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Analyzing over ten trillion advertiser bids flowing each month through our platform, the PubMatic team identifies quarterly developments that can help advertisers and publishers unleash the power of programmatic for the mobile channel. Findings from our Q1 2018 Quarterly Mobile Index (QMI) report highlights that app environments drove the majority of mobile monetization growth last year.
Additionally, there was a sharp increase in the mobile share of video advertising in the past year, and, at the channel level, mobile open exchange volume growth outpaced that of private marketplaces (PMP), while the latter continued to deliver a lofty eCPM premium for publishers.
The Power of Apps
Global app impression volume rose 84 percent year-over-year (YOY) to outpace the annual 28 percent increase through the mobile web, lifting the app share of monetized mobile impressions to a solid 59 percent in Q1 2018, up from slightly below half the previous year.
The introduction of in-app header bidding also expanded the monetization opportunities for publishers. Header bidding-enabled mobile ad spending—including both in-app and mobile web environments—more than doubled YOY. Mobile header bidding ad spending was highest in the news, entertainment and leisure, food and dining and shopping verticals.
Sharp Rise in Mobile Share of Video
Nearly four in ten video impressions monetized through the PubMatic platform were served on handheld devices in Q1 2018, up from 15 percent a year prior. India, a nascent but promising market for mobile video, registered the highest growth rate for mobile video ad spending rising almost 10X YOY. More established video markets, like Spain and Australia, posted double-digit growth rates in the category.
Although brand advertisers have voiced concerns about the quality of programmatic video inventory, growing investment in the format seems to acknowledge that the benefits outweigh the risks. Eighty-four percent of digital advertisers polled worldwide said they plan to increase their investment in mobile video ads this year. eMarketer expects this shift to result in US mobile programmatic video ad spending growing 33.5 percent YOY to reach $7.14 billion in 2018.1
Open Exchanges vs Private Marketplaces (PMP)
Mobile impressions monetized through open exchanges rose 56 percent YOY in Q1 of this year, slightly outpacing the 43 percent YOY expansion in PMP volume.
Still, PMP inventory remains highly valued as it provides publishers with greater control over who buys their inventory and minimum price setting while also offering advertisers greater visibility into the content next to which their ads will appear. Highlighting these values, average mobile PMP eCPMs worldwide earned a 170 percent premium over those paid for impressions monetized through open exchanges.
Full Q1 2018 QMI Report
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Working practices in the supply chain have been thrust into the limelight by the BBC’s investigative series Panorama. Earlier this week the programme aired an edition highlighting long shifts and tough picking targets at a DC run by internet retailer Amazon. The programme, aired on 25 November and based on secret filming of night shifts at the retailer’s 800,000ft² DC in Swansea, highlighted 10.5 hour shifts in which the BBC’s undercover worker walked almost 11 miles carrying out manual order […]
Howard Tenens is increasing its number of depots as well as expanding existing ones since winning new business this year.
DHL Supply Chain has joined the Movement to Work scheme, which helps businesses train people aged 18-24.
Wincanton has extended its warehousing contract with home furnishings firm Loaf for another five years as it moves to drive growth in the home, health and beauty sectors.

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Tractor Supply looks to close the digital divide
Tractor Supply Company, which continued to ramp up its tech efforts in 2020, announced that that it is joining the American Connection Project Broadband Coalition (ACPBC) to bring high-speed internet infrastructure to rural areas.
The Brentwood, Tenn.-based farm and ranch retailer said that, by joining the coalition, it will look to leverage its resources to help bridge the rural digital divide.
Through the Tractor Supply Company Foundation, the retailer will donate $1 for every download of its mobile app before the end of 2020, up to $1 million, to the efforts of the American Connection Project. According to Tractor Supply, the initiative is one of several the company is pursuing in its effort to increase internet connectivity in rural communities.
“As the largest rural lifestyle retailer in the United States, Tractor Supply is committed to supporting those who live and love this lifestyle,” said Hal Lawton, president and CEO of Tractor Supply. “Internet connectivity is vital to conducting business, accessing healthcare, and learning across America, yet our rural communities seldom have it.”
Lawton noted that the nation relies heavily on these communities, “so it is imperative we all work together to ensure they have what they need to thrive.”
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) estimates that roughly 18 million Americans lack access to broadband, the majority of whom are in rural America. And according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, roughly 60% of farmers in the U.S. lack sufficient connectivity to run their business, while 25% of farms have no internet access whatsoever.
“Like Land O’Lakes and so many of our partners in the American Connection Project Broadband Coalition, Tractor Supply Company understands that strong businesses are enabled by strong communities that provide strong operating environments,” said Beth Ford, president and CEO of Land O’Lakes, Inc. and a member of the ACPBC. “The coronavirus pandemic has shown how dependent we all are on being connected to one another, and how much those who lack reliable internet access are at risk of falling behind. We are enormously grateful that Tractor Supply is joining our coalition, and we look forward to working with them to close the digital divide.”
The ACPBC includes more than 100 companies and organizations that are working to bring high-speed internet access to all U.S. households.
IIn July, Tractor Supply launched its first-ever mobile app to provide a more convenient way for customers to shop their favorite products straight from their mobile device without relying on a computer or Wi-Fi.
The app, which helps customers shop faster, track orders, schedule deliveries, and check Neighbor’s Club rewards, is available through the Apple Store or on Google Play. Tractor Supply said that it is actively rolling out new features to the app to improve shopping convenience and accessibility.
With more than 1,880 stores in 49 states, Tractor Supply also said that it is launching a pilot program, which provides free Wi-Fi access from select store parking lots during operating hours. This will allow the public to have high-speed internet access, excluding streaming capabilities, from the privacy and social distance of their vehicles.


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LOT Polish Airlines in pharma focus for Central and Eastern Europe
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LOT Polish Airlines is on course to achieve its IATA’s CEIV Pharma certification by October this year and in a separate development has already adopted the airline association’s Dangerous Goods AutoCheck (DG Autocheck).
LOT cargo director Michał Grochowski said: “As a result, and thanks to its modern fleet and growing flight network, LOT is reinforcing its commitment to being a leader in the transport of air cargo in Central and Eastern Europe.”
“Both solutions express our ambition to deliver the most innovative, efficient and the most beneficial offer to our clients.
He added: “We are eager to develop in directions set by Polish pharmaceutical market. Embarking on certification proves that we respond to market needs and our clients’ demand.
“We are catching up on previous years when LOT Cargo development was not drive in such specialised areas.”
After achieving CEIV Pharma certification, LOT Cargo intends to transport goods such as insulin, Poland is a major producer, vaccines and antibiotics. LOT Cargo is also planning to start transporting pharma products for veterinary use.
In 2018, LOT Polish Airlines carried over 50,000 tons of cargo and mail, a 20% increase compared with 2017, and the best result in the carrier’s 90-year history.


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At an event on Monday, the Minister of State for IT and Electronics, Rajeev Chandrasekhar emphasised the need for a competitive domestic ecosystem of electronics components and suppliers. Chandrasekhar launched a report by the India Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), in collaboration with India Cellular and Electronics Association(ICEA) in Delhi. He said that it is essential if we aim to enhance exports while also increasing the share of total domestic value addition (DVA) at the same time. The minister opined that the exports and production at scale will help meet the goal of the ‘Make in India for the World’ programme while also taking the economy to a trillion-dollar mark by FY25.
The report, titled ‘Globalise to Localise’ states that India should relentlessly focus on achieving a global scale in exports with a short-term target of at least $30 billion. This calls for easing localisation requirements, lowering custom duties and accelerating integration through free trade agreements (FTAs) for some time.
It must be noted that today, India is the second largest manufacturer of mobile phones globally. India’s electronic exports have nearly tripled between 2015 and 2022 — from $5.8 billion to $16 billion. Although China dominated the electronics space for the last few decades, the post-Covid era has opened a window of opportunity for India. The minister stated, “During the period between 2014 to 2020 (pre-Covid), electronics manufacturing grew almost 250 per cent in India. To further catalyse this momentum, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a series of PLI schemes with incentives of $20 billion that has created a significant expansion of investments, units and jobs in the sector.”
The Director and CE of ICRIER, Dr Deepak Mishra commented, “The study finds that China and Vietnam have adopted the mantra of ‘first globalise, then localize’, which means in the initial years they were determined to achieve global scale in exports, and then shifted their emphasis to greater use of local contents.”


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SoftBank’s plan B for Arm is IPO after merger collapses
SoftBank will be floating shares in its chip design company, Arm, following the collapse of plans to sell it to rival chip company Nvidia.
At the same time, Simon Segars, the Arm CEO most closely connected with the failed merger, has left the company and will be replaced by Rene Haas.
SoftBank chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son (pictured) said: “Rene is the right leader to accelerate Arm’s growth as the company starts making preparations to re-enter the public markets.”
He added: “I would like to thank Simon for his leadership, contributions and dedication to Arm over the past 30 years.”
The planned US$66 billion merger of Arm with Nvidia collapsed after opposition from regulatory authorities in the EU, the UK and the US.
Arm customers including Qualcomm and Microsoft had also questioned the effect of bringing together the two giants, which would have put a chip designer – Arm – into the hands of Nvidia, which competes with many of its customers.
Licking his wounds, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said: “Arm is at the centre of the important dynamics in computing. Though we won’t be one company, we will partner closely with Arm. The significant investments that [Son] has made have positioned Arm to expand the reach of the Arm CPU beyond client computing to supercomputing, cloud, AI and robotics. I expect Arm to be the most important CPU architecture of the next decade.”
SoftBank, which bought Arm for $31 billion in 2016, will be rewarded with its $1.25 billion deposit that Nvidia paid in 2020. This “will be recorded as profit in the fourth quarter”, said SoftBank. “And Nvidia will retain its 20-year Arm licence.”
SoftBank says the initial public offer (IPO) for shares in Arm will take place before the end of March 2023.
Arm, based in the UK in Cambridge, was previously listed in London, and SoftBank managed to buy it because at the time there was no legislation to prevent the sale of strategic companies – indeed, the UK government hailed the sale as a significant investment in the UK.
Haas, the new CEO of Arm, has been with the group since 2013 and has been president of its intellectual property group – the revenue-earning engine of the company – since 2017. Intriguingly, he was a senior Nvidia executive for seven years until he joined Arm.


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VR & AR technology coming to online casinos?
It isn’t a foregone conclusion at all that these games will be implemented soon, but there is certainly lots of hype surrounding what AR and VR games can bring to the table.
Once you get past the alien-like appearance of having a large piece of equipment strapped onto your face, AR and VR technology is actually very exciting. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality is a technological sector that is just exploding right now, as more and more investors are witnessing the potential that these gadgets have.
Online casinos are now looking like they could be next in line to adopt this technology in a big way, and gamers all over the world will benefit. While we already have features like live casino games on certain sites, it still doesn’t quite match up to being in a physical casino. You don’t get the atmosphere or the vibe when you are just sitting at home playing, but all of that may be about to change.
What is VR & AR Technology?
Before we even get to what these technologies are, we have to point something out that justifies the whole purpose of this article. Sales relating to VR and AR technology are expected to be in excess of £70 billion this year, and if that wasn’t impressive enough – back in 2017 this figure was just £900 million. That’s how rapidly this industry is expanding, and online casinos are one of the latest platforms to look at getting a piece of the action.
Virtual Reality technology provides users with a 360-degree view of a virtual environment, which has been used so far for video games and other platforms. Players are required to purchase a
headset to use this technology, and this headset is on the pricier side of things (source: Wikipedia.org).
Augmented Reality uses the actual environment around you and utilizes images that can appear, and you can then interact with these images. Perhaps the most successful game to date that has used Augmented reality is Pokemon Go, which took the world by storm a few years ago.
How could this change the online casino experience?
If you’ve used an online casino before, you’ll know that the graphics and general range of games have greatly improved in recent years. With other features like live casino play where the games are much more immersive, these online casinos are certainly more interactive than they used to be. AR and VR technology has the ability to take this to the next level however, which would benefit thousands of players.
It is now feasible that through the use of these headsets, you may be able to sit on your couch at home and virtually walk around a physical casino. This will throw you straight into the environment of a physical casino, and you’ll also be able to walk around as well as choose your games. You may be able to walk across to the video slots section, hit the tables like roulette or blackjack, and even walk over to the cashier for your winnings. None of this is confirmed yet, but there are already a few VR blackjack games online (source: Gamblersbet.com) and there’s certainly a lot of excitement around the possibilities of a full online VR casino.
Who will adopt this technology first?
It’s difficult to say who will adopt this technology first, but given the cost involved with implementing a selection of games for virtual or augmented reality, we’d expect only the larger software providers to look into this first. Some of the world’s leading software providers right now are companies like Microgaming, NetEnt, IGT, Betsoft, Quickspin, and several others.
These guys will no doubt have the investment power to develop augmented and virtual reality games or even an all-in-one virtual casino platform. It isn’t entirely out of the question that some of the world’s largest online casinos might go ahead and work on developing this themselves.
We’d like to point something out here – even if a software provider or a leading online casino does implement a range of AR/VR games, you’ll still need to purchase an appropriate headset. If you’ve already got one, great! If not, it may cost you a fair amount of money to upgrade and get into these games, to begin with.
It isn’t a foregone conclusion at all that these games will be implemented soon, but there is certainly lots of hype surrounding what AR and VR games can bring to the table. Let’s face it, it can be a hassle if you want to actually go and play at a physical casino. You need to get yourself there, be there for several hours, then when you are done, get yourself back home.
Online casinos give the ability to remove all of that, and if such an immersive experience were to emerge due to VR/AR, this would just change the game!
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In addition to nicotine, Juul pods comprise a mix of glycerol, propylene glycol, benzoic acid and flavoring agents, the long-time period well being effects of which have yet to be determined, she mentioned. Critics of e-cigarettes worry that vaping will get kids hooked on nicotine and that they’re going to “graduate” to cigarettes when they want an even bigger kick, Warner says. “My reading of the evidence is that it is fairly convincing that e-cigarettes are helping some folks stop smoking.” The FDA regulates e-liquids bought in stores, however not ones you purchase on the road. But nicotine, which is known to be addictive, is the most common active ingredient. Two of them — diacetyl and formaldehyde — are linked to lung illness and cancer.
E-cigarettes could be particularly harmful for young folks as a result of nicotine affects them in several ways than adults. Youth who use e-cigarettes are additionally more likely to try cigarettes. In 2017, multiple in six New York City highschool students reported utilizing e-cigarettes. That means greater than thrice as many high school students use e-cigarettes than smoke cigarettes. While e-cigarettes have the potential to profit some individuals and hurt others, scientists nonetheless have so much to study whether e-cigarettes are efficient for quitting smoking.
Vaping And Your Immune System
Vape, Vape Juice, Pod Methods, Mods And More
Meanwhile, there are lots of of several types of e-cigarettes available on the market, and nearly all of them include nicotine. Sometimes, they even include THC, the chemical found in marijuana that makes customers feel “excessive.” As of Dec. 20, 2019, the new legal age limit is 21 years old for buying cigarettes, cigars, or any other tobacco products within the U.S. “Juul made it cool, and younger individuals who had never smoked cigarettes are becoming hooked on nicotine,” mentioned Erika R. Cheng, a public well being epidemiologist at Indiana University School of Medicine.
FDA want to thank all State Departments of Health for their ongoing efforts, collaboration and communications on the current respiratory diseases associated with e-cigarettes and vaping merchandise. THC use has been related to a wide range of well being results, notably with extended frequent use. The greatest approach to avoid probably harmful results is to not use THC-containing e-cigarette, or vaping, products.
Researchers are wanting on the health results of different e-juice elements. CDC will conduct aerosol emissions testing of e-cigarette, or vaping, products. FDA is analyzing e-liquids for the presence of a broad range of chemical compounds. Analysis of both aerosol emissions and e-liquids will complement one another, and collectively will assist enhance our understanding of exposures amongst case patients related to the lung damage outbreak. CDC and FDA are working together to coordinate analysis of e-cigarette, or vaping, merchandise to provide perception into the nature of the chemical publicity contributing to the lung damage outbreak.
- Currently, other than flavors, what’s inhaled from e-cigarettes is unregulated.
- Dr. Friedman mentioned that quite than outright bans that may have unanticipated prices, she favors higher laws.
- Still, she and other consultants are very concerned in regards to the explosive uptake of vaping by young individuals.
- So, a wholly new technology of people are changing into addicted to nicotine.
- What’s more, vaping Smok Novo 2 is attracting teens and young adults who would not in any other case smoke.
- Even though some scientists believe they’re less harmful than traditional cigarettes, they’re nonetheless not a healthy, or protected various.
Knowledge about antagonistic experiences can help the FDA establish well being or quality issues past those usually related to tobacco product use. Talk with your health care supplier about resources and techniques that will help you cope with nicotine withdrawal. Many medical insurance plans, together with Medicaid, cover providers that can assist you give up vaping. The CDC, FDA and state and native health departments are investigating a multi-state outbreak of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung harm. While the investigation is ongoing, we urge New Yorkers to share data with their communities.
CDC, FDA, and state well being authorities have made progress in figuring out substances of concern in e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-related lung injury , and in characterizing the outbreak. If you have experienced undesired health or quality issues with a selected tobacco product, you can report an issue with any tobacco product, including vapes, to the FDA.


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The price of the cryptocurrency Zcash soared by over 43% after Gemini Trust Co., the cryptocurrency exchange of Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, stated that it had already received approval from New York regulators to permit trading in the privacy-focused coin that allows anonymous trading.
The mandate by the New York Department of Financial Services to make Gemini the first licensed ZCash exchange took the cryptocurrency community by surprise.
After the announcement was made by Gemini, ZCash prices went all the way up from $250 to $350 in an hour’s time, as traders banked on the fame of the Winklevoss brothers – both of whom were early players in Facebook’s launch while at Harvard University and now well-known investors in bitcoin – to urge others to purchase the digital money.
Zcash continues to be on the rise and as of press time, was trading at $357, according to market resource CoinMarketCap.
“Regulatory certainty and oversight are critical for both fostering innovation and protecting consumers — and we’re excited to provide our customers with a safe, secure and regulated platform to buy, sell and store Zcash,” Gemini’s Vice President of Engineering Eric Winer said in a blog.
Gemini customers would be able to put in Zcash into their accounts beginning on May 19, with trading slated to start three days later.
Zcash offers both transparent transactions, which much like bitcoin are visible on a blockchain public ledger, and shielded ones where trades can be done discreetly.
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On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and India, the Embassy of Viet Nam in India, in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Viet Nam, and the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, organized the Vietnam Tourism Forum in India on December 14, 2022.
The forum prioritized the promotion of Viet Nam as a new destination for Indian travelers with a focus on high-end golf tourism, and wedding, conference and filming destinations.
H.E. Ambassador Nguyen Thanh Hai emphasized that the forum was also an opportunity for Vietnamese service providers to better understand the wants of Indian tourists so as to prepare customized products for Indian market.
In the first 11 months of 2022, Indian visitors to Viet Nam reached over 109,000, entering the top 5 leading customer markets of Viet Nam. The average growth rate of visitors is 49% per month. Although 2022 numbers have not attained than 2019 levels, it is noteworthy that the two countries were reopened for tourists only in Q2 and the direct flights resumed only from May 2022.
The reopening of direct flights has significantly boosted the flow of passengers. Airlines including Vietjet Air, Indigo, and Vietnam Airlines, have opened dozens of new routes connecting most major cities of Viet Nam and India. Estimates suggest that the number of exchange tourists between Vietnam and India may reach 500,000 by 2025.


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Digital has become the name of the game for financial services in recent years, and during the past year, credit unions have had to quickly learn and adapt to consumers’ changing needs. I talked with Brian Kaas, the president and managing director of CMFG Ventures for CUNA Mutual Group, and he shared with me what he’s seen and learned over the past year regarding the accelerated digitization of credit unions and their partnerships with fintechs.
Credit union digitization began in earnest four to five years ago, but as Brian noted, when COVID-19 sent America into lockdown, this trend accelerated at a pace that few could have imagined. Consumers of all ages began engaging with their credit unions’ digital service delivery options, including those who may not have used technology much in the past.
“It used to be that this is a millennial thing,” Brian said. “Well, my mom is now interacting and using her phone in ways she never thought she could 12 months ago.” Brian also discussed how fintech companies have seen tremendous growth over the past 14 months. For credit unions, this means that fintechs aren’t going away anytime soon, and it’s going to become even more challenging for credit unions to stay competitive in the digital space.
Fintechs are not the only digital disruptors credit unions are facing: More financial institutions are using AI and machine learning to lower operating costs and streamline and personalize the banking experience for consumers. Challenger banks are also growing quickly in size, and advancements abound in the implementation of distributed ledger and blockchain technology.
How do credit unions move forward in this increasingly crowded digital space? Brian suggested credit unions partner with fintechs to adapt and remain competitive. However, credit union leaders must be discerning when selecting fintech partners. First, your credit union needs to develop a digital roadmap so you know where you currently stand and where you want your services and products to go. Get feedback from credit unions and other companies that have worked with a particular fintech before to get a better sense of how the company operates and the culture of its leadership.
The highest priority when it comes to fintech partnerships, according to Brian, is that they meet compliance standards. “We’re not going to invest or engage in a company that is loose when it comes to regulations,” he stated. Another factor to keep in mind when deciding to partner with a fintech is understanding its financial condition and who’s investing in the business.
Right now, many banks are facing the same challenges to adapt to the ever-changing digital climate, but they have the resources to put toward partnering with fintechs. Credit unions may not have the same budgets as the large banks, but with due diligence, partnering with fintechs can help deliver a better, digital banking experiences to their members.


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When you combine Silicon Valley innovation with fashion industry influence, you’re sure to spark a revolution. And that’s exactly what’s happening with Pietra, an online marketplace that’s rejuvenating the antiquated fine jewelry industry by injecting new thinking, technology, and experiences, per former Uber execs Ronak Trivedi (co-founder and CEO) and Ashley Bryan (co-founder who also hails from Moda Operandi).
“What we offer is unprecedented access to the world's best jewelry designers,” explains Bryan, “No brick-and-mortar store can offer you the opportunity to directly connect with so much design talent in one place to shop existing jewelry and create custom pieces.” The lineup of designers range from up-and-coming talent (from Mexico City to Ottawa and beyond) to better-known names (like Stephen Webster, Spinelli Kilcollin, and CVC Stones). Pietra has a team dedicated to onboarding these jewelers as well as verifying product quality, offering pieces from hundreds of dollars to hundreds of thousands.
And the platform itself is extremely accessible. It’s not only convenient for customers, but also jewelers, by removing traditional obstacles of having to source capital to sell on consignment, allowing them space to focus design. It’s the sweet spot between ultimate creative freedom at massive scale, without having traditional brick-and-mortar concerns like restocking shelves.
“We're focusing on building the best software and technology platform to disrupt the industry,” adds Trivedi. “There is so much opportunity for technology to meaningfully bring this industry online.”
Thus far, Pietra has proven to be a meaningful technology—particularly for the bridal market. One of Bryan and Trivedi’s favorite stories, for example, is how one of their clients used Pietra to create a custom engagement ring from a designer halfway across the country, far away from his native Colorado suburb with limited jewelry options. “We wanted to do something special and showcase the proposal on our website,” recounts Trivedi, “but he got the ring and called us the next day saying he was so excited that he actually proposed to his (now) wife after finishing a marathon that morning—totally impromptu.” And surely, there are more success stories where this one came from.


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AT&T exec reportedly tells staffers to prepare for early October iPhone 5 launchApple's much-anticipated iPhone 5 is likely to be unveiled in a matter of weeks before hitting the market sometime in early October, a high-ranking AT&T official is reported to have told staffers of the U.S wireless carrier.
Citing one of its "high-level AT&T sources," BGR claims the iPhone 5 is slated to launch in early October following an introduction at a media event sometime later next month. Expect things to get really, really busy in the next 35-50 days, so prepare your teams accordingly," the executive is reported to have said.
While the report offers no further details, the timeframe is consistent with a recent claim from TiPb, which said last week that its sources have indicated that Friday, October 7th is currently tracking as day Apple hopes to begin shipping the device.
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TYSONS CORNER, Va., Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) and mobile software, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the "Leaders" quadrant in the 2013 "Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms" report.(1)
According to Gartner, the dominant theme of the market in 2012 was that data discovery became a mainstream BI and analytic architecture. Increasingly, Gartner sees more organizations building diagnostic analytics that leverage critical capabilities, such as interactive visualization, to enable users to drill more easily into the data to discover new insights. Furthermore, Gartner believes "this emphasis on data discovery from most of the leaders in the market — which are now promoting tools with business-user-friendly data integration, coupled with embedded storage and computing layers (typically in-memory/columnar) and unfettered drilling — accelerates the trend toward decentralization and user empowerment of BI and analytics, and greatly enables organizations' ability to perform diagnostic analytics."
A copy of the Gartner report is available, compliments of MicroStrategy, at http://www.microstrategy.com/gartner.
In 2013, MicroStrategy delivered a bold set of innovative solutions and critical capabilities for its Business Analytics, Mobile App Platform, and Cloud offerings.
MicroStrategy Reinforces its Enterprise-Scale Pedigree With Innovations in Visual Exploration, Dashboards, Big Data and Business Analytics
In July 2012, MicroStrategy unveiled MicroStrategy 9.3™, the latest version of its core business intelligence platform. MicroStrategy 9.3 includes dozens of powerful new capabilities and improvements to Visual Insight, MicroStrategy's data discovery software, increased support for advanced analytics from 'R' — an open source language for predictive analysis — and improved connectivity to Hadoop®. In addition, MicroStrategy 9.3 delivers a high speed "Google-like" search experience and introduces an innovative administration product, MicroStrategy System Manager™, for automating manual, multi-step processes. Taken together, these enhancements help ensure that business people can receive critical business information at the right time for making better business decisions.
In November 2012, MicroStrategy certified its integration with the Amazon Redshift data warehouse service. Launched by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Redshift is a cloud-based analytical data warehouse service designed to deliver high performance analytics for data warehouse and Big Data applications.
MicroStrategy Offers Advanced Mobile Capabilities
In January 2012, MicroStrategy announced the general availability of MicroStrategy 9.2.1m for customers to build information-driven mobile apps for iPhone®, iPad®, and Android™ devices. MicroStrategy 9.2.1m contains over a dozen new capabilities that further enhance MicroStrategy-powered mobile apps. The new capabilities include support for offline mobile transactions, intelligent offline caching, and a secure mobile content management system — all resulting in a richer user-experience.
In April 2012, MicroStrategy unveiled a new version of MicroStrategy Mobile™ that delivers enhanced integration with Apple's AirPlay® feature. This capability extends MicroStrategy Mobile wirelessly onto conference room screens, encouraging spontaneous conversations rather than static slide presentations. When MicroStrategy Mobile users "mirror" their business apps onto screens, the device becomes a data remote-control, letting the user discuss the data on the screen while controlling it wirelessly from an Apple device. For more information, visit: https://www.microstrategy.com/mobile/.
MicroStrategy Extends Leadership in Cloud BI Offering
MicroStrategy continued to establish itself as a leader in Cloud-based business analytics. During 2012, customers on its MicroStrategy Cloud Platform ran over 2 million reports per week through the Company's innovative BI in the cloud service.
MicroStrategy Cloud™ builds on the analytic, visualization, and mobile capabilities of MicroStrategy 9.3 and offers customers a turnkey business analytics solution, including infrastructure, data hosting, ETL, and BI technologies. The MicroStrategy Cloud service also includes expert resources to manage and monitor the systems. Customers of all sizes have found value in the MicroStrategy Cloud service through improved business agility, lower cost, and lower financial and operational risks.
MicroStrategy Unveils Express, an Innovative Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Offering
In October 2012, MicroStrategy announced the general availability of MicroStrategy Express™, enabling any businessperson — regardless of technical skill — to access and analyze data on his own, and deploy powerful data-driven web and mobile intelligence apps to thousands of users within days. Express combines the simplicity and flexibility of a cloud-based solution with the analytical depth, performance and scalability of world-class business intelligence. Business people can access on-premises and cloud-based data rapidly and securely, and explore it using powerful and intuitive data visualizations. They can design and share mobile apps without writing a line of code. They can build boardroom-quality dashboards using pixel-perfect editing capabilities, and automatically publish personalized documents to any number of recipients. To try the service, visit https://www.microstrategy.com/express/.
In 2012, MicroStrategy delivered numerous technology innovations for its Wisdom, Alert, and Usher product offerings.
Wisdom: In July 2012, MicroStrategy announced the availability of MicroStrategy Wisdom Professional™, a market intelligence application that can explore the demographics, interests, activities, and preferences of nearly 20 million Facebook users in the Wisdom dataset. MicroStrategy Wisdom Professional provides businesses with intelligence to improve a wide range of marketing activities including brand management, consumer promotions, media buying, location planning, competitive analysis, business development, and social media marketing. To sign up for a free trial of MicroStrategy Wisdom Professional, visit: http://www.wisdom.com/professional/.
Alert: MicroStrategy Alert is a cloud-based platform that lets retailers deploy a branded mobile commerce app in a matter of weeks, without the high cost and delay of developing an application from scratch and maintaining it on their own. By integrating with a retailer's customer data system, marketing assets and social channels, Alert-powered apps can include a broad range of functionality, including a native storefront, store and product locators, digital receipts, and loyalty features. In addition, Alert offers other innovative capabilities, such as targeted promotions, peer-to-peer gifting, and detailed analytics on commercial activity and customer usage. In January 2013, West-Coast based specialty retailer Tilly's launched a state-of-the-art mobile commerce app, powered by MicroStrategy's Alert Mobile Commerce Platform, providing its customers with an enhanced experience of the Tilly's brand. Features include access to exclusive Tilly's content, a streamlined mobile shopping experience, and wallet functionality that allows personalized promotions and receipts. To see what Alert can do for other brands in only a matter of weeks, visit: http://www.alert.com/.
Usher: MicroStrategy Usher™ is a mobile identity network that offers businesses a more convenient and secure alternative to physical IDs, keys, and cards. It also provides a more effective way to manage the workforce, improve customer service, and reduce the threat of cyber-attacks. To download Usher, visit: http://www.usher.com/.
"We believe our consistent position in the Leaders quadrant over the past five years underscores our commitment to quality, performance and innovation," said MicroStrategy President Paul Zolfaghari. "As significant demand for visual data discovery functionality has developed over the past few years, MicroStrategy has not only been keenly focused on perfecting our visual data discovery product, MicroStrategy Visual Insight, but we have also renewed our dedication to increasing the usability and ease-of-use of the entire platform overall."
(1)Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms" by Kurt Schlegel, Rita L. Sallam, Daniel Yuen, Joao Tapadinhas, February 5, 2013.
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20th Cloud Expo, taking place June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy.
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In his keynote at 18th Cloud Expo, Andrew Keys, Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise, provided an overview of the evolution of the Internet and the Database and the future of their combination – the Blockchain. Andrew Keys is Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise. He comes to ConsenSys Enterprise with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, he worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for the creation and distribution of life sett...
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DevOps is being widely accepted (if not fully adopted) as essential in enterprise IT. But as Enterprise DevOps gains maturity, expands scope, and increases velocity, the need for data-driven decisions across teams becomes more acute. DevOps teams in any modern business must wrangle the ‘digital exhaust’ from the delivery toolchain, "pervasive" and "cognitive" computing, APIs and services, mobile devices and applications, the Internet of Things, and now even blockchain. In this power panel at @...
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The Internet of Things will challenge the status quo of how IT and development organizations operate. Or will it? Certainly the fog layer of IoT requires special insights about data ontology, security and transactional integrity. But the developmental challenges are the same: People, Process and Platform and how we integrate our thinking to solve complicated problems. In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Craig Sproule, CEO of Metavine, demonstrated how to move beyond today's coding paradigm and sh...
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With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing IoT strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @ThingsExpo 2016 in New York. Learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is as "IoT-Ready" as it can be! Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, is co-located with 20th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry p...
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More and more brands have jumped on the IoT bandwagon. We have an excess of wearables – activity trackers, smartwatches, smart glasses and sneakers, and more that track seemingly endless datapoints. However, most consumers have no idea what “IoT” means. Creating more wearables that track data shouldn't be the aim of brands; delivering meaningful, tangible relevance to their users should be. We're in a period in which the IoT pendulum is still swinging. Initially, it swung toward "smart for smar...
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"We build IoT infrastructure products - when you have to integrate different devices, different systems and cloud you have to build an application to do that but we eliminate the need to build an application. Our products can integrate any device, any system, any cloud regardless of protocol," explained Peter Jung, Chief Product Officer at Pulzze Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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The cloud promises new levels of agility and cost-savings for Big Data, data warehousing and analytics. But it’s challenging to understand all the options – from IaaS and PaaS to newer services like HaaS (Hadoop as a Service) and BDaaS (Big Data as a Service). In her session at @BigDataExpo at @ThingsExpo, Hannah Smalltree, a director at Cazena, provided an educational overview of emerging “as-a-service” options for Big Data in the cloud. This is critical background for IT and data professionals...
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Internet of @ThingsExpo has announced today that Chris Matthieu has been named tech chair of Internet of @ThingsExpo 2017 New York The 7th Internet of @ThingsExpo will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. Chris Matthieu is the co-founder and CTO of Octoblu, a revolutionary real-time IoT platform recently acquired by Citrix. Octoblu connects things, systems, people and clouds to a global mesh network allowing users to automate and control design flo...
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The WebRTC Summit New York, to be held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, announces that its Call for Papers is now open. Topics include all aspects of improving IT delivery by eliminating waste through automated business models leveraging cloud technologies. WebRTC Summit is co-located with 20th International Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo. WebRTC is the future of browser-to-browser communications, and continues to make inroads into the traditional, difficult, plug-in web co...
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Amazon has gradually rolled out parts of its IoT offerings, but these are just the tip of the iceberg. In addition to optimizing their backend AWS offerings, Amazon is laying the ground work to be a major force in IoT - especially in the connected home and office. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Chris Kocher, founder and managing director of Grey Heron, explained how Amazon is extending its reach to become a major force in IoT by building on its dominant cloud IoT platform, its Dash Button strat...
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Complete Internet of Things (IoT) embedded device security is not just about the device but involves the entire product’s identity, data and control integrity, and services traversing the cloud. A device can no longer be looked at as an island; it is a part of a system. In fact, given the cross-domain interactions enabled by IoT it could be a part of many systems. Also, depending on where the device is deployed, for example, in the office building versus a factory floor or oil field, security ha...
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In addition to all the benefits, IoT is also bringing new kind of customer experience challenges - cars that unlock themselves, thermostats turning houses into saunas and baby video monitors broadcasting over the internet. This list can only increase because while IoT services should be intuitive and simple to use, the delivery ecosystem is a myriad of potential problems as IoT explodes complexity. So finding a performance issue is like finding the proverbial needle in the haystack.
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The idea of comparing data in motion (at the sensor level) to data at rest (in a Big Data server warehouse) with predictive analytics in the cloud is very appealing to the industrial IoT sector. The problem Big Data vendors have, however, is access to that data in motion at the sensor location. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Scott Allen, CMO of FreeWave, discussed how as IoT is increasingly adopted by industrial markets, there is going to be an increased demand for sensor data from the outermos...
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Data is the fuel that drives the machine learning algorithmic engines and ultimately provides the business value. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Ed Featherston, director/senior enterprise architect at Collaborative Consulting, will discuss the key considerations around quality, volume, timeliness, and pedigree that must be dealt with in order to properly fuel that engine.
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In his general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Manish Dixit, VP of Product and Engineering at Dice, discussed how Dice leverages data insights and tools to help both tech professionals and recruiters better understand how skills relate to each other and which skills are in high demand using interactive visualizations and salary indicator tools to maximize earning potential. Manish Dixit is VP of Product and Engineering at Dice. As the leader of the Product, Engineering and Data Sciences team at D...
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SYS-CON Events has announced today that Roger Strukhoff has been named conference chair of Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo 2017 New York. The 20th Cloud Expo and 7th @ThingsExpo will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. "The Internet of Things brings trillions of dollars of opportunity to developers and enterprise IT, no matter how you measure it," stated Roger Strukhoff. "More importantly, it leverages the power of devices and the Internet to enable us all to im...
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Whether your IoT service is connecting cars, homes, appliances, wearable, cameras or other devices, one question hangs in the balance – how do you actually make money from this service? The ability to turn your IoT service into profit requires the ability to create a monetization strategy that is flexible, scalable and working for you in real-time. It must be a transparent, smoothly implemented strategy that all stakeholders – from customers to the board – will be able to understand and comprehe...
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"Once customers get a year into their IoT deployments, they start to realize that they may have been shortsighted in the ways they built out their deployment and the key thing I see a lot of people looking at is - how can I take equipment data, pull it back in an IoT solution and show it in a dashboard," stated Dave McCarthy, Director of Products at Bsquare Corporation, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government is announcing a recall of some 1.2 million high chairs, saying they pose a fall hazard to children.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the voluntary recall Thursday involving the product made by Graco Children's Products, Inc., of Atlanta.
The regulatory agency said "screws holding the front legs of the high chair can loosen and fall out" and said cracking plastic brackets can cause the high chair to "tip over unexpectedly." These tip-overs resulted in 24 reports of injuries including bumps and bruises to the head, a hairline fracture to the arm and cuts, bumps and bruises and scratches to the body."
The CPSC said consumers should stop using the high chairs immediately and identified the recall product as "all Harmony-TM high chairs." It said the product is no longer in production and said the model number can be located on the underside of the foot rest.


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Ministers Visit China to Grow Western Cape’s Export Market
1 July 2013
The Western Cape Government is conducting a trade and investment mission to China to promote increased economic opportunities between the two regions.
Alan Winde, Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Tourism, and Gerrit van Rensburg, Minister of Agriculture, are travelling to China to investigate opportunities in key sectors such as renewable energy, tourism and wine exports.
China is the fastest growing economy and the world’s second largest importer.
Minister Winde said some of the leading export products from the Western Cape to China were copper, grape wines and dried or fresh citrus fruit.
“In 2012 the Western Cape exported goods to China worth R1.4 billion. This was a 7.7% increase from 2011. Over the past decade China has invested R236 million into Foreign Direct Investment projects in the Western Cape. The province is well positioned to increase its share of trade and investment with that growing market,” said Minister Winde.
Minister Van Rensburg, who will be leading a delegation of Western Cape wine producers to the Yantai Wine Festival in Shandong Province from 5 to 7 July, said wine exports to China were worth R231 million last year: “South African wine exports to China have by 34% between 2009 and 2012. We hope to build on the valuable business connections that we’ve made through our participation at the 2011 and 2012 Yantai Wine Festivals to further increase demand for our products.”
In addition to attending the Yantai Wine Festival, ministers Winde and Van Rensburg will attend meetings with potential and current Chinese investors into the Western Cape and with South African companies currently operating in China.


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You may hate junk mail, but research says it works anyways.
People may pass by billboards with their heads pointed elsewhere, click through video ads with mild annoyance and hit the mute button during TV commercials. But they still enjoy reading business-fueled snail mail.
Direct mail evokes more emotion and remains one of the best ways to target local and specific audiences, which is why the piles of paper known as junk mail remain so popular with companies large and small.
“[Direct mail is] not as sexy and exciting as some of the tech innovations on the Internet,” said Gary Mulloy, CEO of Money Mailer, a direct mailing company. “But people pick up their mail to get advertising, they like getting it that way.”
Despite the rapid proliferation of the smartphone, spending on direct mail has managed to rise even as marketers spend more on digital advertising. Since 2010, spending on e-mail advertising rose 10.4% while display ad spending climbed 23%.
Meanwhile, spending on direct mailings has managed to rise slightly, 0.4%, since 2010, according to research from the Winterberry Group, a New York-based market research group. In total, mailings of coupons, catalogs and electioneering flyers is estimated at $45-$50 billion a year, according to Money Mailer.
Companies big and small use direct mail. Its a prominent way for big retailers to attract local audiences to their stores, Mulloy said. Victoria’s Secret is one retailer known for a wide use of direct mail. The company sends coupons and catalogues to mailboxes nationwide, and has even brought their direct mail campaigns into the digital age by including scannable sections of their catalogues. By using the Victoria’s Secret app on iOS or Android platforms, customers can get more information about the products they see in paper catalogues, and are able to make purchases through the apps. The company declined a request for their total, and direct mail advertising budgets.
Junk mail tends to provoke more emotional responses than digital marketing. According to a joint study between the United States Postal Service and Temple University’s Center for Neural Decision Making published June 15, respondents were more likely to remember a mailed print ad better than a digital one and place a higher value on the product being advertised.
While participants in the study reported having no preference between print and digital advertising, neurological tests performed while the participants were looking at the different types of ads indicated different “subconscious physiological responses” between the two, including a slightly faster heart rate and higher attention levels when looking at print advertising.
“The research showed that physical ads generate brain activity associated with a higher perceived value and desirability of the advertised product or service,” according to the study. “Companies that want to generate a more accurate memory of an ad, for better recall during a purchase, would be served best by physical ads.”
Of course, the U.S. Postal Service has a vested interest in promoting direct mail which comprised more than 30% of its revenue in 2014. USPS, which generated $67 billion in sales last year, says paper advertisements are “imperative” to the future of the government-owned service. The volume of direct mail has been declining at a slower rate than other categories of mail, according to data from the USPS.
It’s the physicality of the advertising that works, a point that newspapers and magazines continue to make to attract marketers. Getting physical ads into people’s hands is the main draw for advertisers, according to IWCO Direct, a print marketing firm based in Chanhassen, Minn.
“No other channel can make this claim,” Tom Hexamer, vice president of sales at IWCO, said in a blog post. “It’s important to consider how your audience interacts with a mailpiece. Like a fine wine, it must appeal to all of five senses.”
Still, digital ads are a growing an important part of an advertiser’s options. Mitt Romney received criticism in 2012 for not using new advertising methods such as social media as well as Barack Obama, and the former Massachusetts governor eventually lost the 2012 race for president.
Even as companies place more importance on digital advertising, Mulloy said your junk mail may not be going away anytime soon.[Advertisers] can’t find anything as effective at grabbing people, and getting them to read their ads,” Mulloy said. “It surprises most people.”


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Samsung has just announced a launch event at Mobile World Congress 2022 (MWC 2022) on February 27.
In a separate press release, Samsung Electronics Corporate EVP and Head of New Computing R&D team, Hark-sang Kim revealed that new Galaxy Book laptops will take the stage. These are revealed to be built by Samsung and Intel.
The new Galaxy Book laptops will come with Windows 11 and One UI Book 4 on top. This is a lightly customized interface that should bring better multitasking in multiple devices.
Samsung will be live streaming the event on its official YouTube on February 27, 2022.


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Google has crept on all of us over the course of developing Google Maps into the ubiquitous product that it has become, and now the company is enabling us to start creeping on each other as well.* Today Google has kicked off a pilot program opening up use of the Street View Trekker to third parties. If you're a member of a tourist board, non-profit, university, research organization, or something otherwise interesting, you can apply to borrow the Trekker and help capture images of the hard-to-reach places Google has yet to access.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is working on a few things. They are, according to the world's most infamous tipster "People Familiar With The Matter," working on an Android-powered video game console. And a smart watch. And a new Nexus Q. And the possibility of Android-powered appliances (like refrigerators). And Laptops. And, oh yeah, low-cost phones for developing markets.
Typically we avoid reporting on too-good-to-be-true rumors, but today's alleged revelation is a real whopper.
Today's update to Play Movies introduces a sleeker experience for Android devices. Unfortunately, the experience is too sleek for the Nexus Q to handle. For the few of you that have one of those endearing little spheres, your movies are now joining your music as content you can no longer stream to the device.
With both Play Music and Play Movies support gone, there is little reason to continue using the Nexus Q.
Last month Google announced that they would remove Argentina from the list of regions supporting paid Android apps in the Google Play Store. The company cited "ongoing issues," likely having to do with rapidly increasing inflation and other economic problems in the country. Google had planned to remove all paid apps and IAP apps from Argentinian developers tomorrow, June 27th. Now the company has reversed its decision, and though they haven't said why, presumably it follows the outcry from the Argentinian developer community.
Google quietly brought Play Books today to four new countries: Austria, Belgium, Ireland, and Portugal. The aforementioned countries only had access to Google Play Apps and Music before, so I'm sure the book lovers among those of you who reside in the four territories are ecstatic.
The new Books section as seen in Ireland
Google has been very slow to roll out various content stores worldwide. The last time Play Books expanded was all the way back in March and only included one country - Mexico.
If you take a look at Motorola Mobility's company branding, you'd be hard-pressed to find much that's changed since Google bought them almost two years ago. Today that changes... a little. The Verge found the logo above in the site for Techweek, a Moto-sponsored technology show taking place in Chicago on June 27th. The new logo surrounds the familiar "M" with a segmented color wheel, and swaps out the all-caps name for a softer font with "a Google company" beneath it.
The day is here, AOSP fans: you can go pick up a gloriously stock Samsung Galaxy S4 or HTC One in the Google Play Store now. The "Google Play Edition" phones went live this morning, right on time, and are now for sale next to the Nexus phones and tablets. The GS4 Google Edition can be had for $649, while the HTC One goes for slightly less at $599. Both are running the latest version of Android 4.2 shod of all skins and add-ons, with promised updates via Google itself.
If you've ever felt the urge to indulge in Android-branded consumerism in the same way that Apple fans do, you might soon get the chance... if you live in India. The Economic Times reports that Google plans to open an Android-branded store called Android Nation in New Delhi's Select Citywalk shopping center. The store will feature Android hardware from multiple brands (not just Nexus devices) and operate in partnership with Asian conglomerate Spice Mobile.
Google Glass is an extraordinary device. Like the Apple II, the Palm Pilot, and the first iPhone, Glass is a category-defining product that will quickly become the template for all other devices of its type going forward. It's the kind of device that will have a place in a computer history museum.
As a technology journalist, I often cover innovative devices, or exciting devices, or devices destined to sell millions, but how often, going in, can you say "This is a device of historical significance?" Wearable computing has arrived.
Last week there was a bit of hubbub among the still-tiny population of Google Glass users, after Google sent out packages to the Explorer program. A few of them spotted UPS packages coming in through the My UPS service, and speculation ran wild. What could this 1-pound package be? A free Nexus 4? Keys to one of Google's self-driving cars? A golden ticket for admittance to the Google X Dream Factory?


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The 17th annual RumFest makes a splash in London
The world’s longest-standing rum festival, RumFest, is back in action!
This year marks the 17th edition of this iconic event, and it promises to be bigger and better than ever. Hosted at London’s ILEC Conference Centre, the festival is a three-day extravaganza curated by the global rum ambassador, Ian Burrell.
— A Festival That Has Evolved
Ian Burrell, the founder and global rum ambassador, expressed his delight at the festival’s return. He noted, “The rum category has evolved significantly over this time and continues to see incredible growth in the UK. Since 2007, we have been educating consumers and the industry with our annual celebration and this year we are proud to be showcasing over 400 diverse rums at RumFest.”
— What to Expect?
Last year, the festival welcomed over 3,000 visitors, and this year aims to top that by featuring over 400 rums from around the world. The event will also include seminars and masterclasses from renowned brands like Equiano, V Rum, Angostura Rum, Foursquare Distillery, Ron Arehucas, Ron Diplomatico, Bayou Rum, Appleton Estate Rum, St Nicholas Abbey, J Bally, Old Monk Rum, Black Tot Rum, Ron Santiago de Cuba, and Camikara Rum.
— Celebrating Diversity
Taking place during Black History Month, RumFest will also spotlight black-owned rum owners and brands, adding another layer of significance to the event.
— For the Trade: RumFest Trade Show & Conference
In collaboration with Class magazine, the RumFest Trade Show & Conference will return on Monday, October 16.
This segment of the festival aims to provide a platform for emerging, independent, and boutique rum brands to connect with industry professionals, buyers, and key decision-makers from influential retailers.
— London Rum Week
This year also marks the return of London Rum Week, with events scheduled throughout the week at some of London’s top rum bars and venues.
— Event Details:
- Location: ILEC Conference Centre, London
- Dates: Saturday, October 14 – Monday, October 16
- Tickets: Start from £49.95 and are available here.


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ENTERPRISE, AL – Sawyer Law Firm recently settled a product liability case involving the crash of a 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt which claimed the life of a 20 year old Coffee County woman. The crash was a single-vehicle accident for which there was little explanation at the time. The recent GM ignition switch recall prompted Sawyer Law Firm to further investigate the cause of the accident.
The investigation revealed that the vehicle was part of the recent GM recall.
“This was a tragic and senseless death,” J.P. Sawyer said.
“I am glad we were able to get the answers that my clients deserve and to hold GM accountable.” Sawyer Law Firm worked with attorney Lance Cooper of Marietta, Georgia in the prosecution of the claim. “Lance discovered the cover-up behind this deadly defect, and it was a pleasure to work with him and his firm on this case.”
GM initially recalled about 780,000 2005-07 Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5 vehicles on February 13. Twelve days later, it expanded the recall to include an additional 590,000 model-year Pontiac Solstice, and Saturn Sky vehicles. That initial recall now encompasses 2.6 million vehicles, and GM admits to 13 deaths related to the defect.
In June, GM recalled an additional 3.4 million midsize and large cars for the same ignition switch defect. In July, GM recalled 17 older model (1997-2005) vehicles. GM attributes seven crashes, three deaths and eight injuries to this latest group of recalled vehicles, which it says allows “inadvertent ignition key rotation.”
So far, GM has recalled 17.1 million cars this year because of the ignition switch defect.


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A new Google site presents a series of 20 questions that will pinpoint which wallpaper, icon set, widgets, launcher, and keyboard are the right fit for your Android phone.
Marissa Mayer will step down as CEO from the remaining holding company after Yahoo sells its operating business to Verizon Communications, according to a regulatory document.
For $10 a month, Pandora Premium users get access to Pandora's popular radio services and a new on-demand catalog.
Google and Levi's are partnering on the first Project Jaquard product, a jacket that brings music controls, maps updates, and phone calls to your sleeve.
Intel is absorbing its autonomous driving partner, Mobileye, as the chip maker takes on Nvidia and others for the future of self-driving cars.
Margaret Franco, SVP of Marketing EMEA at Dell EMC, discusses the CMO’s evolving role, the relationship between marketing and culture and how Dell EMC uses account-based marketing to better understand the needs of the customer.
Google, Apple, Microsoft and other software vendors are working to identify and patch the vulnerabilities described in the CIA leak, but ultimately this doesn't change the status quo of software security.
With Bluetooth Smart, you can wirelessly connect to your online dashboard for a digital record of your blood pressure readings. That way it's easier for you to track your progress and take the right steps to manage your heart.
Your cell phone is lost, stolen, or down the toilet. Don't wait until disaster strikes to prepare for the worst. Here's what you can do.
AMD adds support for Zen's SMT in kernel code.
Search faster and smarter by learning all of the various places and ways to perform a Google search on Android.
Ransomware has exploded onto the PC. We'll show you what to do to avoid it, remove it, and—if necessary—even negotiate with its authors.
Anything you can do with an Amazon Echo inside your home you can now do with your Android phone inside your car.
Windows PCs offer many more choices than Macs do. We'll help you sort through the options.
Network World contributing editor David Strom provides a roundup of how to enable data leak prevention features on three email security platforms.
IDG.tv host Jimmy Conrad is live at the Great Britain House at SXSW 2017. Tonight's guests Jessica Rowley, Managing Director or Techdept, Nick Bax, Creative Director of Human, and the man known only as Wildborys break down how their working on new ways to communicate innovation. Find more about The Tech-Off presented by Techdept here: http://www.thetechoff.com/
IDG.tv host Jimmy Conrad is live at the Great Britain House at SXSW 2017 with Deepa Mann-Kler and Luke McNeice of RETNE and Tim Harper, Brand Director of The Tin talking VR and the future of interaction and entertainment. Find more about RETNE here: http://www.kainos.com/appliedinnovation #NIatSXSW Find The Tin here: http://www.thetin.net/ http://www.bandexplorervr.com/
Check out Panasonic House at SXSW, where visitors can test smart-home prototypes like a home dry cleaner.
The 47th vice president is recruiting the tech industry to work on what he believes is the most pressing issue of our time: curing cancer.
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The Apple World Wide Developers Conference took place September 12 at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California where Tim Cook and other Apple execs introduced Apple’s newest gadgets.
From bigger and better iPhones to an updated Apple Watch, here’s everything you missed at the tech event of the year.
iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max
Just imagine last year’s iPhone X…but better. It has the same super retina display and dual camera technology, but the iPhone XS features a more advanced Face ID and an A12 bionic chip, which is the smartest, most powerful chip in any smartphone so far. Not only that, Apple followed suit on its usual iPhone and iPhone Plus series by introducing the iPhone XS Max, which includes all the same features as the iPhone XS but with the largest iPhone display to date. Both the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max will be available to preorder beginning September 14.
The iPhone XR features an all-new liquid retina display, which is the most advanced LCD in the industry, along with an even faster Face ID, a breakthrough camera system, and a smart A12 bionic chip. Oh, and guess what? It comes in six different color finishes: blue, white, black, yellow, coral, and red. The iPhone XR will be available to preorder October 19.
Apple Watch Series 4
The newest Apple Watch features the largest display yet and a new electrical heart sensor that lets you use the ECG app to generate an electrocardiogram (ECG) at any time to share with your doctor. Pretty neat, right? Preorders for the new Apple Watch begin September 14.
iOS 12 is the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, offering a faster and more responsive experience with a 70 percent faster swipe to the camera, up to 50 percent faster keyboard display, and up to two times faster app launch. It also offers four new Animojis and a new Memoji feature, which allows you to create your own Animojis (reminiscent of Bitmojis form Snapchat). You can see the complete list of updates here, which will be available September 17.
What do you think about Apple’s latest releases? Weigh in on the comments below!
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Google has been ordered to pay 60 million Australian dollars for making misleading representations to Aussie consumers about the collection and use of their data on Android phones.
Google was found to have breached Australian Consumer Law between January 2017 and December 2018 by erroneously telling Android users that the setting titled ‘Location History’ was the only Google account setting that affected whether Google collected, kept and used personally identifiable data about their location.
However, the Australian watchdog found that another Google account setting, titled ‘Web & App Activity,’ would also enable the web behemoth to collect, store and use personally identifiable location data when it was turned on. Notably, that setting was turned on by default.
Based on available data, the ACCC estimates that roughly 1.3 million Google accounts in Australia would have likely viewed a screen found by the Court to have breached Australian Consumer Law.
“Companies need to be transparent about the types of data that they are collecting and how the data is collected and may be used, so that consumers can make informed decisions about who they share that data with,” said ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb.
“This is the first public enforcement outcome arising out of the ACCC’s Digital Platforms Inquiry,” Cass-Gottlieb added.
Google accepted that remedial steps were in order and addressed the contravening conduct by Dec. 10, 2018. Since then, users have no longer been shown the misleading screens.
The internet giant also accepted that the penalty calculated at AUD 60 million was appropriate, and that no separate penalty against its Australian subsidiary, Google Australia Pty Ltd., was necessary.
The Court has also required Google to review its policies and show clear commitment to compliance, including by training staff on Australian Consumer Law. Lastly, Google is also required to absorb some of the ACCC’s costs related to this action.
Google’s conduct – or at least most of it – occurred before the maximum penalty was increased for breaches of Australian Consumer Law. The maximum from September 2018 is the higher of $10 million, three times the value of any benefit obtained from the alleged conduct or, if the value cannot be determined, 10% of turnover.
By comparison, Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) says entities found liable of such conduct will be fined up to 10 million euros, or, in the case of an undertaking, up to 2% of the entire global turnover of the preceding fiscal year, whichever is higher.
For especially severe violations of the GDPR, companies can be fined up to 20 million euros or up to to 4% of their global turnover, whichever is higher.


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Facebook definitely has not dominated this market (yet)
Social media giant Facebook is hard to avoid even if you’re not a member. But there’s one interesting market it hasn’t fully ‘taken over’ yet – the smartphone messaging market. For iPhone users there are plenty of apps out there that dominate the global messaging market share including the very popular application ‘What’s App’ that has millions of users.
Take a look at this data from Onavo. Onavo is an app that gives insights and advice to get more out of data, on the map here via TechCrunch, we see the scale of the WhatsApp market.
This image shows the amount of iPhone owners across the world that use messaging apps (Skype and Viber interestingly enough isn’t included in this data).
WhatsApp it seems, as dominance in European countries, very much ahead of Facebook but what’s interesting is if you have a closer look at Asia.
Asia in particular it appears has more of a reliance on homegrown apps than the Facebook messenger.
Take for example the messaging app usage in South Korea, KakaoTalk, the free mobile messenger application holds 88% of the market while LINE, the social media app, in Japan takes 44%, above Facebook’s 15%. And of course Facebook can’t get into the biggest market – China – because of its ban there.
So it looks like the social media may have a to wait a while before it takes over the world!
If you are interested in mobile apps you should read our article on “Top 5 Fitness Apps“


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Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (NASDAQ:COKE) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, August 8th. The company reported $2.36 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $4.10 by $1.74, Bloomberg Earnings reports. The business had revenue of $1.17 billion during the quarter. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated had a return on equity of 15.49% and a net margin of 1.23%.
Shares of Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (COKE) opened at 204.67 on Friday. The company has a market capitalization of $1.91 billion, a P/E ratio of 41.81 and a beta of 0.03. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $229.45 and a 200 day moving average of $208.72. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated has a 1-year low of $125.00 and a 1-year high of $249.54.
The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, August 11th. Shareholders of record on Friday, July 28th were paid a $0.25 dividend. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.49%. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, July 26th. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated’s dividend payout ratio is presently 20.37%.
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Kroger Co. is looking for a few good workers – 1,200 in fact — to staff stores in the Cincinnati and Dayton markets.
The company hosted its first career fair for the effort on Friday, but there are still a few more opportunities to apply for jobs. Here's the schedule:
• Nov. 7, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Erlanger; and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Dayton Fairborn;
• Nov. 8 from 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Erlanger; and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Dayton Fairborn.
Cincinnati-based Kroger (NYSE: KR) is hiring for all departments and for all shifts.


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A beverage sponsored by rapper Travis Scott is staying discontinued as the fallout from the Astroworld tragedy taints his standing in the marketing and advertising sphere.
Alcoholic beverage titan Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) declared on Friday that had discontinued manufacturing of Cacti, a brand of hard seltzer developed in partnership with Scott. The corporation first confirmed the news to TMZ, and it was later on claimed by AdAge as well.
“Immediately after watchful analysis, we have decided to quit all output and model enhancement of CACTI Agave Spiked Seltzer,” a spokesperson for AB InBev instructed Newsweek in a assertion. “We believe that manufacturer enthusiasts will fully grasp and regard this determination.”
Even though AB InBev did not specify the Astroworld incident as the impetus for the conclusion, the shift arrived only a month after 10 audience associates died at Scott’s tunes pageant in Houston. The agave-flavored alcoholic seltzer manufacturer 1st hit retail store shelves much less than a 12 months back. Scott’s reps claimed to TMZ that the determination to pull the Cacti model was a mutual a single as the rapper pulls his emphasis absent from business ventures for the time getting.
“Travis was obvious in his job interview that he is not targeted on business enterprise appropriate now and his precedence is serving to his neighborhood and supporters recover,” the representative mentioned. “CACTI questioned AB InBev to notify their wholesalers there will not be products at this time.”
AB InBev is the most recent branding lover to distance itself from Scott in the wake of the Astroworld tragedy on November 5. Nike, which experienced a profitable collaboration with the rapper starting in 2017, announced on November 15 that it was “postponing the start of the Air Max 1 x Cactus Jack” in light-weight of the conditions.
Scott’s likeness and linked dance moves were being pulled from Epic Games’ immensely well-liked video clip match, Fortnite, subsequent the incident. Standard Mills publically said that it had no long run designs with Scott, who as soon as graced packing containers of the firm’s Reese’s Puffs cereal. A undertaking involving Scott and movie production corporation Mega64 was also canceled the day just after Astroworld 2021.
This reduction of sponsorships and enterprise partners will come right after Scott experienced a hugely effective operate of discounts in 2020, together with profitable partnerships with McDonald’s, Sony and WarnerMedia. In full, his corporate sponsorships previous yr totaled all-around $100 million.
Owing to his expansive and productive portfolio of business associates, some, like marketer Anthony Scott and XXL Magazine, after hailed the rapper as a “internet marketing genius.”
Some brand names have continued operating with Scott. On the internet therapy app, Superior Aid, partnered with him to supply cost-free counseling to Astroworld attendees. Christian Dior also confirmed that its “Cactus Jack Dior” made by Scott would even now make its way to stores in January.
Update 12/12/2021, 4:45 p.m. ET: This post was up-to-date to incorporate a assertion from AB InBev.


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7 March 2017
An innovative marine farm net cleaning system developed by Andy Fairhall from Marlborough business Boss Net Cleaning Services has been installed by the large Canadian-based salmon farming company Cooke Aquaculture – which also farms salmon in Scotland, Chile and the US – with repeat orders confirmed for 2017.
Andy, a previous employee of New Zealand King Salmon and now entrepreneur, says he was excited to have his Boss Aqua system taken up by Cooke Aquaculture. He says, “Following years of hard work including many thousands of hours of research, development and testing, it is satisfying to be able to offer the international aquaculture community the world’s first fully-automated net cleaning robot. We are proud our equipment is 100% produced in New Zealand with significant suppliers in Marlborough.”
Other markets that Andy has in his sights include NZ, Australia, Europe, South America, Scandinavia and Asia.
“We’re proud to have fostered Andy’s talent during his time with New Zealand King Salmon, as well as assisting during the product testing and feedback phase. And we’re thrilled that his innovation is being recognised internationally,” says New Zealand King Salmon CEO, Grant Rosewarne.
With our legendary ‘number 8 wire’ mentality, New Zealand has long been heralded as an innovative hub. “Being a nation surrounded by ocean and with aquaculture tagged as an increasingly critical part of feeding the world in years to come, innovation in this area is critical and makes excellent business sense,” says Grant.
With organisations right on our doorstep undertaking cutting edge research and development, such as the Marlborough Research Centre (MRC), there are excellent opportunities for Marlborough businesses to focus on developing innovation in their industries to enable the region, its’ businesses and, most importantly, its’ people to grow and thrive.
“Over the past 33 years MRC has built a reputation for connecting business to business, and stimulating innovation and improved value across the primary sector,” says Gerald Hope, chief executive at MRC. Through the Marlborough Food and Beverage Innovation cluster run by MRC, he says that industry has become closely aligned to market led innovation.
MRC’s function is to grow the regional economy in the top of the south across Nelson, Marlborough and beyond.
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Word got out earlier this month that HP might be the first to launch an ultrabook, and that still sounds like the rumor du jour in Taiwan. However, DigiTimes has now added a slight clarification based "sources from the upstream supply chain": Asus may actually be the first to mass-produce an ultrabook.
Those supply chain sources, DigiTimes adds, suggest that big notebook players including HP, Acer, Asus, Dell, and Lenovo all plan to kick off ultrabook mass production in September. However, due to LCD panel shortages (which I'm assuming is what DigiTimes means by "low panel yield rate"), Acer and Dell may end up late to the party... and it sounds like Asus might be pulling ahead of HP. Asus did, after all, showcase the first ultrabook at Computex earlier this year.
Just don't get too excited about shopping for ultrabooks in the near future. DigiTimes says products won't hit the market until later this year, and HP's first ultrabooks might even slip into early 2012. I'm sure everyone's trying to get systems out the door in time for the holiday shopping rush, though.
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