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BY L.A. LOREK
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At Startup Grind, Clay Christensen decked out in a business suit with tie, looked like he was about to address his Harvard Business School class.
Instead, Christensen, perched on the arm of a leather chair, spoke plainly and authoritatively, to an attentive audience of technology entrepreneurs, angel investors and VCs at Startup Grind, a two-day technology conference focused on startups held on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.
Christensen covered a lot of topics including how entrepreneurship is becoming a more predictable path to success through pattern recognition and that it’s no longer a trail and error process.
He also predicted major disruptions in education, smartphones and the venture capital industries.
“Just as I pray for Harvard Business School, I pray for Apple,” Christensen said.
And in the wake of recent suicides in Silicon Valley and the technology industry, Christensen also discussed his latest book How Will You Measure Your Life? The book focuses on integrity, happiness and living a balanced life.
For the first half of his talk, Christensen spoke directly to the audience. During the second half, Mark Suster, venture capitalist, quizzed him on a variety of topics.
Christensen, best known for his 1997 bestselling book The Innovator’s Dilemma about disruption in traditional industries, spent a great deal of time talking about how disruption breaks traditional businesses and spawns new ones. Disruption occurs when companies spend too much time focused on their existing business and fail to adopt new technology to meet future needs.
Christensen’s theory of disruption allows companies to predict “whether you will kill the incumbents or whether the incumbents will kill you.”
In one example of disruption, Christensen recounted his youth and his love of transistor radios because they were portable and allowed kids to listen to rock and roll music outside of the earshot of their parents. His parents had a large RCA radio equipped with vacuum tubes.
Transistors eventually replaced vacuum tubes in electronics because transistors were the superior technology. But they were also disruptive because they created a new marketplace.
Christensen explained that disruption occurs when incumbent industries respond to new competitors. He advised entrepreneurs to go after the bottom of a market and to work their way up. He also advised them to go after markets that have no customers. He used the example of a vendor selling solar TVs to the two billion people in Asia and Africa who don’t have electricity. They are thrilled with the devices. But people accustomed to high-quality TV in a market like the U.S. would not be as thrilled.
The path for entrepreneurs has also evolved from one of trail and error to an industry focused on pattern recognition.
“Most VCs still live in a world where they think it’s unpredictable to pick winning companies and entrepreneurs,” Christensen said. They still trust their gut instinct instead, he said.
That’s one reason why the venture capital industry is ripe for disruption, Christensen said.
“As a group, there are fewer venture capitalists that have read my research than any other group,” Christensen said. “They still think entrepreneurship is in the realm of intuition.”
“The Theory of Disruption” is what Christensen is best known for, he said.
Intel’s Co-founder Andy Grove, a fan of the Innovator’s Dilemma and author of Only the Paranoid Survive, told Christensen he should call the theory the “Christensen effect” because people would not understand what he meant by disruption.
“Everyone uses the word disruption but very few of them really understand what it means,” he said. “Disruption is what the competition will do in response to what you do.”
That’s why entrepreneurs should always move up from the bottom of the market in pursuit of profit, Christensen said. The existing market will flee up market.
“That’s actually quite important if you want to succeed,” he said.
He also advised startups to compete against non-consumption markets.
“When you have a new product it’s important to target people whose options are none,” Christensen said.
Tesla Motors makes $100,000 electric cars but that doesn’t fill a very big market niche. Instead, an electric carmaker should market a car that doesn’t go very far or very fast and sell them to the parent’s of teenagers, Christensen said.
Apple makes its iPhone and other products with proprietary technology, whereas the Android Operating System is built on open architecture. That makes the smart phone industry ripe for disruption, Christensen said. The marketplace will go to the cheaper Android-based smart phones.
Online education is leading to a massive disruption in the higher education industry. Christensen predicted 15 years from now half of all universities will go bankrupt including state institutions.
Lastly, Christensen explained how the venture capital industry will be disrupted, but not through crowdfunding. The VCs focus too much on large investments and they should be looking at the smaller deals too, he said.
He said that royalty-based financing, popular in Austin, has become a viable alternative to venture capital. Royalty-based financing gives an entrepreneur money in exchange for future repayment but doesn’t require any fixed payment schedules or amounts.
Christensen also talked about how an entrepreneur can find out if a customer is going to buy their product or not.
“What causes us to buy a product or service is stuff happens to us everyday,” Christensen said.
Understanding the cause and what motivates people to buy improves the probability of success to a much higher level, he said.
But the customer is the wrong unit of measurement, he said. Instead, an entrepreneur must understand the job the customer is trying to do.
Christensen recounted a story about a fast food restaurant that studied why customers bought milkshakes in the morning. They discovered that people who “hire” or buy milkshakes in the morning do so to keep themselves occupied on their drive to work because it lasted 25 minutes and satisfied their hunger. They occasionally “hire” bananas, donuts, bagels and coffee, but the milkshake did the job better than the others.
Clay Christensen Tells Startups How to Deal with Disruption
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Talcum Powder Lawsuit News
On Monday, a Los Angeles jury awarded damages of $417 million to Eva Echeverria in connection with her decades-long use of Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder for feminine hygiene purposes. Ms. Echeverria alleged her use of the talcum product caused her ovarian cancer.
California’s first trial alleging that Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder products (Baby Powder and Shower-to-Shower Powder) have caused ovarian cancer in women who use the products for feminine hygiene will begin today in the Los Angeles Superior Court.
On Thursday, a Missouri state court jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a Virginia woman more than $110 million based on her claim that she developed ovarian cancer after decades of using the company’s talcum powder products for feminine hygiene. The verdict is the largest yet in five trials raising similar claims.
Johnson & Johnson will face a fifth trial beginning April 10th alleging that its popular talcum powder products, baby powder and Shower-to-Shower, have caused ovarian or uterine cancer in women who used them for feminine hygiene. The first three trials resulted in jury verdicts for the women who brought them in the collective amount of $197 million. The fourth trial concluded with a jury verdict in favor of Johnson & Johnson and Imerys Talc America.
About 300 lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson in connection with its popular talcum powder products (J&J Baby Powder and Shower-to-Shower Powder) were consolidated earlier in Los Angeles Superior Court. The first trial on these cases presently is scheduled to begin on July 3rd.
On Friday, the fourth jury to hear a talcum powder cancer case returned a verdict in favor of Johnson & Johnson and Imerys Talc America. The jury split 11–1 on the decision against Nora Daniels of Columbia, Tennessee, who claimed that her ovarian and uterine cancer was caused by 36 years of using Johnson & Johnson baby powder for feminine hygiene. Ms. Daniels’ cancer was diagnosed in 2013.
A third St. Louis jury has awarded a California woman $70.1 million in connection with her use of Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder to keep her genital area dry. Deborah Giannecchini, age 63 of Modesto, reportedly used the product for 45 years. She now suffers from ovarian cancer, and has an 80 percent chance of dying within two years.
David Steinberg is a consultant and expert with more than 40 years experience in the cosmetic and over-the-counter industries. Among other services, Mr. Steinberg provides advice to cosmetic manufacturers on compliance with government regulations. Steinberg testified last week in the fourth trial against Johnson & Johnson brought by ovarian cancer victims who claim that their cancer was caused by the Company’s talcum powder products, Baby Powder and Shower-to-Shower Powder.
The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ordered yesterday that eleven pending federal court cases against Johnson & Johnson involving claims that its talcum-based products (Baby Powder and Shower-to-Shower Body Powder) be consolidated in a single federal court. The Panel determined that the U.S. District Court of New Jersey was the most appropriate Court to preside over the pretrial proceedings in the Johnson & Johnson lawsuits.
A United Kingdom and Australia-based mining company, Rio Tinto Minerals, and its subsidiary, Luzenac America, have been sued along with Johnson & Johnson by four women and the husband of a fifth woman who died. All five women were diagnosed with ovarian cancer between 2011 and 2015. The women all used Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder or Shower-to-Shower Powder as feminine hygiene products.

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2009/11/9-----According to DRAMeXchange, 1H’Nov contract price continues the sharply increasing upward pricing trend 13.9% to US$41 from US$36 due to the DDR2 shortage while the “High” contract price has surpassed spot price and reached US$50.
DRAMeXchange expects that DDR2 contract price will likely remain its strong momentum in November given the upside order from PC-OEM regarding to middle price models.
As for DDR3 contract price, DRAM vendors keep adopt “bundle strategy” to promote DDR3, resulted in the rising pricing trend for DDR3. However, DRAMeXchange has seen PC-OEMs accelerating DDR3 migration given the strong high DDR2 price.
DRAMeXchange expects that DDR3 crossover point will be moved earlier to the end-1Q10 or beginning of 2Q10 in terms of PC shipment basis.


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NY-NJ Truckers say Off-dock Empty Box Returns Adding to Costs
Motor carriers working the Port of New York and New Jersey are asking ocean liners and shippers to pick up more of the costs the truckers say they bear as a result of relocating empty containers further away from congested marine terminals. But there’s been an uneven response to those requests amid spiraling costs for fuel and driver pay, the truckers say.
In a late March email reviewed by JOC.com, CMA CGM told motor carriers at the port of New York and New Jersey that empty containers belonging to one customer should be dropped off in Monroe Township, New Jersey, which is about 30 miles from the port. According to the email, truckers were offered $600 for the move.
The truckers were directed to the location, which also houses a car junkyard, because the containers were owned by the shipper, who is responsible for where they finally end up, and not CMA CGM.
However, sources at three intermodal trucking firms claim they were not informed when they picked up the full containers that the empties would need to be returned somewhere other than the marine terminal where they originated. As a result, truckers were blocked for returns at the marine terminal, and only later told to go to Monroe, they claim. The claims could not be independently verified. CMA CGM did not respond to a request for comment.
An Elizabeth, New Jersey-based motor carrier executive who asked not to be identified told JOC.com that the $600 offer from CMA CGM doesn’t offset the costs of using up one-third of a driver’s available workday for delivering an empty container, much less the wasted trip trying to return the empty container to the marine terminal.
“It’s 45 minutes one way [to Monroe], without traffic,” said. “It could be a four-hour trip after waiting to dismount the empty container. We don’t have the time to waste. We need to deliver containers to get them off the port.”
Along with the Monroe depot, truckers are hauling empty containers 20 miles from the port to a yard in Old Bridge, New Jersey, operated by Integrated Industries. Motor carrier sources say that Maersk and Ocean Network Express are among the carriers that have directed their empty containers to Old Bridge and have agreed to the motor carrier’s rate for the trip.
In other instances, truckers have been directed to drop off empty containers at a site in Hillsborough, New Jersey, which is about 35 miles from the port. An executive with a Long Island-based motor carrier said they would only make the move if the customer agreed to their rate.
Fuel adds 50 percent to truck rate
The need for additional trips to handle empty containers comes as drayage costs are surging due to a tight driver market and increasing fuel costs. The Elizabeth-based executive said he has had to raise rates 25 percent in the first quarter to pay drivers more.
“Drivers are leaving port work,” the executive said, adding that 20 of the approximately 170 drivers it regularly used are now operating as independent motor carriers.
In addition, fuel surcharges are now running about 50 percent of the total cost, he added, up from about 36 percent last year.
Under the intermodal industry’s standard commercial agreement, whoever owns the containers can direct motor carriers to return them to a “satellite” location other than where they were originally received.
However, the agreement says that satellite locations have to be in the same “commercial territory” as the origin point and provider. The Elizabeth executive said locations such as Monroe and Old Bridge should not be considered within the NY-NJ port’s commercial territory.
“The ocean carriers are forcing us to go there,” the executive said. “It’s not optional.”
Box return process seen as inefficient
The use of empty container yards outside the largest port on the US East Coast is becoming more urgent as the marine terminals in New York and New Jersey struggle to balance import and empty containers.
The Union-based dispatcher described the process of returning empty containers to one of the port’s largest terminals as inefficient.
He said that three lines of trucks hauling empties are funneled down to one lane that goes between the empty container stacks. Three top loaders are available to remove empty containers in the lane. But if one or two top loaders are available ahead in the lane, other trucks still must wait because trucks aren’t allowed to pass in front of the machines.
“It’s torture that it takes two hours just to drop one empty,” the dispatcher said.
Major ocean carriers at the Port of New York and New Jersey are trying to manage empty container inventories by sending in empty sweepers and using the satellite yards. But the problem is being exacerbated by new carriers that are calling New York and New Jersey.
For about a week in March, truckers returning empty containers belonging to Wan Hai Lines, which started offering an Asia service in January, were only allowed to do so if they picked up an import container, according to data compiled by drayage software provider PortPro.
The double move aimed to balance marine terminal capacity between imports and empties. In addition, Wan Hai is said to be sending in a vessel to retrieve about 1,200 empty containers from New York and New Jersey. The ship’s name and its arrival date weren’t immediately available.
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Fitness clothing manufacturer Gymshark has made Danish-founded DSV a global logistics and transport partner.
DSV will provide international multimodal transport solutions for the fitness wear brand, with Gymshark hoping that the partnership will support the company’s rapid growth. It expects that the addition of DSV to its logistics network will help it to meet growing international sales, complex supply chain requirements, and customer expectations.
Morten Landry, Managing Director of Air & Sea at DSV UK explained: “As Gymshark’s business grows, its supply chain requirements have become increasingly complex, placing additional emphasis on the need for robust logistics services.”
Landry adds: “DSV’s operational expertise, global capabilities, infrastructure and IT solutions will provide reliability and visibility across Gymshark’s entire supply chain.”
DSV will consolidate Gymshark’s shipments from manufacturers around the world under one forwarder, making use of distribution centres in the UK, Belgium, Australia, Canada, and the USA.
Gymshark’s Sourcing Director Zac Singh said: “We’re looking forward to an excellent working partnership with them as our global logistics and transport supplier.”


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Netflix hit by shareholder lawsuit over missed subscriber growth estimates and share price drop
Netflix has been sued by a shareholder in US court in California accusing the streaming entertainment company of misleading the market about its ability to continue adding subscribers in recent months.
The lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco seeks damages for Netflix’s declining share price this year after the company missed its subscriber growth estimates.
Filed by a Texas-based investment fund, the lawsuit accused Los Gatos, Calif.-based Netflix and its top executives of failing to disclose that its growth was slowing amid increased competition and losing revenue. subscribers on a net basis.
Shares of Netflix fell 20% in January after reporting weak subscriber growth. Shares of Netflix then plunged more than 35% on April 20 to close at $226.19 (about Rs.17,200) after it said it lost 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter, well below its forecast to add more 2.5 million subscribers. Its shares were trading at $199.87 (around 15,246 rupees) as of midday on Wednesday.
The company attributed the quarterly decline to inflation, competition from other streaming services and its suspension of service in Russia following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which cost Netflix 700,000 members.
A Netflix spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The lawsuit names Netflix co-chief executives Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos and chief financial officer Spencer Neumann. He is seeking damages from investors who traded Netflix stock between October 19, 2021 and April 19, 2022.
The case is Pirani v. Netflix et al., No. 22-cv-02672, US District Court, Northern District of California.
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The recent cut in petrol and diesel prices by Rs 2.50 by the Centre is estimated to reduce the combined EBITDA margins of IOCL, HPCL and BPCL by Rs 6500 crore during current fiscal, rating agency Moody’s said Monday.
It also said on October 4, the government reduced petrol and diesel retail selling prices by Rs 2.50 per liter, through the lowering of excise duties by Rs 1.50 per litre and asking the country’s oil marketing companies (OMCs) to absorb the remaining Rs 1 per liter ($2.1 per barrel) price cut.
“We estimate that the government’s decision will reduce the combined EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) of the three OMCs by INR 65 billion (Rs 6500 crore) in fiscal 2019, which ends in March 2019, which is around 9 per cent of their total EBITDA of INR 692 billion (Rs 69200 crore in fiscal 2018). Read More
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway announced late today (Wednesday) that it will release first quarter financial results on Friday, May 8 and implied we should have known all along that would be the date.
In a news release on the company's web site, Berkshire said it has "consistently" released quarterly financial statements "on a Friday afternoon within 40 days following the end of the calendar quarter... Depending on how the calendar falls this can be the first or second Friday of the second month following the quarter end." The SEC gives companies 40 days to file their Form 10-Q.
While the release does not explicitly say Berkshire releases earnings on the lastFriday that falls within the 40 day period, that appears to be the rule. (Mark your calendars for next time!)
This year, that puts the Q1 report on the second Friday of May, rather than the first.
In its news release, Berkshire says there "has been some misreporting regarding the timing" of its Q1 release and notes that it "was never scheduled to release earnings this week."
In the past three years, the release has fallen on the Friday before the company's annual shareholders meeting, leading some to believe that it would happen again this year.
This morning, we relayed an AP report that the earnings would not be out this week and that no release date had yet been set.
Reuters initially went a bit further, with a headline of Berkshire Hathaway Delays Resultsand a quote from surprised Morningstar analyst Bill Bergman: "It is always on the eve of the meeting." It has since posted another version of the story saying Berkshire will not report earnings Friday "as expected."


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London tops the list of most searched global summer holiday destination by Indians followed by Bangkok and New York according to a recent survey.
Against the three all-time favourite destinations London, New York, and Dubai, cities like Abu Dhabi and Bangkok along with Paris and Toronto are fast becoming hotspots for Indian travellers, according to global travel search site Skyscanner.
"We have seen a 65 per cent year on year increase in outbound travel amongst Indian travellers this summer holiday. Based on our data, Indians are becoming more experimental when it comes to travelling abroad," says Kavitha Gnanamurthy, Senior Marketing Manager, Skyscanner India.
"In the spirit of exploration, they are looking for longer, more expensive trips and are searching for newer destinations," she says.
London emerged as most popular destination with staggering 53 per cent increase in overall searches from India, the survey says.
Known as capital of afternoon tea, alongside the Big Ben and the Thames, London offers travellers a mix of Roman history and modern culture from royalty to the people's parliament, from Roman ruins to castles and cathedrals.
Upcoming events this month and in July include the 'Taste of London' festival, Wimbledon 2015 and the Queen's birthday.
According to Skyscanner, tourists stay an average of 22 days in London.
With a 119 per cent year on year increase in searches from India, Bangkok, with its ancient sites, cheap shopping, delicious Thai food, never-ending nightlife and exotic beaches remains a hot favourite this season for Indian travellers.
With an added benefit of a visa-less travel, visitors from India can also look forward to the Amazing Thailand Grand Sales from mid-June to September end.
The survey puts the average length of the stay for Indian travellers in Bangkok at 7 days.
New York City hosts over half a billion tourists each year who travel to experience the hustle bustle of the "city that never sleeps". The city is full of things to do, including Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Broadway musicals and plays.
With a 40 per cent surge in searches Year on Year, the city is third most popular global destination amongst Indians.
The average length of stay for Indian travellers has been surveyed to be about 33 days.
With a Year on Year increase of 12 per cent, Glitzy Dubai of high-rises and shopping malls, desert safari and dune bashing, pristine beaches and indoor ski slopes continues to find itself amongst the most preferred international destinations by Indians, says the survey.


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As we continue to put together all the data for the year-end edition of By The Numbers, General Motors has announced that it sold more than a million vehicles in the US last year that achieved at least 30 miles per gallon on the highway. More impressively, GM managed this feat using multiple strategies including small vehicle size, turbocharged engines and hybrid or plug-in technologies across four brands (Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC) accounting for 13 separate models. This number will grow even more in 2013 thanks to cars like the all-electric Spark, the diesel Cruze, the range-extended Cadillac ELR and the Buick Encore compact CUV.
GM's small car sales were up 39 percent last year helping to attain this million-sales mark for 30-mpg models, and almost 40 percent of all GM sales consisted of cars with fuel-efficient I4 engines. In regards to more advanced means of improving fuel economy, GM says that it plans on having 500,000 vehicles with "some form of electrification" on the road by 2017.
Scroll down for the full list of GM's million 30+ mpg cars as well as an informative press release.
Want proof that General Motors has increased global ambitions for its 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray? It's staging the world premiere of the model's convertible variant at the Geneva Motor Show early next month.
As previously rumored, the droptop rendered above will debut at the Swiss show, making its first appearance anywhere on March 5. According to Susan Docherty, president and managing director of Chevrolet, the location makes sense because Corvette "...is an icon that has long been recognized and admired even in countries where it's never officially been offered."
While neither Chevrolet nor the Corvette has a major sales presence in Switzerland, the Bowtie's European headquarters is located in Zurich (about three hours to the northeast of Geneva) and GM has made it clear that it wants to build the Chevrolet brand up across Europe.
This restyled blue 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is wearing manufacturer plates, and it appears to be the same one seen around the internet in various pictures lately. This crash is likely not part of the Chevrolet testing regimen, however. Digital Corvettes forum member gpetry posted the shot with a note: "got this picture e-mailed from a friend in Arizona last week..." No circumstances are given, other than the incident occurred in the thick of a set of curvy roads, and the coupe ping-ponged off a guardrail and into the rock wall. Hopefully everyone involved in the incident walked away.
It may not be a pretty thing to see, a crashed sports car that's not even available for sale yet, but rest easy. Many pre-production cars are used for development and then unceremoniously crushed and scrapped, anyway. If that's the case here, that makes this wrecked 'Vette less of a tragedy and more of a case of exceptional efficiency.


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NEW DELHI: Indian women's long wait for a female condom is over.
Stateowned Hindustan Latex Ltd is launching the country's first specially designed female condom this week.
Called Confidom, the condom will come in a pack of two and cost Rs 100. Originally made by the UK's Female Health Company, Hindustan Latex will initially import the condoms. By November 2006, it will start manufacturing them on its own. This is expected to bring the price down by 55 per cent .
According to health ministry officials, the first-of-its-kind female condom will better protect women against HIV/AIDS. Suresh Kumar, Hindustan Latex's sales chief, said: "This is the world's first condom made out of polyurethane. We will launch one lakh female condoms in the four metros. When a male partner refuses to wear a condom or is drunk and abusive, women need self-initiated methods. Female condoms can now protect them."
Director of social marketing in the health ministry Dr Rajendra Mishra said: "The number of female HIV carriers is rising. Among the current 42 million HIV carriers in the world, half are women. That's why female condoms are so important. We supply 1.2 billion condoms for men to our health centres every year. We intend to make female condoms equally popular."
The company had commissioned a survey in Mumbai, Kolkata, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra to study the acceptability and feasibility of female condoms among users and non-users in India.
The feedback was favourable. The study found consistent use of the female condoms among all participants.


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By Adam R Jacobson
WINCHESTER, VA. — Northern Virginia-based digital measurement firm comScore has certainly had its share of turmoil in recent weeks.
For those not keeping score, there was an anticipated delisting from Nasdaq set for Feb. 8.
That didn’t happen, but shares in SCOR have not recovered from a $9.20 drop seen between Feb. 3 and Feb. 6.
The plummeting share value is directly tied to the revelation that comScore has been unable to file its Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended Dec. 31, 2015 in a timely manner, resulting in a shareholder lawsuit over alleged securities laws violations by comScore associated to the delayed filing.
It also seems fiscal 2013, 2014 and 2015 results are in question for comScore, which completed its merger with former competitor Rentrak Corp. in January 2016 and is now keeping the financial world in suspense as it has hastily called a conference call for Friday, Feb. 24 at 8 a.m. to “provide a company update.”
For believers in comScore’s abilities and its long-term needs to marketers and CMOs, an announcement Wednesday morning from the Media Rating Council is a much-needed bit of positive news that could even ensure its long-term survival and getting gobbled in a fire sale by Nielsen.
Simply put, comScore has been granted MRC accreditation for two key metrics categories, building on its recent accreditation of its Sophisticated Invalid Traffic (SIVT) detection capabilities across both desktop and mobile web.
Specifically, the MRC gave its OK for comScore’s mobile viewable impressions and related viewability metrics for display and video ads, in mobile web and in-app, in validated Campaign Essentials (vCE).
“We congratulate comScore on the accreditation of its mobile display and video viewability measurement metrics,” said MRC Executive Director and CEO George W. Ivie. “Expanding its MRC accredited viewability metrics from desktop now to mobile clearly demonstrates comScore’s commitment to quality measurement regardless of platform, and further establishes comScore as an industry leader in promoting a superior measurement environment for the buying and selling of digital advertising.”
Dan Hess, comScore’s EVP/Products, added, “We’re working hard to help our clients and the industry bridge the gaps that divide devices and platforms. Cross-platform ad verification – including mobile viewability – helps close one such gap.”
ComScore was the first company to offer an MRC-accredited viewable GRP for desktop display and video campaigns. The company’s Audience module of validated Campaign Essentials, which includes its reporting of digital campaign age, gender, and behavior-based ethnicity demographics, and the resulting reach, frequency and GRPs, received MRC accreditation in April 2016.


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Yesterday, Salesforce.com announced its intent to buy its own educational/non-profit arm, Salesforce.org for $300 million. On its face, this feels like a confusing turn of events, but industry experts say it’s really about aligning educational and non-profit verticals across the entire organization.
Salesforce has always made a lot of hay about being a responsible capitalist. It’s something it highlights at events and really extends with the 1-1-1 model that it created, which gives one percent of profit, time and resources (product) to education and non-profits. Its employees are given time off and are encouraged to work in the community. Salesforce.org has been the driver behind this, but something drove the company to bring Salesforce.org into the fold.
While it’s easy to be cynical about the possible motivations, it could be a simple business reason, says Ray Wang, founder and principal analyst at Constellation Research. As he pointed out, it didn’t make a lot of sense from a business perspective to be running two separate entities with separate executive teams, bookkeeping systems and sales teams. What’s more, he said there was some confusion over lack of alignment and messaging between the Salesforce.com education sales team and what was happening at Salesforce.org.


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OnePlus 10T: OnePlus exposes its upcoming premium phone as the OnePlus Ace Pro in China
Last week, OnePlus announced the launch date of its next premium phone, the OnePlus 10T. The OnePlus 10T is destined to launch globally on August 3, and will apparently debut on that same day in China, albeit with a different name.
OnePlus has now begun to tease the launch of the OnePlus Ace Pro on its Weibo account. That, of course, means the OnePlus Ace Pro will be a Chinese-market product. The company has confirmed that the phone will arrive on August 3, at 19:00, which looks to be three hours before the phone makes its global debut as the OnePlus 10T. This isn't the first time OnePlus has released one device for China and other markets with different names, as it did so a few months ago with the OnePlus 10R and OnePlus Ace.
The company has also revealed images of the OnePlus 10 Ace Pro, with the phone set to take design cues from the OnePlus 10 Pro. As rumored, Hasselblad branding is indeed missing, and the alert slider appears to be gone as well. So far, OnePlus has confirmed a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, LPDDR5 RAM, UFS 3.1 storage, and an AnTuTu score of 1,141,383 for the phone.


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- The prospect of big tech firms, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, paying billions of dollars more in tax in Europe got more real on Thursday.
- France pushed forward with plans to tax the revenue of internet giants, with a bill that could generate $563 million more in income for the French government being passed by lower parliament.
- The UK is considering similar proposals and Boris Johnson, the man most likely to be Britain’s next prime minister, indicated his support for the idea.
- “We’ve got to find a way of taxing the internet giants on their income, because at the moment it is simply unfair,” Johnson said.
- Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories.
Plans to make the big tech firms pay billions of dollars more in tax in Europe took significant strides forward on Thursday.
In France, the country’s lower parliament passed a pioneering bill aimed at taxing the revenues, rather than the profits, of companies including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, AP reports.
Meanwhile, the favorite to become Britain’s next prime minister, Boris Johnson, indicated his support for similar proposals in the UK, where there is growing anger about the amount of tax paid by giant US corporations.
The idea of a tax on revenues is designed to combat the complex arrangements most US tech firms have in place to avoid paying high tax bills.
Tech firms do this by routeing their sales through a subsidiary in a country with lower taxes, such as Ireland. Their subsidiaries report revenue based on services provided to the parent company, resulting in drastically lower revenue and profit, and, therefore, lower corporation tax.
Read more: Tech’s tax bombshell: Internet giants face billions more in taxes in Europe as regulators demand ‘justice’
To close this loophole, France plans to tax the French sales of digital companies with global revenue of more than €750 million ($844 million) and French revenue of over €25 million ($28 million). The country estimates that this could raise about €500 million ($563 million), for the public purse every year.
The bill proposing the tax was approved by France’s lower house of parliament on Thursday. It will be put before the Senate next week, where it is expected to be rubber-stamped, AP reports.
Bruno le Maire, the finance minister in President Emmanuel Macron’s government, said in March that the tax was about “justice.”
“These digital giants use our personal data, make huge profits out of these data,” and “then transfer the money somewhere else without paying their fair amount of taxes.”
Elsewhere on Thursday, the man most likely to be Britain’s new prime minister signaled that he will get behind similar proposals currently under consideration in the UK.
In October, Chancellor Philip Hammond said the UK would tax 2% of British user-generated revenue in a new “digital services tax,” which could bring in up to £400 million ($502 million), a year for the Treasury.
Johnson appears to like the idea.
“It’s deeply unfair that high street businesses are paying tax through the nose … whereas the internet giants, the FAANGs — Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google — are paying virtually nothing,” he said at a leadership event, according to Reuters.
“We’ve got to find a way of taxing the internet giants on their income, because at the moment it is simply unfair.”
Johnson’s words were welcomed by Damian Collins, the British lawmaker who has been relentless in holding Facebook to account for the Cambridge Analytica data breach. “The big tech companies should pay a level of tax that directly relates to the huge value of the business they do in the UK,” he tweeted on Friday.
Support for a tax on big tech runs across party lines as well.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted at snarky happy 25th birthday message for Amazon on Friday. He was pictured signing a card, which contained the message: “You owe the British people millions in taxes that pay for the public services that we all rely on. Please pay your fair share.”
My card to @Amazon on its 25th birthday.
“You owe the British people millions in taxes that pay for the public services that we all rely on. Please pay your fair share.”#Amazon #Amazon25 pic.twitter.com/8YewzxEb1K
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) July 5, 2019
Both France and the UK have said they hope their plans will appeal to other countries. There are ongoing talks among the G20 and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to reform the way the companies are taxed.
Big tech firms have unsurprisingly bristled at the notion of paying billions more in tax. At the time Chancellor Philip Hammond announced his vision, TechUK — the British lobbying group that counts Facebook, Amazon, and Google among its members — said: “The kind of tax being proposed will be bad for investment and bad for the UK economy.”
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Reno, Nev. (January 16, 2014) -The president of an entrepreneurial manufacturing company announced the company’s plans to move their headquarters to Reno, Nev. at an economic development update luncheon hosted by the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (EDAWN).
Formed in New Zealand a cutting edge manufacturing company decided to base US headquarters in Reno, Nev. as they begin developing product for the construction industry. The novel idea for the company was revealed discreetly at a luncheon on Thursday, and will add 15 jobs to the region during the first few years of operations.
Technology, manufacturing, and headquarters are all target sectors for EDAWN’s mission of job creation. The presence of the new headquarters means a total of 4 announced relocations only six months into the fiscal year, well on track for their target goal of 7. When our region can attract headquarters we bring high paying jobs and decision makers to live in the community. It is the decision makers who can see the attractive qualities of the area and ideally work with local suppliers and vendors to meet their needs.
The President and Business Manager of the operation have each taken up residence in the region as the operations begin commencing in early 2014. In addition, after an introduction to Nancy McCormick, the Vice President of Business Retention and Expansion at EDAWN, they began engaging with business leaders in the community and local suppliers for their production.
“It is exciting to have an international company choose Reno over the many other options they had in the U.S. Their decision to manufacture in Reno speaks to our many strategic advantages not only for manufacturing but for distribution in the West,” said Mike Kazmierski, CEO of EDAWN.
The announcement came during an economic development update at EDAWN’s third annual Economic Development Update Luncheon at the Peppermill Resort Spa Casino.Over 250 local business, community leaders and elected officials gathered as EDAWN President and CEO, Mike Kazmierski, highlighted development wins in 2013, the new business pipeline and trends for the coming year.
Kazmierski reported a nearly 80 percent increase in site visits from companies interested in relocating or expanding to the region and nearly three times the quantity of jobs compared to previous years. There were 3,460 jobs announced in 2013 across several industries, with manufacturing making up 46 percent. Companies in the potential announcements pipeline represent over 2,900 jobs to the region in the next five years, in addition to the 1,723 jobs and four headquarters already announced in fiscal year 2013. Nancy McCormick, vice president of business retention, expansion & workforce development, visited 203 companies last year, 77 percent of which reported recent or future plans for growth.
The luncheon also featured updates from EDAWN’s entrepreneurial development effort, set forth by Vice President Doug Erwin who has been the curator behind several entrepreneurial projects in the region including 1 Million Cups, TedXReno, Start-Up Weekend, and multiple business plan workshops and competitions. Kazmierski reported a surge of entrepreneurial connection and activity and that Nevada doubled its entrepreneurial activity rate on a national scale.
Kazmierski projected increased growth and improvement in all three sectors, attraction, retention and entrepreneurial development, over the coming year.


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GameStop, the world’s largest video game retailer, March 28 reported a fourth-quarter (ended Feb. 3) net loss of $105.9 million compared to income of $208.7 million during the previous-year period. Revenue topped $3.5 billion from $3 billion last year.
As previously reported, GameStop incurred $406.5 million ($311 million after taxes) in asset impairment charges related to third-party (AT&T) mobile phone sales in its technology brands division.
Regardless, same-store store sales grew 12.2% (14.2% in the U.S. and 8.3% internationally). New hardware sales increased 44.8%, led by demand for Nintendo Switch, and new software sales increased 12.4% driven by a strong title lineup. Pre-owned (used) game sales declined 2.6%.
Digital sales increased 10.6% to $413 million, while collectibles sales (trend, action figures, posters, trading cards, etc.) increased 22.8% to $260.8 million, driven by continued expansion of licensed merchandise offerings and targeted promotions during the holiday period.
Technology sales decreased 14.2% to $219.7 million, driven primarily by the previously disclosed change in AT&T’s dealer compensation structure. Excluding the impairment charges, operating income decreased 8.5% to $31.1 million from $34 million in the prior-year quarter.
CEO Mike Mauler said that while fiscal 2017 delivered a “solid performance,” GameStop going forward would focus on three key business units: games, collectibles, and technology brands.
“We plan to pause on investing in additional new businesses or acquisitions and focus on the fundamentals of improving the businesses that we already have,” Mauler said. “Focusing on the basics of retail operational excellence across the organization will maximize our free cash flow, improve our performance and, ultimately, deliver returns for our shareholders.”
Mauler was named CEO in February when long-time CEO Paul Raines stepped down for health reasons. Raines died March 5 following reoccurrence of cancer.


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Apple doesn’t really talk about the Surface, but was pretty clear from the last, June 4, WWDC keynote that Microsoft’s line is beginning to have a direct impact on the company. Between the iMac Pro and a rethink of iOS dedicated, in part, to bringing more functionality to the iPad Pro line, the message is clear: Apple’s not giving up any of its market share without a fight.
The Surface line started off pretty humbly – a sort of proof of concept for Windows 10. But in the last couple of years, it’s grown into something much more interesting. And a big part of that play has been an attempt to really hit Apple where it hurts – creative pros. Nowhere was that made more clear that at last year’s Windows 10 Creators Update event, in which the company focused on 3D creation and introduced the Surface Studio – an iMac competitor designed specifically with designers in mind.
This week’s introduction of the iMac Pro isn’t a radical departure for Apple – aside from a new space gray paint job, there’s no real aesthetic difference between this and the latest iMacs. But as the name pretty clearly implies, Apple is no longer worried about its all-in-one cannibalizing desktop sales.
The hardware is finally at a level where Apple can deliver real performance in the slim frame, and customers have expressed interest in using iMacs as professional devices. Besides, the company has already fessed up to the fact that it kind of painted itself into the corner with the Mac Pro, so as it goes back to the drawing board with that line, the iMac Pro offersa chance to continue to appease that user base.
The introduction of the iMac Pro echoes a similar move from Apple on the iPad front. Two-in-ones are a rare bright spot in an otherwise flat tablet market, so it opted to put its own spin on the category. Rather than reinventing the wheel, it turned up the fire power, delivered a larger screen and brought an additional input in the form of the pencil.
This week’s WWDC marks a move to make the iPad Pro line more of a productivity powerhouse, both through the launch of new hardware and iOS upgrade that brings more desktop like functionality to the system. It’s not quite the Surface line’s full Windows 10 functionality, but it does appear to be the company acknowledging that users are looking for a more robust system with their professional tablets.
Apple isn’t likely to acknowledge as much, but the company is finally seeing a legitimate competitor to its grip on the creative field. Through the Surface line, Microsoft has delivered good idea and creative solutions. And this latest round of hardware and software solutions is Apple is really starting to push back.


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Creative Assembly is making a new sci-fi adventure
It's said to be an FPS.
Even though Creative Assembly is mainly known for their brilliant strategy games, a lot of us think that Alien: Isolation is the studio's best game yet. And now the same team is preparing for a new sci-fi adventure, although without Xenomorphs.
This is revealed in the latest issue of Edge Magazine, in which creative director Alistair Hope says the studio is working on a "as-yet-unnamed science-fiction FPS", which he claims "drive for attention to detail and authenticity". Authenticity to what, you might ask, and it doesn't get less cryptic when he adds that the team commits to "understanding the source material".
One thing is for certain though, and that is that the game is a brand new IP, as explained by chief product officer Rob Bartholomew:
"It's our new IP, and it's a world that we're creating, and of course we're wringing our hands over it and we really want to get that right. We want to understand what authenticity in a blue ocean or an open sky looks like, when you've got a blank page in front of you."
Hopefully, we won't have to wait unreasonably long before we get to know more, as this game has probably been under development for quite some time already, considering that the studio now willingly talks about it.


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So you don’t get to go to SXSW
this year. So what? This month, you can swill old-school cocktails from the comfort of your own home. As part of its ongoing campaign to promote the two-hour premiere of season five of “Mad Men,” AMC is offering an online party planner
to help you toast the big event on Mar. 25.
Meanwhile, VH1 is honing its fist-pumping skills for the cast of “Jersey Shore,” which is crashing its party Mar. 16 and 17 for a two-night “Pop Up Video” marathon
With all of this network talk, we should mention Netflix is rumored to be launching its own cable channel
, or at least partnering with one.
Forget rumors. Starbucks is
launching an at-home coffee machine dubbed “Verismo
,” entering into the competitive single-serve espresso business.
Fox News reporter Doug Luzader could’ve used an espresso. He was too tuckered out from a long Super Tuesday to stay awake during an interview
about the GOP race.
Alex Trebek struggled with an on-air flub of his own. Seems the “Jeopardy” host isn’t a devoted fan of “Arrested Development,” as he struggled to correctly pronounce
the character name Dr. Tobias Funke, played by comedian David Cross.
As big a fail as that was, it doesn’t top the fall of a London billboard
that struck and injured four pedestrians. The billboard for fashion brand Mango featured modeling icon Kate Moss—good to know she’s still flooring people with her beauty.
This week, fathers were floored by Huggies’ “Dad Test” campaign
, but men can surely appreciate Dial’s push for higher levels of testosterone on Pinterest
. The soap maker is featuring its Dial for Men brand on the popular sharing site.
And that’s all she (or he
) wrote, folks. Any weekend plans? We’re keeping our fingers crossed that one of our Twitter followers
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The Second Annual “Carving for the Cure” takes place May 1 – 3, 2014 at the Piedmont Triad Farmers Market in Colfax, North Carolina.
Thirteen carvers from around the country will create pieces of art from blocks of wood using chain saws and hand tools. Spectators can watch the carvers sculpt on May 1 and 2 from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm and on May 3 from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm. Sculptures will be auctioned off on Saturday, May 3 at 1:00 pm along with machine-made quilts to raise money for Susan G. Komen for the Cure®. Last year “Carving for the Cure” raised over $5,000 which provided 50 free mammograms for women who may not have been able to afford them otherwise.
In addition to the live auction on Saturday, there will be raffles that run from Thursday through Saturday at 12:00 pm with the proceeds going to the cancer organization. The local Susan G. Komen chapter will be present to accept cash donations as well.
The “Carving for the Cure” event will provide entertainment for your entire family. There will be kids’ activities and local vendors present during the event. Stoney Ridge Bluegrass Band will provide live music on Saturday from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. Admission is free!
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Steve Jobs has a tough act to follow at the Macworld Conference & Expo on Tuesday: himself.
At last year's trade show, Apple's charismatic CEO hurtled into the cell phone industry with the iPhone, jettisoned the word "computer" from the Macintosh maker's name and launched the Apple TV set-top box.
Since then, Apple's stock has doubled, its computers' market share has grown and consumers have continued their love affair with iPod media players.
This year's announcements aren't likely to dazzle like last year's. Jobs is expected to take the wraps off a movie rental service, show off an ultra-portable laptop and maybe give the iPhone a faster connection to the Net.
"All I can say for certain is that Macworld 2008 is not going to top 2007. That was the Macworld of Macworlds," said Charlie Wolf, analyst at Needham & Co.
Still, Apple is expected to boom on. It has targeted sales of 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008, meaning the handset that combines the functions of an iPod, cell phone and wireless Web browser could account for roughly 1 percent of cell phones expected to be sold worldwide this year.
There is little doubt among observers — even its competitors — it can reach that goal.
Sales of the iPod, meanwhile, are still growing, though not as fast as before. And they could pick up steam again.
Analysts expect Apple to post record sales again this year despite concerns of an overall slowdown in consumer spending. Wall Street predicts Apple will earn $5.09 per share for its fiscal 2008, up nearly 30 percent from $3.93 per share last year, on annual sales that will grow 32 percent to $31.7 billion, according to a poll of analysts by Thomson Financial.
In fact, Apple outpaced the overall PC industry last year. In its last quarterly report, for the period ending in September, the company sold 2.16 million Macs, up 34 percent from the year earlier and more than double the worldwide PC growth rate of 15.5 percent, according to IDC.
A halo effect from iPods has helped. Since the iPod debuted in 2001, more than 119 million have been sold, helping to propel Apple's market capitalization from $6 billion to $155 billion.
Likewise, analysts believe the iPhone will help lure more newcomers to the Mac platform. Apple's share of the PC market in the U.S. grew to 7.6 percent in the fall of 2007 from 6 percent the year before, according to Gartner Inc.
Many Wall Street analysts expect Apple's stock, which closed Thursday at $178.02, to surpass $200 in 2008.
It's not that Apple can't go wrong. It's just that its recent streak of innovation and business execution has overshadowed hiccups along the way.
Apple found itself in the uncommon situation a few times last year of placating angry iPhone customers after it slashed the product's price and insisted on barring third-party programs from running on the handset, for instance. Apple has since vowed to open the device to third-party developers but hasn't said how it will.
UBS Investment Research analyst Ben Reitzes raised his earnings estimates for Apple last month, citing the company's momentum. His latest projection of earnings of $5.05 per share on a 35 percent rise in sales in fiscal 2008 could prove conservative, he said, because it excludes revenue he expects Apple to draw from new products and services Jobs will unveil at Macworld and thereafter.
Here's where Apple is likely headed.
— It is going to the movies, likely announcing Tuesday the addition of movies for rent at its online iTunes Store for $3.99 apiece for 24 hours, the common window Hollywood has imposed on other digital movie rental services.
Apple will have lots of competition in this arena, but Apple "is setting the table for the consumer movie experience for the next 25 years," said Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. "Today it doesn't matter but five, 10 years from now, it'll be how everybody will be watching movies."
Apple has reportedly secured deals with 20th Century Fox and Disney studios, and may be close to signing deals with Warner Bros. and Paramount.
The movie rental component on iTunes and a product upgrade are expected to also boost the anemic sales of Apple TV, the set-top box launched at last year's Macworld that delivers video and other multimedia content from your PC to a television. Munster estimates about 1.8 million Apple TV devices were sold through 2007 and expects another 2.9 million units to ship this year.
— It's going on a diet. A prevailing theory is that Jobs will unveil an ultra-portable notebook, weighing somewhere between 2 and 4 pounds, that would fill a hole in Apple's computer lineup. American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu predicts the slim "MacBook Mini" could be priced at $1,500 to $2,000 and could feature a flash memory drive instead of a standard hard drive to reduce the weight, boost battery life, and make it more rugged and reliable.
— And it's going faster. As in 3G, a speedier cellular network option for Web browsing or other data features on the iPhone. Apple may not be ready to discuss this at Macworld, but its carrier partner AT&T Inc. has already revealed that a 3G iPhone is planned for 2008.
Even though Apple is staying mum until Tuesday, it's still got everybody else talking.
Macworld runs Tuesday through Friday at the Moscone convention center in San Francisco.


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New Delhi: Mi India on Wednesday announced that its recently launched smartphone -- Mi 11 Lite -- has crossed sales worth over Rs 200 crore within the first week of its launch. The company said that Mi 11 Lite has received an outstanding response from Mi Fans and consumers. Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite Launched in India at Rs 21,999; Mi Watch Revolve Active Priced at Rs 9,999.
"With the launch of Mi 11 Lite as well, we introduced the perks of a flagship level experience featured in an ultralight and slim form factor, for our fashionable young audiences," Vivek Kumar, Business Lead - Mi smartphones, said in a statement. "The 200 crore milestone is a testimony that we are constantly supported by our Mi Fans and consumers, when we try something new and exciting, and that there is an appetite for such devices in the market," Kumar added.
₹ 𝟮𝟬𝟬 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀+🔥
Mi Fans, we're excited to share that we have registered business worth ₹ 200 Cr+ within just 7 days of launch 🤩
— Mi India (@XiaomiIndia) June 30, 2021
Mi 11 Lite is priced at Rs 21,999 for 6GB+128GB variant and Rs 23,999 for 8GB+128GB variant. Mi 11 Lite sports a 6.55-inch 10-bit AMOLED DotDisplay. It comes with 1.07 billion on-screen colours. The smartphone sports a triple-camera setup that features a 64MP primary camera, 8MP ultra-wide lens along a 5MP telemacro camera. It also comes with a 16MP selfie camera.
The smartphone is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 732G and is based on an 8nm manufacturing process offering a perfect blend of power, efficiency and speed. The smartphone houses a 4,250mAh battery and 33W fast charging support.
(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Jun 30, 2021 02:08 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).


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Three months ago, Charlotte, N.C.-based integration company Audio Video Concepts and Designs wanted to refresh its image with a new name that would better represent the company’s suite of services that cover much more than AV installs. The company decided on the name CO-DA, and has since expanded its offerings to include lighting design, security, and more.
When CO-DA was recently looking to bolster the security of a challenging residential project, company COO Rob Burns remembered intercom and access control manufacturer 2N’s booth at CEDIA Expo and realized its products were the perfect solution to his video doorbell and security panel problems.
“We were doing a large home, and we came across 2N [at CEDIA Expo] and saw that it covered all the bases: it was clean, it was useful,” says Burns.
Not long after CEDIA Expo, Burns heard from a few of his sales reps that 2N offers an open platform, allowing CO-DA to seamlessly integrate 2N products into various control systems like Savant and Control4, often without having to worry about any compatibility issues. “[Open platforms] are a great feature to have and 2N does it cleanly,” adds Burns.
2N Flush, Surface Mounts Complement Room Design
With the recent surge of integrators working more closely with designers, Burns and his team have been looking for more products that can complement a customer’s home decor and avoid looking like a distracting panel on the wall.
Thankfully, 2N offers both flush and surface mounts for many of its IP intercom security panels, allowing the products to integrate into a home exactly as a designer or integrator wants, regardless of a home’s design and decor.
“We service many different types of clientele, but it’s [often] about the wife factor…the guys want the cool gear and we want it to integrate well with our phones, but the women care about the way that it looks,” says Burns, who further suggests that 2N’s products provide CO-DA and its customers a higher-end experience overall.
“It’s not a hard sell anymore. I think that everybody wants [these products], and they’ve tested the DIY versions. I think that most people that call us to integrate their systems, they are not looking to just do Amazon Alexa’s everywhere…so you need to offer them something a little more robust, and that’s what 2N does for us.”
2N was recently named a Bullet Brand in the CE Pro 100 Brand Analysis Study. The brand picked up five integrators in 2019 to reach 26% penetration among the CE Pro 100 in the video doorbell category.


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The Ninja Turtles are going to have a busy summer this year. In addition to the upcoming movie Out of the Shadows due in June, there’s also Mutants in Manhattan, the new game from Platinum Games of Bayonetta fame. The Turtles will be playable in four player co-op, or solo as you switch between them at the press of a button to pull off some wicked combos. Now a new trailer has hit, showing off the bad guys you’ll be facing.
The iconic enemies of the Heroes in a Half Shell–Bebop, Rocksteady, Karai, those guys–make an appearance here, and it doesn’t look like they’ll be easy to deal with. Also in the trailer: a giant talking shark man (because this is the Ninja Turtles, after all), and the Super Shredder. Yeah, that’s gonna be a pain to deal with.
In addition to that awesome footage, the trailer also reveals the release date for the game. Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan will hit the PS4, Xbox One, and PC on May 24. Excited for the game to hit? Let us know in the comments below.


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Santa Monica, CA – Consumer Watchdog condemned today’s vote by the U.S. House of Representatives to pass a bill taking away the rights of patients harmed by medical negligence, unsafe drugs, defective medical devices and nursing home abuse.
Santa Monica, CA — Consumer Watchdog today called on the Public Utilities Commission to require disclosure of any communications about new, unnecessary natural gas-fired power plants in Southern California made during Governor Jerry Brown’s recent trip to Beijing to tout clean energy.
SANTA MONICA, CA – Consumer Watchdog today called on U.S.
SANTA MONICA, CA -- Consumer Watchdog today called on Congress to ensure the adoption of federal safety standards to cover self-driving autonomous vehicles and warned that proposed House legislation that would pre-empt state safety regulations “would leave a regulatory void without meaningful saf
Santa Monica, CA – Consumer Watchdog has filed a petition challenging the insurance rates that two companies in the Travelers Group want to charge small businesses.
Santa Monica, CA – An analysis released today by non-profit journalists at ProPublica finds that four auto insurance companies in California mark up prices by as much as 32% for drivers in minority neighborhoods as compared to white neighborhoods with similar risk.


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The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance is proposing a new open ticketing standard to be called Cipurse that will “enable technology suppliers to develop and deliver interoperable transit fare collection solutions for cards, stickers, fobs, NFC mobile phones and other consumer devices.” Singapore’s Land Transport Authority is the first to agree to adopt the new standard.
Six companies involved in the move to NFC-based transit ticketing have come together to create the Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance with the aim of creating next-generation open transit fare collection solutions.
The idea was first put forward in February 2010 by Infineon, Giesecke & Devrient, Oberthur Technologies and Inside Secure and the four founders have now been joined by Watchdata and the Open Ticketing Institute of the Netherlands, a group formed by Trans Link Systems (TLS) and partners with the aim of creating interoperable e-ticketing systems.
The OSPT Alliance is currently developing the initial version of an open security standard as well as documentation and reference implementations to enable technology suppliers to develop and deliver interoperable transit fare collection solutions for cards, stickers, fobs, NFC mobile phones and other consumer devices, as well as infrastructure components.
“Unlike systems based on proprietary technologies that limit choices, are potentially less secure and cost more to acquire, deploy and maintain, products that conform to this standard will include the most advanced security technologies, help ensure compatibility with legacy systems, and be available in a variety of form factors,” say the members of the alliance.
Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) has already put its weight behind the project, saying it will adopt the new Cipurse solution once it becomes available.
“We are always keeping abreast of the latest security standards for our fare collection system, and have adopted open standards for all of our transit applications,” says Silvester Prakasam, director of LTA’s fare system. “Now, we are looking to future-proof our fare collection infrastructure by ensuring it is interoperable with NFC mobile devices as they start to be deployed commercially. Cipurse is an important step towards establishing standardized, secure and interoperable fare collection for all public transport schemes, and we plan to adopt it for future releases of Cepas.”
The alliance now plans to establish an ecosystem of transit operators, technology suppliers, consultants and integrators, government agencies, and mobile ecosystem product and service providers, as well as other industry associations, to develop new transit fare collection solutions based on open standard security. The alliance has also approached the Calypso Networks Association (CNA) with the aim of creating a common working group.
“The OSPT Alliance ecosystem will be a key component for advancing the open security standard for transit fare collection,” the members explain. “The ecosystem will offer transit operators the opportunity to choose from among a number of vendors, consultants and integrators to help them deploy or upgrade to a more secure and cost-effective transit fare collection system. Likewise, it will provide mobile device manufacturers with next-generation open standard solutions.”
“Government agencies that need to evaluate bids for new or upgraded transit payment systems will have access to a much broader array of solution vendors and partners delivering a wider range of innovative, flexible and secure transit fare collection solutions,” they continue. “The OSPT Alliance ecosystem will benefit transit system consultants and integrators by bringing together a greater assortment of vendors offering more product choices and richer capabilities than available with proprietary systems. For mobile device manufacturers, the open security standard will be the next ‘must-have’ checklist item they include in all next-generation NFC implementations.”
“For a system integrator, the OSPT Alliance holds the promise of providing greater product choices with richer capabilities than is currently available with proprietary systems,” says Pradip Mistry, vice president of engineering at Cubic Transportation Systems. “This will enable us to recommend and design solutions that generate higher customer satisfaction. Interoperability with NFC devices is a critical element for transit fare collection systems because it means simpler development with faster time to deployment, and the flexibility to adapt to any payment scheme or application. We are thrilled that the OSPT Alliance is offering an open standard security solution.”
Next: Visit the NFCW Expo to find new suppliers and solutions


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In this week’s Saturday Seminar, we collect scholarship discussing quality and safety issues within U.S. food regulation.
Pending federal legislation would improve food information for consumers with gluten sensitivity.
U.S. courts seem to recognize plant-based companies’ constitutional right to use meat and dairy advertising terms.
Facing a host of turkey products, ethically conscious consumers should research which kind of labels truly reveal humane practices.
Scholar argues that inconsistent animal welfare labeling practices harm consumers.
Starting in 2022, food producers will be required to label genetically engineered foods.
Food regulators in the United States should adopt smarter front-of-package labeling to encourage healthier eating.
Plant-based milk producers may soon no longer be able to put “milk” on their labels.
Expert argues that federal law gives regulator authority to restrict unauthorized drug uses.
FDA is years behind in its statutory mandate to put graphic warnings on cigarette labels.
Scholar argues that regulators will have difficulty applying cost-benefit analysis to mandatory GMO labeling.
Regulator solicits input on a new rule defining when foods could be considered “healthy.”


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INSTAGRAM has been accused of hoarding facial recognition scans of 100millions users without their consent.
In a class-action lawsuit filed in Illinois this week, lawyers allege that the photo-sharing app uses the data illegally to tag people in photos.
If found guilty of breaking the Biometric Information Privacy Act, which requires user consent before collecting "biometric" data such as face scans, Instagram could be fined up to $5,000 (£3,800) per violation.
That means the Facebook-owned app could be forced to cough up $500billion (£380billion) in cash if the plaintiffs prevail, Bloomberg reports.
According to the lawsuit, Facebook scans Instagram photos to create a "face template" that is stored in its database and used to automatically tag photos.
"Once Facebook captures its Instagram users' protected biometrics, it uses them to bolster its facial recognition abilities," the plaintiffs wrote in their complaint.
The scans are used to boost Facebook's facial recognition tech "across all of its products, including the Facebook application, and shares this information among various entities," the filing continues.
"Facebook does all of this without providing any of the required notices or disclosures required by Illinois law."
In a statement, Facebook denied it collected face scans of Instagram users.
“This suit is baseless. Instagram doesn’t use Face Recognition technology,” a spokesperson told The Sun.
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Illinois has strict laws on the hoarding of biometric data, which allows someone to be recognised from anything from their fingerprint to their iris.
Last month, Facebook offered to shell out $650million (£500million) to settle a similar lawsuit that alleged Facebook's photo-tagging service on its main app stashed biometric data without people's permission.
However, while the Facebook app uses face-recognition to suggest tags for photos, Instagram doesn’t.
The Whalen v. Facebook lawsuit was filed on Monday in state court in Redwood City, California.
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BMW is prioritising intelligent logistics robots in its stated objective of using higher performance computer technology across vehicle making operations.
Building on the advances it has made over the last four years with digital technology in logistics, the German company is now working with US software company NVIDIA.
Last week the two companies announced a pilot project in which BMW has equipped smart transport robots (STRs) with artificial intelligence (AI), developed on NVIDIA’s Isaac robotics software platform, which optimises material flow and planning processes.
According to BMW the robots can now identify obstacles such as forklift trucks, tugger trains and people more quickly and select alternative routes. They can also learn from the environment and apply different responses to people and objects.
The STRs are one of five AI-enabled robot solutions the carmaker is developing with NVIDIA using the Issac software platform to improve logistics processes. These include both navigation robots to transport material autonomously and robots used to select and organise parts. As first outlined in 2018, the other four are handling robots: SplitBot, PlaceBot, PickBot and SortBot (see box).
Material handling robots
SplitBot – takes full plastic boxes from the pallet in the incoming goods area and places them on a conveyor system that transports the boxes to a warehouse. The SplitBot also makes sure the containers are lined up correctly for automated storage. Using AI the SplitBot can detect and process up to 450 different containers.
PlaceBot – works directly on the assembly line. The movable robot unloads tugger trains and places boxes loaded with goods on a shelf. It uses an image recognition system to classify these small load carriers and determine the ideal grip point from the combined input of sensor technology, camera and artificial intelligence. It can also move autonomously in a predetermined area.
PickBot – collects various small parts from supply racks, recognising them with a self-developed, self-trained AI and calculating the right grip point. Over the long term, the PickBot should be able to recognise and handle up to 50,000 small parts. It is being deployed at BMW’s Leipzig plant.
SortBot – deployed in series production at Plant Leipzig to stack empty containers on pallets before they re-enter circulation.
The robots are being trialled at a number of German plants and at the carmaker’s logistics laboratory in Munich, Germany. AI components are also being tested at NVIDIA’s facility in California.
“The use of high-end AI and visualisation technologies to redesign our logistics is revolutionary,” said Jürgen Maidl, head of logistics, BMW Group Production Network. “Our collaboration with NVIDIA is allowing us to develop state-of-the-art Industry 4.0 technologies. With this high-end technology, we can further optimise our logistics innovations and processes.”
Optimising inbound logistics processes is a priority for BMW. Its plants receive parts from more than 4,500 supplier sites, involving 230,000 unique part numbers.
BMW is also using AI in logistics planning. Using 3D scans the robots can recognise different objects – such as containers, building structures or machines – and use this information to create a virtual layout plan through high-resolution 3D scans of entire buildings and factories. The technology allows the engineers to remove individual objects from the 3D scan using 3D planning software and then change them individually. This makes it easier to simulate and comprehend layout changes within the production halls, said the company.
Last year the carmaker announced it had begun using a digital cloud platform built on software supplied by Microsoft to increase manufacturing and supporting logistics productivity. The Open Manufacturing Platform (OMP) is designed to accelerate the use of internet-of-things (IoT) technology in the supply chain and factory. BMW said it would be shared among OEMs, tier suppliers and logistics providers to bring efficiency across manufacturing and supply up to final assembly.


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WASHINGTON - When Georgia Benjamin goes holiday shopping this year, her smartphone will be her guide, pointing her to the items she is seeking and the best deals.
A transplanted Londoner working in New York as a fashion design intern, Benjamin said she has been using Snapette, a mobile app that allows her to find items in nearby retail stores.
"There are things on the app that I might not see otherwise," she said.
"If I'm looking for a pair of sunglasses, I will type in the brand name, and it will show me what is nearby. And it will alert me if a store nearby has a promotion."
In the past, Benjamin told AFP, she would "trudge from store to store on Oxford Street" in London, or "go through website after website" to search for holiday gifts.
As the holiday shopping season opens, shoppers will be armed with smartphones and an array of apps. Some will compare prices, offer gift suggestions, provide price alerts and more.
Snapette says nearly two million people have downloaded the app for iPhones or Android handsets to fill a need for people who want to use online tools but shop in local stores.
"Over 85 per cent of retail sales is happening in stores but there wasn't a great way to search for or discover products nearby," said Sarah Paiji, co-founder and president of Snapette.


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Even New York Pizza Isn’t Safe From Inflation
New York and pizza are as synonymous as baseball and hot dogs, so seeing how much the price of a slice has gone up over the years is pretty disappointing.
A New York City-based freelance journalist and pizza enthusiast named Liam Quigley spent eight years from 2014 to 2022 tracking the price of every slice of pizza he ordered, including slices with toppings on it. In total, he spent $1,244.22 on 464 slices of pizza over that time, and found that the average price for a slice of regular pizza jumped from $2.52 in 2014 to $3.00 in 2022.
However, the price of a slice actually remained fairly consistent for the first six years of the study. Then with the dawn of the Covid-19 era and the subsequent inflation issues that it caused, a regular slice in New York City jumped from $2.51 in 2020 to $2.96 in 2021.
A slice of pepperoni, the golden standard for what a New York slice should be, faired even worse. A pepperoni slice started at $3.33 in 2014, rose to $3.64 in 2019, and then sharply rose to $4.58 in 2022, making it almost a full dollar more expensive from 2019 to 2022.
It's sad to see that even pizza is becoming less affordable these days. There's nothing better than zooming through the city in a rush to get somewhere and popping off at a random pizza spot for a quick cheap lunch. Well after eight years the pizza may still be quick but it's not as cheap as it used to be. Sure, this is the literal definition of nickel and diming since the price for a slice has only risen a dollar, but if you eat as much pizza as I used to those dollars start to add up really fast.


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EghtesadOnline: As part of a move to curb unwanted and annoying text message ads, Iran’s Communications Regulatory Authority has blocked over 131,000 cellphone numbers since November 2017, when an automated monitoring system was launched.
Through the system, people can file complaints with CRA by sending the ad sender’s phone number via text message. People can simply send the ad senders’ number to 195. The regulator receives the complaints and blocks the number after issuing warnings if the advertising company continues sending messages that many consider as spam.
CRA’s website reports that 131,214 SIMs used for sending advertisement messages have been blocked until July 7.
Experts say the cost of mass advertisement through text messages is significantly low. The authority is planning to curb the number of such adverts by cracking down on firms indulging in the method that for long has become a nuisance, Financial Tribune reported.
Officials at CRA have repeatedly called on the people to assist the authority in its’ endeavors to curb text ads by submitting the ad senders’ number to the system.
Mobile operators are also prohibited from sending ad messages to subscribers. They can only send bill alert notifications.
Unwanted ads annoy most cellphone users. To curb the nuisance, CRA introduced the automated system ‘195’ to help subscribers get rid of the ad messages.


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The venture capital arm of UPS, UPS Ventures, has taken a minority stake in autonomous trucking solutions provider TuSimple, the company said in a press release on Thursday.
TuSimple develops Level 4 autonomous driving software, which means the vehicle’s onboard computer is in complete control of the vehicle at all times, eliminating the need for manual intervention. The company is headquartered in Beijing and San Diego.
This investment is an extension of the ongoing commercial relationship between UPS and TuSimple, where the courier has purchased transportation services from TuSimple since May, said UPS.
UPS revealed that both companies have been testing self-driving tractor trailers, with a driver and engineer in each vehicle, on a route in Arizona since May. The purpose was to determine whether these vehicles can improve the UPS logistics network’s service and efficiency.
“While fully autonomous, driverless vehicles still have development and regulatory work ahead, we are excited by the advances in braking and other technologies that companies like TuSimple are mastering.” said Scott Price, UPS’s chief strategy and transformation officer. “All of these technologies offer significant safety and other benefits that will be realized long before the full vision of autonomous vehicles is brought to fruition—and UPS will be there, as a leader implementing these new technologies in our fleet.”
TuSimple develops technology that will allow shipping companies to operate self-driving class 8 tractor-trailers, which exceed 15,000 kg and typically have three or more axles.
The company closed its USD 95 million Series D round in February, which catapulted the startup to unicorn status.
TuSimple announced in May that the United States Postal Service will adopt its self-driving trucks to haul mail.


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The supply issues that Apple has had to face with the new Retina iPad mini have been well documented over the past few weeks. It was said that LCD burn-in issues with the Retina display panels were causing delay in shipments, which resulted in a gap in the demand and supply of Apple’s latest tablet. Recently it was reported that various production bottlenecks have been taken care of, and while an improvement has been seen in the shipment times of Wi-Fi only Retina iPad mini models, it appears that the cellular variants are still playing hard to get.
A couple of weeks back it was reported that almost all of the major U.S. carriers had the cellular variants of Apple’s new tablet backordered. Recent checks indicate that Verizon’s Retina iPad mini variant is backordered until December 16th, whereas AT&T is showing shipping estimates between 21-28 days after the order is placed. T-Mobile’s product page for the Retina iPad mini lists the tablet out of stock, but assures customers that it will be available for shipment soon. On the other hand, shipping estimates of the cellular models have nominally improved on Apple’s online store, some Apple Retail Stores in the U.S. also have these variants in stock so customers are able to just walk-in and pick up one. Apple seems to be holding its Retina iPad mini inventory close to its chest, as per recent analyst predictions, it still have a limited amount of inventory to work with. Production and supply of the tablet is expected to improve in the first quarter of 2014.
There has already been a lot of speculation about the future of Google TV. The internet search giant’s TV offering hasn’t established a strong footing in the market as yet, so it is believed that Google is committed to rebranding and reinvigorating the TV service. We have previously heard rumors that the Google TV moniker might be dropped and replaced with Android TV, however according to the latest report from The Information, it is possible that Google might push its TV service under its already popular and successful Nexus brand of products.
The new set-top box that Google is expected to launch in the first half of 2014 might be called Nexus TV. It is likely that the company might make a Google TV related announcement at the Consumer Electronics Show 2014, which takes place next month. While no hints have been dropped as yet, it is possible that the rebranding of the service will also include updating it to a much more current version of Android OS. At this point in time, Google TV is powered by Android 3.2 Honeycomb. It would certainly be interesting to see Google launch a struggling product under the umbrella of its popular Nexus product line, perhaps the perception that Nexus products have in front of millions of customers around the world would result into increased interest in Google’s TV offering. Time will certainly tell.


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Hake's Americana's upcoming auction, slated for July 12-14, features a 'little of this and a little of that', including an 1860 political campaign flag, a collection of 'Man from U.N.C.L.E' memorabilia, and more in the 2,800+ lots.
More than 500,000 buttons will be on display and available for sale during the National Button Show Aug. 4-6 in Denver, Colorado.
Long-time friends and seasoned auction experts Noel Barrett and Ron Pook recently announced plans for their two auction firms to collaborate on select auctions, beginning in the fall of 2016.
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates is launching its first antique textile and sewing accoutrements auction July 16, which will feature early 19th to early 20th century quilts including a pieced and chintz applique quilt from 1840.
The top-selling lot of Thomaston Place Auction Galleries May 21-22 auction, a 1st century BC, Greek yellow gold and emerald ring realized more than five times its high estimate.
In the latest Ten Things You Didn’t Know column, Print Editor Karen Knapstein shares entertaining facts about a man who helped spark global interest and fascination with the oddities of the world, believe it or not
The latest selection of featured ads to appear in Antique Trader features a porcelain auction livestreamed directly from a historic kiln hall; and a popular annual antique and artisan show and sale held a historic village in Ohio, among others.
Coverlets came into 'fashion' in the U.S. early 19th century, and at one point were more common than quilts in American homes. Check out the most recent Ten Things You Didn't Know column to learn more about jacquard coverlets.
An important collection of early Tombstone, Arizona, ephemera will be offered for sale at Heritage Auctions June 11, including rare and authentic Wild West documents.
Touch connects us to objects in a personal way. Although it’s prudent for dealers to lock away small, high-priced items that are easy to steal, in his latest Behind the Gavel column Wayne Jordan shares research showing that customers buy more when they’re allowed to touch the goods.


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Jobseekers face challenges in staying relevant to meet the needs of the labour market. LS Training Solutions training provider Asnawi Yusof, in saying this, advised them to adapt by using technology and improving their skill sets.
THE Governments and people of China and Malaysia have pledged to help each other in the joint fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, highlighting a precious friendship.
SOME 60% of roads in Selangor are “expired” and many are structurally damaged, causing issues such as potholes and cracks to be a never-ending problem.
THE Johor Digital Economy Centre (JDEC) aims to train talents and content creators to take on current and upcoming economic challenges.
THREE students from St Xavier’s Institution (SXI) in Penang have made their school proud by bagging the top three places in the senior category of Robomania 2020.
OVER 50 presenters took part in a virtual international conference on business, accounting, finance and economics organised by Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR).
Projek Lintasan Kota Holdings Sdn Bhd (Prolintas) identified some 1,300 cases of defective surfaces and faulty assets along its highways via the Smart Surveillance System in the first month of using the new technology.
THE Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) is kicking off its month-long campaign, Malaysia Tech Month 2020 (MTM 2020), this week.
AS THE Covid-19 pandemic spreads across the globe, DK-MY Properties believes that home buyers are now seeking a contactless bespoke lifestyle through digitalisation, mobile enablement and intelligent automation.


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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified - Aftermath Trailer
See the aftermath of a battle in this live action trailer for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
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2K Games have posted a developer diary for XCOM, their upcoming retro sci-fi game.
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2K Games' Christoph Hartmann talks about the next generation of game graphics and consoles.


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So far only Bharti Airtel has launched 4G in India and Reliance Jio Infocomm is planning to launch it commercially in 2015.
The telecom industry has readied its wish list for the next communications minister as the parliamentary polls move into high gear day by day.
The association has called for rationalisation of taxes and levies, which it said aggregated to 30% of telecom revenues in India.
Most device makers want the new govt to implement a semiconductor policy that can help in creating an ecosystem for local manufacturing of handsets.
There has been lot of buzz but few concrete movements on telecom deals in India more than two months since the government notified new merger and acquisition rules.
Telecom Commission gives in-principle approval to full mobile number portability, the facility to allow a mobile user to keep the same mobile number.
Sugato Chakravarty, who teaches finance at Purdue University in the US, recently gifted a top-end smartphone to his 76-yearold mother.


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Centaur Media takes over Profile Group for £8m
It has been revealed today that Centaur Media has taken over Profile Group, a specialist digital information business for media, PR and marketing professionals, for £8m.
Chief executive Geoff Wilmot said in a release: "Profile is a good fit with our core strategic objectives of growing digital subscription revenues in our core markets and expanding our international capabilities."
It has also been revealed that Centaur has separately secured a £40m four-year revolving credit facility, which will be used to fund its acquisition programme.
Profile will become part of Centaur's business information division, alongside digital information and workflow businesses Perfect Information and VBR.


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Federated Expects Dip in January Same-Store Sales
Sales in the week ended Jan. 12 "were consistent with this expectation," the company said in its weekly sales call.
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How the movie and game rental company is driving convenience, personalization, and engagement across channels.
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Blockchain Association of Uganda Joined Africa Blockchain Alliance
Kampala, Uganda, May 21 , 2018 — Blockchain technology, also known as distributed ledger technology allows a network of users to keep a record of transactions. When compared to the traditional business models, blockchain for business saves time, removes cost, reduces risk and increases trust. By using blockchain technology, businesses can benefit from a more efficient transfer of goods and services.
The Blockchain Association of Uganda is a non-profit Association, where passionate and talented professionals and experts put forth their skills and competences to serve the needs of the blockchain ecosystem in the Africa. It fosters knowledge sharing by connecting people and companies and organizing events and conferences with the same scope. Their mission is to make blockchain technology more accessible and comprehensible and are always looking for people; companies, partners, students who align with their mission and can help them build, innovate, grow beyond Africa.
Africa Blockchain Alliance (ABA) was founded by Ben Onuoha and China Muoka and the head office is in Nigeria. It has partners in U.S.A., Senegal, Ethiopia, U.K., Namibia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Uganda. It aims to equip each and every stakeholder with the best Blockchain education, acumen and tools to shape Africa’s future. It regularly brings blockchain stakeholders together in various African cities to educate, provide advisory and training services as well as building the largest community of blockchain enthusiasts on the continent.
The alliance will be an exhibitor at the Africa Blockchain Conference 2018 organised by The Blockchain Association of Uganda in Kampala. ABA is open to any entrepreneur or business owner looking for knowledge and understanding of blockchain technology.
For more information, checkout the website http://afriblockchain.org
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The townhome-condo market around LSU is racing.
At the South Gates of LSU on Highland Road, Brian Dantin has already built the Parker Place condos, which sold out in days and earlier this month won a design award from the Growth Coalition.
Dantin’s second upscale condo development near LSU, West Parker Townhomes, also sold out quickly, moving its 10 units inside of a week. The condos are not cheap, with two-bedroom units selling for $230,000 and three bedrooms fetching $265,000.
Fast sales have Dantin looking for other area projects, but prices are high for even older apartment complexes. I would love to redevelop the entire street.”