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David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital reduced its stakes in iPhone maker Apple Inc. and automaker General Motors Co. in the third quarter, according to a Tuesday regulatory filing. Greenlight's stake in Apple stood at 2,192,900 shares as of Sept. 30, reducing its stake by nearly 1.74 million shares, or 44%, compared to the end of the second-quarter, according to filing tracking service Whalewsidom.com. Greenlight cut its stake in GM by nearly 20.2 million shares, or 36%, to 34,561,500 shares, but also bought 2 million call options, which give a holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy the underlying security at a set price by a certain date. Greenlight bought 3.6 million shares of mattress maker Tempur Sealy International , while new stakes included nearly 8.4 million shares of Exela Technologies Inc. and 1.7 million shares of Venator Materials PLC .Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.
Hitachi Launches New Business Entity Hitachi Vantara To Solve Business And Societal Challenges
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Philippines says will lift Uber suspension if hefty fine paid
* Regulator lifts one-month suspension on Uber. * Regulator orders Uber to pay $3.7 mln in fines. * Uber says will comply with the conditions. By Manolo Serapio Jr. The Philippine transport regulator said on Friday it would lift a one-month suspension on Uber Technologies Inc if it paid a penalty of 190 million pesos, a fine nearly 20 times greater than Uber had offered to pay.
Investor Benchmark claims ex-Uber CEO is a 'corrosive influence'
Benchmark Capital called ousted Uber Technologies Inc Chief Executive Travis Kalanick a "corrosive influence" on the ride-services company in a court filing on Thursday, the latest salvo in a battle between the two over Kalanick's presence on Uber's board.
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Wednesday, 12 Jun 2013
Google has just announced the acquisition of Waze, a social mapping and navigation app that features real-time traffic data provided by its users. While Google did not disclose the purchase price, the New York Times reports that the deal is in the region of US$1 billion.
Tuesday, 11 Jun 2013
Made with the highest grade Japanese electrolyte and solid capacitors as well as 42mm transformers, the V-series PSUs include extra slim flat-ribbon cables which make cable management a breeze.
Featuring PlanOn's new SaaS (Software as a Service) cloud-based Mobile Enhanced Print Application, the PrintStik prints from Android and Blackberry smartphones via Bluetooth, as well as from computers and laptops through USB.
Apple has released a developer preview of OS X Mavericks, the 10th major release of OS X.
Apple has announced iTunes Radio, a free Internet radio service featuring over 200 stations and an extensive catalog of music from the iTunes Store, combined with proprietary features.
MOL has partnered with Blizzard Entertainment, developer and publisher of WoW, Diablo III, and StarCraft II, to provide MOLPoints as a payment option on Blizzard's Battle.net gaming service.
Club3D announced today that it will now be an exclusive AMD partner, focusing entirely on AMD's graphics cards and related products.
After the PlayStation 4 did not show up to its own dedicated press event, Sony has finally unveiled images of their new gaming console during their press conference at E3 2103.
Apple just announced that it has 900,000 apps on its App Store, of which 375,000 are designed for the iPad.
Monday, 10 Jun 2013
SingTel will be revising its excess data charges for its BroadBand on Mobile plans from July 2013. Hit the link to find out more. (Update: A SingTel spokesperson said that the information was erroneously posted on the company's website and has since been removed.)

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Aero Club, makers of Woodland brand of shoes and apparels, is planning to expand its second brand ‘Woods’ into office and semi-formal wear (apparels).
This apart, standalone expansion of ‘Woods’ stores is also on cards.
Woods was introduced nearly a decade ago as a sub-brand of Woodland focusing on formal footwear for men and competing with the likes of Clarks, Aldo and Hush Puppies.
The initial focus was on international designs as compared to outdoor shoes and boots under the ‘Woodland’ brand.
Later, the sub-brand was extended to include women’s footwear.
Subsequently, it was elevated as a standalone retail entity. Approximately, 60 per cent of Woods’ current turnover comes from women’s footwear. The remaining 40 per cent come from men’s footwear.
In FY19, Woodland reported a turnover of ₹1,250 crore. Woods’ share was 20 per cent of it, or ₹250 crore.
According to Harkirat Singh, MD, Aero Club, plans are afoot to expand the brand (Woods) as a complete lifestyle one by adding formal and semi-formal wear range for both men and women.
“Woods found traction as a standalone retail entity focussed on premium formal and casual footwear. We would now like to extend it to apparels,” he told BusinessLine.
New export markets such as Australia and Canada are being explored, even as the company remains focused on existing markets such as GEC countries, Russia and South Africa.
According to Singh, Woods will be expanded as a separate retail entity with standalone stores. There are already 10 such standalone stores across Delhi, Bengaluru, Kerala, Hyderabad, Chennai, Patna and Mumbai.
The refocus on expanding Woods as a separate retail entity comes nearly after two years when demonetisation and roll-out of the GST had stopped its expansion drive.
At least six stores, all company-owned-and-company-operated, are planned by the end of this year at a cost of ₹10-12 crore.
These stores will be set up in malls with focus on Tier-I cities, or those which has a high purchasing power.


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The Vineyard at Stockcross has been named as the winner in the restaurant category of Wines of Germany’s first UK Riesling Week, held earlier this summer.
The restaurant, along with winning retailer Corks Out, receives £1,000 towards new German wine listings, and a member of its wine service staff will get a place on Wines of Germany’s Sommelier Spring Class trip to Germany next April.
Meanwhile, runners-up Inverarity 121 and Lutyens will receive £500 towards new listings.
The Vineyard at Stockcross won praise from the judges for its ‘extensive’ Riesling Week offers, including 12 wines categorised by style, while chef sommelier Yohann Jousselin MS created a food and wine matching menu, and held tastings throughout Riesling Week, from 23-31 July.
The promotion with retailers and restaurants around the UK originated in the US in 2005, aiming to highlight the charms of the Riesling grape to consumers.
‘It’s been fantastic to see such esteemed restaurants and retailers getting behind the initiative and even better to hear the positive feedback they’ve been getting from their customers, who for too long have shied away from German wines,’ said Nicky Forrest, Wines of Germany UK managing director.
‘We are now planning to build on the success of this year’s promotion to extend the reach of the campaign next year.’


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Just four days after an influential US congressman called on the Justice Department to look into Chinese investment in the entertainment world, Hollywood’s best-known director, Steven Spielberg, announced a tie-up with a Hong Kong movie company.
Alibaba Pictures would take a minority stake in his firm.
Spielberg and Alibaba founder Jack Ma appeared together at an event in Beijing to celebrate a wide-ranging pact between the director’s Amblin Partners and Ma’s Alibaba Pictures, the movie unit of internet giant Alibaba.
The deal is the latest in a growing flood of Chinese companies carving up Tinseltown. As Chinese companies buy into Hollywood, they gain expertise in creating higher-quality movies to distribute into what will soon be the No. 1 movie market in the world.
China’s box office is expected to hit $12 billion over the trailing 12 months (or “TTM”) by early 2018, consultancy PwC predicts. The US box office was $11.1 billion last year.
Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas), chair of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies, flagged a huge rise in Chinese money in the US entertainment business in an Oct. 6 letter to the Justice Department.
Chinese investment in the US economy rose from $2 billion in 2010 to $20 billion this year, Culberson wrote.
Culberson wants the Justice Department to look into how the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) is written and applied.
“These acquisitions, as well as many more co-financing arrangements, allow Chinese state-controlled companies a significant degree of control over the financing and content of American media that raises serious concerns about how this may be used for propaganda purposes,” Culberson complained.
Meanwhile, the Government Accountability Office said last week it would review the Treasury-supervised Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. The GAO was lobbied by a cross-party group of Congress members who wrote in September about their concerns about the amount of Chinese money flowing into Hollywood in September.
Earlier in the summer, the head of Chinese commercial developer Dalian Wanda said he would spend $2 billion on Hollywood deals, including buying one of the large half-dozen studios.
“If one of the big six would be willing to be sold to us, we would be interested,” said Wanda’s Wang Jianlin, adding, “If we are to build a real movie empire, this is a necessary step.”
Alibaba and Dalian Wanda have been among the most aggressive investors in Hollywood’s movie and TV business. Wanda, for example, owns Legendary Entertainment and the theater chain AMC Entertainment, which is itself in talks to acquire theater chain Carmike for $1.1 billion.
Wanda is in talks to spend up to $1 billion on Dick Clark Productions, which airs movie and TV award shows.
If each of the deals is successful, Wanda could, theoretically, make a movie via Legendary that would be released via its AMC theater chain and could win an award at a show filmed by Dick Clark Productions, which produces the Emmys and the Golden Globes.
PwC Director Matt Lieberman explained that such tie-ups help American companies navigate strict ownership regulations. Beijing limits Hollywood releases shown in China to just 34 per year.
These deals help producers “get around ownership rules but not get past censors,” said Lieberman. “It is illegal to screen films that focus on topics that are too graphic or violent or show China in a negative light.”
Here is a list of the major deals over the past few years involving Chinese companies buying into Hollywood. They have accelerated in recent months.
2012: Wanda acquired theater chain AMC for $2.6 billion. (AMC then makes an offer for Carmike theaters for $1.1 billion)
2014: Fosun invests $200 million in Jeff Robinov’s Sony venture Studio 8.
2015: Chinese studio Bona Film Group said it planned to invest $235 million in six 20th Century Fox movies.
2015: Warner Bros. forms China Media Capital to develop Chinese-language films.
2015: Lionsgate signs $1.5 billion co-production pact with Hunan TV.
2016: Wanda pays $3.5 billion for Legendary Entertainment, which made “Godzilla,” and “Jurassic World.”
2016: Alibaba Pictures has backed several Paramount/Skydance movies including “Star Trek: Beyond,” “Flying Tigers” and “Rogue Nation.”
2016: Film financier IM Global is acquired by Tencent-backed Tang Media Partners.
2016: Wanda in talks to acquire Dick Clark Productions for $1 billion.
2016: Jack Ma’s Alibaba Pictures invests in Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners.


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CBD may be legal, but its safety could be a problem. Consumer Reports investigates whether CBD products are tested for contaminants or how much CBD they contain.
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* FTSE 100 up 0.3 pct, gains for 4th straight session
* Burberry soars on strong Christmas sales
* Index seen at 6,820 near-term - Charles Stanley
By Tricia Wright
LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Britain’s top share index rose to 2-1/2 month highs on Wednesday, led by a steep rise Burberry as investors welcomed a robust trading update from the luxury brand.
Investors are watching corporate updates for clues as to the likely strength of the quarterly reporting season, and whether it will justify high valuations after a bumper 2013.
Signs of an upturn in the global economy, which has experienced a long and sluggish recovery following the financial crisis, are boding well for company earnings, traders say.
As such, the World Bank has just raised its forecast for global growth for the first time in three years.
Burberry jumped 5.8 percent after it unveiled a 14 percent rise in underlying retail revenue in the Christmas quarter.
The 158-year-old seller of raincoats and leather goods said it made 528 million pounds ($869.1 million) of retail revenue in the three months to Dec. 31. That compared to analysts’ average forecast of 520 million pounds.
“Obviously the headline beat gives them their initial move up, but what they’ve done is got their mix of online and offline right... I would buy it and I think it will probably make new highs this year,” Joe Rundle, head of trading at ETX Capital said, adding that 1,700 pence, near last year’s peak, was his initial target.
“I don’t think it’s going to be a stellar earnings season but I think it’s definitely going to show positivity... The world economy is improving and... I think the markets are a buy.”
The FTSE 100 was up 22.60 points, or 0.3 percent, at 6,789.46 points by 0902 GMT, on course for its fourth straight session of gains, having received a boost on Tuesday when forecast-beating U.S. December retail sales offset concern sparked by last week’s disappointing U.S. jobs report.
Charles Stanley analyst Bill McNamara said that while the latest rally has added only around 1 percent, the “impression is that the UK index is starting to find its feet” after a tentative start to the new year.
“Overall, the technical picture remains supportive of the rally and a test of (the October high, at 6,820) looks like a realistic short-term expectation,” he said.
Stocks trading without the attraction of their latest dividend, namely Ashtead, Imperial Tobacco and Next, clipped 3.39 points from the index on Wednesday.


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If you’re hard pressed to find a 1974 Porsche 911 Turbo 3.0 on Carsales, any easy cop-out for all would be this 180-piece LEGO racer for a cool 20 bucks.
With the arrival of the new generation 992 this week, we take a look back at a 55-year history.
Diamonds are made under pressure.
Porsche spent 18 months creating this one-off version of its 1998 Porsche 911 Turbo “Project Gold” 993.
Wrap your head around it.
An eager collector has dropped big money for a Victorian vanity plate.
The Porsche Writing Desk dreamt up by design firm 3 GJB 17 features a uniquely original Porsche 911 rear panel.
The final and most expensive Porsche GT3 RS 4.0 ever produced for comedian and Porsche collector Jerry Seinfeld.
Fear not, the bloke’s alive and relatively unscathed thanks to a solid roll cage.
The Porsche 911, while being an icon of the German motoring industry for decades, hasn’t seen a face-lift since 2011.
Custom outfitters Auto-Dynamics have recalibrated our perceptions of a car we previously thought couldn’t look any more badass.
The flagship of the Porsche fleet, the iconic 911 variant, saw its one-millionth production car roll off the line this week in Zuffenhausen.


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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Penn Traffic Co. here said last week it expects to begin investing more heavily in new and replacement stores and technology now that its existing store base has been largely upgraded. The company said it has remodeled or refurbished 80 of its 219 stores over the past two and a half years, or approximately 43% of its square footage. "So we're right where we want to be," Joseph V. Fisher, president and chief executive officer, said during a conference call with investors ...
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A menswear clothing store named "Hitler" opened up earlier this month in Ahmedabad, Gujarat in India, but its owner is defending the name choice amid criticism from the Jewish community.
"None of the other people are complaining, only a few Jewish families. I have not hurt any sentiments of the majority Hindu community. If he did something in Germany, is that our concern?" Rajesh Shah, one of the co-owners of the store, asked in an interview.
The Jewish community in Ahmedabad has approached the store's owners asking for it to be renamed, but their requests have been refused so far. The "Hitler" store owners have even said that if members of the Jewish community wants the store to have a new name, they should "pay for it."
The owners have said that when they originally chose the store name, they were not fully aware of the history surrounding Adolf Hitler, the infamous German dictator who killed millions of Jews in his concentration camps. They claimed to only know of Hitler as a "stern man" for whome their grandfather received his nickname.
"The customers who come in tell me they came in seeing the name," Shah admitted. However, photos of the store in India also reveal that a swastika sign is used instead of the dot in the letter "I" in the store's name, making an obvious connection with the Nazi leader.
"I didn't know how much the name would disturb people," he added to AFP. "It was only when the store opened I learn(ed) Hitler had killed six million people."
Israel's Mumbai Consul General Orna Sagiv said, however, that he would raise the matter to officials "in the strongest possible way."
"People use such names mostly out of ignorance," Sagiv said.
The New York Times revealed that a number of stores in India have actually chosen to include Hitler's name in their title – although more for shock value rather than in honor of the German dictator.
"If I name my son 'Hitler' and I wanted to start a business in his name, would they have a problem with that?" said Baljit Singh Osan, the owner of a pool parlor called "Hitler's Den" in Nagpur, Maharashtra. "There are no laws like that in our country."
Osan noted that while he did not agree with Hitler's beliefs, he had no intentions of changing the name of his establishment, despite protests from the Jewish community over his name choice as well.
David Goldfarb, the spokesman for the Israeli Embassy, had said of Osan's store: "We can only assume that the owners of this new establishment are unaware of the horrendous meaning of the usage of Nazi themes and insignia for commercial gain."


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China is intending to apply "enhanced inspection" of imports of wheat arriving from Australia. Shippers in Australia have already sold more than dozen wheat export shipments worth almost $250 million. In May, China applied an 80 per cent tariff on ...Read More
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Mr Shipside said that the market has been 'price-sensitive' for a while - and the high proportion of properties having their original asking price reduced suggests some sellers and their agents are overpricing.
Mr Shipside continued: "If you're debating whether to trade up and make a big financial commitment you naturally might hesitate before putting your property on the market just a few weeks before you know the vote outcome.
Mr Shipside said: "Help to Buy could be the dream maker.
Mr Shipside said most are still worse off in real terms as sellers than they would have been five years ago.
Mr Shipside said: "If only taken at face value, national averages can mask varying degrees of volatility at a regional level.
Miles Shipside, director of Rightmove, said: "Every year, vendors coming to market after the summer holidays hope to take advantage of any positive price impetus from buyers who are keen to be in a new home before Christmas.
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Rightmove director Miles Shipside said: "Whilst all-time high asking prices or economic and political uncertainty could be deterrents to would-be home buyers, this month shows another strong set of figures.
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Rightmove director Miles Shipside said the increase in these property types coming to market could be due to a wave of first-time sellers putting their homes on the market ahead of a stamp duty increase for buy-to-let investors in April.
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Now here's an interesting twist: Lenovo is ranked as the #1 PC vendor worldwide, beating out rivals HP, Dell, Asus and Acer. Yet during its fiscal first quarter ending June 30, the company sold more smartphones and tablets than it did desktops for the first time ever. That's partially due to Lenovo's presence in China where its smartphone business has grown 121 percent year-over-year, making it the second largest smartphone vendor in China and the fourth largest vendor worldwide.
"While driving profitable growth in our core PC business, we are rapidly transforming our company into a PC Plus company," said Yang Yuanqing, chairman and CEO of Lenovo. "The PC Plus market requires fast, efficient innovation as it moves quickly from premium products to mainstream ones and from mature market domination to emerging market hyper growth. This kind of market plays to Lenovo’s proven strengths. Lenovo is now better positioned than our competition to take advantage of these clear trends."
Lenovo said that during its fiscal first quarter, laptops were the largest contributor to the company's revenue worldwide, generating 52 percent even though laptop shipments were down 12.9 percent year-over-year across the industry. This business brought in $4.5 billion USD, an increase of 4.7 percent year-over-year, and achieved a 17.3 percent market share. Products released during that quarter included the ThinkPad T431s, the Yoga 11s, and the Yoga 13.
Lenovo said its desktop PC business growth remained flat worldwide year-over-year even though the desktop industry has declined 9.4 percent year-over-year across the industry. This business generated $2.5 billion, or 28 percent of the company's total revenue, but decreased 2.8 percent year-over-year while achieving a 16 percent market share. Products launched during this quarter included the Horizon Table PC, a 27 inch AIO desktop which can be laid flat and used like a huge multi-user tablet.
The company said its Mobile Internet Digital Home (MIDH) business, which includes tablets and smartphones, saw a sales increase of 105 percent year-over-year, generating $1.2 billion and 14 percent of the company's total revenue in the first fiscal quarter. The company specifically pointed out its growth in China during the quarter, reporting that smartphone shipments jumped 121 percent year-over-year. Tablet shipments grew more than three times year-over-year, propelled by the ThinkPad Tablet 2, the 7 inch A1000 and A3000 models, and the 10 inch A6000.
Just recently Yuanqing told the Wall Street Journal in a phone interview that if a company can't drive growth, then it should pay more attention to margins. Thus, the sales team was tasked to push more high-end products even though the overall PC market is declining. The result was that the company's PC business managed to increase its revenue while shipments declined worldwide.
"Our average selling price improved, not just in China but world-wide," he said. "Fortunately, we had already launched some attractive high-end products, like the IdeaPad Yoga and the ThinkPad Helix as well as ThinkPad X1 Carbon. They helped raise average selling prices. We have very disciplined cost management, and that has also helped us improve profitability."
He also admitted that the company's smartphone business is not a profit engine -- yet. It's already become profitable in China, but it's still in a developmental phase. The company is currently working to become a market leader in that region by investing in branding, sales channels and product development. Because of this, there is little net profit. Outside China, the smartphone business is still developing.
"But our tablet business is already profitable worldwide," he said. "We leverage our PC sales channels to sell tablets. With tablets, we can take advantage of our leadership position in the PC market."
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I still like to buy the Lenovo Intel powered smart phone.Reply
While I get that there is little need for an article on only Chinese sold phones. Can we have one? Would be interesting to see what specs their phones have. I am sure Lenovo is not the only one that only supplies to the Chinese market.Reply
"We leverage our PC sales channels to sell tablets"Reply
This. Exactly what HP and Dell should be doing, using their dominant positions selling into the corporate workplace to flood their sectors with tablets, not toy Android or iPad, but workplace Windows tablets with a high value and profit margin - HP has gone AWOL on its Wintel background and Dell can't do anything whilst that buttmunch Icahn is screwing with Mike Dell's plans - this is where the Chinese start taking over, not because their products are better but because our companies have lost touch
Death to all creators of spambots. Should be an international law and worldwide bounties given for these POSs to hunt 'em all down and exterminate them like plague-carrying rats. I'd sign up yesterday.Reply
Anyway back to this article: I'm seriously concerned about the long term prospects of desktop PCs in general. Having built my own gaming rigs for nearly 20 years, the way things are going towards the future - short attention span kids growing up with tablets, laptops, smart phones, and console gaming - I don't see the next generation even being interested in desktop PCs.
Considering that most people only want a device for Facebook / email, I can see this to be a trend. Why boot up a huge desktop when a tablet can do what they need to do? I do way too much typing to not have a desktop.Reply
the company sold more smartphones and tablets than it did desktops for the first time ever
Not a particular useful statement, given that these are different type of devices. I get phones more often than PCs, so by lumping them in with tablets it makes it look like tablets are outselling PCs. They're basically trying to provide us with a self fulfilling prophecy.
I Lulz at the Americans for not being able to get their hands on a Lenovo K900.Reply
They're available here all over Asia....... Wakakaka.
That's strange, I didn't even know they even made smartphones or tablets???? when will this filter through to Australia? I do know the company i work for (Cxxxx) is going to be acquiring new Lenovo laptops (and were finally going to be moving on from XP! hoorah!), but we still have Blackberry's for out phones, which do their job i suppose. They are great for email and documents....and being locked down to the MAX!Reply
I can see that smartphone and tablet sales grew more than laptops and desktops, but i don't see the volumes mentioned?Reply
And what's the point of selling more if you're not making profit?
Lenovo’s seven-inch tablets, the A1000 1.2 dual core 1024x600and A3000 1.2 quad core 1024x600, as well as the ten-inch A6000 1.2 quad core 1280x800.Reply
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The Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors (LSLBC) urges consumers to protect themselves from unlicensed individuals offering to make repairs on their homes or businesses in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura.
“Many of our residents in the affected areas suffered devastating property damage due to Hurricane Laura,” said LSLBC Executive Director Michael McDuff. “Unlicensed contractors often solicit work after such an event to take advantage of consumers who need repairs. It is important that consumers learn to recognize fraudulent contractors and take the necessary steps to protect themselves from large monetary losses.”
Unlicensed activity is against the law, and the LSLBC and other partner agencies consider it a serious offense, especially in the state of an emergency.
“The LSLBC works to protect the safety of the public as well as the integrity of the construction industry,” McDuff said. “Unlicensed contractors not only pose a risk to consumers, but take work from qualified and licensed contractors. The elderly are especially vulnerable to contractor fraud.”
The best way to avoid contractor fraud is to verify whether a contractor is licensed or registered to do construction work in Louisiana before you make a down payment or sign a contract. There are three ways to check licensure through LSLBC:
· Download the free “La Contractor” mobile app by visiting the LSLBC website at www.lacontractor.org
· Use the contractor search function located on the LSLBC website
· Call LSLBC at 1-800-256-1392
Complaints of unlicensed activity should be reported to the LSLBC Compliance Section by emailing firstname.lastname@example.org or calling 1-800-256-1392. Users can also use the “La Contractor” mobile app to file a complaint or report unlicensed activity. The app allows consumers to submit complaints with descriptions and pictures directly from mobile devices.
For more information on how to avoid contractor fraud in the event of an emergency, see the “Weathering the Storm” presentation located at www.lacontractor.org.


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Sugar is no longer a business for the half-hearted.
That's not to pour any scorn on UK stalwart Tate & Lyle, which last week revealed it was selling out after more than a century in the business, nor Australia's CSR, which is flogging its Sucrogen business for Aus$1.75bn.
Sucrogen, after all, as the world's second top raw sugar exporter, is hardly a slouch.
But it looks from a series of recent sales in the sector as if the commodity's wild swings over the past year ï¿½ with prices doubling and halving again within a year - have sorted out those who want a quieter life.
It's easy to see why some recent sellers might shy away from a volatile act.
Tate & Lyle wants to focus on higher margin ingredients, produced largely from corn, with which selling common-or-garden sugar is not a natural fit.
CSR is primarily a building materials group. It has reasoned, quite sensibly, that there are better targets than perishable commodities for a bricks-and-mortar company's capital.
Furthermore, it is quitting on something of a high. Sucrogen raised operating profits by 62% in the year to March. The business would have gone for some Aus$500m less if sold a year ago on the same multiple of historic earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation.
But it's easy to see why the deals might suit the buyers too.
American Sugar Refining, which has bought most of Tate's assets is a specialist.
And sugar looks a natural fit for Wilmar, the Singapore palm oil giant which has bought Sucrogen, and America's Bunge, which bought a portfolio of Brazilian mills earlier this year, even though their historical operations lie elsewhere.
Both are used to handling, and profiting from, volatility. (Tate & Lyle, meanwhile, lost a bundle on out-of-the money corn futures last year.)
Indeed, sugar's price movements may do them a favour by balancing the swings in grains and oilseeds.
The markets show little correlation. In 2007, for instance, while wheat doubled in Chicago, raw sugar prices were stagnant in New York. Last year, the positions reversed, with sugar more than doubling, while wheat lost some 10%.
Besides, dealing in sugar could prove worthwhile for those willing to take the risk. It is a market pretty immune to the economic jitters which are still echoing round the market. World sugar consumption remained stable in 2009-10, despite the hangover from financial crisis and the highest prices in 29 years.
And this excludes the potential for fuel ethanol, of which Sucrogen is Australia's biggest producer, and which swallows most of the cane crop in Bunge's Brazil.
Expect the wave of deals in the sector to continue.
That is, as long as buyers can find any more sugar owners with cold feet or, as Bunge found in Brazil, stretched balance sheets.


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The Audi S4 model from the German premium car maker is all set to hit the India roads as the company announced the launch of the model for Indian customers today.
The new S4 model will be available in the country through the 19 Audi dealerships across India. The model is powered by a cool V6 3.0 TFSI engine and the car can attain a speed of 100 km/h from zero in just 5 seconds.
Audi India Head Michael Perschke said, “With impressive sales growth in the first five months of this year and the launch of the Audi TT, new Audi A4 and now Audi S4, 2012 is proving to be an exciting time for us.”
Audi India sold 3,281 vehicles during January to May of 2012 compared to 2,394 vehicles sold during the same periods of the previous year, recording a growth of 37 per cent. The company sold 450 cars in May 2012, a 10 per cent growth over the same month of 2011.
Audi is now looking to expand its dealership network from 19 t0 25 dealerships by the end of 2012. The company current offers models including Audi A4, Audi A6, and Audi A7 Sportback in the country.
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At CES 2018, Japanese electronics massive Panasonic made some giant bulletins within the car house. The corporate introduced that it is operating with Amazon to deliver the Alexa virtual assistant to its Skip Gen IVI in-car infotainment platform in addition to advancing the Google-powered device which debuted remaining 12 months with Android N, to Android O.
With Amazon Alexa, customers will be capable to use the acquainted ‘Alexa’ key phrase to cause a voice carrier for various in-vehicle purposes akin to vehicle controls like HVAC, media, verbal exchange and navigation. You’ll additionally be capable to use some Alexa purposes with out an Internet connection in the course of the Alexa Onboard generation.
“When drivers have access to familiar Alexa contextual commands and responses from inside the car, it opens up a new world of experiences OEMs can offer – enabling some of these capabilities even without an Internet connection is revolutionary,” mentioned Tom Gebhardt, President, Panasonic Corporation of North America.
Panasonic additionally introduced that its Android-powered Skip Gen IVI platform has now been up to date and is now working Android eight.1 Oreo. At the keynote, Gene Karshenboym, Head of Partner Engineering, Google North America, confirmed attendees via a video, how Assistant can be utilized to take on quite a lot of duties akin to navigating to a vacation spot with Google Maps, taking part in song, or controlling car purposes even with no telephone, as Assistant and Maps run natively at the platform. The replace to Android eight.1 Oreo is claimed to deliver many enhancements, one among them being a lot sooner boot instances.
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“‘We wanted the hardware to come close to, or even surpass Apple’s iPad,’ Xiaomi’s founder Lei Jun said at the launch event in Beijing. Xiaomi’s flagship smartphones, which are among the fastest selling in China, resemble Apple’s iPhone,” Carsten reports. “Lei said an initial version of the tablet would be available for testing by the public in mid-June, but he declined to specify a launch date or sales targets. It was also not clear if the MiPad would be sold outside China.”
“Xiaomi said its MiPad will have a plastic case and run on its own Android-based operating system,” Carsten reports. “‘Xiaomi has a different business model than Apple or Samsung,’ said Ben Thompson, founder of Stratechery.com, a technology and strategy website. ‘Apple makes it profits on the hardware, while Xiaomi claims they will make their profits on services.'”
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Wolford losses widen but it sees pathway to "sustained profitability"
Wolford’s full-year 2022 figures showed sales rising but, as previously flagged, its profitability didn’t improve and it remained loss-making.
Sales rose 15% to €125.5 million, while the EBIT loss widened to €28.6 million from €5.2 million a year earlier. The net loss was €34.9 million, also wider than the €12.33 million loss of the previous year.
The positive sales growth was a result of “increased investments in effective marketing activities, on-trend designer collaborations, as well as the impact of Wolford‘s new focused and elevated product proposition of iconic styles and smart seasonal assortments”.
It saw revenue growth across all DTC channels with retail and online growing 28% and 7%, respectively. Meanwhile wholesale dipped 1% “despite the cyber attack we had at our third-party logistics warehouse”.
In the US, Wolford saw “particularly strong development” of 44%+ on the sales front, and in EMEA sales grew by 9% “notwithstanding the war”. In the APAC region Wolford “slightly exceeded the previous year’s level despite the lockdowns in China”.
But the company added that “despite immediate cost-cutting corrective actions, the significant earnings erosion of H1 2022 could not be slowed sufficiently from when the new management board took over in August 2022”.
The company faced “largely one-off events and expenses in 2022” of €9.3 million that negatively impacted EBIT for the full year.
It added that “multiple measures have been taken by the new management board to increase operational efficiency by accelerating and broadening Wolford‘s restructuring efforts with a significantly greater focus on cost control”.
And in February, a capital increase of €17.6 million was implemented to boost liquidity.
Such measures should start to show in the results for the current year and and have already impacted Q1 with sales coming in above budget, plus “cash flow and earnings [are] on track to finally deliver sustained profitability”.
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‘Building "Windows 8" - Video #1’ was viewed 5,018,802 times according to the official statistics shared by YouTube, with user interest growing steadily over the course of the past months, after the number of views skyrocketed to over 2 million in the first 24 hours after launch.
While the “Video #1” label was an inherent promise of additional similar Windows 8-focused content, the software giant has yet to launch “Video #2.”
The Redmond company decided from the start to disable comments, and as such there’s no feedback from any of the users that watched the first public demonstration of Windows 7’s successor.
In addition, ratings for the Windows 8 video were also switched off, but not before it gathered 89 Likes and one Dislike.
According to YouTube data, the video is most popular in the US, Canada, Europe, Russia, India, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, etc., with a core audience of males between 25 and 54.
‘Building "Windows 8" - Video #1’ is embedded below for those users that missed it, as well as for those who want to watch it again.
In 4 minutes and a half, Jensen Harris, Director of Program Management for Windows User Experience, offered the first taste of Windows 8, the next major version of the Windows client. Just at the start, Harris notes that this is the first in a series of videos focused on the development of Windows 8, and Microsoft will most probably make other available.
The first deep insight into Windows 8 is scheduled for about a month from now. The already sold-out BUILD Windows conference in mid-September 2011 in Anaheim, CA will essentially be a Windows 8-centric event designed for developers.


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WATSONVILLE — Members of the City Council have denied a local business owner”s appeal for a beer and wine permit in an unanimous vote, while also expressing concern for the business owner.
Ron Ince”s request for a permit for beer and wine sales was previously denied by the Planning Commission in June. The owner of American Fuels” gas station and convenience store, at Main Street and Riverside Drive, sought to transfer a state alcohol license from a market two blocks away and obtain a city permit to sell beer and wine. The planning commission rejected the petition, citing Police Chief Manny Solano”s decision not to write the letter of necessity to the state Department of Alcohol Beverage Control that would have cleared the way for Ince to buy a license held by nearby La Tiendita. Solano said the census tract that includes both La Tiendita and American Fuels shouldn”t have more than seven alcohol vendors, but there are nine.
Ince has argued that he wouldn”t be adding to the area”s crime problem since he would transfer an existing license from a market operating near two schools to a more appropriate location.
“Every transaction of my business is monitored, every single one,” said Ince, who said he has worked with law enforcement before and would continue to do so.
A number of people spoke out against the license at Tuesday”s City Council meeting, including both residents and community activists.
“We currently have 132 off-site liquor licenses in Watsonville,” said Megan Joseph of the United Way. “We”re asking that you don”t support this appeal.”
The City Council approved changing the alcohol ordinance in November to allow former planning commissioner Raeid Farhat to sell beer and wine at his 76 station and mini-market on East Lake Avenue. In that case, Farhat”s business was too close to a market and a liquor store to meet separation requirements. The council reduced the requirement, the majority arguing that it had to help a responsible business.
The council began hearing public comment Tuesday on changes to downtown parking, including making the time limit at Lot 14 to one hour. Council members voted to continue the hearing at the next meeting on Oct. 11.


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LAS VEGAS--Sharp has announced its 6 series televisions for 2013, which, while they include a mix of 3D and non-3D models, will all have Smart TV features.
The TVs will include a Smart TV suite and will be powered by a dual-core processor. A new SmartCentral feature enables users to watch video in a picture-by-picture mode with the TV's onboard Web browser.
The LE657 will feature 3D and ship with two new Bluetooth 3D glasses, which don't require line of sight to work. The models are the 60-inch LC-60LE657 and 70-inch LC-70LE657 due in March.
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Globe’s 917Ventures and Ayala Corporation team up to bring over Gogoro smart scooters to the Philippines, which also includes its battery-swapping technology. Set to have a pilot run by Q1 of 2023, Gogoro smart scooters aim to provide an eco-friendly alternative to fossil fuel-powered vehicles that are used by the logistics and last-mile delivery industry.
Making the Gogoro smart scooters unique is its battery swapping platform, where users can swap batteries for as fast as 6 seconds.
“We are committed to help address the climate crisis by introducing Gogoro to logistics businesses, helping them in their sustainability efforts. We hope Gogoro will also help address hesitations surrounding charging electric vehicles and even finding parking slots. Hopefully, this technology will encourage more Filipinos to switch to EV,” 917Ventures Managing Director Vince Yamat said.
Citing the high scooter density of Taiwan, DOE’s Director for Energy Utilization Management Bureau Patrick Aquino said that it’s encouraging to see a positive response to Gogoro’s smart scooter network, and looks forward to see Gogoro to be successful in the Philippines as well.
“More than 25% of their quick commerce deliveries and almost all of their electric deliveries are powered by battery-swapping technology, and we see this solution will be most beneficial to a densely populated region like Metro Manila, which is also the hub of business districts. The success of this pilot will pave the way for a new sustainable business model in other cities in the country as well,” Aquino adds.
Gogoro is popular in Taiwan, where it has over 11,000 battery-swapping stations at more than 2,260 locations. Their system in Taiwan has over 1 million batteries in circulation, surpassing the number of gas stations in Taiwan’s major cities. In its current network, Gogoro caters to more than 520,000 riders that perform more than 370,000 battery swaps a day.


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Activision’s Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 has launched to great fan fare selling $550 million worth of product in its first five days setting the record for biggest entertainment launch in history. But did you know that Infinity Ward, the key developer team of the Call of Duty franchise, started out making Medal of Honor games for EA? During that time John Riccitiello was a important managerial executive when the key members of the developer team left and joined up with Activision. This was a head scratcher to many people in the games industry.
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Google and Facebook may soon face a new government-backed privacy code in the UK.
The new Google and Facebook privacy code has been proposed by UK Culture minister Ed Vaizey this week.
Privacy code update
The minister wants to see the development of a clearer and concise current code for the way online search and social networks deal with issues of individual's privacy online
Vaizey wants to see updates to the current UK code for privacy online used by the Information Commissioner's Office.
For its part, Facebook has said it "looks forward to hearing more" about Vaizey's proposals for improving our online privacy in Britain. As do the rest of us!
The proposed code of conduct would give British citizens greater redress against online search and social networks if they felt that their privacy had been unduly breached or invaded, explained Vaizey.
Facebook said of government proposals: "We look forward to hearing more about Mr Vaizey's plans and continuing to work with both him and the ICO."
Google is still to respond to the issue. TechRadar has contacted the company for further comment.
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Walgreens this month launched same-day delivery in less than two hours to shoppers across the U.S. for more than 24,000 retail products.
Consumers shopping online at walgreens.com or via the Walgreens app can choose “Same Day Delivery” at checkout. Eligible products, delivery hours and fees vary by location.
“As the country gets ready to emerge from the pandemic, Walgreens continues its focus on enhancing our customer experience through integrated and simplified shopping solutions,” Stefanie Kruse, Walgreens vice president of digital commerce, said in a media release. “Since the launch of myWalgreens in November 2020, we are constantly innovating to provide convenient delivery options to our customers that make their lives easier. We are confident that customers will enjoy our new Same Day Delivery functionality for those last minute needs.”
Same-day delivery in two hours builds on the other shopping solutions Walgreens has implemented recently. In November 2020, the retailer began offering pickup of online orders in as little as 30 minutes – either in-store, curbside and via the pharmacy drive-thru. It also launched on-demand delivery through third-party partnerships with Postmates, DoorDash and Instacart.


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September 23 is the EU Organic Day – join many other initiatives across Europe in celebrating that day. Do you plan an event? Send it to IFOAM Organics Europe and they will share it on their website and social media.
Do you already have an initiative planned? Submit what you will be organising on or around EU Organic Day here. You don't know what to do yet or you're seeking for inspiration to improve your idea? Check out the initiatives IFOAM Organics Europe has already collected on their website.
IFOAM members will have the opportunity to take part in a webinar on August 10 from 14:00 until 15:30 to get more information about the the EU Organic Day and the possibilities in taking part.
About the EU Organic Day
Last year, the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission, signed a Joint Declaration officially instating 23 September as EU Organic Day. The purpose is to check how Europe's goal of reaching 25 per cent under organic management by 2030 has progressed. Also, it is supposed to show new trends in consumer demands and raise awareness of organic and of the implentation of the EU Organic Action Plan.


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The most prestigious Awards in the gaming industry are returning to Asia-Pacific for the second year.
Following the success of the inaugural Global Gaming Awards Asia in 2022, we are delighted to announce the second edition of the event. For ten years the Global Gaming Awards have been the most trusted Awards in the industry. Our Awards events in Las Vegas and London have gained respect amongst industry heavyweights in the Americas, Europe and beyond.
The Global Gaming Awards Asia-Pacific will recognise and reward (as the name suggests) the strongest performers from the Asia-Pacific gaming industry across the previous 12 months.
The event is powered by leading B2B-gaming publication Gambling Insider and the voting process is independently adjudicated by KPMG in the Crown Dependencies. Shortlisted companies will be contacted in April and winners will be chosen by a panel of senior industry executives.
This year’s winners will be announced during a virtual event in May.


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As World's biggest T20 cricket carnival, IPL 2017, is about to begin, sponsors are going Ga-Ga over teams participating in the tournament.On Tuesday, Chinese smartphone maker Gionee India announced its association with Royal Challengers Bangalore, while Hero Cycles become the principal sponsor of Kings XI Punjab.
Chinese mobile handset maker Gionee is already the principal sponsor of the KolkataKnight Riders.
Announcing the partnership, Gionee India CEO and Managing Director Arvind R Vohra said: "This partnership puts us at the forefront in the IPL with the Gionee brand being visible in 26 of the 56 games till the knockouts."
The company had spent close to Rs 500 crore in marketing last year, and in 2017-18, they plan to increase the same by almost 50 per cent, Gionee India said in a statement.
Hero Cycles is banking on IPL viewership to reach out to youth through its partnership with Kings XI Punjab.
"Through this partnership, our objective is to reach out to the millions of cricket fans, particularly the youth," HeroCycles Chairman and Managing Director Pankaj Munjal said.
IPL is without any doubt, India's most popular sporting event, and is watched by millions of people not just in India but across the globe, he added.
Already, LUX Industries has announced that its flagshipbrand Lux Cozi will be one of the official sponsors for Kolkata Knight Riders for two consecutive years.
Similarly, Usha International has taken forward its on-going association with Mumbai Indians team for the fourth consecutive year as athe official partner.
Sunrisers Hyderabad has also roped in sponsors such as Ultratech, Reliance Jio, Canara Bank, and Red FM, among others.
The 10th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will begin tomorrow. The final of the T20 league will be played onMay 21.


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DeNA West boss: Nintendo announcing mobile game ‘soon’
SAN FRANCISCO — We’ve waited months to find out more about Nintendo’s push into mobile gaming, but we may learn all about it in the near future.
Nintendo will soon announce its first mobile game, according to what DeNA West chief executive officer Shintaro Asako said onstage today at GamesBeat 2015. He didn’t provide any specifics, but he definitely made it sound like an official reveal is coming at some point in the next few weeks.
サンフランシスコ ― 任天堂がモバイルゲームへ参入するのを何ヶ月も待っていましたが、近い将来、その全様を知ることになるかもしれません。
“Soon, we should be able to announce the game,” said Asako.
This jives with what Nintendo and DeNA have previously said about releasing the first mobile game. It is supposed to hit Apple and Android devices before the end of this year. As we get deep into October, that doesn’t leave a huge window for the companies to deliver on that promise.
- jives - でたらめ、いい加減な話。
- window - アクションの間隔や機会。
Industry analyst Serkan Toto even recently tweeted that fans should expect “the unexpected” and “soon” when it comes to Nintendo’s first mobile release. So it all seems like we’re very close to this finally happening.
About that first Nintendo-DeNA mobile game: Expect the unexpected, and soon.— Dr. Serkan Toto (@serkantoto) 2015, 10月 2
“I can’t say too much about the Nintendo deal,” said Asako. “But it’s a really exciting initiative.”
What Asako could say is what we’ve already heard before. He reiterated that Nintendo and DeNA will release five games between now and March 2017. But he also implied that the partnership between the two companies will continue well beyond that.
- initiative - 先駆け、構想
- reiterated - 改めて強調した
- implied - 暗黙の、言外の、暗示した。
“It’s a really long-term initiative,” he said.
Proof of that? When Nintendo and DeNA announced that they were working together, they also revealed that Nintendo acquired a 10 percent stake in DeNA and DeNA, in return, acquired 1.24 percent of Nintendo’s outstanding stock. This intertwines the two entities for the foreseeable future.
- Proof - 証拠
- intertwines - 絡み合う
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NetApp on Tuesday said it has released a new version of its SANtricity storage operating system with the aim of speeding up analytics workloads.
The release of SANtricity, which powers the storage vendor's EF Series all-flash and E-Series storage arrays, is designed to improve performance of Splunk, Hadoop and NoSQL workloads.
Storage vendors are increasingly pitching all-flash arrays with the aim of garnering big data workloads. NetApp's move highlights how storage vendors are trying to ride the analytics wave be speeding up performance.
NetApp said it is using proactive monitoring, automation and configurations for high-throughput apps to boost performance. According to NetApp, the latest SANtricity can boost Splunk search performance by 69 percent compared to commodity servers with internal disk.
The company also said Hadoop performance is boosted via data rebuilding processes with its Dynamic Disk Pool technology. Other enhancements are designed to reconstruct solid-state drives for NoSQL databases faster and improve tiering and encryption.
NetApp added that it will work with tech distributor Arrow to preconfigure and validate bundles designed for Splunk deployments in enterprises.


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September 27th, 2014 has been proclaimed World Tourism Day by the United Nations. The idea behind this designation is that it will raise awareness of the positive impact of tourism and hopefully increase the interest in sustainable tourism.
Travel can remove many prejudices – and reinforce some if truth be told – yet three-quarters of all travellers are going to all-inclusive resorts and very little of their money goes into the local economy. These travellers only experience a sanitised version of the country they’re in and if truth be told they could be anywhere in the tropics – palm trees, the sun, and sand look remarkably similar in many parts of the world.
The United Nations estimates that for every 100 dollars spent by tourists, only five dollars stays in the local economy. Evidence of this can be seen by anyone who is in a town when a cruise ship visits. Almost all the passengers either go duty-free shopping or visit the turtle farm/blue grotto/railway. Either their money goes to the shop-owners or the cruise company.
Sustainable tourism is about local jobs and local people and benefitting the local economy, not lining the pockets of already wealthy people.
I read about World Tourism Day in the local Metro ‘newspaper’. The story dominating the page was in effect an advertorial for a golf resort in Georgia, USA. How ironic.


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The Brazilian Carnival, one of the world’s most spectacular festivals, will make its debut in the metaverse in a partnership between two industry leaders – Decentraland and Upland. This year, the Carnival will take place between February 17 and 25, and thousands of metaverse visitors worldwide will have the opportunity to witness the highlights from the venues in Salvador, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro.
Lines between the virtual and real worlds are becoming more blurry
This is an essential milestone in Web3 history as it moves us closer to a reality where virtual and physical worlds become interoperable. Following the partnership, Upland’s Co-CEO and Co-founder Dirk Lueth commented, “This is an early example of the future, where interoperability between worlds and metaverses fuels enrichment in a user’s digital life. Major cultural moments like Carnival are tentpoles for opportunities to continue to explore this inevitable future.”
As a metaverse platform mapped to the real world, Upland allows its users to create their own experiences inspired by physical locations like San Francisco and New York. They can, for example, build shops and become a digital landowner. This important feature will be central in the upcoming Brazilian Carnival premiere, as Upland added various festival locations to its map.
Ney Neto, Upland’s Latin America region leader, noted, “The Carnival does not have boundaries, neither the metaverse. Recently Upland launched its APIs, consolidating its position as the metaverse super-app. With this, users, brands and partners can build their experiences on top of the Upland map. For web3 builders and enthusiasts, this collaboration between Upland and Decentraland is pointing the way to go.”
What is in it for the metaverse visitors?
You can explore the Carnival agenda here. The Brazilian Carnival metaverse presentations will include shows taking place in the famous Salvador street carnival, schools and parties across Brazil.
Upland will also present shows from the country’s most prominent samba school, Mangueira. During the presentation, visitors will have the opportunity to purchase carnival costumes. In addition, they will be able to partake in an immersive experience at the Upland mapped location of the Palace of Samba. A Mangueira neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro will be located on the Upland map.
Carnival’s metaverse guests will have a behind-the-scenes experience with school members in the three-dimensional replica of Mangueira’s samba sanctuary, such as the Queen of Drums session. The experience will equip the guests with the school’s history and immerse them in an environment where they can enjoy a first taste of performing samba along with their avatars.
There’ll be live broadcasts, as well. One of them is the Float Car Fissura’s live shows with Band Filhos de Jorge and DJs DH8 and Clara Cady, which will be held in Salvador. During these shows, Miles – Upland metaverse’s mascot – will accompany the participants of the Carnival parties, who are otherwise known as “foliões .”Upland NFT holders will be able to unlock token-gated experiences for the shows.
Decentraland will host Carnival parties with influencers
The well-known metaverse Decentraland will host parties exclusive to the Brazilian Carnival, where guests can dance with their avatars, dress in Carnival costumes, and experiment with the newly launched emojis inspired by samba movements.
Mangueira will have a special venue in the Decentraland, enabling guests to see the pictures from the twenty titles the famous samba school won. Digital influencers, including Nina Verso and Tang Poko, will join the Decentraland Carnival parties and spend time with visitors at the Dollhouse party venue.
The Silicon Valley-based Web3 company Upland maps real-world locations to its metaverse. It empowers the community to create immersive experiences while benefiting from the incentives of the built-in economy and providing value to other participants. The Upland app is available on iOS, Android, and the Web.
The company also has hubs in Las Vegas, Ukraine, and Brazil and was named among Fast Company’s “Next Big Things in Tech” in 2021 and one of “22 San Francisco Startups To Watch in 2022” by Built In SF. Upland is committed to being carbon negative, and you can learn about Upland’s sustainability commitment here.
Decentraland is a virtual world built on the Ethereum blockchain, where users can buy digital pieces of real estate as NFTs. The economy of Decentraland revolves around its native currency, MANA. The company has been open to the public since February 2020 and is overseen by the nonprofit Decentraland Foundation.


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Discount cards arriving soon
August 26th, 2013
A free prescription drug discount card will be mailed soon to every resident in Madison County. The card could deliver discounts of up to 45 percent as well as discounts for pet medications and hearing and vision services. The program, announced at Wednesday’s County Board meeting, is the result of a partnership between the county and ProAct, a pharmacy benefit management company based in Syracuse, N.Y.
A free prescription drug discount card will be mailed soon to every resident in Madison County. The card could deliver discounts of up to 45 percent as well as discounts for pet medications and hearing and vision services.
The program, announced at Wednesday’s County Board meeting, is the result of a partnership between the county and ProAct, a pharmacy benefit management company based in Syracuse, N.Y.
“This is a unique program, and I’m just thrilled that we can offer it to the citizens of Madison County,” said Madison County Board Chairman Alan Dunstan.
The idea is to help make prescription drugs more affordable to all county residents, though it will be particularly beneficial to the underserved and uninsured.
It comes at no cost to the county. ProAct will pick up the cost of mailing the cards out, according to Karin Eckdall, a representative of ProAct.
Dunstan said he learned of the program recently at a meeting of Metro Counties of Illinois, a lobbying group for larger counties in the state.
The cards can be used immediately at most pharmacies in Madison County.
St. Clair County was the first in Illinois to participate when they partnered with ProAct last year. Discount cards were mailed to residents there in late March of 2012. During a five month period, about 4,000 residents used the card.
It will take three or four months before Madison County will be able to tell whether the program is as successful here, says Annette Schoeberle, the administrator of the Madison County Safety & Risk Management Department. “We’ll definitely have ways of tracking the overall average discounts,” she said.
The cards can’t be used on top of other insurance programs or discounts. Still, residents who have insurance can use the card if a particular drug isn’t covered by their own plan.
Discounts are also available for pet medication and hearing and vision services, even LASIK. More information can be found at www.ProActRxSavings.com.
The card can deliver discounts of 10 to 20 percent off the market price of brand name prescription drug; generic drugs can be discounted from 20 to 70 percent.
Residents can actually do a price comparison ahead of time by checking the price on ProAct’s website and comparing it to coverage offered by their own insurance policy, Schoeberle said.
ProAct began producing a discount drug card in 2005. They make their money by collecting a fee per transaction on each pharmacy claim that is processed.
Madison County started a similar drug discount card program in October of 2010, implemented by the National Association of Counties. The program is still available for residents. But the average discount of that program was only 22 percent – less than half what ProAct offers – and the cards were not mailed to residents. Madison County Board members handed those cards out in their districts.
Schoeberle says the ProAct card is free and easy to use. “A cardholder will simply present the card at a participating pharmacy,” she said in a news release. “There is no enrollment fee, no membership fee and no restrictions or limitations on how often the card is used.”
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Two big Uber investors agree to sell shares in SoftBank deal
At least two big Uber stakeholders have agreed to sell part of their private shares to a group led by Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank in a deal that would let investors cash out and could bring management stability to the troubled ride-hailing company.
SoftBank said in a statement Wednesday that Benchmark Capital, Menlo Ventures and other early investors have confirmed intent to sell shares in the company. SoftBank’s offer was expected to be based on a reduced valuation of Uber. The company had been valued at $68.5 billion in a previous stock sale.
The group led by SoftBank and Dragoneer Investment Group wants to buy at least 13.4% of Uber shares.
Under an investment deal, the SoftBank group also is buying about $1 billion worth of new Uber stock, injecting cash into the money-losing company.
Interest by Benchmark and Menlo Ventures is a sign that the deal is moving forward. Investors have 20 days to decide whether to take the offers.
The deal reduces the influence of ousted Chief Executive Travis Kalanick and clears the way for Uber, which is among the most valuable tech firms in the world, to sell stock to the public. Under the deal, the initial public offering would take place before the end of 2019.
Kalanick, who controls three of 11 seats on the Uber board, agreed to allow a majority of board members to vote on any future appointments he makes. He was replaced in August by former Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who has promised ethical behavior in the future but has had to deal with additional scandals that originated before he started.
Over the last year, Uber has been rocked by revelations of rampant sexual harassment inside the company, technological trickery designed to thwart regulators and a yearlong coverup of a hacking attack that stole the personal information of 57 million passengers and 600,000 drivers.
The offers come as Uber’s third-quarter adjusted loss rose to $743 million — 14% higher than in the second quarter — as the San Francisco company continued to struggle toward profitability, the Financial Times reported. Net revenue rose to $2 billion, also up 14%.
SoftBank’s statement said that any sales by Benchmark or Menlo will be “pursuant to the same terms and conditions as will be offered to all other eligible holders that participate in the tender offer.”
Messages were left Wednesday seeking comment from Uber, Benchmark and Menlo Ventures. Benchmark, a major Silicon Valley venture capital firm, has fought with Kalanick over governance of the company.
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text: Now available in Romania, our KEVIN.MURPHY team hosted a launch event in Bucharest to showcase the brand, which was attended by top media outlets such as Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, and Viva Magazine, in addition to several influencers in the region. For the event, STYLE.MASTER Paz Bamrolia hosted live demonstrations on three models to showcase the performance of our products while educating the audience about the KEVIN.MURPHY brand. For the first look, Paz chose to enhance the natural texture of the model’s hair by giving her a KILLER.CURLS effect to enhance her natural beauty. The next two models were inspired by looks from Copenhagen Fashion Week and the Top Hair show in Dusseldorf, where Paz styled an elegant, yet client-friendly runway to every day look, prepping it with the BLONDE regimen to enhance the model’s natural blonde hair. For the last look, Paz used WAVE.CLIPS to create texture in the hair and styled it into a look that is quick to create yet still looks polished and finished.


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Eurostar has launched a third direct daily service from London to Amsterdam.
Since the service started in April 2018, over 300,000 passengers have travelled from London to Rotterdam, which takes three hours and 13 minutes and Amsterdam, which takes three hours 52 minutes.
Eurostar chief executive Mike Cooper said: “With environmentally responsible travel rising up the consumer agenda, we’re boosting capacity and offering more flexibility with a third daily service.”
A high-speed rail journey from London to Amsterdam emits 80% less carbon per passenger than the equivalent flight, reinforcing high-speed rail as the most environmentally friendly choice for European short haul travel.
To mark the introduction of the additional service and the opening of Van Gogh’s sunflower exhibition in Amsterdam on June 21, Eurostar has unveiled a specially commissioned gown made entirely of fresh sunflowers.


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The Belgium cable company Telenet has started the country's first trial of LTE in the city of Mechelen using three new antennas especially designed to provide mobile data traffic.
The company said it would continue to focus on mobile data as it saw little potential in competing in the saturated mobile voice market, adding that, while 3G was OK, "if you're a serious company, like us, you need to go for LTE. We really believe that if LTE works, it is the best way forward," stated CEO, Duco Sickinghe.
The CEO claimed that Telenet's ability to offer high-speed data services alongside its more traditional offering of fixed-line broadband and cable TV was key as the company battles for market share with Belgian incumbent Belgacom.
Telenet, which currently operates as an MVNO on Mobistar's network, said that it was keen to expand its mobile activities and would be interested in acquiring spectrum. The Belgian telecoms regulator has already confirmed that it would be offering RF frequencies well-suited to mobile broadband services this summer.
Sickinghe maintained that the company would need to know exactly what a radio spectrum licence would be worth to the company, and also needed to understand what the benefits of providing mobile broadband to customers could be.
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Indiegogo, the crowdfunding website, is getting into the initial coin offering (ICO) game.
The startup revealed today that, through an existing partnership with MicroVentures, it will begin offering services around the blockchain funding model. The first sale is for the Fan-Controlled Football League which, according to its website, is seeking to create a user-driven model for American football teams.
Specifically, accredited investors purchase Simple Agreements for Future Tokens (SAFTs), with the tokens set to be delivered at a later date. The mode has been used by a number of ICOs in recent months, and according to the page on MicroVentures, $915k has been raised from 9 investors thus far in the new ICO.
The launch is a notable one given Indiegogo’s size and influence in the crowdfunding platform ecosystem. Indiegogo first went live in early 2008, and the move comes more than a year after it moved to offer access to equity crowdfunding.
Through this lens, Indiegogo is effectively moving to bill itself as a new hub for ICOs – specifically, those that are compliant with U.S. regulations around securities.
In statements, the startup said that the move to embrace ICOs was a natural fit given its crowdfunding work to date, noting:
“In some ways, cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies are poised to change everything. But for us, this is simply another way of doing what we’ve been working on for the past decade. It’s a powerful way to help people unite around ideas that matter to them, and together make them come to life. Now, we’re ready to become the go-to platform for selling and investing in digital tokens and blockchain-based assets, and we can’t wait for you to join us.”
According to The New York Times, Indiegogo is working with law firm Cooley LLP on the initiative. Slava Rubin, one of the startup’s founders, told the publication that “we want to bring a brand of trust to the entire industry” through the ICO initiative.
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New show may be coming to production at Amazon
Fans of space IPs rejoice: Mass Effect may be coming to the small screen (outside of games, that is). Deadline is reporting that Amazon Prime, the home of TV’s best space-based series, The Expanse, is aiming to follow it up with a show set in BioWare’s universe. While it hasn’t gone into production just yet, Amazon is angling to cross some t’s and dot some i’s in hopes to go forward with the project.
Genre fiction has become a staple of streaming services, and sci-fi viewing has often been at the center. Shows like The Expanse, Wheel of Time, and The Boys have been massive for the service, and mirror what other platforms are seeing as well. Geek fandom has taken over, finally, and we have to thank our collectively awkward 90s as we worked to watch X-Men cartoons in peace.
Mass Effect just had their Legendary Edition remaster launch earlier this year, and a new game is deep in the works at BioWare, so the hype for the series is definitely building. I’m Commander Shepard, and Amazon Prime is my favorite streaming service on the Citadel.


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With the Bank Rate at 5¼% and the deposit rate at 5%, the Bank of Canada today maintained its objective for the overnight rate at 5%. Additionally, the Bank is keeping up its quantitative tightening strategy.
Major central banks are still concentrating on reestablishing price stability despite the fact that inflation in advanced nations has continued to decline and measures of core inflation are still high. The second quarter of 2023 saw a slowdown in global growth, which was mostly caused by a severe slowdown in China. Confidence being undermined by continuous downturn in the real estate market, China’s economic prospects are now less favorable. Growth in the US outperformed expectations, driven by strong consumer spending. In Europe, growth was backed by the service sector’s strength, which countered the industrial sector’s continuous decline.
International oil prices are higher than was anticipated in the July Monetary Policy Report (MPR), and global bond yields have increased as a result, reflecting higher real interest rates.
The Canadian economy has begun a phase of slower growth, which is necessary to ease pressure on prices. The second quarter of 2023 saw a dramatic slowdown in economic growth, with output declining by 0.2% on an annualized basis. This was caused by a sharp slowdown in consumption growth, a drop in housing activity, the effects of wildfires across the nation, and other factors. As a result of increasing rates’ influence on spending restraint among a wider spectrum of borrowers, household credit growth slowed. During the second quarter, final domestic demand increased by 1% thanks to government spending and an increase in business investment.
The labor market’s tightness has progressively continued to loosen. Wage growth, meanwhile, has been constant at 4% to 5%. Recent CPI data show that widespread inflationary pressures are still there. Following a decline to 2.8% in June, CPI inflation increased to 3.3% in July, averaging close to 3%, as predicted by the Bank. As a result of the recent rise in gas prices, CPI inflation is anticipated to be higher in the short term before declining once more. Both the three-month and year-over-year measures of core inflation are currently hovering around 3.5%, which suggests there hasn’t been any recent downward momentum in underlying inflation. The risk that rising inflation may become entrenched and make it harder to restore price stability increases with the length of time that high inflation continues.
The Governing Council decided to maintain the policy interest rate at 5% and continue to normalize the Bank’s balance sheet in light of recent signs that the economy’s excess demand is abating as well as the lagged impacts of monetary policy. The Governing Council is ready to raise the policy interest rate further if necessary, but it is nonetheless concerned about the underlying inflationary pressures’ persistence. The dynamics of core inflation and the prospects for CPI inflation will continue to be evaluated by the Governing Council. Examining whether the development of excess demand, inflation expectations, wage growth, and business pricing behavior are consistent with hitting the 2% inflation objective will be a specific focus. The Bank is steadfast in its determination to get Canadians’ prices back under control.
The next time the overnight rate goal will be revealed is on October 25, 2023. The Bank will simultaneously release its next comprehensive view for the economy and inflation in the Monetary Policy Report, together with any risks to the prediction.


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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The IDX said that there were at least 35,000 new investors in the capital market as of mid-May. The Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) Development Director Nicky Hogan said that as of the second week of May, the number of retail investors reached 570,000.
According to Nicky, the investors from Java make up 75 percent of the total investors.
This year, the IDX plans to attract 100,000 more investors or 20 percent of the number of retail investors in the capital market at 535,994. Nicky also expects retail investors to be more active in their transactions.
Moreover, the Indonesia Stock Exchange is also aiming to establish 60 investment galleries until the end of this year. The IDX currently has 264 galleries across the country.


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U.S. stock futures are trading higher Wednesday, but volumes in the holiday environment remain low. See full story.
China auto shares mixed as incentive expiry looms
Chinese automobile stocks trade mixed after the government announces it will allow a tax incentive on small-car purchases to lapse by the end of the week, marking the latest move by China to ease the growth in vehicle use. See full story.
GM shares rise on upbeat analyst notes
Barclays Capital, Credit Suisse initiate coverage of auto giant at outperform. See full story.
Wednesday’s biggest gaining and declining stocks
MarketWatch’s daily rundown of major gainers and decliners in the U.S. stock market. See full story.
Stocks in focus Wednesday: Allstate, GM
Here’s a sampling of companies expected to see active trade in the upcoming session. See full story.
The stock market over the last couple of centuries has exhibited particular strength between Christmas and New Years. And, since that strength has been most pronounced in countries that celebrate Christmas, this strength can genuinely go by the name “Santa Claus Rally.” See full story.
In January, hundreds of thousands of low-income workers will have a good reason to celebrate as the minimum wage in seven states ticks higher, but the outlook for pay hikes for other workers is not bright. See full story.


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Agriculture minister Roger Clarke has described as frightening the country’s US$8.4 million importation bill for banana products.
Contributing to the budget debate this afternoon in parliament, Clarke said the situation was unacceptable given the number of banana farms which are currently idle.
Jamaica was a major exporter of banana, but exports were suspended following Hurricane Gustav in 2008.
It was decided that the sector would concentrate mainly on the domestic market, but Clarke says despite this imports of banana products has been rising.
Clarke said it is time that the country’s idle lands are put to work.
One of his proposals is that prisoners be made to plant more food to contribute to the national food basket.


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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday in Abuja, test-drove a locally assembled electric car, Hyundai Kona.
Osinbajo drove the car, marking the highpoint of the 5-day Nigeria @ 60 Expo which is ongoing at the Eagle Square in Abuja.
The Vice President had earlier on, conducted an exhibition tour of Made-In-Nigeria products at the event.
The Nigeria @ 60 event is organised by the Inter-ministerial Committee in collaboration with Business Visa and Training Co Ltd.
Osinbajo who addressed journalists before his departure, expressed excitement at the innovation and said he was hopeful of a bright future for Nigeria.
“A very good drive; fantastic; it just shows what is possible. I am glad to see that this is an assembled in Nigeria electric car.
“You can literally charge it anywhere; I think it is a very fantastic innovation; fantastic product, and I can tell because I drove it,” he said.
While delivering a keynote address, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, (SGF), Mr. Boss Mustapha said the event was aimed at showcasing what Nigeria could produce with local raw materials.
“To compliment the efforts of the Federal Government at ensuring that we produce what we eat and eat what we produce.
“In this context, we are to produce what we use and use what we produce,’’ he said.
Mustapha also said that Nigeria was ready to harness her natural resources and urged Standards bodies to be proactive.
“We should take the issue of standards very seriously”, he said.
In a goodwill message transmitted virtually, Director-General, World Trade Organisation, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, commended the organizers for their efforts at showcasing the growth of Nigeria.