, a move that will hasten recalls of infected meat.
The meat industry has been required for 17 years to test for the common O157:H7 strain of the pathogen. But other strains of E. coli have increasingly been found in food in recent years, and the federal Centers for Disease Control says other strains cause an estimated 110,000 illnesses annually.
Food safety advocates and meat industry representatives briefed on the decision say the meat companies will begin testing for six additional strains of E. coli in beef trimmings -- parts of the cow that end up in ground beef -- in March and may later expand to ground beef and other meats.
The USDA would not comment but is expected to announce the new tests today.
The meat industry immediately opposed the move, saying it is too expensive to do the tests and there isn't enough benefit.
"USDA will spend millions of dollars testing for these strains instead of using those limited resources toward preventive strategies that are far more effective in ensuring food safety," said James H. Hodges, executive vice president of the American Meat Institute. A spokeswoman said Hodges had been briefed on the plan.
Food safety lawyer and advocate Bill Marler petitioned USDA to ban the six additional strains two years ago.


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Since its launch in 2009, Uber’s business model has sparked controversy across the transportation industry. Taxi drivers from all over the globe have criticized the way Uber operates. After the war of words lingered, drivers decided it was time to take it to the streets. And earlier this week, Polish taxi drivers took aim at the ride-sharing app in a city-wide demonstration.
More than two thousand drivers halted traffic at a startlingly slow rate throughout the city’s capital of Warsaw. Cruising at around 5 mph, the drivers created barricades in the city center region as well as many other populated areas. The upset drivers blared their horns and waved the national flag while blocking many busy intersections. To make matters worse, all this chaos occurred during the morning rush-hour.
The taxi drivers acted out in a response to the lack of regulations Uber has for its drivers. Many cab operators claim the app has an unfair advantage over their companies due to its absence of restrictions. The cab industry has to comply with several laws before employing a driver whereas the procedure with Uber is much less complicated. The Uber drivers don’t work directly for the company; they are private contractors conducting business within their own vehicles. Taxi operators believe Uber benefits from several discrepancies in the hiring process.
Although Uber did not enter Poland until 2014, the service has become an overwhelmingly popular alternative to taxis. The ride-sharing engineer has grown from a Silicon Valley startup project to a $6 billion-dollar industry giant seemingly overnight. The demonstration against Uber in Poland was not the first of its kind though. A similar action was taken by one thousand drivers in Rio de Janeiro two years ago as taxi companies continue to struggle coping with the newfound competition.
After the protest ended at noon, cab drivers hoped their voices had been heard. All they seek is a fair marketplace to compete with Uber before the app completely takes over the industry.


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Pfizer will spend $43 billion to purchase Seagen and deepen its attain into treating most cancers.
The pharmaceutical large mentioned Monday that it’s going to pay $229 in money for every Seagen share.
Bothell, Washington-based Seagen Inc. is a biotech drug developer that focuses on antibody-drug conjugate, or ADC, know-how. Its key merchandise use lab-made proteins referred to as monoclonal antibodies that search out most cancers cells to assist ship a cancer-killing drug whereas sparing surrounding wholesome tissue.
The deal introduced Monday will mix Seagen’s know-how with Pfizer’s scale and energy, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla mentioned in a press release.
Pfizer’s oncology division introduced in $12 billion in income final yr and already consists of therapies for prostate most cancers and the breast most cancers therapy Ibrance.
Seagen, which modified its title from Seattle Genetics in 2020, noticed complete income develop about 25% final yr to just about $2 billion. The firm shaved its loss to $610 million final yr. That’s down from $674 million in 2021.
Seagen’s high vendor, Adcetris, treats lymph system cancers. It introduced in $839 million in gross sales final yr, a 19% improve over the earlier yr.
Aside from Adcetris, Seagen additionally has a take care of Pfizer’s Array BioPharma to develop, make and promote the breast and colorectal most cancers therapy Tukysa. It introduced in $353 million in gross sales final yr.
Seagen additionally noticed gross sales develop 33% to $451 million final yr for Padcev, which treats some cancers of the urinary tract, together with the bladder. The drugmaker is growing and promoting that therapy with Astellas Pharma Inc.
Seagen anticipates producing roughly $2.2 billion of income this yr. That would characterize 12% progress.
Pfizer recorded about $100 billion in complete income final yr and has been flush with money due to gross sales of its COVID-19 vaccine and therapy, Comirnaty and Paxlovid.
Bourla mentioned earlier this yr that the corporate deliberate to make use of its “extraordinary firepower” to purchase merchandise that may ship $25 billion in incremental income by 2030.
New York-based Pfizer Inc. has already spent $11.6 billion on migraine therapy developer Biohaven Pharmaceutical.
It additionally spent $5.4 billion on sickle cell illness therapy maker Global Blood Therapeutics and purchased Arena Pharmaceuticals for an additional $6.7 billion.
Bourla mentioned in January that Pfizer plans to launch 19 new merchandise or new indications for present merchandise over the subsequent yr and a half.
The drugmaker wants extra income sources partly as a result of it faces the expiration of patents defending medicine like Ibrance from cheaper competitors within the coming years.
Pfizer mentioned Monday it’ll pay for the deal principally by means of $31 billion in new, long-term debt.
Both corporations’ boards have unanimously authorised the deal. But regulators nonetheless want to have a look at it, and Seagen shareholders should approve it.
The corporations anticipate to finish the transaction in late 2023 or early 2024.
Shares of Pfizer slipped about 2% to $38.55 earlier than markets opened Monday whereas Seagen’s inventory jumped practically 20% to $206.40.


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30 games are scheduled, including 19 at Jupiter, Florida's Roger Dean Stadium. Action starts with a February 26 exhibition against Florida International University and camp breaks after the March 29 contest against the Florida Marlins.
Once regular play begins on February 28, also against the Marlins, the only scheduled day off for the Cardinals' squad is March 19. At this juncture, no split-squad games have been scheduled, but they could be added later.
One of the highlights of the spring will be home-and-home games against the Minnesota Twins, including a match at Roger Dean on March 8. There are two evening games – one against the Atlanta Braves at the Disney complex on March 16 and another at Dodgertown on the 20th.
As is often the case, nearby teams like the New York Mets, Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Dodgers and Braves make up a majority of the schedule, along with the Marlins, who share the Jupiter complex with the Cardinals.
Roger Dean Stadium season ticket packages are available now at various prices with additional perks, including discounts for orders placed prior to December 15.
Though single-game tickets will not go on sale until January 20, five-game plans will be offered starting the week of December 4. So, don't wait too long to start making your travel plans!
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His Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers Act, H.R. 1030, would require the government to stop using the Consumer Price Index for workers (CPI-W) as it calculates COLAs for Social Security recipients. DeFazio argues that CPI-W takes into account goods and services that working people buy, but does not reflect the mix of goods and services that seniors buy.
That means the COLAs now being used for Social Security are not enough to keep pace with the rising costs of items seniors buy, DeFazio argues.
His bill would create a new "CPI-E" inflation calculation that would include more of the items seniors buy, and thus create a larger inflation adjustment for Social Security recipients.
In the last Congress, DeFazio rejected a proposal to reduce the federal budget deficit by basing inflation adjustments on chained CPI, which takes into account the substitutions that consumers make when items they usually buy become more expensive.
Chained CPI would reduce the rate of inflation for social programs. But DeFazio said that makes no sense for people who use these programs.
"They're saying because people buy cheaper junk, we should change the CPI," he said in a House floor speech. "That means the senior, by the time they reach 85 in this brave new world of the chained CPI, will get 100 bucks less a month in their Social Security — not too good. Veterans would see their benefits also be restrained and go down about the same amount."


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Which tech trends will merit attention in 2006?
What's ahead for tech this year? Connect offers this forecast from tech reporters who live and work in the heart of Silicon Valley.
The smartest people in tech wouldn't dare make serious predictions about what innovations will catch fire this year. We make a humble try anyway.
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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) failed to meet analyst expectations when it reported quarterly revenue of just $28.27 billion and announced that it sold just 17.07 million iPhones in its fiscal fourth quarter. However, company executives said during an earnings call with investors that the company will likely set an iPhone sales record in December because of strong interest in the iPhone 4S.
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The company's fiscal fourth quarter earnings fell flat compared to analyst expectations for the quarter; analysts expected the company to easily top $29 billion in revenue and sell between 20 million to 22 million iPhones in the quarter. Apple shipped a record 20.3 million iPhones in its fiscal third quarter.
Nevertheless, the company did meet expectations with its iPad sales. Apple sold 11.12 million iPads in the quarter, which is about 1 million more than anticipated, and the device is now available in 90 countries. In addition, Apple's iPhone sales for the quarter do represent a 21 percent unit growth over the previous year, and the company's revenue is an increase over $20.34 billion in the same quarter in 2010. Additionally, margins are up to 40.3 percent from 36.9 percent in the year-ago quarter. Looking ahead to the fiscal first quarter, Apple said it expects revenue of $37 billion.
During the company's earning calls, Apple executives said that the company anticipated a decline in iPhone sales after reports leaked in June that the company was going to launch a new version of the iconic device.
Despite the less-than-stellar results in the fiscal fourth quarter, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the company expects to have record iPhone sales in the next quarter because the iPhone 4S sales are off to such a strong start, selling 4 million devices in the first weekend. "I am confident we will set an all-time record for [the] iPhone this quarter," he said, according to a SeekingAlpha transcript.
Interestingly, Cook also said China is Apple's fastest growing region, accounting for 12 percent of the company's revenue in the fiscal year that just ended. "How far can it go?" he said. "Certainly in my lifetime, I've never seen a country with as many people rising into the middle class that aspire to buy products that Apple makes. And so I think it's an area of enormous opportunity, and it has quickly become No. 2 on our list of top revenue countries very, very quickly and we're obviously placing additional investment."
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eBay CEO John Donahoe sees enormous opportunity for PayPal online, on mobile devices and, increasingly, in the offline environment.
"PayPal is delivering this innovation on a global scale," Donahoe said, according to a transcript of the company's earnings call provided by Seeking Alpha. "In fact, for the second consecutive quarter, more than half of PayPal's revenue came from outside the U.S., highlighting PayPal's expanding global footprint as people around the world look for a safer, easier way to pay in their domestic markets and across borders.”
EBay acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion back in 2002.
Donahoe said that the use of PayPal in mobile applications is growing. He used as an example retailer Cumberland Farms, which recently introduced an app known as SmartPay at 50 of its Boston area convenience store locations, which allows users to start the gas pump from their smartphone and pay for gas using PayPal.
On the mobile front, eBay launched Watch with eBay, the company's first iPad app that combines shopping and entertainment. Watch with eBay serves up merchandise related to what users are watching on TV, enabling them to shop based on inspiration from their favorite TV shows.
In the first quarter alone, the company reported 12 million downloads of eBay Mobile apps, bringing total downloads to 78 million since the launch of eBay Mobile.
Donahoe said mobile is having a big impact on the eCommerce market. He said that eCommerce was up a couple of points to 17 percent and noted that mobile apps are helping to drive that growth.
"This mobile is fundamentally changing the retail landscape, and there's no going back," Donahoe said, "This whole notion of a dual-device experience, having an iPad or a smartphone in your lap while you're watching TV, I think you'll see a lot of shopping innovation around that."
EBay blew past expectations in the first quarter. The company saw earnings increase 20 percent, reporting $570 million in profits, up from $476 in the year-ago quarter. Revenue grew 29 percent to $3.28 billion from $2.55 billion. Analysts had expected lower revenue of $3.15 billion, according to FactSet.


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Apple Inc. this week said iOS 13 installations totaled 50 percent of all iPhone devices.
Amazon.com Inc. this week began offering a $100 bonus with the purchase of Google LLC’s Pixel 4.
Analogue this week announced the Analogue Pocket, a new portable game system that will play all original Game Boy cartridge titles.
Apple Inc. this week released iOS 13.1.3 for the iPhone.
Google LLC this week said it will release the Stadia streaming game platform Nov. 19.
Epic Games this week released Fortnite Chapter 2.
Google LLC this week said it will sell the Pixel 4 at $799 and the Pixel XL at $899 Oct. 24.
Apple Inc. will sell an iPhone SE successor in 2020 at under $400 according to TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
Retailer Amazon.com Inc. this month began pre-order sales for SNK Corp.’s Neo Geo Arcade Stick Pro.
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Impact of Lockdown on Street vendors and measures taken for helping them.
How will celebrations, eating out, formal & casual dining, home deliveries, street food snacking will be affected? Will all this impact what we buy, even before it impacts what we eat? Will the COVID-19 pandemic be the final nail in the coffin that makes the world switch over to healthier eating alternatives and practices? Food consumption and eating habits are likely to be significantly impacted as a result of all the new concerns about hygiene, personal safety, and social distancing. Consumers might shift towards an organic lifestyle, move further away from chemical-based products, and prefer consuming organic food free from pesticides and insecticides. The price-sensitive consumers will become mindful of the quality of the ingredients and hygiene of the food. People had already started showing interest in cooking at home by sharing recipes and cooking tips during the lockdown. This will cut down on the frequency of eating out. Eating street food will not be the same when the lockdown is lifted.
Vendors, especially those selling street food, are going to be adversely affected, as people will be reluctant to eat on the road fearing the spread of the virus. Vendors displaced by physical distancing regulations would have to either relocate, if such an alternative is possible, or they would go out of business. Most of the street vendors from different regions have gone back home or are stranded with no work and no income. There is no food on the street. Without a scheme to sustain street vendors through this lockdown and the precautions that must follow a gradual rollback, urban distress will be widespread and difficult to manage. But now the vendors are eager to know what they can do to revive their business. They have suffered a lot in the last two months.
Looking at the situation in hand, the National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) has decided to prepare Delhi’s street food vendors for the new normal by training them to take measures while selling food. The training includes wearing protective gear, cleaning the cart with disinfectants, opting for online payments, a separate table for customers to collect food, home deliveries, and a few other things. The training will be based on guidelines prepared by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) for food businesses during the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic. The training guidelines for vendors also emphasize cleaning the surfaces that are touched frequently using disinfectants such as sodium hypochlorite at least twice daily, the importance of hygiene while cooking, and making proper arrangements to sanitize their hands. Vendors will be taught about hand hygiene, social distancing, etc which are essential today.
As per government records based on surveys done in 2007 and 2011, there were close to 90 lakh authorized street food vendors. Approximately 3.5 lakh vendors are in Delhi but their exact number is not known. The training is likely to 19–20 districts and over 500 street food vendors will be trained in the first phase. The Delhi government is taking efforts to prepare a detailed plan for street vendors and create fixed vending zones which will help ensure social distancing. Despite all the efforts taken by the National Association of Street Vendors of India (NAVSI), vendors are unsure if people would prefer eating roadside food even when the situation normalizes. Street vendors fear that business will not bounce back quickly and people will socialize less in crowded places. Moreover, buying protective gears and disinfectants is also an added expense for the street food vendors. There is a lot of uncertainty.
Coronavirus is certainly one of the biggest economic setbacks in India in the recent past. Lots of businesses will find it hard to make it through this scenario. But once this pandemic is over, it is going to open new opportunities for small businesses. Every disaster carries with it the seeds of opportunity. This can be harnessed to create businesses. While it might be difficult for street food vendors to change their profession due to the acquired skills, we can see some positive changes in the services of street food. Everybody prefers to order in or buy good food after a long day of work. And nothing can beat a warm plate of delicious lunch at work during your break. Zipped by on the roads today, it should come as no surprise then that online food delivery is set to supersize to a hefty $200 billion by 2025. People are going to avoid crowds and prefer home delivery. There will be an increase in demand for delivery services. The introduction of home delivery services by street food vendors is key to combat viruses and diseases that prevent people from going out. Delivery will be key to success and a key to beat the recession.
In recent times, you can find even a lot of organized retailers who are offering street foods in a designed way. Also, they are offering franchise opportunities to new entrepreneurs. Some of the most successful ventures are tea stalls, Pani Puri, and even vada pav. As consumers will be resistant to go out to eat, developing a new app that connects vendors with the customers and building ambassadors in different areas to work with consumers and vendors could help. Moreover, sanitization will not be a big challenge for street food vendors as they work with minimal equipment when compared to a restaurant. Digital payments will become a necessity rather than a luxury for both consumers and vendors due to constant risk. Vendors might even make a shift to selling fruits and vegetables. There is a need to create a new positive ecosystem for street food vendors through an endorsement for food vendors by chefs and developing organized street food hubs at tourist places. It is a fact that street food video creators earn more than the street food vendors themselves. It is time for chefs, writers, food bloggers, food journalists, YouTubers, civil society and the government to work together to help food vendors revive their business.
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Start it @kbc presents new wave of start-ups and reveals its ambitions for 2017
- 38 innovative and scalable start-ups join Start it @kbc
- 'Boardroom' helps start-ups focus and allows mentors to track progress
- Start it @kbc and partners focus on female entrepreneurship
- Start it @kbc offers its coaching services to internal innovation teams in large businesses
Brussels – Start it @kbc, the biggest incubator in Belgium, is presenting its new generation of 38 start-ups today. The panel of experts selected them out of no less than 143 business proposals that were submitted in January. Start it @kbc will support the start-ups as they launch their businesses and make them scalable. In addition, Start it @kbc will be continuing its pioneering role in 2017: the incubator is creating a Boardroom, focusing on female entrepreneurship, and launching a new corporate venturing path.
The 38 new start-ups welcomed by incubator Start it @kbc today are innovators in many areas: technology, digital, fintech, food, health, HR, media, and social engagement. The businesses are in various phases of development, from ideation to built to go-to-market.
Katrien Dewijngaert, co-founder Start it @kbc: "Over the past three years, we have helped more than 400 start-ups, and have been the pioneers in creating a real start-up culture in Belgium. And that has started to produce tangible results. Entrepreneurship is becoming more popular than ever in this country, and the number of start-ups coming to us continues to grow each year. But more than anything else, the quality of the ideas and the start-up teams is improving all the time. The 38 new start-ups are very well prepared for what's coming."
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Advocas, AppLeads, Careby, CargoCopter, Croq ’n Go, Crowdfilms, CycleValley, Doinn, Elewa, Energy Kiosks, Enigmoo, Epihunter, Equicity, Estate Eleven, FibriCheck, Gluon, Hack League, ikhebautoschade.be, Juru, Laborate!, Libertas, manual.to, Matti, My Add On, OmniFly, Pinotic, Place.Guru, PlannyMap, PlugInvest, Project Scent, Recognition, RobinFood, Skillhacker, Sleek, SLIC, Small Teaser, Wearefront, WeFeed.
The Boardroom, female entrepreneurs, and corporate venturing
Over the past three years, Start it @kbc has been a pioneer in many different areas, and it will continue to fulfil that role in 2017.
Start it @kbc has set up a Boardroom where the start-ups can present a report on their progress after three months. On the one hand, this is a good way to teach the start-ups to present their challenges and focus points clearly. On the other hand, it gives the mentors an opportunity to evaluate the progress and the engagement of the start-ups. In the Boardroom, the start-ups are given clear feedback and can find out how to continue to use the resources offered by Start it @kbc, such as mentors, coaches, workshops, events, etc.
In 2017, Start it @kbc and its partners want to attract more female entrepreneurs into the start-up scene. The incubator is encouraging female entrepreneurs to submit their innovative business proposals via www.startit.be. Not only proposals at the idea stage are invited, entrepreneurs who want to make their existing business scalable are just as welcome.
Start it @kbc will also be launching a new corporate venturing service for large companies in 2017. Internal innovation teams will now be able to make use of the expertise, training courses, networks, and facilities of Start it @kbc in the same way as start-ups. This will allow businesses to give their enterprising staff the tools they need to develop innovations and prepare them for the market.
Lode Uytterschaut, founder Start it @kbc: "We have worked on some great corporate venturing cases with our strategic partners in recent years. And now we are going to open our offer to other companies as well. Businesses invest a lot of money and effort into setting up internal innovation programmes, but they can't get past their own execution-focused structures. If you want people to think outside of the box, then why not take them out of that box and put them into the right framework? Start it @kbc offers that framework."
The next pitch wave will be on 5 May 2017. Entrepreneurs can submit their business ideas to us before that date via www.startit.be


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With the emergence of Barnes & Noble over the past few years, the amount of book stores one can actually walk into have become more and more limited as the chain is taking over the filed. This year, however, another option will be opening for New York custoemrs, and it is a big name store at that. As we’ve been suspecting since July, Amazon says it will open a book store in Manhattan come this spring.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the 4,000-square-foot store store will be located inside the Time Warner Center in Manhattan, which is also home to stores like Coach, Michael Kors, Cole Haan, and numerous upscale restaurants. According to the outlet, Amazon is extremely excited about its new stores location.
The Consumerist tells us that this will be Amazon’s fourth brick-and-mortar bookstore, after opening its first in Seattle in 2015, followed by other locations in San Diego and Portland, OR. There are plans for more stores in Chicago and Dedham, MA, near Boston.
There may also be another store in a new shopping center that’s under development in the Hudson Yards area of Manhattan, but that development won’t be completed until 2018.


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Sainsbury’s is shaking up the cooked meats offer on its deli counters with a raft of new and improved products.
From this week, it will roll out improved honey roast hams, which now contain more honey and have a diamond-scored finish, as well as a smoked ham smoked with Scottish whisky barrel oak.
It has also launched a selection of hams on the bone and stores will now apply breadcrumbs to Sainsbury’s Traditional Carvery, Yorkshire and Drury Lane ham in-store. Joints have also changed to make them easier for deli staff to cut.
In the future, it intends to sell more limited-edition hams, such as the London Pride ham sold during the Olympics.


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Leading polysilicon and solar wafer producer GCL-Poly Energy Holdings has reported a significant increase in nameplate wafer capacity in 2017, going from 18.5GW in 2016 to 30GW at the end of 2017, a 62.2% rise.
‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member JA Solar is getting closer to de-listing from NASDAQ and going private after over 90% of the ordinary shares held had voted to agree a merger with its Cayman Islands registered parent company, owned primarily by JA Solar’s founder, chairman and CEO, Baofang Jin.
China-based integrated monocrystalline PV manufacturer Solargiga Energy Holdings said it would expand module assembly capacity by 1GW at its existing manufacturing facilities at a cost of RMB160 million (US$25.2 million).
Major PV module materials and N-type mono IBC (Interdigitated Back Contact) bifacial module manufacturer Jolywood has reported preliminary unaudited 2017 financial results, posting an increase in revenue of 133.68%.
China-based polysilicon producer Daqo New Energy has announced plans for expanding production by at least 12,000MT in less than 18-months that will be dedicated to supplying high-efficiency monocrystalline wafers producers, due to continued strong demand.
US-headquartered high-efficiency PV module producer SunPower Corp has announced plans to reduce its workforce by 3%, due to the Section 201 trade case decision by US President Trump to impose new import tariffs of solar cells and modules imported into the country.
Diversified renewable energy firm Shunfeng International Clean Energy (SFCE) said it would continue to report a net loss for 2017, due to product ASP declines and PV power plant grid curtailments in China.
Specialist PV manufacturing equipment supplier Amtech Systems has continued to benefit from a major solar orders placed with the company in 2017 that are continuing conversion to revenue in its fiscal first quarter of 2018.
TerraForm Power launches offer to acquire Saeta Yields, Schletter provides mounting systems for 35MW solar plant in China, Spanish government identifies projects from 3GW, NSP completes 2MW rooftop system in Taiwan with bifacial modules.


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As California prepares for the introduction of a $20 minimum wage law set to go into effect in April, fast-food chains across the state are beginning to feel the heat. Multiple large and small eateries have commenced layoffs and price hikes to mitigate the impending financial strain.
Recent reports from The Wall Street Journal highlight the abrupt job terminations, particularly among delivery drivers, a sector already hit hard by economic fluctuations. Former Pizza Hut driver Michael Ojeda represents the human cost behind these layoffs. “Pizza Hut was my career for nearly a decade and with little to no notice, it was taken away,” Ojeda said.
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In a broader context, the wage law affects workers in fast-food establishments numbering 60 or more locations across the U.S., encompassing a vast portion of the industry’s workforce. Democrats have worked hard to shift their narrative away from the truth that many fast-food workers are teenagers and entry-level, often part-time, workers. As leftists insist that every restaurant worker should be paid enough to support a family, the new wage mandates are poised to make unemployment much worse in the Golden State rather than better.
Restaurateurs like Brian Hom, who owns Vitality Bowls locations in San Jose, have been forced to reduce their staffing, leading to longer wait times and higher consumer prices. Hom’s resolve not to hire further in the face of increased labor costs reflects a grim reality for the service industry.
Critics, including California Assembly Republican leader James Gallagher, have been vocal about the adverse impacts of the new mandate. Even as small businesses and local restaurants struggle to recover from the lockdowns imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state’s social engineering is weighing them down yet again. “Restaurants are struggling to stay above water, and Democrats just threw them an anvil,” Gallagher said this week.
Moreover, the law has sparked controversy beyond its immediate economic impacts. Allegations have surfaced regarding Governor Gavin Newsom’s supposed favoritism toward certain businesses like Panera Bread, which initially escaped the wage increase due to a specific carve-out. These claims have fueled further debate over the fairness and integrity of the law’s implementation.
The unfolding situation in California offers a cautionary tale about the complexities of wage legislation and its unforeseen consequences. While the intent behind the $20 minimum wage law is to provide workers with fair compensation, its premature rollout has backfired, resulting in job losses and higher consumer prices.
The narrative emerging from California’s fast-food sector highlights a disconnect between legislative aspirations and real-world outcomes. Businesses, especially those operating on thin margins, find themselves between a rock and a hard place, forced to cut jobs or raise prices — sometimes both — to stay afloat.


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A court-ordered shutdown of Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry service in the U.S. could hamper response to emergencies, and keeping government users connected while cutting off others might not be feasible, according to a brief filed Wednesday by the federal government in the ongoing patent case involving NTP Inc.
No injunction should be issued until the problem has been solved, and it may be that the only feasible solution would be an injunction that only blocked new sales of devices and services, government lawyers wrote.
NTP is seeking an injunction against RIM in a lawsuit that alleges the Waterloo, Ontario, mobile e-mail device maker violates U.S. patents held by NTP in the way it provides its mobile push e-mail service. As proposed by NTP, that injunction would force RIM to stop selling BlackBerry devices and providing the service in the U.S., except that it would not affect users from federal, state or local government, the regional Federal Reserve Banks, or certain “first responder” organizations, such as police, firefighters, and the Red Cross.
In a brief filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, in Richmond, attorneys representing the government voiced concerns over the feasibility of that plan.
“We believe that there are still a number of serious questions to be answered as to how an injunction can be implemented so as to continue BlackBerry service for governmental and other excepted groups,” they wrote in the filing. If exempted users couldn’t be separated out, the injunction effectively would shut down their use of the service as well, the attorneys said.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services depends on BlackBerry devices to communicate in emergencies, according to a statement by William Henriques, the team lead for preparedness and response technologies at the department’s Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness.
The devices are especially critical when other networks and e-mail servers are down after a disaster, because the BlackBerry has the unique ability to send messages between two PINs (personal identification numbers), going directly from handheld to handheld over the Internet, Henriques said.
Complicating the issue is that in an emergency, the department needs to communicate with a broad range of partners, including both public and private hospitals, Henriques wrote.
In another statement filed with the government brief, an executive of mobile operator Sprint Nextel Corp. said it would be extremely difficult to identify exempted government users due to its thousands of separate contracts with government agencies.
In addition, many government employees and contractors and first responders pay for BlackBerry service under private contracts but can use their devices for government purposes, wrote Greg Santoro, vice president of product innovation at Sprint Nextel.
Last week the judge in the Richmond federal court scheduled a Feb. 24 hearing to consider whether to impose the injunction.
Also Wednesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a non-final ruling that rejects NTP’s claims to one of the patents in the case, according to a RIM press release. All of NTP’s remaining patent claims have been rejected by the agency in non-final rulings, according to RIM. The company said it expects the office to continue working toward final decisions on the patent claims.
Representatives of NTP could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.


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Google's investment in a Taiwanese semiconductor subsidiary will give the company a 6.3% interest in Himax Technologies, with an option to make an additional investment of preferred shares in the manufacturer at the same price within one year from closing.
Having the ability to contribute to the design of chips could influence the future of online advertising through hardware, rather than Web-based systems.
If Google takes full advantage of all options, that share could rise to as high as 14.8%. The Mountain View, Calif. company joins KPCB Holdings, Khosla Ventures, and Intel Capital as the core group of shareholders.
Himax, a fabless semiconductor manufacturer employing about 1,400, designs but outsources the manufacturing of chips for use in televisions, laptops, monitors, mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, and other consumer electronic devices. Google's investment in the company would ensure continuous access to components to build its products, even in shortages.
The investment will fund production upgrades, expand capacity and enhance production capabilities at the manufacturer's facilities that produce liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) chips and modules used in applications including head-mounted display such as Google Glass, head-up display and pico-projector products.
Google has been working with Himax Display to manufacture parts for Project Glass, according to a source. It's likely the two companies will work together to design software on chips for other devices. Himax's long list of open job requisitions includes a process integration engineer for its advanced optronics research and development center.
"Himax Display has been a great partner for several years now," said a Google spokesperson. "This investment is an extension of our partnership, which we hope will allow the team to continue to develop their operations."
The Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer posted a 5.4% increase of revenue to $175.7 million in the first quarter of 2013. Non-GAAP net income rose 23.6% to $15 million from $12.1 million, compared with the year-ago quarter.
A breakdown of the company's financial results by product line demonstrates strength in display drivers for small and medium-sized panels for electronic devices for gadgets like tablets, Chromebook, smartphones and Google Glass.


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‘Sex tourism’ a major concern for Brazil
NATAL (BDCi) – The host of the 2014 World Cup is facing the pressing issue of out-of-town travelers in search of cheap and often underage sex.
Prostitutes and sometimes pimps can be seen in beach cities like Fortaleza and Natal, located in the poorer northeastern region. Authorities say the sex trade sometimes relies on local child-trafficking networks.
Steps have been taken in Natal to get hotels and travel agencies involved in programs aimed at helping at-risk children and cracking down on the tourist quarter.
The Brazilian government has already shut down sex hotels all over the country and continues to support the nongovernmental organizations that work to assist at-risk youth.
During this year’s Carnaval, the government launched a campaign to encourage its citizens to report sexual and child abuse cases nationwide. It has also fought several major brands over featured depictions of Brazil.
Earlier this year, Adidas had released World Cup-themed shirts with sexual jokes. One design shows a woman with just a bikini and a soccer ball that says, “Lookin’ to score. Brazil.”
Following the Tourism Ministry’s passionate objection to all products linking Brazil to sex, the sportswear company promptly recalled the shirts it had created.
Many Brazilians blame these depictions of stereotypes for the prejudice and abuse they receive when they travel outside of the country.
Despite all these efforts, recent reports show that local prostitutes are taking English lessons in anticipation of the wave of World Cup tourists.
By: Diego Díaz
Source: LA Times
Photo: Daily Mail
8 May 2014
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- August 9, 2022
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The Nigerian- Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry is set to hold a trade forum in Jakarta, Indonesia to showcase Nigerian non-oil export potential.
The ten-day trade forum aims to promote the development of trade, commerce, investment, and industrial technological relationships between the public and private sectors of Nigeria and Indonesia.
It is targeted at driving socio-economic growth and development for all. It will take place between October 17 and 27, 2022.
Apart from boosting Nigeria-Indonesia trade by connecting businesspeople from both countries, experts believe the trade mission will attract the much-needed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to Nigeria.
“The main reason we are having the forum in Jakarta is to attract investment into the country. We also want to tell the Indonesian authorities that we have verified businesses that they can do business with,” said Ishmael Balogun, president of the Nigerian-Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NICCI) during a press conference.
He stated that the chamber is working with the Nigerian embassy in Jakarta to make the expo a success.
“We are preparing a list of businesses in Jakarta that are interested in coming into Nigeria and the embassy will transfer that list to the Indonesian authority.”
Read also: How NPA is addressing bottlenecks with export trade
He stressed that the job of the chamber is to connect the Nigerian businesses with their counterparts in Indonesia, noting that there will be 15,000 exhibitors who will be showcasing their products at the expo.
Balogun noted that Nigeria’s trade balance with Indonesia is $2.6billion in 2021, adding that both countries can do better to boost their trade.
Speaking also, Usman Ogah, Nigerian Ambassador to Indonesia, said that both countries share lots of similarities. “Crops that grow in Indonesia also grow in Nigeria, the difference is our level of using what nature has given us. We are ahead in some while Indonesia is also ahead in some and that is why there is a need for trade,” he said.
He called on the Nigerian businesses that would be attending the expo to focus on exhibiting what we have that the Indonesian economy wants while advising them to be good ambassadors of the country.
Hendro Jonathan, director of Indonesia Trade Expo said the expo is organized by Trade Expo Indonesia with the Embassy of Nigeria in Jakarta.
He stated that Indonesia is now the current president of the G20 countries, noting that it has maintained a 4 percent growth in the past five years.
He said that his country is ready to trade with Nigeria, especially in its non-oil sectors. “The total export of Nigeria to Indonesia is almost 10 times bigger than Indonesia to Nigeria but it is mainly crude oil products. We want to do more in the non-oil sectors.”
He said that both countries have over 200 million people and that most Indonesian are interested in the culture and fashion of Nigeria.
He said his country is currently driving collaboration between designers in Nigeria and Indonesia while calling that the collaboration of both countries should go beyond trade to cover finance and other aspects.
He noted that the expo will be the first international expo Indonesia is hosting since the pandemic outbreak.


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How do We Solve AdTech’s Democracy Problem?
Start by valuing quality of privacy design over quantity of eyeballs in product development
By now, news outlets and tech pundits alike have all weighed in on the expected impact of #StopHateForProfit. The campaign, launched in June by a coalition of nonprofits including Color of Change, the NAACP, ADL, Sleeping Giants, Free Press, and Common Sense Media, encourages advertisers to boycott spending on Facebook until the social media giant addresses key problems with its community and algorithms in relation to promoting hate speech and misinformation. Facebook has historically been reluctant to enact any policies seen as limiting freedom of speech, citing democratic values, though past pressures have slowly led to incremental improvements in content moderation and advertising rules.
While the list of brands pledging to boycott continues to grow, the direct harm to Facebook’s bottom line and audience reach remains low. Despite the strain on its PR and sales teams scrambling to contain the blast, Politico’s senior media writer Jack Shafer argues damage to Facebook will be minimal:
“The small and medium businesses that feed Facebook with advertising aren’t about to join the boycott. They can’t afford to because Facebook makes them so much money. And neither are users. About 70 percent of American adults use Facebook. The service has become so integral to American lives that asking people to abandon it for a month would be like asking them to give up their phone or refrigerator.”
Shafer may just be right. As of this writing, Facebook’s stock price is at an all time high.
Facebook is not alone in wrestling with what democratic values mean in the context of Internet media. Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, and other popular platforms have all had their fair share of skirmishes in the media over free speech dating back years. However, buttressed by the protections afforded by Section 230, these platforms were also often praised for their defense of free speech. That was before Russia used their platforms to influence American elections. Before President Donald J. Trump weaponized Twitter to rattle off racist, sexist, and false missives to rile up his base. Before Myanmar’s military used Facebook to incite genocide. Yes, we can also point to the positive impact social media has on collective organizing, building communities, and supporting local businesses or artists. Yet, in embracing the good outcomes, must we accept the bad?
How we got here
I’m not the first to suggest social media companies and other AdTech players have a democracy problem. Tech journalist Kara Swisher and American scholar Shoshana Zuboff were early critics of how these companies’ business models incentivize amplifying the most outrageous, most divisive content in order to gather users’ online behavioral data at scale — the “scale” part being critical to success in driving the dual commodity model wherein consumers use a company’s application in exchange for their data being sold to advertisers at a tidy margin.
What critics tend to discuss less frequently is the business-to-business (B2B) technology services industry built around online publishers. Many, but not all, of these platforms build products deliberately designed to augment the founding value of the existing AdTech incumbent powers: Quantity over quality. In emphasizing quantity of data collected, this industry often walks a fine line when it comes to making responsible decisions about managing user data privacy and surveillance.
In turn, a lack of data ethics design (versus compliance-oriented safeguards) taught as an integral step in product development processes has led to unintended threats to democracy. Cultural norms around privacy in a given society often indicate the society’s belief in a right to non-discrimination. The privacy erosion we’ve seen in the digital age, when coupled with a monetary incentive to capitalize on our psychological instinct to engage with content that arouses strong emotions and a lack of user policy enforcement, directly contributes to products which become havens for those who stir hate and peddle misinformation.
Luckily, we can reverse some of the damage. We can do so not just through brand boycotts, which are crucial to addressing changes in policy, but also changes in how the AdTech industry addresses building strong products with privacy in mind.
How we improve moving forward
In a consumer-oriented sense, there are two major mechanisms by which product design could evolve at scale to combat hate speech, data surveillance, and the spread of misinformation: Change the business model or design humanely.
Several tech executives have recognized the consumer (and shareholder) value in changing the business model for content or application platforms. For example, Twitter recently indicated via a job posting that it is developing its first subscription-based product, likely due to financial pressures. Another example comes from former Google Ads executive, Sridhar Ramaswamy, who left the company to build Neeva, a subscription-based search engine.
This movement from building products that are “free” in exchange for data to operating on a “freemium” or pure subscription model indicates a cultural appetite for high-quality products, without privacy infringement. Subscription revenues provide greater stability quarter-over-quarter and mean the incentives in product development are to achieve scale by building great products for consumers versus building products which capture the maximum amount of data. This in turn encourages “humane” product design.
The humane technology movement was birthed from a presentation made by former Google design ethicist, Tristan Harris, in 2013 to illustrate how damaging the effects of monetizing attention are to social interaction. The presentation went viral internally, but spurred little action. In 2018, Harris, troubled by the ease with which Russia meddled in the 2016 US general election using the tools his industry had built, started evangelizing his principles for human-centered design via the Center for Humane Technology. The Center, which focuses on changing how “technologists think about their work and how they build products,” developed a design guide for use in building products which provide value to a consumer, rather than exploit human nature to extract data.
This design guide, if adopted by product managers and UX designers as a standard for product development, represents a great improvement in reducing hate speech. Humane design and other proposals, such as former Google lawyer and United States deputy Chief Technology Officer Nicole Wong’s suggestion we impose a “slow food movement” for the Internet, offer potential solutions for consumer-facing applications and services. However, given the vast ecosystem of B2B companies integrating with and powering much of the offending platforms’ business models, these B2C fixes can only address part of the puzzle.
Relevant B2B software companies, often classified as “middleware,” must also address poor privacy design hygiene habits in product development in order to break the outrage capitalization encouraged by AdTech business models. Responsible B2B product teams follow Privacy by Design principles in product development. Some are even making moves to include product design ethicists, who are employed to integrate ethics-based decision making models into the product development process, as independent reviewers of new product proposals. If we wish to encourage broader use of these practices, all that’s needed is for clients to require their use as part of any vendor search.
These economic pressures carry huge weight in the world of B2B product development, and they will also bring about change, albeit potentially more slowly than we’d like, to consumer-facing platforms. Pronouncements that the Facebook ad boycott has very little impact are missing something: People vote with their feet, and online, with their eyeballs. If safer alternatives emerge and incumbent product teams fail to take swift action, eventually, we’ll stop watching.
All opinions are my own and do not reflect those of an employer or other institution with which I am connected.


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- Analysis continues to flood in suggesting that if China continues to insist it will buy US goods according to market conditions, it cannot meet Donald Trump’s demands
- With 28 per cent of US exports to China not covered by the deal, economist Chad Bown suggests that these exporters could be cut out of the equation
Almost a week after the signing of the phase one trade deal with the United States, scepticism is continuing to mount as to whether China will fulfil its side of an agreement that "may be doomed from the start".
Of particular concern is China's commitment to buying an additional US$200 billion of US goods over two years, including a clause that would bring its imports of US farm goods to more than US$40 billion a year.
"A close look at the data shows that the numbers are even more unrealistic than first believed," wrote Chad Bown, a trade specialist at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), in a new report. "Even worse, hostilities might renew, leading to a re-escalation of trade tensions currently on hold."
At the crux of much of the widespread pessimism is China's repeated mantra that imports must be based on market conditions, a stance that was reiterated on Tuesday by Li Xingqian, head of the foreign trade department, who told a press conference in Beijing: "We will expand imports from the United States based on the principles of the market and World Trade Organisation rules, and will not affect imports from other countries."
A close look at the data shows that the numbers are even more unrealistic than first believedChad Bown
These criteria appear to jar with a deal that will inevitably cause trade diversion, experts have said. Unless there is a surge in demand in China, which is unlikely given the slowing growth in the world's second largest economy, the US purchases will come in place of others.
But for Washington, an immediate issue is that the primary American agricultural export " soybeans " is simply not competitive.
"If China says it's down to market conditions, then the US will have to be competitive. And the reality is that the US is not competitive by a long shot already, and it hasn't been before either," Andrei Agapi, associate pricing director for agriculture at S&P Global Platts in Singapore, told the South China Morning Post.
He added that since September, when China started issuing tariff waivers for US soybean imports, the price has surpassed that of Brazilian beans, which replaced them during the height of the trade war.
"When you speak to some of the China bean traders in the interior of the country, and they look at the total (US) dollar figures (quoted in the deal) and where the market is now, they throw their hands up and say there is no way they could even run that much in the country " it would throw the entire domestic supply chain into disarray," said Peter Meyer, head of grain and oilseed analytics at S&P Global Platts, speaking on the Commodities Focus podcast.
Some trade watchers suspect that if China is to keep its side of the agreement, it will be forced to sidestep market conditions and manage it from the top down.
"With a managed trade agreement like this, targets are presumably established, but I suspect that it will mean state trading companies like COFCO will be doing a lot of the buying," said Joseph Glauber, senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute and a former lead agriculture negotiator at the Office of the US Trade Representative.
China has already acquired half of its soybean demand for the year ahead, largely composed of the record Brazilian harvest which will come to market in February, Agapi said. Furthermore, its demand is set to be lower than in previous years due to the African swine fever outbreak which has led to the death of a quarter of the world's pigs.
"It may be good for US producers in the short-run, but if much of this ends up in storage, it is hard to see how this will be sustainable over time," Glauber added. "This very well may be a big goodwill gesture to get through the next year " i.e., through the election " but it is hard to see that this will be very sustainable over time."
But for Bown at the PIIE, this is not just a soybean issue. US exports of cereals such as sorghum, wheat and corn could hurt Australia, Vietnam or Thailand, seafood sales could hit Canada and Russia, while higher energy sales have the potential to hurt Australia, Indonesia and Qatar, and more manufacturing sales will hit the European Union, Japan and South Korea.
Andrew Tilton, Goldman Sachs' chief economist for Asia-Pacific, told a media roundtable in Hong Kong on Tuesday that the purchases may be possible, but that "it would obviously take political will and maybe some easing of import restrictions in a couple of areas".
"The surprise for us in the official document was that the amount on the agriculture side is less and the energy side was more. That might be relevant because there were a couple of sectors where orders would count as purchases. There are often long-term energy contracts that are signed, but it's less typical in the agricultural space to see that," Tilton said.
Given that 28 per cent of US exports to China comes in industries not covered by the deal, Bown suggested that these exporters could be cut out of the equation.
The surprise for us in the official document was that the amount on the agriculture side is less and the energy side was moreAndrew Tilton
"Thus, in legal terms, China has little incentive to import those US$51.6 billion of uncovered products from the US in 2020 or 2021," he wrote.
"To compensate angry trading partners aggrieved because of the trade diversion, China could purchase more uncovered products from them and reduce imports from the United States. That would be painful for American companies and workers whose products Trump has chosen not to put into this agreement."
With Chinese traders winding down for a week-long Lunar New Year holiday that will close commodity markets from Friday, all eyes will be on US Department of Agriculture databases this week to see if purchases have begun.
Additional reporting by Chad Bray
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Android fans can now breathe and check out Verizon’s list of 14 devices that will get the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update.Read the rest of the article »
LG G-Slate gets Android 3.1 update, brings Google Videos and resizable widgets.
The LG G-Slate seems to be catching up with its tablet contenders, Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab, as T-Mobile recently announced that the Android 3.1 updates are already available in the device. Casting out the former Android 3.0, the revamped G-Slate tablet now prompts users to display Google Videos for movie rentals. They could also take good advantage of the USB accessory that can be used to connect the tablet into keyboards, mouse, or other controllers.
The interface of the LG G-Slate has also been enhanced. New features such as re-sizable widgets, an expanded list of applications, and Gmail, have been added to the device — allowing users to have a wider range of activities. T-mobile as well pointed out that along with this Android 3.1 update, they have also fixed most of the G-Slate’s bugs that were attested before — including the issues regarding the Google Talk and Music apps. Moreover, the company unveiled that users can now experience an improved tablet browser and widget responsiveness.
T-Mobile LG G-Slate Android 3.1 update is already rolling out to all customers. Owners will be informed when the said update is available for installation.View Article Source »
Features of iPad's two rivals - Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 - compared.
It’s time once again for a tablet showdown; and this very moment, the spotlight is switched to iPad’s two biggest competitors: The Xoom from Motorola and the ever-popular Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. Which among them will stand out in terms of designs, operating systems, and imaging?
Find out on the brief comparisons after the break.Read the rest of the article »
T-mobile's G-Slate seems to be taking the top spot in the market with a recent price drop off and a document claiming that it is 2x Faster than iPad 2 and 3x faster than Xoom.
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However, these demands are based only on T-Mobile’s 4G HSPA+ 42Mbps network, AT&T’s HSPA+ network and Verizon’s 3G network. T-mobile’s G-Slate is not also capable to fully use the 42Mbps HSPA+ since the said device is only limited to 14.4Mbps.Read the rest of the article »
With a widescreen display, Google Android's Honeycomb, and a 3D-camera, does the T-Mobile G-Slate have what it takes to dominate the tablet market? Not really.
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The T-Mobile G-Slate has a smooth and satisfying touch with a thickness of 0.49 inch plus a matte finish at the back. It provides a nice comforting grip where you don’t have to worry that it will slip from the palm of your hand. It’s screen is 8.9-inch big, a humble size compared to the iPad 2 and Motorola Xoom tablets. But it’s unique widescreen display somehow gives that unique appeal.Read the rest of the article »
Google does the unexpected, as it keeps Android Honeycomb's source codes from developers until further notice.
The Motorola Xoom tablet does have the Android Honeycomb inside. But according to BusinessWeek, Google has no plans of releasing the Android Honeycomb source code to small hardware makers and developers due to the fear of having unpleasant results and user-experiences, especially if programmers attempt to bring the Honeycomb to phones.
According to Google Spokesperson, Andy Rubin, the “Android 3.0, Honeycomb, was designed from the ground up for devices with larger screen sizes and improves on Android favorites such as widgets, multi-tasking, browsing, notifications and customization.” He further added that “while we’re excited to offer these new features to Android tablets, we have more work to do before we can deliver them to other device types including phones.”Read the rest of the article »
Motorola's got some explaining to do about the whopping price of the Motorola Xoom tablet.
We were as surprised as you are when the Motorola Xoom was tagged $799, but Motorola Mobile Chief Sanjay Jha immediately tries to extinguish the fire as he explains over at the Mobile World Congress, MWC, in Barcelona that people will be getting their money’s worth with the 32GB 3G Motorola tablet thanks to its secret ingredient: the 4G.
The tablet market leader, the 32GB 3G Apple iPad tablet currently has a price tag of $729 in the US. Jha shares that people that a 4G device compatible on the Verizon network is worth the extra $70.Read the rest of the article »
Year 2011 is definitely the year of computer tablets! While Apple’s iPad 2 is still on the hiding, let’s welcome first the Xoom tablet which stole the spotlight at CES 2011.
Among the many devices launched at the recent CES 2011, Motorola Xoom tablet stole the spotlight. It is the first Android tablet to run with the “Honeycomb” OS and is packed with a powerful features.
Engadget got the scoop that Xoom will be released on February 17 and priced at $700. It will feature a 3G network which is compatible with Verizon as well as with the 4G network.
Android fan site Droid Life has put together a handy chart comparing the Xoom to Apple’s 3G-equipped iPad.Read the rest of the article »
The end of CES 2011 established four trends: smart appliances, 3D TVs, tablets and Internet TVs. And though there are 2,600 exhibitors in the event, Gadg managed to make a list of top 10 gadgets at CES 2011.
Though CES 2011 just ended, the biggest tech exhibit in Las Vegas was able to establish four trends: tablets, 3D TVs, Internet televisions and “smart” appliances. The trade show attracted over 120,000 attendees who came to see the latest and greatest devices from 2,600 exhibitors. Though it is impossible to see an individual anywhere near all of the products at CES 2011, here is Gadg’s list of the best devices found at the event.
Check out the full list after the skip.Read the rest of the article »
Motorola brought down the house at CES 2011 with the release of a tablet plus several 4G smartphones. It’s all about Motorola Mobility!
Sanjay Jha, CEO and chairman of the Motorola Mobility spinoff, recently presented at CES 2011 the mobile future of their company. This is what the company has been working on for the past 12 months. Motorola Mobility shapes it tomorrow with the an Android tablet, dual-core smartphones and other tech accessories. Raed the run-through of their fresh offerings after the skip.Read the rest of the article »
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Communications equipment supplier Motorola Inc. unveiled breakthrough technology on Tuesday that blends the low-cost virtues of silicon computer chips with speed-of-light optics to create faster chips.
Motorola said its research arm has found a way to combine silicon, the basis of most computer chips, with gallium arsenide, a costlier chip-making material, to create a high-speed optical chip that is durable and cost-effective.
Silicon-only chips, used in computers and other electronic devices, tend to be durable and cheap, but electronic circuits tend to slow down any optical features that travel at the speed of light.
By contrast, gallium arsenide chips, which are used in DVD video players, communications equipment and lasers, are 40 times faster than silicon chips; but they are fragile and expensive. University research groups and semiconductor companies have been racing to develop gallium arsenide chips that are less costly to make.
“What we’ve fundamentally done is change the whole foundation of the high-tech industry,” Dennis Roberson, Motorola’s chief technology officer, told Reuters in an interview ahead of the announcement.


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PayPal Payments Could Eventually Land on Amazon
By Don Resigner for Payments Source
A major new feature could be coming to your Amazon checkout process.
Amazon (AMZN, -0.42%) and PayPal (PYPL, -3.18%) have been in discussions about the possibility of the online retail giant supporting PayPal payments at checkout, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman told Bloomberg in an interview on Thursday. While Schulman didn’t say when—or even if—a deal might happen between the companies, he did tell Bloomberg that the companies are trying to determine how they can “use one another’s assets to the mutual benefit” of their customers.
Amazon offers a wide range of ways for customers to pay for its products, including credit and debit cards, gift cards, and Amazon.com store cards. Customers can even link their checking accounts to the site to make quick purchases. But PayPal, one of the more prominent and popular online payment options, has never found its way to the e-commerce site. And its absence has proven conspicuous in an online e-commerce market that, aside from Amazon, relies heavily upon the company’s payment platform.
PayPal broke away from eBay in 2015 to focus its efforts on growing its business in the digital currency market without being tied down to online auctions. Schulman, who took on the chief executive role at that time, has grown PayPal’s presence by making the payments service more ubiquitous on the Internet. The move has helped PayPal grow to 197 million active users at the end of 2016. According to the company’s data, each of those accounts averaged 31 transactions in the preceding 12 months.
While Amazon hasn’t commented on exactly why PayPal hasn’t been offered through its payment services, it might be due in part to the competition between the companies.
Amazon has its own PayPal alternative called Amazon Payments. And like PayPal, Payments can be used by merchants to facilitate payments, and by customers to make those payments. Amazon collects a fee on transactions, similar to PayPal’s business model.
Still, Amazon Payments currently can’t match PayPal’s scale. And in many cases, the merchants that use Amazon Payments to facilitate purchases also offer customers PayPal.
Schulman seemed to make that point in his interview with Bloomberg, saying that any retailer, including Amazon, might find it “hard” to not accept PayPal when it has nearly 200 million users.
Neither Amazon nor PayPal immediately responded to a Fortunerequest for comment on a possible deal between the companies.
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For the second time in little more than a month, one of the city's shoreside seafood processing companies said it is closing operations and sending a locally-based workforce to the unemployment line.
"This is to inform you that Whole Foods Market's North Atlantic Region will be permanently closing its entire Pigeon Cove Seafood facility located at 15 Parker St., Gloucester, MA 01930 effective Aug. 15, 2019," stated Whole Foods' letter to Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken. "The closing will impact approximately 59 employees."
The Pigeon Cove plant, which has operated at the Everett R. Jodrey State Fish Pier for more than 20 years, cleans, cuts, packs and ships seafood for Whole Foods stores. It no longer handles local seafood.
The upscale grocery store chain, now owned by Amazon, did not immediately respond to requests from the city for expanded details, particularly the reason for closing the Gloucester operation, Romeo Theken said.
David Graham, listed as the general manager of the Gloucester operation, declined all comment Monday morning, referring questions to an email address at Whole Foods Market. The media relations department there did not immediately respond to phone calls or emails.
In the June 14 letter to the mayor, Whole Foods said it would "continue to provide full pay to the affected team members through the effective facility closing date to the extent necessary to meet our WARN Notice obligations."
The WARN Notice refers to the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification law that require companies to provide at least 60 calendar days notice of a plant closing and mass layoffs affecting 50 or more employees at a single site of employment, according to the Department of Labor.
Massachusetts has passed its own similar workplace law.
"They're not doing anybody any favors," an irked Romeo Theken said Monday morning. "This still doesn't justify what Whole Foods is doing."
Romeo Theken said her administration reached out to Whole Foods immediately after receiving the letter on Friday afternoon. She said it also initiated another campaign of engaging displaced workers, as it did when National Fish & Seafood announced May 10 that it was closing its East Gloucester facilities and putting about 180 workers out of work.
The National Fish story, however, had a happy ending when an investment group — NSD Seafood — bought the National Fish assets for about $3 million, refired processing operations at the 159 E. Main St. facility as Atlantic Fish & Seafood and rehired many of the workers displaced by the initial closing.
Romeo Theken said Whole Foods' lease at 15 Parker St. — which is owned by a Montagnino family trust headed by James Montagnino — is not set to lapse until November 2020.
Romeo Theken said the initial letter from Whole Foods was dated "June 14, 2018." As part of its efforts to reach Whole Foods for an explanation, the city called the company and asked about the date on the letter.
"We didn't know if it was a letter that went out by mistake or what, so we asked them to get in touch with us to get a better idea of what's going on," Romeo Theken said.
A while later, another letter showed up. This one, however had a line through the "8" at the end of the date. A "9" was penciled in its place. Beyond that, it was identical to its predecessor.
"It's like they were crossing out our city, like we don't matter," Romeo Theken said. "They couldn't even be bothered to generate a new letter."
Look for updates to this story later today at gloucestertimes.com and in Tuesday's edition of the Gloucester Daily Times.
Contact Sean Horgan at 978-675-2714, or firstname.lastname@example.org. Follow him on Twitter at @SeanGDT.


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This Unofficial Starbucks 'Purple Drink' Is Blowing Up on Instagram
As evidenced by the so-called "secret menu" full of insane Frappuccino flavors, Starbucks baristas will make you almost anything you want with the ingredients available to them. But thanks to Instagram, some of these bespoke beverages can quickly become social media sensations, and well, the latest one is called the "Purple Drink."
Although there isn't an official recipe for the drink (because it's not on the menu, duh), it seems like you can get it by ordering an iced Passion Tango tea with coconut or soy milk instead of water, vanilla syrup instead of classic syrup, and blackberries from the Very Berry Hibiscus Starbucks Refresher. This will probably result in a significant up-charge, but it'll be totally worth it for all the Instagram likes, right? Oh, and did we mention that it's freaking purple?!?
When asked about the violet beverage via email, a Starbucks spokesperson said the company is always thrilled when customers create all-new beverages that aren't on the menu. Just a few weeks ago, a "Pink Drink" similarly took over Instagram.
"Our customers are always trying out new ways to customize their favorite drinks -- Purple Drink is a perfect example of that!" the company said in a statement. "We’re blown away with the reaction on social media -- while this isn’t an official Starbucks drink, it’s created a lot of fandom online. If customers would like to order a beverage that is not listed on our menu, we recommend they know the recipe so that their barista can handcraft the beverage perfectly for them."
With that said, you probably shouldn't walk into your local Starbucks and expect anything less than eye rolls when you attempt to order a "grande Purple Drink." Anyway, here are a few more photos of the beautiful lavender-colored drinks from Instagram:
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Of course, Gov. Granholm was referring to the company, not the CEO, in this demonstration at GM’s Detroit auto show press preview in January. Still, the irony is inescapable in this game show-like photo as the administration gives Wagoner the boot today.
(image: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images. North American International Auto Show. Cobo Center January 11, 2009 in Detroit, Michigan)
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Carmakers continue to look to the Valley for help paving the way for the future of cars – Ford has teamed up with Baidu to jointly invest $150 million in Velodyne, a company making LiDAR sensors in California’s technology hotspot. The money will help Velodyne quickly ramp up efforts to make its LiDAR sensors at scale while retaining and increasing quality, which will help carmakers build autonomous vehicles at scale, too.
Velodyne is no startup, though; the company has been working on LiDAR (Light, Detection and Ranging) tech since 2005, after entering the space from its original business, which was creating premium audio equipment, including subwoofers. Its transition to LiDAR proved effective, however, and it’s now one of the leaders in the market, as evidenced by Ford’s confidence with this investment.
Ford has worked with Velodyne before – in January of this year, the auto company ordered Velodyne’s driver assistance LiDAR sensor, which can support any kind of autonomy from level 1, or basic driver assistance, all the way to level 4, or full self-driving. The two companies also worked together on R&D for “much of” Ford’s history with autonomous driving tech, according to Velodyne, which spans more than a decade.
Baidu’s participation might be more unexpected, but the Chinese web search giant has its own autonomous driving unit, and is already testing a fleet of driverless vehicles in China. Baidu also has a Silicon Valley-based autonomous driving team. Ford and Baidu also teamed up as strategic partners in offering infotainment services to Chinese customers in 2013. Still, they’re looking more like competitors these days.
The race is on to achieve full self-driving autonomy, and a key ingredient in that will be affordable, scalable production of the requisite sensors. And that’s going to benefit everyone in the market, which is why the Baidu/Ford combination in this funding makes sense.


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Blog: Beam Inc - Hey, fellas, I have an idea
Olly Wehring | 3 May 2013
Did anyone else find it curious yesterday to see volumes of Maker's Mark soar in Beam Inc's first quarter? After all, a 44% leap in quarterly volumes year-on-year positively jumped off the page.
My eyebrows rose even higher when Beam CEO Matt Shattock conceded that the brands performance in the three months to the end of March was related to the company's announcement – and then the subsequent climbdown – that it was reducing the Bourbon's abv.
Maybe, if Beam makes this move every quarter – perhaps with a different brand each time – it would prevent the “cycling tough comps” line from having to be resorted to.
Here's a round-up of the top stories on just-drinks last week, featuring PepsiCo and Coca-Cola Co, Castel, Molson Coors and the cachaca sector....
There was a big focus on supermarkets and their Scotch offerings this week when a couple of own-brand malts scooped top awards at the International Wines and Spirits Competition (IWSC)....
You can't seem to move at the moment for news of US craft brewers expanding....
Here's a round-up of the top stories on just-drinks last week, featuring Coca-Cola Life, Australian Vintage, Pernod Ricard and BrewDog....
- just The Preview - Diageo's FY preliminaries
- Analysis - SABMiller's Australian issues continue
- just The Preview - Anheuser-Busch InBev's H1 & Q2
- Focus - SABMiller's Q1 Performance by Region
- NPD: Alcohol Beverage “Mash-Ups” Fuel Innovation
- Diageo silent over Shuijingfang writedown report
- Sales, profits fall at Moet Hennessy in H1
- Britvic promotes GB marketing head to global post
- Molson Coors CEO to retire
- Diageo's Captain Morgan Facebook ad banned


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Alamo Heights Weekly Business Briefs — June 18
Published 12:00 am, Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Entrepreneurs see economic rebound
Results from a recent survey conducted by The Entrepreneurs' Organization indicate that 70 percent of San Antonio-area entrepreneurs experienced higher than average revenues in the past six months.
According to a news release, results were part of a larger study conducted by The Entrepreneurs' Organization, which shows global numbers that indicate that 67 percent of entrepreneurs worldwide plan to hire more full-time workers; 54 percent of entrepreneurs plan to hire part-time workers; and 84 percent of global entrepreneurs hopeful about starting new ventures in the next six months.
- BCSO: 2 arrested after leading deputies on chase in stolen truckmysa
- Venezuela's opposition leader, Antonio Ledezma, flees to SpainEuronews_News
- Simulation: Harvey-level storm floods in San Antoniomysa
- Eddie Van Halen's $100K guitar stolen from Hard Rock Cafemysa
- Lt. Gen Steven Kwast takes reins of air education and training commandpremiummysa
- Mi Tierra customer performs knockout mariachi serenademysa
- SAPD: Convenience store employee assaulted child in back roommysa
- Amber Alert Rescue missing childrenFox7
- 5 Things to know about the supermarket chain Lidlmysa
- Recovery of SAPD Officer Cavazos Part 2mysa
The survey included 94 San Antonio-area companies with at least $1 million in annual revenue and sizable impacts on the local economy.
Health foundation seeks grant requests
Baptist Health Foundation of San Antonio is accepting Community Impact Grant applications from non-profit organizations that are helping meet the community's health needs.
This year, the Community Impact Grants Committee, which grants up to $7,500 to recipients, will award $174,000. The deadline for Community Impact Grant applications is noon June 30.
Groups such as churches, grass-root organizations and smaller nonprofits may apply.


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Fujitsu has launched a new desktop managed service (DMS). The company has developed the service to improve the flexibility of its storage offerings and to offer better value of money.
Key to the new product is Fujitsu's Active Service Management (ASM) architecture, aimed at improving visibility of costs, something that is driving many purchasing decisions these days. Fujitsu said that it had implemented a programme called Total Cost Clarity to help customers keep tabs on the costs.
The company's European vice president for the storage division Helmut Beck, said the economic situation was having a profound effect on the way that customers bought products. In the current climate, businesses were tightening up on their purchasing decisions. "If company is looking to invest in a new technology it won't touch it if has a return on investment of less than a year - sometimes there even needs to be a return within the fiscal year," he said.
Although at first sight it looks as if Fujitsu has tapped into the growing interest in cloud computing, that's not the case said Beck. "This is not really cloud computing as the equipment is still on customer premises. They get transparency within their IT system and improve the balance sheet."
He added that one of the key elements was the ability to set different service levels and accompanying costs. "You can define security levels; you can define data tolerance levels - the number of tapes, number of different sites, recovery times etc - For example, one of the service levels could be that last five days of data are stored on disk while the rest is put on tape - showing how managed backup can reduce costs."
But he said, Fujitsu was trying to take a different approach to other vendors, many of whom were very focused on being storage suppliers. He said that the company was taking a more holistic approach. "From our company's point of view, we don't want to be a pure storage provider- we have a range of products that includes storage, servers and networking kit - we can create solutions out of these products."
Beck pointed out this approach was in line with the way that users were thinking, with the trend away from rigid specialisation. "In the last 10 to 15 years, the specialists were the heroes. We believe that the pendulum will go back to the guys who do everything, who offer differentiation from the specialists.
Fujitsu has rolled out DMS to about 20 organisations said Beck. Ultimately, he thought the trend would be for a menu of services. "You could store some data in a public cloud, some would be in a private cloud and some would be so sensitive that it would be run by the company," he said, "It's the choice that's important."


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Oct 17, 2011, 2:17 PM EDT
Adidas has a foothold in the NBA marketing game. Saturday there were people lined up around the block in Chicago to see Derrick Rose and buy his new adiZero Rose2 shoes. They also make the official NBA jerseys.
Which you are not buying right now because of the lockout.
The German group makes some $100 million in sales from licensed NBA products, with basketball products as a whole, including footwear, among its top five sporting categories.
Matt Powell, analyst at SportsOneSource, told Reuters licensed apparel sales could halve, similar to the last lockout in the 1998/99 season, if the season were canceled.
“Overall, sales of NBA licensed products fell by 20 percent last week, and I view that as the beginning of the fall because of the lockout,” he said.
Adidas is going to take a hit period this year because even if David Stern and Billy Hunter come out of the negotiating room on Tuesday singing Kumbayah, it will take some time for fans to warm up to the NBA again. Enough time that adidas would feel the hit of fan backlash through the holiday shopping season.
There are a lot of people and organizations to feel more sorry for than adidas, but you can add them to the list.
- Bucks outwork Bulls, stay alive on Jerryd Bayless game-winner 5
- Nets use 18-0 second-half run to secure Game 3 victory over Hawks 5
- Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle fined $25K for publicly criticizing officials after Game 3 loss to Rockets 9
- PBT Extra: Stephen Curry starting to have his defining playoff moments 8
- Behind 32 points from Kawhi Leonard, Spurs rout Clippers to take 2-1 series lead 13
- The Truth (and Marcin Gortat) will set Washington free, up 3-0 on Toronto after win 8
- James Harden scores 42 points to lead Rockets to Game 3 win, 3-0 series lead over Mavericks 17
- Why can’t the Pelicans foul in a timely manner? 7


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Publisher Kalypso Media and developer Realmforge Studios today announced that Dungeons 3 - Complete Collection will be released on 26th June for PC, PlayStation®4 and Xbox One.
New expansion and free seasonal update packs even more content into hit railway management sim
Kalypso Media and Yippee Entertainment are excited to announce that sports simulation title, Ski Jumping Pro VR is now available for Playstation VR and Steam VR.
Strategy specialists Kalypso Media and developer Limbic Entertainment have today announced the release of both Tropico 6’s first DLC, The Llama of Wall Street, and Seguridad Social – the seventh free update to the beloved dictator simulator.
Series' Trademark Wit Celebrated with New Trailer and Kalypso Store Exclusive Sale
Kalypso Media and Palindrome Interactive have today announced a simultaneous Spring 2020 release for their upcoming turn-based strategy hybrid Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars on PC (Steam | Kalypso Store), Xbox One, PlayStation®4 and Nintendo Switch. Steam customers can also now join in on the closed beta when they pre-order, while also securing the “Fangs & Bones” DLC and a digital soundtrack, all at a special discounted price.
Strategy specialists Kalypso Media and Limbic Entertainment have today announced the digital and physical release of Tropico 6 for PlayStation®4 and Xbox One.
New developer featurette offers fresh insights into Tropico 6
Tropico 6 launching for PlayStation®4 and Xbox One on 27th September 2019
New featurette released for Commandos 2 HD Remaster and Praetorians HD Remaster
Dungeons 3 in-game event offers enticing bonus rewards and…a glimpse at the future?
Necrophage’s Curse, the latest DLC for Shadows: Awakening, is available now on Steam, PlayStation®4 and Xbox One.
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