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Autumn is traditionally the time of year when people start snapping up Apple products. It’s also when investors, in anticipation of another blockbuster holiday season from the company, do the same with Apple shares.
But this year, even though Apple’s iPhones and iPads don’t seem to have lost any of their allure for holiday shoppers, its stock seems headed straight for the discount rack.
On Wednesday, Apple’s shares slid 3.8 percent. They outpaced a broader decline in the stock market set off by investors’ uncertainty about how the outcome of the presidential election will affect taxes and consumer demand for the types of products Apple sells.
During the campaign, President Obama proposed increasing capital gains tax rates for people earning over $250,000 to 20 percent from the existing rate of 15 percent, and his re-election Tuesday night may have prompted some investors to unload shares in anticipation of a broader sell-off in stocks ahead of a tax increase, analysts said.
Owners of Apple shares would have good reason to fear higher taxes on capital gains. Apple shares have appreciated mightily since 2005 when they were about $35 apiece; they began this year at $411 and peaked at more than $700 in late September. The drop on Wednesday only added to what has been a grim few weeks for Apple shares, which have fallen over 20 percent from that peak, to $558 on Wednesday.Continue reading the main story
The decline has followed a sequence of seemingly unrelated events, including a broader-than-normal overhaul of its product line that is expected to hurt profit margins in the near term and a rare shake-up in Apple’s senior ranks.
“It has just been wave after wave of bad news,” said Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray.
The events also do little to diminish the questions reflecting longer-term concerns with which investors pepper analysts like Mr. Munster. How much bigger can Apple — with a $525 billion market value, the biggest of any corporation — get? Won’t Apple soon run out of people to sell iPhones, iPads and Macs to?
Those concerns have been one of the biggest reasons Apple’s stock has long traded at a discount, strange as that may sound, to its peers in the tech business. Apple’s forward price-to-earnings ratio — the value of the company’s stock divided by its expected earnings per share for the coming year — is just under 10.
That figure is 14 for Google, 32 for Facebook and 131 for Amazon. Steve Dowling, a spokesman for Apple, said the company generally did not comment on its share price.
Apple executives have said they still see huge opportunities for the company and it is still growing at a remarkable clip for a company its size. During its last fiscal year, which ended Sept. 29, Apple’s revenue jumped 45 percent to $156.51 billion and its profits rose 61 percent to $41.73 billion.
While Apple’s most recent financial report was mostly in line with Wall Street forecasts, the company warned that its profit margin would most likely decline in the holiday quarter because of a sweeping refresh of the company’s iPad, iMac and MacBook laptop lines.
Apple products often cost more to make during their first months on the market, but those costs come down as the process becomes more efficient and volumes increase. The company said its new iPad Mini would be among those products with low profit margins, raising concerns that Apple will make less money as it competes in lower-priced segments of the mobile market.
Apple’s worrisome financial report came just days before Apple announced the departure of Scott Forstall, the head of its mobile software development, in a move that it said was aimed at increasing collaboration between departments at the company. Apple split the responsibilities of Mr. Forstall, who was a divisive figure at the company, among an array of other Apple executives.
The surprise firing of Mr. Forstall was unusual for Apple, where turnover in its senior ranks is rare compared to other big technology companies.
Then late last week, the research firm IDC reported that 75 percent of smartphones shipped in the third quarter were Android phones, the main rival to Apple in mobile software. A year earlier, Google, the maker of Android software, had market share of 57.5 percent. The iPhone’s share rose at a much slower pace, jumping to 14.9 percent of shipments from 13.8 percent, IDC estimated.
But Apple is still making huge profits from the mobile market, far more than Google is. Even with the recent decline in its shares, Apple’s stock is still up 38 percent for the year.
David Rolfe, chief investment officer at Wedgewood Partners, which counts Apple as its biggest stock holding, said he remained confident that Apple was one of the best investments around.
“The bears think Apple is in the eighth inning,” Mr. Rolfe said. “We think they’re still in the fourth or fifth inning.”
An earlier version of this article misstated Apple’s increase in profit in its last fiscal year. The company’s profit rose 61 percent, not 70 percent.


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The company and its subsidiaries own and manage real estate and hotels and provide engineered products to industrial and automotive markets worldwide.
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Several events will take place around the county as residents gear up for the holiday season. They include parades, shop local campaigns, pageants and a fireworks display.
The Pushmataha County Chamber of Commerce is once again doing the Shop Local Campaign to help promote local businesses and getting residents to shop locally during the holiday season. The campaign started on November 13th and will continue to run until December 6th. For every $10 customers spend at participating businesses they will receive a ticket that will be entered for the $1000 giveaway, which will take place on Saturday,


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BRUSSELS — British mobile giant Vodafone has been cleared to buy the Italian and Spanish broadband Internet businesses of telecoms group Tele2 for 775 million euros ($1.2 billion).
The European Commission, the EU’s antitrust regulator, gave the green light to the deal on Tuesday after deciding that the only overlap between their activities lay in the retail market for fixed broadband Internet access in Italy and in Spain. However, their share in these markets is currently limited to below 10%, the commission said, so there was no danger of market dominance.
Tele2 Italy had more than 2.6 million customers as of June 30, including over 400,000 broadband subscribers. Tele2 Spain had 550,000 customers at the same date, including more than 240,000 with broadband.
The takeover means that Vodafone, the world’s top mobile operator, will have broadband assets in Europe’s five largest markets: Italy, Spain, Britain, Germany and France.
Last July, Vodafone and Vivendi’s French mobile arm, SFR, was cleared to buy the French broadband unit of Tele2 for 355 million euros ($450 million), but only after it agreed to offer equal access to all companies in the pay TV sector.
Tele2, with headquarters in Sweden, is one of Europe’s biggest alternative telecom operators and cable TV providers, with more than 30 million customers in 22 countries.
Vodafone, with 241 million global customers, said earlier this month that net income in the six months through Sept. 30 stood at 3.29 billion euros ($6.82 billion) on sales of 17 billion euros ($35 billion), compared with a year-earlier loss of 5.1 billion euros ($10.5 billion).
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Despite subdued output predictions from the BPIF’s Printing Outlook survey, printers have so far reported solid sales in the run-up to Christmas.
In the survey released earlier this month, the BPIF reported on a solid Q3 positive output balance of +15 (the difference between those who increased output levels compared to those who decreased), but the +14 forecast for Q4, if realised, will be the weakest for five years.
BPIF research manager Kyle Jardine told PrintWeek: “We don’t know what the actual results will be for Q4 but I guess the expectations for the quarter weren’t as you would expect they would be. This seemed to be because the trade in the previous quarter had been so up and down it was hard for people to have too much confidence about what was going to happen in the next quarter.”
Jardine, however, downplayed the prediction and said there could well still be a strong seasonal sales boost, which became apparent from a number of companies that PrintWeek contacted, and PrintWeek also reported last week on this year’s seasonal trend, personalised and luxury Advent calendars, which are seeing a spike in sales.
Gloucester-based Alpha Colour Printers last month doubled its digital capacity with the installation of a new Heidelberg Versafire CV digital press and is also anticipating the installation of new letterpress kit in the coming weeks.
Repro manager Luke Ostle said greetings card orders in particularly had been “crazy” and that runs are growing enough to migrate over to litho.
“It’s been really busy for us, I’ve been here for 20 years and it’s one of the busiest run-ins to Christmas I’ve seen in a long time,” said Ostle.
“We’re seeing smaller greetings card companies growing into larger ones. You’ve got to start somewhere, start with short runs, see how they sell and once they get their orders in they move forward and get some larger quantities done.”
Leicester-based Taylor Bloxham Group, which has just invested in a new Koenig & Bauer Rapida 106 litho press, due for delivery next Easter, also reported full Christmas capacity.
“I know that’s not potentially reflective of the market and is reflective of a couple of significant client jobs we’ve got in but we are very busy at the moment, which is good,” said chief executive Robert Lockwood.
Colchester-based Rose Calendars also highlighted a strong order book, for both traditional calendars - as “customers come back to calendars”, according to marketing manager Elizabeth Rose - as well as for its new VR 360 landscape calendar range.
“This year is a very busy time of year for us, we’re producing calendars all year and have a process here that works, in a well-oiled way, and have been doing that since 1908,” said Rose.
“We are established in these patterns and are not last-minute merchants.”
On the smaller scale, Hertfordshire-based The Print Factory’s Christmas card sideline for schools has seen orders from local schools increase 20% and it is on track to produce 2 million cards between late October and early December.
Managing director Chris Lunnon said: “We have more orders this year than last year and are noticing a rise in orders from the schools. We went down two years ago and then last year and this year it’s spiked back up. There’s a bit more confidence in the market, a little bit more money about.”


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Posted by: Valerie Jennings, CEO of JSMM
The game has changed again for online videos and this time, it’s in the favor of video marketers. YouTube, the most popular video website, has seen a 25 percent increase in streaming video in just eight months.
What has changed? The huge increase is a result of Google (the owner of YouTube) pushing to roll out mobile versions of the site and versions that play directly on televisions. Consumers now have even more access to the video website and therefore can watch more hours of video everyday. The increase in tablet users and smartphone owners this past holiday season has also helped to boost these numbers even higher.
If you haven’t already planned to up your video marketing efforts this year, it’s time to reconsider. This article from Reuters explains just how much the video site has grown and the changes its implemented recently.
(Reuters) – YouTube, Google Inc’s video website, is streaming 4 billion online videos every day, a 25 percent increase in the past eight months, according to the company.
The jump in video views comes as Google pushes YouTube beyond the personal computer, with versions of the site that work on smartphones and televisions, and as the company steps up efforts to offer more professional-grade content on the site.
According to the company, roughly 60 hours of video is now uploaded to YouTube every minute, compared with the 48 hours of video uploaded per minute in May.
YouTube, which Google acquired for $1.65 billion in 2006, represents one of Google’s key opportunities to generate new sources of revenue outside its traditional Internet search advertising business.
Last week, Google said that its business running graphical “display” ads – many of which are integrated alongside YouTube videos – was generating $5 billion in revenue on an annualized run rate basis.
Still, most of the 4 billion videos that YouTube now streams worldwide every day do not make money. Three billion YouTube videos a week are monetized, according to the company.
YouTube recently redesigned its website to more prominently showcase specialized “channels” organized around different types of content. In October, YouTube announced that it had struck 100 original video programming deals with media partners including Madonna and Jay-Z. Thomson Reuters and YouTube recently announced a partnership to create a Reuters TV channel for the website.
January 25, 2012 | Categories: YouTube | Tags: Google, online video, video marketing, video uploads, video views, videos, YouTube, YouTube news, youtube social media, youtube videos | Leave A Comment »
Posted by: Micah Pratt, director of social networking R&D
Jennings Social Media Marketing (JSMM) has incorporated QR codes and text messaging into its services. The company’s official announcement was included in a new Web video, featuring Frank Ancona Honda, KickaNotch Mobile and CEO of JSMM Valerie Jennings.
Jennings said that with the increase of smartphone users and the recent estimate on engagement with those who are using social media and scanning QR codes, the company found it imperative to add mobile to its services. “With the success of leveraging monetization with QR codes and text messaging through offers and the promotions through our channels we are hoping for some amazing results and we are looking forward to seeing this new technology as it improves and the usage goes up,” said Jennings.
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Kansas City’s Data Center & Internet Hub Increases Website Traffic With Social Media and Cuts 75% of Google Adwords Budget
Posted By: Jamie Sutera, VP of R&D
1102 GRAND, Kansas City’s data center and Internet hub, saw a 200-300 percent increase in its website and blog traffic, and cut 75 percent of its Google Adwords budget. The marketing ROI is part of an ongoing social media campaign with Jennings Social Media Marketing (www.jenningssocialmedia.com).
Darren Bonawitz, principal of 1102 GRAND, said that Jennings Social Media Marketing helped 1102 GRAND have a better perspective of online marketing strategies. “We were in need of marketing experts and that is exactly what we found in Jennings Social Media Marketing. We have worked with Jennings Social Media Marketing for approximately two years. In that time 1102 GRAND has had an increase in website traffic, saved 75 percent of the budget on the Google Adwords campaign, been requested for more interviews than we can handle and been able to realize significant quantifiable results through additional revenue,” said Bonawitz.
Bonawitz added that the focus on social media is extremely beneficial. “Jennings Social Media Marketing implemented many facets of social media marketing including Facebook, Twitter, e-newsletters, blog, case studies, organic search engine optimized press releases and Web videos. Social media is such a vital tool because it is constantly working. We have had so many great results, and it is hard to argue with results,” said Bonawitz.
1102 GRAND is a Midwestern carrier hotel and network neutral collocation facility specifically enhanced with the infrastructure to host and provide services to an array of global network operators including carriers, service providers and enterprise customers who demand highly secure and connected, customized solutions for their core networking equipment. 1102 GRAND offers a wide array of collocation options including cabinets, cage space, suites and space for private data centers, all of which are connected to a carrier neutral Meet Me Room, housing nearly 30 carriers and service providers including AT&T, Level 3, TeliaSonera, tw telecom, Zayo Enterprise Networks, and Hurricane Electric (http://1102grand.com/).
January 11, 2011 | Categories: Blogged, Blogging, Google, SEO, Social Media Marketing, Twitter | Tags: 1102 grand, 2011, 2011 business, 2011 social media marketing predictions, Amazon, analytics, and Hurricane Electric, at&t, blogs, business, business trends, campaigns, colocation facility, Darren Bonawitz, data center, e-mail, Facebook, foursquare, google adwords, green, green social media, internet marketing tools, Level 3, marketing tool, marketing tools, mashable.com, new year, New Years 2011, search engine optimization, search engine optimization company, search engine optimization marketing, search engine placement, search engine ranking, search marketing, SEO, seo marketing, seo optimization, seo search engine optimization, seo service, seo services, shoppers, shopping, social good, social marketing, social marketing hub, Social Media, social media and marketing, Social Media Marketing, social media marketing company, social media marketing firm, social media marketing predictions, social media marketing services, social media shopping, social media trends, social media use, Social networking, social networking site, TeliaSonera, Tim Ferriss, tw telecom, WordPress, yahoo, year 2011, YouTube, youtube social media, Zayo Enterprise Networks | Leave A Comment »
Posted By: Jared Cook
2010, often referred to as “the year of social media,” has come and gone. As we move forward into 2011, we will continue to see social media evolve and grow.
Below is an article from Mashable.com, written by Tim Ferriss, providing his insight into-
Ah, social media marketing. Fewer things are so lavishly spent on, yet so poorly measured. Here are a few predictions for 2011 related to where the smart money and dumb money will go. Special thanks to a number of high-volume retail experts for their insights, including Ryan Holiday, director of marketing at American Apparel. Read on for our predictions and let us know in the comments what you think social media marketing will look like in the year to come.
1. YouTube Beats Yahoo — Video Will Convert
YouTube is the second largest search engine in the English-speaking world. That’s right: YouTube is bigger than Yahoo. Zappos, as one example, added simple videos of people holding shoes and moving them around to its sales pages and increased conversion rate from 6% to 30%. When I look at the traffic sources for my book trailer on YouTube, the biggest referrer isn’t my own blog. It’s The Huffington Post. I customized the video and text content to a niche (but sizeable) outlet that didn’t exist two years ago: Huffington Post Books. With proper targeting and syndication, this 50 second video almost immediately propelled my book from an Amazon rank of approximately number 150 to 30, now stabilizing at number four in all books. We usedRankForest to track this sudden change.
2. The Full Resurrection of E-mail
Groupon has an e-mail list of at least 15 million strong in the U.S. (the company says it’s 30+ million if you include international), which goes to show that a true permission asset can be worth nearly $6 billion on the bidding table. E-mail addresses are a safer long-term investment than social media features. Think about all the money companies spent advertising their MySpace pages in 2007. Even on Facebook, your direct messages to fans are relegated to a second tier inbox no one reads. This is something you don’t have to worry about happening in e-mail marketing. Among 20- to 35-year olds, at least, their physical addresses change more frequently than their e-mail addresses. The smarter marketers will budget “social media” acquisitions based on lifetime value (or a set duration, like 6 months’ retail purchases) of e-mail addresses. One major retailer did the math and learned that an e-mail subscriber is worth roughly $20 a year in annual online revenue. Knowing this number allowed the retailer to:
- Calculate the value of the real estate it gives the e-mail signup box at the register in stores. It turns out to be one of the most lucrative converters in an already competitive area.
- Easily say “Yes” or “No” to requests to participate in contests/sweepstakes by judging return on new e-mails acquired.
- Calculate what the company can spend to build its list.
There are companies like Opt-Intelligence that can be paid a CPA (cost per action) for what are called “co-regs.” Co-reg example: If you’re signing up for an account at NYTimes.com, and it says “Get 4 issues of Golf Magazine FREE!” someone paid for that because they knew it will make money based on lifetime value. After the above-mentioned retailer quantified what an e-mail subscriber was worth, the company was able to double its subscriber base in less than eight months. The majority of that growth came not through spending money upfront, but from the redirection of already existing resources in ways that weren’t possible before calculating that number. Let’s say that added 500,000 e-mail addresses, each worth $20 in 2011; that means an additional $10 million in revenue with no significant capital outlay. Aaron Ray uses the same tactics for the “free agent bands” (major acts who’ve left a label) at The Collective. He figures out how many tickets you sell through your fan club, how many downloads come from your e-mail list, and how much traffic you can drive through Facebook and Twitter. It’s critical for two reasons: 1) For accurate revenue/sales/attendance predictions, and 2) As ROI metrics to justify investments for growth. This also allows loss-leader campaigns. Even if the math on a Groupon deal is razor thin, a smart retailer (online or offline) can acquire e-mails through a special form they set up and add an extra $20+ per transaction, per our hypothetical example. Many companies can afford to give product away for “free” if they have the right metrics. Most companies don’t, which leads us to number three.
January 3, 2011 | Categories: Blogged, Facebook, Google, SEO, Social Media Marketing, Twitter | Tags: 2011, 2011 business, 2011 New year, 2011 social media marketing predictions, Amazon, analytics, blogs, business, business trends, campaigns, e-mail, Facebook, foursquare, green, green social media, internet marketing tools, marketing tool, marketing tools, mashable.com, MySpcae, new year, New Years 2011, search engine optimization, search engine optimization company, search engine optimization marketing, search engine placement, search engine ranking, search marketing, SEO, seo marketing, seo optimization, seo search engine optimization, seo service, seo services, shoppers, shopping, social good, social marketing, social marketing hub, Social Media, social media and marketing, Social Media Marketing, social media marketing company, social media marketing firm, social media marketing predictions, social media marketing services, social media shopping, social media trends, social media use, Social networking, social networking site, Tim Ferriss, WordPress, yahoo, year 2011, YouTube, youtube social media | Leave A Comment »
Posted By: Valerie Jennings
We’ve seen professional athletes, high-profile celebrities, and the average Joe all open up to the world of Twitter and social media. According to the following blog from Mashable, the CEO of Google has joined the Twitter fold as well.
Google’s CEO Joins Twitter and Follows … Heidi Montag?
At this point, not many new high- profile sign-ups to Twitter are worth reporting, sans perhaps the guy that invented the Internet and Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Twitter nemesis Facebook. But according to reports, another Twitter rival’s CEO — Eric Schmidt of Google — has joined the service. (Read More)
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CardioTabs Highlights Effectiveness of Social Media via foreveryoungdiet.com.
November 30, 2009 | Categories: Blogged, Blogging, SEO, Social Media Marketing | Tags: CardioTabs, case study video, clinician, foreveryoungdiet.com, Google, health care, health care case study video, internet marketing tools, jennings, Jennings Social Media Marketing, Kansas City, KC, LA, Los Angeles, marketing tools, Michelle Kruse, New York, nutraceutical company, NY, search engine marketing, social, social and, social marketing, Social Media, social media and healthcare, social media blog, social media company, social media consultant, social media marketing services, social media services, social media twitter, social network, Social networking, social web, Twitter, youtube social media | Leave A Comment »
By: Valerie Jennings
I would like to share the words of JR Johnson with you all from his blog post on Mashable. I’m compassionate about the views he’s expressed, and I hope you find them beneficial as well.
November 15th, 2009 | by JR Johnson
J.R. Johnson is founder and CEO of Lunch.com, a user generated content platform focused on finding common ground, and host of the Lunch for Good event series.
There’s been a rising interest in the concept of “social media for social good.” In large part, that discussion has been focused on cause-related social good. I have a different take, related more to the greater good of humanity as a whole. To my view, the Internet, specifically social media, has the potential – and responsibility – to make the world more thoughtful and tolerant by showing people their shared common ground.
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Waco Police now say there were two separate incidents involving thefts from the West Waco Drive Dollar General store Tuesday afternoon, both involving violence directed toward store personnel.
The incidents occurred close to each other in time, beginning shortly before 5:00 p.m.
In the first, police say a woman they think they have identified is accused of taking various clothing items and a drink out of the store without paying for them.
The woman got into an argument with an employee when asked to bring the items back into the store to pay for tem, with the woman pushing and assaulting the store employee before running away.
Police say they had an arrest warrant pending for that woman Wednesday morning.
In the second incident, a man went to the back of the store and began placing various items in his shorts.
As he left the store, he was confronted by an employee and ran outside with the employee chasing him.
Police say as they ran, the employee saw the man reach into the waist band and try to pull out what the employee said was a gun.
The man then got on a BMX style bike and fled east on Waco Drive.
Police said there was no information available on just what was taken and that this man has not been identified.
No one was hurt in the second incident.


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DebtX, a marketplace for loans, plans to sell $1.1 billion in commercial real estate and residential loans in 10 separate transactions through early December, according to the company.
The sales include $784 million in commercial real estate loans and $363 million in residential loans, with collateral located across the United States. DebtX is executing the transactions on behalf of commercial banks, insurance companies and mortgage servicers.
“The volume of loan sales at DebtX reflects the heightened importance among financial institutions of entering 2011 with a stronger balance sheet,” said DebtX CEO Kingsley
Greenland. “Financial institutions are selling to take advantage of rising loan prices and growing demand from investors around the world.”
DebtX expects active bidding for both performing and non-performing loans, said Greenland.
DebtX is a loan sale advisor for commercial, consumer and specialty finance debt. The company operates an online marketplace for loans, with more than 6,000 registered investors and more than 300 selling institutions. They include commercial banks, insurance companies, investment banks and government-sponsored enterprises.
Investors can review due diligence materials and submit bids at www.debtx.com.


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Star Trek Online Now Available on Mac Platform
Perfect World Entertainment Inc., Cryptic Studios, and TransGaming Inc have announce dthat Star Trek Online, the award-winning free-to-play MMORPG, is now live on Mac. Players can choose their destiny and play as Federation, Klingon, or Romulan factions. Explore the galaxy, captain a starship, and engage in epic space and ground battles.
“Star Trek fans have been asking for Star Trek Online on Mac since we launched in 2010. Thanks to the tremendous success we’ve had with the game, we’re excited to be expanding the galaxy again.” said Cryptic Studios CTO & Executive Producer, Stephen D’Angelo. “We know there’s a large gaming community that thrives on Mac and we’re thrilled to finally be able to let them experience Star Trek Online. It simply looks amazing on Mac widescreens.”
“Perfect World has created Star Trek Online to be the ultimate sci-fi MMORPG, providing players with a rich and vibrant world true to the Star Trek franchise and we are thrilled to have it join the catalog of AAA games our technology has brought to Mac gamers globally,” said Vikas Gupta, CEO & President of TransGaming. “The richness and depth of the game are a direct result of the sophistication of the underlying code base and engine by Cryptic Studios, as well as the incredible amount of time that was invested in development. By utilizing TransGaming’s Cider technology to enable Star Trek Online, Perfect World has very effectively leveraged their investment to transcend platform boundaries and monetize the game on Mac without the need for any redevelopment.”
For more information about the Mac client, please visit the official website at: www.startrekonline.com
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Facebook has just revealed its new-look news feed, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg described as “the best personalised newspaper that we can create.” The new news feed will be identical across desktops, tablets and notebooks, and will allow users to drill into the content they are looking for, including real-time photos, music and news.
“We believe the best personalised newspaper should have a broad diversity of content, with world-renowned sources alongside socially and locally relevant content,” Zuckerberg explained. “You can drill down into any topic you want and get visually rich and engaging content.”
The new news feed will present photos much larger than currently presented in the news feed that users are currently using, in what is clearly a swipe at Google+.
Facebook’s vice-president of product Chris Cox said the new-look news feed will roll out on a limited basis today on the web and users will start seeing it appear in phone and tablet form over the next few weeks.
“We want to be careful and slow about how we roll it out. A small amount of people first, we’ll take their feedback and as soon as it is super-polished we will be rolling it out more broadly.”
Zuckerberg said almost 50pc of content in the average news feed consists of photos and videos.
“How we are all sharing is changing and the design of news feed needs to reflect this in terms of updates from publications and artists and world leaders.”
Photos will be front and centre on the new-look news feed
Facebook’s director of design Julie Zhuo said the new design takes photos and puts them front and centre. “It means a more visual and immersive sense of experience of friends in daily lives. But it is not only photos, we are giving photo albums a major facelift, too.”
Zhuo said that place check-ins will also be revamped to provide more information about places where friends have visited.
The new news feed will also give more prominence to content shared from third-party apps like Pinterest, playing to the visual strength of the photography shared on that site.
The new design will also feature some new tweaks, including pictures of friends who have shared the content and captures the conversations that are springing up around a photo or video that was shared.
Diving into content
Chris Struhar, the tech lead in charge of news feed, said a switcher panel will exist on the top right of the page allowing users to jump directly into the kind of content they are looking for, be it music, sports or movies.
“For example, in music you will be able to see what the bands you like are saying, what your friends are listening to and what concerts are going on around you.
“In the photos feed, you will be able to see what people are posting.
“You will be able to see the world around you as your friends have seen it and as they are seeing it right now.”
Cox said Facebook borrowed heavily from the social network’s smartphone and tablet apps and brought this back into the desktop world.
For example, the grey panel from the smartphone and tablet apps that lists news feed, Messages and other groups and settings, as well as the search bar, will become universal and will make its appearance on the desktop PC version of Facebook’s news feed.
In addition, a new News Stories bubble will appear to capture the sense of momentum on the news feed.
“One of the tools we had was taking our mobile designs and porting them over. A lot of what you are seeing is a mobile-inspired web design. We grabbed the same visual model for getting around Facebook,” he said.


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Technology.am (Dec.01, 2009) — Millions of Indian mobile phones with no suitable exclusive identification code have been blocked for security reasons. The International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number is a 15-digit code which appears on the operator’s network every time a call is made.
The absence of this number makes it impracticable to mark out either the caller or the phone or to access call particulars. Indian intelligence agencies declared phones without the code have been used in attacks by militant groups. Mobile phones with no code were blocked at midnight – operators were asked to block calls to them “in the wake of amplified threat insight from militants”.
It is anticipated that India has over 25 million phones with no codes. Phones with no codes or void numbers are generally cheap, unbranded phones. Millions are manufactured in India or imported, by and large from China. Correspondents say these phones are well-liked because they are generally much cheaper than the branded ones.
Several phone subscribers said they were being incorrectly penalized because they were not conscious that every handset had to have a code. The Cellular Operators’ Association of India has asked the government to extend the time limit for blocking the numbers so that it can install identity numbers on unbranded devices. According to estimates by the Indian Cellular Association, unbranded phones account for virtually 30% of the entire sales in India.
India has the best ever growing mobile phone market in the world, with over 488 million subscribers. Every month millions of new subscribers are added to the list.
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Strong performance in the main markets of Europe, and North and South America, were behind the 13.6% increase in AGCO net sales last year to a record US12.7 billion (US$11.1b in 2021).
This figure was boosted by a strong last three months of the year (net sales +23.6% to US$3.9 billion) compared to the fourth quarter of 2021. Net sales in the important Europe/Middle East region increased 18.5% in 2022 to US$6.45b (US$6.2b in 2021). All the major European markets contributed to the growth with increased sales of mid-range and high horsepower tractors as well as replacement parts.
The concern saw its net sales rise by a fifth in North America last year to US$3.17b. Increased sales of precision ag products and services as well as high horsepower tractors and combines represented the largest increases. Sales increased significantly across all the South American markets (net sales +56.6% to US$2.12b) with strong growth achieved in high-horsepower tractors, combines and planting equipment.
Looking ahead to the rest of 2023, the industry remains strong comments AGCO boss Eric Hansotia who expects net sales to increase to around US$14.0 billion.
“We assume global market conditions will remain healthy, as favourable farm economics allow farmers to continue to invest in new more productive equipment and technology upgrades,” he comments.
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[PRO] Re: Central Market
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Looks extremely promising.
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The promenade can’t possibly be 25m wide. That would make it as wide as Rundle Mall.
ml69 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2019 12:42 amThe promenade can’t possibly be 25m wide. That would make it as wide as Rundle Mall.
I think you are being fooled by the perspective view. It’s probably between 12-15m wide.
From: https://indaily.com.au/news/local/2019/ ... de-revamp/$51 million slated for Central Market Arcade revamp
Adelaide City Council has estimated it will cost more than $51 million to redevelop and expand the ageing Central Market Arcade.
Draft budget papers obtained by InDaily show the council expects to spend $24,031,201 in 2020-21 and 2021-22 to cover the cost of the arcade redevelopment.
The council estimates a developer would contribute a further $27 million to build above the ground-floor retail space.
However, the multi-million dollar investment is expected to boost the council’s coffers significantly, with the end market value of the ground-floor development anticipated to come in at $72 million.
Rent from the ground floor retail space is expected to generate $4.45 to $5.45 million each year, with rates set to fetch between $1.5 and $1.8 million annually.
The council has stressed the figures are a work in progress and may be subject to change once a developer and design is finalised.
Adelaide City Council took control of the arcade – which hasn’t been redeveloped since the 1960s – in September last year when the building’s ground lease expired.
An expression of interest process was launched in 2017 to find a developer for the site, with the chosen firm set to be announced by the middle of this year.
Construction is anticipated to begin after September next year, when the current tenant leases are due to expire.
All up, the council would own and manage 6000 square-metres of retail space and 260 public car parks and loading areas on the ground-floor, with a developer to manage all above ground-level space.
Council’s associate property director Tom McCready said “multiple” developer proposals were submitted through the expression of interest process.
He said the redevelopment would turn the arcade and Central Market precinct into a “food and wine destination of international repute”.
“We were delighted with the interest received and high level of thought shown through the initial stage 1 proposals, and have now shortlisted developers/consortia,” he said.
“From the level of interest shown, it’s clear developers have identified this city-shaping project as a once-in-a-generation opportunity.”
According to the draft papers, the arcade redevelopment has the potential to support both “day and night-time activities” and improve the north-south and east-west connections in the city.
The papers also state a redevelopment could “secure the future of the Adelaide Central Market for at least the next 50 years”.
The council has remained tight-lipped on its shortlisted developers from the expression of interest process, citing commercial and legal reasons.
On Saturday, The Advertiser published early concept renders prepared by Adelaide-based architecture firm Hardy Milazzo of what a redeveloped arcade could look like.
According to The Advertiser, the plans included an underground supermarket and retail area, a large open public space labelled a “grand promenade” and two residential and commercial towers constructed above the arcade.
However, InDaily understands the images are several years out of date and do not represent the concepts currently being considered by the council.
In response to InDaily’s questions about the status of the images, a council spokesperson would only say that they were not provided by the council.
The future for the approximate 60 traders currently renting in the arcade remains unclear, with McCready confirming there was “no guaranteed right of return at this stage”.
“We are yet to determine the retail mix within the redevelopment,” McCready said.
“The City of Adelaide is working closely with the Central Market Arcade Traders Association and traders to support the existing Central Market Arcade shopping centre.”
In September last year traders were offered a two-year lease with a six month redevelopment clause.
Central Market Arcade Traders’ Association president Craig Lunn said despite traders’ uncertainty about their long-term future at the arcade, “the atmosphere is quite positive”.
“It’s not doom and gloom, we just don’t know at what point we’re at,” he said.
“The original timeframe when they laid this out a couple of years ago showed that by December 2018 they would actually have someone signed up as their preferred option.
“That’s taken longer than thought but that’s a good thing from our point of view.
“If they’re not telling us anything it means they’re still trying to negotiate planning and that’s buying us more time.”
McCready said the council would continue to engage with existing traders ahead of the redevelopment start date.
Wholeheartedly agree with this. I said this as someone who lived in Adelaide and frequented the Central Markets, and I say this even more now that I live in Melbourne and genuinely struggle to find anything that comes close to the Central Market, over here the best we have is South Melbourne or Preston Markets, but even then they're laced with undertones of commercialism. If they're to progress with this, the designs on the previous page (which apparently are old compared to what they're working on now) are the type of feel I would hope for in a redevelopment. And if they are to sell the airspace, I really think that the state government should reconsider their positioning of the culinary school, if they had half a brain, they would realise that locating within the market precinct would make it a destination institution rather than just another hospitality school.
You're completely right about how vital it is to maintain the character of the actual markets themselves. However, there is absolutely nothing whatsoever worth salvaging from the Market Arcade next door. Looks exactly how suburban shopping centres like Ingle Farm & St. Agnes used to look from the 70's through the 00's, when even they redeveloped. It's old, tired & right in the middle of one of the most important tourist precincts in the CBD. Get the wrecking ball through it.
Totally disagree. Those types of areas typically grow organically and have history. Intentionally segregating out restaurants by nation is tacky, like turning the area into a shopping center food court.rev wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 8:25 amI still think that that along with China Town, there should be a Little Italy, a Greek Town, Thai & Indian areas..all fronting onto Gouger street. Then within the complex it self have other lesser represented ethnic cuisines.
Like a giant global foods market. Is there anywhere in Australia with a huge complex like that?
Move everything there that doesn't fit into those categories into a new second level above Coles between Gouger and Grote.
Adelaide needs to stop being afraid of expansion.
This one will certainly be worth the waitSRW wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 12:14 amThe desired look and feel and amenity of the market (including a hospitality school) are all agreeably expressed in the district plan and development principles. Whether they're achieved, we'll have to wait and see a little bit longer. The council is slipping timelines both here and 88 O'Connell (of which the folly of purchasing is made even clearer by the fact they long had the arcade redo on the cards and now need to get two mammoth developments off the ground simultaneously).


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Hy-Vee announces the closure of a grocery store in Collins Road
This store will be shutting down soon.
Hy-Vee, an Iowa-based grocery store chain, is set to close its Collins Road NE store in Cedar Rapids at 6 p.m. on January 9th.
Hy-Vee currently has 53 full-time employees, 141 part-time employees, and 1 person whose employment is not listed.
One positive change is that three other stores – in Moline, Ill.; Sioux Falls, S.D.; and Kansas City, Mo. – will be closing next year too. The Sioux Falls location will become a non-retail site and the Kansas City store will be converted to a third-party tenant space.
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In a move that will be effective from January 1 next year, the Moline store will be permanently closed. All employees will have the opportunity to remain with the company at one of our other stores in each respective market and continue to earn their current pay and benefits if they so choose.
Customers have been largely satisfied with the move to Hy-Vee Pharmacy from Target. They’ll be receiving notification letters notifying them that their prescriptions will be transferred to a nearby branch or a pharmacy of their choosing in the future.
Stop using Hy-Vee Aisles Online pick-up services as of Monday, Dec. 6. Delivery options will be fulfilled by a nearby Hy-Vee location.
Hy-Vee has a net worth of more than $100 million and they have 285 retail stores in 8 states. It reported more than $12 billion in revenue last year.


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“I am so proud of my company,” says Li Jian, also known as Amit Li, as he shows off the headquarters of Chinese telecommunication equipment-maker, Huawei, in Shenzhen. Mr. Li is a graduate of the Hindi department of Beijing University and has spent the last year in Gurgaon, on the outskirts of Delhi, working as a public relations manager for Huawei’s Indian subsidiary.
His pride in Huawei is understandable given that in the span of 20 years, the company has gone from minnow to mammoth in one of the world’s key industries: telecommunications gear. For long dismissed as an upstart with few sustainable prospects, Huawei has defied predictions, broken the virtual monopoly of western firms in the sector and is today counted among the top five players in the industry.
At a time when established names like Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent are reporting losses and plummeting profits, Huawei is aggressively expanding, its well-established position in emerging markets like India proving to be an advantage.National champions
Huawei’s rise is a window onto the aspirations of Chinese companies in the global market place.
Not satisfied with China’s emergence as the low-cost factory of the world, the cultivation and support of selected “national champions” to compete against global firms is one of Beijing’s stated objectives.
However, it has not been smooth sailing for these nascent MNCs as they have attempted to spread their wings internationally.
Huawei’s growth has been dogged by accusations of murky finances, military links, and intellectual property rights violations.
It has been charged with opaque accounting and suspiciously close government connections and support.
In India for example, the company’s expansion plans have been regularly blocked by intelligence agencies on the grounds of it posing a security risk. Huawei-India was also barred for a while from bidding for contracts from state-owned companies.
But after almost 10 years in the Indian market, George Chen, the COO of Huawei’s research and development centre in Bangalore, the company’s largest unit outside of China, says Huawei’s troubles are a thing of the past. “Security is no longer an issue. It’s never mentioned by our customers or even by the government any more,” he said.
Today, Huawei India boasts revenues amounting to $600 million.
The Bangalore centre employs 1,600 people, only 40 of whom are Chinese.
The company has, moreover, been successful in securing major multi-million dollar contracts with Reliance and TATA Indicom in addition to a $150-million 3G rollout for Bharti Airtel in Sri Lanka.
Its relationship with public sector enterprises BSNL and MTNL is also improving and Huawei in currently in the running for securing a BSNL tender for 93 million GSM lines.R&D centre
“In terms of market, India has the biggest potential in telecom and we want India to become our biggest market outside of China in the future,” says Mr. Chen, adding: “We want our India R&D centre to support our global operations, leveraging India’s English language skills and software expertise to our advantage globally.”
Huawei’s Bangalore centre is in fact one of the very few tangible examples of the potential for the coming together of Indian software with Chinese hardware.
At the centre, Indian engineers develop software for use in Chinese hardware, demonstrating “how Indian and Chinese comparative advantages can be combined for use globally,” says Mr. Chen.
And given Huawei’s relentless ascent on the global stage, this is not an empty boast.
“I would say Huawei is China’s most successful MNC; on the leading edge of China going international,” says Duncan Clarke, head of Beijing-based telecommunications consultancy BDA.
Calling the company the “Walmart of global telecom” given its emphasis on volume and price [Huawei has been known to undercut the price of competitors by as much as 70 per cent], Mr. Clarke says he likes “the impertinence” of Huawei.
“The sector needed shaking up and that is what Huawei has achieved,” he says.
Mr. Clarke attributes recent merger activity in the industry such as the creation of Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia-Siemens networks in part to competition from Huawei. The Chinese heavyweight today has a presence in over 100 countries, having recorded $16 billion in contract orders in 2007, over 70 per cent of which were generated from international markets.
Mr. Clarke says Huawei is still some five years away from being able to count itself as part of the exclusive top tier in the sector, given that it remains relatively weak in the area of network management and other more high-end tasks.
Its inability thus far to break into the U.S. market is another handicap as is the lack of internationalisation of its top management.Many challenges
At the company’s Shenzhen headquarters Ross Gan, Huawei’s global spokesperson, admits that many challenges remain to be overcome.
He lists increasing transparency as one of them. Huawei’s founder Ren Zhengfei, a former PLA soldier, is known for never having given an interview to a journalist.
But Mr. Gan refutes accusations of Huawei’s “suspicious” government links. “Less than 0.5 per cent of Huawei’s total business is conducted with the Chinese government,” he says.
Mr. Clarke concurs. “I think far from being beholden to the State, Huawei in many ways sees itself as above the State.”
He adds that Beijing’s fingerprints are far stronger on Huawei’s main domestic competitor, ZTE Corporation, as well as other emerging Chinese MNCs like Lenovo, which is partly owned by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Anxious to rid itself of a reputation for IPR violations — in 2003, Cisco sued the company for copying computer codes — Huawei’s primary focus is to invest in constant innovation.
As a result, it spends 10 per cent of all its revenue on R&D and almost 50 per cent of it is over 68,000 employees worldwide are engaged in R&D activities.
By the end of 2007, Huawei had applied for 26,880 patents, of which 4,256 had been approved.
Back in Shenzhen, it is lunchtime and employees come streaming out of the state-of-the art R&D facility that bears a distinct architectural resemblance to the White House.A special Indian canteen
Among the hungry crowds that head for the cafeteria are dozens of Indians, the bulk of who trot towards a special Indian canteen that serves up daal and rajma chawal.
A short drive away from the R&D centre, the Norman Foster-designed Huawei University rubs up against the company’s faux European-style employee-housing complex, all of which Mr. Li points out with visible satisfaction.
Later in the day, the boom town of Shenzhen recedes as the car speeds towards the airport.
But very soon, Mr. Li will be in another boomtown: Gurgaon.
“I feel equally at home in Shenzhen and Gurgaon,” he says chattily, wearing the mantle of his pioneering Chindian identity lightly.
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German chemicals producer Lanxess AG (LXS.XE) Tuesday narrowed its full-year earnings guidance toward the lower end of the previously expected range, as a difficult market environment held prices under pressure in the third quarter.
-Lanxess narrowed its 2013 guidance for adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization to between 710 million euros ($958.5 million) and EUR760 million from between EUR700 million and EUR800 million previously.
-The lowered guidance is largely due to the pricing environment, with sales volumes up 9% during the third quarter, but pricing plummeting 11% during the period.
-Net profit in the third quarter was in-line with analyst expectations at EUR11 million.
-Sales were down 5.0% year-on-year at EUR2.05 billion.
-For the rest of the year, Lanxess expects modest economic momentum to continue with emerging economies continuing to provide only limited impetus.
-Of the charges related to Lanxess's cost-cutting program announced in September, EUR80 million will be booked this year. The company has begun implementation of the program.
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Today’s the day South Carolina taxpayers may begin to sign up for a second year of identity and credit protection, with a new company contracted by the state. Like last year’s service, this new service is available at no charge. The second year is available thru the company CSID. You can contact them at www.scidprotection.com or call 855/880-2743. Enrollment is open until October 1, 2014. A breach of state Department of Revenue computers and records in 2012 has exposed state taxpayers to potential crime.


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Living cost in Dhaka increased by 6.5% in 2019: CAB
The cost of living in Dhaka went up by 6.5 per cent in 2019 due to hike in prices of commodities and services, said Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB).
CAB President Ghulam Rahman unveiled a report on the cost of living and other consumer issues at the Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka today.
According to the report, living cost in the capital rose by 6 per cent in 2018.
Onion was the much-talked-about kitchen item in the previous year, said Ghulam Rahman adding "Locally grown onion price increased by 49.52 per cent and price of imported one rose by 71.11 per cent on average in the previous year."
The CAB president said vegetable prices increased by 8.13 per cent in 2019. Besides, prices of spices also saw a remarkable hike, he said.
"The rate of unemployment among educated people increased by 34.3 per cent last year. Unemployment is growing day by day but thousand of foreign workers are working in Bangladesh," he added.


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It was a powerful idea, and there was some intriguing early evidence suggesting that something as simple as popping vitamin D might hold off the second biggest cancer killer among American women breast cancer. So researchers were expecting to see positive results from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), the first controlled trial of the effects of vitamin D on breast cancer.
Unfortunately, that didn't happen. Reporting in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the study authors announce that taking vitamin D supplements does not affect breast-cancer rates. After a seven-year period, women who took 400 IUs of vitamin D daily had the same rates of breast cancer as those not taking the supplements. (See TIME's A-Z Health Guide.)
"It's a disappointment," says study author Dr. Rowan Chlebowski at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. "Basically we have an agent in vitamin D that is almost free and with little toxicity, and wouldn't it be great if it did substantially reduce the risk of breast cancer?"
Of the 36,000 women participating in the WHI a multiyear government trial investigating a range of women's health issues, from hormone therapy to heart disease, cancer and fracture risk half were given 1,000 mg of calcium and 400s IU of vitamin D daily, while the other half were not. After seven years, 528 women in the supplement group and 546 women in the control group had developed invasive breast cancer, an equivalent rate, indicating no effect from the vitamin D. Earlier observational trials had found positive links between women's taking higher amounts of supplemental vitamin D and lower breast-cancer rates, and animal studies had also suggested that the vitamin might prevent the disease. The WHI trial hints that the relationship may be more complicated, and despite the negative results, experts believe the connection is worth pursuing.
For one thing, the dose of vitamin D supplementation used in the trial, 400 IUs, was relatively low. In the years since the study began in 1993, nutritionists have learned much more about the critical role that vitamin D plays in a wide range of cellular functions, and many now recommend up to 2,000 IUs daily for adults. Most people get very little vitamin D from their diet the richest sources of the vitamin are dairy products and green leafy vegetables so supplementation is the only way to reach recommended levels. "Four hundred IUs is just not a lot," says Dr. Larry Norton, a breast-cancer specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "The supplementation wasn't adequate to raise blood levels enough in susceptible individuals to have a biological impact." Indeed, the women in the study who began with the highest blood levels of vitamin D's most active breakdown product, 25-hydroxyvitamin D, showed no change in their levels even after taking the 400 IUs daily.
Confounding the results even more is the fact that calcium and vitamin D supplementation is now routine therapy for postmenopausal women to protect against bone fractures. So about 15% of the women in the placebo group were allowed to continue taking their vitamin D supplements for bone health (some were taking up to 600 IUs per day), which could explain why there was little difference between the two groups in breast-cancer rates. "This is a potential problem that confounds the results of this particular trial," says Dr. Powel Brown, a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and author of an editorial accompanying the study. "But it's not really ethical to tell postmenopausal women not to take vitamin D or calcium, because we know it protects against hip fractures." Future studies, he says, might compare standard doses of vitamin D with higher doses to determine whether the supplements have any effect on the cancer process.
Those studies might expose other factors affecting vitamin D levels that the WHI trial was not designed to track. Exposure to sunlight, for example, boosts vitamin D production in the body, and in the WHI trial, the women with the highest levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D tended to be the leanest and most physically active, suggesting that they might spend more time outdoors.
Experts wonder whether the trial lasted long enough to uncover any benefit on breast-cancer rates. Breast cancer typically develops over a long period, anywhere from five to 20 years, and researchers believe that vitamin D's effect on curbing cancer-cell growth may be most powerful in the disease's early stages. That means that the cancers picked up in the seven-year WHI study may have already progressed beyond any potential to be influenced by the vitamin D supplementation. "This is an important study, and a well-done study, but the major question of whether vitamin D is important in breast cancer remains to be answered," says Norton. "These results don't close the door on vitamin D research on breast cancer."
The original version of this story misstated that breast cancer is the No. 1 cancer killer among women. In fact, lung cancer is the deadliest.


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UK Auto Dealers Get Help From On TimeŽ Car Device
It all started back in the United States. Auto dealers as well as finance companies were having a hard time keeping their profits up because of some customers who were what they called financially challenged. The On TimeŽ car device became their rescuer. And now, this car device is out to save more auto dealers and finance companies in the United Kingdom.
The On TimeŽ car device and car system is actually a creation of Payment Protection Systems which is based in the state of California. And now, the company has announced that it will now be expanding its market by offering such a creation to financial institutions in the United Kingdom.
At the Booth No. 455 at the British International Motor Show 2006 which will be held in London, the company would be exhibiting such a creative innovation. Indeed, this would be a good move for anybody and everybody in the automotive community would sure be there to attend such a coveted car show. Of course, these auto shows may not be just the right time to look for the usual Jaguar XJR performance parts, but it sure would be the right time to introduce to the motoring public helpful and creative accessories and innovations like the On TimeŽ.
So what does On TimeŽ do? Well, this creation actually is a patented starter interrupt system. In simple terms, when you pay your dues on time for your vehicle, you can start your car up. However, if you are late in paying what you owe, the On TimeŽ would interrupt the ignition system thus making your car not run. It sure is one very good way of reminding customers of auto dealers and finance companies to pay what they owe.
As per Payment Protection Systems, this company sure is on the verge of reaching out various markets. Mike Simon, the president and founder as well of PPS, states, We are in the process of expanding our international distribution network as more and more financial institutions around the globe realize the bottom line benefits of the On TimeŽ system as a credit enhancement tool. This latest move represents an exciting new opportunity for us, and we look forward to providing the system to organizations throughout the United Kingdom.
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Hundreds packed the park for a little taste of everything.
Forty vendors spend days prepping for the event. From wine and beer to pulled pork and bananas foster they truly have a big spread.
It's a great way for businesses to advertise without the cost, and it's a unique event for the Mid-Ohio Valley.
"The marketing aspect of it for my restaurant is impeccable. I mean I get to sell my product, not for top dollar, but enough to cover the costs, and then I get to do a lot of advertising and marketing and let people know that I'm still out there," says restauranteur Gene Butler.
"It's great for individuals in the community too because you're not going to be able to go anywhere and see a massive amount of culinary expertise as well as wines and beers that these people do on a day to day basis. You just can't go to that many places in one day. This way you get to sample everybody's wares," says Chef Yancy Roush, owner of Yancy's Five Star Catering.
Cecil Childress says advance ticket sales were up 15 to 20 percent from last year.
And this year they added reserved seating and extra tents in case of rain, which ended up coming in handy.


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29 Apr New ievo Product Additions Showcased at ISC West Security Show
Having already been established as one of the most reliable and trustworthy biometric company’s in the UK, we have now travelled to America to demonstrate our capabilities and superior technology to the US market. The ISC West security show is a hub for innovation within the industry which was a perfect fit for showcasing not only our unrivalled fingerprint access control readers, but our newest product additions which exclusively demonstrated at the event.
We received excellent feedback on our new product additions, they been branded something that has not been done before and will revolutionise the way installers and end users choose their security products. Our seamlessly embedded integration with Paxton’s Net2 was also on display and has changed the way people view managing and registering users fingerprints as only one software needs to be used saving users time and money.
ievo Ltd, managing director Shaun Oakes was exclusively interviewed by Peter O’Neill of Find Biometrics at the show and you watch the video below.


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TVS Motor Company has acquired a majority stake in the British e-bike supplier EBCO Ltd. The £1.16 million (€1.39 million) deal.Also has a direct impact on German Iko Sportartikel Handels GmbH and its Corratec bicyle and e-bike brand.
TVS Motor is committed to being at the forefront of e-personal mobility globally. And this acquisition is in line with the company’s vision. This is the third investment made by TVS Motor in the European e-personal mobility space. The company had recently made investments in Swiss e-Mobility Group (SEMG) and EGO Movement.


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Valeant to consider breakup after mega deals -investors
By Olivia Oran
NEW YORK May 16 (Reuters) - Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc would consider splitting up if it became too large from its aggressive acquisition strategy, according to a few top 20 Allergan Inc shareholders who were briefed by Valeant management.
Canada's Valeant, which alongside Pershing Square's Bill Ackman is pursuing an unsolicited $47 billion takeover of U.S. drug maker Allergan, told the shareholders that down the line it could break up into smaller discrete businesses that would then pursue roll up strategies of their own.
Some analysts have said that an acquisition of Allergan would make Valeant so large that it would become difficult to find meaningful takeover targets that would allow Valeant to continue to grow.
Valeant, which makes a number of products including over-the-counter drugs and medical devices, has a market value of $42 billion, compared to $47 billion for Allergan, which makes products in the aesthetics field like Botox.
Valeant's business model, which relies heavily on buying companies to grow revenues rather than through research and development, has been criticized by Allergan Chief Executive Officer David Pyott as "not sustainable."
Valeant said in a letter to Allergan shareholders that it would respond to concerns regarding its operating model during a May 28 webcast.
"Traditionalists have questioned our operating model since we began our journey more than six years ago," the letter said.
Valeant CEO Mike Pearson has said he wants Valeant to become a top five drugmaker by 2016. The company has spent $19 billion on 35 acquisitions since 2008 including its $8.7 billion purchase of eyecare company Bausch & Lomb last year, which is its biggest completed deal to date. Continued...


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Silicon Valley Startup Sonatus to Partner with Hyundai on the Development of Software Defined Vehicles
【Summary】Hyundai Motor Group on Wednesday announced a new partnership with Silicon Valley-based software developer Sonatus. The two companies will work to develop software defined vehicles for Hyundai and its brands Kia and Genesis. With this new partnership, Sonatus is bringing its expertise to Hyundai to transition away from legacy vehicle architectures and transform its vehicle development with electrical/electronic (E/E) architecture capabilities.
In the future, connected and electric vehicles will essentially be an extension of our digital lives. These vehicles will be software-based and support over-the-air updates just like a smartphone. With this cutting edge automotive technology on the horizon, the world's automakers are forming strategic partnerships with tech companies to develop new vehicle architectures.
Hyundai Motor Group on Wednesday announced a new partnership with Silicon Valley-based software developer Sonatus. The two companies will work to develop software defined vehicles for Hyundai and its brands Kia and Genesis.
Sonatus collaborates with OEMs and their Tier 1 suppliers to integrate its ready-built software-defined solutions into existing electronic control unit (ECU) hardware, as well develops next-generation vehicle architectures.
With this new partnership, Sonatus is bringing its expertise to Hyundai to transition away from legacy vehicle architectures and transform its vehicle development with electrical/electronic (E/E) architecture capabilities.
Sonatus will essentially help Hyundai transform its vehicles into "data centers on wheels'' using next-generation vehicle software architectures. The partnership with Sonatus will help Hyundai to innovate faster, reduce complexity and costs, and become more agile in developing connected technologies.
"Automakers that strategically align with partners that can help them accelerate the shift toward service delivery architectures will likely be the leaders in the digital era," said Roger Lanctot, director of the global automotive practice at Strategy Analytics. "It's encouraging to see Hyundai Motor Group partnering with an innovative new industry player like Sonatus as it seeks to gain an early-mover advantage with software-defined vehicles."
The first of these new software-defined vehicles is the new Genesis GV70 SUV from Hyundai's luxury division, which comes equipped with Sonatus software to support the next-generation digital technologies in the vehicle.
The G70 is using the vehicle and cloud software developed by Sonatus, enabling Hyundai to harness vehicle data, add new features, fix problems, and more, without requiring software updates.
"Bringing the Genesis GV70 to market is just the first step," said Jeffrey Chou, CEO and co-founder of Sonatus. "As we embrace the future of mobility, our next-generation solutions will evolve even further, enabling game-changing vehicle automation capabilities such as the ability to create new vehicle features and functionality without writing a single line of code or replacing hardware."
The Genesis GV70 is equipped with Sonatus software to support the next-generation digital technologies in the vehicle.
In the future, Sonatus' Digital Dynamics software solutions will be used by Hyundai to improve vehicle data collection and monitoring, including cloud-managed in-vehicle network management and optimization in next-generation Genesis, Hyundai, and Kia vehicles.
To support a future with millions of connected vehicles on the road, automakers will have to upgrade their current vehicle infrastructures with more advanced technologies such as Ethernet, IP and universal cloud connectivity. However, the management of these technologies introduces significant new challenges for car companies.
In-vehicle networks and cloud connectivity need to be actively managed to ensure optimal performance. For example, software updates need to be orchestrated to install easily, quickly, and reliably, without impacting user experience or vehicle safety.
Future vehicles from Hyundai will be equipped with software that's capable of receiving over-the-air updates to enable new features for the life of the vehicle. Sonatus believes that these technologies will lead to a surge of innovation in the auto industry over the next decade and beyond.
"Partnering with Sonatus is an important part of our strategy to be on the leading edge of software-enabled innovation," said Hyung Ki Ahn, vice president of the Electronics Development Group for Hyundai Motor Company (HMC). "Delivering rewarding digital technology experiences is a pillar of Genesis' redefined luxury experience. With software solutions from Sonatus, we will have new capabilities to bring innovative new technologies to market faster."
The rollout of 5G technology is poised to accelerate vehicle connectivity and spur rapid growth in real-time hybrid vehicle-cloud applications even more, according to Sonatus.
Sonatus was founded In 2018 by Chou and Yu Fang with the vision to simplify and accelerate the digital transformation of the automobile. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.
Before co-founding Sonatus, Mr Chou was the CEO of software company Diamanti, a developer of an enterprise software platform for managing Kubernetes.
Mr Fang, who serves as CTO of Sonatus, was the former Head of Mobile Engineering at Nauto, where he led a team that built AI-based software to monitor driver behavior and improve the safety of commercial fleets.
Other automakers are also working on software-based vehicle architectures. Mercedes Benz announced last year that it's working with NVIDIA to develop an entirely new vehicle architecture for its future models that supports OTA updates for the life of the vehicle.
The advanced software-based vehicle architecture will be introduced beginning with 2024 model year vehicles, eventually rolling out to the entire Mercedes Benz fleet globally. Drivers of these future Mercedes Benz software defined cars will be able to add apps to their vehicles the same way Apple iPhone and Android device owners add new apps to their devices.
Mercedes Benz plans to offer some of these vehicle software updates as a subscription service, including some specialized automated driving features that drivers can add to their vehicles, such as self-parking capability.
Sonatus recently raised $35 million for its core technology. Participating in the funding were world-class automotive and technology investors, including Hyundai Motor Group's Kia Corporation, Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Translink Capital, SAIC Capital and LG Electronics.
Originally hailing from New Jersey, Eric is a automotive & technology reporter covering the high-tech industry here in Silicon Valley. He has over 15 years of automotive experience and a bachelors degree in computer science. These skills, combined with technical writing and news reporting, allows him to fully understand and identify new and innovative technologies in the auto industry and beyond. He has worked at Uber on self-driving cars and as a technical writer, helping people to understand and work with technology.
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Six months after The Wall Street Journal’s U.S. Custom Studio launched its in-depth ad campaign, “Cocainenomics,” to promote Netflix’s “Narcos,” the Journal unwrapped its first ambitious native ad campaign coming from the U.K.
Launching May 24, the “An honest history of hacking” campaign for antivirus software Bitdefender took three months to produce. It features around 10 pieces of content on cybercrime and its impact on society, through video, articles and graphics.
Display ad units on the homepage, and in sections like technology and business, will drive people to an off-site hub. The campaign is set to run for nine months worldwide.
“This is not a corporate puff piece,” said Aaron Robinson, director of sales development and custom content.
The Journal’s branded-content division has seven full-time staffers in London, compared with its U.S. equivalent, with upwards of 30 people, and its pitch to brands is that the Journal can offer a high level of creativity.
The content was written by the studio’s editorial staffers and included subtle mentions of Bitdefender, in the form of an interview with its CEO and company quotes on the history on cybercrime. The campaign is labeled “Paid Program” and prominently displays the brand’s logo.
“Our previous work was always slightly fragmented — a video for Samsung, article formats on our site, a campaign built for LinkedIn,” Robinson said. “Now we’re bringing those elements together into digital hubs like Bitdefender.”
The main objective of the campaign is to raise awareness for Bitdefender, which is battling competitors like MacAfee. But like other publishers, to grow its native ad business, the Journal has to satisfy advertisers who are demanding that native ads do more than just raise awareness. And the inherent problem of native is that in trying to come off as real journalism, the brand’s presence has to be subdued.
Erfan Djazmi, head of innovation at agency Essence, pointed out that the campaign’s brand recall would likely be low for that reason. “The thing that will cannibalize this hub is all the other content. If you’re just including the logo, I would question what the cut-through is.”
The publishers that stand out will be the ones that can impact advertisers’ bottom line, said David Carr, Strategy Director at Digitas LBi. “Yes, you have your point of view, your lens, your creative skills; those things are elementary. You need the data and ROI to prove differentiation.”
Another potential limitation facing the Journal in growing this kind of work is that its strong global footprint is suited to clients looking for pan-regional campaigns but not those seeking a more tailored campaign.
“Most agencies are structured regionally,” said Djazmi. “They want their products and brands to have a local nuance.”
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Meijer will finalize an investment of more than $160 million in new and remodeled stores this year, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer Hank Meijer announced today.
The investment includes the construction of six new Meijer supercenters – including one in Warsaw – and major remodel projects for an additional five stores. Michigan, Indiana and Illinois will each welcome two new Meijer supercenters, with remodel projects planned at an additional four Michigan stores and one Meijer location in Illinois.
“We are pleased to continue to invest in the Midwest communities that have supported us for so long,” Hank Meijer said. “By keeping prices low and maintaining our focus on customer service, we have been able to continue to grow during a tough economic cycle.”
The opening of each new Meijer store represents at least 250 full- and part-time jobs. Meijer has opened 29 new stores since 2007, and remodeled dozens of others. This has resulted in the creation of thousands of jobs and millions of dollars of tax revenue pumped into local communities.
The new Meijer supercenters opening in 2013 include:
Swartz Creek, Michigan
Evergreen Park, Illinois
Meijer 2013 remodel projects include:
Lansing, Michigan (S. Pennsylvania Road)
Flint, Michigan (Hill Road)
Grand Rapids, Michigan (Knapp’s Corner)
The remodel projects will include a variety of specific enhancements both in and outside the stores, such as lighting, heating, refrigeration, exterior lighting and parking lot maintenance. Additionally, the introduction of newer technology in key areas during the remodel process will result in reduced energy usage and more energy-efficient stores.
Two of the stores will go through a significantly more comprehensive remodel program. The South Pennsylvania Road Meijer in Lansing will be totally rebuilt, within a 14-month timeframe that will transform the aging site into an all-new store. The Knapp’s Corner Meijer will be the first to benefit from a new Meijer flagship remodel that will test design elements which may be considered for future stores.
“We will continue our process of slow, steady growth,” Hank Meijer said. “This has allowed us to focus on our customers and team members, while supporting the communities where they work and live.”
Source: Inside INdiana business