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Lenovo is bringing three budget laptops to market in June, including one that can be equipped with Intel's RealSense 3D camera.
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Work will begin next week on the partial demolition of Stop & Shop’s mid-island supermarket in preparation for the construction of a new store on the property between Sparks Avenue and Pleasant Street, supermarket officials said yesterday.
The multi-phase project will begin with the relocation of the main sprinkler system and shelving, and other work inside the existing store, so about a third of it can be razed to create parking while the new store is being built, said Judi Palmer, director of marketing and external communication for Stop & Shop New England.
Should all go according to plan, Stop & Shop will have the new 38,000-square-foot store open by next May on the opposite side of the parking lot adjacent to the Nantucket Fire Department, supermarket consultant Greg O’Brien said.
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Coca-Cola is moving forward to roll out 100-percent recycled plastic bottles in the U.S.
Company officials say the recycled Coke bottles will cut its use of new plastic by over 20-percent compared to 2018. The company is also creating a new 13-point-two ounce bottle made of recycled plastic in addition to their standard 20 ounce bottle. The new bottles will be introduced later this month in the Northeastern U.S. They will be available nationwide later in the year.


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Amazon launches new secured credit card for those with bad or no credit
Amazon this week unveiled a new secured credit card with Synchrony Bank, aimed at customers with bad or no credit history.
The card – called the Amazon Prime Store Card Credit Builder – requires a refundable security deposit, has no annual fee and offers Prime members 5% back on Amazon.com purchases. Consumer must make a deposit from $100 to $1,000, which determines their credit limit.
The card also features installment and special financing options on certain purchases.
It's also the first of its kind, said Ted Rossman, an industry analyst at CreditCards.com.
“Secured cards have long been a good way for people to build or rebuild credit, and a lot of banks offer them," he said. "But I've never seen a retailer offering one."
Is Amazon's card a good choice?
Managing a secured card is traditionally a good low-risk way to build positive credit history for those with blemished or no credit, said Matt Schulz, chief industry analyst at CompareCards.
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“Secured cards are basically meant to be training wheels cards that people use when they're just getting started in order to help them build credit,” Schulz said.
Amazon’s new credit card also has some benefits that many secured cards don’t provide, such as a $10 Amazon gift card as a signup bonus, he said. But the credit card can only be used for Amazon purchases, Schulz added.
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Synchrony, the issuing bank behind the card, will report your payment history to the three national credit bureaus: TransUnion, Equifax and Experian. As a cardholder, you also have access to free credit score monitoring and credit advice.
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“The program puts credit in the hands of people in a responsible way while giving customers access to tangible benefits such as tools to improve credit,” Angie Hu, a spokesperson for Synchrony told USA TODAY.
You could be upgraded to an unsecured card if you meet certain criteria and make payments on time for seven straight months, according to Amazon.
“If you are somebody who keeps your balances low, pays your bills on time every time, then it is possible that you could graduate to a new card pretty quickly,” Schulz said.
Drawbacks of the Amazon card
While Amazon's new card overall is a good option for consumers, the card still comes with a relatively high APR of 28.24%, Rossman said. The average median APR for retail cards is 25.64%, according to a CreditCards.com survey.
“Store cards typically charge higher rates in large part because they're easier to get,” Rossman said.
Both analysts said consumers need to be especially wary of the special financing with deferred interest on purchases that Amazon promotes. If you don't pay off the purchase before the promotional, no-interest period ends, you will owe back interest since the original purchase.
“If you buy something and you don't pay it off within that six months or 12 or 24 months, then you will likely get a bill for any interest that would have accrued on that account since the purchase date,” Schulz said.
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The BMW Group strengthened its presence in Jalisco with the grand opening of BMW Naosa Puerto Vallarta, the fifth showroom in the state for the commercialization of its BMW and MINI brands.
Located on the Carretera a Tepic 5755, Las Juntas, this showroom is made up of the reception area, executive offices, waiting room and the designated area for the delivery of the cars. In addition to that, they have a warehouse for spare parts, a service workshop, inventory area and parking for customers. In terms of sustainability, which is a priority of the company, the building has LED lights and solar panels for producing its own electrical energy.
A grand opening event to celebrate the new dealership took place on June 3rd, 2021. Several different executives from the BMW Group and the Naosa Automotive Group were in attendance, as well as specifically invited VIP clients. Maru Escobedo, CEO of BMW Group Mexico gave words of welcome and thanked those present for making the new facility possible and successful. Escobedo commented that “Jalisco is one of the fastest growing states in Mexico, therefore it represents a region of utmost importance for the BMW Group. We are focused on offering the best service and facilities to our clients, so we will continue working with our strategic allies throughout the region to provide excellence and quality through our brands.”
The ribbon cutting ceremony was attended by Matthias Schlesiger, CEO of Financial Services Mexico and Latin America; Alexander Luhn, Regional Director of Sales Operations; Maru Escobedo, CEO of BMW Group Mexico; Ricardo Humphrey, director of MINI Mexico and Latin America; and Diego Camargo, post-sales director in Mexico and Latin America; among other select personalities.


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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's plantation minister on Wednesday denied that the country's agricultural products, including its famous Ceylon tea, are dangerous, days after Russia imposed a temporary ban on such goods.
Russian agriculture safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor banned all imports of agricultural products from Sri Lanka starting Dec. 18, saying it found an insect known as the Khapra beetle in the packaging of a consignment of Sri Lankan tea.
The beetle is one of the world's most destructive pests for grain and seed products.
Plantation Minister Navin Dissanayake told reporters that the insect is not common in Sri Lanka and there is less than a 5 percent chance that it came from the island nation.
He said the insect could have entered the container when the ship stopped in other ports on its way to Russia. In addition, "this was in the packaging, not inside," he said.
The Ceylon Tea Board, the government agency that monitors the tea industry, has said the insect may have remained in the shipping container after it was earlier used to transport grain, not necessarily of Sri Lankan origin.
Tea production is one of the main sources of foreign exchange for Sri Lanka. In 2015, Russia was the top buyer of Ceylon tea, purchasing a total of $156.6 million.
Dissanayake said a team of top officials and scientists from Sri Lanka may visit Russia next week to urge a lifting of the ban.
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Patari, one of Pakistan’s most celebrated startups announced this Friday that it has secured US$ 200,000 of seed stage funding from Sarmayacar, an investor syndicate.
Patari, a music streaming service that has already won several awards, announced the investment details in a signing event in Lahore. The signing event featured Patari’s team, including its founders and current employees. It was also attended by Dr. Umar Saif, Chairman PITB; Nabeel A. Qadeer, Director Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development; as well as members of Sarmayacar.
Khalid Bajwa, the CEO of Patari said: “Our success at Patari had been based on innovating quality products and investing in music. Our partnership with Sarmayacar will allow us to scale up and truly unleash the massive potential inherent in Pakistani music.”
Dr. Umar Saif, Chairman PITB extended his best wishes to the startup and highly appreciated the faith that investors put in these young entrepreneurs trying their best to make a mark in the world. While talking about the startup culture he said: “What started as an idea a few years ago has now spread like a wildfire across the country. Witnessing the remarkable growth of this startup culture and majorly being a part of it feels amazing. Investors believing in the passion and entrepreneurial skills of this young lot, confirms that this culture is here to stay for a long period of time. I wish Patari and emerging startups a successful and prosperous future.”
Patari launched its beta service in April of 2015 via a guerrilla marketing campaign that quickly went viral. In September of last year, the platform went live, rolling out mobile apps for iOS and Android in addition to its website. Patari’s technology was well received in the industry, and the service won the mBillionth award in India, the US Embassy in Pakistan’s Startup Cup and placed second in the World Startup Cup. The service was also lauded for its stringent compliance to copyright laws, and won over the artist community after announcing Rs. 1.25 million in royalty payouts.


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TRaC Global, will be on Stand 1E72 at Offshore Europe to offer advice on the unique testing and certification issues faced by today’s manufacturers supplying products to the international oil and gas markets. The company will be able to discuss ATEX and IECEx compliance as well as safety, radio and EMC compliance issues.
TRaC Global extends its reach with 51 global facilities following its acquisition by Element.
“Testing and certification is vital to manufacturers wishing to fulfil the different legal obligations and compliance procedures required for export and to reach international markets. Element’s acquisition of TRaC means that we will carry on providing our leading product qualification and testing services, further supported by Element’s materials technology expertise and global reach,” said Mark Heaven, CEO at TraC Global.
TRaC Global also offers bespoke training courses to help companies better understand the EX safety measures required to export, covering everything from EX coding and protection concepts through to production control.
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Danish transport and logistics specialist DSV recently opened their new office in Panama City, the capital of Panama. Panama is regarded as a vital hub for the Central America region and the Caribbean.
DSV Air & Sea Executive Vice President LATAM Region, Torge Koehnke said, “It is a strategic decision to move into Panama. Many of our customers use Panama’s free zones to distribute goods to the Central American and Caribbean markets,” he further added, “In addition, Panama is an attractive place to store products and establish distribution to the countries in the region due to the tax benefits available.”
DSV Air & Sea Panama Managing Director, Jonas Thoroe said, “With an office in Panama City, we are expanding our Air & Sea network and look forward to supporting current and new customers alike with their logistics requirements.”
Panama has a growing economy and is a politically stable country which makes it an attractive option for a healthy and professional business environment. Coupled with the Panama Canal the country is strategically important on so many levels.
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The downtown Jackson area has been undergoing a facelift the past few weeks in preparation for filming to begin on a new Netflix Original Series slated for 2016. The new series, called “Stranger Things” takes place in an Indiana town set in the 1980’s and the revitalization of a number of storefronts has been done with this era in mind, primarily on the north side of the square along Second Street.
Jackson Drug Company and Radio Shack are two of the stores that will feature prominently in shots and both have been given a new color scheme and look for the film. The prop department this week has loaded the front store windows of Radio Shack with a selection of period electronics ranging from console televisions, smaller color as well as black and white TVs, to an Atari game console, a Kenwood stereo component system and a GE cassette tape recorder.
Further down the block, the old Deraney’s Department Store building has been painted as well and transformed into a furniture store with a selection of 1980’s era furniture pieces in the large show windows along the sidewalk. The store had been empty until recently, when Jason Lee Music Store opened in this location. Other stores between Jackson Drugs and Jason Lee Music have also been refreshed and are being prepared for filming, which is scheduled to begin on Monday, November 23rd. Filming is scheduled for the entire day and will likely go beyond the normal business hours of the downtown Jackson square.
Scenes are also planned for the north entrance of the Butts County Courthouse, which will be fitted with temporary wooden doors to give the entrance a different look. Last week, workers from the City of Jackson, Butts County and film production crew removed the old fenced-in enclosure on the north lawn of the courthouse, as well as the old water pipe and concrete around the enclosure. This enclosure had been used for many years to store trash from the courthouse for pickup and many years ago, housed a watering trough that has been gone for decades. It has been replaced with plantings for the shoot and will be eventually sodded to match the grounds of the courthouse when production is completed.
“We have been grateful for the cooperation and interest in Jackson from the people at Netflix, especially Dan Reilly, the Assistant Location Manager” said Government Relations Director Michael Brewer, who also serves as the Georgia Camera Ready Liaison for Butts County. “They have teamed up with with Jeanette Riley, Mayor Kay Pippin and the City of Jackson as well as with my office, the downtown store owners, Downtown Development Authority and others, keeping us informed of what is going on and letting us know what they need to make the shooting a success. The City and County have worked very well together to help them in any way possible and we’re excited that they will showcase our town and community in a positive way”.
During the filming on November 23rd, three sides of the downtown square will be restricted during the time shooting is going on. These include Oak, Mulberry and Second Street. Stores on those streets have been working with the Netflix team to make alternate arrangements for customers on that day. For example, Jackson Drugs will allow for customers to enter their store through the back door that day and there will be people available to show them the way. Some stores on Mulberry Street also have back entrances that open up to the city parking lot behind the Verizon Store and City Pharmacy. Netflix has also worked with local merchants to help make sure they are not adversely affected by shooting schedules.
Probate Court arraignments scheduled for Monday will continue as scheduled but those attending will be required to enter the courthouse through the Third Street entrance. Those going to court will need to park in one of the open City parking lots located around the downtown area as they will not be able to access three of the streets in the area. Uniform officers will be in the area assisting with the street closures and can direct those going to court where they need to go.
Future shoots for the series are planned for unspecified dates in the early part of 2016. The benefits to the downtown area, however, will continue on after film production is complete. Colors used for the painting of the buildings have been drawn from color charts approved by the Downtown Development Authority and will play a part in future planned revitalization efforts. More than that, film production is an economic engine in Georgia that has many positive benefits to the local economy.
They often employ local people to assist with work, utilize local businesses and restaurants and they bring positive attention and tourism to communities. Locations used in other film productions such as those in shows like “The Walking Dead” have become huge tourist draws, bringing more dollars into the community. “We are always glad to get their attention and to welcome them to our community” said Brewer. “They bring a lot to the table, they have a very positive impact on our local economy and they increase our exposure to people looking for interesting places in Georgia to visit. I hope they will continue to look favorably on our county”.
The series itself is set in the 1980s and is about a mystery surrounding a boy who suddenly disappears and the ever-expanding government conspiracy that unravels in its wake. Actress Winona Ryder will play the boy’s single mother who works in a local drugstore while the town’s Chief of Police will be played by David Harbour. In recent developments, Matthew Modine has been cast to play the role of Dr. Martin Brenner, a brilliant but mysterious scientist who may know more than he is letting on. Netflix plans to air the series sometime in 2016.


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Five years after Apple Inc. essentially coined the term "app" and ignited a mobile-software boom, the company's devices and smartphone applications are losing their long-held advantage over those made by Google Inc., Bloomberg reports.
Both companies saw growth in sales and revenue from the app market in the fourth quarter. But Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) doubled its online app sales during the period, while Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) posted a 20 percent gain, according to the report.
With the operating systems for the tech giants' respective devices now on equal footing, the report says, Apple has in the past few years ceded its top spot in software for smartphones to Google's Android and its status as the top hardware maker to Samsung Electronics Co.
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The firm sold a record 51 million iphones and 26 million iPads but profits from October to January - usually a bumper period - remained flat
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Apple said on Monday it sold a record 51 million iPhones in the holiday shopping quarter to December 28, but that was below analysts’ higher sales expectations of 55 million.
Apple also forecast revenue for its current quarter of between $42 billion and $44 billion (£25-6 billion), below many analysts’ estimates of $46.1 billion (£27 billion).
The company’s stock was hammered in after hours trading on Monday, falling at least 7.5 per cent.
The results will heap more pressure on CEO Tim Cook to take Apple into new, innovative and more profitable product lines amid increasingly stiff competition.
"The report for the December quarter was fine, but the real problem is the forecast for the March quarter," Brian Colello, analyst at Morningstar, told Reuters. "The revenue certainly appears to be a shortfall."
Quarterly revenue was a record $57.6 billion (£34.8 billion) and net profit was $13.1 billion (£7.9 billion), or $14.50 (£8.75) per diluted share, compared to revenue of $54.5 billion and net profit of $13.1 billion, or $13.81 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter.
Gross margin fell to 37.9 per cent from 38.6 per cent in the year-ago quarter.
Apple sold a record 26 million iPads during the quarter, up from 22.9 million in the year-ago period, and sold 4.8 million Macs, compared to 4.1 million last year.
“We are really happy with our record iPhone and iPad sales, the strong performance of our Mac products and the continued growth of iTunes, software and services,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO.
Apple, which is under pressure to return more of its roughly $159 billion (£96 billion) cash hoard to shareholders, also declared a cash dividend of $3.05 (£1.84) a share.
Activist shareholder investor Carl Icahn last week increased his stake in the company to about $3.6 billion (£2.2 billion) and has been urging Apple to increase its stock buyback program.
Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s chief financial officer, said on Monday: “We generated $22.7 billion in cash flow from operations and returned an additional $7.7 billion in cash to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases during the December quarter, bringing cumulative payments under our capital return program to over $43 billion.”
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We started off the week by reporting that Amazon’s Kindle Store has surpassed over 260,000 books with an exponential growth rate – at least that’s not a reason not to own one.
We took a look at the available VHS to DVD converters and other analog to digital converters (both hardware and software solutions).
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The Fallout 76 trailer has just dropped during the Bethesda Twitch stream, with the brand new Fallout game officially being revealed by the studio. A short teaser trailer didn’t reveal much about the upcoming game, pointing viewers to the Bethesda website. The short teaser trailer didn’t reveal much, with it only showing an inhabitant of one of the game’s vaults along with a tour of the underground bunker. “In Vault 76, our future begins,” the voiceover reads.
The Bethesda Fallout site only directs viewers to the Fallout 76 trailer, offering no additional information. The publisher is set to reveal more during the Bethesda E3 Showcase, which will take place during E3 2018 on June 10th.
Fans had speculated that Bethesda’s Fallout announcement, which had been teased on Twitch over the course of the past day, would revolve around a Fallout 3 or Fallout 4 remaster. However, this is a brand new entry in the post-apocalyptic franchise, though further details are slim right now.
Many have concluded that this could be a Fallout MMO, with Bethesda following in the footsteps of its The Elder Scrolls Online by producing Fallout Online. While the short teaser trailer doesn’t hint towards the game being online, it’s anyone’s guess as to what Bethesda has up its sleeve right now.
The Bethesda Twitch stream where the Fallout 76 trailer was revealed has been the subject of rampant speculation, with it being brought online yesterday and telling viewers to “Please Stand By.” The game was finally officially revealed at 10 am EST.
Fallout 4 was released back in 2015 to critical acclaim, and many will be happy to see that Bethesda has been working on a brand new Fallout game. It’s unclear if Fallout 76 will be a story-driven, single-player experience continuing the narrative of the franchise, or if it’ll be something else entirely, but we don’t have long until E3 in order to find out.
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A father-son duo is investing $100,000 based on the notion that doing laundry is a drag. They hope to lure consumers to a new service that washes, dries and folds clothes at a price less expensive than most drop-off laundry services.
The business partners, Michael Viviano Sr. and Michael Viviano Jr., are currently testing My Laundry Station in pilot program with Stony Brook University. At the school’s Kelly Dining Center, a heavily trafficked location convenient to the father and son’s Selden State of the Art Laundromat, students and faculty deposit bags of dirty laundry in one of the 24 lockers surrounding a center computer console, pay $15 with a swipe of a credit card and, provided the clothes are dropped off by 8 p.m., pick up their cleaned, folded clothing the next morning. Stony Brook University makes a commission of 10 percent per load.
While My Laundry Station’s services cost about 83 cents per pound of dirty clothing, traditional drop-off services cost a little more than $1 per pound. Michael Viviano Sr. said the kiosk is breaking even right now, with about two loads deposited in its lockers each day. Workers at State of the Art Laundromat pick up the clothes, clean them at the Selden facility, then return them the next day. But the duo could face obstacles as they try to expand the concept to other locations.
Viviano Sr. said more profit will be made once he markets My Laundry Station to other Laundromat facilities across Long Island and into New York City. Viviano also hopes to find route operators, who service hundreds of laundry facilities across the country, to pick up My Laundry Station. He explained that laundry facilities, many of which are open 24/7, are quiet between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. and can partner with My Laundry Station to monetize their empty machines.
“Our strategy is about excess capacity,” the younger Viviano said. “You have the store, you have the truck. You’re doing it without increasing the rest of your expenses.”
Brian Wallace, the head of Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.-based Coin Laundry Association, said his constituents may see a value in the product especially because the wash, dry and fold service is already an important and growing component of their everyday business. He added the Laundromat industry, unlike the route operating industry, is very fragmented.
More than 70 percent of Laundromat owners just have one store, and there are no significant franchises or chains to speak of, he said. That fragmentation could make it difficult to get to the economies of scale necessary to make My Laundry Station profitable, explained Roy DiMarco, president of Rockville Centre-based ad agency Harrison Leifer DiMarco.
Route operators, on the other hand, have a consolidated industry with a few big players, making the distribution of My Laundry Station an easier task. But, one route operator in the New York area expressed reservations. Ron Garfunkel, the CEO of Westchester-based Service Directions, pointed out the potential downfalls of the service, saying it could threaten his livelihood. Once the product is placed in apartment buildings, fewer people may use his washers and driers, decreasing the commission for him and the building owners.
Garfunkel added that marketing the facility in New York City, one of the Vivianos’ goals, could be a challenge because of space concerns. Already, he hardly has any room for the washing machines and dryers building tenants use.
Adding to the mix, the Vivianos have a competitor who’s proven his mettle in San Francisco since 2005. The competitor, Laundry Lockers, is slated to make inroads in the greater New York area soon, according to an e-mail from its founder, Arik Levy. Laundry Lockers already has 600 locations in the Bay Area. The system differs from My Laundry Station in that it uses text messages, e-mails and a website to notify consumers about their laundry, while the Viviano’s product uses a center console with a touch screen.
Levy declined to comment because he did not want to tip off his competitors. Likewise, the Vivianos declined to comment on how their business strategy differs from Laundry Lockers, which is advertising franchising opportunities on its website. Michael Viviano Jr. said he was not aware of Laundry Lockers until well into the process of applying for a patent for My Laundry Station, which is currently pending.
For now, the Vivianos are looking to place their locker system in areas they can service through their two existing Laundromats, State of the Art Laundromat in Selden and Laundroplex in West Babylon. The launderers have plans with Stony Brook to install another one of their kiosks in the quad surrounding Stony Brook’s Benedict College, said the older Vivano. The duo also wants to place one of the kiosks outside near a bus stop. That way, they can capture the commuter population, and see if the product has viability beyond the confines of a campus.


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The Michigan Association of Recreation Vehicles and Campgrounds (MARVAC) Camper & RV Show in Port Huron is set to run today through Sunday (March 8-11) at the Blue Water Convention Center.
“From the enthusiastic response the show received last year from attendees, we are expecting exhibitors to really bring in some fantastic vehicles for show attendees to enjoy,” said Darren Ing, MARVAC show director. “The Port Huron Camper & RV Show is a great show for RVers of all levels of experience.”
The Times-Herald reported that the event will feature 40 units including folding campers, travel trailers, toy haulers and motorhomes. There will also be exhibitors featuring parts and accessories, campground information and more, making this a complete RV show experience.
“The Port Huron show is great. The convention center is one of the best venues and the folks from the Port Huron area are fun and very knowledgeable about RVing and camping,” said Tim O’Brien, owner of Circle K RVs. “We were very excited that the show came back last year and we heard the same from the people who attended.”
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Amazon Music Unlimited may have appeared late – in 2016, two years after Apple Music was launched. But the popularity of Amazon's echo sounders gives it an advantage, as it now has a foothold in an increasing number of households. The company has reportedly been working on an echo version of Echo, which can compete better with Sonos speakers and attract more users to streaming services.
Amazon has also found the following among older subscribers. According to Steve Boom, head of Amazon Music, about 1
When it comes to price, Amazon offers more flexibility. Like Spotify and Apple Music, Amazon Music Unlimited costs $ 10 per month. Prime members can get it for $ 8 a month, though, and if you're just listening to an Echo speaker, it's only $ 4 a month. Alexa device owners who agree to listen to ads can access the service for free. Prime members also have access to Prime Music at no extra cost, but that service has fewer songs and Echo commands. So, while Spotify and Apple Music have received the most attention in their subscribers' race, Amazon Music can be a third serious contender.


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Zee Khana Khazana adds OOH muscle to its new marketing campaign
After a three-day OOH teaser, the 24-hour food channel is rolling out its OOH campaign from today, which is part of a full scale marketing campaign across TV, digital and OOH
In a move to reach out to its target audience in Mumbai and Delhi, 24-hour food channel Zee Khana Khazana launched an OOH teaser campaign on Monday, February 24, 2014. The teaser, which ran for three days, will be followed by an OOH reveal that will run for a further 12 days, starting February 27.
The new campaign also includes a TVC, which premiered across GEC, news, music, regional and youth channels on February 20. The digital campaign commenced on February 24.
In an email interaction, Amit Nair, Business Head, Zee Khana Khazana shared, “The OOH teaser is in acknowledgment of the anguish women go through with the thought of planning the everyday meal and how these thoughts stay with them throughout the day.” He further revealed that for the OOH campaign, the channel has identified strategic locations such as bus shelters, panels and hoardings across the two cities. It has also taken up branding opportunities at Metro stations in Delhi as well as interiors of women compartments in trains.
Explaining the objective behind the campaign, Nair said, “The strategy is to create a buzz in these markets through teasers that will create curiosity amongst viewers, an attempt to break through the clutter and stand out. The teaser asks a very relevant question – ‘Khane Mein Kya Banau’ (What should I cook), a thought that crosses every woman/ homemaker’s mind on a daily basis. The next phase of the teaser is the reveal stating that Zee Khana Khazana will address all your food related questions through its hot shows, new chefs and delicious recipes. This is intended to add to the buzz in key markets as well as drive tune-ins on the channel.”
Zee Khana Khazana has tied up with Bright Outdoors to drive its outdoor (excluding bus panels) and Metro campaigns.
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Sony's most secret weapon - the Xperia Z1 is out, sort of. The Japanese giant has gone ahead and tweeted an image featuring power button accompanied by the hashtag #bestofSony. The company simultaneously posted the same update on its official Facebook page. The tweet reads "It's the smartphone everyone's been talking about... not long now #bestofSony ". Reportedly, Sony will announce Xperia Z1 or Honami i1 on September 4 at IFA Berlin.
We have already seen alleged leaked pictures and specifications of Xperia Z1 in the past few months. Industry insiders suggest the Sony Xperia Z1 is a mighty successor to Xperia Z with revamped processor and a 20.7 -mega pixel camera.
Few days back, we reported that the Xperia Z1 will have Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor. The Chinese variant of the device (Sony L39h) scored a whooping 30,625 score, better than LG G2.
The Honami i1 will have a 5-inch TRILUMINOUS Display with X-Reality technology having resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. It will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor coupled with 2GB of RAM and 16GB/32GB of internal memory (expandable up to 64GB via microSD card). Moreover, the phone will be stuffed with a 20.7-mega pixel rear facing camera with "G lens "dedicated BIONZ image processor.
On the front, there is a 2-mega pixel camera for long video chat. Further, Sony's forthcoming device to sport 2GB of RAM, 16GB of ROM ( expandable), NFC, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 4G LTE, 3G, GPS, IPX5/7 certification, and Miracast , among others. There is a possibility to see Android 4.3 Jelly Bean from day one.
The Sony Honami i1 device was spotted at the FCC, according to a report. The phone will be announced before September 30 and its retail availability is pegged for October first week. At the same time, rumors also say that Sony is working on Honami i1 Mini.
Honami i1 Mini: Another Handset In Works
According to Esato forums, Sony Honami mini will pack a 4.3 inch Triluminos display which is also incorporated in Xperia Z Ultra. The resolution output will rate at 720 x 1280 pixels. Further, the leak also suggests that the mini version of Honami i1 will be powered by a 2.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 coupled with 2GB RAM and 16GB of internal storage (expandable storage). The makers have decided to go for 2400mAh Li Ion battery. Interestingly, the phone will be stuffed with a 20.7MP camera present in mini Honami with the same Sony G lens, f/2.0 aperture and the same 1/2.3″ sensor.


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AUGUSTA, Ga. – Production has begun in Augusta for a new zero-calorie stevia sweetener that its makers say uses green technology and reduces its environmental footprint.
Biotechnology company Manus Bio – which reopened the former NutraSweet factory on Lovers Lane in 2019 – unveiled its NutraSweet Natural brand Thursday, which its creators say tastes “just like sugar.”
Manus Bio increased production capacity last fall by hiring more than 20 new employees to aid in making the new sweetener, according to Heather Barbarino, the company’s vice president of marketing.
The sweetener’s “good for you and good for the planet” aspect is being emphasized, “which means there’ll be a lot of up-fitting and new equipment being put in,” Barbarino said Friday. “Things like that are going to make it possible for us to scale up to create new products and then continue with the production here. So it’s going to really be, I think, a great thing for Augusta.”
Stevia, a plant native to South America, contains dozens of elements that provide different levels of sweetness, she said. Many other stevia-based sweeteners rely on an extracted glycoside called Rebaudioside A, or Reb A, which gives those sweeteners a characteristic lingering aftertaste that many users describe as bitter.
NutraSweet Natural uses the extract Reb M, which appears less in stevia but more closely mirrors sugar and leaves no aftertaste.
Because it’s “sweet, but not overly sweet,” smaller amounts can be used to sweeten beverages, Barbarino said. It’s also touted as “friendly” to people with diabetes and people adhering to keto and paleo diets.
“According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a staggering 49% of all Americans have tried to lose weight in the past year,” said Brendan Naulty, Manus Bio’s president of sweeteners and natural ingredients, in a statement released Thursday. “We are proud to be able to offer a unique next-generation zero-calorie sweetener that allows us to indulge in sweetness while maintaining lifestyle goals.”
NutraSweet Natural also is “all-natural” and environmentally friendly, Barbarino said.
“We’re looking at ways in which we can do less impact on the environment and improve where the footprint is, and we think with the technology we have through the fermentation it really helps not to destroy the land or need excessive amounts of land,” she said.
The product is available for purchase online and is expected to hit retail shelves in six months or less, Barbarino said. Future iterations of NutraSweet Natural will make it easier to use for baking.
“We’ve been working on perfecting and running the lines and running tests. They’ve been, we’ll say ‘in production,’ for about three months now, but that was making sure the blend was perfect before we went to launch,” she said.
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The station group lends the digital platform company $14.5 million and extends it a line of credit for $1.5 more. Frankly CEO Steve Chung says the new loan will be used to pay off notes it incurred when it bought Worldnow last year. The noteholders include Raycom and Worldnow founder Gary Gannaway.
Raycom Increases Investment In Frankly
Frankly, a leading provider of digital media platforms to broadcasters and others, has got a big new loan and an implicit endorsement from Raycom Media, Frankly CEO Steve Chung says.
The deal restructures debt Frankly took on when it acquired Worldnow for $45 million a year ago, and will significantly increase Raycom’s investment in the company, Chung says.
“This investment should clear away any doubt about Frankly’s financial situation for prospective customers, as we have always represented to the market,” Chung says.
Under the new deal, Raycom is lending $14.5 million to Frankly and extending it a line of credit for another $1.5 million. The five-year $14.5 million loan carries a 10%-a-year interest rate.
Of the $14.5 million, $11 million will go to Woldnow founder and principal Gary Gannaway, and $3 million is being used to pay off $3 million of the $4 million in promissory notes held by Raycom from the purchase.
The remaining $1 million owed to Raycom from the acquisition will be converted to equity, which will increase its stake from 20% to around 27%, Chung says.
The $500,000 left from the new Raycom loan along with the Raycom line of credit will be used to fund operations, Chung says.
Chung says Frankly offers broadcasting a unique product.
“We are getting noticed by the biggest broadcasting customers as the only truly integrated digital platform that combines web, mobile apps, OTT, social and monetization all in one platform, wrapped around a foundation of data,” he says.
“This saves our customers time in the newsroom enabling them to focus on compelling story creation, not messing around trying to be an octopus maneuvering 18 different digital platforms just to get a breaking news story out to their audience.”


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The Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA) has launched an online search tool that gives consumers a new resource to help determine whether a tire is subject to a recall. The tire recall search tool covers the RMA’s member companies' tire recalls since 2000.
Total U.S. tire shipments are projected to surpass 315 million units in 2016, according to the latest forecast by the Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA).
What a comeback! With less than a quarter to go in the year, the Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA) projected domestic replacement passenger tire sales of 204.7 million units.
The Tire and Rubber Association of Canada will host the 2016 Rubber Recycling Symposium Oct. 5-7, in Niagra Falls, Ontario.
The Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA) has set the dates for National Tire Safety Week 2016: May 29-June 4.
There's good news and bad news when it comes to the latest 2015 tire shipment projections from the Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA.) Here's some good news: Replacement passenger tire shipments are expected to exceed what the RMA predicted a year ago.
U.S. tire shipments are projected to eclipse 312 million units in 2015, with medium and heavy truck tires leading the way for both the original equipment and replacement tire markets.
President Barack Obama has signed the highway bill Congress approved Dec. 3, ushering in a regulation that independent tire dealers and distributors register tires at the point-of-sale.
Congress may pass its first long term highway bill in a decade, and the latest House-Senate conference report includes provisions to make tire registration mandatory once again.
Would it be sensationalistic to say all tires in use in the United States are defective? Believe it or not, it happened back in 1976.
In the November 1976 issue of Trial magazine, two attorneys charged that all passenger tires in use in the United States were defective.
Gary Garfield, CEO and president of Bridgestone Americas Inc. (BSAM), will serve as chairman of the Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA) board of directors.
Anne Forristall Luke will be the Rubber Manufacturers Association's next CEO and president. She will officially begin Jan. 1, 2016.


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A 24-year-old man from Charlotte, North Carolina, was recently convicted of being involved in an identity theft scheme that stole more than $50,000. The defendant was sentenced to 42 months in prison, five years of court supervision following his release and an order to pay $48,736.00 in restitution, according to a report by WBTV.
Court proceedings indicated that the man was engaged in an identity theft scheme that ran from 2008 through 2011. He used credit card accounts from victims to purchase goods and get cash. The man took personally identifiable information including the names, birth dates, and Social Security numbers of six victims to gain access to preexisting credit card accounts, as well as open new cards and receive replacement cards.
The man contacted credit card issuers and used the information he had obtained to convince them he was the victim. Through this process, he received duplicate credit cards in the names of victims and added himself to the account to become an authorized user.
The man pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.
Being the victim of identity theft can result in major financial losses in a short amount of time. To put an end to these losses, victims will need effective legal representation. Therefore, contact Attorney Howard D. Silver at (855) 341-2611 for assistance.


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Halo 4 will release on 21st November 2012, according to what appears to be a leaked 343 Industries cinematic effects reel, but guess what? It's a whopping lie.
Aside from a Halo 4 logo, the 'exclusive Halo Waypoint content' intro and a 343 watermark in bottom left, the video in question contains no obvious Halo references. You get to see test tubes filling with silvery fluid, raw energy zipping around Child of Eden style, and what looks suspiciously like R2D2's hacking tool. Master Chief, the Covenant, humanity and, indeed, organic life in general are conspicuous by their absence.
"This is actually a fake," a Microsoft spokesperson commented to Game Informer. "We haven't officially announced the release date yet but stay tuned."


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In recent years Fespa has hosted a growing number of textile printers of all shapes and sizes aimed at everything from soft signage to garment production, which has reflected the chaotic state of this emerging market.
GE Additive has updated its Concept Laser M2 cusing and M2 cusing Multilaser machines with improvements to productivity and reliability as well as lower operating costs. Continue reading “GE updates M2 3D metal printer”
Prodways is to launch a new compact 3D printer, the ProMaker LD-3, which is aimed at the dental, jewelry, education or prototyping industries. Continue reading “Prodways announces LD-3 3D printer”
Mouvent, which is effectively the inkjet subsidiary of Bobst, has signed a number of strategic partnerships with the principal distributors of textile printing solutions in Italy, Turkey, India and China. Continue reading “Mouvent strengthens textiles position”
Stratasys has signed a five year deal with the Aachen Center for Additive Manufacturing (ACAM), part of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen Campus, and which specialises in R&D. Continue reading “Stratasys cooperates with German 3D centre”
Materialise and HP have entered into an exclusive agreement with RSPrint to set up an end to end solution to manufacture fully customized 3D-printed insoles. Continue reading “Materialise and HP combine to manufacture insoles”
Smurfit Kappa, which is one of Europe’s largest producers of corrugated packaging, has invested in EFI’s Nozomi inkjet printer. Continue reading “Smurfit Kappa picks EFI Nozomi”
Kornit will introduce a new Storm HD6 garment printer at next week’s Fespa show, effectively updating the Storm platform with the HD technology. Continue reading “Kornit adds HD printing to Storm series”
Sabic has announced three new filaments for use with FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) 3D printers. They’re meant for end-use parts as well as prototypes. Continue reading “Sabic launches three new 3D filaments”
In a couple of week’s time many of us will head over to Berlin for this year’s Fespa show and it’s a good bet that many of the new printers on show will be fitted with LED lamps for UV curing.


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Feb 06, 2013
In addition to developing the docuseries "The Magazine," Dr. Leigh-Davis will be seeking new comedy work with her new representatives, Media Talent Agency.
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New broadcasters continue to order Dr. Leigh-Davis’ television show, and the producers have agreed to lower licensing fees, in an effort to expedite global broadcasts.
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Dr. Leigh-Davis vowed to focus on producing, but now she is back in front of the camera, with a commercial benefiting Hurricane Sandy victims.
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Zoetic International (LON:ZOE), the London-listed vertically integrated CBD and natural resources company, has today presented its interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2019.
· Revenue of £1.15 million in H1 2019 (H1 2018: £0.52 million)
· 89 stores in the US now stocking Zoetic and Chill products
· Mr. Checkout trial underway
· Greater advertising of Zoetic with the brand appearing in EasyJet’s magazine in Q1 next year
· 25 product lines across Zoetic and Chill brands
· Feminised seed production remains on track for the 2020 growing season
· Natural resources division trading profitably
Nick Tulloch, Chief Executive of Zoetic, said:
“Our interim results and our achievements during the remainder of 2019 have positioned us as the only vertically integrated CBD company listed on the London Stock Exchange. To that, we added trading on the OTC in New York in November. Our task now is to deliver on the business lines we have created.
“In a short time, we have established the popularity of Chill in the US, especially the chew pouches. We take nothing for granted but it appears for the time being that our limitation is not on customer demand but rather our own supply. As we work towards securing a significant increase in our manufacturing capabilities, we are optimistic about potential future sales.
“In the UK, our Zoetic brand has launched 15 product lines since August and, with the launch of CBD gummies in the UK, a further four coming under the Chill brand. Our range of products now gives us far greater scope to engage with retailers in the UK and Europe and that is our immediate focus.
“In the meantime, following a radical restructuring, our natural resources division is now profitable and therefore a valuable support to our developing CBD operations. We continue to assess interest from prospective buyers but the urgency to dispose of this division has now abated and so we will ensure a compelling price is paid before sanctioning any sale.
“We have a great deal of work to do but the efforts from the entire Zoetic team this year have presented us with a platform from which we have every opportunity to develop our revenue streams and, from there, profitable growth.”


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According to a British survey, one in three women won’t leave the house without putting on their makeup first- even if they’re just stepping out for groceries! Six out of ten women wouldn’t dare set foot in their office with a bare face, and further, one in four thinks that she wouldn’t get ahead at work if she went au naturel. One in ten women won’t even let their partners see them without makeup on, and more than a third of women surveyed believe that their partner wouldn’t have been attracted to them when they met if they had been makeup-free. Researchers say that it’s not just about vanity. Wearing makeup gives many women a self-confidence boost. Knowing how important makeup is to women, it’s no wonder a tube of Maybelline Great Lash mascara is sold every 1.6 seconds in the U.S.!
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Yonhap News is reporting that 10 million units of Android smartphones have been sold in South Korea. South Korea’s biggest carrier, SK Telecom Co, has a whopping 6.18 million Android subscribers under its belt. KT Corp. is following second with 2.06 million, and LG Uplus Corp hosts 1.86 million and is following with the third spot. The 10 million Android smartphones makes up for 70% of South Korea’s phone market according to the report. Apple’s iPhone, by comparison, has 2.5 million iPhones in the South Korea market on its dominant carrier. Figures weren’t yet available for SK Telecom.
South Korea is of course the home turf of big Android makers Samsung Electronics Co., LG Electronics Inc. and Pantech Co.
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MILAN Finmeccanica SIFI.MI said on Friday an Italian court had revoked a freeze on up to 228 million euros ($311 million) of bank guarantees that India was seeking to recover in a dispute with the Italian defence group over a scrapped helicopter deal.
Back in March an Italian judge had rejected India's request to recover more than 278 million euros in bank guarantees backing the contract.
Finmeccanica said it would protect its interests also in view of recovering the guarantees in an arbitration process that has already started. It said its 2014 targets do not include any negative effect from the Indian helicopter contract.
India cancelled the 560 million-euro order with Finmeccanica unit AgustaWestland for 12 top-end helicopters in January, citing a breach of integrity relating to alleged corruption.
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(Reporting by Danilo Masoni, editing by Steve Scherer)
Paytm parent One97 says MediaTek to invest $60 million
MUMBAI Taiwan's largest chip designer MediaTek Inc is investing $60 million in India's One97 Communications, valuing the payment services and e-commerce firm at about $5 billion, the company said on Tuesday.
Wall St. weighed by Apple but banks shine on
NEW YORK Apple Inc was the largest weight on U.S. stock indexes on Tuesday after antitrust regulators ordered the company to pay about $14.5 billion in back taxes to the Irish government, but gains in bank shares partly offset the decline.
Google expands nascent ride-sharing service - WSJ
Alphabet Inc's Google unit plans to open its ride-sharing programme to Waze app users in San Francisco this fall, pitting itself against Uber Technologies Inc, the Wall Street Journal reported.


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Some extremely rare classic race cars broke records at two recent auctions in Florida, according to The New York Times.
RM Auctions and Gooding & Company ran two separate auctions at Amelia Island in Florida, and the two companies pulled in a combined total of $59 million. Some individual vehicles contributed a significant chunk of that figure in one sale.
The highest-priced car was the 1973 Porsche 917/30 Can-Am Spyder race car, which went for $4.4 million. This vehicle saw its fair share of professional motorsports events, and legendary driver Mark Donohue once called it "the perfect racecar," according to the news source. Although the auction company did not reveal who bought the car, the rumor at the auction was that the winning bidder was Jerry Seinfeld, who has a collection of Porsches.
Another Porsche went for nearly $1 million more than its pre-auction estimate. The 1955 550/1500 eventually sold for $3.2 million.
Whether the car in your garage is worth millions of dollars or you've been driving the same jalopy for years, auto maintenance is critical to keeping the car in top condition. Regular tune-ups and oil changes can help keep your vehicle running like new and increase its value.


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Toyota, Lyft offer hydrogen-powered vehicles for Vancouver ride-hail drivers
Toyota Motors Corp and Lyft Inc said on Wednesday they have launched a partnership to provide an initially limited number of ride-hail drivers in Vancouver, British Columbia, with access to hydrogen-powered Mirai sedans.
Lyft drivers in the city will be able to rent one of 24 Mirais for C$198 ($156) a week, a price described as extremely competitive by Lyft's general manager for British Columbia, Peter Lukomskyj.
The partnership is part of Lyft's efforts to switch every vehicle on its platform to zero emissions by 2030.
For Toyota, the tie-up offers the opportunity to introduce consumers to vehicles powered by hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe.
"Everybody who sits in the back seat of (a Mirai) is going to be able to learn a little bit more about hydrogen technology. There's no way that we could do that on our own," said Stephen Beatty, Toyota Canada's vice president, corporate.
Beatty called the Lyft partnership a proof of concept, saying Toyota considered it a test to see how the vehicles were performing before eying nationwide expansions.
Toyota launched the Mirai roughly six years ago, but by the end of September had sold only 11,100 vehicles, with consumers concerned over the lack of fueling stations and resale values. Toyota in December launched a revamped version with a wider range of 500 km (310 miles).
British Columbia has four hydrogen stations, of which three are in Vancouver, according to HTEC Hydrogen Technology & Energy Corporation, which operates the stations and said that refueling takes around 5 minutes.
Hydrogen vehicles' shorter fueling time and longer ranges make them a more practical option for ride-hail drivers than electric vehicles, Lukomskyj and Beatty said.
Canada in December unveiled a hydrogen strategy aimed at spurring growth in the clean fuel sector and created a C$1.5 billion investment fund for low-carbon fuels.


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In an age of RESTful APIs SnapLogic is calling for a new integration playbooks that has been specifically designed for cloud computing environments. The company today unveiled a SnapLogic Integration Cloud that consists of over 160 pre-built connectors that leverage RESTful APIs in the cloud. As a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment capable of being deployed on a public or private clouds, Maneesh Joshi, director of product marketing for SnapLogic, says a new era of integration driven by APIs is making it cost effective for SnapLogic to pre-build connectors that can be now much more simply deployed on a multitenant version of the company’s Snaplex middleware platform.
Lemon, mobile wallet app, announced the Lemon API as one component of the Lemonade Platform.Prior to API integration, Lemon users were required to snap photos of their receipts and cards to incorporate the data into the mobile wallet app.


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State-mandated vehicle inspections have some people talking this week.
That's because some lawmakers want fewer checks when buying a new car or truck.
A mechanic at Fairway Subaru Chevrolet in Hazleton removed a tire to inspect the brakes.
This is usually done once a year as part of the state mandated inspection program. A proposed law would require a mechanical test every two years for new cars and trucks. The mandated yearly pollution test would be cut to once every 10 years. The inspections cost about $30.
Service Manager Chrip Brestowski said that could mean less money for garages.
"With the economic conditions, shops looking for additional work, I think that would affect the economy for the shop owners," said Brestowski.
Kelvin Torres was buying a new sports utility vehicle. Torres said he likes the idea of paying less for inspections.
"It's a bonus I can say because I am going for a vehicle because I want to stay away from constantly going to get the car fixed little things here a little things there," said Torres.
Al Crozza is one of the sales manager for Subaru. He said the proposal calling for fewer inspections for new vehicles has good and bad points.
"Some people that drive low miles, it won't be a big problem, but some people drive a lot of miles and two years is a long time to go with tires and brakes and that`s my concern," said Crozza.
Keith Laylo, the sales manager for the Chevrolet side of the business agrees.
"It's a little more convenient for us because we don't have to inspect their cars prior to delivery the bad point is, I appraise cars every day that we find problems with and people don't know about it," said Laylo.
The proposal to ease state inspections is just that, a proposal. It first has to be passed by the General Assembly and signed by the Governor before it can become law.


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The company has reportedly set the price of Comfort E-Auto at $2315 (INR 1.49 Lakhs).
Apart from the new-gen CR-V, Civic and the Amaze, Honda also showcased the Sports EV concept at the Auto Expo 2018 today.
"The Motor Show" 2018 is being held from February 9-14, 2018 at the India Expo Mart, Greater Noida.
New start up Menza Motors India's only bootstrap automobile manufacturing start-up unveils the first look of Electric Motorcycle- Menza Lucat which is priced at Rs 2,79,999, ex-showroom, according to a statement here.
Tata Motors showcased six electric vehicles in mass and personal mobility segments, which includes a 12-metre electric bus and passenger carriers-Magic EV and Iris EV along with Tiago EV, Tigor EV and sportscar Racemo EV, a special Auto Expo edition.
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The same idea was reiterated by Honda Honda Cars India (HCIL) President and CEO Yoichiro Ueno.
The expo was attended by renowned personalities like Bollywood Actor Shahrukh Khan at Hyundai stand supporting the government's swatch Bharat Campaign, Actress Sonakshi Sinha, Former Indian Captain Mohammed Azhrudin & Cricketer Gautam Gambhir were also spotted at the Auto Expo.
The showroom model is expected to be revealed at the 2018 Paris motor show later this year, and will likely borrow its fundamental underpinnings from the new-generation Cerato that will launch in Australia in both sedan and hatch variants during the year.
The showcase of electric and hybrid vehicles at the expo, which also had the presence of Bollywood star Akshay Kumar and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, was not restricted only to passenger vehicles. It also unveiled two scooters - "Maestro Edge 125" and "Duet 125". The Suzuki pavilion had 17 models showcased across scooters, motorcycles, big-bikes as well as motor sports category.
Other manufactures such as Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India unveiled a total of 11 two-wheelers, including a new 160 cc motorcycle "X-Blade". Kia will launch its first auto, a sport-utility vehicle designed for India, in mid-2019.
Piaggio India launched the Aprilia SR 125, unveiled the Aprilia Storm and introduced an innovative smart mobile connectivity feature for Vespa and Aprilia. Pahwa said: "Our well rounded strategy has put the customer at the centre of all our thoughts and actions and is taking us forward on our journey of growth." officially started its operations as part of the Indian subsidiary of in 2017.
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As governments all around the world are clamoring for a levy on Bitcoin profits and transactions, few countries allow investors and traders to make transactions without taxes imposed on them. Although motives may vary, the major reason that some governments around the world choose not to impose taxes on the crypto industry is that they use the profits in the economy. Here are eight countries that are pro-BTC and do not impose tax duties on crypto trades.
Individuals that are involved in the personal buying and selling of crypto are not asked to pay tax on capital gains while individuals in mining, which is considered a source of employment, are asked to pay tax. Corporate business trades in crypto are asked to pay tax too.
Malta excludes individuals and firms from paying both the income tax and value-added tax while day trading in crypto is charged with the same business income tax of 35%. Malta is famed as the headquarters of blockchain with several companies across the country. Crypto was legalized as a means of exchange and a store of value in Malta.
Slovenia runs a different kind of taxation system for individuals and firms trading cryptos. Individuals are not asked to pay capital gains tax but are expected to pay income tax. However, companies are asked to pay a corporate business tax for trading in crypto.
Belarus made a law in 2018 that absolved individuals and firms of the responsibility of paying taxes on the trading of crypto across the country and would run course till 2023. Mining, as well as buying and selling of crypto, are seen as personal investments in the country hence, exempted from tax duties. Major high-class businesses involved in crypto exchanges and trading are also exempted from tax whatsoever.


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The competition watchdog, the ACCC, has initiated court action against Internet provider Activ8me for allegedly making false or misleading representations over advertising of its broadband services.
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Android TVs can finally be added to speaker groups — or, at least, they will be once the feature finishes rolling out more widely. First spotted over the weekend by the folks at Android TV Guide, the change allows at least some Android TV devices to be added to speaker groups in the Google Home app. And that's not the only change, you can also disable ongoing cast notifications for Android TV devices.
Google has just announced a "major" OTA update for all smart displays. Coming at the end of the month, the update will introduce some much-requested changes, such as multi-room audio grouping, as well as features shown off at the recent Made By Google event. That includes the Home View smart home device management; some trickle-over functionality from Digital Wellbeing; tighter Next Hello Doorbell integration; and new/improved control for devices including TVs, set-top boxes, speakers, and smart remotes — including the Logitech Harmony.


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Shares of GameStop Corp. Cl A GME, +2.14% rallied 2.14 %to $105.21 Wednesday, on what verified to be a well-rounded favorable trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, +2.57% increasing 2.57% to 4,277.88 and also the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +1.15% increasing 2.00% to 33,286.25. This was the stock’s 2nd successive day of gains. GME Stock Price Today A shut $243.29 listed below its 52-week high ($ 348.50), which the firm reached on March 10th.
The stock showed a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Wednesday, as Apple Inc. AAPL, +3.50% rose 3.50% to $162.95, AT&T Inc. T, +1.13% climbed 1.13% to $23.26, and also Best Buy Co. Inc. BBY, +0.60% climbed 0.60 %to $101.74. Trading volume (1.4 M) stayed 1.6 million listed below its 50-day ordinary volume of 3.0 M.
Bed Bath & Beyond shares dive after GameStop chairman reveals large stake, pushes turnaround
Bed Bathroom & Beyond leapt 34% Monday after GameStop Chairman Ryan Cohen disclosed he had a virtually 10% stake in the merchant, via his investment firm RC Ventures.
Cohen, who likewise co-founded online animal merchant Chewy, wrote in a letter to Bed Bathroom’s board that he thinks the store is struggling to reverse market share losses and to browse supply chain issues. He likewise slammed magnates, including Bed Bath Chief Executive Mark Tritton, for reaping excessive compensation throughout durations of underperformance.
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” We believe Bed Bathroom needs to narrow its emphasis to strengthen procedures as well as preserve the ideal supply mix to meet need, while simultaneously discovering calculated alternatives that include dividing Buybuy Infant, as well as a complete sale of the company,” claimed Cohen.
In action to the t, which Bed Bath stated it got Sunday night, the big-box seller stated that it has actually had no prior contact with RC Ventures.
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” We will thoroughly evaluate their letter and hope to engage constructively around the concepts they have actually presented,” Bed Bath claimed in a declaration. “2021 noted the first year of execution of our vibrant, multi-year improvement plan, which our team believe will develop considerable long-lasting investor worth.”.
Cohen’s push for changes at Bed Bathroom comes after the seller in 2019 resolved a monthslong squabble with a triad of activist financiers in which four new members where contributed to its board. At the time, the activist group criticized Bed Bath’s e-commerce presence about peers including Amazon.com.
Right after that negotiation was gotten to, the retailer prompted Tritton, a former Target exec, as CEO. His appointment triggered hope among investors that a turnaround was in the works, given Tritton’s deep merchandising experience and success at Target.
Given that taking the helm of the company, Tritton has actually started shutting hundreds of underperforming Bed Bathroom locations, selling noncore possessions including Cost And also Globe Market as well as Xmas Tree Shops, increase stock buybacks, redesigning stores, debuting many private tags, and a lot more just recently navigating Bed Bath with a pandemic.
Cohen, however, claimed Bed Bath’s “scattershot approach” isn’t working. He said the business could be much better matched with an exclusive equity proprietor, and he also competes that the company’s Buybuy Child chain could be worth a number of billion dollars.
With a virtually 10% stake in Bed Bath, that makes Cohen a top five shareholder in the merchant, which had a market value of approximately $1.6 billion since Friday’s market close. Bed Bath shares have gone down nearly 45% in the last one year.
Telsey Advisory Group analyst Cristina Fernandez said in a note to customers that Bed Bathroom needs to enhance procedures and also its inventory mix, two problems that the merchant had prior to the pandemic. Bed Bath also requires to speed delivery of on-line orders, as it delays competitors, she claimed.
Nonetheless, according to Fernandez, a sale of the entire company is much less specific as there have actually been opportunities for personal equity to purchase it in the past and also no suitors arised. Cohen additionally pushed for a sale at GameStop, which did not happen, she noted.
Wells Fargo expert Zachary Fadem, sharing a comparable sensation that there is job delegated do at Bed Bathroom, said that the firm has compromising fundamentals and also is “structurally deprived.”.
” Taking into consideration Bed Bath’s 26% brief interest and also low capitalist assumptions for improving results, today’s likely step higher is reasonable,” he wrote in a note to clients.
Cohen stated in his letter that offered his concentrate on GameStop, he isn’t in a setting to become a Bed Bath director himself. Yet he said this doesn’t stop him from holding the board and monitoring answerable.
Cohen signed up with GameStop’s board in January 2021, contributing to a Reddit-fueled surge in the video game store’s shares, as well as took control of as chairman in June of that year. He co-founded Chewy in 2011 and acted as its CEO through 2018.


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It’s “smaller” than their usual superstore — and it won’t say “superstore” over the entrance. But the bitterly-fought Wal-Mart supercenter in Woodland Park, Colorado, which opens today, is neither a wood land, nor a park. The retail giant fought with city officials to keep the words “We Sell For Less” on the side of the store’s entrance — and the won. Citizen opposition to this store dragged on for nearly three years. On November 19, 2004, Sprawl-Busters wrote about the controversy over this store, which lies between the town of Woodland Park, and Pike’s Peak. The new superstore will be the first thing travelers see as they drive up Ute pass to Woodland Park. Wal-Mart chose to give the “skin” of the store a mountain architectural theme. According to the Colorado Springs Gazette, the store is “not your basic, boring big box.” It is painted brown and green to match the landscape around it, and the use of timber and stone features gives it a “lodgelike atmosphere,” according to the newspaper. The crowning touch is a “life-size brass statue of a mule deer buck” at the store entrance. When this store first raised its antlers in the fall of 2004, neighbors wrote to Sprawl-Busters, explaining that Woodland Park “does have very strict architectural, landscaping and lighting codes on the books.” But city officials really wanted their statue of a brass deer, and when Wal-Mart complained that if they were forced to take down their “We Sell For Less” sign, the brass deer would have to go too, the town stuck with the deer and kept the “We Sell For Less” sign. “It’s not as pretty as having elk wintering there and horses there all the time, but if you have to have a Wal-Mart, I guess this isn’t a bad-looking one,” one of the leaders of the citizens group that fought Wal-Mart told The Gazette. The town’s Downtown Development Director, who helped negotiate the brass deer deal, told the newspaper, “There were some who said, ‘Do we really need a Supercenter?’ and ‘They are way too big,’ so we were glad to see they scaled it down for the market.” When Wal-Mart threatened to kill the brass deer, the Downtown Developnment Director said, “It took me all of three seconds to say, you know, I can live with ‘We Sell for Less.'” Once you get past the brass deer, and actually enter the store, the inside is just another big box. “The inside will look pretty much like your typical Wal-Mart,” a company spokesman admitted.
In this battle of symbols, Wal-Mart won. The town got its brass deer, Wal-Mart got its superstore with its superfluous signs on the walls — but the residents of Woodland Park got another huge piece of sprawl in an otherwise scenic area. The city has also been engaged in a major downtown revitalization project, and a Wal-Mart on the edge of town jeopardizes that multi-million investment. Wal-Mart has been making these symbolic gestures for more than 15 years. In Keene, New Hamsphire, for example, Wal-Mart offered to paint its store “earth tones” in 1994 — and the local planning board swooned as if Martha Stewart had come up with the idea. Wal-Mart readily admits that it is happy to offer the natives such trinkets as the color of the skin, or minor design control. “We obviously have to work within a budget and a business model, but when we can meet everybody’s expectations and kind of create a store that fits the community, then we see it as a win-win,” a company spokesman told The Gazette. But when Colorado Springs told Wal-Mart their store needed to be broken down into smaller buildings — the “fit the community” idea had gone too far for the retailer. One leader of the group Citizens for Responsible Growth, which fought this store for three years, told the newspaper that any big-box store is inappropriate for the Woodland Park area, and he feels city leaders sealed the deal with Wal-Mart before citizens could react. “It was a done deal long before they went public,” he said. One resident interviewed by the newspaper said she still objected to the 24/7 operations of the store — brass deer or not. She said the size of the store was still too large. “It doesn’t fit in,” she said. Woodland Park officials sold out for a brass symbol of the real thing. Instead of open space with deer and elk, they have an asphalt and concrete “mountain” store. The people who moved to Woodland Park to be closer to that wilderness feeling in Colorado, and the tourists going to Pike’s Peak, are not likely to be wild about Wal-Mart’s new supercenter. And that brass deer, which probably cost a couple thousand bucks, will allow Wal-Mart to make roughly $60 million at year in sales in Woodland Park. All because Woodland Park officials sold out for less.


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The latest update for the feature that is expanding across devices is the ability to ask Assistant about a specific topic of news. That’s what the company has officially announced, explaining that users simply need to say something like, “Hey Google, what’s the latest Star Wars news?” or something like “Hey Google, what’s the latest bitcoin news?”
After the query has been fielded by the digital assistant, you will get excerpts presented to you in Google Home. And if you ask the question while using a smart display, you’ll get relevant YouTube videos to hopefully give you what you’re looking for.
Google says this particular feature is only available in the United States on Android phones in the United States. It will be expanding to Google Assistant-equipped headphones and Android Auto in the near future.
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BOARDMAN, Ohio (WKBN) – A new Starbucks is coming to Boardman, and Mercy Health will remain in a building on the property that is not being torn down.
Platz Realty Group announced Thursday that the new Starbucks will be located at 7680 Market Street at the old HBK lot.
There are two buildings there. The south building will be demolished to make way for the new Starbucks. The north building will remain and is leased by Mercy Health Bon Secours.
Construction on the new Starbucks will begin as soon as weather permits.
The new coffee shop will include a drive-thru.


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NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of Marvell Technology Group Ltd. rose more than 5 percent before Friday's opening bell after the chipmaker issued an optimistic outlook for the current quarter along with solid fiscal fourth-quarter results.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company predicted an adjusted fiscal first-quarter profit of 12 cents to 16 cents per share on revenue of between $700 million and $740 million. Analysts, on average, expect a profit of 13 cents per share on $708.2 million in revenue, according to FactSet.
For the fiscal fourth quarter, which ended on Feb. 2, Marvell reported net income of $50.2 million, or 9 cents per share. Excluding one-time items, the company said it posted an adjusted profit of 19 cents per share. Revenue rose 4 percent to $775.3 million.
Analysts, on average, expected earnings of 13 cents per share on $720.9 million in revenue.
Marvell said fiscal 2013 was a tough year for the company, as an industrywide drop in demand for hard disk drives offset market share gains. Meanwhile, demand from networking markets was flat and the company dealt with a product transition at its mobile division.
But Marvell said it expects things to improve this year, as it continues to pick up market share and its mobile division begins to grow again.
Analysts said they were pleased with the fourth-quarter results, but were skeptical about how much the company could improve this year.
Benchmark analyst Gary Mobley backed his "Hold" rating for the stock, saying that despite the strong results, the company still lacks something compelling to spur long-term growth. While the shares could experience a near-term rally, investors shouldn't be too eager given Marvell's high exposure to the hard disk drive and personal computer markets, he said.
Citi analyst Glen Yeung backed his "Neutral" rating, but boosted his price target for Marvell by $2 to $10.50. He said the company's long-term success depends on growth in the mobile and wireless markets, adding that he's skeptical about how much market share Marvell can pick up in that area.
Marvell shares added 53 cents, or 5.6 percent, to $10 in premarket trading. Its shares peaked at $16.31 almost a year ago, and fell as low as $6.98 in late December.


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Given Barack Obama’s success in executing the “fundamental transformation” of America, Skousen’s list gives profound insight into what might truly motivate the nation’s “smartest president ever.”
Monday’s court ruling is a red flag to regulators to measure the costs and benefits to society before deciding to pile on another regulation.
By insuring spoiled brats/vested interests never face the consequences of their actions and choices, we guarantee failure of the entire system.
Macy's has removed Donald Trump's products from their shelves because, while he stated that some of the Mexican people crossing our borders illegally are good people, some are murderers and rapists...so Macy's has decided to pull his products from their shelves. As a result of this, will you shop less - or not at all - in Macy's stores in the future?
The United States no longer has, as the Constitution designed, a government composed of executive, legislative and judicial branches, separate, but equal in power.
Data released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis indicates Ford is not alone among U.S. multinationals creating jobs — particularly manufacturing jobs — in Mexico.
President Obama’s Department of Housing and Urban Development is accusing expensive towns of racism, simply because most minorities can’t afford to live there.
New attention has been focused on how the Obama administration’s green energy policies are undermining U.S. military readiness and diverting resources from caring for America’s veterans.
Democrats are predicting disaster if the Court rules against Obama. Republicans will “rue the day” they let millions of people lose their subsidies, says Nancy Pelosi.


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In the early 2000s, Internet piracy was a new and scary concept for nearly all sectors of entertainment media. People were slowly figuring out how to share digital copies of movies, music and video games and the industries didn't know what to do about it. Granted, many of those industries still don't know what to do about piracy, but as somebody in their 20s, I can remember one distinct (and hilarious) PSA that used to run on T.V. and DVDs about the effects of piracy.
The PSA showed a girl on a computer downloading movies and then cuts to others being shown breaking into cars, stealing handbags, television sets and DVDs off a store shelf. We're then reminded that downloading pirated films is stealing and that "piracy is a crime." Compelling stuff.
Anyhow, a decade later and peer-to-peer sharing is simply a reality of life for many of the people with computers. iTunes and several media companies have done well in getting people to cough up cash for digital copies of music, movies and television shows, and digital game downloading is a growing market. Of course, people still pirate the hell out of stuff, with HBO's Game of Thrones being the most pirated show for two years running.
In fact, when asked about the show being the top downloaded series for two years running, Time Warner (parent company of HBO) CEO Jeff Bewkes said last summer that the numbers were a compliment, in a way.
"I think you're right that Game of Thrones is the most pirated show in the world," said Bewkes. "That's better than an Emmy."
Well, I guess that's progress. Better than the "sue them all to hell" mantra that was heavily prevalent in the first part of the 2000s, an ideology still being employed by the MPAA.
And now with the advent of 3D printing, that piracy is also moving into the world of physical items, with people printing off their own weapons, household items and even toys. LEGO, the ever-popular but expensive building toy, was one of the earliest and most popular items "pirated" using 3D printers. Users are now able to print off any piece they desire and even make custom ones that work with the real deal.
Companies have also started to experiment with 3D printing big-ticket items such as vehicle panels, and many of the classic vehicles in the most recent James Bond film were in fact 3D printed and then put onto a working chassis. Suddenly that whole downloading a car thing is becoming a reality and Honda is hopping on the shareware express by recently releasing 3D models of several of its cars for anyone to do with what they'd like. Looking to print your own Acura NSX concept? If you've got the means then you have Honda's blessing. Of course, the chassis, engine and electronics all need to be sourced elsewhere — for now.
But with Honda providing the models and HBO not being immediately upset over the piracy of their content, it shows the outlook of companies is evolving when it comes to data sharing and piracy. Where it goes from here is anybody's guess.