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1. Optimization is the latest risk management.
With an atmosphere of political tensions running up and high and a potential knock of recession, it is no wonder ‘playing it safe while doubling down’ is the new trend. Lee Henderson of EY Americas Growth Markets Leader, emphasised on the importance of Playing it Safe, but still doubling down. Lee said “Companies need to look at things like contracts, vendors, costs, and business operations so that there’s comfort in efficiency, but they should still be looking for areas to grow and innovate. There will certainly be opportunities, and you want to be ready to capitalize on them when the time comes.”
According to EY, entrepreneurs are optimistic about those opportunities than other business leaders. 67% entrepreneurs said they were focused on “pursuing new market opportunities,” compared to just 19% of leaders at large companies.
2. Industry-specific start-ups have a better growth path.
Brad Keywell, CEO of Uptake and 2019’s World Entrepreneur of the Year, echoes the belief that the best opportunities for are not always in broad business services. “Big companies like Amazon are great at delivering value through technology to mass market audiences,” Brad explained. “It’s the niches they do not deal in that offer real opportunity to entrepreneurs, who can be flexible and move quickly.”
3. Non-technical entrepreneurial partnerships are setting the trend.
More non-technical entrepreneurs are trusting others (partners) to build out the technologies needed to turn their dreams into reality.
The reason for this, is that a lot of tech gurus and experts of other specific fields are also turning to entrepreneurship. They may have the skills to build the product, but they often need help on the sales and marketing side of things — which many non-technical founders provide.
4. Teams are using technology to maximize their operations.
One way companies are playing it safe is through technology. Time-saving tools make it feasible for entrepreneurs to accomplish more with less resources. TeamWork CEO Peter Coppinger, who received the EY Ireland Entrepreneur of the Year award, spoke at length about how efficiency improvements across operating systems are a great way to stay safe while pursuing growth.
5. Integration of Marketing & Technology:
Modern entrepreneurship thrives on marketing and the latest trend includes an intensive collaboration of technology in marketing. The third decade is going to be a tech savvy era which will thrive on information and data and to process this load of info a synchronisation with technology is must.
End to end customer experience – It is important for business organizations to merge their marketing plans with technology. They are now realizing the value of customer experience and its importance to the business. The evolution of AI is going to play a huge role by merging with digital marketers to provide an end to end customer experience.
Marketing automation – Everybody prefers personalized content; with data now being mainstreamed more than ever and innumerable insights available from loads of data, marketers will have to look into providing more personalized and customized content to consumers. Thus, marketing automation will evolve and is expected to undergo an exquisite change due to the marriage of technology and marketing.
Investing in AR/VR – The use of AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality) has pressed the marketers to develop strategies to provide consumers with better services. This will bring further transformation in the process of collection of information by business organizations and customers, as well. Marketers need to bring in digital innovations to improve overall online experience of consumers.
Measuring Online Store Visits- For businesses with an online presence, determining the number of store visits or footfalls achieved through online promotions has always been a challenge. Using the digital marketing expertise and offline behaviour, business organizations must invest in digital tool which provide analytics and information accurately.
Focus on Marketplaces like Amazon:
Amazon is Emerging as a Big Player in Digital Marketing -Last year, Amazon had recorded a triple-digit growth in the quarter by quarter ad revenue. The buying intent of users makes it an immensely approachable platform for any Consumer Product client. It is evolving at a rapid pace and has definitely shown commitment for change the landscape of digital marketing.
Amazon Automation Tool – More than two-thirds of Amazon advertisers are using ad campaign automation tools. Market is poised to grow significantly in the next few years as Amazon ads will increase their market share.
Adapt and lead the major changes:
Voice Search – Demand of the voice-based AI devices is on the rise, for example, Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant; a huge bump is expected in the voice-based advertising for marketers. By using these products, people will be able to order customized products on the go. The number of voice searches is rising with every passing minute.
Video rules – With more than 30hrs/week average time spent on viewing TV or any form of video content, the video viewing quotient is at an all-time high. This huge trend shift has taken place in the form of videos watched on Mobile devices, tabs and TV. There has been a surge in the content of video channels like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hotstar, Voot, Zee5, ErosNow etc are being consumed at a high rate. The advertising usage on mobile or channel based video content will be crucial for digital marketers.
Get Personal with the Customer:
Focus on Private Customized Messaging – The challenge is to provide more and more personalized content to users; brands are shifting focus to private messaging apps. Private messaging app advertising is evolutionary in digital marketing.
Advertising on WhatsApp – The tremendous reach of WhatsApp is still unexploited and it is the biggest social messaging app of the century. A channel of such huge mass marketing potential must be exploited and used to maximum level.
Strong Social Media Presence– Studies reveal 63% of the marketers think that Social media is going to be as big as apps or web. Creating brand awareness and brand connectivity among the customers is a must. Social channels are evolving constantly as new features are getting added to several social media platforms like Instagram, YouTube, Whatsapp etc. Social Media is here to stay and dominate. So, it is utterly important for digital marketers focus on their presence on social media.
6. Culture-conscious companies are winning hearts.A theme I wholeheartedly agree with — is that it is the individuals who make a business thrive. Building diverse teams, bringing out the best in their employees, and creating the sort of work culture where the best employees want to stay are the latest ins. Especially with unemployment at record lows, a lot of entrepreneurs are struggling to find relevant talent. The solution, is to invest in team members’ personal growth. That means providing flexible environment to work, creative freedom and performance-based compensations like profit sharing.


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Beat and Raise? Sweet! Companies Doing Well Right Now
Two movie-related companies this past week said things look pretty darn good: National Cinemedia(NCMI) and Netflix(NFLX). One's benefiting from our need to get away from the gloom and doom and go to the movie theaters (NCMI makes money off that advertising on the big screen); and the other is making money from our need to save some cash and stay home (NFLX). But these movie loving companies aren't the only ones turning in good numbers. All of these companies in this blog post have made some nice moves lately, so these are ideas for your watchlist - not ideas to buy today. As always do your own DD (due diligence)!
Semiconductor licensing companies - TSRA and ARMH keep raking it in
Tessera Technologies (TSRA) just turned in revenues that grew 30% year on year! Wow, how'd they do that? “Fourth quarter 2008 total revenues were up 30% and royalty and license fees were up 37% compared to last year’s fourth quarter, driven by stronger than expected royalty revenue from certain existing customers and option fees from Motorola,” said Henry R. "Hank" Nothhaft, president and chief executive officer, Tessera. From TSRA earnings release here. Huh, that doesn't sound so replicable. And their forecast for next quarter is inline or below current estimates, hmm, not so hot after all? But again, better than a lot of others out there, right? Got to keep looking and maybe keep an eye on these folks maybe they're just sandbaggers.
Arm Holdings (ARMH) just turned in revenues up 24% year on year, and raised their dividend! Hmm, that sounds yummy. ARMH is based in the UK and is benefitting from the exchange rates, to get better local coverage on this London based firm, check out Y!Finance's UK site listing here. And if you're yawning instead of clapping - check out this comment from the CEO (in this economy!!): Warren East, Chief Executive Officer, said:"We are pleased to see ARM technology being increasingly utilised in innovative consumer electronics products, leading to the highest ever group revenues for both the fourth quarter and for the full year. That quote is from their recent earnings release here. Hmm, sounds pretty good, need to look at this one more too!
A Biotech that Makes Money? Check out Myriad Genetics (MYGN)
MYGN makes 95% of their revenue off their proprietary test for the 'breast cancer genes' BRCA1 and BRCA2. And business has been good. Their latest earnings release broke the news of not only a beat on earnings and revenue expectations, but reported revenue increase over 50%. Trend seems to favor MYGN here. Many women would like to know - do I have that gene or not? Still no test can predict with certainty if a woman will get breast cancer or not, but this is the best we've got for now. And wow is it popular. Earnings releaes here.
Summing it Up
So that's NFLX, NCMI, ARMH, TSRA, and MYGN all surprising to the upside and looking at what looks to be at least steady futures. Who's next? More in the movie world like RGC and CNK (movie theater operators) or IMAX (movie technology)? Or from tech? medical? I'll be watching. This is what we all want isn't it? Yes, it's nice to get some bargains on those companies we thought we'd never get so cheap in retail, or medical technology or whatnot, but how nice to get into a company that's making money... even now. I hope to have several more blog posts like this throughout earnings season.Any more I'm missing?


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Los Angeles Times: Stanford graduate student Jonathan Mayer has published a report that claims Google circumvented iPhone privacy restrictions and tracked Safari users’ online activities. According to the report, Google found a way to trick the mobile browser into accepting cookies from advertisers.
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Groupon, Inc. (GRPN) is rising nearly 3 percent to $4.66 following its announcement that it has ousted its chief executive Andrew Mason, a move that came just a day after it reported another disappointing quarterly loss. The company has appointed Executive Chairman Eric Lefkofsky and Vice Chairman Ted Leonsis to the newly created Office of the chief executive to serve in that role on an interim basis.
Best Buy Co., Inc. (BBY) is up 6 percent to $17.39. The company's fourth quarter loss narrowed from the prior year period. Revenue for the quarter topped the consensus estimate. The company also announced that it received no offer from Schulze and the deadline to make an offer has expired yesterday.
Lime Energy Co. (LIME) is rising 5 percent to $0.7987. The company has sold certain assets of its unit, Lime Energy Service Co., constituting its energy service companies or ESCO subcontracting business to PowerSecure Inc. a subsidiary of PowerSecure International, Inc. (POWR) for about $1.9 million cash.
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The August/September issue, released in July. Cover Content Summary The News section is a bit longer this issue, but still only 1 ½ pages. Besides the entry about the train visiting 30 German cities for the preliminaries of the Sega Championship, it’s all about upcoming games. To accompany the 2-page report on the Mega CD…
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The April/May issue, released in March. Due to the release date this is essentially the 1-year anniversary issue. The editorial at the beginning announces 3 newcomers: Julian Eggebrecht, Reza Abdolali (who should be familiar to readers of the previous issues, as he won the Sega Euro Championship) and Carsten Schmitz. In the CES report we…
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On April 3, U.S. authorities initiated a significant step toward liquidating $2 billion worth of Bitcoin seized from the Silk Road, with a test transaction to Coinbase signaling imminent sale. This move marks a pivotal moment in the government's handling of digital assets obtained from criminal investigations following a March sale of 10,000 BTC.
Test Transaction Signals Imminent Sale of $2B in Seized Silk Road Bitcoin
According to on-chain data (via Bloomberg), a 0.001 BTC test transaction, part of an enormous stash of approximately 30,174 BTC worth $2 billion, was transferred. The U.S. government moved the funds associated with the infamous Silk Road marketplace.
Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, accepted transactions from these Silk Road funds. Arkham Intelligence first identified the source of the BTC and its destination at Coinbase. The goal of this transaction is to sell the coins, as it has done in the past.
According to a court filing, the U.S. government sold 10,000 bitcoins related to Silk Road in March for just over 9,861 BTC worth $216 million.
As in this case, this event was preceded by three on-chain transactions sent a few weeks before the sale was revealed in a court filing. The United States Marshals Service is one of the largest Bitcoin sellers. According to researcher Jameson Lopp's data, the U.S. Marshals assisted the U.S. government in selling 195,000 bitcoins.
Despite efforts by U.S. lawmakers to have the agency hold these funds as a strategic asset, it has continued to sell the funds following its mandate, the role of the United States. Marshalls Service intends to sell assets confiscated during criminal investigations.
DOJ Transfers $2B Silk Road Bitcoin to New Wallet Ahead of Potential Liquidation
Approximately $2 billion in Bitcoin previously seized by U.S. authorities and linked to the Silk Road marketplace has been transferred to a new address.
According to blockchain data from April 2, a wallet associated with the U.S. The Justice Department initiated a 0.001 BTC transaction to a Coinbase Prime address, possibly as a test transaction. Shortly after, the same wallet transferred 30,174 BTC, or approximately $2 billion at publication, to a new address. Online sleuths identified the DOJ wallet as the one containing Bitcoin seized from James Zhong, who was convicted of "unlawfully obtaining" cryptocurrency from Silk Road in 2022.
Zhong stole over 50,000 bitcoins from Silk Road in 2012. In 2021, U.S. authorities raided his property and discovered tricky wallets containing Bitcoin, including one "on a single-board computer that was submerged under blankets in a popcorn tin." Most of the seized cryptocurrency was sent to the address that moved more than 30,000 BTC on April 2.
In March 2023, U.S. government officials reported that they had sold roughly 9,861 BTC of the cryptocurrency seized from Zhong for more than $215 million, leaving approximately 40,000 BTC. The April 2 transaction came after the price of Bitcoin fell by more than 7% to $65,475 at the time of publication.
The Silk Road marketplace, which has been defunct for over a decade, allowed users to buy and sell illicit goods such as weapons, drugs, and stolen credit card information. In 2013, U.S. authorities arrested its creator, Ross Ulbricht. He is currently serving two life sentences without the possibility of parole.
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The good news is that marketers' budgets, according to our recent BtoB survey of 580 marketers, are going up. Sixty-seven percent of those polled plan to increase their budgets, and more than a third expect to boost them by more than 20%.
I should mention that we also found that while 20% plan to decrease their print budgets, 34% plan to increase their print outlay. And most important: 76% are increasing online spending.
The dollars are there; we have budgets to tap in b-to-b. We just need to make sure we are offering the complete integrated package to attract that spending. From e-mail to webcasts, banners to search, publishers need a large quiver filled with arrows for marketers to use to hunt down their prey. And they are hunting. A majority of marketers (67%) said they are most focused on new customer acquisition—for the third year in a row.
We all need to start developing additional lead generation programs; building online directories that can be searched (MediaBrains Inc. has helped us do that on our site); producing webinars (we have done many over the past year, using ON24 Inc.); and adding more white paper microsites, e-mail newsletters, videocasts and podcasts. If we do that and keep the content strong in our print and event products, publishers will see revenue leap.
The most important thing may be to start charging more for online advertising and sponsorships, significantly more.
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Nothing Phone (1) pre-orders can start soon and before that, here’s everything you need to know about it.
We are already in July and the launch of Nothing Phone (1) is only two weeks away. And rumors also point to a possible pre-order any day, which is a big deal for those who joined the waitlist. The Nothing Phone (1) has been heavily hyped and is expected to be the next big thing in the world of affordable mid-range smartphones. We’ve already seen what the phone looks like and rumors have already told us what to expect under the hood.
So, if you’ve been waiting to pre-order the Nothing Phone (1) or have joined the waitlist, there are a few things you should know about the Nothing Phone (1). Unlike Carl Pei’s previous company, the Nothing Phone (1) will not be a flagship smartphone and that could set the tone for Nothing. For consumers, it could also change a lot of things. Take a look at how we think this phone could change the way we view affordable mid-range phones.
Nothing from the phone (1) could change things
All about design
The Nothing Phone (1) emphasizes design. Mid-range phones have mostly stuck with bland designs and do the same thing over and over again. Nothing shatters perception with a new age design focused on transparency. And these Glyph interface lights are sure to change the way we look at smartphone notifications.
The Nothing Phone (1) sticks to budget specs instead of going all out, which is a good thing right now. Having a mid-range chipset and the most common types of specs helps keep prices down, which Nothing is aiming for. After all, it’s affordability that helps sell a brand new trendy smartphone.
Apart from the cost, the specs are just effective and sufficient for its target audiences. Gamers are missing nothing and therefore having a mid-range Snapdragon 778G+ chipset makes sense. If Nothing OS is well optimized, the phone could be fast and smooth and maybe able to run casual games with ease.
Then there’s the display, which is expected to be a 6.5-inch FHD+ OLED display with a 120Hz variable refresh rate. Again, on par with most mid-range Android devices, but this variable refresh rate is an ace up its sleeve.
The phone will have a 4500mAh battery which is again on par with the competition and good enough for an entire day. The presence of a 45W load is not going to excite geeks but should be enough.
And that’s the theme – all that is enough. Even the cameras are said to have a 50MP main sensor on the back, along with a 16MP ultra-wide camera. The front camera could also have a 16MP sensor.
Nothing did that with its first headphones last year by opting for an affordable price and nothing is repeated for the phone (1). Rumors suggest that the phone (1) could have a starting price of just under Rs. 35,000. For a Snapdragon 778G+ phone, that might be expensive, but the rest of the user experience might justify the premium. Nothing leaned on the hype and once the initial pool of reviews grew, expect nothing to spread it like wildfire.


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Popular will acquire $1.5 billion in auto loans amid questions about the potential for loan losses following Hurricane Maria. The deal also coincides with Wells Fargo's need to stay inside a growth cap imposed by regulators.
Tax reform caused Fannie Mae to burn through retained earnings that had been approved just two months ago and to post a fourth-quarter loss. CEO Timothy Mayopoulos argued it was a one-time event that overshadowed strong fundamentals.
Consumers’ desire to shop online is creating huge demand for distribution centers and forcing property owners to think creatively about redeveloping vacant retail space. Meanwhile, hundreds of billions of dollars will be spent rebuilding areas hard hit by hurricanes and wildfires.
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Since its launch in 1999, JetBlue has built its reputation on an egalitarian design ethos. That’s why they let travelers check their first bag for free, when other airlines embarked on an era of $25 bag fees, and that’s why they’ve never built a business class into their flights.
Trouble is, even some of their most loyal customers want a more comfortable travel experience when commuting overnight between New York and Los Angeles for business. When JetBlue realized they were losing otherwise faithful passengers to American Airlines or Delta, whose transcontinental flights have a business class, the company decided to create Mint: a premium cabin with a suite of new products.
Starting Sunday, JetBlue will have 11 aircraft, flying between New York and Los Angeles, with the Mint experience. Routes to San Francisco will start in October.
>Once asleep, people are neatly laid out like bricks.
At the core of the new design is the seat. “It’s all a function of how many seats you can put on the flight,” says JetBlue’s director of product development Jamie Perry. “If you think about the inside of an aircraft, it’s just a hollow tube. So it’s a little bit of a jigsaw puzzle to get people to fit.” JetBlue chose seats from a company in Belfast, Ireland, and they'll be the first fully reclining seats on a domestic airline.
Installing Transformer-like seats into a narrow metal tube is a tall order: for airlines, every inch of space translates to dollars earned or lost. This seating system economizes space because it comes in alternating rows of single and double seats. Each row has a pod-like room for the person in the row behind to stretch out their legs, so that once asleep, people are neatly laid out like bricks.
For years airplane seats have been made of foam, but lately designers have been experimenting with lighter materials that could offer more flexibility. JetBlue ditched foam—which Perry says can get "hard or shaped"—for an inflatable plastic core that travelers can adjust to make softer or firmer. The material also makes each seat a couple pounds lighter than standard seats, a move Perry says could save an annual $50,000 to $75,000 per aircraft in fuel costs.
As for the oft-mocked in-flight meal (which will be tapas style) JetBlue outsourced culinary expertise to New York restaurant Saxon + Parole, who advised on what foods could best last a three-hour delivery drop off. They also consulted another, perhaps unlikely group: engineers who are experts on managing airplane traffic. This particular group normally works on turning an aircraft around, or on getting people through security. Perry recruited their brainpower to improve the in-flight meal.
The thinking is: if prepared meals can spend less time getting from delivery truck to airplane to tray tabletop, the food will taste fresher and require less re-heating, which saps flavor out of food. “There’s a time and motion study that we’ve had to go through to figure out how you can deliver what you need to faster,” Perry says. JetBlue’s in-house team of engineers figured out how to cut steps and sequence actions—for instance, they eliminated the headphones handout in favor of stashing a pair in each seat pocket—bringing the overall delivery service time from three to two hours.
>Engineers took the overall delivery service time from three to two hours.
Brand new 15.6-inch touchscreens that broadcast 100 channels and eight movies will also outfit each seat. Screens cost a fortune—a recent piece in The New Yorker revealed that each measly screen on a flight costs up to $10,000—but Perry says it’s more efficient to have all new hardware FAA-approved at once. Plus, there’s another layer of user insight logic backing the investment: “When we got Wi-Fly [JetBlue's Wi-Fi program] we assumed people would move off their own screens,” he says. “But at the same time that you see the trend at home of double and triple screens, you’re seeing it on flights as well. They’re watching a screen, and doing email, at the same time. They augment each other instead of replace each other.” It's in JetBlue's interest to emulate the feeling of being home, so when it comes to screens: the larger the better.
As much as rolling out a business class cabin sounds like an obvious solution to customer retention, Perry says it wasn’t. “We didn’t want to be elitist. When you look at airlines they are very exclusive: lounges, ropes, and curtains keep people out of classes. All the love goes to the people who fly up front and everyone else is an afterthought.” To avoid playing favorites, JetBlue will tweak a few products in coach as well. The main cabin will also get new touchscreens (at 10.1 inches, Perry says it’s the biggest possible screen they could fit on the back of a core cabin seat) and redesigned the seat back pockets. This one will have three discrete pockets: one for the airline’s literature, one for the passenger’s tablets and books, and one for a water bottle.
Cup holders are nothing new, but it’s that last detail that travelers will benefit most from: keeping liquids out of the way of tray tables reduces awkward fumbling around in an already-cramped nook. “It’s a practical way of using the space better,” Perry says, “We’re conscious that in a coach seat you don’t have a lot of room to play with.” JetBlue will introduce upgrades to their core cabins gradually, and then to 130 aircraft in early 2015.


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Antique Stock Broking sees Mindtree's profit at Rs 468.20 crore, up 36.3 per cent YoY over Rs 343.40 crore in the year-ago quarter. It sees sales rising 33.5 per cent YoY to Rs 3,059.50 crore from Rs 2,291.70 crore.
YES Securities expects the midcap IT firm to report a 38.9 per cent YoY rise in net profit at Rs 477.10 crore. It sees net sales rising 33.8 per cent YoY to Rs 3,066 crore.
Prabhudas Lilladher said June is a seasonally strong quarter for deals on account of renewals. It expects total contract value (TCV) in the June quarter to be in-line with last year's quarter. It is anticipating a 4 per cent sequential growth in dollar revenue and a 5 per cent QoQ growth in revenue in constant currency terms. This brokerage sees Ebit margin at 18 per cent compared with 18.9 per cent in the March quarter and 17.7 per cent in the year-ago quarter.
"Within CMT, top clients are also expected to grow at a strong rate. RCM performance is expected to be muted because of the ramp-down of a client and softness in another client with exposure to Russia, Ukraine and China. We expect EBIT margin to decline by 90 bps sequentially led by headwinds from visa and travel cost and one-time expenses related to the merger," Prabhudas Lilladher said.
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Aussie bloaters gorging on junk food 'each and every day'
Antipodean nosh boffins despair of the Oz's increasingly awful diet
Australians have been warned to get their dietary act together, after a survey revealed a growing and alarming trend for junk food excess.
According to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 40,000+ respondents to its Healthy Diet Score Survey – "a scientifically validated survey which assesses people’s diet quality against the Australian Dietary Guidelines" – scored an average 61 out of 100.
"Discretionary food, or junk food, intake was found to be three-times higher than the recommended daily limit," CSIRO notes.
Professor Manny Noakes, the centre's Research Director for Nutrition and Health, frowned: "The scores were fairly unflattering across all respondents. If we were handing out report cards for diet quality, Australia would only get a C."
He added: "What we’re finding is people are having larger portions of junk food, and more often this type of food is no longer just an indulgence, its become mainstream and Australians are eating it each and every day."
The offending nosh is classified as "foods and drinks that are high in sugar, saturated fats and/or alcohol and low in essential nutrients". These include chocolate, of which Australians "eat the equivalent of 32kg" per year.
Professor Noakes, demonstrating that he has at least a nodding acquaintance with the Department of the Bleedin' Obvious, advised: "In order to improve your diet quality, people need to cut back on the consumption of junk food, and start to focus on eating smaller portions." ®


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There’s still time to register for the extremely popular Dx3 conference that will be taking place March 7-8 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. There are many reasons to attend — there will be extensive networking opportunities, as well as learning opportunities from a remarkable roster of speakers that rarely speak elsewhere.
More than 3,800 people are expected to attend over the two days, and there will be more than 50 exhibitors and 40 speakers. Sessions at the conference range from large-scale keynotes by industry thought-leaders to intimate hands-on deep dives and workshops. [See the full schedule here]
“Dx3 is about innovation, but also inspiration. Nowhere else in Canada will you find such a diverse collection of experts exploring so many unique and creative ways to reach the modern shopper.” says Eric Mercer, Director of Content for Dx3.
We recently profiled a range of speakers who will be attending this year’s Dx3 conference in Toronto, from companies such as Amazon, Twitter, Google, Snapchat, Uber and Element AI. It’s an impressive group and many of them rarely speak at such events. [See the full speaker lineup here]
The Dx3 Show floor will include some unique activations, including Kinetic Commerce, which will showcase a fully-functional connected store with a series of apps that will enable you to experience first-hand how seamless the future of shopping will be. We recently saw the demonstration at Kinetic’s Toronto offices first-hand, and it’s impressive. [See a description of Dx3’s activations here]
Dx3 2018 takes place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Building Hall A at 255 Front Street West on Wednesday, March 7 and Thursday, March 8, 2018. Dx3 has coordinated hotel and guaranteed parking through Parking Panda. [Link to Hotel/Travel Information]
For a recap of last year’s Dx3, which was its best year yet, click here. Included are several Youtube videos.
For more information on the Dx3 2018 conference, visit: www.Dx3canada.com and as well, below are a few links to specific information pages:


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NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Jackpocket, the first third-party app in the U.S. that offers players an easy, secure way to order official state lottery tickets, now accepts Apple Pay®. With this new mobile payment option, Jackpocket lottery app users in New Jersey and other eligible states have even more flexibility when playing Mega Millions, Powerball, and other lottery games from the convenience of their smartphones.
"Our mission has always been to make the lottery more accessible, and now more than ever, our customers are seeking safe and convenient lottery experiences," said Jackpocket CEO Peter Sullivan. "Apple Pay on Jackpocket gives our players a seamless and secure way to play their favorite lottery games right from their phone."
Jackpocket is rolling out Apple Pay on the heels of its partnership with Sightline Payments integrating Sightline's Play+ platform with Jackpocket's mobile user experience. By broadening access to the lottery, which has traditionally been a cash-only industry, Jackpocket attracts new consumers who otherwise would not be active lottery players. Over sixty percent of current Jackpocket users are under 45 years old.
A member of the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG), Jackpocket also ensures player safety with consumer protections such as daily funding and spend limits, self-exclusion, and in-app access to responsible gaming resources. The company is the first third-party lottery service to receive a responsible gambling certification from the NCPG's Internet Responsible Gambling Compliance Assessment Program (iCAP).
Must be 18 or older to play. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call 1-800-Gambler. Please visit jackpocket.com/tos for full terms of service.
Jackpocket is on a mission to create a more convenient, fun and responsible way to play the lottery. By being the first company to automatically lock a customer's account to their ticket serial number, Jackpocket makes the lottery even more secure. Jackpocket is currently available in Arkansas, Colorado, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, and Washington, D.C., and is expanding to many new markets. Download the app on iOS or Android and follow along on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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Unmetric has unveiled its new Agency Platform, a way to let agencies see how brands stack up against the competition on social media. Unmetric, which calls itself a social media benchmarking company, has clients including Subway, Citibank, Campbell’s and Suncorp.
Unmetric gathers data from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Pinterest. The original product, released in April 2012, was created with brands in mind. It has been restructured as Unmetric Agency Platform to better match agencies’ needs and work flow. It lets multiple users monitor the brands and easily add or subtract them from the monitoring.
Agency users can chart the number of posts made on a topic by various brands and the resulting engagement, or find the most engaging post on a topic. They can access unlimited historical data for any of the brands they choose to monitor from the date it was added to the database.
Using the SaaS application, they can, for example, chart the number of posts made on a topic by various brands and the resulting engagement, or find the most engaging post on a topic. They can also see the average response time on Twitter, information that can be used to gauge the effectiveness of a company’s use of Twitter for customer service.
“You can learn best practices not only from brands in your competitive set, but also brands from outside your sector,” says Jay Rampuria, head of sales and marketing for Unmetric.
For example, many brands are still learning how best to use Pinterest, Rampuria says. By looking at the leaders on Pinterest, they can see how Whole Foods or Lowes succeeds on the platform.
In addition to monitoring existing clients, Rampuria says, agencies are using Unmetric for new business development. The service can uncover gaps in a company’s social media profile, for example, if it’s a leader on Facebook but a laggard on Twitter, and pitch the prospect on improving the Twitter presence.
Digital marketing agency Zocalo Group has been an Unmetric customer and made the switch to the Agency Platform. “Our whole business is making sure that our brands are not just the most talked about but also the most recommended,” says Paul Rand, president and CEO of Zocalo Group. “Brands are now expected to find ways of having ongoing and open engagements with not only consumers but other people who matter to them. Social media is just some of the tools that allow us to do that.”
According to Rand, Unmetric and other social media measurement tools are an indication of the evolution of social media measurement, following the initial rush to simply accumulate as many fans or followers as possible.
These tools, he says, let agencies and marketers find out whether people are actually talking about a brand, recommending it and giving it feedback.”
In the case of Zocalo Group, which aims to increase recommendations for its clients, Rand says, “If we can find out why someone recommended a brand and get more of that happening, tools like Unmetric can play a centralized role in your marketing and even in how you go to market.”
He says that Unmetric lets him understand what clients’ fans like and engage with, so they can do more of it. It offers the same insights into clients’ competitors. He adds, “I see it as a way that something we spent time doing manually, we have the ability to do more efficiently and effectively. It gives us another set of data to make sure that we are listening well and understanding what’s working.”
Every year, the average business spends thousands of dollars on Facebook ads but has little or nothing to show for it. If this is true for your business, what can you do about it?
Twitter's own statistics say that videos are six times more likely to be retweeted than photos, and three times more likely than GIFs. But what is it that makes video on Twitter so effective?
Snapchat started as a simple messaging app that made the idea of ephemeral messages into a trend among social platforms.
Social media has changed the game in the hospitality industry. Most hotels use Instagram to visually engage their audience; some use Twitter for customer service and social listening; but many completely fail at Facebook marketing.


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A US based start up intends to acquire 10 European Web companies with venture capital secured in its domestic market in an attempt to become a major ecommerce service provider in Europe.
Richard Kozak, Galileo Communications? president, said the company will coordinate, not integrate, its purchases through a European Research Facility, which will gather the best methods and systems that each company has developed and redeploy them elsewhere.
For example, a health application developed in Italy could be used as a template for hospitals and health companies in other countries.
Kozak claimed that the firm?s attempts to become a one stop shop for connectivity technology, Web hosting and systems integration differentiated it from connectivity competitors such as MCI WorldCom and British Telecom.
He also attested that by reselling bandwidth and acquiring ecommerce shops according to the US model, Galileo could become a European market leader by the end of the year. He believes that the European ecommerce market is two years behind the US.
But Kozak also maintained that Galileo would be a: "European company selling to Europeans, with Americans only at the top supplying capital and setting strategy. We won't be trying to merge different languages, cultures or business traditions. Corporate executives in Europe now recognise the need to develop ecommerce capabilities, but don't know what to do or how."
He expects to generate revenues of $49 million for 1999, expanding to $160 million in 2000, and $448 million by 2002.
And according to his calculations, a two to eight year old profitable Internet company with an established customer base and growth rates of more than 100 per cent annually, can be bought for about $2 million in cash and the same amount in stock.
International technology venture capital company, Atlas Venture, which recently raised $200 million to invest in Europe, estimates that European venture capital investments in the technology sector were about $2.76 billion in 1997, or a quarter of the total.
This compares with US technology investment last year of $11 billion, or three quarters of a total $14 billion.
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Expected: End of 2013, Price: Rs. Rs 10-15 lakh
Force Motors aims to cash in on the MPV segment boom with its own new luxury minivan. The new vehicle is based on the Mercedes-Benz Viano and will be manufactured under license from the German auto major. The yet to be named luxury eight-seater will be larger than other MPVs on sale currently.
It is speculated that the new vehicle will have features which are unheard of in the current MPV segment. Powering the vehicle will be the Mercedes-sourced 2.2-litre diesel engine which produces 139PS of power and is the same unit currently used in the Force One SUV. Prices are expected to be around Rs 10-15 lakh.Recommended Variant : Force One SX ABS 6 STR
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When Sachs Goldman included India with Brazil, Russia and China in their list of BRIC countries, it wasn’t just to include the necessary vowel in their now famous acronym. With its burgeoning economy going from strength to strength, the world’s seventh largest country, India, more than deserves its inclusion in the worldwide list of top trading nations.
The origins of this boom can be traced back to 1991 when India adopted liberal and free market principles, and in the process opened up its economy to international trade. Automobile production has been at the forefront of this industrial revolution with India now holding the position of sixth largest automotive manufacturer producing some 3.23 million vehicles in the period 2012-13, overtaking Brazil, Mexico and Russia.
Most of this vehicle production is centred on three areas in the north, west and south of the country with 35 percent of vehicles produced near the southern city of Chennai which is often referred to as the “Detroit” of Asia, 33 percent near the western cities of Mumbai and Pune and 32 percent in the Northern National Capital Region.
Despite India’s high position in the global vehicle production table, the figures for vehicle ownership amongst its own population remains fairly low at around 100 million vehicles spread thinly amongst a population estimated in 2013 at 1.27 billion.
A large majority of Indians, especially amongst the younger generation, prefer motorbikes to cars as their vehicle of choice. The reasons for this preference can be traced to the economical price of two wheelers, their excellent fuel efficiency and in no small part to the parlous state of the Indian roads.
Outside of the main urban and manufacturing areas, road conditions in India can be, and often are very poor. With a total of two million kilometers of road only 960,000 kilometers of them are surfaced roads with another one million kilometers in a poorly constructed state. With a large proportion of its population on very low incomes the purchase of 4x4 vehicles to cope with these road conditions is out of the question. With its low initial cost and ability to easily navigate obstacles, the motorcycle is the next best option.
To tap into this vast market for low-priced two wheelers Honda India has produced the “Honda Dream Yuga” priced at $810. In January 2012 car sales in India were down by 12.45 percent while motorcycle sales were up by 7.45 percent, the vast majority of which were manufactured in country making India the second largest producer of two wheelers in the world.
The importance of the motorcycle in India is brought into perspective by comparing two wheeler sales there with those in the U.S. Motorcycle sales in India grew by 14 percent in 2011 to 13.44 million units, 30 times the USA’s total of 440,000. The popularity of motorcycles also is reflected in the Indian automotive aftermarket, which is dominated by the two-wheeler industry, which commands a 49 percent share of the market followed by cars at only 26 percent.
India is a country of amazing diversity, at one end of its social spectrum it has individuals who enjoy vast wealth while at the other extreme there is a large portion of the population, some 29.8 percent, living below the poverty line. This social diversity is also reflected in India’s cities, which range from high tech modernity in the more affluent areas to ramshackle shanty towns just a stone’s throw away.
Despite India’s fast-growing economy, as a group, the richest 5 percent of Indians only have the approximate wealth level of the poorest 5 percent of Americans. The inhabitants of poor countries purchase few automobiles because very few people including the relatively wealthy in those countries can afford to buy them.
Historically, until a national per capita GDP level of about $4,000 is reached the growth in car ownership remains quite low. Beyond this fiscal point the birth and development of a middle class starts to take place and auto ownership increases, rising twice as fast as per capita income.
With an expanding per capita income of $3,300 leading to the emergence of a middle class with money to spare, India is starting to reach the first stages of mass vehicle ownership amongst its population. It has been forecast that its per capita vehicles level will rise from 15 cars per 1,000 people today to 110 per 1,000 in 2030. When these figures are multiplied by the gigantic population of India the projected increases in total vehicles are colossal.
The highest levels of car ownership in India can be found in the larger cities and towns, leading in some cases to traffic congestion and pollution issues. These problems are especially acute in India’s capital Delhi where an average of 1,335 vehicles were added to its roads daily during 2010 and 2011. This has led some experts to predict that by 2021 the capacity of roads in Delhi will be exceeded on most major roads and junctions, but despite these gloomy predictions, owning a vehicle remains a goal for many of India’s growing middle class.
On the back of this increase in sales of new vehicles, the automotive aftermarket in India is predicted to grow to $9.4 billion by 2015 from its present estimated level of $3.7 billion. In contrast to many other countries worldwide, the automotive aftermarket in India is dominated by the two-wheeler industry, which has a market share of 49 percent of sales followed by cars at 26 percent.
With a very large emerging middle class many of whom aspire to vehicle ownership, India has the potential to open up into a vast market for automotive aftermarket services and parts. With its own well-known capabilities for producing non-genuine replacement parts and accessories, India presents a challenging but potentially very profitable market for the budding or experienced U.S. entrepreneur, especially those in the motorcycle business.
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CamaroNews – Rumors are circulating about the Camaro’s potential discontinuation in 2023, and this time, they might just be true.
Last year it was reported by numerous news outlets that the Chevrolet Camaro was doomed to be discontinued. Motor1.com reported that no official statement was made at the time by representatives of Chevrolet. But still, the news was shattering too many fans of this prominent and storied vehicle.
It was miamilakesautomall.com that stated that this dreadful moment can come as soon as 2023. Yeah, it’s still a few years away from happening, but it’s impending doom to us Chevy fans out there. We all know that the day will inevitably come, and so many of us are left asking: “Why, Chevy? Why?”
The reasons may very well be plentiful, but in reality, it always comes down to one thing -money. Nevertheless, it will be hard to see the Camaro gone. Besides, who’s going to give the Mustang the competition it needs to keep improving; Dodge?
For a vehicle that started way back in 1966, this is really disheartening news. Through the ages, consumers have been awed by the many models that have surfaced. These vehicles were all top-notch, and they still live on in the memories of automotive enthusiasts to this day. Or rather, Camaro enthusiasts.
For an incredible six generations, this has been the case, and the Camaro aged like fine wine. There was, of course, a massive break in production between the fourth and fifth generations of the Camaro. Many wondered about the future of this car even then. But then, it made its triumphant return with the celebrated fifth generation in 2010.
Naturally, like with most cars, some of its many models weren’t all that well received. But overall, we think we can all agree that this is a car that doesn’t deserve to be discontinued.
Of course all of this is on the surface. If we take a better look, perhaps the success of this vehicle wasn’t always as promising as we thought it to be. And was the sixth generation, which was launched in 2016, all it was cracked up to be?
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If we take a closer look, it’s quite staggering to see the actual sales for the Camaro in the last decade. It just goes to show how public perception isn’t always reality. Business insiders could have told the average Joe a thing or two about the actual financial state of this car. It was actually put into writing in chart form over at gmauthority.com.
The chart shoes quite efficiently, how the car has dropped in sales over the last ten years. And we’re not talking small drops here. In 2010, the car sold 81,299 in units, while in 2019, 48,265 units were sold. Those numbers went down every single year, slow and steady.
Very staggering indeed when taking a look at the sales for the Ford Mustang! In 2019, a whopping 72,489 units sold of Mustang were reported by carsalesbase.com. That’s more than a small difference between the two.
Still, are those numbers enough to discontinue the car? Or is there something else at work here that Chevrolet is keeping on the down-low? Time will tell, we hope.
Until then, we should all spend as much time with our Camaros as we can. Or at least go look at them in showrooms until the salesmen kick us out. But an end to the release of this car doesn’t mean an end to the car. Just like discontinuation didn’t put an end to our relationship with the many cars from the past, such as the coveted Pontiac models that have gone the way of the Camaro. Even the much-loved former Charger, Mustang and Corvette models that aren’t manufactured anymore.
So, if that fateful day comes and the Camaro indeed ceases from America’s showrooms, at least we can rest assured its legacy will live on in the men and women who collect and preserve the old models to showcase them in all their glory. And when it one day becomes a classic, maybe its value will finally reflect how much it means to some of us today.


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Lets face it, for the longest time consoles have added more and more features to their latest consoles but the last refresh hasn’t made strides in visuals and raw horse power to match their PC counterparts despite sales figures. In a quote from an anonymous post at Slashdot.com the person writes;
“What has been clear from this year’s Game Developers Conference is that consoles are beginning to show their age. With nothing beyond a possible Nintendo update on the horizon, developers at this year’s GDC have turned their eyes to the PC. The article includes three videos that give a fantastic insight into where PC graphics are headed, including a version of Epic’s Unreal engine, Crytek’s Cryengine 3, and DICE’s Frostbite 2 engine. Considering that these leaps in eye candy are only possible with the current state of PC graphics, we wonder how long consoles will be the target platform for development of blockbuster game”
Though PC gaming has been given the cold shoulder by some of the biggest studios in the business, despite their start up success in the PC Market (Epic Games). GDC did end up discussing more about PC games and it being the future of gaming. With both Crytek and Epic showing off their latest and greatest development kits but does that really say that PC gaming is having its second coming or is it just a heads up for console makers to start their production factories with something way beefier?
It is no surprise that the reigning kings of consoles depended on their visual quality and functionality to win sales figures. But let us not forget that both Xbox, PS3 and even the Wii carry that little graphics chip designed by PC companies like Nvidia and ATI (now AMD). Now with even more advanced graphics heading to PC with visuals that rival cinema studio CG, its no surprise that the development side of gaming is getting a feature boost, but leave it up to Microsoft and Sony to come up with something that might be able to render this on the fly whilst you drool at this video below.


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"Sunset & Dine": The second annual Sunset & Dine dinner and a movie event will take place Thursday at Academy Hollywood, the outdoor amphitheater on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences campus. From 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. more than 15 Los Angeles-based food and wine vendors will sample items including K&L Wines and the newly opened Stella Barra. There will also be a screening of the film "Sunset Boulevard." Tickets are on sale now at www.sunsetanddine.org, and proceeds from the event will benefit local charities. 6322 DeLongpre Ave., Hollywood, www.sunsetanddine.org.
Mo-Chica's OG menu: Chef Ricardo Zarate is offering an "OG Tasting Dinner" every Tuesday at Mo-Chica from 5:30 to 10 p.m. The prix fixe menu will feature Peruvian dishes from the original Mercado de la Paloma location, such as tomato and burrata salad, monkfish liver, scallops and yellowtail ceviche, quinoa risotto, and tres leches cake, for $27 a person. Also, during Mo-Chica's happy hour, 2:30 to 5 p.m. daily, the entire menu is 20% off. (213) 622-3744, 514 W. 7th St., Los Angeles.
"Yes, Chef" paperback debut: Chef Marcus Samuelsson will be celebrating the paperback version of his New York Times bestseller and James Beard award-winning cookbook, "Yes, Chef," on June 19 at 7 p.m. The event will be hosted by chefs Sang Yoon and Sherry Yard with cocktails from Father's Office, desserts from Sherry Yard and a menu by Yoon. The ticket price is $55 a person; the book will be sold separately at the event. 8760 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles.


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According to some Steam stats it appears as if DayZ has dropped from 23,000 average players in January, 2014 all the way down to 6,000 average players as of June. It's safe to say that the drop has been rather significant and the game has a lost a ton of its player-base over the course of just a year.
Following on the roadmap that was recently released for DayZ that explains all the new features the game will receive leading up to its 2016 release, the development team behind the open-world, zombie-survival title released a blog post explaining what games can expect from DayZ in 2015.
We now have an official developmental roadmap for DayZ's standalone release. We know what Bohemia has planned within the upcoming months and just how much it's going to cost in the end.
In a recent interview, DayZ creator Dean “Rocket” Hall discussed the possibilities of the game arriving on Sony and Microsoft's home consoles, and exactly how soon and in what state games can expect the game. The news comes on the heels of Bohemia Interactive's previous announcement that the PS4 would be getting a special edition of the popular open-world zombie title.
It's a long, hard road toward the goal of claiming “completion” but Dean “Rocket” Hall and the rest of Bohemia Interactive are still moving forward. Through this process, however, the team has had to assuage the concerns of fans and address the roadmap of the game's current development direction.
We've been hearing and reading about the possibility of a port for quite a time, but it always seemed like something that was so far away and far off that it seemed more like a pipe dream than a possible reality. Well, it turns out that DayZ on the PlayStation 4 is a much larger reality than a lot of gamers may have anticipated.
It's no where near as good as the Call of Duty versus Battlefield rap battle, but the video showdown between the hero and bandit from Bohemia Interactive's DayZ is pretty darn cool.
Another milestone has been reached for DayZ's standalone release. Dean “Rocket” Hall took to the social media sphere to make it known that the open-world, zombie-survival game has managed to sell more than 2 million copies.
Well this should come as a pleasant surprise to some and no surprise at all to others; but Walking Dead television star Chandler Riggs, turns out to be a pretty big fan of the post-zombie-apocalyptic survival game from Dean “Rocket” Hall and crew, DayZ.
Daft Punk has won six Grammys but now they've received an even bigger honor: their own DayZ music video. A few players have combined "Get Lucky" with the zombie survival game for a very catchy parody.
Sometimes it takes even more time to setup the context so people have an idea of what they it is they're looking at, unless the video sets it up perfectly fine and does all the heavy-duty lifting, which is sort of the case with this latest clip from Arma.
DayZ Standalone's development team has begun work on a cooking feature for the survival game. In a new blog post, Bohemia Interactive explained what cooking will be like in the zombie apocalypse and also gave a progress report on other features.
DayZ will have a new lead designer soon. Dean "Rocket" Hall revealed today that he's leaving Bohemia Interactive and the zombie survival game he helped build.
In the past, DayZ designer Dean Hall said that the chances of an Xbox One version of DayZ were slim. Now he thinks it's just as possible as a PS4 version of the multiplayer zombie game.
During the AMA yesterday on Reddit, users asked lead designer of DayZ, Dean “Rocket” Hall, if the popular (and fast-selling) zombie survival game would make the jump to SteamOS.