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Pagani has a new rare model, the Zonda Kiryu.
Italian sports carmaker unveils rare roofless model [PHOTO]
Check out the latest model, it is the Zonda Kiryu and it comes without a roof.
This new model is a very rare and according to Carbuzz, this is the first time this vehicle is being seen in its entirety.
Features include blue carbon fiber, and a 7.3-liter V12, that sends power to the rear wheels.
This supercar is simply a beauty.
Lewis Hamilton has a purple Pagani Zonda 760 LH.
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Food delivery giant Just Eat and Amazon have unveiled a new partnership to offer Amazon Prime members access to free delivery on orders from its U.S. subsidiary Grubhub.
The agreement between the two companies, that automatically renews every year, unless it is terminated by one of the parties is expected to be able to see Amazon receive warrants for two percent of Grubhub’s equity that is fully diluted.
Truss will define PS40bn package that will assist companies with their energy bills
The announcement comes as the British-Dutch restaurant ordering firm is looking to shed Grubhub management saying they’ll consider a complete or partial deal to sell the company.
Just Eat has come under criticism from investors due to its acquisition of the US-based Grub Hub in 2020 for $7.3bn in shares.
Shares are down by nearly 70 percent this year, and chief executive Jitse Groen was accused of being a snob in the past by some of company’s most prominent investors, including the second largest shareholder Cat Rock, for the acquisition.


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B2B brands are those that have best noticed the recent shifts in spending power and modified their marketing efforts accordingly, says Joe Fernandez.
- Read the cover feature here: how business power brands are flexing their marketing muscle
- IBM’s UK brand leader, Kate Pennell, explains how the company’s “Smart Planet” strategy works in this case study
- Nick Basford, vice-president of marketing, UPS Europe, talks about how to market a B2B brand
- Repositioning rubbish: How a B2B brand won a Marketing Week award
Recent ad campaigns have become more personable and investment has been ploughed into sponsorship to enhance their global exposure at high profile spectator events.
IBM’s prestige in the advertising industry is unquestionable. Armed with a $500m (£310m) global advertising budget, it has worked closely with agency Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide to position its brand in a way that resonates with its entire customer base. It is using its Smarter Planet initiative to show how its systems are helping people work in a more efficient way.
Fergus O’Hare, associate creative director at Ogilvy Paris, explains: “Smarter Planet works well because it tells complex stories in a simple way that everyone from the man on the-street to the corporate chief executive will understand. It shows smart things happening around the world in a simple but graphic way.”
Such strategies can be seen with other brands on the list. The agency also worked on the We Love Logistics global campaign for UPS.
O’Hare notes that the “light, playful tone with the complex global message is a good evolution for UPS.”
For these firms, B2B may be their biggest revenue driver, but the need to please the average consumer will continue to fuel their advertising in future.
To view more of Ogilvy & Mather’s campaigns, go to www.mwlinks.co.uk/Ogilvy


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HANGZHOU: According to Alibaba Group CEO Daniel Zhang, logistics companies are ultimately high- tech companies as "the core of the logistics industry is the system of logistics information".
FedEx was founded on that principle so for logistics professionals, it's nothing new.
What might be is the Alibaba logistics subsidiary Cainiao, formed two years ago to provide an IT backbone to support a myriad of forwarders, truckers and last-mile couriers owned by Cainiao's co-investors and partners.
Today this cloud-and big-data-powered system provides real-time distribution center utilization rates, route planning information and order volume forecasts for 1,800 distribution centers and 97,000 delivery stations in more than 600 cities in 31 Chinese provinces.
Major shareholders in Cainiao include Alibaba (48 percent) retailer Yintai Group, Chinese conglomerate Fosun Group, S.F. Express Co., and four major Chinese courier companies: Shentong, Yuantong , Zhong Tong and Yunda.
They say they intend to spend US$16 billion in the next 5-8 years "to make it easy to deliver goods to anywhere" according to Cainiao president Judy Tong.
The Cainiao IT platform links a network of logistics providers, warehouses and distribution centers in order to improve service levels in China's logistics industry. The company says that for the 12 months ending June 2014, more than 6.1 billion packages were generated from transactions on its network – some 54 percent of all packages delivered in China according to the State Post Bureau of the PRC.
Handling over 30 million packages a day, in late April the company launched its largest supermarket distribution center in Eastern China to support Alibaba; on May 12 it began a three-hour delivery service in five major Chinese cities for healthcare orders from Tmall.com; two days later the Alibaba Group announced a strategic investment in YTO Express and on May 22 Cainiao launched its first supermarket distribution center in Southwest China for next-day delivery of Tmall.com products.
The Cainiao goal is to provide cross-border e-commerce facilitation for Alibaba and its logistics partners to 217 countries.
So news that XPO Logistics has raised US$1.26 billion in fresh equity and will offer US$2 billion in new debt, suggests investors think logistics is a sound long-term bet – wherever you are.
- Author Simon Keeble is the editor of Freightweek


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An image from Portugal’s locker room showing off a strange pair of shoes that belong to no other than Cristiano Ronaldo has caught our attention. The picture was taken ahead of Portugal’s 2019 UEFA Nations League final against the Netherlands on June 9, 2019.
The strange shoes we are talking about stood next to Cristiano Ronaldo’s regular Nike Mercurial Superfly 6 CR7 boots. They are almost completely black with yellow visible on the upper but without visible brandings.
The interesting element of the boots is that they feature toes in the front area, something we have never seen worn by CR7 or released for Cristiano Ronaldo by Nike.
In fact, Footyheadlines think that Nike never released such toe shoes as the website specialized in football wears have no clue what exactly they are – they could be a big Nike innovation or just a toe shoe CR7 likes from another brand.


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Payments provider Square has introduced a buy now, pay later (BNPL) feature in the UK through an integration with ClearPay.
Representing the first integration with Clearpay, which is known as Afterpay outside the UK and Europe, the new BNPL feature will serve the sellers operating in the online and in-store commerce sector.
The launch follows the purchase of Afterpay by Block.
It will see the UK becoming the first market to introduce BNPL across all the platforms such as in-store and online. Square said that its developers and partners can also integrate the feature.
The integration is expected to provide Square merchants in the UK with a BNPL option that can be used by consumers to make payments in four interest-free instalments over a duration of six weeks. The merchants will receive payments instantly.
To facilitate online shopping, Clearpay will be embedded as a payment method within Square Online’s checkout system. It aims to help the merchants with options to upgrade their average purchase size as well as grow basket conversion and invite new more customers.
The feature will also allow merchants to accept Clearpay in-person at the buyer checkout point through any of the Square point of sale software.
In addition, developers will be able to streamline their transaction data. They can also create and maintain a single integration for both Square and Clearpay transactions within the Square Web Payments SDK.
Square noted that the merchants who accept payments through Square’s Virtual Terminal dashboard can provide Clearpay through text message Pay Links or by employing Square Terminal hardware.
Square head Alyssa Henry said: “We’re thrilled to be integrating Clearpay both in-store and online in the UK.
“The integration across platforms furthers our goal to give sellers of all sizes omnichannel tools that help them to grow by meeting consumer shopping habits, whatever and wherever they are.
“Clearpay provides our ecosystem with a new tool beyond an alternative payment method; it enables an omnichannel commerce solution that can offer true value to our sellers.”
Last year, the UK’s BNPL sector represented around £13bn of the country’s e-commerce spend. The value is anticipated to double by 2025 to represent 12.1% of the UK e-commerce expenditure.


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Samsung Electronics added new marketing services and professional training system to its channel partner program—the Samsung Team of Empowered Partners (STEP).
At the annual Samsung Channel Partner Summit on Thursday in San Antonio, Texas, Samsung introduced Marketing Concierge Services and a new training and certification program called Samsung Business Academy.
With this move, Samsung said, it aims to help new and existing partners’ succeed in a digital age.
“The resources we are rolling out in 2016 for partners will increase their relevancy in the marketplace and expertise in target markets—ultimately increasing their bottom line,” Samsung Electronics America Marketing Vice President Ed Abrams said.
In a press statement, Samsung said the expanded support is part of Samsung’s 2016 channel focus in four key areas: driving greater demand through partners, accelerating knowledge transfer, increasing partner profitability and simplifying platforms.


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KYIV, Ukraine, July 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Ukraine exported 117,900 tons of sugar over September 2011 - June 2012. This is the largest export amount for the country in the last ten years, informs Ukrainian Agribusiness Club (UAC). "Ukraine is capable of producing sugar that would be competitive to the global market. The country has favorable climate for growing sugar beet and leading companies which invest in increasing sugar and sugar beet production," said Taras Vysotskyi, UAC expert.
Sugar prices stimulate sugar export - since domestic price for sugar in Ukraine is USD 625 per ton, and international - USD 650. In part, export increase is the result of the development of the sugar beet industry in the country over the last couple of years, suggested Vysotskyi.
The Ukrainian sugar industry has been growing rapidly, with the country having produced 2.33 million tons of sugar in 2011 compared to 1.54 million tons in 2010, according to sugaronline.com. In September 2011 - June 2012 Ukraine exported the largest amount of sugar to Kazakhstan - 83,000 tons, as well as Georgia (8,900 tons) and Kyrgyzstan (5,900 tons). In addition, major importers of Ukrainian sugar include Lebanon (4,450 tons over the listed period), Uzbekistan (3,987 tons), Turkmenistan (3,400 tons), and Syria (2,400 tons).
Notably, Ukraine's annual sugar consumption amounts to 1.86 million tons, according to Mykola Yarchuk, Head of the National Association Ukrtsukor. This provides the country with export potential of 470,000 tons (as of January 2012), noted Yarchuk.
At the same time, Ukraine decreased sugar imports to 10.2 thousand tons in 2011/2012 marketing year compared to 289 thousand tons in 2010/2011 marketing year, reported Ukrtsukor website. In 2011, Ukraine imported sugar from world top sugar producer and exporter Brazil (231 thousand tons), as well as Belarus (37.5 thousand tons).
Earlier, Ukrainian agrarian minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk reckoned Ukraine could export approximately a million tons of sugar per year, earning about one billion dollars. This projected export volume is comparable to the amounts provided world's top sugar exporters. While Brazil exports almost 18 million tons (nearly 40 percent of world sugar), other countries that export large amounts of sugar - Guatemala, India, South Africa, and Cuba - trade somewhere between 1.2 and 1.5 million tons annually, according to sugarins.com.
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A substantial fall in the earnings within hydrocarbons led Qatar’s PPI (producers’ price index) shrink 10.6% year-on-year in February 2020, according to the official statistics.
Qatar’s PPI — a measure of the average selling prices received by the domestic producers for their output — saw a 5.8% month-on-month decline, said the figures released by the Planning and Statistics Authority (PSA).
The PSA had released a new PPI series in late 2015. With a base of 2013, it draws on an updated sampling frame and new weights. The previous sampling frame dates from 2006, when the Qatari economy was much smaller than today and the range of products made domestically much narrower.
The mining PPI, which carries the maximum weight of 72.7%, plummeted 14.4% on a yearly basis as price of crude petroleum and natural gas plunged 14.6% and that of stone, sand and clay by 5% in the review period.
The PPI for mining registered a 8.3% shrinkage month-on-month in February this year on the back of a 8.3% increase in the price of crude petroleum and natural gas and 2.1% in stone, sand and clay.
The manufacturing sector, which has a weight of 26.8% in the PPI basket, witnessed a 1.9% yearly shrinkage in February this year on a 6.9% contraction in the price of basic metals, 6.1% in basic metals, 3.4% in cement and other non-metallic mineral products, 0.8% in beverages and 0.2% in grain mill and other products.
Nevertheless, there was a 3% increase in the price of paper and paper products, 2.6% in juices, 2.2% in other chemical products and fibers, 0.3% in dairy products, 0.2% in rubber and plastics products and 0.1% in refined petroleum products.
The manufacturing sector PPI had seen a monthly 0.8% fall in February 2020 as the price of refined petroleum products declined 1.9%, juices and rubber and plastics products (1.2% each), cement and other non-metallic mineral products (0.6%) and grain mill and other products (0.2%); whereas that of basic metals rose 3.4%, beverages (1.4%), paper and paper products (1%), basic chemicals (0.3%) and dairy products (0.1%).
However, the utilities group, which has a mere 0.5% weightage in the PPI basket, saw its index expand 7% on yearly basis in February this year as water and electricity prices had risen 6.1% and 8.4% respectively.
The index had seen a 2.5% growth month-on-month this February with electricity and water gaining 3.9% and 0.7% respectively.
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text: Minister of State for Small Business, John Perry T.D., launched the Small Business Finance website, a joint initiative by the Irish Banking Federation (IBF) and Chambers Ireland, at an event in the National Gallery, Dublin. Supported by additional content from sponsors Eversheds, Mazars and Energia, the Small Business Finance website is an open resource for small businesses of all backgrounds and at various stages of development on business planning and financial management. Speaking at the event, Minister of State for Small Business, John Perry T.D, said: “Ireland’s small business sector has thrived in the past and the Small Business Finance website is a sign of our innovative and enterprising ability for the future. Having addressed the information gap between larger business or financial organisations and the small business sector previously it is highly encouraging to see some of Ireland’s most capable businesses work together to create such a valuable resource, not just for the small businessman, but for Ireland’s overall economy. I commend those who have put such hard work into it and look forward to witnessing the rewards”.


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Not today. The use of AI in healthcare is intriguing, but most people aren’t yet ready to trust it. Data protection, proof of accuracy, and allowing human-driven alternatives can help drive acceptance
Legacy companies struggle with the changes needed to improve customer experience. To overcome that, James Lane says to be patient, focus on incremental wins, and frame the benefits of CX in terms that senior management values
For newbies, using an AI-assisted art creation tool is both delightful and disappointing
Companies in a hot market often overlook experience problems, but that can come back to bite them as soon as the market cools
Lessons about listening to customers from two of the biggest tech acquisitions of the year
Young adults underestimate the tech sophistication of people over 60. Beware of bias in your company's thinking.
The financial rewards for transforming a category can be immense, but the barriers are also huge and not necessarily obvious. Amazon’s attempts to reform healthcare show that distrust and overpromising can be two of the biggest risks.


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Sharon Johnson, from the university’s College of Health and Human Sciences, said “we need vitamin and calcium, in combination, to prevent bone loss as we age. Even if we’re on prescription medications for conditions involving our bones (like osteoporosis) we need adequate amounts of vitamin D and calcium for those medications to be effective.”
Johnson said the elderly are at risk because of the dangers of broken hips: “Did you know most health experts say more than 25 percent of older adults die within six months of a hip fracture.”
Johnson cites a University of California Berkeley “Wellness Letter” from August 2007 that said, “there’s growing evidence that vitamin D is not only good for bone health but for muscle strength and prevention of some cancers and other illnesses.”
The professor said that people aged 51 to 70 need 400 IU (International Units) of vitamin D each day and those over 71 need 600 IU per day.
“In this area, most of the time, we get some of our vitamin D from sunlight … but for some people that’s not always possible. Enter the right kind of foods and vitamin D supplement.”


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Now that the UK has finally got its Brexit ducks in a row (kind of), Google users will lose the data protection afforded to them by the European Union.
Google has chosen to move UK user accounts to US jurisdiction, meaning it'll be easier for authorities in the UK to get hold of your data for law enforcement purposes, and that your information will no longer be protected by the EU's stringent rules including GDPR.
The US's data protection rules are considered some of the loosest in the world, and there's no equivalent of GDPR. The Trump administration recently passed the US Cloud Act, which will help law enforcement in the UK get hold of user data from US companies.
It's currently not clear whether post-Brexit Britain will continue to use the GDPR rules, or set up something of its own (oh god).
There's no Google statement on the decision, but former Global Lead of Privacy Technology at the company told Techradar:
"There’s a bunch of noise about the UK government possibly trading away enough data protection to lose adequacy under GDPR, at which point having them in Google Ireland’s scope sounds super messy.
Never discount the desire of tech companies not to be caught in between two different governments."
Google users will have to accept new terms of service, including the jurisdiction change, to continue using their Google services. Do you think other tech companies will be next to make the move? Let us know in the comments. [Techradar]


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Chinese firm Harbin Pharmaceutical Group is poised to take over and privatize US vitamin and retailer supplier GNC.
The firm acquired a 40-per-cent shareholding in the company last year, initiating an e-commerce business in joint venture with GNC in China. Harbin currently owns its stake as convertible preferred shares.
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The potential takeover is complicated by GNC’s heavy debt load, which four months ago stood at US$900 million, and the current political climate between China and the US. GNC has lost more than half its value over the past year.
GNC operates more than 4800 stores in the US and has franchises in 46 international territories. It is expected to shutter 900 outlets by the end of next year.


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Entrepreneurs at some Thailand-based startups were rattled by a brief outage Wednesday that many users blamed on the country’s military. Read More »
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International start-ups and investors seeking to tap into Southeast Asia’s rising middle class and remarkably high rates of mobile and social-media usage have commonly targeted Singapore or Indonesia as the launch pads for their Internet businesses.
The benefits of Singapore, entrepreneurs say, include its buzzing tech scene, ease of doing business and abundant investor capital, while Indonesia offers much-feted growth potential and a huge population of more than 240 million—which also skews advantageously young and tech-savvy.
But a start-up called Zodio is pinning its hopes on Thailand. Read More »
It’s no secret that Indonesia is becoming more important to the world’s largest tech companies. It has more than 30 million Internet users, according to market-intelligence firm IDC, and a mobile-phone penetration of 78%, according to Nielsen. It’s also among the top markets in the world for Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Google opened a new office in Jakarta in March.
But escaping the limelight a little – at least outside Indonesia – are Indonesia’s many homegrown tech startups, which are tapping a huge domestic market to launch everything from e-commerce portals to news-aggregation websites. Here is the WSJ’s informal survey of Indonesia’s top tech start-ups. Read More »
JAKARTA—Yahoo will shutter location-based website Koprol.com next month, more than two years after the Internet giant bought it from an Indonesian developer in a deal seen at the time as a boost to local technology start-ups.
“In line with Yahoo’s focus on more quickly innovating with our core products and properties, over the coming quarters, we are shutting down or transitioning a number of products that did not meaningfully drive revenue or engagement,” the company said in statement posted on its Koprol blog. Read More »
Once famous for sitting on a fat pile of cash, Singapore Telecommunications, the city-state’s flagship telecommunications provider, is now on a shopping spree to build its muscle in the social media and mobile advertising sectors.
Its latest acquisition–12 million Singapore dollars (US$9.4 million) for the holding company of HungryGoWhere — a Singapore-based restaurant review portal similar to U.S.-based Yelp — follows the S$321 million purchase earlier this year of Amobee, a Silicon Valley mobile advertising company. Read More »
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Bendungan Hilir market in Jakarta is one of hundreds the government is targeting as part of an urban revitalization program. The goal, say vendors, is ultimately to turn the ramshackle building into an enclosed five-storey shopping hub.
Indonesia’s adoption of a regional anti-haze treaty—12 years after it first signed the document—is a welcome but largely symbolic move, environmentalists say.
What does Indonesia have in common with the tiny South American country of Suriname? Come find out on Saturday. If comics and action figures are your thing, Asia’s largest pop culture convention opens this weekend.
The haze from Indonesia is back in Singapore — and people are not too happy about it. The Wall Street Journal asked people in the city-state how the haze was affecting their lives.
Soon, BlackBerry will have even more solutions for mobile payments in Indonesia thanks to new features on its BBM Money application.


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The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has authorized Paxos Trust Company LLC, formerly known as itBit Trust Company, to offer a permissioned, blockchain-based post-trade platform settlement service called Bankchain, the agency announced. In addition, the DFS granted a virtual currency license to Genesis Global Trading, Inc. Maria T. Vullo, the DFS Superintendent, said that "[t]hese approvals demonstrate DFS’s commitment to protecting consumers and the virtual currency market while encouraging innovation, such as the expanded use of blockchain, and providing strong regulatory oversight to new and existing market participants."
Paxos, a subsidiary of Kabompo Holdings Ltd., offers the Bankchain Precious Metals post-trade platform settlement service, which facilitates settlement among buyers in the "Loco London" market of gold bullion physically held in vaults recognized by the London Bullion Market Association. As itBit, Paxos was the first virtual currency company to receive a charter from the DFS (see Banking and Finance Law Daily, May 7, 2015). "We are focused on building the best infrastructure to enable a modern day settlement solution for the precious metals market that will unlock capital, mobilize assets and create value," Paxo CEO Charles Cascarilla said.
The Genesis license marks the seventh virtual currency charter or license issued by the DFS. The DFS noted that it conducted a comprehensive review of the Genesis application, including the company’s anti-money laundering, anti-fraud, capitalization, consumer protection, and cyber security policies. Genesis, which is subject to ongoing supervision by the DFS, conducts over-the-counter virtual currency block trading of Bitcoin, Ether, Ether Classic, Litecoin, Ripple, and Bitcoin Cash with counterparties on a proprietary basis. The license also authorizes Genesis to undertake potential future offerings of Zcash. Genesis CEO Michael Moro said that the DFS’s decision to issue the license "is an important step forward and reaffirms the robust compliance measures we have enacted as a trusted trading partner."
Companies: Genesis Global Trading, Inc; Kabompo Holdings Ltd.; Paxos Trust Company LLC, formerly known as itBit Trust Company
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Fellow Fool Rick Aristotle Munarriz has already offered his analysis on eBay's
A whole new 'do
The company will roll out a redesigned eBay homepage sometime before the upcoming holiday season. It's also working to improve the "finding experience" among users, adding an algorithmic search engine that factors in a user's prior searches, as well as items sought by other people searching for the same items. As a result, buyers should be more quickly connected to the right sellers.
Other tweaks now available or on the way include Bid Assistance (making it easier to bid on more than one product at a time), eBay Countdown (which visually represents an auction's sequence), and improved customer support. The company will better link PayPal and eBay call centers, sparing customers from being transferred from one to the other. All these steps should help eBay increase the number of closed auctions.
Reaching to Germany
Besides improving eBay's usability, Whitman indicated that the marketplace's current gross merchandise value (GMV) performance is not where it could be, despite the success of Apple
In Germany, ebay.de will get an overhaul of its community section. eBay hopes to retain and draw in more users by getting them better connected into an online community. Whitman hinted that if eBay's social networking platform catches on in Germany, we can expect similar features in the United States.
On the go
I was especially intrigued by the eBay To Go concept, currently being tested in the U.S. market. The program aims to let users easily grab and post interesting eBay content or listings on other blogs, message boards, or websites -- ultimately driving more traffic back to eBay.
I think this initiative has enormous potential. It just makes good business sense to tap the potential of social networking sites like Bebo, MySpace, and Facebook. eBay To Go could turn any MySpace or blog page into a virtual storefront. The concept's hardly a stretch -- savvy netizens are already accustomed to enhancing their virtual spaces with YouTube videos and Photobucket or Flickr images.
Potentially, eBay could go one step further here, partnering with social networking sites to make its Skype communication tool a feature on these sites as well. Instead of messaging or leaving comments for a friend, why couldn't a user place a call through Skype without leaving the site? That would spur fresh expansion to Skype's already astronomical growth numbers; the voice and video chat service now boasts roughly 220 million users. (eBay's deal with Wal-Mart
In a previous "Fool on Call," we examined how the company planned to foster a healthier online marketplace by reducing the clutter of product listings. Those efforts now seem to be paying off: Though global auction listings declined 6% from a year ago, GMV improved by 12%. eBay's now hoping to further accelerate GMV growth, and the plans it's outlined in its latest call should give it ample opportunity.
For this reason, I'm still bullish on eBay. Foolish investors with long-term horizons should find eBay's big three (marketplace, PayPal, and Skype) too pervasive of an online presence to simply ignore.
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Presenting its full second quarter fiscal 2021 results this afternoon in Tokyo, Sony Corp said the electronics and entertainment giant’s overall operating profit was 318.5 billion yen (2, $ 8 billion), up 1% from the same period last year. Net profit was impacted by 54%, down to 213.1 billion yen (-18% after adjustment).
Sales increased 13% to 2.37T yen ($ 21 billion) thanks to a significant increase in the Games and Network Services, Images and Music segments. Bullish in the coming months, Sony raised its operating profit forecast for the full year of 2021 to a record 1.04T yen ($ 8.8 billion).
The Pictures division also saw its forecast increase – sales are expected to reach $ 10.4 billion (1.18 billion yen) for the full year with projected profits to $ 950 million (108 billion yen). ).
For the second quarter of the Pictures segment, Sony said there was a notable increase in sales of television productions, up to $ 790 million, from $ 480 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2020. The company also cited an increase in sales resulting from the acquisition of Crunchyroll, an increase in advertising revenues in India, an increase in TV license revenues and in theatrical revenues on the films of the current year, but noted a drop in revenue due to limited theatrical releases the previous year.
Films in theaters during the quarter (Escape Room : Tournament Of Champions, Don’t Breathe 2, Show Me The Father) grossed $ 105 million worldwide. While this was a slow Q2 for SPE in terms of the box office, that will all change for the Q3.
Venom: let there be carnage, which grossed over $ 350 million worldwide, saw most of its release start in October (it was released on September 30 in Russia where it broke records) and will therefore only be counted in the next quarter which will also include the highly anticipated Spider-Man: No Path Home as good as Ghostbusters: the afterlife.
Elsewhere within Sony, the Games division saw a 22% drop in operating profit due to lower sales of PlayStation 4 hardware and a loss leading to strategic pricing on PlayStation 5 which sold 3 , 3 million units during the quarter.
Notably, Sony said playtime was down 17% year over year due to the lockdowns being lifted.


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NEW YORK – This week could be make-or-break time for Wall Street's push to recover from the market's slide in late February, with earnings due from bellwethers such as Citigroup Inc. and the release of the Consumer Price Index.
Outlooks accompanying this week's results will be crucial because investors are eager to determine the extent of the fallout from the housing slowdown and the wave of delinquencies and foreclosures in the subprime mortgage market.
On Tuesday, the Street will get three economic reports for March that will merit close scrutiny for clues on inflation and the economy's health: the U.S. Consumer Price Index, housing starts and industrial production. March retail sales are due Monday.
"Any bit of good news on inflation is OK, but one bit of bad news on inflation is very damaging," said Charles Lieberman, chief investment officer of Advisors Capital Management, LLC in Paramus, New Jersey.
"If the inflation news isn't particularly significant, it'll be more of an earnings-driven environment."
Chip maker Intel Corp. and beverage company Coca-Cola Co., both components of the Dow Jones industrial average , are among the marquee names on this week's earnings calendar.
Last week, the world's largest aluminum company, Alcoa Inc., and diversified conglomerate General Electric Co. kicked off the earnings season on a higher note, with both companies reporting a rise in quarterly profits.
The benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 index consolidated its recovery back to levels it held just before the Feb. 27 sell-off that rattled global equity markets.
For the week, all three major U.S. stock indexes rose: The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average added 0.41 percent, the broad S&P 500 gained 0.63 percent and the tech-driven Nasdaq Composite Index rose 0.83 percent.
Tuning In to the Outlooks
Investors tend to look ahead, so they will pay special attention to this week's statements on profit outlooks. These comments will give a glimpse of how corporate America sees the economy faring as the housing market falters and subprime mortgage defaults rise.
If upbeat outlooks and stronger-than-expected quarterly earnings dominate this week's headlines, then analysts expect stocks to push ahead with their recovery. The U.S. stock market has broken away from its mid-March lows that followed the Feb. 27 sell-off, which was triggered by a drop of almost 9 percent in China's main share index.
A flurry of deal news also could lend support.
"Expectations are pretty muted right now for first-quarter earnings, so I'm pretty confident companies will be able to beat those expectations," said Giri Cherukuri, head trader at OakBrook Investments LLC, in Lisle, Illinois.
"Earnings will generally be a positive since expectations are relatively low."
The outlook for U.S. earnings growth for Standard & Poor's 500 companies has been scaled back in the past couple of weeks to a gain of 5.0 percent compared with a year ago from an increase of 9.2 percent estimated when the quarter began, according to Reuters Estimates.
Other notable names on this week's earnings calendar are Internet media company Yahoo Inc.; Web auctioneer eBay Inc.; JP Morgan Chase & Co. , the third-largest U.S. bank; International Business Machines Corp., the world's largest computer services company; Motorola Inc. , the No. 2 cell-phone maker, and United Technologies Corp. , a diversified manufacturer.
Drawing a Bead on Inflation
Besides worrying about economic growth, investors are becoming increasingly concerned about the menace of inflation. Last week, the Federal Reserve indicated that further interest-rate increases may be needed to curb inflation.
Until recently, investors had been betting that the Fed would want to forestall a further slowdown in growth by cutting interest rates sometime this year, perhaps as soon as this summer. However, minutes from the Fed's most recent policy meeting showed that the central bank's top officials were more worried about inflationary pressures.
As a result, Tuesday's CPI report is most likely to be the determining factor of whether Wall Street sustains its uptrend or reverses course this week, according to analysts.
"If economic reports show us staying in a non-recessionary environment and inflation likely to moderate, those forces would hold the market up," said Steve Goldman, market strategist at Weeden & Co., in Greenwich, Connecticut.
The Labor Department's overall Consumer Price Index is forecast to gain 0.6 percent in March, after rising 0.4 percent in February, according to economists polled by Reuters.
The closely watched core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, was expected to rise 0.2 percent in March, matching February's gain.
On the housing front, more signs of a slowdown are expected when Tuesday's report is released. Housing starts for March are forecast to fall to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 1.495 million units from a rate of 1.525 million in February, according to the Reuters poll. Building permits are likely to slip to an annual rate of 1.510 million in March from 1.532 million in February.
Industrial production is forecast up 0.1 percent in March, while capacity utilization is pegged at 81.9 percent, the Reuters poll showed. The Federal Reserve's report is set for Tuesday. In February, industrial production jumped 1.0 percent and the capacity utilization rate was 82 percent.
March retail sales, due Monday, are expected up 0.6 percent overall and excluding autos, up 0.9 percent, the Reuters poll showed.


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MPack Discloses Stingy Web
According to the news reported by Infoworld.com on July 5, 2007, Symantec said that the MPack hacker toolkit was downloading malware that included spewing spam within the Windows kernel. The toolkit was quite difficult for security software to detect.
Reportedly, this MPack kit has infected several websites especially in Italy. Further, it contains iframe tags which point towards hacker-controlled websites.
Hon Lau, a researcher with Symantec senses the danger of MPack kit and said that the alarming development of the MPack kit (presently at version 0.86) highlights the fact that the hackers are taking full advantage of online world to nurture their illegal motives, as per the news published by ITjungle.com in the last week of June 2007.
Obviously, there is a low risk of detection and physical damage in cyber crime. Earlier, one of the members of the Fujacks gang said that it was a simple and easy method to make money than real estate. Nevertheless, new attack kits and methods are introduced in place of the existing ones.
Industry experts are claiming that MPack is sold online by its original creators to criminals at a price ranging from $500 to $1000. The application is submitted with modular extras, maintenance updates and the amount supporting contracts sometimes surpasses those offered by genuine software suppliers.
The copies, which are ripped off are sold online at 85% discount i.e. as low as $150, as per the Symantec anti-virus researcher Eric Chien. Eric thinks that the hackers did not need to buy the kit in order to start their illegal business. It is more likely that they have installed the whole package for free from one of the several sites hosting the malware kit.
According to the news reported by The Register on July 6, 2007, Chien claims that the toolkit has been written in a script language and moreover considering it a lucrative model of business, it has emerged as the target of piracy. Further, the package is easy to modify and redistribute.
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OSAKA — Sanyo Electric Co. plans to start production of liquid crystal display projectors and plasma display panel television sets in China early next year, a company official said Thursday.
The move reflects expectations of an increase in demand for such flat-display TVs in China in tandem with the country’s economic growth and its high tariffs on such products, the official said.
At present, Sanyo produces PDP TVs domestically and does not export them to China due to high tariffs.
It will make LCD projectors and PDP TVs at a plant in Guangdong Province that currently produces cathode-ray tube TVs, the official said.
Monthly production is targeted at about 1,000 units for LCD projectors, and no target has been set yet for PDP TVs, the official said.
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When the economy changed more than three years ago, Tom Fragale looked West to expand his horizons as a recreational vehicle technician. Now, the energetic former New Yorker said he wouldn’t trade a thing working for Camping World RV Sales at 13175 Las Vegas Blvd. South.
“I love it out here,” said Fragale, who is so well-schooled that there isn’t anything he cannot fix on an RV. “I grew up in the snow and I had enough. I had submitted my resume online and only a couple of days later, (Camping World Service Manager) Ray Arbesu called to see if I was interested in working in Las Vegas.”
He said the RV business definitely includes hard work and provides daily challenges, but the rewards are big whether it’s working on an 18-foot Fleetwood Pioneer trailer or the 42-foot Prevost luxury RV that sells for $1.5 million.
No assignment is easy, but for specialists like Fragale, there is also a sense of satisfaction in knowing that he has established an answer and made a customer happy .
“We do have a lot of repeat customers and I have worked on the same coach many times,” said Fragale, 52, who relaxes by riding his 2009 Yamaha 950 V Star. “We sometimes see people who are upset because something has gone wrong right when they’re starting to go on vacation and it’s nice to get them back on the road again.
“These are houses on wheels, so it takes specialized technicians to keep everything in order.”
Another key element to working as a technician in the RV business is that they can make a respectable living doing something they love.
“We can make good money,” Fragale said. “However, you must know what you’re doing to work in this business, that’s for sure. We are often taking classes online just to keep up with all the changes in the RV business. This industry seems to change on a daily basis, so there’s no time to sit around. Besides, learning is also part of the fascination I have for the business.
“This is a very promising career for those who want to work, especially young people. The motorhome business has survived some tough times and those owning an RV will always count on their coach to get them on the road for relaxation. But in most cases, the owners also need people like us to keep them going.”
Dave Scott, who has been technician for six years at Camping World RV, says the industry has been good to him, too. He is now the store’s designated technician for the RV rental division.
“I came here never having worked on an RV and knew little or nothing about them,” said Scott . “I have gone from knowing nothing about RVs to being Recreational Vehicle Industry Association certified. I honestly wish I had gotten into this industry earlier.”
Arbesu lauds his staff of 12 technicians and especially has good things to say about Fragale.
“He’s an excellent worker,” said Arbesu . “We can count on him and he’s always here to not only get the job started but also get it done, too.”
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There's no shortage of data on changing consumer mindsets and behaviors available right now. In fact, it can be quite overwhelming for today's marketers to keep up with. We've poured over countless reports from dozens of sources and surfaced three key trends that we believe will shape both consumer behavior and smart marketing plans over the next months and years to come.
Information from the Harris Poll COVID-19 Tracker shows that consumer opinions on what and how long it will take for them to start reengaging are both a moving target and a long journey. In fact, "62% say a vaccine would be necessary to resume normal activities like flying, going to the gym, sporting events, etc." As we all have heard, ad nauseam, most experts think we are still months — if not more than a year — away from a vaccine.
Consumers' expected timelines for resuming everyday activities range from weeks to over a year. With states removing or relaxing restrictions, we are seeing a confusing mix of consumer activity with some rushing to resume past behaviors and others pushing back on what they see as premature reopenings. The point? We're going to see heightened, varied and likely confounding levels of caution from consumers on how and when they reengage in the consumer marketplace.
Smart brands will search to understand this and find new ways to reinvent their brand experience that addresses both these fears and differences between customers. Brands will need to reassure consumers that it's safe to shop for, buy and use their products. Additionally, they will need to think about and nurture multiple consumer journeys through this process rather than the two or three they might have considered in the past. How can your brand be a guide to consumers?
When it comes to what and who to believe, Americans are facing yet another crisis. A crisis of faith. The World Health Organization has called it a massive "infodemic" — "an over-abundance of information — some accurate and some not — that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it." The WHO has gone so far as creating its own "Myth Busters" site to deal with misinformation. Ironically, The WHO itself is caught up in its own battle for credibility. In fact, while research suggests government sources are considered more trustworthy, their credibility has oscillated and faltered over time.
While Americans are consuming record amounts of news programming, the media continues to have credibility problems. Tech giants have had to go to extraordinary lengths to deal with misinformation as well.
One thing is certain: Americans will be looking for information they can trust and partners they can count on. Brands can and will fill those gaps. Smart brands should start by determining what they are experts on in relation to consumer trust and the pandemic. Armed with that information, they should determine what efforts they can take to communicate and cement that expertise and provide consumers with the comfort that it provides. How can your brand be a source of credibility, expertise and trust?
COVID-19 is also taking its toll on America's wallets. As Americans reemerge from their extended stays at home, they will find themselves reentering a marketplace that has wreaked havoc on their bank accounts. Many are spending far less than they normally would. From entertainment to transportation costs, medical to vacation expenses, Americans are saving money. In fact, according to reports, the savings rate for Americans is the highest it's been since 1981.
On the downside, unemployment is reaching record highs and personal and retirement account balances are at record lows. According to the Urban Institute, the pandemic has wiped out an estimated $3.8 trillion of retirement savings. These retirement accounts are facing the triple threat of reduced or ceased contributions from individuals, reduced or ceased contributions from employers, and a pending recession/bear market.
Here again, consumers will be faced with a paradox caught between pent-up desires to go out and spend again and the harsh financial realities of the pandemic economy. Caught between wanting premium brands they can trust and value brands they can afford.
Marketers will be wise to reevaluate their value propositions in light of these new, dynamic consumer mindsets. What once resonated with consumers may no longer be relevant. As they aim to strike the right balance between emotional and rational benefits, voice-of-customer input will be invaluable. How can your brand provide real "value" as consumers are defining it today?
What This Means For Marketers
How will marketers best react to these emerging trends and changing consumer mindsets? Marketers must closely examine these trends. They must understand how they apply to their unique situations. And finally, they must look for ways their brands can address these new consumers' needs by asking themselves three simple, yet critical questions:
• How can my brand guide behavior and choices as people reemerge?
• How can my brand be a source of credibility, expertise and trust?
• How can my brand provide real value to consumers?
Perhaps more than any other time in our lifetimes, now is when companies can make marked changes — and choices — to create brighter futures for their brands and their businesses. In five or 10 years, we will all be reading case studies of brands that embraced change, got creative, took bold chances and came out thriving. Likewise, we will read those that didn't — and faded into history.


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Better Buy: Sea vs. MercadoLibre
October 14, 2021
When we talk about pandemic “winners” in the stock market, investors typically first turn to e-commerce providers.
That’s because these platform companies have had to deal with an unprecedented surge in demand as global economies went into a state of lockdown in 2020.
Beyond that initial enthusiasm, though, there’s also the fact that in many of the fastest-growing economies, e-commerce transactions still make up just a fraction of total retail sales.
For growth investors focused on “total addressable markets (TAMs)”, “runways for growth”, and “optionality” that all ends up being a juicy long-term proposition.
Two of the biggest regional e-commerce powerhouses are Southeast Asia-focused Sea Ltd (NYSE: SE) and Latin American giant MercadoLibre Inc (NASDAQ: MELI).
But for long-term investors bullish on e-commerce platforms, which company is the better buy right now? Let’s break it down and take a look.
Both companies have multiple growth levers. For example, Sea has a leading gaming subsidiary in Garena, as well as its flagship e-commerce platform Shopee and mobile wallet Sea Money.
Meanwhile, MercadoLibre has its eponymous e-commerce marketplace as well as Mercado Pago (payments) and Mercado Envios (logistics).
Yet growth for these two comes down to revenue given they’re viewed as growth stocks.
For revenue in e-commerce providers, it helps to look at the two-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to smooth out any spikes.
On this front, Sea posted revenue of US$665 million in the second quarter of 2019 and saw revenue explode upwards to US$2.28 billion in its most recent second-quarter 2021 earnings.
That means Sea had a two-year revenue CAGR of 85.2%.
Meanwhile, MercadoLibre posted revenue of US$545 million in the second quarter of 2019 and saw revenue rise to a robust US$1.7 billion in the second quarter of 2021.
That means MercadoLibre comes out with a two-year revenue CAGR of 76.6%.
Gross Merchandise Value
When dealing with e-commerce companies, it helps to also look at the growth rate of gross merchandise value (GMV). This is essentially the value of all goods sold on the respective platforms.
Again, let’s take a look at the two-year CAGR to smooth out any volatility.
On this front, Sea saw its Shopee business post GMV of US$3.8 billion in the second quarter of 2019. By the second quarter of 2021, Shopee’s GMV had risen to a whopping US$15 billion.
That means Shopee’s two-year CAGR for GMV came in at 98.7%.
For MercadoLibre, its e-commerce operations saw GMV of US$3.4 billion in the second quarter of 2019 and by the most recent second quarter of 2021 that number had hit US$7 billion, giving its GMV a two-year CAGR of 43.5%.
Finally, there’s the “take rate” which is a common metric when talking about e-commerce operators.
The take rate looks at the percentage of the value of transactions they facilitate that they get to keep as revenue.
In essence, it’s a measure of how effective e-commerce operators are at monetising their platform.
On this front, Shopee had a take rate of 5.2% for the whole of 2020. In contrast, MercadoLibre posted a take rate of an impressive 19% in 2020.
Overall, while MercadoLibre has been a big winner in the Latin American e-commerce space (particularly with its successful Mercado Pago wallet) and has a more established platform in its home markets, Sea has more impressive growth rates.
Partly this is to do with its extremely profitable gaming arm Garena, but more broadly, Sea also has ambitions beyond just its region.
It launched Shopee in MercadoLibre’s own backyard earlier this year by entering Brazil and Mexico. Its Free Fire game is a big hit in both Latin America and India.
Sea has plans to enter India, too, while it’s also planning a Shopee launch into Europe via Poland.
For long-term investors who believe in Sea’s expansion model (and has faith it can execute) then it looks like the better buy right now as opposed to MercadoLibre.
Disclaimer: ProsperUs Head of Content & Investment Lead Tim Phillips owns shares of Sea Ltd and MercadoLibre Inc.
Tim, based in Singapore but from Hong Kong, caught the investing bug as a teenager and is a passionate advocate of responsible long-term investing as a great way to build wealth.
He has worked in various content roles at Schroders and the Motley Fool, with a focus on Asian stocks, but believes in buying great businesses – wherever they may be. He is also a certified SGX Academy Trainer.
In his spare time, Tim enjoys running after his two young sons, playing football and practicing yoga.


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DENVER, Colo. — The newly founded Wellness Tourism Association has created a WTA Glossary of Industry Terms to establish new definitions and standards to be used in the wellness-tourism industry.
The new Glossary proposed by the organization consists of eight terms: Wellness Destination, Wellness Tourism, Wellness Travel, Wellness Traveller, Wellness Resort, Wellness Retreat, Wellness Vacation and Wellness Visitor.
New terms will be added as the industry continues to evolve.
“The definitions have taken considerable time and thoughtful debate among the WTA Board of Directors,” says Andrew Gibson, chairman of the Wellness Tourism Association. “We feel the terms will provide clarification and benefits not only to our members, but to anyone with an interest in the wellness-tourism industry.”
For example, Wellness Tourism is now defined as a specific division of the global tourism industry that is defined by the common goal of marketing natural assets and activities primarily focused on serving the Wellness Traveller and those who want to be. Wellness Travel is now defined as that which allows a traveller to maintain, enhance or kick-start a healthy lifestyle and support or increase one’s sense of wellbeing.
More information about the definitions and the work of the Wellness Tourism Association can be found here.


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Sirius Labs has announced the winners of their Chia Hackathon tonight via Medium post. I am going to write up some more about the winners tomorrow, but check out the entire post and watch the presentations that are embedded there. Congrats to Digital Farming Initiative for taking first place.
We are excited to announce the Global Chia Hackathon winners:
First Prize：Arbor Wallet&Arbor Place
Second Prize: Chia No Code、YaKu Swap
Third Prize: Chialisp Playground、Chia dollar、Covered Market
Global Chia Hackathon Winners @Asia:
Community Voting Rankings (1–5): Chia.tt, DeCo Pay, Copool, Chiaup, SINSO BOX Utopia edition
Judges Voting Rankings (1–3): Chia.tt, Martrix Protocol, SINSO BOX Utopia edition


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A brand new research by Tata Consultancy Providers carried out along side Forrester Consulting looked at the state of IT throughout the international retail industry and CIOs’ attitudes and plans toward key trends and ever-extra disruptive, challenging technologies. Since the initial expansion outdoors of Quebec, Simons has been adding shops to major Canadian cities, together with Vancouver, with stores opening inside the subsequent couple years in Ottawa, Calgary, and Mississauga. Last however not the least; you may take pleasure in the good thing about comparing costs online with ease and security.
Whereas Mr. Bezos was recognized for coining the motto Get Massive Quick” within the early days of Amazon, the company’s plans in bodily retail could possibly be higher described as Get Big Gradual.” Some reports have said Amazon has mentioned constructing as much as 2,000 grocery shops.
Though gadgets are usually cheaper in on-line retailer, typically the addition of a transportation charge makes the whole worth comparable or more expensive than that of your close by store. Prolitec , which deployed the tech at Abercrombie has some good examples of how Retail Stores are utilizing the technology to enrich retailer expertise.
And in groceries — a large category wherein Amazon has struggled — the corporate has opened a comfort retailer that doesn’t need cashiers, and it is near opening two stores the place drivers can rapidly decide up groceries with out leaving their vehicles, all in Seattle It has explored another grocery retailer idea that could serve walk-in customers and act as a hub for residence deliveries.


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He’s definitely on Santa’s nice list! Tyler Perry surprised Walmart shoppers in Atlanta by paying off their Christmas layaways — and he spent several hundred thousand dollars to do it.
The actor and director, 49, posted a video on Instagram on Thursday, December 6, revealing his holiday surprise for shoppers at two Georgia stores.
“I was trying to do this anonymously but due to some circumstances, y’all know nothing stays secret these days. So I just wanted to go ahead and tell you,” he said of anyone who had items on layaway before 9:30 a.m. that morning at stores in East Point and Douglasville.
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“I have paid for all of your layaways for Christmas. So Merry Christmas to everybody,” he continued with a smile. “You got to go into the Walmart, get your layaway and pay a penny, one penny, and you get your layaway. I know it’s hard times and a lot of people are struggling. I’m just really really grateful to be able to be in a position to do this. So, God bless you. Go get your stuff.”
The Associated Press reports that the Madea star spent about $434,000 on the generous gesture, with Walmart telling Today that his payment covered purchases for about 1,500 people.
CBS46 reports that shoppers were in tears as they picked up their purchases at one of the Walmart stores. “My mom was crying because she didn’t know what she was going to do,” one boy told the news outlet. For him the gift wasn’t as important as seeing his mom smile: “I’m more happy that my mom is feeling better.”
It’s not Perry’s first act of generosity this year. The producer offered former Cosby Show star Geoffrey Owens a role on his OWN show The Haves and the Have Nots in September after Owens was shamed for working at Trader Joe’s.
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Margrethe Vestager, with the powers vested in her by the office of the competition commissioner of Europe, has issued two separate notices regarding the ongoing investigations into the tax avoidance route taken up by Apple Inc. in Ireland and Amazon.com in Luxembourg, referring both the firms to the European Court of Justice.
As per the findings of the investigations being conducted by the European Competition Commission, Ireland has failed to collect a total sum of thirteen billion Euros in back taxes from the iPhone manufacturer (Apple Inc). The sum in today’s currency has a value of around fifteen billion USD. Similarly Luxembourg has, over the years, provided illegal tax benefits to global e-commerce behemoth Amazon Inc. to the tune of two hundred and fifty million Euros.
Amazon, which has its European headquarters in Luxembourg, has managed to get away with not paying a cumulative tax amount of two hundred and ninety four million USD in current currency value.
The European Competition commission considers both these transactions to be illegal under the current tax norms prevalent in the Euro Zone. The commission has taken a never before thought of route to make the countries, wherein the firms are headquartered, recover the said taxes. Till the announcement of the notices today, speculation was rife with reports stating the commission to go behind the member states to recover the unpaid taxes instead of going behind them directly.
Margrethe Vestager, herself taking a cue from the 2016 court ruling against Apple for having gained illegal and unlawful tax benefits in the form of state aid, states that the commission is more than willing to help the member states of Ireland and Luxembourg recover the taxes from the tech firms.
Ireland, in the time since the first ruling against the country, itself has not yet been able to recover even a dollar from Apple Inc. This decision of the commission to fine the firms is to help restore the levels of free competition in the Euro Zone instead of the current preferential treatment on offer. She additionally also states that Luxembourg deliberately overlooked Amazon’s profits while providing the tax breaks.
As per the European legal code, no member state has the authority to grant preferential treatment in the form of selective tax benefits to any multinational having operations in its sovereign territory. Amazon Inc. got away with paying just a quarter of the stipulated legal tax amount to Luxembourg because of such illegal tax benefits.
The primary reason for targeting the countries is because of the nature of the violations. Countries are accused of overlooking this tax evasion in exchange for getting these companies to do business in their territories, because the resulting operations bring jobs and other boosts to the economy.
Indeed, in 2015, Apple announced a huge project to build renewable energy data centers, one of them coming in Ireland just as investigations into the tax situation were intensifying.
Europe is in the midst of reforming its sales tax regulations, to close loopholes of the kind that Apple, Amazon and other tech giants (and other large businesses) have been accused of exploiting.


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William Hill first half operating profit falls 16pc on online woes
William Hill, the British bookmaker that recently sacked its chief executive and has been targeted for a takeover, posted a 16pc drop in first-half operating profit, hurt by a poor performance in its online business.
Philip Bowcock, who was appointed interim chief executive a fortnight ago, said the first half of the year had been challenging, but it was committed to fixing the problems after its online revenue dipped 3pc.
"We have taken considerable steps forward in executing on Online's improvements but there is still a way to go," he said on Friday.
Nonetheless, the company said it still expected to meet its guidance to deliver operating profit of £260-280m for the full year.
First-half operating profit came in at £131.1m on revenue up 1pc to £814.4m.


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Fashion vlogger Kofi McCalla, who’s amassed 609K subscribers on YouTube by curating “the cool kid’s guide” to street styles around the world, is now guiding his young viewers toward something else: registering to vote ahead of the U.K.’s general election on Dec. 12.
McCalla (aka The Unknown Vlogs) and his own new fashion label SOHO KIDS have teamed up with London-based streetwear retailer EJDER to design a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan “It’s free to vote” and a large QR code meant to be easily scanned by passersby with smartphones. When someone scans the code, it’ll automatically take them to an official voter registration website.
The T-shirts were printed in a limited quantity and are being sold at production cost: £25. McCalla will distribute them personally at three U.K. locations this coming Saturday, Nov. 23.
Locations and times:
- London, 12 p.m. (local time) @ Soho Square Park
- Birmingham, 3:30 p.m. @ St. Philip’s Cathedral
- Manchester, 6 p.m. @ Market Street
“With this collaboration, I really want to help engage and mobilize young people to know that their beliefs are important and their vote matters,” McCalla tells Tubefilter. “Young people have the power to create change, and I hope, in some way, these tees and city visits will encourage people to engage in politics, and get involved in our upcoming election.”
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McCalla plans to document his London, Birmingham, and Manchester stops in a video that’ll go up on his YouTube channel in the coming weeks.


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Periscope already has a healthy lead over its rival live streaming app Meerkat, but the Twitter-owned company isn’t slowing down. Instead, it just rolled out a pretty big update for iOS, adding an entirely new way to search for streams along with a few other helpful features.
Map View replaces the current “Global” section, which you can access by tapping the earth icon at the bottom of the app’s homescreen. It shows a map of the world, grouping live streams by country. You can see how many people are broadcasting all over the planet before picking a region to check in on.
Periscope notes that it always planned on including Map View, but decided to wait until it had a big enough user base. Now that the new feature has launched, the company is celebrating with a video that compiles some of the best live streams shared on the app from around the world so far.
The company also announced a few other improvements, including support for a total of 29 different languages. Moving forward, videos will upload automatically for instant replay, though you can still delete them if you want. It’s also possible to share another person’s stream directly to Twitter.
For now, all these new features are limited to iOS, though we assume an update for the recently released Android app is in the works as well.


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Karl Stefanovic’s triumphant return to television is proving less than triumphant after This Time Next Year managed only 588,000 according to OzTAM metro numbers.
Still, it was better news for Nine with The Block (906,000) continuing to do the business and handing the network a Monday night win.
Nine pulled 28.6 per cent audience share (all channels). Seven had 25.8 per cent, 10 did 20.5 per cent, the ABC had 17.7 per cent and SBS did 7.3 per cent on the back of 24 Hours In Emergency (167,000).
Seven’s 6pm news was the most watched show of the night with 1.051 million viewers. Other standouts for Seven included Home And Away (653,000), The Chase (609,000), Highway Patrol (492,000) and Motorbike Cops (477,000).
10 did well with Survivor (790,000), Have You Been Paying Attention? (747,000) and The Project (475,000).
Nine’s other doers were its 6pm news (930,000), ACA (805,000) and Hot Seat (520,000).
The ABC’s Monday ran this way: 7pm news (650,000), 7.30 (582,000), Australian Story (573,000), Four Corners (532,000), Media Watch (496,000) and Q&A (308,000).
From Friday, December 4, Snapchatters and Bitmoji users will be able to pair with their own Bitmoji avatars with Levi’s casualwear apparel. The Levi’s x Bitmoji designs will also appear across a variety of experiences on Snapchat including Chat and games, on the Snap Map and in Lenses. All products will be available for purchase […]
John Chaplin (pictured), former Chief Product Officer of Hogarth Australia and Co-founder of award winning digital agency Fusion, has launched a new digital product design company, Diagram. Based in Sydney, Diagram are a collective of creators and makers who partner with individuals, agencies, startups, business and industry to design and build considered, elegant digital products. […]
After announcing the mega acquisition of workplace chat company Slack yesterday, tech giant Salesforce has made a raft of announcements as part of this year’s annual Dreamforce event, which has been held virtually. Headlining the announcements was news of Salesforce Hyperforce, which comes as a reimagination of the company’s platform architecture built to securely and […]


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Adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has told Daybreak that it took four years to get a permit to go to the Antarctic in the winter.
He said: "The Foreign Office don't let British subjects down there because there are no rescue facilities on an area bigger than China and India put together
"So if you need rescue you just don't get rescued."
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UKIP's biggest donor, the Yorkshire multi-millionaire Paul Sykes, has told ITV Calendar he's not planning further donations to the party.
Consumer groups say the presence of campylobacter's in so much supermarket chicken should shame Britain's biggest grocery chains.
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Bandits Make Off with $1 Million in Stolen Jewelry from Ocean County, NJ Mall
Thieves got really creative recently when robbing a jewelry store inside the Ocean County Mall in Toms River, New Jersey.
Give them points for creativity? An 'A' for effort?
There's no excuse for stealing, but the robbery of this particular jeweler wasn't a typical 'smash and grab' or hold up. There was a vacant store, a blow torch, and some 'Ocean's 11'-level ingenuity involved.
Smart or not, the plan is going to result in felony charges for the suspects.
Jewelry Store Robbed Inside NJ's Ocean County Mall
According to authorities, approximately $1 million dollars in jewelry was stolen from Venzio Jewelers inside Ocean County Mall off Hooper Ave. in Toms River, NJ.
The robbery is believed to have taken place sometime between the hours of 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 27th and when the store opened at 10 a.m. the next day, Thursday, March 28th.
All the jewelry taken was reportedly inside the store's safe, which burglars broke into using a blow torch, according to 6abc.com.
As for how the thieves got into Venzio Jewelers, they reportedly gained entry by cutting a whole through the wall of an unoccupied space next to the jewelry store. The suspects also managed to disable Venzio's alarm system and its phones.
Police in Toms River, NJ Searching for Suspects in Jewelry Store Theft
Toms River Police Department is currently investigating the theft and tracking down the suspects involved. If you saw, heard, or know anything that could assist their investigation, you're urged to contact Det. Michael MacDonald at 732-349-0150 Ext. 1366 or Det. Jennifer Grob at 732-349-0150 Ext. 1319.
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The United States’ tradition of sales the day after Thanksgiving will see thousands of shoppers flocks to stores on 25th November 2011. It is hoped that heavy discounting and special offers will buoy spending in the USA and online.
Gap’s brands will open almost 1,000 stores next week with large crowds expected to rush into outlets for the best deals on clothing and competition prizes. Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Piperlime and Athleta will have extended hours, mostly opening from midnight. The event will boost sales in an effort to match 2010’s net sales of $14.7 billion.
Walmart will be opening late on Thanksgiving after a customer survey showed shoppers prefer to stay up late than get up early. The company has even gone as far as pre-publishing deals and maps of the store floor so that shoppers can be ultra-prepared to zoom in and snatch the deal that they want.
Nearly 1800 Target stores will open at 00:00 on Black Friday and will vie against Walmart with yet another price match deal.
In the past, shoppers have been killed and injured by the crush caused when stores open for Black Friday. The extended shopping hours and midnight openings may well go some way to spreading the initial rush for deals.


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Harry Towell has launched another new series on his splendid Whitelabrecs label.
Dubbed eRecords, the releases will “aim to transform the digital format into something closer to how a listener might interaction with a real, white label vinyl record,” according to a promotionale mail. “Each edition includes a special PDF scrapbook including polaroids and liner notes.”
The first eRecord is from Towell’s solo project spheruleus, entitled inaugurate appropriately. It’s another in a long line of gorgeous ambient recordings from Whitelabrecs.
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Towell launched the Home Diaries series. Over a three-month period in 2020, 30 digital-only releases featured the work of locked down artists. The collection came to reflect a thoughtfully creative perspective on a genuinely difficult time.


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Oscar Mayer Now Has a Hot Dog Delivery Drone That Looks Like a Wiener
Oscar Mayer has a hot dog shaped delivery drone that will rain down hot dogs on people.
The drone joins Oscar Mayer’s WienerFleet, which includes the Wienermobile, WienerRover and WienerMini, and will debut in Weiner, Ark. on July 4. The company also added a WienerCycle to the fleet.
The WienerDrone, which weighs about six pounds, is 15 inches wide (without propellers) and 24 inches long. It can fly for a maximum of 15 minutes at altitudes of up to 1,200 feet, and can carry one hot dog.
“As the most iconic brand, we’re going where other hot dogs can’t. We’re committed to getting our new hot dog in everyone’s hands—and going to great lengths to do this. We knew that was a job for more than just our existing Wienermobile,” Oscar Mayer head of marketing Greg Guidotti said in a statement. “So, we’ve expanded our Oscar Mayer fleet, ensuring every American can taste the new recipe because we believe everyone deserves a better hot dog.”


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Travel smarter with Booking.com—get up to 10% cashback when you book a stay with your N26 Mastercard, and more.
We’ve made it to 5 million customers! Here’s what this important milestone means for The Mobile Bank.
N26 takes a step forward in its growth by reaching 1 million customers in France. Read this article to learn more about the evolution of La Banque Mobile.
We’ve landed in Switzerland—learn more about our latest launch and how we’re taking borderless banking to the next level.
Our latest Series D funding round extends N26’s investment to $470 million. Here’s what this means, and what we plan to do with it.
We’ve made it! N26 officially lands in the USA today—here’s why it’s such an important step for our bank.
At N26, our customers are our priority. Learn how we’re building the most reliable customer service.
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve reached another milestone! Here’s what’s coming up next for N26.
Discover our new brand campaign the alphabet according to N26. Read more about why we're doing this, how we came up with it and what challenges we faced.


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Honor 8A Pro runs EMUI 9.0 based on Android 9 Pie operating system and packs 3GB RAM.
Hong Kong-based TRANSSION Holdings' subsidiary TECNO Mobile on Wednesday launched CAMON i4, a smartphone with a triple rear camera set up, at a starting price of Rs 9,599.
The rise of smartphone photography has left a deep impact on the camera industry.
It offers a great deal of versatility with it’s wide angle, normal, telephoto and super macro modes.
The notch houses two front cameras, earpiece and an LED notification light.
Google's Pixel 3 is running into trouble again as owner are complaining that a flaw is preventing them from using the native camera app.
Despite being a mid-range phone, it tries to give you a premium feel and design.
Syska partners Suyin, Biometronic to start India's first mobile camera module factory; to invest Rs 200 crore
Syska Group has inked a strategic partnership with Taiwanese component manufacturer Suyin Optronics and Singapore's Biometronic to start India’s first camera module factory at an investment of Rs 200 crore. The investment will be made in a phased manner.
As for multimedia, there is a 2MP camera, an FM radio that works without connecting a handset, audio player, audio recorder and a file manager.
Smartphone makers are launching devices aimed at selfie enthusiasts. ET Wealth lists smartphones which seek to click that perfect selfie.
Lenovo K8 Plus -- the latest addition in the newly introduced K8 series -- was launched in India on Wednesday for Rs 10,999.
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The smartphone will be available from November 28. However, there's no word about it's availability in India yet.
Tesseract said the videos captured could be streamed to headsets such as Oculus Rift and be altered to be used for games as well.
As a direct result of the smartphone revolution, the point-and-shoot camera market is declining fast.
There is evidence that the camera will be one of the biggest changes we see in the next iPhone
The Indian smartphone maker Xolo has launched a camera centric smartphone, called the Xolo Q1010i for Rs 13,499. The Xolo Q1010i comes with an 8MP rear camera that has Exmor R, 5P Lens, f/2.0 aperture and 1.4 um pixel size.


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ANNAPOLIS, Md - They're not your traditional cabs, in fact, they're not cabs at all.
Companies like Uber and Lyft are smartphone application-based, meaning you can request, track, and even pay for the transportation using their app on your phone. But traditional cab companies say if they're going to join in the transportation market, they need to follow the same guidelines across the board.
"We carry life. When we transport people, the object, the subject, and the surrounding is life," said Andy Tedla, who has driven cabs for 22 years. "Any mistake and it means playing with human life. So, yes, we need to check that we are putting the best drivers on the road."
Representatives with Uber said their drivers have to pass background checks among other certifications and customers rate the drivers as soon as they step out of the car.
"The taxi companies say, 'We have to do all these burdens and regulations, so should they.' I think that's the wrong approach. I think we should say, 'Are these regulations really protecting consumers and if not, why do we have them?'" said Sen. Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City).
Ferguson says he got behind the bill after a cease and desist order was filed against the application-based companies. He says, currently, there is a gray area in regulations for these companies because they are so different than the cabs Baltimore is used to. He says Senate Bill 919 gives flexible tools to apply to this new market.
"I think the real question isn't let's look backward. It's are Maryland consumers being well served? And if they're being well served, Lyft and Uber wouldn't ever have a need to exist. So, something is wrong. The market is not working; people don't feel like they have good options for transportation services," Ferguson said.
Representatives from taxi companies say it has nothing to do with the new, increased competition, but instead their main focus is customer safety.
But Uber drivers say they're new approach is working better than they could have imagined.
"Like energy at one point, we only had one choice, one option. Now you have other options, other choices," one driver said.
Ferguson says if the bill doesn't pass, companies like Uber and Lyft will be forced to shut down.


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Call of Duty: Black Ops II has generated a lot of buzz since its unveiling on May 1 during the NBA playoffs. Activision Blizzard’s latest entry in the blockbuster video game series generated four times as many messages on social networks, according to market analyst Nielsen Media.
The firm tracked only 4,911 messages about Call of Duty across a number of social media sites — Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, blogs, and boards — on April 30. The number grew to 21,454 messages on May 2.
On YouTube, users have viewed the launch trailer 7.1 million times. This morning, the video has 70,954 likes and 25,085 dislikes.
Retailers started taking preorders for the game yesterday.


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Nuvera unveils PowerTap+
Following the 2007 release of its PowerTap onsite hydrogen generation station, Nuvera (Booth 2264) announced the new PowerTap+ program at ProMat.
Under the program, Nuvera will own and operate the on-site hydrogen generation equipment, from generator to discharge pump. The utility approach ensures the customer has access to hydrogen no matter what, according to Gus Block, director of marketing and government affairs. The program eliminates the cost of owning and operating hydrogen production equipment as a barrier to entry into fuel cell technology, said Block.
Each generator produces up to 50 kg of hydrogen per day, and multiple units can provide a cost-effective hydrogen source for small and mid-sized applications requiring 25 to 150 kg per day. By offering improved uptime and productivity in intensive electric battery lift truck applications such as grocery, the program can offer a return on investment within two to three years.
ProMat 2013 is scheduled to be held January 21-24, 2013 in Chicago’s McCormick Place South. The tradeshow will showcase the latest manufacturing, distribution and supply chain solutions in the material handling and logistics industry. Modern’s complete ProMat 2013 coverage.


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Gikomba Market In Nairobi on Fire
Gikomba marked in Nairobi has been razed down by a fire on Friday Morning. Also Read:Government Jobs – Kenya Pipeline Company
Property of millions were destroyed but efforts are ongoing to contain the situation by the Nairobi City Council fire team.
No casualties have been reported and the cause of the inferno is still unknown. See Also:Ex-Youth Fund Boss Namuye Collapses,Dies In Her Nairobi House
Many traders who rely on the the market have been displaced consindering that it is one of the biggest open air markets in the region and people visit it daily to buy things like clothes and food stuff.
Some of traders managed to save part of their stock,but a huge part of the goods kept at the stock at night were consumed by the brazing fire. Read Also:There Will Be No Election Until IEBC Meets Our Demands-NASA
In 2015,an estimated 20,000 traders in the popular market lost goods worth millions of shillings after an early morning fire burnt hundreds of business premises, including a local Family Bank branch.CS Mailu’s Sack Order Angers Nurses,Demand For His Transfer


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Shellback Rum, a new spirit from Ernest & Julio Gallo, is in the midst of a nationwide experiential marketing campaign to introduce the product to consumers and influencers. The company is taking a two-tiered approach, hosting invitation-only mixology events for bloggers and industry professionals and engaging consumers at large public events and festivals.
“As a new brand in the marketplace, mass media isn’t going to work. We need to touch the consumer, have them taste the product, have them hold the bottle, experience the mixology aspect. It’s about a high-touch, high-quality experience for the target consumers and influencers. It’s not about critical mass,” said Gerard Thoukis, Shellback’s senior director of marketing.
The mixology events are titled “All Hands on Deck,” a nod to their interactive nature as well as the history of the word “shellback,” a nautical term that refers to a sailor who has crossed the equator. Under the guidance of mixologist Tony Abou-Ganim, participants learn how to muddle, shake, and serve modern updates to classic rum cocktails. The six-city tour began March 13 in Dallas, continues in San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, and New York, and it ends in Los Angeles in August.
“We tried to select cities that have high rum consumption, also cities where our target demographic—the millennial consumer—works and lives and socializes. These are cities where the cocktail craze is expanding,” Thoukis said. Each event can accommodate as many as 70 people. Shellback is working with local media partners, primarily radio and print outlets, to provide tickets to industry personnel, bloggers, and other influential people in each market. The company tracked 1.8 million press impressions from the first event in Dallas.
The consumer-focused events are produced in partnership with Rebel Industries and began last September at the closing party for Social Media Week Los Angeles. The focal point of the event is a wood-floored “rum hut” that includes a bar, sailing simulator, and video confessional. The brand is using the videos in its digital marketing. “We ask consumers to share things that have taken place in their lives that have epitomized progression—crossing the line so to speak—and indicate a 'shellback' moment,” Thoukis said. “We utilize that content with their permission in social and digital channels to further the Shellback story.” To date, the company has taken the rum hut to nine events, including South by Southwest and the Minnesota Monthly Fine Spirits Classic, and has gathered an average of 15 videos per event and 952,000 total press impressions.


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When it comes to Twitter, the term “bot” can be a little tricky, and this could be why, despite all the hype around chatbots on platforms like Facebook Messenger, Kik, Slack and Skype, Twitter’s own effort concerning chatbots have stayed more or less under the radar. But this isn’t going to be the case any longer.
On April 6th, Twitter officially opened up its developer tools, allowing any business or individual can create a chatbot that can send and receive direct messages through the social network, just like through Messenger.
Because of this, this steps up the rivalry between Twitter and Messenger when it comes to being the social platform of choice for brands to handle private communications with customers. This firmly steps Twitter into the chatbot market that they’ve been toying with since last year.
Testing options for some brands to automate their direct message conversations began last November, which introduced welcome messages that would automatically greet people starting a DM thread with a brand’s Twitter account, as well as menuses of pre-formatted reply buttons that people could tap to communicate with a brand These features were introduced into Messenger earlier this year for chatbots on its platform as something to help break in bot-to-human interactions.
But Twitter’s automated DM features had primarily been available to brands with approved access or that used marketing software from approved companies like Sprinklr, Sprout Social or Spredfast, since November.
This is not the case any longer.
Anybody who is registered as a developer with Twitter will be able to create programs that plug into Twitter’s automated DM features to do things like set and customize a welcome message. You can automatically send and receive direct messages, including the pre-formatted quick replies.


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Facebook parent Meta posts first revenue decline in history
July 27, 2022
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, posted its first revenue decline in history Thursday, dragged down by a drop in ad spending as the economy falters — and as competition from rival TikTok intensifies.
The results largely followed a broader decline in the digital advertising market that is dinging Meta rivals such as Google, Twitter — which also posted a revenue decline — and Snap. Google's parent company Alphabet reported its slowest quarterly growth in two years on Tuesday.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta is slowing its pace of investments and plans to "steadily reduc...