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When Mark Hurd resigned unexpectedly from Hewlett-Packard last month he found an outspoken supporter in the form of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. It appears now that Hurd may end up working for Ellison, according to a report Saturday in the Wall Street J...
Dell has been relatively quiet about its modular data-center products, but on Tuesday it showed off a new design it has started selling to large "hyperscale" customers, which include big Internet firms like Microsoft and Facebook.
I/O virtualization vendor Xsigo Systems is tapping into the most ubiquitous network connections around, offering an appliance that lets enterprises carve many virtual links out of the Gigabit Ethernet or 10-Gigabit Ethernet port built into a server.
While chip manufacturers continue to make their processors ever more powerful, at least one customer has found it useful to slow these chips down, at least long enough to keep them running when the data center air conditioning falters.
Advanced Micro Devices is considering the implementation of its upcoming low-power netbook chips based on the new Bobcat architecture in low-end servers, the company said this week.
Worldwide server sales posted their biggest jump since 2003 during the second quarter as Hewlett-Packard outsold rival IBM to take the top spot among server vendors, IDC said Tuesday.
IBM is developing a new deep-sleep mode for its Power processors that will allow them to draw almost no power when they are idle, an IBM engineer said at the Hot Chips conference on Monday.
Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday shared details about its next-generation chip architecture code-named Bulldozer, which will form the basis for its upcoming 16-core server processors.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak shared memories about memory on Thursday at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, California.
Intel has expanded its share of the server microprocessor market, taking advantage of a slow product transition at perennial rival Advanced Micro Devices, according to figures released late Wednesday by IDC.
Attention programming students: the third annual IBM 'Master the Mainframe' competition is now underway.
IBM has strengthened its hand in the Unix business with new systems based on its Power7 processors, including a server for large enterprises that scales to 256 cores.
A new startup funded by major chip makers and investment firms is taking aim at electricity bills, the biggest cost in data centers.
Oracle has sketched out a five-year road map for Sun's Sparc-based servers, hoping to reassure customers about the future of the platform and reverse a pattern of declining sales.
Overall server spending in enterprises remains weak in 2010 as companies continue to look for ways to save money following the economic downturn, research firm TheInfoPro said in a study released on Monday.
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In a rare move, the Government and Central Bank of China (People’s Bank of China – PBoC) is planning to open up its $27 Trillion payment market to foreign firms. Foreign firms will now be permitted to apply for licenses to enable them operate within China.
In the People’s Republic of China, local companies dominate the payment and internet space. Homegrown companies such as Alibaba dominate the industry with up to 70% share of the market – Alibaba’s AliPay and Tencent practically control the Chinese payment market.
But in a change to the status quo, it seems actors in the industry will be opening up the market to foreign companies. All things being equal, the payment app Square originating from the U.S. could operate in China soon once it is able to secure a license from the PBoC. The Square app was developed by a team led by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and KakaoPay which is also a payment app based on South Korea.
This decision by the Chinese government to open up its payment sector to foreign firms comes after the appointment of Yi Gang as the new PBoC Chief. Mr. Gang is an American trained economist who is known for his pro-market outlook.
What this means for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as a whole…
On March the 19th, it was reported by TokenPost, a South Korean media house that the new Chinese central bank head said that “bitcoin is a currency that provides freedom to anyone that uses it.” It further reports that Mr. Gang stressed that cryptocurrencies provide a high level of transparency.
Given Yi Gang’s background as being pro-market, a number of market watchers are not surprised at his positive comments towards bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general.
Some market players are hopeful that the new PBoC chief will help lead favorable cryptocurrency market regulations in China which will in turn translate into a vibrant trading economy.
Local analyst Wei Chun says that “in summary, the Chinese government has shown a positive attitude towards blockchain technology despite its enforcement on cryptocurrency and mining operations…”

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The company aims to clock a retail revenue of Rs 40 crore from Solly Sport this fiscal and expects it to be five times that figure over the next two years.
Marketing and merchandising professionals as well as e-commerce and technology experts are being hired to launch the venture at the earliest.
Considering the fact that the target group is continuous spender on fashion, Satyajit said: "We would be having an annual revenue of Rs 500-550 crore by 2020."
SJM’s internal team, along with some help from outside experts, put together the list, and the group classifies a company local only if the firm has 50% equity held by Indians.
Amazon.com Inc said it signed Woody Allen to write and direct a new TV series for its video streaming service.
Amazon Studios is delivering Woody Allen as creator of his first-ever TV series.
"AI2 was born from a desire to create a system that could truly reason about knowledge, rather than just offer up what had been written on a subject before".
Allen called the Musashi an "engineering marvel,'' saying that as an engineer at heart he appreciated its technology and construction.


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Arne Sorenson, CEO of Marriott International, sees gridlock in Washington as a serious threat to his business.
Arne Sorenson, CEO & President of Marriott International, discusses his company's better than expected fourth quarter, and explains why he expects per-room revenue to rise four to seven percent this year.
Some of the names on the move ahead of the open.
Stocks finished modestly higher across the board Tuesday, with the Dow and S&P 500 closing at their best levels since October 2007, lifted by optimism for more M&A deals and after positive economic data from Europe.
Check out which companies are making headlines after the bell Tuesday:
U.S. stock index futures rose Tuesday, after the S&P 500 posted its seventh-straight week higher, lifted by optimism for more corporate deals as investors returned from the long Presidents Day holiday weekend.
After that Wal-Mart email leaked, traders will be watching to see if the payroll-tax increase trips up the consumer. Plus, a trio of housing reports and Fed minutes.
Take a look at some of Friday's midday movers:
President Obama turned to corporate leaders as he tried to rally support for comprehensive immigration reform.
President Obama is slated to meet with the CEOs of 12 companies on Tuesday, including Lloyd Blankfein from Goldman Sachs and Marissa Mayer from Yahoo to discuss immigration and deficit reduction, the White House said.
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Earnings season unofficially kicks off Tuesday. From Sandy to the "fiscal cliff" get ready to here every excuse in the book for weak profits and revenue!
Major hotel chains are building properties featuring two hotels in one location to save on development costs during tough economic times.
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Arne Sorenson, CEO of Marriott International, says it is hard to find the dollars without going after entitlements.
Shares of the hotel company are up over 115 percent over the past twelve months. Stephen Weisz, Marriott Vacations Worldwide president & CEO, discusses his company's huge growth spurt since its IPO.
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Online advertising in the automotive sector increased 51.5 percent to $1.2 billion in 2004 and will continue to show strong increases as online video ads become more prevalent in coming years, according to a new study by Borrell Associates.
The study projects that auto advertising online, while accounting for only 4 percent of the overall $30 billion ad spend by the automotive sector in 2004, will grow to nearly $2 billion in 2006, approximately 6.4 percent of all automobile advertising that year.
“We expect that as Internet marketers move to include more online video in their advertisements that the automotive sector will continue to grow in the next three to five years, even as other online verticals slow down or level off,” said Gordon Borrell, president and chief executive of Borrell Associates.
Part of the ramp up is based on impressive performance statistics. According to J.D. Power & Associates, Web sites generated 22 percent of all new cars sales in 2004. Although ads in other media, such as print, TV, and radio, may have also contributed to those sales, the fact the Internet (usually email sent through the company’s Web site) was the point of contact for the sale caught the attention of a number of dealers, Borrell noted.
Of the three auto ad segments, dealerships increased their online ad spend the most in 2004, nearly doubling their interactive budgets. Manufacturers, meanwhile, increased their online marketing expenditures 38.8 percent. The slowest segment of the three was dealer associations, which increased their online advertising efforts 20.2 percent to a relatively tiny $58.3 million in 2004. That number is more striking when one considers dealer associations account for 25 percent of all automotive advertising spend but only 5 percent of all online advertising in the sector. Borrell projects that figure will grow by an additional 26 percent in 2005.
Although online spending increased across the board in the automotive sector, the industry’s ad expenditures in traditional ad formats, such as broadcast television commercials, print ads in auto industry magazines and newspapers, and radio spots, declined slightly in automotive advertising share.
“It’s not that the other advertising media are ineffective at generating sales, so much as the media mix is being thought out again and adjusted,” Borrell said. “What the proper mix will be is something that will require a few years to determine, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see shifts as large as 10 or 15 percent in coming years.”
Borrell Associates is not the only research organization to identify the fault lines of growth within the automotive sector. In an advertising report issued in January, cars.com found that 65 percent of local dealerships reported changing the way they advertise online, spending more on contracts with third-party providers to drive traffic to their sites and generate sales.
Programmatic is taking over the digital advertising world, and at an even faster rate than expected, according to eMarketer, which raised its forecast for programmatic ad spending in the U.S. on the back of growth in mobile and video programmatic buys.
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Deutsche Post DHL’s purchase of UK Mail has completed, meaning the postal operator is now fully owned by the German company. DHL announced its intention to buy UK Mail for £242.7m in September, in a bid to offer its domestic customers a stronger cross-border parcel delivery service. Prior to the deal, UK Mail had had a turbulent recent past, after it bought incompatible sortation technology for its new Coventry hub. This resulted in an 80% plunge in pre-tax profit after […]
UK Mail has named Peter Fuller as chief executive officer, almost two years after his predecessor stepped down.
UK Mail is to open three new sites this year to accommodate current and future volume growth from its acquisition by Deutsche Post DHL.
Parcel carrier APC Overnight has revealed that all of its LGV drivers have completed the Driver CPC. Its drivers have all completed the compulsory 35 hours of training two years ahead of the September 2014 deadline. Transport manager Surjit Ram said: “Road safety is imperative in any logistics firm, particularly one the size of APC, so to have our drivers qualified to the highest standard in their field gives us added confidence that every aspect of our service is top […]


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The ice cream vendor decided to use his teenage hobby for personal gain.
The seller of ice cream from Croatia Admir Adil drew attention to the fact that his daughter and all her friends spent a lot of time on the social network Facebook. After thinking a bit, he decided he could make good money from it.
Soon, he offered customers a new type of ice cream, called Facebook ice cream. The recipe for this ice cream was pretty simple. The seller mixed vanilla ice cream with blue syrup. To taste, the new ice cream was similar to coin chewing gum.
The creative idea has borne fruit. In the first days of sales, all new ice cream was sold out.
Despite the fact that this ice is unknowingly advertising a social network, attorneys say the Facebook owner can sue the seller for using intellectual property.


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Avery Dennison is once again expanding capacity and production of pressure-sensitive materials for labeling and packaging at its state-of-the-art plant in Pune. This is the third time the company has expanded capacity at Pune since it opened in 2008. Avery Dennison has experienced double digit annual growth since entering India in 1997, and Indian retail sales are projected to grow by more than 50 percent over the next five years as the country transitions to a more organized retail sector, according to research firm Business Monitor International.
“Our goal is to help make our partners more competitive and profitable, and advance consumer growth in India as a whole,” said Avery Dennison chairman, president and CEO, Mr. Dean A. Scarborough. “Through our continued investment in Pune, we can offer world-class support to Indian consumer products companies and their labelers to elevate the impact of their brands throughout the region.”
Opened in 2008, the Pune plant produces technically advanced pressure-sensitive materials on a 28-acre site at Ranjangaon Industrial Area in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra. The facility’s expansion will include the addition of the widest and fastest coating line in India as well as new roll handling and slitting equipment. Alongside manufacturing operations in Gurgaon and Bangalore, it is one of three major company facilities in India. Including the Pune expansion, the company has invested more than US$50 million in India alone to serve these markets.
In a joint statement, Avery Dennison Materials South Asia’s new managing director, Mr. Anil Sharma, joined ADI founder, Mr. Raj Srinivasan, in saying: “Avery Dennison is proud to have been part of the phenomenal growth of the Indian labeling industry over the past decade and fully supports its ongoing expansion. We will continue to work with our customers and business partners to ensure that India’s manufacturers can easily access world-class labeling solutions that will enhance brand appeal and packaging functionality in both local and international markets.”


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Tim Hortons Inc. announced it will be pulling the American ice cream brand Cold Stone Creamery from its restaurants in Canada.
The announcement came on Thursday, Feb. 20. Tim Hortons said $19 million was spent in the fourth quarter to end ice cream sales, according to Financial Post. The company now looks to make their menu simpler and focus on their popular food items.
Additional changes will be made to Tim Hortons' menu, such as taking off the raisin nut muffin, CTV News reported. Tim Hortons will also be taking out Gingerbread Man cookies and donuts such as the blueberry fritter and walnut crunch.
Tim Hortons has also been trying to make changes to the speed of its service in its Canadian restaurants, Financial Post reported. The company has been focusing on improving drive-thru outlets and bringing in digital menu boards, as well as introducing beverage-only lines.
Tim Hortons president and CEO Marc Caira, said on Thursday that Tim Hortons has been making necessary changes to make the company more successful, according to thestar.com.
"During the fourth quarter, we made important strides to position the company for future success," Caira said. "We have worked to enhance our capital structure, as well as simplify our operations, strengthen our menu, and refresh our restaurants, all to provide the ultimate guest experience."
Caira also commented on additional items being taking off the menu, saying the decision leaves space for new items that are offered for a limited time.
Tim Hortons reported on Thursday its fourth-quarter profits increased to $100.6 million from $100.3 million a year earlier, CTV News reported. Earnings also increased by four cents per share to 69 cents, but fell short of estimates of 77 cents per share.
Tim Hortons began its partnership with Cold Stone Creamery in 2009, according to thestar.com. While Cold Stone Creamery's run in Tim Horton's Canadian stores has ended, the partnership will continue in Tim Hortons' locations in the U.S.
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Floyd family attorney Ben Crump and Philonise Floyd raise their hands during a news conference following the verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer
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Poor quality diet may increase chances of weakness in older Americans.
More South Africans are taking up a diet that either does not have meat or does not include any animal products.
A protective mask may mitigate health risks associated with air pollution.


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Speaking in an energetic tone that seemed to mirror the rapid pace at which technology evolves in consumer electronics, Shawn Dubravac, the chief economist and senior director of research for the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), asked a rhetorical question to the members of the press gathered at CES Unveiled 2016 in New York this week.
“Does it make sense to put the Internet on your wrist?” he asked. He was referring to the proliferation of fitness bands for personal health monitoring and also to the changing mental approach that companies are taking with new technology. He said that the consumer electronics industry was no longer asking whether certain technologies were possible. Rather, it was asking itself about the role of digital information in shaping how people live and make decisions.
Dubravac’s analysis was part of a press conference at CES Unveiled, the annual preview of the main Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which will take place in the Las Vegas Convention Center from Jan. 6-9, 2016. The preview event, which is organized by the CTA (formerly the Consumer Electronics Association), offers a glimpse into what can be expected at the main CES. It also highlights some of the industry’s main priorities going forward.
Dubravac said that technology companies have entered a “massive experimental phase,” as the Internet of Things (IoT) causes them to evaluate “what it means to digitize [a] particular experience.” When talking about the industry, he occasionally cited his recent book, Digital Destiny: How the New Age of Data Will Transform the Way We Work, Live, and Communicate, which he wrote on behalf of the CTA earlier this year.
Having served as the research director for the CTA since 2005, Dubravac also presented his research at last year’s CES Unveiled press conference. He talked about the industry’s movement toward “digitizing our personal space,” converting everything that was once analog into a digital format—including ourselves. While that change is still taking place, the industry is now being forced to acknowledge the blurring of our physical and virtual identities, he said on Tuesday night.
CES Unveiled 2016 featured 36 companies, including 11 exhibitors positioned in Eureka Park, an area reserved exclusively for start-up companies. Although it was a far cry from the more than 3,600 exhibitors and 176,000 industry attendees at the International CES 2015, the event served as a kind of mock-up for the entire consumer electronics industry. Exhibits were devoted to audio devices, virtual reality, smart homes, robotics, health and fitness, data transmission, and televisions, among others.
Over the years, CES has grown into an event with an international reputation. It has such enormous attendance that it can serve as a barometer for the entire consumer electronics industry. Gary Shapiro, CTA president and CEO, said that wearable and personal health devices would continue to represent one of the fastest-growing segments of the event, with more than 150 health and fitness technology exhibitors at the upcoming CES.
For the last two years, Ultra HD 4K television has been a major focus of CES Unveiled, with the promise of new content dancing on the lips of the CTA. The enthusiasm surrounding the new television was tempered at this year's event, but the CTA made a point of acknowledging that Ultra HD 4K television manufacturers had already shipped more units than were expected for all of 2015.
Shapiro also cited unmanned systems and drone technology as areas of growth for the event. The CES will feature four times more exhibitors in the unmanned systems division than last year's event. Accordingly, robotics is also experiencing major growth, with 71% more exhibitors than CES 2015.
Karen Chupka, CTA secretary, added that the section of the Las Vegas Convention Center reserved for smart home and building automation exhibits would nearly double in size from last year. Meanwhile, gaming and virtual reality technologies will have 80% more exhibitors than last year.
Nine major automobile manufacturers and more than 100 automotive technology companies will also be represented at the event, a 25% increase in exhibits from last year, according to Shapiro. In October, it was announced that Mary T. Barra, CEO of General Motors, will present a keynote address at this year’s event on the convergence of automobiles and consumer electronics.
For Dubravac, the growth of the event into new industries is a perfect metaphor for the increasingly blurred line between our physical and virtual identities. This shift is being made possible by the rapid evolution of computing technology and sensing capabilities, he said. Increasingly, sensors are being used to measure and digitize our physical environment in a continuous way, what he called “ambient sensing.”
This shift was apparent all over the CES Unveiled showroom, as wearable technology and smart-home devices represented a large part of the products on display. The Oura Ring, for instance, monitors and evaluates health patterns using laboratory-grade sensors to measure sleep, activity, and heart rate. In addition, oximeters measure blood-volume pulse (BVP), a blood characteristic that is widely used to help treat chronic pain, anxiety, and stress.
Dubravac stressed that devices with more computing power and sensing capabilities are opening the door to a more intuitive interface with technology. The evolution of sensors in our consumer devices is resulting in the construction of a “digital self,” a digital counterpart to our physical selves that has virtual footprints and experiences. At the same time, machine learning algorithms are helping to better inform our experience with IoT devices.
Dubravac said that the next step in the evolutionary path for consumer electronics is sharing information between different devices and services. Personal health devices, for instance, could be used to measure body temperature and exchange that information with an intelligent thermostat, which could then adjust the temperature in the house accordingly.
Using sensors and computer processing to inform how we approach our lives also has its counterpart in industrial and commercial operations, Dubravac noted. He gave the example of an Airbus A380, which is equipped with a massive number of sensors that relay information about the status of the aircraft to pilots and engineers, who can use that information to respond to structural damages or other potential dangers.
The practice of analyzing large data sets to support industrial and commercial operations has been the theme of several other events this year, especially in the test and measurement and embedded computing industries. At NIWeek 2015, the annual conference on graphical system design, National Instruments talked about the acquisition, storage, access, and analysis of what it called "Big Analog Data." At ARM TechCon this week, embedded engineers were introduced to a wide range of development tools for the growing ARM IoT Device Platform.
While the amount of data that devices are gathering and processing is growing exponentially, both in consumer electronics and other industries, the CES will not be getting any larger this year. The CTA has placed an attendance cap of 150,000 to 170,000 on the event. The idea is to ease pressure on hotels and airlines serving the event, making it “a comfortable experience so that people can get around," Shapiro says.


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Amazon Prime Day: iPhone 7 for 42,999 is the best deal of the day
Amazon India's Prime Day is in its second and last day of running with some gret deals on gadgets. Apple iPhone 7 32 GB is available for Rs 42,999.
The listed price of the Apple iPhone 7 is Rs 56,200. This means that the phone is available at a discount of 23% as part of Amazon Prime Day.
The 128 GB version of the iPhone 7 is being sold for Rs 53,999.
Amazon is also offering next day delivery for the phone for free for its 'prime' customers.
In a conversation with Zeebiz on Monday, Akshay Sahi, head, Amazon Prime India said that since launch of Amazon Prime over the last 10 months, the e-commerce company has increased its selection by over 75%.
He said, "Just this year we have opened 14 fulfilment centres bringing our overall count across the country to 41 and all this is to ensure we continue to meet our promises not just on regular business days but on special days like Prime Day as well."
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“Every Black Friday, retailers lure shoppers in the cold, predawn hours to wait in long lines with the promise of one-day-only deals that can’t be beat. And every year, shoppers ask themselves, Is this really worth it?’
“The answer, it turns out, often is, ‘No.’
“An analysis by pricing research firm Decide Inc. and The Wall Street Journal of this year’s most-touted Black Friday deals found that many of the bargains advertised as ‘doorbusters’ were available at lower prices at other times of the year—sometimes even at the same retailer.”
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The sudden success of Beyond Meat Inc. is part of the larger trend of consumers finding alternatives to meat — a phenomenon that is also helping traditional tofu manufacturers.
Los Angeles-based Beyond Meat has been around for a decade but has gained a huge following in the past year in part because it has debuted on menus at locally owned restaurant chains, such as A&W Canada, Fatburger Canada, White Spot and Earls. Canadian icon Tim Hortons will continue selling Beyond Meat burgers in B.C. even though it is scaling back sales in some parts of Canada.
Beyond Meat’s US$25-per-share initial public offering in May raised more than US$240 million, and its share price increased more than 850 per cent, before settling to trade at around US$132.
The recent investor giddiness is for a concept that is not radically new.
Vancouver’s Yves Potvin created Yves Veggie Cuisine, and what he touted as the world’s first veggie dog, in the 1980s. He followed that up with plant-based burgers and then sold the venture in 2003 to Hain Celestial Group for a reported $54.1 million.
Potvin then created Garden Protein International in Richmond and set his sights on creating plant-based substitutes for centre-of-the-plate protein, such as chicken tenders sold under the Gardein brand. Potvin and private equity firm TSG Consumer Partners sold that business in 2014 to Pinnacle Foods for $175 million.
Impossible Foods Inc. is also a Beyond Meat competitor.
“We’ve got six menu items that are plant-based,” said Earls CEO and co-owner Stan Fuller. “I don’t believe it is a fad. The young people believe in it. Just for health reasons some people are going to adopt it part of the week.”
Fuller said these are the “early days” for restaurants of having access to a reliable supply of plant-based protein for burgers, and that in time the price will come down, and that this will attract even more customers.
Beetbox launched Oct. 10 at 1074 Davie St. and aims to capitalize on the trend with a 100 per cent plant-based menu.
Traditional tofu manufacturers are also coasting on increased demand for plant-based protein.
“We’re in a special place where people see our products alongside veggie products in stores,” said Sunrise Soya Foods CEO and owner Peter Joe, whose parents founded the East Vancouver-based company in the 1950s.
This summer, he opened his company’s third, and largest, manufacturing facility: an 85,000-square-foot facility in Delta.
He also added a second production line last year to Sunrise’s 17-year-old, 65,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Toronto. All the while, the company’s original 55,000-square-foot manufacturing plant on Powell Street continues to churn out product.
Joe estimated that about:
•57 per cent of the company’s revenue comes from plain bricks of tofu;
•19 per cent comes from flavoured bricks;
•19 per cent comes from soft-tofu flavoured desserts; and
•five per cent comes from selling soy drinks, which a third party manufactures.
Revenue is in the tens of millions annually and growth has been in the single-digit percentages, Joe said, before adding that if he can find capable recruits, he could add another 50 employees to his current 250-person workforce by the end of the year.
Joe is aware of the successes of Beyond Meat and Potvin’s past ventures.
He also knows that grocery chains are increasingly willing to place meat alternatives near meat products — something that could help sales.
The U.S.-based giant Kroger, for example, said last month that it plans to launch a 20-week test this fall by having plant-based protein sections in its meat aisles at 60 locations in parts of Indiana, Illinois and Colorado.
Many Vancouver grocers have thus far placed the items in the produce section.
Joe is reluctant, however, to expand his operations into producing similar plant-based protein products made from a mix of pea and other proteins because sticking to 100 per cent soybean products carries less risk.
“We feel that tofu is something we’re good at,” he told Business in Vancouver. “We’re in a leadership position with three plants and we want to focus on our core [products] and things we can be good at.”


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According to Android Police, some HTC Android phones may contain massive security flaws – and one is so bad that it left some researchers “speechless.” That’s no bueno, HTC.
The security holes leave quite a bit at stake. The report states that any app connecting to the internet can gain access to email addresses, system logs and personal information on your phone.
It’s not clear how many devices the problem affects: the Evo 3D, EVO 4G, and Thunderbolt all have the problem, but so may the “Evo Shift 4G, the MyTouch 4G Slide, the upcoming Vigor, some Sensations” and other possible units, according to the report.
It basically leaves a lot of information available to the apps, including:
- the list of user accounts, including email addresses and sync status for each
- last known network and GPS locations and a limited previous history of locations
- phone numbers from the phone log
- SMS data, including phone numbers and encoded text (not sure yet if it’s possible to decode it, but very likely)
- system logs (both kernel/dmesg and app/logcat), which includes everything your running apps do and is likely to include email addresses, phone numbers, and other private info
Unfortunately, it seems the more that the guys at Android Police seem to dig in, the more they find. It’s anyone’s guess how far the extent of the problem goes, though HTC has not yet commented on the situation.
The only way to fix the flaws is to wait for a fix from HTC, the manufacturer, or to jailbreak your phone and attempt to remove it yourself (we don’t really recommend doing that, unless you know what you’re doing).
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., (CBS.MW) -- Molecular Devices Corp. shares traded as low as $45.67 in after-hours trading Monday due to the company's negative earnings surprises and lowered targets for the second quarter.
The bioanalytical measurement systems supplier MDCC posted first-quarter earnings of $1.64 million, or 10 cents a share, compared with net income of $1.18 million, or 8 cents a share, in the year-ago period. However, analysts polled by First Call had been expecting a profit of 20 cents a share for the latest quarter.
Sales totaled $20.7 million, well off the $26.5 million analysts had been expecting. The company noted a delay in orders and postponed purchasing decisions from its customers. The current economic environment according to Joseph D. Keegan, president and chief executive officer, hurt the quarter.
As a result of the current economic conditions, the company said second-quarter earnings will be in the range of 16 cents to 18 cents a share, while analysts had been expecting a profit of 27 cents a share. Second-quarter revenue is expected to be between $26 million and $28 million. Full-year earnings will be between 70 cents and 80 cents a share, with revenue of $105 million to $110 million. Analysts had been expecting a profit closer to $1.22, on revenue of about $127.6 million.
Shares closed up $1.05 to $49.99 ahead of the news.


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GrowHealthy’s location in Lakeland will be the fifth such outlet in Polk County and the first for GrowHealthy, which operates a cannabis cultivation facility in Lake Wales.
LAKELAND — GrowHealthy, which has been cultivating medical marijuana at its Lake Wales facility since 2017, will soon open its first dispensary in Polk County.
The company’s green signs went up this week at the property at 3004 U.S. 98 N. in Lakeland.
The dispensary, the fifth in the county, will hold a grand opening Friday, Aug. 30, according to a news release from iAnthus Capital Holdings, GrowHealthy’s corporate owner.
The company also plans to open a dispensary in Gainesville next week, iAnthus said in a news release. That will bring the company’s total in Florida to eight.
Hadley Ford, chief executive officer of iAnthus, said the company recently received approval from Florida’s Office of Medical Marijuana Use (OMMU) to open the Lakeland dispensary.
“We’re excited by the progress the business is making in Florida,” Ford said in a news release. “We will continue our retail expansion in this robust and growing market through early 2020. We look forward to serving medical marijuana patients in these Florida communities with high-quality, trusted and dependable products and services.”
The location, just south of Griffin Road, is almost within sight of the first dispensary to open in Polk County, one operated by Curaleaf. Surterra Wellness manages dispensaries in Lakeland and Winter Haven, and Liberty Health Sciences also has a shop in Winter Haven.
Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2016 allowing the use of cannabis-derived products to treat the symptoms of cancer, Parkinson’s disease, post-traumatic stress disorder and a range of other ailments.
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Amid the day's gloom comes a smattering of bid speculation, this time surrounding ratcatching and parcel group Rentokil.
The company's shares have jumped 5.25p to 102.75p on talk of a possible management buyout. Rentokil has just brought in new management - a team of former ICI executives - but they warned it would take some time to turn around the troubled City Link parcels business.
Early last month, the company reported that first quarter profits had halved and it planned to slash its dividend this year.
Going the other way was power supply business Chloride, down 12% to 249p as US rival Emerson said it had ended talks about a possible 270p a share takeover.


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Online platform X, formerly known as Twitter, may introduce a monthly fee for all users, according to its owner, Elon Musk. This potential change is being considered as a measure to reduce the prevalence of bots on the platform.
Since acquiring the site for $44 billion in October of the previous year, Musk has implemented several changes. These changes include significant layoffs, the introduction of a paid premium option, a reduction in content moderation, and the reinstatement of previously banned accounts, including that of former US President Donald Trump.
Musk disclosed in July that the platform had experienced a roughly 50% decline in advertising revenue.
Bots, which are automated accounts run by computer programs rather than humans, are prevalent on X. They are often used to artificially amplify political messages or spread racial hatred.
During a discussion with Musk on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inquired about countering online anti-Semitism and preventing bots from replicating and amplifying such content on X.
In response, Musk mentioned that the company was contemplating the introduction of a “small monthly payment for use of the X system” as a potential solution to combat the proliferation of bots. He explained that this approach could increase the cost of using bots, making them less economically viable.
Musk’s comments were made during a broadcast on X and coincided with an ongoing dispute between the Tesla CEO and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a US-based Jewish organization. Musk has accused the ADL of baseless allegations of anti-Semitism, claiming that this has driven away advertisers and negatively impacted his company’s revenue. He has even threatened legal action seeking billions of dollars in damages.


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We wanted to be excited. We wanted to celebrate a new and innovative product. Alas, the newly announced F/J for Qantas is not it.
Refreshing cabins is a nice touch, but why does it take so long?? Also, how long will it take Southwest to pay out all the comp it owes.
Just a couple hundred (more) new planes coming to United through the end of the decade. Nothing to get excited about here.
Singapore Airlines is out spending cash like it is 2019 again, so that seems to be good news for other airlines.
Halfway through a long trip and still suffering from jetlag, but there’s news to consider and punditry to ponder, so here we go…
Summer is ending, but travel continues. And optimism remains strong, at least in some segments of the industry.
More leisure travelers than expected, plus some gardening tips. Oh, and lots of airline news, too.
The lack of appeal, perhaps, is the most interesting part. But the CDC mask mandate for travel is gone, thanks to a court ruling in Florida.
Should you subscribe to an airline’s recurring payment offerings? Probably not. But we’re going to talk about it a bit.
Thought on airline pyjamas? Yeah, we’ve got some of those. And lots of other ideas, too…


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There’s a barrage of colorways dropping soon
We made it fam: we are finally at a time where copping Yeezys is now easier than ever thanks to successive drops for the past few months. After the Yeezy Boost 350 V2 got its share of the spotlight late last year with new colorways AND restocks, it is the Yeezy Boost 700’s turn to be talked about—in terms of multiple releases.
For the past two months, adidas has dropped the “Static” and “Salt” Yeezy Boost 700. This coming March, we are expecting two new colorways: the “Inertia” and the “Geode”. While we know that the “Inertia” is dropping on March 9, we got confirmation that the “Geode” will release on March 23. Accompanying it is a new colorway of the Yeezy Calabasas track pants.
With two Yeezy Boost 700 colorways to choose from, it is all a matter of planning which colorway to cop (not unless you are Mr. Moneybags who can buy both pairs without any worries). Expect adidas to announce release details for the “Geode” Yeezy Boost 700 soon.


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A few months ago I had a chance to sit down with Leah Olson, president of AMC, the Agricultural Manufacturers of Canada, which is the industry association that represents most Canadian short-line ag manufacturers.
One of the topics we discussed was how the generation of innovators behind many of those companies—more than a few of whom began their firms in a farm workshop—are now facing the prospect of handing over their enterprises to sons and daughters to carry on, or selling them to others. That’s a situation a lot of farmers are now or will soon have to address too.
The affect of generational changeover has been playing out very publicly at Saskatchewan-based Seed Hawk over the last few years.
In 2006, management at Seed Hawk began a partnership with Sweden-based Vaderstad, selling them a part interest in the firm. In 2013 Vaderstad bought the company outright. Senior members of the Seed Hawk management team, including the former principles, agreed to stay on for a limited time in a support role to help with the transition.
Since then there have been major changes in the management and corporate structure of the firm.
The Stark Family who own Vaderstad initially decided to keep Seed Hawk a separate corporate entity with its own management team, and so far they’ve stuck to that plan. But conversations I’ve had with the new managers have made it clear the company is integrating many aspects of production wherever it makes sense to, which isn’t surprising. An announcement this week revealed the integration now extends to the brand name. Seed Hawk officially changed its name to Vaderstad, effective this week.
That’s probably not a surprise either; Seed Hawk drills have been rolling out of the Langbank plant with that name as well as the Vaderstad emblem on them for a while now. And the color of the equipment was also changed to match Vaderstad’s other products.
The response to that name change on social media has been mixed. I’ve seen a few people expressing displeasure about it. But is that fair? After all, changes of ownership in the farm equipment industry are hardly anything new. Rather, it seems to be the natural way of things, and it probably always will be.
The reality is the company has poured a lot of money in the Langbank, Saskatchewan, production plant that has been building Seed Hawk drills since the early days of the brand. It wouldn’t seem to make much sense to abandon that facility now, so production will likely remain exactly where it is for the foreseeable future. That means it will continue to have a very strong Canadian component.
And although the company is no longer a wholly Canadian entity, the technology it helped introduce to the market is now being shared globally as part of an international brand. That’s something I think Canadians can be proud of.


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Deja Vu: Google Blocks The Windows Phone YouTube App (Again)
The soap opera continues: Not 24 hours after Microsoft released a new YouTube app for Windows Phones, Google has disabled it.
As The Verge is reporting, Google says the new app violates its terms of service:
Microsoft has not made the browser upgrades necessary to enable a fully-featured YouTube experience, and has instead re-released a YouTube app that violates our Terms of Service. It has been disabled. We value our broad developer community and therefore ask everyone to adhere to the same guidelines.
This is the second time Google has blocked Microsoft’s try at making a YouTube app for Windows Phones. The first time was back in May when Google balked because the original YouTube app wasn’t showing Google ads.
Microsoft has issued a statement today saying the company is working with Google to resolve this latest issue.
As the (YouTube app) world turns….
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Dow Reduces Emissions for Styrofoam Process
Dow expects a new technology for making Styrofoam products to help reduce its emissions, however the company isn’t saying by what amount.
Dow has converted all of its North American manufacturing plants to a next-generation technology that creates the foam packing material without use of ozone-depleting agents, according to a press release.
Also, under the process, the product does not contain volatile organic compounds, or VOCs.
Dow expects that use of the Styrofoam as insulation in buildings could help reduce the 40 percent of U.S. emissions that come from structures.
The Styrofoam line of products recently received Cradle to Cradle certification.
Dow’s Styrofoam brand extruded polystyrene foam insulation and Safetouch fiberglass-free insulation both earned silver certification. Basic certification was given to Styrofoam SIS structural insulated sheathing, Styrofoam brand spray polyurethane foam insulation (CM series) and Thermax exterior insulation.
Dow announced the arrival of the new foaming agent technology in December of 2007. The new process replaces HCRC 142b, which was being phased out under the Montreal Protocol.
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Cornwall Ontario – To many shoppers from Cornwall Hannafords, is one of our favorite grocery stops over the border in Massena. Thanksgiving saw many Canadians flock to get their 39 cents per pound Turkey’s for US Thanksgiving.
Sadly, the longtime store will be closing when its lease is up in July. The St. Lawrence Mall has been suffering and now is losing the Bon Ton store. Between the two closings over 100 jobs will sadly be lost to the community.
Hannafords has consistently been the best grocery store servicing Massena for years. Many of the staff there have been there since this writer starting shopping there in 2004. The chain said they are offering staff at other locations.
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Less Shoppers on Black Friday But Still Big Deals
Black Friday has lost some of its luster, with sales starting on Thanksgiving Thursday, or even before Thanksgiving, but the shopping tradition isn’t broken yet.
Last year, shoppers parted with $10 billion on Black Friday alone. And the personal shopping website, Wallethub.com, has seen an increase in the deal or discount stores give out every year during this time, meaning stores are looking even more this year for shoppers.
According to the recent study by Wallethub.com, stores like Costco, Gamestop, and Toys R Us will be increasing their discount for consumers from last year to this year. However most stores are slightly decreasing their overall discount to consumers or giving no change from last year. Also another note from the study is that Jewelry will be a big discounted item this year as well as clothes and Computers coming in second and third respectively.


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Don’t phase out the iconic jeepney—just replace its engine
The first step in our admin's PUV modernization campaign is to switch to electric engines with some help from the private sector
Jul 29, 2017
It looks like Metro Manila is off to a good start with renewable energy. The conversion of diesel-powered jeepneys to their electric counterparts is closer than you think. Enrique “Endika” Aboitiz, chairman of Aboitiz Power Corporation, has offered a deal with the government. His local and a Spanish entrepreneur’s start-up, QEV Philippines Electromobility Solutions and Consulting Group Inc., has offered the government the conversion of 50,000 jeepneys from gas-guzzling, carbon monoxide-emitting monsters to environmentally friendly revenue makers.
The green (literally) prototype was unveiled last July 20 at Shangri-La at The Fort. Aligned with the current administration’s plan to modernize PUVs, this means the transformation of jeepney engines from diesel to electric will save the iconic vehicles instead of phasing them out.
So what’s the catch?
While the Aboitiz-co-owned start-up has also promised to provide the conversion kits and even the charging stations, the demand from the government will be translated into funding the transformations which costs up to P500,000 per jeepney, amounting to P100 million per year in an estimated period of five years.
While the project cost may seem steep, QEV suggests that the funding be taken from the sin tax which reduces 11 tons of carbon dioxide per jeepney converted. Apart from lesser emissions, the conversion would allow drivers to save as much as P40,000 a year. What QEV is reinforcing is that it is rehabilitating these public utility vehicles as opposed to replacing them.
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MasterCard Inc. has announced that it will include tokenization in its MasterPass digital wallet.
And that means one thing: Apple has rocked the payments world.
It is Apple Pay, launched just last October, that is perpetuating tokenization, and MasterCard — the payments behemoth — has noticed.
Ajay Banga, MC’s CEO, said this about tokenization yesterday:
It’s a very important aspect of where we’re going for safety and security. Apple Pay was the first version of that to come out. We’re putting it into MasterPass, just regular MasterPass over the next few–period of time … You’ll see in a year or two’s time, tokenization will become kind of fiddlesticks in the game on e-commerce.
But this seismic shift in payments is going to come at a hefty price. MasterCard disclosed yesterday that its total operating expenses climbed 26% on a year-over-year basis to $1.4 billion. A portion of that increase came from “spend around our Apple Pay and Priceless initiatives, as well as continuing our digital investments such as MasterPass and tokenization, similar to prior quarters,” Banja said.
However, Banja made it clear that MasterCard sees little choice but to play along. He said that NFC and tokenization are in “a two- or three-year cycle of a fairly dramatic increase in contactless-equipped terminals” around the world. And don’t think for a moment that MasterCard is going to miss that market shift.Like This Post


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You’ve labored and now you get a day! Celebrated on the first Monday in September to honor and recognize the American labor movement, Labor Day is Monday, September 5, 2022. The day was created as a federal holiday in 1894. In a recent Labor Day survey produced by Wallet Hub, they found that 68% of people say Labor Day is their favorite holiday with 150 million planning a cook-out and thousands packing college football stadiums.
However, the survey revealed it’s not all fun and games. There are concerns…87% of people think they should get a raise to keep up with inflation.
- Gas prices are impacting Labor Day travel. 44% of people say they’re less likely to travel this Labor Day weekend due to high gas prices, compared to last year.
- Many people have started working harder. 55% of people say they’ve worked harder since the pandemic began.
- Cost dominates Labor Day travel concerns. The biggest concern about Labor Day travel this year is cost (48%), followed by traffic (26%) and car accidents (12%).
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- 75% of Americans left vacation days unused in 2021.
- 61% of remote workers find it more difficult to unplug during off-hours now than before the pandemic.
- 818 hot dogs are eaten every second from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
- 53% of Americans plan to get out of town for the holiday weekend.
- $2644 is the average American household summer/vacation spending.
- 51% of Americans have gone a year or longer without taking a vacation.
- 164 million Americans aged 16+ are in the labor force.
- 11 are how many days off the average worker receives after 1 year of employment.
- 61% of Americans plan to BBQ over the weekend


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Is the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT the most powerful factory prepped muscle car of all time? Dodge seems to think so. It has put out a video touting the Hellcat as the most powerful production muscle car of all time.Continue reading
Chevrolet unveiled the restored 2009 Corvette ZR1 at the automotive industry SEMA Show in Las Vegas. The vehicle was damaged earlier this year when a sinkhole developed beneath the National Corvette Museum. After the SEMA Show the Chevy will return to the Bowling Green, Ky museum on permanent display.


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The suspects have been identified as 35-year-old Allen Williams and 33-year-old Roberto Grant, both of Brooklyn.
They were apprehended during a car stop in front of 34 East 12th Street at 6:30 a.m. on Friday.
Authorities have said 5 suspects entered the Cartier store at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 52nd Street last Sunday and smashed open a glass display case with a hammer.
Police said they made off with 16 wrist watches worth more than $700,000.
NYPD Commissioner William Bratton says both of the suspects arrested on Friday have extensive criminal records.
They are being investigated as part of a pattern of six similar smash and grab robberies at jewelry stores in Manhattan and Queens last year.
Investigators were reviewing security video to try to identify all of the suspects, but so far, none of the surveillance has been released.
Authorities said some wore masks and all had gloves on.
The heist occurred as football fans were flocking midtown Manhattan for festivities related to the Super Bowl in New Jersey on Sunday.


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Doosan rebrands as DEVELON
Doosan rebrands as DEVELON: global changes await construction industry
DOOSAN expects the biggest change in the history of the manufacturer – Hyundai Doosan Infracore (HDI) Construction Equipment, which has become the owner of the organization since August 2021, introduced the DEVELON brand, which will replace Doosan. Under the new name, the company will launch innovative products, further strengthening a status as a world leader in construction machinery.
DEVELON is not just a brand name.
Work on rebranding began immediately after buying a portion of Doosan’s shares last year. From the beginning, HDI set a goal to develop and implement unique solutions in the construction equipment industry, developing innovative equipment and improving existing technologies.
Aspiring to be the best
The company will maintain exceptional availability of spare parts and supply equipment to official dealers in a timely manner, including in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan. This means that DEVELON customers will be able to receive the necessary equipment in a timely manner and undergo service without any difficulties.
DEVELON will continue to operate as a subsidiary of HDI while remaining an independent manufacturer. The main goal of the company for the next five years is to enter the top 5 world players in the construction equipment industry.
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Corona 2.0 will be available for registered Corona developers on Friday, with a final version expected to ship toward the end of June for $249/year. Developers who sign up now to get Corona 1.1 for $99/year will get version 2.0 at no additional cost.
Corona allows developers to quickly and easily create 2D games and applications for iPhone and Android devices. It was developed as an alternative to Adobe's Flash and Flash Lite, technologies that Apple doesn't welcome on its hardware.
If there's no love lost between Apple and Adobe, ex-Adobe employees like Dave Lazarony, former director of engineering for Adobe's Creative Suite and a current member of Ansca's advisory board, have nothing but nice things to say about Corona.
"The new version of Corona gives developers a much quicker turn-around time for building apps across different platforms," said Lazarony in a statement. "And when you can see your results so instantaneously, you're able to test them more thoroughly and try out more ideas in a shorter amount of time -- all of which ultimately allows you to build a better piece of software."
It might seem like an odd time for Ansca to begin publicly testing Android authoring capabilities in its software, given the controversy stirred up recently by changes to Apple's iPhone OS 4.0 developer agreement. Google's Android operating system, after all, is probably the only thing Apple dislikes more than Flash at the moment.
Apple's contractual changes, ostensibly aimed at making software developed by third parties eaiser to fix when broken by Apple updates -- and widely perceived to be a hit job on Adobe's Flash Packager for the iPhone -- have called into question the viability of third-party development tools.
Apple's refusal to clarify the status of third party development tools has only made matters worse, generating widespread outrage among users of such software.
But Ansca Mobile co-founder and CTO Walter Luh, who has worked both at Apple and Adobe, doesn't appear to be worried. Having previously stated that Corona programs, though they may begin with Lua code, end up as 100% Objective-C/C++ code -- per Apple's requirement -- Luh observes that Lua code is widely used in iPhone games. It's so common that he calls it the "lingua franca" of iPhone games.
"Even Tapulous' #1-selling family of Tap Tap Revenge apps -- perhaps the most well-known apps in the history of the iPhone App Store and featured onstage by Steve Jobs himself at the OS 4.0 launch -- embed Lua," said Luh in a blog post.
The implication is that Apple is unlikely to interpret its rules so strictly as to forbid a bestselling game featured by Jobs himself. Such a move would cull hundreds of top-selling games, many by major publishers, from the Apple's App Store.
Eric Goldman, associate professor of law at Santa Clara University School of Law, says that Apple, as a platform manufacturer has more or less absolute power -- apart from some antitrust boundaries -- and this means that developers can get screwed.
"However, platform manufacturers who are capricious or unfairly screw developers will be punished when developers decide it is too risky to develop for that platform and go support other platforms," he said in an e-mail. "At that point, when developers abandon the platform, the platform is less attractive to consumers, and the platform manufacturer can lose the value of its franchise."


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The Federal Government has announced approval of a 90-day special window to register businesses at a reduced rate of N5,000 only from N10,000.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, Laolu Akande, in a statement in Abuja, said that Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, made the announcement in Enugu.
Osinbajo, who was quoted as making the announcement at the launch of the 19th edition of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) clinics in Enugu, said the special window of 90 spanned from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31.
The Vice President said that the gesture was to further ease the process of registering MSMEs in the country.
He said, “It was observed during some of the earlier editions of the MSMEs Clinics that a lot of MSMEs were finding it difficult to register their businesses as a result of cost.
“The practice since we began the MSMEs clinics is that most agencies offer price reductions, especially for registration, and all other pre-investment approvals, during the Clinics.
“So, I am pleased to announce that the Federal Government, through the Corporate Affairs Commission, has approved a special window of 90 days from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31 to register businesses at a considerably reduced rate of N5,000 only, down from as much as N10,000 previously.”
Osinbajo said the action was taken to afford more MSMEs an opportunity to formalise their businesses.


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“…The price of fruit and vegetables may be increasing, but nutritionists say it’s still cheaper overall to eat healthily.
Charitable trust 5+ A Day, which aims to get New Zealanders eating at least five servings of fruit and vegetables daily – compared prices and nutritional values of dozens of common foods.
They found healthier snacks like oranges, chopped vegetables with dip and banana smoothies were significantly cheaper than high-fat, processed alternatives.
They also calculated the cost of groceries for a family of four and found they could save up to $55 a day – and meet their recommended fruit and vegetable quota – by making healthy food choices.
Here are their findings – based on average Auckland prices in April 2012…”
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NEW YORK—More than year after its initial launch in March 2015, Sony’s PlayStation Vue is attracting a broad swath of customers, including families with kids, chief Dwayne Benefield said.
At the Next TV Summit here, Benefield, vice president and head of PlayStation Vue at Sony Interactive Entertainment, said that while two-thirds of its audience is still comprised of millennials, about one-quarter of subscribers are new to the PlayStation medium. That growth has been fueled by the addition of new platforms that can run on the service.
“The new platforms definitely helped,” Benefield said in a fireside chat with Next TV editor Jeff Baumgartner. “Having sticks from Amazon and Roku that are sub-$50 has helped with the ease of access to the service. PlayStation Vue is for the gamer household, including the children, wives and partners of the user.” The typical PlayStation Vue customer is a heavy sports fan — its basic package includes all the Fox Sports and NBC Sports Group regional sports networks — with adult cartoons and some kids programming also among the service’s most-watched shows, he said.
PlayStation Vue has worked hard to include broadcast content in the service — it has reached deals to carry the owned-and-operated stations of all four major broadcast networks. Expanding beyond those markets has been more difficult, mainly because local network affiliates are owned by several different station groups, but Benefield said the idea is to make local TV available across the footprint.
In markets where it currently doesn’t offer live local broadcasters, it offers “slim” versions of its three core packages — Access, Core and Elite — that allow users to watch on-demand broadcast content the day after its original airing. An Ultra TV package that includes HBO, Showtime and more than 100 other channels was added last month.
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NetSuite's channel sales grew 50 percent in its first quarter, contributing heavily to the cloud application vendor's 32-percent growth in the period.
CEO Zach Nelson, on an earnings call with financial analysts Thursday, said NetSuite continues to recruit solution providers that are adding the company's cloud computing software and services to their offerings.
For the first fiscal quarter ended March 31, NetSuite reported sales of $91.6 million, up 32 percent from $69.3 million in the same period last year. The company's net loss also increased, however, to just over $13.0 million from $7.7 million last year.
Subscription revenue was nearly $74.0 million in the quarter, while professional services and other revenue totaled $17.7 million.
"This growth was driven by excellent performance across the company with revenue in each major vertical, geography and channel growing in double-digits," Nelson said. "Q1 was a strong quarter on the new customer front," Nelson said. "We added roughly 325 total new customers and we did it with an average [deal] selling price that was 14 percent higher than the prior year."
"Our channel sales efforts continue to show great success and accelerated to 50 percent growth year-over-year," the CEO said. That included growth from what he called "the classic VAR channel" that services SMB customers and systems integrators that work with enterprise customers.
"I think the really exciting thing about the channel is, we've always managed the business on things that we feel that we can control pretty tightly, which is really our direct sales and service efforts. The beauty of what's happening now is some of these things that are outside of our control, which are really demand-driven, and by that I mean things that are going through the channel are really starting to grow very nicely, both in the mid-market and in the enterprise."
NEXT: CEO Says Channel Remains In Early Stages Of Re-Inventing Itself For Cloud ComputingWhile continuing to grow its SMB customer base, NetSuite is increasingly counting big companies among its sales wins. Nelson said the number of sales contracts valued at $100,000 or more grew 40 percent year-over-year. Average deal size increased 14 percent in the quarter. Sales of NetSuite's OneWorld application suite, which is designed for global companies, accounted for 40 percent of new business deals in the quarter, Nelson said.
The company also reported strong growth in its Ecommerce cloud applications.
"I think we're probably in, sort of, the third inning of the channel re-architecting itself for cloud solutions," Nelson said, in response to a question about where the channel stands in re-inventing itself for the cloud computing market. "software-as-a-service was enormously disruptive to the traditional VAR channel." He cited several solution providers, including Sage partner Blytheco and Microsoft partner RSM McGladrey, which are both building cloud-computing practices based on NetSuite's products.
NetSuite is holding its SuiteWorld conference for customers and partners in San Jose in May, and Nelson promised "major announcements" about new products and technologies. "On the partnership front, we have many announcements slated, several of which will surprise the market," he said.
Nelson said 2013 will be "a year of investment," noting that the company has been aggressively hiring sales personnel and talent for the company's product development operations. In the quarter, the company added 175 employees, many of them in sales.
For the current quarter, NetSuite is forecasting sales to reach between $100 million and $101 million. And because of the strong first quarter, the company raised its revenue forecast for all of 2013 to between $404 million to $408 million, up from $397 million to $402 million.
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As 2017 draws to a close, its time to take a look at what the next trends in digital marketing will be for 2018.
The importance of video content across social channels was obvious during 2017, however, this is only the beginning and the trend is expected to continue throughout 2018. While social video is effective, businesses need to make sure they’re creating content that actually reflects their business objectives.
In 2018, mobile video consumption is expected to grow by 25% (and video consumption is supposed to decline on laptops and desktop computers for the first time ever), so get ahead of the competition now by planning a mobile video strategy.
Paying Pays Off
2018 could very well be the end of organic reach on social media. The general consensus seems to be that the time for free, organic reach has passed and you need to approach your new social media marketing campaign with some advertising budget. Facebook appears to be at the front of this trend with a lot of social marketers looking to increase their spending on ads via the network as more and more brands use sponsored ads.
Tell Your Story
Using Stories as a marketing tool is still very new to many brands, but expect to see a lot more brands using this feature in 2018. The main reason for this is the fact the feature is relatively new to channels like Instagram as it was only introduced last year. However, over 200 million people use Instagram Stories, overtaking Snapchat – the creators of the concept, and the popularity of the feature doesn’t look like it’s going to slow down anytime soon. Stories provide marketers with a new content creation tool that is quick and easy to use and gets right in front of your audience.
Trust The Transparent
Transparency and trust are already a big deal when consumers look for local businesses. Everyone reads reviews and any savvy shopper will search for your social media profiles. Customers want to know everything they can possibly know about you before they come to your business. Google recently added an extra layer of verification and trust to home services businesses with its Local Services Ads. With the onset of new privacy regulations across the globe, brands that sell to customers in Europe and beyond must be prepared to comply. The new European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in particular, will redefine what online privacy means for all organisations, and it will have a massive effect on anyone who sends ezines or any such form of advertising, where they now need to now get customer consent to market directly to them.
Celebrities are often accused of photoshopping their Instagram images, giving their followers an unrealistic standard of beauty to compare themselves to. Fashion retailers are also known to edit their images. Consumers are tiring of highly polished and photoshopped images and media. With these ever-growing cynical audiences brands will start to realise authenticity is key. Content will be more genuine, shunning the airbrush with a surge in live videos and real-life content. Brands such as ASOS already have started to use untouched images of models with social media users praising the brand for its honest portrayal of models’ bodies.
Twitter Will Change
While other social media platforms are seeing steady or rapid growth, Twitter has failed to grow its user base in 2017. The platform recently attempted to revive its reach by expanding its traditional 140 character count to 280 characters, but any success from this has yet to be seen. Some users are actually annoyed that what they viewed as a differentiator for the platform is now gone. Using under 140 characters forced individuals and brands to be precise and succinct in their ideas. It was challenging but fun. Now Twitter will have no option but to make further changes, or continue to die a slow internet death.
Content Will Always Be King
Content has, and always will be the most important part of any marketing strategy. According to a report from Smart Insights, 70% of people said they’d rather learn about a business through an article than an ad. Not only that, but content marketing is also cheaper than many other forms of marketing, plus it can produce more leads. Remember, mix up your content with a range of video, blog posts, infographics and keep it valuable to the customer.


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Smartphones will make up more than half of all mobile phones shipped worldwide by the end of Quarter 1 this year.
Data from the 4th quarter of 2012 shows that smartphones shipments hit a record high of 44% of the overall mobile phone market of 472 million. With smartphone numbers growing by almost 40% year on year every quarter, while shipments of feature phones dropped by around 20% in the same period, this would put smartphones ahead of feature phones shipments (at 286 million vs. 211 million) during the first quarter of 2013.
Sales of smart devices such as smartphones and tablets are poised to pass the one billion mark in 2013, as the consumerisation trend hits businesses with an “unstoppable force” according to a recent survey. Continue reading →
The International Data Corporation’s (IDC) today released its Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report for Q2 of 2012. The report shows the breakdown of smartphone operating systems (OS) in all handset worldwide shipments over the months April, May and June, covering Android, iOS, BlackBerry OS, Symbian, Windows 7/Windows mobile and Linux. Continue reading →
A recent report released by O2 UK shows how mobile phones have now become so much more than just a device to call people. The report, called All About You asked users how much time people spend doing various tasks via their smartphones.
The report also asked respondents what they used their smartphones for. The results reveal how ubiquitous these devices are becoming in everyday life, in places replacing other devices, such as alarm clocks and watches, prompting David Johnson, the General Manager Devices for O2 UK, to say: “Smartphones are now being used like a digital ‘Swiss Army Knife”. Continue reading →


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Mistubishi Motors North America (MMNA) has taken the wraps off the their 2016 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport, better known under the ASX name over on our shores - it’s easier to spell, for starters. The update comes with new exterior design elements paired with interior enhancements.
First of all, the most immediate difference to come from the new crossover is the revised front end that features Mitsubishi’s “Dynamic Shield” design. Apart from that, the 2016 model year comes with a fresh set of 18-inch wheels, LED turn signals, and more pronounced wheel arches.
Moving on inside, there’s a new 6.1-inch infotainment display as well as higher quality seat fabrics with a new light grey interior option. There’s no mention of the inclusion of Android Auto or Apple CarPlay support that made its way into cheaper 2017 Mitsubishi Mirage that was announced at the same time, nor the EcoPunch-equipped stereo.
Apart from that, really, there isn’t much else that’s new on offer about this facelifted version of the ASX (or Outlander Sport). It’s still a solid entrant in the competitive compact crossover market.
Assuming the engine choices remain static, the 2.0-litre four cylinder from the current ASX is expected to make a return with 150PS and 197Nm of torque.
"The Outlander Sport is a brand leader for Mitsubishi Motors, and we are excited to unveil this eye-catching 2016 model-year," said MMNA executive vice president, Don Swearingen. "The Outlander Sport has always been a fun vehicle that delivers on its promise of reliability and value, and the 2016 model year continues to do so with a great new family look that unifies the Mitsubishi CUV lineup.”
We’ll have more on this car once we get wind of exactly when Mitsubishi Motors Malaysia will be bringing it for sale here.
There's just something about cars. It's a conveyance, it's a liability, it's a tool; but it can also be a source of joy, pride, inspiration and passion. It's much like clothes versus fashion. And like the latter, the pursuit of perfection never ends.


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Before bullets tore through a community barbecue in Scarborough, leaving two dead and more than 20 injured, the event, which attracted more than 200 youth, was advertised as a Hennessy Block Party by the organizer.
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Photos of the cognac, which has a reputation as the go-to drink in hip hop circles, were posted to the Twitter account 2ToneShorty advertising the party.
Leasha Daniels was responsible for handing out the free drinks.
“We just went out to the liquor store and bought a bunch of bottles,” Ms. Daniels said. “If you want to have a party, you have to pay for the liquor for it.”
According to the LCBO website, the roughly two dozen 750ml bottles of Hennessy depicted in the Twitter photos sell for between $60 and $75 a bottle, meaning more than $1,440 was shelled out for liquor the party, which was held in an outdoor common area of the Toronto Community Housing Corporation complex on Danzig Street.


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New World plans uncertain
A long-awaited $14 million New World supermarket in Whitby may not be going ahead, KapiMana News has learned.
Plans to build a New World in Adventure Park, opposite the present New World in Whitby Mall, have been put on hold along with all Foodstuffs’ North Island projects.
Countdown has bought a large section of land in Aotea and it is not yet clear whether that influenced Foodstuffs’ decision.
Asked about the proposed Whitby New World, Foodstuffs group communication manager Katherine Klouwens said: ‘‘Foodstuffs owns a site across the road from the existing store, but we have no announcements regarding this site at the current time.’’
It is a far cry from earlier news that the new New World would be three times the size of the existing Whitby store.
The Countdown land is the Aotea Camping Grounds in Whitford Brown Ave.
It is unclear whether another Countdown store is to be built so close to the company’s Porirua and Tawa stores.
A spokeswoman for the Countdown chain said: ‘‘We can confirm that we have purchased a site in Aotea.
‘‘ It’s very early days. We’re happy to update you further as we move forward.’’


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Two Pakistani advertising women make it to the global list for their outstanding talent.
Monday, June 10, brought great news for Pakistan’s advertising fraternity with the announcement of Pitch 100 Superwomen 2019. For the first time, two Pakistani advertising women made it to the list: Atiya Zaidi, Executive Creative Director, JWT/Grey and Maria Shamsi, Associate Creative Director, Synergy Dentsu.
Both women were nominated by their industry peers, including past and present colleagues as well as bosses, who, according to Zaidi, wrote recommendations, which were “quite detailed and unlike a simple vote.” Zaidi is also the first Pakistani woman to have been selected for the Cannes Lions ‘See It Be It’ event.
Expressing her gratitude, Zaidi adds that the generosity of our advertising industry is often pushed under the rug; “what we see is a very dog-eat-dog version of the industry but on the other hand, there are men and women reaching out to rivals to lift them up.”
Zaidi has proved that herself as she nominated Shamsi for this year’s Pitch 100 Superwomen list.
In Shamsi’s words, “Atiya is the reason I’m working in advertising and I cannot thank this superwoman enough for believing in me and investing her time to coach me.”
At the same time, Shamsi believes it was her drive for creative excellence and nonconformist approach to challenging the norms and pushing for greater and better things that helped her to be nominated for the much coveted list.
The Pitch 100 Superwomen initiative was launched in 2017 by Sherry Collins, Founder of The Pitch Fanzine – a movement initiated in 2015 to challenge inequality, discrimination and the lack of diversity in the creative industry while simultaneously showcasing outstanding contemporary talent such as animators, artists, brand founders, creative directors, illustrators, photographers and producers via its publication Pitch (in which the Pitch 100 Superwomen 2019 list appears).
For Shamsi and Zaidi, being part of this list is great for their resume because Pitch is read by the creative industry and decision-makers across the globe.
Pitch hosts all the 100 Superwomen featured at the D&AD’s (Global Association for Creative Advertising & Design Awards) London office and both women believe that “it will be a great experience to meet and hear from other fantastic women from all over the world and up your game.”
Shamsi wants all women in advertising to keep believing in themselves. As for Zaidi, the fact that this year another Pakistani woman Hira Muhibullah will be attending Cannes Lions ‘See It Be It’, is a bigger success.
“We will all get what we are meant to get and when we put the spotlight on others, the whole room becomes brighter.”


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Top 5 Headlines on Digital Currency:
- Alternative financial services firm, Valkyrie Digital Assets, has become the latest company to file for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) offering indirect exposure to BTC via cash-settled futures contracts – Investing.
- San Francisco-based technology firm Metromile has used 10% of the funds it previously said would be allocated towards crypto to buy Bitcoin (BTC) – Investing.
- Indian bitcoin exchange Unocoin will now allow its users to purchase everyday consumer items such as pizza, coffee, and ice cream in the country using bitcoin, local news outlet News18 reported – Investing.
- The private investment management firm with $402 billion in assets under management (AUM), Neuberger Berman Group LLC, has revealed the company now has active exposure to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin – Investing.
- PNC bank, the 5th largest in the U.S, revealed in its newsletter that it has partnered with Coinbase, the U.S’ biggest crypto exchange. The collaboration may come in the form of crypto investment services for PNC clients – Investing.
- The bitcoin moves in rigid boundaries and consolidates around $45,200 mark.
- The pair made intraday high at $46,236 and low at $44,835 mark.
- Today a day chart is up but H1 chart with triple EMA likely to give successful crossover for the bearish trend in short run.
- A sustained close above $46,900 on H1 chart requires for the upside rally.
- Alternatively, a consistent close below $44,800 will check further supports.
Take a look and do trade wisely!


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As China reopens, brands and retailers worldwide are looking to engage with consumers in the world’s second-largest economy.
Many are working on marketing campaigns with Alibaba Group to identify fast-evolving customer needs and communicate with over 1 billion Chinese digital consumers.
“We’ve seen more purpose-driven and lifestyle-driven marketing campaigns in the past year,” said Chris Tung, Alibaba’s Chief Marketing Officer, who is the founder and one of the judges in Alibaba’s annual marketing competition.
Alibaba invited marketing teams from across its own business units to submit their best work from the past 12 months. Drawing from over 100 marketing campaigns, Alibaba’s on-demand platform Ele.me and its cross-border e-commerce marketplace Tmall Global won prizes.
We scoured the competition entries and distilled five winning strategies for overseas brands that want to enter China.
#5: Reach Your Target Audience
To resonate with potential customers, marketers must first identify their target audience from an array of niche consumer segments.
Alibaba’s bargain marketplace Taobao Deals launched a marketing campaign to attract shoppers responsible for buying groceries and managing household tasks. Squeezed by increasing living expenses, many of them are trying to find bargain deals.
Taobao Deals produced a documentary-style video about the toll of household expenses on family checkbooks in China. It launched a retail campaign to provide up to RMB100 ($14.6) million in subsidies to consumers buying products from the platform.
It isn’t always straightforward. Sometimes your target audience, like senior consumers with a lower internet penetration rate, can be hard to reach.
To cross that digital divide, Alibaba’s B2C marketplace Tmall invited Generation Z family members to take family photos with silver-haired relatives who like to shop.
#4: Make the Campaign Interactive
With the proliferation of social media, customers can become brand ambassadors and co-creators to boost engagement.
Alibaba’s on-demand delivery platform Ele.me launched an interactive marketing campaign in June last year, encouraging consumers to enter a quiz to earn free food and drinks from merchants.
The game changer was when hundreds of thousands of Ele.me users started to share screenshots of their free food and drinks on social media. The campaign went viral in early August when residents from hundreds of cities got involved.
Within six months, 100 million people joined the game, and thousands of merchants leveraged the campaign to promote their businesses and build brand awareness.
“It created a great interactive promotion scheme that could be replicated in future marketing campaigns,” said Tung.
#3: Marketing with Compassion
Empathy resonates best when it comes to marketing during a crisis.
In collaboration with nine consumer brands, Tmall launched its “Thank you, my neighbor” campaign to document how Shanghainese people banded together during the quarantine of the city last year. Residents sent gift packets to their neighbors in gratitude for their help throughout the lockdown.
Elsewhere, Alibaba’s navigation platform Amap highlighted the power of travel in uniting friends and family during China’s Spring Festival travel rush this year.
Amap also used the opportunity to share holiday travel tips and audio-visual navigation guides, showing how the app makes it safer and easier for long-distance travelers in China.
#2: Make B2B Campaigns Tangible
Traditionally, business-to-business marketing targets the individuals that make purchase decisions. But increasingly, B2B companies are first targeting consumers to build brand recognition before generating demand for their products.
Alibaba’s cloud computing arm Alibaba Cloud is making highly technical concepts more accessible by giving young Chinese directors access to cloud computing technology for movie production. It sponsored ten budding directors to use its palm-sized Wuying cloud computer to render films on the cloud and will unveil the results at an upcoming international film festival.
There’s more to come. Alibaba’s B2B marketplace Alibaba.com invited five Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) to sell products from its platform at landmarks in New York.
“We want the buyers to know that consumers are still willing to purchase,” Xin Shige, a project manager at Alibaba.com, said during the competition.
By showing that consumers are willing to pay much higher prices than expected, it reassured merchants who source products on its platform.
“The goal of communicating to consumers is to influence buyers’ behavior,” said Xin.
#1: Leverage Platform Power
For the ultimate leg up, brands can lean on a partner’s ability to reach their customers.
Tmall Global’s marketing campaign during last year’s 6.18 Mid-Year Shopping Festival and 11.11 Global Shopping Festival promoted new products from international brands designed for the Chinese market.
The China-exclusive products ranged from a Ruyi necklace from Austrian jeweler Swarovski to a piggy bank-styled gift box from Swiss chocolatier Lindt.
Leveraging marketing support from the platform, the products reached a combined gross merchandise value (GMV) of over RMB400 million on Tmall Global, according to the platform.
As part of the campaign, Australian supplement brand Swisse rolled out mini calcium supplement tablets that are easier to swallow. The new product launch drove its 11.11 GMV up by around 23% year-over-year.
For more stories on marketing in China, go to our retail & e-commerce page here


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Blogging as a business or for your business involves a lot more than just spewing thoughts onto a page and hitting the Publish button. There's a lot of strategy that should be going into your business blog. Members of the small business community discussed some tips and more in this week's Small Business Community Roundup.
For a few months a year, the Mount Hope Estate and Winery in Pennsylvania transforms its grounds into a Renaissance-era village, complete with royal court, period food, performers, and of course, wine. The event is attended by thousands every year.
It's time to announcement the winners of SSTV Giveaway at Small Business Trends. Kudos to the creators of the two winning tweets: Kimberly Thompson and Suzanne Lankford.
For a lot of PC users this week, anticipation grew around the release of a new operating system, Windows 10. That big release from Microsoft topped the headlines. Check out that and more in this week's Small Business News and Information Roundup.
Every social media site has its own set of best practices to follow. Facebook is no different, of course. Follow these guidelines to effectively market your business on the biggest social site of them all.
A partnership between Sage and Deloitte is allowing Sage customers to have access to real-time data driven financial and operations services delivered to them via cloud-based technology.
Doist, the company behind Todoist, has grown from 1 to 40 employees in a short amount of time. That kind of growth can be traced to the company's ability to embrace a remote work environment. The staff of the company is scattered around the globe.
Steve Griffiths of DialogTech: Not Tracking Calls Could Cost 50 Percent of Mobile Marketing Conversions
Even though the smartphone has become a ubiquitous part of the technological landscape, one of their key functions is often forgotten. While they can be used to search the Web, update your social media account and check email, they are also ... well, phones. If you lose site of this fact as a marketer, you may have a problem.


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Samsung has signed an agreement with fashion designer Andre Kim for designs of the Zipel and Hauzen brand of home appliances, according to The Korea Times. The company will also use the designer's name in a new lineup of products that will be on the market late in 2006. LG Electronics has stated that it will be working with Tricia Guild, a British interior designer on high-end washing machines.
According to The Korea Times, the companies are using the partnerships with the designers to give consumers a premium brand, treating the washer status as a collector's item.
The companies have already worked with various Korean and foreign artists on mobile phones and laptops. Samsung worked with Anna Sui on its mobile phones, and LG collaborated with Roberto Cavalli for its phones in Europe. Home appliances are new fields for both firms to work on with fashion designers.
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This week’s episode sees us exploring the ultimate in fan service – LEGO Dimensions is adding about a million new characters, worlds and features in Year 2, and we chatted to TT Games about what’s new and why you should be excited about it.
For something a bit different, Jonny gets his sport on as he catches up with EA Sports to talk Madden NFL 17! It’s out this month, and the team believes it’s the best NFL game yet.
And – in case all this modern stuff was gettin’ you down – Mike dives all the way to the bottom of his Videogame Shoebox to dig up the first game he ever played: Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel’s Castle, on the older-than-old-school Atari 2600.
…plus, of course, we have all the latest in gaming news – this is Player Attack!
Each week, we take the biggest and most interesting news to hit the pages of Player Attack and wrap it all up into a half-hour show. Player Attack is screened Friday nights on Australian subscription TV channel Aurora and in New Zealand on FaceTV. The following Monday, the video is released online as a handy-dandy Player Attack vidcast.
Each episode is available via YouTube and iTunes – and we hear rumours we may be dotted around the place in other online locations. Hit play, subscribe, and let Jessica and the team bring you up to date.


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Our awesome Energy team scooped another top award last week.
The Eagle Brewery has signed a three-year sponsorship deal with the Bedford Park Concert Series and we’re giving you the chance to win Rita Ora tickets.
CEO Ralph will receive an honorary degree from Keele University this summer.
We’ve launched a brand new beer, brewed on behalf of supermarket giant Asda. You can now find it in 300 stores across the country.
Our annual beer reports are out now! They’re the perfect guides to help pub managers and supermarkets know what beers to stock for the year ahead.
Our Estates teammates made the most of their skills when they supported Wombourne’s girl guides and scouts group last week.
Issue 3 of our newspaper for teammates lands at sites this week.
The latest Accent menu landed at 17 pubs this week.
No.1 Horninglow Street is out now! Grab yours, exclusively at Waitrose.
The Lost & Found Sheffield has been shortlisted for this year’s Restaurant and Bar Design Awards.