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Veganism has gone mainstream. A comparethemarket.com survey in mid-2018 revealed that the number of vegans in the UK stands at over 3.5 million - up from 540,000 in 2016. Mintel research showed the meat-free foods market to be worth £572m in 2017 - up from £539m in 2015. The number of posts tagged with #vegan on Instagram is over 70 million. And Google stats show that veganism - in search terms, at least, is now more popular than vegetarianism.
But what does the rise of veganism mean for brands playing in an increasingly crowded market - and how can they use soft power to differentiate from the competition?
What brand managers need to know
Gone are the days when veganism was the domain of yoga-practising hippies that made Goa their spiritual home (even if their real home was in Dudley). Sustainability is on the rise (according to Unilever, a third of consumers choose brands based on their impact on society and the environment). Veganism is better for the environment, and it tackles consumers’ concerns around animal welfare and overall health. With celebrities like Brad Pitt, Will.I.Am, Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth and plenty of others embracing veganism in their own lives, all manner of audiences have relevant role models to learn from.
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As a result, schools are going meat-free, Tesco now has a Director of Plant-Based Innovation, Wagamama has its own vegan menu, and big brands like Ben & Jerry’s are creating new ranges for vegan consumers to enjoy.
The size of the opportunity is vast, with Mintel predicting that there will be an increase in sales of vegan products from £470m in 2015 to £673m in 2020 - a 48% rise. And with 56% of adults stating that they adopt vegan behaviour when carrying out their supermarket shop, there’s a massive “flexitarian” market for brands to tap into, too.
Soft (plant) power
Clearly the major benefit of all vegan products is that they’re entirely plant-based...so how do individual brands ensure that they stand out from the crowd?
There are several brands using soft power to command impressive shares of the market - as well as awards - with their visual identity, tone of voice, imagery, impact and relevance communicating the brand to the massive. The radical, hippie image of veganism is no more: veganism is now cool, something to aspire to. And it’s partly thanks to the approaches to branding by key players in the market that this has happened.
Oatly oat milk, for example, sells the concept of plant-based living, rather than simply the product. Authentic, friendly, honest and clearly committed to the bigger picture, their £700k “It’s like milk, but made for humans” campaign, has helped the brand “blow way past their expected sales targets” Oatly's General Manager told Plant Based News.
Swedish brand Oumph! has made a great splash in the UK too, with its range now stocked in 620 Holland & Barrett stores and its pizzas in 179 Tesco stores. Winner of PETA’s Best Vegan Meat award in 2018, the bean-based meat alternative brand’s bold typefaces, use of exclamation marks and imagery of friends all tucking into Oumph!-based meals marks it out as a fun and sociable brand.
Truffle and ice cream brand Booja-Booja, on the other hand, is focuses on pure luxury. Their choice of language oozes decadence, promising “delicious moments of pleasure crafted to delight all the senses”. Over the years, their branding has changed to appeal more to the mass market but retains its premium feel: a classy, gold-embossed logo and a simplicity of design that puts them right up there with leading mainstream chocolate brands. And it’s paying off, with their net assets rising steadily in recent years.
“Condiments with a conscience” brand Rubies in the Rubble is on a mission to reduce food waste by turning fruit and veg that would otherwise have been thrown away into chutneys, ketchups and other condiments - and they’re all vegan, too. Their clever packaging designs highlight a commitment to the cause by including details of how many of the fruit/vegetable were saved to create each jar, as well as featuring label backgrounds designed with images of wonky fruit and veg.
From striking visuals to a singular tone of voice, the rise of veganism is rising in parallel with a maturity of brands’ soft power. The one common thread, however, is the distinctive voice. While veganism is undoubtedly growing exponentially, it has a long way to go before it’s truly mainstream. Brands are currently youthful, spunky and disruptive. It remains to be seen whether a truly vegan brand can unseat the big boys at the head of the vegan table. For big brands, however, it’s more of a case of joining not beating the competition.
Jumping on the bandwagon
With so many purely vegan brands achieving success, it’s understandable that the big brands want a slice of the action too. For some, it’s done by buying out smaller businesses: the Linda McCartney brand, for example, is owned by US giant Hain Celestial, while Alpro is owned by Danone.
But is this the right approach? An article posted by Ethical Consumer in January 2018 “named and shamed” a list of vegan brands that are owned by companies that also manufacture non-vegan products, suggesting that “the UK's vegans are unwittingly supporting companies that are deeply involved in the meat and dairy industries”, and that big FMCG brands are just “trying to cash in on the global vegan boom”.
While that’s undoubtedly true, there are also consumers out there who are embracing a full or partial vegan diet, but still want to enjoy plant-based versions of products that they love: it’s why restaurants like Vx - which sells vegan junk food including cheesy chips, steak frites, ‘fish’ wraps and dirty burgers - do so well.
The other approach, increasingly adopted by “mainstream” FMCG brands, is to create vegan versions of their existing popular products. It’s what Baileys did with their almond milk version, Baileys Almande (which wasn’t originally vegan), drawing on their existing brand assets to market their plant-based version to a new audience. The white of the bottle ensures that it stands out on the shelf and communicates the lightness of almond milk, while the watercolour illustration winding its way round the bottle reflects spontaneity and playfulness - with a touch of luxury added by the gold details.
Ben & Jerry’s - who we mentioned earlier - launched their vegan range into UK supermarkets in September 2017, and the public was impressed. It’s always been a brand with a massive personality and a strong commitment to social and environmental causes, and that continues with their dairy-free range. Each of the vegan tubs features a matching background which separates them from the dairy range, with the vegan logo prominently on the front of the tub and “I’m vegan” emblazoned across the side of the lid to make the focus clear. Basically, it’s the same Ben & Jerry’s that is known and loved, with simple design tweaks to make its USP clear.
Veganism is far more than just a fad: it’s a growing trend that serves not only those who follow a 100% plant-based diet, but those who are looking to a more flexitarian approach. The key for brands looking to capitalise on this burgeoning section of society is to stand out in an ever-more crowded marketplace, and a soft power approach is the way to do it.
Whether an entirely vegan brand or a mainstream player looking to challenge for market share, how can you use imagery, tone of voice, visual identity, impact and relevance to really make your mark?
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Self-driving sensor startup Aeva Technologies Inc., based by former Apple Inc. engineers, mentioned on Thursday its sensor can detect different vehicles from past 500 meters (1,640 ft) and pedestrians from a distance of greater than 350 meters.
Aeva makes a lidar sensor that helps automobiles achieve a three-dimensional map of the highway and can additionally detect the movement of distant objects, serving to distinguish between non-moving objects like bushes and pedestrians or cyclists. Aeva has offers with automotive suppliers Denso Corp. and ZF Friedrichshafen AG for mass manufacturing of its sensors.
The detection vary of lidar sensors is a key metric for automakers as a result of longer detection ranges imply a self-driving car has extra time to decide, particularly at larger speeds.
Other firms corresponding to Aeye Inc., which German automotive supplier Continental AG bought a stake in last year, have mentioned they can detect different vehicles at 300 meters.
Lidars ship out laser beams and detect their reflections once they bounce again off their environment to generate a picture. A key problem is detecting darkish objects that don’t replicate a lot mild.
Aeva mentioned a proprietary chip it has developed permits its sensors to detect objects with under 10 % reflectivity at lengthy ranges.
“We aim to offer a combination of performance and scalability that we believe to be unmatched in the industry,” Mina Rezk, co-founder and chief know-how officer of Aeva, mentioned in a press release.

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DALLAS — Not every designer knows from childhood that his or her future lies in pins and needles. Sometimes, the industry just sucks them in. That’s the case with Mary Herff and Randi Christiansen, who flirted with fashion for years before taking the plunge.
“We had worked in sister industries, and we wanted to work in fashion,” said Herff. “Our whole concept is to do fashion contemporary basics that offer accessible price, sustainable fabrics, versatility and functionality in a tonal palette that they can throw on instead of maybe a T-shirt. Something they can wear season after season because of the construction and colors.”
The two met 10 years ago while they were earning their M.B.A.s at the University of Texas in Austin. Both women are veterans of the Estée Lauder Cos. Inc., where Christiansen served as global marketing director for Estée Lauder-brand color cosmetics and La Mer skin care, and Herff ran global marketing for Jo Malone. Herff also logged six years as West Coast publicity director for 20th Century Fox Studios in the Nineties.
From their home base in Austin, where they each relocated in recent years with Texan husbands, the pair launched Herff Christiansen with a handful of pieces that caught the attention of Forty Five Ten here and By George in Austin.
“We liked that it was perfect summer-into-fall transition for Dallas — crisp and clean,” said Brian Bolke, co-owner of Forty Five Ten. “It is the perfect neutral collection for bold accessories — also perfect for the client that didn’t embrace the color and pattern theme for spring.”
Launched last year with one pima cotton rib-knit tank, the label now has 14 accounts and a transactional Web site, herffchristiansen.com.
“Essentially we have seven pieces for spring ’08 and eight for fall, but some of our most forward pieces are the ones that seem to do the very best and [are] what our customers are interested in,” Herff explained.
Those would be woven Peruvian cotton cowl-neck and V-neck tunics, which were introduced this spring and recolored for fall. Herff Christiansen also offers pima cotton Ts and tanks with silver stitching, a cargo pant and shirts in black, gray, white and other neutrals. Wholesale prices are $20 to $75. There are also six soft leather accessories wholesaling from $25 to $125.
Herff projects retail sales this year will be $200,000 to $500,000. She is currently interviewing showrooms in New York and Los Angeles to represent the spring 2009 line.
“We are getting ready to grow our retail channel by going to market,” she said. “Since we came from these other industries that prepared us from the business and marketing side, we decided we wanted to grow it organically and see what the response was.”


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By: Rachel Burger,Project ManagementResearch Director, Targetprocess
The cover of Harvard Business Review’s May issue featured a perfectly distributed multi-colored Slinky, a chapeau to its headlining article: “Agile At Scale.” The authors argue that an Agile-based business “is better able to read changing conditions and priorities, develop adaptive solutions, and avoid the constant crises that so frequently hit traditional hierarchies.” Who would say ‘no’ to those benefits?
HBR isn’t the only business publication taking note of Agile’s emergence into the enterprise. Looking at Google trends, international interest in “Business Agility” has increased 70% over the past five years. This joins search term counterparts like “Scaled Agile,” which Google labels as a “breakout” keyword with an increase of 370% in search queries over the same term.
Such a fevered interest in the new-ish management philosophy attracted members of the IT community (Agile’s original application, as detailed in the Agile Manifesto, centered explicitly on software development). Standbys like Jira and “visionary” tools like Targetprocess took note, pivoting into the hot market.
CA Technologies, a 42-year-old software company known for mainframe solutions like CA IDMS, intuited the market change as early as 2015. They changed their tagline to “business, rewritten by software.” CEO Mike Gregoire explained, “How do you take the power, the connectivity, the innovation available and turn it into better products and services? Software… We see Agile as being central to success. Not just for developers but for all businesses that need to succeed in today’s Application Economy. It is central to digital transformation.” Gregoire’s insights preceded Business Agile Fever, setting CA on a path to secure itself as a first-to-market software leader in the wake of business-driven interest in Agile at scale.
But Agile transformations haven’t always been smooth. The U.S. Air Force directly tied its failure to modernize the F-22 to avoidable communication errors linked to scaled Agile methods. Air France attempted to use Agile at scale to assuage its troubled labor relations two years ago—the French government just announced that it wouldn’t bail out the still-struggling airline. Even on a smaller scale, IBM faced a massive backlash when it called off its entire remote working program under the guise of “self-directed teams.”
Examples like these are tough to find, in part because few want to acknowledge that Agile isn’t a good fit for their business (disclosing management practices that didn’t work isn’t industry standard). All the groundwork for business Agile derives from the philosophy’s core values. Organizations like the USAF, Air France, and IBM attempted to apply a framework without them, and they suffered for it.
CA Technologies had its own challenges. The company was recently acquired for $18.9B, but technology industry analyst Eric Jhonsa further pointed out that CA’s software and services bookings have an average duration length of more than three years, yielding a large base of recurring revenue streams. In other words, new products—almost all of which are DevOps and Agile-based—haven’t really been the source of revenue for the software giant.
And if it was struggling, how much of management’s pivot to business agility damaged the business itself? There were signs that CA wasn’t a healthy company, including an average 3.9 out of 5 in customer product reviews at G2Crowd. Its Glassdoor reports an average overall company rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars with even lower marks for senior management and career opportunities. An Agile mindset hasn’t helped with discontented feelings tied to management. Though prioritizing individuals over tools and processes is a core tenet of Agile, CA systematically replaced thousands of legacy workers with offshore talent. Three rounds of layoffs since 2014 included the most recent cut of 800 employees in 2018.
Known as the “Modern Software Factory,” CA’s latest marketing venture makes an intrinsically anti-Agile promise: That one can produce high-quality software using a prescribed system.
Change is exceptionally challenging to manage within large enterprises. And it’s critical to prioritize responding to change, over staying the course. A truly modern, Agile business should display diversity in leadership at all levels. CA is only just now investing in subscription models for its services.
There’s great irony in the misapplication of business Agile by a company that simultaneously claimed to sell Agile-at-scale software, which led to significant managerial difficulties. Many failed Agile endeavours all make the same classic mistake: They miss the nuance of Agile’s foundational philosophy, choosing buzzwords over creed.
Agile is not a framework. It is a mindset with derived methods. Before “doing Agile” across any business, an enterprise must first consider the most difficult yet necessary changes needed: They must encourage growth mindedness, trust their teams to do good work, prioritize the customer, and prize iterative improvement.
Push “pause” on business Agile, just for a moment. Learning a new method is easy; instituting a mindset shift for those methods to work is challenging. Before buying scaled Agile software, trying out NEXUS, LeSS, or SAFe, or even introducing the team to “business Agility,” take the time to understand the foundational psychology underpinning the philosophy. Without it, an overly prescriptive business Agile approach is sure to serve as a roadblock to business instead of serving it.


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São Paulo – The emirate of Dubai started on December 17 the Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF), its traditional shopping festival where outlets offer huge discounts and a series of entertainment events take place across the emirate. The festival runs until January 30, 2021.
This year’s edition includes a drone show each night. The Drone Light Show features 300 drones for 45 days in a row throughout the festival, making it the longest consecutively held show of its kind in the Middle East, Europe and Africa.
The show takes place above the beach opposite Jumeirah Beach Residence (JBR), Bluewaters Island and the Sheraton Jumeirah Beach Resort. The drones first take flight for a show at 7pm and at 9.30pm local time for a different show. Each performance will last four minutes and is free to watch.
The first show, titled ‘Dubai, A City of Adventure’, shows how there’s so much to see and do in the emirate by using famous characters. Show two, titled ‘Dubai, From the Past to the Present,’ shows the city’s journey from old Dubai to new Dubai, where it is headed into the future. The show is held in partnership with TikTok and broadcast to some countries.
In addition to discounts in outlets, DSF features other entertainment events and shows. This year’s festival features preventive measures in malls and outlets due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dubai Festivals and Retail Establishment (DFRE) CEO Ahmed Al Khaja said this was a highly anticipated edition that will bring 2020 to a close and welcome in the start of 2021 in a positive and fun-packed fashion. DFRE is the public agency that organizes the festival.
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To the litany of woes now facing the management of German carmaker Audi, you can add this mystery: prosecutors have turned up documents suggesting that thousands of Audis exported to China, Korea or Japan may have the same vehicle identification number.
This discovery, according to sources at the state prosecutor’s office in Munich, was made as investigators searched Audi corporate files for documents related to the dieselgate scandal. The raid in March came after the Transport Ministry accused Audi of cheating on emissions tests for 24,000 late model Audi A7 and A8 diesel vehicles, the company’s most luxurious products.
Audi later recalled the cars from all over Europe and upgraded their software to lower the amount of nitrogen oxide in their exhaust fumes, a major concern in German cities, where courts have ruled that local governments can consider banning diesel cars from the road on polluted days.
The investigators say Audi audit officials were scrutinizing the 'risk of discovery'
A spokesman for Audi said the company was unaware of any problem related to VIN numbers. “We are not aware of the fact the VIN numbers have been issued more than once,” the spokesman said.
The VIN number is supposed to be a unique, 17-digit identifier for every car and truck that is stamped during production and stays with the car for the life of the vehicle, allowing owners to track things like its ownership history or accident record.
According to the sources, the documents were found during a search of Audi’s audit department. The investigators say Audi audit officials were scrutinizing the “risk of discovery” by assigning a traffic light code, meaning red for urgent, yellow for slow and green for less urgent.
Investigators admitted that they are mystified about what purpose would be served by producing vehicles with the same VIN number. Both German and EU laws stipulate that each vehicle be clearly identifiable by a unique VIN, that will remain uncopied for at least 30 years.
Imported Audis are especially prized in the Chinese market, where Audi has a joint venture with a Chinese firm to produce locally assembled cars. But the imported vehicles are more popular with affluent Chinese as a status symbol.
Jan Keuchel is a Handelsblatt correspondent covering investigations and the German legal system. Charles Wallace adapted this story to English. To contact the author: email@example.com


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Tesla Reportedly Closes BYD Deal for ‘Blade’ EV Batteries: Report
Tesla may have just signed a deal with BYD, a Chinese manufacturer of electric vehicles (EVs) and the batteries that power them, to supply the company’s Gigafactory in Shanghai with enough lithium iron phosphate (LFP) ‘Blade’ batteries to produce 204,000 cars per year — reports CnEVPost.
That amounts to around 45% of Giga Shanghai’s 2021 production, which was 450,000 units.
In a post on the Chinese investment community Xueqiu, longtime BYD follower @雪域新峰 said Tesla has officially placed orders with BYD’s battery-making arm, FinDreams Battery. The post was taken down by the user within hours.
The original post said Tesla has requisitioned C112F batteries from the company. According to the information, Tesla’s orders are set to go into mass production in March, with the first Giga Shanghai-made Tesla EVs powered by BYD’s Blade batteries slated to hit the Chinese market sometime in the second quarter.
There have been rumours of Tesla switching a portion of Giga Shanghai’s production over to BYD’s Blade batteries sometime in 2022 since August of last year. Back in October, reports surfaced claiming Tesla and BYD were nearing a deal for the latter’s LFP batteries.
Following the most recent expansion at Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory, the facility is reportedly capable of achieving a peak production capacity of over one million units per year.
The Standard Range trims of the Model 3 and Model Y currently being produced at Giga Shanghai use LFP batteries from CATL, another Chinese battery maker.
CATL recently opened up a new production facility a few blocks from Giga Shanghai and is directly supplying Tesla’s plant with EV batteries from the site. Late last year, Tesla reportedly signed a deal with CATL to supply enough EV batteries for 800,000 cars in 2022.
Tesla in October announced it will be transitioning the Standard Range Model 3/Y to LFP batteries globally. BYD already has another battery plant in the U.S., so we could see a lot more Tesla EVs with BYD batteries under the cabin floor if things go well in China.
Tesla isn’t the only electric carmaker interested in Blade batteries. Fellow Chinese EV maker NIO has also been in talks with BYD, seeking EV batteries for an upcoming sub-brand.


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The president intervened in the dairy conflict with Russia
President Lukashenka has outraged about Russia’s ban on imports of Belarusian dairy. Rosselkhoznadzor has postponed the introduction of the ban until March 6th. Belarus has engaged her lobbyists in Russia to resolve the dairy conflict; she sees a compromise solution in establishing an independent laboratory and harmonising traceability mechanisms.
The president discussed the ban on imports of Belarusian dairy produces with Deputy Prime Minister Rusy and publicly threatened Moscow with some kind of a “response”. Lukashenka believes – as well as the independent Belarusian media – that the ban was due to New Zealand dry milk importers’ lobbying efforts. However, Rosselkhoznadzor insisted that the ban was exclusively due to violations of sanitary and hygienic standards.
Deputy PM Rusy said that the dairy issue was being negotiated between the parties and that ‘balances’ for milk powder could be introduced (a combination of obligations and quotas). In addition, the parties were discussing the possibility of establishing or coordinating an independent laboratory for assessing dairy and other agricultural produces.
Secretary of the Union State Rapota expressed readiness to assist the settlement of the conflict. The Kremlin also expressed hope for a rapid solution. Without a doubt, the supplies will be resumed. However, the ease with which some privileged Russian business makes Russian state institutions to service them, leaves no hope for such bans and restrictions to no longer to occur in the future.
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MARKETING NEWS HEADLINES: February 2012
February 3, 2012
Smartphones outsell total PCs for first time
For the first year ever, total PC sales around the world were outpaced by total smartphone sales, in units at least, according to data released Friday by market analyst firm Canalsys. Nearly 488 million smartphones were shipped, compared to just (just!) 415 million PCs. Of course, this doesn't mean PCs are dead.The global PC market grew 15% in 2011, Canalsys says — almost entirely because of the 274% increase in tablet sales, which itself is largely due to the iPad. Canalsys counts the tablet as a PC, which is a different methodology than some others use..


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The Wall Street Journal is claiming that an Apple iPhone for Verizon is imminent. Again. They say it will be mass produced by the end of 2010, starting sales in early 2011. However, there is something weird here.
First, the date. Apple always introduces their new iPhones in the middle of the year. It seems unlikely that Apple will break that yearly cycle trend, although you never know. Then, the Journal claims that this will be a CDMA iPhone, even while Verizon's CEO Ivan Seidenberg specifically told the WSJ that there will not be a CDMA iPhone. In fact, Seidenberg told the WSJ that, if the Verizon iPhone happens, it will be in their new 4G LTE network.
Perhaps the Wall Street Journal is right this time, but they really meant the new iPhone will run on Verizon's newly deployed LTE network? Whatever it is, we will know in a few months. [WSJ]


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‘Educational institutions should provide relevant information online’
A digital marketing seminar ‘HT Campus Digi Wise’ focused on helping educational institutes of tricity fine tune their strategy was organised at Hotel Shivalik View, Sector-17, on Friday evening.chandigarh Updated: May 24, 2014 12:10 IST
A digital marketing seminar ‘HT Campus Digi Wise’ focused on helping educational institutes of tricity fine tune their strategy was organised at Hotel Shivalik View, Sector-17, on Friday evening.
The seminar, organised by htcampus.com and Google India, saw a large number of representatives of private as well as government institutes participate.
While introducing the seminar, htcampus.com business head Ruchir Arora said that the organisation has so far held 8–10 seminars in different parts of the country to educate various educational institutes to evolve a marketing strategy for themselves.
Addressing the seminar, Arora said that the idea behind the move was to educate people about the emergence and strengths of the digital media, and how parents and students could use it as a tool to select institutes for higher education.
“According to a study conducted last year 60% of parents and students searched web before selecting institutes for higher studies,” said Arora, underlining that educational institutes should provide details of infrastructure, reputation and fees, among other things online as these are most searched for.
Speaking at the seminar, Google India strategic partner development manager Nikhil Menon said that India was the second highest country in the world in terms of internet users, adding that consumer behaviour continued changing with the changing times.
“The people want clear information on the website of institutes. Gone are the days when parents and students would make visits to institutes,” he said, adding this was the reason behind the change in the advertising world.
He added that a large number of people now made their decisions by educating themselves through online means.
“With changing consumer behaviour, the institutes need to come up with more relevant information on their websites as it affected the decisions of consumers,” he said.


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Will new Walmart format bode well for fish?
Walmart’s addition of 30 to 40 smaller format stores over the next two years should bode well for fresh and frozen seafood suppliers.
The Bentonville, Ark.-based retail giant announced its global growth plan in mid-October, which includes adding 32.5 million square feet of selling space worldwide in 2011. Walmart’s large-format stores will experience the most growth, with a projected 152 stores added in the United States in fiscal 2011 and between 155 and 165 stores added in the country in fiscal 2012.
Retail consultants are encouraged by Walmart’s goal to add smaller stores in untapped urban markets such as Chicago and New York over the next two years.
“If they model the stores after their Marketside format, which are highly skewed toward perishables, it may be good for seafood. There is a significant amount of meat, produce, dairy, frozen products and a bit of seafood in those stores,” said Tom DeMott, COO of retail consulting and marketing firm Encore Associates in San Ramon, Calif.
However, DeMott suggested that the urban store’s product mix will be geared toward the demographics of each city, so the amount of seafood carried will differ from city to city.
Suzanne Long, director of retail at SSA & Co. in New York, is also optimistic about seafood inclusion in the new smaller format stores.
“In Walmart supercenters, they have closed a lot of their seafood counters and offer a frozen seafood presence. In their smaller stores, they will have seafood counters,” said Long.
However, because of Walmart’s global supply chain system, the retailer likely won’t be able to compete with supermarkets on seafood assortment, according to Long.
“Will Walmart be able to purchase according to local demand? I don’t think they will be able to do that as much as local grocery stores,” said Long.
Some consultants believe the urban stores will be modeled after the Marketside format, which is around 15,000 square feet, instead of Walmart’s Neighborhood Market format, at around 42,000 square feet.
“Anybody who comes out with a smaller format, whether it is Aldi, Fresh & Easy or others, it opens up many more options from a retail standpoint. [Walmart’s] idea is popular, particularly in Chicago, where there are challenges with large formats in the city,” said Jim Hertel, managing partner at retail consulting firm Willard Bishop in Barrington, Ill.All Foodservice & Retail stories >


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Digitalization ‘offers new challenges’
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Digitalization of the economy, especially in terms of crypto-assets, could bring new challenges including tax evasion and money laundering, warned senior Chinese officials.
The fast development of the digital economy might impact the existing international tax system, and the short-term tax incentives could restrain its long-term development, said Zhu Guangyao, China’s vice-minister of finance, at the two-day G20 meeting since Mo…
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The Final Verdict on Whether or Not Coffee Is Healthy For You
Many Americans start their day with a cup of coffee. In fact, the latest data from the National Coffee Association (NCA) found that 7 in 10 Americans drink the beverage every week. Around 62% report they drink coffee every single day.
With so many people drinking coffee regularly, the one question that may come to mind is likely this: "Is coffee actually healthy for you?"
Based on what the latest research shows, yes, the beverage is healthy and safe to consume in moderate amounts for most people. Some recent research even suggests the beverage can offer heart health benefits.
One study published in the European Society of Cardiology this year found that drinking between a half cup of coffee to three cups of coffee daily was associated with a lower risk of stroke, death from cardiovascular disease, and death of any cause.
Another study published this year in the journal BMC Public Health revealed that those who reported drinking coffee were 21% less likely to develop chronic liver disease and 49% less likely to die from the disease, compared to those who didn't drink coffee.
Still, there is such a thing as overdoing your coffee intake, with the main concern being overconsumption of caffeine. Aside from increased heart rate, anxiety, and insomnia, drinking too much caffeine on a regular basis can pose other risks, too. For example, a 2017 study identified an association between caffeine consumption and fertility.
More specifically, researchers found that consuming 300 milligrams of caffeine (or just over three cups) daily heightened the risk of pregnancy loss. That risk doubled for pregnant women who drank 600 milligrams of coffee daily.
As Gil Weiss, MD., OB/GYN, and a partner at the Association for Women's Healthcare, previously explained to Eat This, Not That! that there isn't much research on this possible connection as of now.
"Some suggested theories as to how excessive caffeine consumption may impact fertility include the possibility that caffeine can impact cell development or alter uterine or early placental blood flow," he says. Still, if you're pregnant or looking to get pregnant, Weiss suggests limiting your caffeine consumption to 200 milligrams, or about two cups of coffee.
As for anyone else enjoying coffee, you'll have to see what works best for you. Just know that you could be at increased risk of adverse, long-term side effects if you drink six or more cups of coffee daily. One study published in February of this year found that drinking that amount of coffee each day could increase your risk of developing heart disease.
Bottom line: Enjoy your morning cup of coffee or two, or three. Most people can safely tolerate this amount of caffeine. The beverage may even offer some health benefits. As is the case with just about any food or drink, moderation is the key and the same guidelines apply to coffee.
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Farm gate prices in Hungary rose 47.5% yr/yr in February, faster than the 39.6% twelve-month increase in January, the Central Statistics Office (KSH) said on Monday.
The increase was from a low base as farm gate prices rose a mere 0.3% yr/yr in February 2010 after a 2% rise in the previous month. The prices fell yr/yr in the rest of H1 2010 before a double-digit growth started in July 2010.
February crop prices were 67.9% higher than twelve months earlier, and livestock and animal products prices were up 13.3% yr/yr, both rising more than the 57.6% and 10.5% respective increases registered in January.
Farm gate prices rose 16.8% for the full year of 2010 after a 9.5% decrease in 2009. Crop prices rose 27.6% last year after a 12.7% drop in 2009 and livestock and animal products prices rose 1.8% after declining 4.6% in the previous year.
Farmers’ terms of trade improved 11.9% in 2010 as agricultural input prices rose well below the rise of farm gate prices, just 4.4% from 2009.
In a breakdown by crop type, KSH said farm gate prices of cereals, including seeds, jumped 100.1% in February from the same month a year earlier. The farm gate price of wheat rose 139% in twelve months to HUF 73,400 per ton in February this year, and maize prices rose 81% to HUF 54,900 per ton.
Oil seed prices were up 61.0%, potato prices increased 68.9% and fruit prices jumped 39.9%.
Among livestock and animal product prices, the price of cattle for slaughter rose 35.3%, and the price of live hogs increased 4.3%. Poultry prices were up 16.2% and milk prices climbed 22.5%, but fresh egg prices dropped 6.5% from a year earlier.
In January-February, farm gate prices rose 42.8% from the same period a year earlier. Livestock and animal product prices were up 12.0%, and crop prices were up 61.3%.


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SK announces Taiwan app store launch
South Korean operator SK Telecom said it will partner with East Power, a Taiwanese mobile device supplier, to launch a mobile application store called T Store in Taiwan.
China Telecom set for Taiwanese tie-up
China Telecom is mulling “cooperating with Taiwanese telecommunications operators to launch applications for mobile phones and may purchase Code Division Multiple Access-based smartphones from Taiwanese handset vendors,” Dow Jones Newswires reports.
China Mobile allowed to set up Taiwan subsidiary
China Mobile has been given approval to open a subsidiary in Taiwan, according to AFP, a move that will raise hopes the world’s largest operator will one day be given the go ahead to buy into Taiwanese operator Far EasTone.
Taiwan eyes major e-book investment
Taiwan plans to invest more than TWD2 billion (US$62.1 million) over the next five years to develop its electronic-books industry, the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ Industrial Development Bureau said today, reports Dow Jones Newswires.
Vibo deploys trial TD-SCDMA network
Taiwanese operator Vibo Telecom has launched a trial TD-SCDMA network in Taipei City, notes TeleGeography, citing a DigiTimes report.
HTC boosts mobile phone design team
Cellular News reports that Taiwan’s HTC has acquired US-based ‘lifestyle design’ firm One & Company Design (One & Co).


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ORLANDO, Fla. – After taking steps earlier this year to try and prevent layoffs, Correct Craft has made the decision to eliminate 98 positions at the company. But Bill Yeargin, Correct Craft’s president and CEO, wants it known that the move should not cast doubt on the company’s future.
“The information is accurate, we did eliminate 98 positions,” Yeargin told Boating Industry in an interview Thursday. “But the balance of that is Correct Craft is not going out of business. We’re not going anywhere. We’re solid financially, we’ve got orders through the second week of October. I just want to make sure that it doesn’t get presented that Correct Craft is having this big layoff, they’re shutting down, because that’s not remotely the truth.”
Yeargin said the company had been taking steps to try and prevent having to let any employees go, including investing in a training program for workers during gaps in production and also using furloughs. However, it became clear that an industry-wide turnaround is still some time away.
“It was a cumulative thing,” Yeargin said. “We obviously started taking orders for next year and we have a little over three months of orders for the 2010 model year and we can keep our production going where it’s going. It’s just that we’re not going to be able to bring these employees back.
“But we start looking out over the next few months, come the first of September we’ll be out of the peak selling season, and we started thinking it’s really looking like it could be February or early March, getting deep into the boat show season or early spring, before we really see, industry-wide, a turnaround. That was sort of the final piece.”
Yeargin remains optimistic for Correct Craft’s business because of the “excellent condition” of the company’s dealer inventory. He said Correct Craft did not “try to jam boats down our dealers throats” when the slowdown began.
“When we get into boat show season and into next spring, even if the retail market doesn’t pick up, we’re going to be doing pretty good,” Yeargin said. “Even if it’s a 50-percent-off retail market, we’re still going to be doing good because the dealer inventory is in good shape and the dealers are going to need boats to be able to sell. We feel pretty optimistic about that, even if the full industry hasn’t recovered.”


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U.S. consumer prices remained unchanged in July but annual inflation registered its largest decline since 1950, the Labor Department reported Friday.
The latest data helped ease concerns of rising inflation due to government spending and the Federal Reserves monetary policy of injecting cash into the US economy.
"It [inflation] could be a very large long-run problem," Mickey Levy, Bank of America, chief economist, was quoted on NYTimes.com. "But in the near-term, it’s not a problem at all."
The Consumer Price Index, which measures inflation pressures at the consumer level, remained unchanged in July due largely to Continue reading US Consumer prices unchanged, biggest annual inflation drop since 1950
U.S. consumer prices jumped in June as higher energy costs — gasoline prices in particular — drove up the cost of living, although year-over-year inflation fell by the largest amount since Jan. 1950.
The Consumer Price Index, which measures inflation pressures at the consumer level, rose 0.7% in June following a 0.1% increase in May, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. At the same time, inflation fell 1.4% compared to a year ago when energy prices were at their height. The annual decline is the biggest in 59 years.
"It’s a bit of a bogus comparison, because we’re comparing gas prices at nearly their astronomical peak last year," Stuart Hoffman, economist at PNC, was quoted on CNNMoney.com and referred to the the-record high gasoline prices of over $4 per gallon in July 2008.
Excluding volatile food and energy prices, the core CPI rose 0.2% in June after a 0.1% increase in May. Continue reading Consumer prices up 0.7% in June, inflation falls 1.4% in year
U.S. producer prices jumped to double the level expected, as surging energy prices weighed in heavily for the month.
The Producer Price Index (PPI) rose by 1.8% in June, the biggest increase since November 2007, according to a Labor Department report released Tuesday. The PPI measures prices at the factory door and inflation pressures before they reach the consumer.
The June PPI increase follows a 0.2% rise in May when energy costs had increased 2.9%. While gasoline prices have declined in recent weeks and in particular during early July, they are not reflected in June numbers, which shows energy prices climbed 6.6% — with heating oil costs rising 15.4% and gasoline prices soaring 18.5%.
"Sharply higher gasoline prices are the primary culprit behind the jump in the headline number," Tom Porcelli, a senior economist at RBC Capital Markets in New York, was quoted on Bloomberg. For other items, he said, "the risk is skewed toward prices remaining soft over the near term."
Continue reading Producer prices surge 1.8% in June, led by energy costs
Consumer prices crawled weakly higher in May and for the first time in three months while inflation plunged 1.3% in the past year to mark the largest decline since April 1950, the government reported Wednesday.
The Labor Department said the Consumer Price Index, which measures inflation pressures at the consumer level, inched 0.1% higher in May following a flat reading in April. The increase was less than generally expected, but many analyst are expecting more of the same tame readings in coming months.
"Inflation may be coming, but it’s not here yet and likely won’t be for some time," Richard Moody, chief economist at Forward Capital, was quoted on the AP.
"Inflation is not an issue,"Michael Moran, chief economist at Daiwa Securities America Inc. in New York, was quoted on Bloomberg. "There are huge amounts of slack in the economy and demand is quite soft, so it’s difficult to see how inflation can pick up for the balance of the year."
May’s higher energy costs — most specifically gasoline prices at the pump — were offset by lower food prices. Continue reading Inflation drops 1.3% in year; most in six decades, consumer prices rise 0.1%
U.S. producer prices picked up in May, but they were less than expected despite increasing costs at the pump.
The Producer Price Index (PPI) rose by 0.2% last month, according to a report on Tuesday released by the Labor Department. The PPI measures prices at the factory door and inflation pressures before they reach the consumer.
"This clearly suggests there’s no inflation yet," Anika Khan, an economist at Wachovia Corp. in Charlotte, North Carolina, was quoted on Bloomberg. Price gains are "a gasoline story… companies can’t pass on the prices because the consumer is not in a situation to pay right now."
The PPI has fallen 5.0% in the past twelve months and is the biggest year-over-year decline since 1949. Continue reading Producer prices inch 0.2% higher on energy prices, inflation in check
Despite a flat reading for U.S. consumer prices in April, the annual inflation rate fell with the sharpest decline in 54 years, the government reported on Friday.
The Labor Department said the Consumer Price Index (CPI) remained unchanged in April after decreasing 0.1% in March. However, a reduction in the cost of energy over the past 12 months helped drive the annual rate 0.7% lower, marking the second straight monthly dip and the biggest decline since August 1955.
"The era of U.S. consumer price deflation is now upon us as the ongoing economic recession and deteriorating labor market conditions continue to weaken the bargaining power of retailers and laborers alike, thereby quenching the once raging inflationary flames," Millan Mulraine, economics strategist for TD Securities, was quoted on Forbes.com
There is a debate raging between economists on whether a threat to the approaching economy is rising inflation or spiraling, out of control falling prices, known as deflation. Continue reading Annual inflation at -0.7%, sharpest drop in consumer prices since 1955
Producer prices in the U.S. reversed course from March and climbed to a higher than expected 0.3% in April, according to the Labor Department’s Producer Price Index (PPI) report on Thursday. The PPI measures prices at the factory door and inflation pressures before they reach the consumer.
In March, cheaper energy pushed down prices by 1.2%, leading to renewed fears of accelerating deflation. In April, the government data shows that a 1.5% increase in the cost of food offset a 0.1% fall in energy prices — energy costs were down 5.5% in March. And with that, some of the deflationary steam has been evaporated. Deflation is a persistent decrease in general prices, or the opposite of inflation.
"It’s impossible to see how deflation can persist given the amount of liquidity in the system," Maxwell Clarke, chief U.S. economist at 4Cast.com in New York, was quoted on Bloomberg. "With oil moving back up, the thought in people’s minds becomes that inflation could ultimately become a problem that outweighs deflation."
It is worth noting that the PPI index has fallen 3.7% when compared to the same period last year, marking the biggest year-over-year fall since January 1950. Continue reading Producer prices rise 0.3% on higher food prices
Pushed down by declining energy prices, U.S. consumer prices dropped in March, and the annual inflation rate dipped for the first time since 1955, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI), the most closely watched gauge for inflation, fell 0.1% after increasing 0.4% in February. The decline was unexpected with many analysts forecasting an increase around 0.1%. On an annual basis, inflation was down 0.4%, marking the first decline since August 1955.
While deflation fears were eased with rising prices revealed in the CPI data for February, the latest numbers rekindle notice.
"We’re in a very deep global recession that’s going to hold prices down," Nigel Gault, chief U.S. economist at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Massachusetts, was quoted on Bloomberg. "Deflation is still something that’s a risk, though I don’t think we’ll get into a deflationary spiral."
However, during the last several weeks an outlook for potential stinging inflation has been more of the economic buzz. Continue reading March consumer prices drop 0.1%, annual inflation tumbles 0.4%
U.S. Producer prices fell 1.2% in March as lower energy prices drove down costs more than expected, according to a Labor Department report released Tuesday.
The Producer Price Index (PPI) measures prices at the factory door and inflation pressures before they reach the consumer. In a reversal after two months of gains, the latest PPI figures again raise notes of deflationary concern for some economists. However, they are outweighed by the Fed’s mission to spur economic activity.
"Clearly, deflation is a concern right now, though the biggest worry is to restore growth," Anika Khan, an economist at Wachovia Corp. in Charlotte, North Carolina, was quoted on Bloomberg. With inflation contained, "it gives the Fed more room to try to restore growth."
Deflation is a persistent decrease in general prices, or the opposite of inflation. Falling prices may seem like good news for consumers, but only to a certain extent. If prices mark sustained deflationary levels that strike below the cost to produce goods and services, further economic turmoil can ensue with production cuts, payroll reductions and deepening unemployment. Continue reading Cheap energy pushes producer prices down 1.2%
With expectations for inflation to remain under control and in a move to combat the recession, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday said it would pump more than $1 trillion into the economy.
In a statement following the conclusion of its two-day policy meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) said it would:
- Increase its purchases of mortgage-backed securities by $750 billion, on top of the already announced $500 billion
- Buy $300 billion of long-term Treasurys over the next six months
The Fed hopes the first measure will pull down mortgage rates and the second will help ease the credit crunch. Immediately following the news, U.S. stocks rallied, bond prices surged and gold prices reversed direction. Continue reading Fed to buy $1 trillion in securities, expects inflation to remain subdued


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Mortgage lender Quicken Loans is advertising during the Super Bowl for the first time to raise awareness for its new Rocket Mortgage online platform.
Developed by agency Fallon, the "Push button. Get mortgage campaign" includes a 60-second spot that informs viewers how much homeownership and saving money affects the American economy, and how much the economy can be helped by making a mortgage easier to obtain. The spot will air during the first half of the game.
To complement this Super Bowl spot, Quicken Loans is introducing the Rocket Mortgage “Push Button. Get Stuff” sweepstakes giving away household items from, and inspired by, the commercial.
To that end, the ad's voiceover states: "If this new mortgage experience from Quicken Loans can turn an intimidating process into something less daunting, more people will buy houses. If more people buy houses, they will need kitchen gadgets, appliances and furniture for their house. We will then need more people to make those amenities. With more craftsmen employed, they will also buy houses."
Entrants are eligible to win a living room package, a Viking range, Kitchen Aid Mixers, Blendtec blenders, Shinola bikes). The grand prize is $100,000.00 meant to go towards purchasing a home or paying off a mortgage.
This culmination of the campaign follows two 30-second spots titled “I’m Listening” and “Mort”, along with numerous “FAQ” commercials that were rolled out in December and January to introduce the loan platform.
Fallon has worked with Quicken Loans on the rollout of Rocket Mortgage since September 2014. Fallon also developed Quicken Loans’ first brand campaign, “Buy In,” which launched in March 2015.


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Japan and Vietnam on Friday June 2 agreed to launch official negotiations later this year, possibly in fall, aimed at concluding a free trade agreement, Japanese officials said.
Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry minister Toshihiro Nikai and Vietnamese Trade minister Truong Dinh Tuyen reached a consensus that the two countries should enter into formal FTA talks, following two rounds of study group sessions on the bilateral arrangement, they said.
The two ministers met on the sidelines of trade ministers’ meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum in HCM City, Vietnam.
Japan will be the first country with which Vietnam will enter into bilateral FTA negotiations.
Japan plans to start formal FTA negotiations with Brunei around the same time as Vietnam and the two will be the sixth and seventh Southeast Asian economies with which Tokyo will hold official talks on such an undertaking.
Tuyen also showed interest in Nikai’s proposal of creating a policy coordination body in East Asia, which is to be modelled after the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, they said.


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FIDO: New help on the way:
In 2021, the FIDO Alliance developed an open standard called the Fido Device Onboard (FDO) protocol. FIDO will make it easier to connect IoT devices to cloud-based and on-premises device management platforms. The FIDO protocol can autonomously onboard an IoT device without an admin knowing how to configure or access the underlying network and Internet infrastructure the device runs on. The updated FIDO2 protocol enables IoT device onboarding without the need for a password and maintains the network’s security and governance requirements.
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Chip firm AMD has claimed we ‘won’t be able to tell the difference’ between the GPU and the CPU by 2013, as the line between graphics cards and the new generation of processors gets increasingly blurred.
The fruits of AMD’s Fusion project – which essentially increases the remit of the central processor to take on tasks usually handled by graphics cards – were on display at CES last month, and the firm claims the new chipsets will change the way computers are run for good.
“The reason why we are calling these Accelerated Processing Units and not a CPU or a GPU is that by the third generation of this technology by 2013, your not going to be able to tell the difference,” said Leslie Sobon, AMD’s vice president for product and platform marketing. “It won’t be here’s your GPU piece and here’s your CPU piece, it will be all mashed together and integated even more.”
The ethos of the move is mirrored by rival Intel’s Sandy Bridge project, which also looks to take on more graphics power onto the CPU. However the difference is Intel doesn’t have the interests in graphics cards that AMD does with its ATI division.
Asked if Fusion would clash with the firm’s interests in the traditional graphics card market, Sobon told PCR: “That’s a great question – so there actually is an Acer PC that has this technology, and also has discrete attached to it, so you actually have dual discrete. So when you add this to the larger desktops you get the discrete capability that’s in Fusion, plus what’s in the card. So you could get 1000 gigaflops. The video gaming guys are going to want to have that.”


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Robert Steinberg dies at 61; founded chocolatier Scharffen Berger
The physician 'completely transformed American understanding of chocolate' with the artisanal company he started with onetime patient John Scharffenberger in 1990.
Robert Steinberg, left, and John Scharffenberger of Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, in a 1998 photo, pose with a melangeur, a machine whose granite wheels blend chocolate and sugar. Steinberg "changed chocolate from being seen as a mere sweet candy to having the status of a complex and interesting food. A new age of chocolate was started in this country with that company, cookbook author Alice Medrich told The Times. (Matt Black / For The Times / September 27, 2008)
Steinberg, who had lymphatic cancer, died Sept. 17 at UCSF Medical Center near his home in San Francisco, according to Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, the company he co-founded in 1996.
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Robert Steinberg obituary: The photo caption accompanying the obituary of Robert Steinberg in Sunday's California section incorrectly identified him as the man on the left in the photo above. Steinberg is at right; his business partner John Scharffenberger, with whom he founded Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, is at left. —
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Robert Steinberg photo correction: A correction on Wednesday said the caption accompanying the obituary of chocolate maker Robert Steinberg in Sunday's California section had transposed the names of the two men in the photo. In fact, the original caption was correct: Steinberg is at left; his business partner, John Scharffenberger, is at right. —
With a former patient, Steinberg started a small chocolate-manufacturing company that emphasized Old World artisanal standards and "completely transformed American understanding of chocolate," said Alice Medrich, a cookbook author known for her chocolate expertise.
"He changed chocolate from being seen as a mere sweet candy to having the status of a complex and interesting food. A new age of chocolate was started in this country with that company," Medrich told The Times.
By emphasizing premium ingredients and bringing artisan standards to what had been a largely industrialized process in the U.S., Scharffen Berger helped move gourmet chocolate from a special-occasion purchase to an everyday indulgence. Devotees likened it to drinking an espresso instead of truck-stop java.
Before he was a chocolate perfectionist, Steinberg practiced medicine in Ukiah, Calif. After being diagnosed in 1989 with terminal cancer -- and given a 50% chance of dying within 10 years -- he soon sold his practice.
"The apparent nearness of death," he later said, gave him permission to try just about everything. He took piano and drawing lessons. He cooked more and traveled to Italy and France.
At the suggestion of a friend, Steinberg read a 600-page textbook on the science of chocolate making. It opened the door to "an underground world" that fascinated him, Steinberg wrote in "The Essence of Chocolate," a 2006 cookbook-memoir.
"It was like pulling the disguise off of something," Steinberg said in 2005 in the Express of Emeryville, Calif. "Here's chocolate, this thing that we all think we know, but you look under the surface and it's something different."
After a 1993 tour of the noted Bernachon chocolate company in Lyon, France, Steinberg composed a letter in the most polite French he could muster and asked for an internship. They granted him two weeks.
"I just felt like I belonged," Steinberg said in 2001 in the Contra Costa Times, comparing the experience to a fantasy.
Upon returning home, he ran into John Scharffenberger, a former neighbor and patient who was selling his winery -- Scharffenberger Cellars -- and looking for a new business opportunity. Steinberg offered a sample of French chocolate.
"Robert had this chunk of chocolate in his pocket that I think he'd been carrying for months," Scharffenberger told People magazine in 1998. "But it tasted better than anything I'd ever had."
Steinberg had his partner for the business and the test kitchen.
Using a coffee grinder, mortar and pestle -- and a hair dryer to help the chocolate remain viscous -- they worked with nearly 30 varieties of cacao beans in Steinberg's kitchen.


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President-Elect Obama collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics (I hope he buys from a local shop).
In other geeky political news.
Jason Mumpower (Republican) was recently elected to Tennessee’s House of Representatives. After an anonymous email sent to the state Ethics Commission, an investigation was launched regarding Mumpower’s comic collection. Mumpower had to disclose any investments that could become a conflict of interest, and failed to list his comic collection.
Ultimately, it was determined that Mumpower’s failure to declare his 17,000 book collection was not an ethics violation, and was cleared of wrongdoing. For more on this story visit Comic Book Resources (one of my favorite sources for comic related news).
For more on the value of comic books and why 17,000 books might not be worth so much, come back tomorrow. I will take you on a journey through comic history to determine why some comics are obscenely valuable, and many only carry sentimental value.


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DALLAS – Supernal and Urban-Air Port launch Air-One, a proprietary deployable operations hub for manned and unmanned vehicles and the first functioning multi-modal infrastructure hub capable of supporting electric air transport.
The vertiport is now open to the public in Coventry, UK, and will be redeployed in various cities across the world later this year to showcase future Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) passenger experiences and operations firsthand.
The 17,000-square-foot radial Air-One was built in 11 weeks and features a passenger lounge, café, retail pop-up, cargo logistics hub, electric and hydrogen-air vehicle hangar, security screening, and command and control center.
The zones are supported by a proprietary 56-foot circular final approach and takeoff (FATO) platform that rises 19 feet in the air – employing a compact, cutting-edge, synchronized link-lift system – to permit future electric air vehicle takeoffs and landings.
The activation also showcases Supernal’s original concept eVTOL vehicle, S-A1, on exhibit in the vehicle hangar, live drone demonstrations from the FATO, and numerous new electric vehicles attached to EV chargers on the vertiport’s exterior, which are powered by off-grid hydrogen fuel cells.
The activation, which is located .2 miles from the main Coventry train and bus stations, demonstrates how the compact, prefabricated Air-One can enable seamless multi-modal travel, including AAM.
Comments from Supernal
“The Air-One activation is an important step for the Advanced Air Mobility industry and demonstrates how eVTOLs can easily integrate with existing transportation networks to address local needs,” said Mike Whitaker, chief commercial officer, Supernal, a US-based mobility service provider.
Whitaker added, “The reality is no single mode of transportation – current or future – can solve cities’ traffic and congestion challenges. Supernal is working with partners like Urban-Air Port to design infrastructure that brings multiple modes of transportation together under one ‘roof’ and enable AAM to reach its full potential.”
Comments from Urban-Air Port
“The opening of Air-One is a momentous occasion – the starting gun for a new age of transport, an age of zero-emission, low-congestion travel between and within cities that will make people healthier, happier, and more connected than ever before,” said Ricky Sandhu, founder and executive chairman, Urban-Air Port.
The company develops, sells, and operates ground, air, and digital infrastructure for new forms of sustainable urban air transport such as air taxis and autonomous delivery drones
Sandhu added, “The Coventry demonstration – delivered in partnership with Supernal – will showcase the future of how people will travel, seamlessly integrating with other modes of transport to create a greener, more connected future. I am extremely proud to have like-minded, industry leaders like Supernal as partners on our journey to building this industry from the ground up – paving the way for us all.”
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According to Monday’s S1/ A filing, Airbnb raised the range of its IPO price from $44-$50, set last Tuesday, to $56-$60. At the upper end of the range, Airbnb’s proceeds will be $3.1 Billion on a fully diluted basis, valuing the company at $41.8 Billion.
The company was worth $18 Billion in April when it urgently raised $2 Billion in debt in a private round. This boost in valuation in a short period of time may surprise investors for a company which laid off 25% of its workforce and with net income down 19% from last year.
Airbnb’s IPO is seen by some a barometer for the future of the airline and hotel industries which have been severely hit by the pandemic. In the last few weeks pharmaceutical companies have been coming out with positive results, raising optimism. However, it is yet unclear how consumers are going to respond and how long it will take for consumer behavior to normalize.
The hotly anticipated IPO is expected on Thursday, when Airbnb will list in Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “ABNB”


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Halloween may be over, but multiplayer horror title Dead By Daylight is still getting fresh patches.
Behavior Interactive has released update. 2.07 (version 4.3.2). and while there's no new content to be found, there are plenty of
Dead By Daylight Update 2.07 Patch Notes
- Discordance: Updated range from 32/64/96 meters to 64/96/128 meters and decreased the aura duration after survivors have left the generator from 8 seconds to 4 seconds.
- Updated Blood Favor’s text to indicate that it only works with basic attacks; note that the function of the perk remains unchanged.
- Fixed an issue that caused Traps, Phantasm and Snares not to be placed properly in specific places (exit gates, Shelter Woods’ Unique Tree etc.) in Macmillan Estate’s maps
- Fixed an issue that caused The Spirit’s breathing to be heard while she was phasing
- Fixed an issue that caused two uncleansable Totems on Rotten Fields and Coal Tower
- Fixed an issue that caused Halloween Event generators not to spawn in the Midwich Elementary School map
- Fixed Jake’s beard not appearing in the Orbital Captain head cosmetic
- Fixed gaps in Yui’s Miss Speedway outfit when mixing with other outfit’s cosmetic pieces
- Fixed an issue that caused The Blight’s “Alchemist Ring” add-on to grant a bonus to rush token recharge time
Despite launching back in 2016, Dead By Daylight remains incredibly popular to this day.
With additions from the likes of Stranger Things, Saw, Leatherface and The Nightmare on Elm Street, the game's roster of heroes and killers keeps getting bigger.
The recent Halloween event ends today, so if you didn't grab everything you wanted, you're out of luck.
The game will also be optimised for next-gen consoles when they launch, so there's no escaping the scares.


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At a conference call on Tuesday, Intel Chief Executive Officer Otellini said, “In terms of Intel participating in the tablet market we remain very optimistic about this. We feel pretty good about our opportunity to participate in the growth as it happens.”
Intel has had an excellent quarter so far with considerable increase in its earnings. However, with the iPad rewriting sales records and with analysts predicting a big shift of consumer preference towards tablet devices, it is just too big a segment for someone of the stature of Intel to give it a miss. In fact, with almost every other company coming up with tablet devices, Intel too is considering a tryst with tablet PCs.
Intel has already announced its firm intentions to make it big in the tablet segment and has drawn up plans to increase its share in the ARM-dominated tablet market. And for this, they are banking on the latest Atom-based SoC platform codenamed “Oak Trail.”
Patrick Wang, who is an analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities says, “They have the Oak Trail chip that they’ve already started to sample and will begin to ship early next year. You will see a lot of product launches based on this chip. It’s a system-on-a-chip and it’s compatible with x56. This means you will be able to run it on all types of operating system.”
According to him what Intel requires right away is that the Oak Tail Chip should be able to sustain work up to 8- 10 hours or more on a single full charge.
Initial reports does look optimistic in this aspect with Intel VP Mooly Eden confirming the new platform has been optimized for “sleek” tablets that would offer an almost 50 percent reduction in power consumption on average in comparison to the previous generation of Atom processors.
Otellini on the other hand is not of the opinion that tablets can ever replace netbook market. He states “I think this is an additive category of computing, much like netbooks were an additive category. I don’t see tablets cannibalizing the PC market.”
Another analyst by name Brendan Furlong, opines that Intel would always have an upper hand in the market with its PC and laptop even if tablets do make any mark in the market. He states “Outside of Apple, anyone that’s building a tablet like device will need to use a processor. If the tablet market takes off, even if it cannibalizes the netbook market, it’s not a negative for Intel, it’s a positive. Where is HP and Dell going to go? They will have to get a processor.”
There is however cause for concern to Intel in case iPad continues its domination in the market as per both analysts Furlong and Wang. “The potential negative is that if the iPad cannibalizes notebooks/netbooks alone, and no one gets a decent slate out, that is trouble for Intel. I find that highly unlikely. I think HP, Dell, Acer will all come out with competitive tablet computers,” as stated by Furlong.
The Oak Trail chip supports 1080p full HD-video, as well as a number of operating systems, which includes MeeGo, Microsoft Windows 7 and Google Android.
Intel had already showcased quite a few tablet devices at the Computex 2010 and by initial estimates, the gadgets did look impressive.
Sovan Mandal is the senior tablet and tech corespondent for goodereader.com. He brings a international approach to news that is not just applicable to the North American market, but also Asia, India, Europe and others. Sovy brings his own writing flavor to the website and is interested in Science Fiction, Technology and Writing. Any questions, send an email


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Blogger’s note: The 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show starts Tuesday. I’ll have stories in Sunday’s and Monday’s papers highlighting the companies, gadgets and trends to watch for at the four-day event. And I’ll update this blog from Las Vegas early and often throughout the week.
Here’s a look at one of the new elements organizers are adding to this year’s CES.
It’s called Eureka Park and will showcase about 100 startups from across the country, including Boulder-based Modular Robotics.
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Video: Hands-on with the LG Optimus G ProLG’s star attraction at this year’s MWC, the Optimus G Pro, has been launched in India for Rs 42,500
Jul 03, 2013
LG's latest phablet Optimus G Pro coming to India tomorrowLG will be launching its new flagship handset—the Optimus G Pro—in India tomorrow. The phablet has already made its way to other Asian countries
May 22, 2013
LG Optimus G Pro to make its way into Asia on May 30The local rival Samsung might have surpassed the Korean power house LG in terms of sales, but, LG won’t let the loss have a long lasting effect on it.
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LG announces update for Optimus G Pro; brings automatic video pausing and dual-camera featureThe Value Pack update brings this "Smart Video" feature along with a slew of updates to the camera, LED notifications and sundry fixes and enhancements...
Feb 13, 2013
LG unveils Optimus G Pro with 5.5-inch 1080p screenLG has officially announced its new phone—the LG Optimus G Pro. While we already know a lot about the phone already thanks to leaks, LG hasn't
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The Nova Scotia RCMP have arrested two men in connection to an unlicensed online cannabis store.
In a news release , RCMP state they have seized “a significant quantity” of cannabis products and an investigation into the illicit business is on-going.
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The RCMP executed the search warrant at a warehouse in Bible Hill, N.S., with assistance from Criminal Intelligence Service Nova Scotia and Colchester District Street Crime Enforcement Unit.
An unspecified amount of cash was also seized at the address.
The two men, aged 35 and 36, have been charged with distribution of cannabis, possession for the purpose of distributing cannabis, unlawfully selling cannabis and unauthorized possession of cannabis for the purpose of selling it.
They are due in Truro Provincial Court in April.
Under the Cannabis Act , selling illicit cannabis can lead to a 14-year prison term.
Edmonton police have increased their efforts to shut down illegal cannabis sites in recent months, seizing hundreds of domains, though some resurface within hours of being shut down.
Cannabis lawyer Jack Lloyd told The GrowthOp last year the domain-seizing strategy is a “bit like playing Whack-a-mole.”
“They’re taking steps that they feel are necessary in order to promote the licit market by arresting everyone in the illicit market, and obviously that’s not a tactic that was successful over the hundred years of prohibition that we had in this country,” Lloyd said.
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Tecno Phantom X2 5G launch in India confirmed; Pre-bookings will start on January 2
It is confirmed that Tecno Phantom X2 5G will soon be launched in India. Pre-booking of the MediaTek Dimensity 9000 SoC-powered smartphone will begin on January 2 through Amazon, while it is expected to go on sale from January 9. The Tecno Phantom X2 was unveiled in UAE a few days ago alongside Phantom X2 Pro. The Tecno Phantom X2 features a 120Hz refresh rate display and a triple rear camera setup led by a 64-megapixel main sensor. The Tecno Phantom X2 is backed by a 5,160mAh battery with 45W fast charging support.
The Chinese smartphone brand on Monday share a teaser about the upcoming India launch of the Tecno Phantom X2 5G on Twitter. Pre-booking of the smartphone will start on January 2 via Amazon and it will go on sale from January 9. However, the exact launch date and Indian price details of the Tecno Phantom X2 5G are yet to be revealed.
Separately, Amazon has created a dedicated landing page on its website to tease the arrival of the Tecno Phantom X2 in India. The 5G smartphone was launched in Saudi Arabia earlier this month with a price tag of SAR 2,699 (around Rs. 59,200) for the 8GB RAM + 256GB storage variant. It comes in Moonlight color options Silver and Stardust Grey.
Tecno Phantom X2 5G Specifications
The specifications of the Tecno Phantom X2 5G are already confirmed since the global launch. It runs on HiOS 12 based on Android 12 and features a 6.8-inch Full HD+ curved AMOLED display with 120Hz refresh rate. It is powered by MediaTek Dimensity 9000 SoC, coupled with 8GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage.
For optics, the Tecno Phantom X2 5G has a triple rear camera setup comprising a 64-megapixel primary camera with Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) support, a 13-megapixel secondary sensor and a 2 megapixel sensor. For selfies and video calls, there’s a 32-megapixel shooter. It is backed by a 5,160mAh battery with 45W fast charging support.
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CityBlue Hotels, Africa’s fastest-growing local hotel chain, has signed management agreements and commencement of operations from July 2023 of the CityBlue Panorama Hotel & Suites, Juba, South Sudan and Urban by CityBlue, Masaki, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
The CityBlue Panorama Hotel & Suites in Juba is a 72-key property upscale mid-market property located in the airport zone in Juba, South Sudan while Urban by CityBlue in Dar es Salaam is a boutique 65-key lifestyle property with a rooftop restaurant.
Andat Ghidey, director of the development company owning the CityBlue Panorama Hotel & Suites, said that CityBlue Hotels has developed a defined strategy of covering all East African markets, making it a natural partner to expand alongside.
“CityBlue has a clear and distinguished history in East Africa – with properties in every city. Juba is the only market it is yet to penetrate. We will support CityBlue in the South Sudanese market across rooms, food, beverage and conferencing”.
Khalil Hamadi, director of the property company behind Urban by CityBlue, Dar es Salaam, said that CityBlue had worked closely with its partners in Tanzania since 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, and he strongly believes that the business plan will now turn into reality.
“Every member of CityBlue understands their role and we are almost ready to turn this partnership into a new dawn for the hotel market on the peninsula of Dar es Salaam”.
Jameel Verjee, Founder & CEO of CityBlue Hotels, said “Our homework has been done and we have a fantastic team which understands African hospitality. We are focused on results – in terms of occupancy, rates, ESG targets, customer satisfaction, stakeholder support and human resource development. Juba and Dar es Salaam are two exciting markets and we proud to have such partners.”


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PortHarcourt Chamber Seeks Closure Of Discount Market
The Port Harcourt Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (PHACCIMA), has called for the closure of the Port Harcourt Discount Market during its yearly international trade fair.
President of PHACCIMA, Emeka Unachukwu, noted that the Discount Market was impacting negatively on promoters of the Port Harcourt International Trade Fair even as he urged the state Ministry of Commerce,, which is the host of the discount market to collaborate with the chamber to boost economic and development activities in the state.
Unachukwu, who made the call while briefing journalists on the chambers preparedness on this year’s trade fair billed to take off from December 7, in PortHarcourt, noted that the PortHarcourt trade fair has become a major catalyst in the development of domestic trade and remains pivotal in promoting international trade.
His words: “we call on the State government to shut down the discount market which takes off same time with the PortHarcourt international trade fair, we are partners in progress and not competing partners, whenever the market is allowed to run same time with the trade fair, it competes for exhibitors and customers and that is not good for our economy”
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The New Motorola P30 Is A Mix Between iPhone X & Huawei P20
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Apple must pay $502.6 million in VirnetX dispute
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It has been determined that 400 million Apple devices that infringe the troll's patents have been sold.
The October ruling related specifically to older Apple devices, while the latest $502.6 million sum covers Apple's newer devices.
Apple has been ordered to pay $502.6 million to VirnetX for infringing patents for VPN on Demand with its FaceTime application, bringing the total amount of damages in the case to almost $1 billion dollars.
The dispute has bounced between the district court, patent office and Federal Circuit since 2010.
Bloomberg notes, however, that this could be a short-lived victory for VirnetX.
The case is now being reviewed by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, which will determine whether or not VirnetX's patents are actually invalid.
Over two years ago, VirnetX announced that it was seeking $532 million in damages from Apple over patent infringements relating to iMessage, FaceTime, and VPN technologies.
In a statement to Bloomberg, VirnetX CEO Kendall Larsen called the damages amount "fair".
The battle between VirnetX and Apple has been ongoing for years. The case isn't dead yet though, the U.S. legal system has plenty of room for additional appeals and Apple is exploring those options already. A jury in that case awarded $302 million that a judge later increased to $439.7 million.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has ruled the patents invalid, which VirnetX is appealing.
Inflation gauge shows decline in March
The annual rate was well below the 2.9% level reported in February and forecasts for a smaller decrease to 2.6%. Core inflation, which excludes energy and unprocessed food products, climbed to 0.8 percent from 0.6 percent.
BoSox slam way to club-best 9-1 mark
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God of War Immersion Mode And HUD Customization Explained
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Google has announced a series of updates to its Chrome browser and its application store.
"The single biggest customer feedback is that Chrome is fast," he said.
"Speed has been our biggest focus since Day One - speed is not something that you can layer into the product later."
The browser's graphics have also been improved, by getting more performance from the GPU for some web applications, and Google is adding 3D APIs that take advantage of the extra processing power.
On the security side Google is going to extending the use of sandboxing for Adobe applications. PDF sandboxing is already installed but the company has similar technology for Flash as well, as well as other third party plug-ins.
In addition the Chrome web store has gone live today, which is designed to improve the link between buyers and developers. To date 500 applications have been added to the store and Google is hoping that more HTML5 applications will be added shortly.
"Users and developers are not connecting," according to Pichai.
"People want to get paid for applications but users don't trust small sites and so end up going for big names they know."
Google showed off new applications that are being developed for the store, including an offline New York Times reader that allows people to customise the design of the news page and a new application from Amazon to allow web users to buy Kindle content for viewing online.
Over 120 million people now use Chrome as their primary browser, up from 70 million six months ago, Pichai said. The browser is gaining particularly strongly in emerging markets, with market share nearing 25 per cent in India and Albania.
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It's official: Equinox gym has bought spin studio SoulCycle.
Terms of the purchase were not released, but the upscale national gym can now boast a booming spinning clientele as part of its business.
The New York Post reports Equinox plans to add nine spinning studios to the existing six SoulCycle locations, currently in Manhattan, Miami and the Hamptions. A seventh was set to open Memorial Day in East Hampton.
A new, 2,000 square-foot studio is being planned for the Harrison, a luxury building on the Upper West Side, to replace the current smaller location.
The new locations will be in Manhattan and its wealthy suburbs, and in Los Angeles, Equinox CEO Harvey Spevak told the Post.
SoulCycle's co-founders Elizabeth Cutler and Julie Rice will stay on board, Spevak said.
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WWDC, Apple’s annual developer convention, is a digital-ideal occasion this 300 and sixty five days. Right here is both precise and unfriendly. Unbiased correct, because now it’s free to attend in preference to the identical previous $1,600 asking price. Base, since the alternate is because of the deadly pandemic that retains of us from gathering in colossal groups. You know, that thing.
While Apple’s in overall bombastic and sweeping presentation vogue may maybe well presumably in actuality feel somewhat strange with out a dwell viewers, the keynote occasion is nonetheless anticipated to own recent instrument and hardware news that can lay out the company’s vision for the relaxation of the 300 and sixty five days.
How one can Gaze
The keynote occasion starts at 10 am PT this Monday, June 22. That you simply can slither it on Apple’s homepage, the Apple Events app on Apple TV, or on the Cupertino company’s developer web place and app. We may maybe well presumably maybe embed a video of it right here, nevertheless Apple isn’t allowing that this 300 and sixty five days. (For grand more Apple actions, examine out the plump WWDC schedule.)
Thanks to the identical previous spate of rumors and leaks, we enact comprise some thought of what may maybe well presumably maybe be announced on Apple’s particular occasion. As forever, there’s hundreds of room for surprises, nevertheless in the length in-between, right here’s what to inquire of of:
There’s sure to be some twists in the principle points, nevertheless broadly talking this one is exquisite grand a given. New iOS variations are a staple announcement of WWDC. None of the recent functions of iOS 14 were confirmed, nevertheless rumors show enhanced multi-tasking functions, recent layouts on the home visual show unit, and revamped inform and augmented reality apps, among varied adjustments.
Every other notable pattern is that Apple is rumored to be altering the title of iOS to iPhone OS, per speculation fueled by a single tweet from Apple leaks extraordinaire Jon Prosser. So, you respect, though-provoking occasions for all you nomenclature-heads in the market.
At final 300 and sixty five days’s WWDC, Apple announced a recent direction for the iPad with iPadOS 13. For the first time, iPad would be running on an OS intended for the tablet, slightly than the identical instrument previous on the iPhone. The pass emphasised Apple’s desire to dispute the iPad as more than a heart runt one, squished between the iPhone and MacBook.
While particular functions of iPadOS 14 comprise yet to be formally published, it’s anticipated that they’ll arrangement to extra solidify the iPad’s newfound independence.
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A recent iMac
Rumors suggest that Apple plans to open a newly designed iMac pc sometime this 300 and sixty five days, though it’s now not a on condition that this may maybe occasionally likely maybe presumably maybe happen at WWDC. No matter when it emerges, the recent iMac is anticipated to reach in 21.5-proceed and 23-proceed ideas, with slim bezels and varied assemble functions borrowed from the iPad Pro.
A processor switcheroo
After years of rumors, Apple is anticipated to replace to constructing its own ARM-based processors for Mac computers. Fixed with Bloomberg, the recent chips will most definitely be per the as-of-yet unreleased A14 processor that the company plans to expend in its upcoming line of iPhones. The pass away from Intel processors would be a huge shift for in Apple’s pattern strategy. It may maybe well presumably give the company tighter retain watch over over its hardware pattern and a likely boost to the vitality and spin of its pc and desktop lines.
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Over-the-ear Airpods! A recent AppleTV! Apple … Tags? There is a assortment of hardware rumors floating in the market, most of which almost absolutely may maybe well presumably now not appear at WWDC. Clean, they’re price taking a discover about out for.
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MALAYSIA: Hualon receivers put company up for sale
The receivers and managers at Malaysian textile firm Hualon are inviting interested parties to submit offers to buy the company by 3 August 2007.
The receivers, reported to be Ernst & Young, were appointed to Hualon on 30 November 2006, taking charge of its textile manufacturing plant in Malaysia.
Hualon, which has an annual turnover of US800m, exports to Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Korea, Syria, Turkey, and Vietnam.
It said in a statement that receivers have continued to run the operations of the company with the support of the employees, local utility providers, local and worldwide customers and suppliers.
The company has a combined capacity to produce over 500,000MT of polyester and blended yarns, 30,000MT of nylon, 150,000MT of PET bottle grade chips and between 400-500m yards of fabrics annually.
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The quake hit at a depth of 16.4 km, said USGS, which calculated it struck around 1,140 km east of the capital Port Louis.
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PwC has been working on a number of projects in India, including the Mumbai Smart & Safe City initiative as the most significant one.
India's monthly car sales increased 15% in June from a year ago, accelerating from 10 months of stunted growth, on improved consumer sentiment.
The growth will be driven by China, which overtook the United States as the top spender on capital and infrastructure in 2009, Pricewaterhouse said.
Crisis-hit Financial Technologies India Limited was unable to finalise bidders for sale of its 24 per cent stake in commodity exchange MCX and said its board will meet again on May 10.
'If the govt doesn't bring out a notification before June 30, then the duty structure valid before interim Budget will prevail,' said an analyst at PwC
83 % of worldwide CEOs believe that their retail supply chains are currently not optimal for today's changing retail environment.
Survey said CEOs top priorities are centered on more traditional areas of growth - by entering into new regions and markets, by opening more stores.
Business at MCX would be "seriously hurt" if no new contracts are launched beyond August, said Ramesh Abhishek, Chairman of the FMC.