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Intel has announced a partnership with FC Barcelona that will see the technology firm place its logo on the inside of Barcelona's jersey. Intel CMO Deborah Conrad said, "This is more than a sponsorship to Intel. The technology we are deploying and the programs we are working on together are designed to elevate FC Barcelona into one of the most technologically advanced soccer clubs in the world and to launch an ambitious slate of educational initiatives" (Intel). The deal was brokered by CAA Sports (SBD Global).
LOOK INSIDE: BLOOMBERG's Eben Novy-Williams noted Intel's current ad slogan is "Look inside." Intel VP of Sponsorships David Haroldsen said, "This is a first-time placement of a logo inside of their jersey and a first for a technology company." Haroldsen "declined to provide terms" of what he called a "multiyear" agreement. Syracuse University Sports Management professor Rick Burton said that the logo placement "fits well with the company’s previous 'Intel Inside' ad campaigns." Burton warned that players "must show the logo after scoring in order for Intel to see benefits from what he called a 'really novel idea.'" Burton: "Otherwise Intel may have paid for something that isn’t often seen. Still, it’s a bold move by Intel and links them with one of the world’s most recognized sports brands" (BLOOMBERG, 12/12).
DETAILS OF THE DEAL: FORBES' Mike Ozanian reported the deal is worth $25M. Citing people "familiar with the arrangement," Intel will pay Barca $5M a year over five years and "will make the company the team’s official technology partner." Of particular strategic importance is that the Intel deal "will not cannibalize any of Barcelona’s previously existing sponsorships." Barcelona is "the latest sports team to sign a rich sponsorship deal with a big technology company in recent months" (FORBES, 12/11). REUTERS' Iain Rogers reported Barcelona Dir of Media and Sponsorship Manel Arroyo said that players including Lionel Messi, Neymar and Andres Iniesta "would be under no obligation to display the logo," which will be added to the shirts for the first time in Saturday's La Liga match at home to Villarreal (REUTERS, 12/12).
BP has agreed to a partnership with the Int'l Paralympic Committee through the end of '16. BP has previously worked with the 2012 London Paralympics as well as various National Paralympic Committees. The company has also supported national paralympic committees in the U.K., U.S., Angola, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and Trinidad & Tobago (IPC).
Ivorian footballer Didier Drogba "has teamed up with Namibia Breweries-owned beer brand Windhoek Lager for a new Africa-wide advertising campaign," according to SOCCEREX. Drogba is "set to feature in a marketing campaign that will include a television commercial, posters, billboard advertising and potentially a public appearance in Namibia." The campaign will launch Thursday with a TV commercial "in which Drogba will chart the brand's journey through its lifetime" (SOCCEREX, 12/11).
Australia's Women's National Basketball League announced that Menora Foods, one of Australia's "leading food marketing and distribution businesses, has become its new naming rights sponsor" until the end of the '15-16 season, according to Jon Pierik of THE AGE. Basketball Australia CEO Kristina Keneally said, "Importantly, this is a crucial step forward in the push for more support from corporate Australia to back women's sport with sponsorship dollars" (THE AGE, 12/13).


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mRELEVANCE, LLC announces the next generation of the Highland Homes website, www.highlandhomes.org. Featuring cutting edge responsive design and sleek new mega-menus, prospective homebuyers can easily find what they are looking for on their desktop computer, or the go from their smartphone and tablet.
“For today’s homebuyer, a builder’s website has to create a good first impression of the builder every time the buyer visits the website. Highland Homes’ new website has cool functionality, combined with killer responsive design for a great user experience throughout the entire home buying experience,” said Mitch Levinson, managing partner of mRELEVANCE. Read More→
mRELEVANCE, LLC is pleased to announce the launch of the new, improved Locate It page on the Highland Homes website, www.highlandhomes.org/locateit.php. The new page features an interactive map of Central Florida with increased functionality allowing buyers to search for homes by city or area.
“We are so excited about the launch of the new Locate It page on the Highland Homes website,” said Kathie McDaniel, vice president of sales and marketing for Highland Homes. “This new search option makes it simple for new home shoppers to find where our communities are located. They simply click on the area where they want to live, and gain easy access to all the information they need.”
The new Highland Homes Locate It page is organized into five general areas where the builder constructs new homes including Orlando, Tampa, North Lakeland, South Lakeland and East Polk. Read More→
Highland Homes, a Tampa home builder, has been Central Florida’s value leader for more than a decade. Its team delivers the best in new home choice, quality, value and satisfaction. However, Highland Homes has a challenge that many other private builders face: name recognition or, more precisely, name competition.
Highland Homes is a popular company name. In fact, a different Highland Homes in Texas owns the domain HighlandHomes.com. The Florida builder owns the domain of HighlandHomes.org. Therefore, the domains are very similar.
Though Highland Homes was selling approximately 35 homes per month, Google was not returning many links to the company’s site. The only returned link within the first three pages on Google was the company’s name.
mRELEVANCE took over management of the website in late 2007. The site was not search friendly, scalable or even stable so that it would always be available. We moved it to a more stable hosting environment and began modifying it to improve performance. The site was attracting 4,000 to 5,000 visits when Highland Homes was forced to halve its marketing budget due to the weak housing market.
With the Highland team, mRELEVANCE recommended cutting advertising that was not earning ROI in website or sales center traffic, rebuilding the website in PHP, building a blog and starting a social media program. From 2009 to 2010, website traffic grew to 6,500 to 7,200 visits. More importantly, monthly home sales increased from 35 to 60 in less than 18 months in a down market.
In late 2010, the marketing budget took another 50 percent cut. Even so, Highland Homes still maintains an average of 50 sales per month. The traffic to its website has been as high as 9,300 visitors per month and averages almost 8,000 visits per month. Moreover, Highland Homes attributes 22 percent of its sales solely to their Internet marketing and social media program.
New search option for Central Florida homebuyers
mRELEVANCE, LLC is pleased to announce the launch of the new Highland Homes mobile site, www.HighlandHomes.org. Created to accommodate an increasing number of users who access the website from mobile devices, the new site allows homebuyers and real estate agents to access information on the builder’s product on the go from smartphones and tablets.
“More and more, our buyers and agents are using their mobile devices to view Highland Homes’ information, and we are excited to be able to meet their needs by offering a user-friendly, mobile alternative to our main website,” said Kathie McDaniel, vice president of sales and marketing for Highland Homes. “Whether searching for Highland Homes’ information from home or onsite at one of our communities, smartphone and tablet users can find what they need quickly.”
The Highland Homes mobile site is a compact and comprehensive version of the Lakeland-based builder’s main website. It provides general information about Highland Homes’ communities, floor plan descriptions, pricing, contact information and virtual tours when available, and is integrated with the builder’s social media sites including Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.
There are several benefits to the mobile site including:
- Fast load time on mobile devices
- Easy to view and read due to large fonts and graphics built for mobile
- Finger-friendly – meaning information can be obtained with minimal clicks.
“With 10 to 15-percent of monthly site visitors on the Highland Homes website coming from mobile devices, it is the perfect time to create a site to accommodate those consumers,” said mRELEVANCE managing partner, Mitch Levinson. “In just a couple short months, the new Highland Homes mobile site has already shown an increase in total website traffic to the builder’s website by almost 15-percent. Based on the time viewing pages on the mobile site, these are new high quality buyers.”
Highland Homes has been Central Florida’s value leader for more than a decade. For a complete list of new home communities and more information, visit the Highland Homes website at www.HighlandHomes.org or call 863-619-7103.

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This functionality could be of particular interest to the financial services industry, as head of financial services at AWS Scott Mulins told Computerworld UK, particularly as a means of overcoming some of their data residency issues.
AWS also showcased the increasingly influential role of AI in traditional vehicle races during the conference.
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Referencing a Juniper Research report from earlier this year, Hassan says loot boxes will be a $50 billion industry by 2022. This is particularly concerning-especially from a regulatory standpoint-when loot boxes make their way into kid's games.
There is undoubtedly a gap in the market for those wanting AWS services snugly integrated with on-prem infrastructure, and with Outposts Amazon will hope they have filled it. The fastest times advanced to the final where Rick Fish, co-founder of Jigsaw XYZ, from London, England, emerged victorious, taking the DRL Cup with a winning lap time of 51:50.
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Amazon has taken the opportunity of re:Invent 2018 to present AWS Outposts to the business community- a method by which AWS cloud platform can be taken- literally- to the enterprise's own data center. With reinforcement learning's steep learning curve and blockers for adoption, AWS's introduction of the AWS DeepRacer and the DeepRacer League is one more step in AWS's mission of putting machine learning and reinforcement learning into the hands of everyday developers. AWS DeepRacer is available for pre-order today. "It's a field with an incredibly hard barrier of entry, and it poses a mental blocker, but AWS DeepRacer and DRL really opens it up for people", said the victor of the first DRL Cup, Rick Fish, co-founder of Jigsaw XYZ. "There is a lot of excitement among Zocdoc engineers around how easy it is to quickly build and deploy a model using Amazon SageMaker", Zocdoc said in a statement. Each use case, from videos, music, products, news articles, has its own specificities, which require a unique mix of data, algorithms, and optimisations. Just like the other AWS services, customers will be able to pay based on how much they merely use. Ethereum is a popular platform that facilitated the majority of Initial Coin Offering in the crypto market. For enhanced security, NAB deployed Amazon GuardDuty, a fully managed intelligent threat detection service that continuously monitors account activity for malicious or unauthorized behavior, to help protect all of its AWS workloads and safeguard customers' data in the cloud. They can also process their data using AWS services, like for analytics, storage, processing, and streaming.
"AWS teams have been using Amazon QLDB for years to maintain a complete, immutable, and append-only journal of data changes".
VMware said that hybrid cloud service lets customers migrate VMware-based workloads to the cloud. The AWS offering will include a new integrated offering from VMware called VMware Cloud Foundation for EC2, which includes VMware technologies like NSX for network virtualization and AppDefense that can work across VMware and Amazon EC2 environments, according to officials.
Major League Baseball trade rumors: Mets close to getting Cano, Diaz
Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports reports that there has been "significant momentum" toward a Cano trade with the Mets and Mariners. The Mariners are seeking to get rid of as much of the five years and $120 million remaining on Cano's contract as possible.
Outposts should be of particular interest to customers that are looking to move to the cloud but who have certain applications that will need to remain on premise for the time being, such as low-latency applications on a factory floor, or those with data residency concerns.


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When is iOS 15 coming out? Latest release date for Apple iPhone update and all we know about the features
Apple is expected to announce its next generation of iPhones on Tuesday, and there will be a brand new iOS update to go with them.
The tech giant will make iOS 15 – which includes a bunch of new features – available this month.
However, it has also been forced to rush out another update, iOS 14.8, to fix a bug that could have allowed government agencies to install spyware onto people’s phones and monitor their behaviour.
It is highly recommended that iPhone users update their device to iOS 14.8 now, even if they plan on upgrading it to iOS 15 at release.When is iOS 15 being released?
Apple announced iOS 15 back in June and made the beta available to download the following month.
The company is holding its online event to reveal the new iPhones at 6pm on Tuesday, and it feels very unlikely the new operating system will be rolled out before then.
The phones are expected to go one sale on Friday 24 September, meaning iOS 15 will need to be live before this date.
Therefore it will launch some time between Tuesday 14 and Friday 24 September.
Apple will probably reveal exactly when it will drop at the keynote, but insiders have suggested the most likely dates are Monday 20 or Tuesday 21 September.What new features does it have?
The new operating system will give Safari a complete visual overhaul, and make it more user-friendly by moving the search bar to the bottom of the screen.
There is also a new home screen that can show any tabs you have open on other Apple devices, so you can browse on your computer and then pick up where you left off on your phone.
FaceTime is getting a big upgrade. It will now offer spatial audio to make people’s voices appear to come from their position on the screen, so your video chats will feel more natural.
It will also start to look more like Zoom, enabling you to see all participants in a grid view, schedule calls, and share links to calls that can be accessed via browser on Android and Microsoft Windows devices.
Focus moments will allow you to tailor the notifications you receive based on where you are and what you are doing. For example, you can set your phone to a business meeting-style setting, which will stop you from receiving notifications that are not relevant to what you are doing until you are finished.
A LiveText feature will enable you to copy and even translate text from an image.
The weather app is being overhauled, giving you notifications for rain, thunderstorms and snow, and there are a host of new privacy features.
Apple Maps will be upgraded, with more elevation data, road colours, driving directions, rich labels, 3D landmarks and improved night mode.
You can also pin nearby public transport stops and station information to your iPhone and Apple Watch devices, and receive automatic updates and notifications as you ride and approach your stop.
When travelling via foot, a new augmented reality feature enables you to scan nearby buildings in the area, with the iPhone’s camera, to understand the precise positions for more exact walking directions.


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The companies received $50,000 in seed funding and went through a 12-week accelerator program, and yesterday they were ready to sell their vision to the investors in the crowd.
Judy Sindecuse, the CEO and managing partner of Capital Innovators, said there were 530 people registered for the event, out of which she believe at least a hundred were investors looking for promising entrepreneurs to back.
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Founded by Steve Marciniak, the legislative monitoring tool is targeted at advocacy groups, corporations and legislators who need to keep track of legislation working its way through various state and federal legislative bodies. The software uses a search algorithm that ranks results based on how important a bill is and gives users real-time updates on actions to the bills. “We’re about government transparency and advocacy and, most importantly, we’re about bringing the voice back to the people,” Marciniak said.
John Dunlap, chief sales officer for IDC Projects, bills the company as a Big Data tool for mobile advertising. This is a bit of a pivot for the company, which last year was focused on creating games for iOS and Android devices. But through its popular Memory Match game, which had some 1.5 million downloads, the startup found that mobile advertising was not as effective as it could be. While IDC made $100,000 in revenue last year on mobile ads, Dunlap said the company has worked with MoPub, one of the biggest mobile advertising exchanges, to create an ad platform that allows advertisers to target consumers based on which neighborhood they’re in or if they have been to a specific store in the last couple of weeks.
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The advertising industry’s optimistic mantra to spend through a recession so that your brand comes out the other side stronger doesn’t appear to be getting through to soft drinks companies during this particular crisis.
An analysis of 11 different brands in the U.S. soda sector by iSpot.tv, requested by Digiday, found that soda advertisers spent 78% less on national TV ads between Mar. 16 and Apr. 26 — down to $22.5 million.
The cancelation of live sports has hit spending — at this point in the year in 2019, almost half (47%) of soda brands’ TV spending was directed toward the NCAA Tournament, NBA and NHL, according to iSpot.tv.
But the lack of live sports doesn’t tell the full picture. This slump is largely down to a loss in sales following the closure of bars, restaurants, movie theaters and stadiums — plus the decline in impulse purchases made at convenience stores — during the quarantine period.
Coca-Cola has been particularly impacted by the lockdown-enforced shift in consumption habits. Net sales fell 1% in the three months to the end of March, versus the year-ago quarter. But Coca-Cola said its when reporting earnings on Apr. 21 that April sales volumes had slumped by 25%.
Coca-Cola warned its advertising partners and vendors early into the crisis that “from April and until further notice, we’re putting commercial advertising for Coca-Cola and all our brands on hold,” as Digiday previously reported.
“We have determined that in this initial phase there is limited effectiveness in broad-based brand marketing,” said Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey on the first-quarter earnings call. “With this in mind, we have reduced our direct consumer communication, [and we have] paused sizeable marketing campaigns through the early stages of the crisis and will re-engage when the timing is right.”
As far as its national TV spend was concerned, Coca-Cola appears to have shifted its efforts away from soda and toward juice, energy drinks and sparkling water. The company launched its AHA flavored sparkling water brand in March and spent $3.8 million on TV ads in the period analyzed — 21% of the estimated TV ad spend in the water category over that time, according to iSpot.tv. Coca-Cola also spent an estimated $2.1 million on advertising its Simply Beverages juice range and $6.1 million on Powerade ads.
Coca-Cola declined to comment.
PepsiCo — which owns a variety of food brands as well as drinks like Pepsi and Mtn Dew — expects second-quarter sales to drop by a low single-digit percentage. Declines in its beverage business outweighed gains in sales of grocery staples like Quaker oats and Tostitos chips.
Hugh Johnston, PepsiCo CFO said earlier this week the company is “reducing nonessential advertising and marketing spend to reflect the realities of the current environment.” For Mtn Dew specifically — in which the company had been investing heavily, including a Super Bowl ad in February — CEO Ramon Laguarta said while the brand has been hit by a drop in impulse purchases, “as soon as people are driving around and moving around, we’ll see that brand coming back and we’ll be ready with our commercial programs when that circumstance occur.”
PepsiCo did not respond to a request for comment.
Across the soft drinks industry as a whole, spend stayed at fairly normal levels throughout the first week of the analysis in mid-March. But by the end of March and early April, most brands had pared back their TV ad spend significantly. By the end of the analysis, Mtn Dew was the last brand spending a significant amount on TV — and even that tailed off over the last week. Overall, Mtn Dew and Pepsi Zero Sugar made up the lion’s share of spend (around 58%) over the analyzed period.
As with many of the advertising trends during this crisis, the situation is constantly changing as companies recalibrate and reforecast. Ad spend will likely return as companies’ sales recover, it’s just not entirely clear when that will be.
Data and analytics company GlobalData estimates that U.S. beverage sales will fall around 7% by volume in 2020. David Harris, GlobalData soft drinks product manager, said that could be revised down further.
“With the U.S. economy shrinking by a huge 4.8% quarter on quarter, brands are nervous. And when brands are nervous marketing spend is an easy thing to cut back,” said Harris. “This paints a grim scene for brands, and particularly larger brands with enormous, costly operations.”
In the meantime, soft drinks makers that aren’t feeling the brunt of the pain caused by the closure of away-from-home venues have an opportunity to boost their share of voice at a time when TV ad prices are cheaper than usual.
“Evidence from the past shows if you maintain or increase your share of voice during a recessionary period, you come out of it stronger,” said Christian Polman, chief strategy officer at marketing and media consultancy Ebiquity.
He added the caveat that this crisis is different due to the extreme drop in sales many drinks companies are experiencing, which has shifted them into cash-preservation mode.
The effects of that brand ad spend “don’t necessarily show up in short-term econometric models,” said Polman. “If you look over a long-term basis it can yield dividends over a multi-year period … there’s a great opportunity in the marketplace for a drinks brand to take a leadership position from a brand perspective.”
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The press conference “Silk Road: a remake in the works” was recently held in Shanghai. In this occasion Vinitaly International and Wine in China Magazine announced their collaboration for the first debut of Chinese wines during Vinitaly 2016. The famous fair will take place in Verona from 10th to 13th April.
The interest of Chinese producers in Italian wine is constantly increasing and Italy is already the fifth supplier of wine in China. During the Expo exhibition, Chinese visitors were the main guests of the Italian wines pavilion.
The fact that Chinese wines producers are going to take part of Vinitaly fair should become an occasion to further promote Italian wines in China and a direct way to get well-known their peculiarities. Italian wine production could become an important part of Chinese market and the “Silk Road” can be opened to European trade.
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Elon Musk has claimed that Apple is curbing advertising on Twitter and threatening to “withhold” the social media platform from its App Store, as the world’s richest man locks horns with the most valuable tech company.
In a flurry of more than a dozen tweets on Monday focused on the iPhone maker, Musk wrote that Apple had “mostly stopped advertising on Twitter”, adding: “Do they hate free speech in America?”
Musk added in another tweet: “Apple has also threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but won’t tell us why.”
He also tapped into concerns from critics of Apple that the company does not give enough information about why certain apps and content are blocked from the App Store. He posted a poll to his 119mn followers asking whether “Apple should publish all censorship actions it has taken that affect its customers”, asking in another tweet: “Who else has Apple censored?”
Responding to one developer who said they were compelled to remove some content related to Covid-19, Musk wrote: “Secret suppression of free speech by Apple. Customers were never told. What the hell is going on here?”
The tirade against Apple comes as a growing number of big brands have quietly pulled spending from the social media platform since Musk closed his deal to buy it for $44bn, amid concerns that his relaxation of Twitter’s content moderation policies will cause toxic content to proliferate.
Musk, a self-declared “free speech absolutist”, has said that he would allow all speech on the platform as long as it is legal, although “negative/hate speech” will be “deboosted”.
As part of this, the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive is restoring most Twitter accounts that were previously banned, with Donald Trump’s account now reactivated — although the former US president has not tweeted since his account was restored.
The approach has fuelled speculation that Musk’s approach to content moderation could result in violations of the App Store’s guidelines, which requires social media apps to “block abusive users”, let users “report offensive content” and to filter “objectionable material from being posted”.
Last year, Apple and Google temporarily banned Parler, a small app popular among conservatives and some members of the far-right, from their stores after the US Capitol riots for hosting rule-breaking content.
Earlier this month, Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, wrote in an opinion article in The New York Times that Twitter had started to receive calls from the Apple and Google app store teams since Musk took the helm.
For now, Twitter remains available to download on Apple’s App Store and is labelled “Editor’s Choice” for users.
Apple did not respond to requests for comment.
Multiple top advertising agencies and media buyers told the Financial Times last week that nearly all of the big brands they represent have paused spending on Twitter, in a blow to its $5bn-a-year business.
Musk has been antagonistic to some brands who have opted to pull spending, for example calling their chief executives to admonish them, one senior advertising agency executive said.
Apple and Musk have clashed several times over the years. In 2015, Musk called Apple the “Tesla graveyard” for underperforming employees, after the iPhone maker lured dozens of the electric vehicle pioneer’s executives with salary increases and signing bonuses as it tried to staff its secretive automotive project.
According to Tim Higgins’ history of Tesla, Power Play, Cook once enquired about Apple purchasing Tesla, with Musk responding that he was open to it as long as he became Apple chief executive. Cook hung up, according to the book. Apple declined to comment and Musk refuted it, saying he had never spoken directly with Cook.
Also in his tweets on Monday, Musk echoed concerns from Apple critics about its “in-app purchase” policy, in which it takes a 15 to 30 per cent cut of digital purchases made on the iPhone, and claims that the company abuses its market power.


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South Korea's anthracite imports increased 14.77% from July to 605,300 tonnes in August, showed data from the country's customs authority, the highest since January this year.
The August anthracite imports were still 17.21% lower than 731,100 tonnes in August 2019, data showed.
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Australia was South Korea's largest supplier of anthracite, contributing 327,300 tonnes in August, decreasing 25.88% year on year but almost doubled the month-ago level.
The country imported 269,400 tonnes of anthracite from Russia in August, up 5.61% year on year but down 24.09% month on month.
The import value slumped 42.9% to $56.69 million in August compared with the year ago, but rising 27.65% month on month. That translates to an average import price of $93.65/t, falling 31.05% year on year but rising 11.23% month on month.
South Korea's anthracite imports totaled 4.06 million tonnes in the first eight months, decreasing 19.64% compared with the same period in 2019. The cumulative import value slumped 41.26% to $413 million from $703 million a year earlier.
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Room 77, the German bar and restaurant that claims to be the primary retail outfit on the earth to simply accept bitcoin funds, has shut down. Cypherpunk Holdings chief economist Jon Matonis broke the information on Twitter. Bar proprietor Jorg Platzer later confirmed it on Reddit.
“Room 77 is closing for good,” Platzer revealed in a reasonably futuristic, celebratory put up on Oct. 18. “We think our mission is accomplished and it is time to go back to our home planet. Thanks for all the fish and the generous tips!”
No official motive was given for the closure of the Berlin-based joint. But there’s suspicion this will have been associated to the coronavirus pandemic. Lockdown restrictions linked to Covid-19 have hit the worldwide hospitality trade laborious.
In Berlin, strict restrictions on the sale of alcohol stay in place, with bar operators banned from promoting the product from 11 p.m. to six a.m. The measures have badly affected earnings.
Located in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Room 77 started accepting bitcoin (BTC) as a way of cost in 2011, changing into the primary bar, and almost definitely the primary personal retail outlet, on the earth to take action. Since then, the ingesting spot has developed into one thing of a pilgrimage web site for bitcoiners, who patronize the place for its BTC funds and extra.
“Before we did that (settle for BTC), all media protection about bitcoin was about hackers stealing bank card particulars and promoting them on the black markets,” Platzer mentioned in a 2018 interview, highlighting how the institution had modified media perceptions and protection across the high cryptocurrency.
In the crypto group, individuals responded to Room 77’s closure with fond recollections of the previous.
“End of an Era: Room 77 in Berlin closes doors permanently!” tweeted Jon Matonis, the Cypherpunk Holdings chief economist. “Blame it on Covid or blame it on gentrification. Either way, this Kreuzberg landmark has served as a Bitcoin watering hole for over 10 years, with thousands making the obligatory pilgrimage. Thx for the memories, Joerg!”
Redditor @etrnetm mentioned: “Thanks for providing the unofficial embassy of Bitcoin in Berlin to us earthlings. We shall meet again.”
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It is obvious by now that no person will cease bitcoin anymore. Sound cash on a worldwide scale will quickly make it unfeasable to wage wars and it’ll create financial equality amongst mankind. We estimate it would take you lower than one other century to rise and be a part of the intergalactic group.
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Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout to incorporate late-breaking developments.
Stubb's Bar-B-Q restaurant locations will have to get a new name.
The move, which will forever alter an iconic Central Texas music landmark, is part of a deal reached to settle a contentious trademark lawsuit brought by Baltimore-based condiment maker McCormick & Co. Inc. and its Austin subsidiary One World Foods Inc., which makes Stubb's barbecue sauce, against Stubb's Austin Restaurant Co.
As a result of the settlement, McCormick will gain the exclusive right to use the "Stubb's" trademark, a valuable brand with a heritage that stretches back to Texas barbecue legend C.B. "Stubb" Stubblefield, on its retail and commercial lines of sauce.
"While terms of the agreement are confidential, it is important to note this was a mutual resolution that allows the restaurant and venue to live on and allow the Stubb’s brand of products to expand and grow," reads a statement issued Thursday by One World Foods.
"We are going to phase out the name. The important part, really, is that it will still be the same owners, the same managers, the same cold beer and live music and great food for decades and decades to come,” said Lou Reyes, an attorney with the Ashcroft Law Firm who represented the restaurant.
Reyes declined to say if the restaurant's owners were compensated for giving up the name as part of the settlement.
The deal resolves an almost two-year-old legal dispute that pitted the owners of Stubb's Austin Bar-B-Q restaurant and music venue on Red River Street against McCormick and One World Foods over who can use the "Stubb's" name and where. One World Foods was bought for $100 million by Baltimore-based condiment-maker McCormick less than a year before it filed suit,
In U.S. District Court Thursday, attorneys for both sides asked Judge Sam Sparks to dismiss the case, saying that they had reached a settlement.
"Austin is the home of Stubb’s Legendary Bar-B-Q products. We intend to explore new restaurant opportunities and hope to return the Stubb’s brand to an Austin location in the future. The brand’s heritage is tied to the city and the company’s headquarters will continue in Austin," reads the statement from One World Foods.
One World Foods brought the lawsuit in November 2015 against Stubb's Austin Restaurant Co. The dispute focused on the restaurant's expansion of Stubb's-branded barbecue restaurant services outside of its locations on Red River Street, the Mean Eyed Cat bar on West Fifth Street and at Graceland Grocery, a small convenience store at 8600 US 290 West in West Austin.
One World Foods took issue with the newer Graceland Grocery location. It alleged in the suit that the restaurant owners only had permission to operate Stubb's-branded restaurant services at the Red River Street and Mean Eyed Cat locations. It also asked the court to halt an expansion of Stubb's-branded restaurant services next to LaLa's Little Nugget, a Christmas-themed bar on Justin Lane in Austin's Crestview neighborhood.
One World Foods, which bought the Stubb’s brand and intellectual property in 1991 from C.B. Stubblefield, claimed these new stores violate a 1996 agreement between the two companies that outlined the terms by which they would share the Stubb’s brand name.
'Pounds and pounds of paper'
But there was a big catch: both parties said the 1996 agreement was not a formal contract. Attorney Lawrence Waks, representing One World Foods, told the Austin Business Journal in 2015 that a formal contract setting the terms of the deal between the two parties does not exist.
The court rejected an earlier request from One World Foods for a preliminary injunction that would have forced Stubb's Austin Restaurant to shut down at LaLa's and Graceland.
Stubb’s Austin Restaurant argued in response that the original oral agreement did not restrict where it could open restaurants. Rather, it only restricted what the Stubb’s name could be used to promote. Stubb’s Austin Restaurant argued it could use the Stubb's brand to promote its restaurant, catering and entertainment services, while One World Foods could use the Stubb’s brand for prepared food services.
The lawsuit was notable for the immense amount of energy both sides poured into the case. According to court documents, McCormick (NYSE: MKC) required One World Foods to set aside $10 million to handle any legal disputes that might arise after it took over the Stubb's sauce line. Sparks, in a December 2016 procedural ruling, took both sides to task for their inability to reach a compromise on an increasingly expensive legal dispute.
“In the last two months, the parties in this rather simple lawsuit have filed literally 'pounds and pounds' of paper,'" Sparks wrote then. "The only meaningful message is that the parties do not like each other and are willing to pay incredible attorney’s fees rather than sitting down and working out a relatively simple solution that would conclude this case and allow both plaintiff’s and defendants’ businesses to continue in their profitable ways."
In its statement, One World Foods emphasized its connections to Texas. There was no mention of the Baltimore-based condiment giant that will profit from the Stubb's brand.
"The founder of Stubb’s products, C.B. Stubblefield, was a cook. He loved making food, especially authentic Texas barbecue. He wanted the flavors he created to bring love and happiness to people’s lives, and our aim is to follow that lead," reads the statement. "We’re proud to have C.B. Stubblefield’s grandsons on our team to continue that mission, and we’re confident many, many more people will love the Stubb’s family of products."
Michael Theis covers local government, courts and economic development for the Austin Business Journal.


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Mornington Peninsula’s St Andrews Beach Brewery has invested in the upgrade of its brewing capacity and packaging capabilities.
After two years in business the brewery and venue has invested in a new canning line, four fermenters and two brite tanks.
The investment has boosted tank capacity by 22,500 litres, and is aiding St Andrews’ plans to increase annual production to 500,000 litres a year. It currently brews in a 25hL Italian brewhouse, commissioned through FB*Propak.
Tim Purchase, marketing manager at St Andrews Beach and son of part-owners Andrew and Jane Purchase, said that the brewer plans to grow even further, following two years of major growth in which the young brewery won a Victorian tourism award and expanded past capacity.
“Our first year we brewed close to 250,000 litres which was a nice start.
“This year we’re aiming for half a million and have the ability to get up to 750,000 litres [that way], we can grow into it.”
The brewery decided to move to canning from bottles as consumer trends develop – with Beer Cartel’s latest Craft Beer Survey results launched last week indicating that cans have now surpassed bottles in popularity.
The brewery’s old bottling line could fill 500 bottles an hour, whilst their new canning machinery can produce 6,000 cans per hour.
“A couple of months in we outgrew that bottling line. We did some research and decided to invest in a new canning line,” explained Purchase.
“The reason why we bought one of that size and that speed is so that we can grow into it. In two or three years time, if we’d bought a smaller one, we’d be looking for a new one already.”
While financial considerations definitely informed the decision to move to cans, there were other reasons as well, he said.
“The other reason is that the market is more geared towards cans at the moment.
“There’s lots of benefits [to cans]. They’re more practical, lighter, more durable, cool the beer down quicker and they’re a lot more environmental.
“They’re easier to recycle and they don’t require as much packaging which is why I think brewers are going towards cans rather than bottles. There’s also a lot more real estate to work with from a branding point of view.”
The business was able to invest in the equipment by reinvesting profits from the business, as well as attracting another private investor, bringing numbers of investors in the business to seven.
St Andrews Beach opened in December 2017 on the site of a former horse trading stable.
It has been converted into a brewery with extensive room to expand. The stables are now dining areas, and the 1,200-metre training racetrack on the 92-acre estate is now home to a pear and apple orchard (consisting of English heritage apple varieties Michelin, Dabinett, Round Snout & Bulmers Norman) in preparation for the launch of craft cidermaking on site, which Purchase said was a “growth area” for the business.
“We’re hoping that by year four, which is two years away now, we’ll be able to produce cider on a commercial level,” he said.
“We’re on 92 acres so it was a good opportunity to use the land, and there are a couple of craft cider distributors on the Peninsula who have done a really good job.
“Out head brewer Matt Stitt (formerly of the Hope Brewhouse in the Hunter Valley) has a Masters in winemaking so he’s pretty confident he’ll be able to produce cider to a really good level.”
Purchase said that the success of the brewery since its launch had allowed it to invest in new equipment and diversifying the business.
“It’s very competitive for tap space and fridge space. We’re really fortunate that we have a venue that has been super popular both with locals and with visitors to the Peninsula.
“We’re lucky to have sold quite a lot of beer through our own venue, we’ve got really good distribution here and we haven’t even tapped into the Melbourne market yet, and we see that as a massive opportunity for us.”


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Microsoft has launched its Windows Mixed Reality solution with the release of its Fall Creator’s update for Windows 10.
The update includes new features for the creative and education industries and mixed reality support for a range of jointly-released head-mounted displays from the company’s major OEM partners.
The update, Microsoft’s fourth major iteration since the launch of Windows 10, started rolling out yesterday to the more than 500 million devices now running the operating system. As its name suggests, the update includes several features geared toward creatives, presenters, educators, designers and gamers.
At a special launch event in Sydney on Tuesday, Microsoft showed off Windows’ upgrades, touting a major focus on 3D, across application enhancements and, most notably, its mixed reality offering. Supporting the mixed reality play are vendor OEM partners HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer and a number of others, which have manufactured headsets built on Microsoft’s Mixed Reality platform.
Headsets from the abovementioned partners, which are also now available, are almost identical in specifications and are each priced at $799. Unlike current generation virtual reality devices on the market, which track the user’s movement in virtual space using externally mounted sensors and cameras, the Windows Mixed Reality devices use two inbuilt cameras and computer vision to interpolate the headset's position in space.
The headsets each come with a pair of motion controllers that are also tracked by the cameras in the headset. These allow the user to manipulate 3D objects displayed through the device.
According to Microsoft, Mixed Reality allows users to: “escape to the most immersive experiences – touring top travel destinations, getting inside the most exciting games, attending the most popular events... right in your own home”. The mixed reality devices offer a more affordable entry to the virtual reality space than Microsoft’s high-end and self-contained Hololens product.
The other features of the latest Windows update include Photos Remix, which Microsoft says uses AI and deep learning to generate interesting slideshows and collages, which support music, new transitions and 3D effects.
Stylus-oriented upgrades to Office applications were also shown off, including the ability to highlight or cut text with familiar natural gestures or add and annotate text with handwriting recognition. Other Office enhancements included OneNote stylus and math formula integration, and 3D and stylus integration with Powerpoint, which also now includes a feature to help users build new presentations using the cloud and theme suggestions.
Paint 3D is another flagship component of the update. The operating systems’ well-known drawing tool has been enhanced with new features, particularly the ability to add and draw 3D shapes. These can be shared online and viewed in mixed reality.
Microsoft also highlighted its Fluent Design System as a component of the update, allowing for files to be stored in the cloud with OneDrive Files On-Demand, while appearing in the typical file explorer ready for access when needed. When switching devices, Microsoft AI assistant Cortana will ask if the user wishes to continue working on the application, document or website on the new devices. Copy and paste also works across different connected devices.


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The Argentine government lost the battle in May to reduce the price of beef, the country’s star food. Despite export restrictions imposed for 30 days, its price increased 4.4% month-on-month in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, more than one percentage point above headline inflation. The answer has been to extend the measure: the cuts of meat that Argentines consume the most – considered of average quality and which were already the least exported – will not be able to be sold abroad until the end of the year unless their price is lowered. For the rest, the current ban is lifted but a 50% quota will apply, that is, half of what it was last year may be used for the foreign market. Producers have already announced mobilizations against a measure that, they warn, will damage the sector and reduce the income of foreign exchange.
“The increase in meat prices in the international market, evidenced in recent months, implies pressure on prices in the domestic market due to its status as a tradable good,” says one of the recitals of the decree published this Tuesday in the Official Gazette. The measure is in force until December 31, but it can be extended until the end of the year if the objective of reducing the domestic market price is not met.
Beef has become more than 70% more expensive in the last year, compared to 48.8% for the CPI. Due to its price and the change in eating habits, consumption fell in 2020 below 50 kilos per capita, the lowest in the last century in this South American country, but still ten times higher than in Spain (4.8 kilos per capita). person).
Argentine President Alberto Fernández met with representatives of rural associations over the weekend to advance the measure and raised his concern about speculative maneuvers by some exporters that take advantage of increased demand from China to inflate domestic prices. “Let’s fight those 40 rogue exporters, but let’s not close the foreign market because in the end we are the ones who pay for the broken dishes,” criticized the president of the Argentine Rural Society, Nicolás Pino. In response, some producers have called for a protest for July 9, the day Argentina celebrates its independence from Spain.
Meat exports account for about 10% of Argentina’s foreign sales. In 2020, 3,126 million dollars entered from foreign trade in meat, compared to 14,000 million dollars obtained from soybeans, the most exported product. Producers warn that the export stocks is another shot to the foot in a country that is in debt and badly in need of foreign exchange.
In addition, they point out that what is sold abroad is different from what is consumed in Argentina. China, the main customer for Argentine meat, mostly buys very low-quality parts, destined for industrial processing. Europe keeps the most refined and expensive pieces. The most popular cuts in Argentina, such as roast and vacuum, are of intermediate quality.
The export restrictions will be accompanied by a livestock plan aimed at increasing production, in decline. In 1977, the ratio of head of cattle per inhabitant was 2.3 and in 2020 this ratio decreased to 1.2. In 2020 there were 54.5 million head registered, compared to 61 million in 2005.
Through tax exemptions, credit lines and training, the Fernández Executive hopes to reverse the trend and increase the supply so that annual production goes from the current three million tons to five. Details of the livestock plan will be announced in the coming weeks.
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PA-DSS Compliance Could Change the Way Merchants Do Business – ZippyCart
PA-DSS is a standard set by the PCI Security Council designed to increase the security of merchant storefronts. Merchants who have not met the standard by the July 1, 2010 deadline could face additional fees from merchant service providers, or worse.
How to Get More From Online Retail in 2010 – BizReport
Each year at this time, moms in the U.S. start their back-to-school shopping and even begin planning to shop for the holidays. How can online retailers take advantage of this annual trend? TheFind.com’s director of corporate communications, Usher Lieberman, offers some helpful insights.
Retailers Abandoning Brick-and-Mortar Stores and Opting for Online, Mobile – StorefrontBacktalk
The retail industry is abandoning physical stores in favor of both mobile and virtual channels, says this article. Liz Claiborne is the latest to shutter the brick-and-mortar stores that bear its name.
Frustrated Shoppers Abandoning Online Stores with Poor Returns Processes – theMultichannelRetailer
Customers who have bad returns experiences with online stores will not only abandon shopping carts, but the store as well. New research by Collect+ reports that 50 percent of shoppers who have problems with returns never visit the store again.
On July 19, Amazon announced it had sold more e-books than hardcover books over the previous three months. Sales of its Kindle device have accelerated to keep pace. But, as the ebook race continues, is there room for both Kindle and the iPad?
Visa has completed its acquisition of CyberSource Corporation. This action expands Visa’s online payment, fraud, and security management capabilities. The combination is expected to accelerate the growth of the ecommerce category, and to enhance the value of Visa’s network, product and service offerings to financial institutions, merchants, partners and consumers.
The Australian eCommerce Market 2010 report, just released by research company Frost & Sullivan, found that while online retail spending in Australia is expected to account for five percent of total retail sales in 2010, only three percent will be initiated within the country itself. The report encourages businesses to increase sales via the use of online channels.
Econsultancy Encourages English E-tailers to ‘Extend Email Experimentation’ – DirectNews
Ecommerce businesses in the U.K. should not abandon the use of more established marketing channels like email in favor of social media, suggests a new report from Econsultancy. The report, titled “How We Shop in 2010: Habits and Motivations of U.K. Consumers,” reveals that more than a third of those surveyed do not use social media at all.
eBay Second Quarter Sales Down Four Percent From Previous Quarter – ColderICE
eBay recently released their second quarter earnings. Growth in the U.S. marketplace showed a decrease from six percent in Q1 to two percent in Q2. Overall, eBay sales are down 12 percent from 2008.
Weak U.S. Sales at eBay Offset by PayPal, Overseas Income – The Wall Street Journal
The auction giant’s second quarter earnings may be down in terms of U.S. sales, but eBay’s revenue was bolstered by international sales and increased use of PayPal. eBay claims its turnaround is “on track.”
Small businesses are taking the lead in terms of using social networks like Twitter and Facebook for marketing, according to a new study by MerchantCircle. The results come from a poll of a portion of its roughly 1.3 million members.
44 Percent of Small Businesses Testify to Customer Acquisition via Social Media, Says Survey – Furlong PR
Small companies are doing better than large ones at using social media to attract new customers says a survey of global businesses commissioned by office space provider Regus. The survey shows that 44 percent of small companies have successfully acquired a customer through social networking, compared to 36 percent for medium sized companies and 28 percent of large businesses.
Wildfire, a company that makes Facebook fan page applications, recently announced the launch of a new social commerce app that allows marketers to create and place buying widgets on their fan pages to engage consumers. Joining the growing trend of companies that offer group discounts (such as Groupon and CityDeals.com), the app works by creating a group deal. Marketers then determine how many consumers can take advantage of the deal, what the deal actually is, and how long it will remain active.
Customer Ratings and Reviews Lead Social Commerce Marketing Strategies – Internet Retailer
Customer ratings and reviews lead the pack when it comes to trying out many of the new ways to engage online consumers through social commerce, says Forrester Research. 50 percent of U.S. online adults indicate that they trust customer ratings and reviews about products and services, making rating and review content a valuable tool for engaging online shoppers.
Ratings and Reviews Lead to Hike in Online Shoe Sales – Internet Retailer
Visitors who click from product pages into consumer reviews are more than twice as likely to buy as non-clickers, says Jimmy Healey, senior manager of social media and ecommerce at OnlineShoes.com. Conversion rates tend to increase as more reviews are added, he says.


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How tech ruled London Fashion Week’s runway
The British fashion industry contributes a huge £26billion directly to the UK economy, so it should come as no surprise that the bi-annual London Fashion Week is a big deal. With Bloggers, Vloggers and Instagrammers bringing accessible streetstyle to the masses – the big four Fashion Weeks (London, NY, Paris and Milan) that were once strictly trade shows are now truly consumer affairs.
At the most recent London Fashion Week, we were lucky enough to attend the Kristian Aadnevik show at the Royal Horseguards on Sunday 17th July. Aside from admiring the designer attire of the city’s most fashionable, we couldn’t help but notice how ‘online’ everyone was. Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram were lighting up the FROW just as much at the camera flashes from the array of photographers waiting at the end of the catwalk.
With social media and technology playing such a huge role in our daily lives, it’s important for brands to embrace the digital age in increasingly innovative ways. Taking heed from some of the big hitters at London Fashion Week, we’ve compiled the top five ways brands used and harnessed technology during London Fashion Week 2016:
See now, buy now: Topshop fans were able to live stream the UNIQUE catwalk and then click-through to purchase the collection as soon as the last model had left the runway. Burberry also brought back their revolutionary ‘runway to retail’ business model – tapping into consumer demand for real-time shopping experiences.
Virtual expeditions: Attendees to emerging London designer Martine Jarlgaard’s show were given Microsoft Hololens headsets to explore the full SS17 collection from all angles – appearing in the form of holograms.
Social chit-chat: Facebook messenger was embraced by brands showcasing at LFW for the first time this season – with Burberry and Tommy Hilfiger (in NY) promoting the instantaneous shopability of their shows by using automated bots to share content around the new collection, as well as offering live customer service help. Burberry took the conversation one step further and created a gamified maze with models, where the user could “step inside” to reveal pieces from the new collection.
Theatrical flair: A tried and tested tactic, embraced best by Charlotte Olympia at her most recent LFW showcase – if you put on one hell of a show, you can be sure your content will be shared. Any social media savvy fashionista would have seen the countless Boomerangs, Snapchats and Instagram vids of the fruit-themed 1920’s showgirl extravaganza plastered across the internet during Charlotte Olympia’s catwalk. It was bananas!
Rich pickings: Christopher Bailey abandoned Kensington Palace Gardens this year and instead chose a new location in Soho to showcase his most recent collection. In partnership with The New Craftsmen, they turned the showspace into an exhibition hall and opened a series of activities to celebrate the craft behind and inspiration for the collection for a full week after the catwalk show. The best thing was that Burberry’s Makers House was open to all and completely free – so everyone could enjoy and share their experience via social.


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Ford is teaming up with McDonald’s to move in a greener direction. Instead of using plastic to make the headlamp housing for vehicles, it will use coffee chaff.
Of course, you may be wondering what is exactly coffee chaff. It is the dried skin that is removed from the coffee bean after the roasting process. It is discarded afterward, which makes it the waste of roasting coffee beans.
However, as the saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
Ford and Mcdonald’s Have Similar Goals
Just about every company is aware of the plastic pollution epidemic, and many are switching to renewable alternatives. Both companies have similar sustainability goals, which presented a great opportunity to work together.
McDonald’s recently achieved 100% sustainably sourced coffee one year ahead of schedule. And it plans to continue improving its sourcing methods to ensure it minimizes its impact.
Ford has been looking for a sustainable replacement for a decade. It has been researching various organic materials. And it started using soy-based foams all the way back in 2011.
And since coffee is one of the most popular drinks around the world, there will be no shortage of coffee chaffs.
Not Just About the Plastic
If you think the only advantage of the switch is not using plastic, then you are wrong. In reality, the switch in material offers multiple benefits.
For starters manufacturing the part will require 25% less energy during the molding process than with traditional plastic. This alone will go a long way to help reduce the overall greenhouse gas emissions from energy generation.
Another advantage includes the actual weight of the part. The headlamp housing will weigh 20% less than the one made of plastic. And surprisingly, the coffee chaff has better heat values than plastic to boot.
This move will not just be better for the environment, but better for the vehicle as well.


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The world’s biggest smartphone and memorychip maker Samsung Electronics Co yesterday warned of a more than 60 percent plunge in first-quarter operating profit in the face of weakening markets.
Operating profit for the first quarter would be “approximately 6.2 trillion won [US$5.45 billion],” the firm said in a statement, down 60.4 percent year-on-year.
Sales were about 52 trillion won, it said, marking a 14 percent drop.
The firm has enjoyed record profits in recent years, despite a series of setbacks, including a humiliating recall and the jailing of its de facto boss, but now the picture has changed, with chip prices falling as global supply increases and demand weakens.
The company’s earnings estimate was below analyst forecasts of 6.9 trillion won, according to Bloomberg News.
It would represent the firm’s lowest operating profit since the third quarter of 2016 and it comes after the firm reported its first fall in quarterly profit for two years in January.
Samsung shares yesterday closed down 0.2 percent in Seoul.
The company has to contend with increasingly tough competition in the smartphone market from Chinese rivals such as Huawei Technologies Co (華為) — which in 2017 surpassed Apple Inc to take second place — offering quality devices at lower prices.
Samsung supplies components to other manufacturers such as Apple as well as making its own devices, but market prices for LCDs have fallen 10 percent quarter-on-quarter, said Sanjeev Rana, an analyst at investment firm CLSA Ltd, while demand for smartphones in China — the world’s biggest market — has been weak.
Prices for NAND memory — used in smartphones and other devices — fell 20 percent in the first quarter, according to market tracker DRAMeXchange, which pointed the finger at consumers taking longer to replace their smartphones and lower-than-expected sales of Apple’s new devices.
DRAM chips, used in computer servers, fell by similar levels, it added.
Rana predicted a “slight” rebound in the second quarter.
“This quarter is the bottom in terms of earnings,” Rana said.
Samsung was yesterday launching the 5G version of its top-end Galaxy S10 smartphone — the first such device available anywhere — after South Korea this week won the global race to commercially launch the world’s first nationwide 5G networks.
South Korea’s three telecoms — SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus — held launch events across Seoul for the Galaxy S10, whose base version costs 1.39 million won.
Before yesterday’s debut of the Samsung phone, 5G services had been restricted to a handful of specially selected users in South Korea.
Rival manufacturer LG Electronics Co is due to launch its V50 ThinQ, another 5G phone, later this month, while in the US, Verizon Communications Inc’s network works with Lenovo Group Ltd’s (聯想) Moto Z3 smartphone fitted with a special accessory.
Commercializing 5G gives South Korea the chance to build around the technology, which is crucial for the future development of devices such as autonomous vehicles and the Internet of Things.
It is expected to bring about US$565 billion in global economic benefits by 2034, according to the London-based Global System for Mobile Communications, an industry alliance.
‘BIG LOSS’: This year might see the last generation of Huawei’s Kirin chips, as their production would stop next month because they are made using US technology Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co (華為) is running out of processor chips to make smartphones due to US sanctions and would be forced to stop production of its own most advanced chips, a company executive has said, in a sign of growing damage to Huawei’s business from US pressure. Huawei, one of the biggest producers of smartphones and network equipment, is at the center of US-Chinese tension over technology and security. Washington last year cut off Huawei’s access to US components and technology, and those penalties were tightened in May, when the White House barred vendors worldwide from using US
’WHITE BOX’: The open platform would give local firms access to Cisco’s cloud-based mobile network to develop 5G telecom equipment and tap into the global market The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) yesterday introduced a new 5G “open lab” in collaboration with US-based information technology and networking giant Cisco Systems Inc to address the rapidly growing “white box” 5G networking equipment market. The open lab will be a platform where Taiwanese manufacturers can access Cisco’s cloud-based mobile network to develop their own 5G telecom equipment, such as small-cell base stations, network switches, modems and Internet of things (IoT) devices, a ministry statement said. The open platform would allow Taiwanese manufacturers to tap into the lucrative 5G telecom equipment market, which was previously monopolized by Nokia Oyj, Ericsson AB
CORPORATE SCANDAL: Cathay Life has invested NT$13.3 billion in Bank Mayapada since 2015, but the latest loss of NT$8.8 billion has completely written off its investment Cathay Life Insurance Co (國泰人壽) yesterday said it would recognize an investment loss of NT$8.8 billion (US$298.1 million) in Indonesia’s Bank Mayapada Internasional Tbk PT due to concerns about the lender’s operations amid a corporate scandal. The company said it would revise its earnings result for June, from a net profit of NT$6.52 billion to a net loss of NT$520 million, its first monthly loss over the past 17 months. After booking an investment loss of NT$5.2 billion in Bank Mayapada earlier this year, Cathay Life has so far recognized total investment losses of NT$14 billion in the lender, executive vice president
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Last Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Lenovo and Motorola will soon release a revival of its famed Razr V3 flip phone with a brand-new foldable display design, and it could cost $1,500.
There’s no mention of the name “Razr” in the patent, but anyone who remembers Motorola’s Razr flip phones will immediately recognize the design in the patent. It looks nearly identical, at least on the outside. The inside of the phone, however, potentially reveals what Lenovo and Motorola have in mind for a new Razr flip smartphone with a foldable display.
I should stress that patents don’t typically reveal exactly what to expect in a new upcoming device. Rather, patents only show what kinds of ideas a company has — and that idea ever seeing the light of day isn’t guaranteed. Either way, based on the design patent images below, it seems that Motorola’s idea is to make a modern rendition of its Razr flip phone that looks nearly identical to the original.
Check out the images from Motorola’s patent filing for a new Razr device with a foldable display:


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IRVING (AP) – Retail gasoline prices in Texas are down 2 cents a gallon this week.
AAA Texas reports the statewide price at the pump has slipped to $3.43 per gallon. That’s 21 cents cheaper than the national average of $3.64 per gallon.
Regular unleaded is the least expensive in Amarillo, at $3.32. It’s highest in Corpus Christi at $3.44.
The auto club said Thursday gasoline prices have been declining since the beginning of this month. That’s typical for this time of year with the conclusion of refinery maintenance leading up to a May 1 deadline to begin producing summer-blend fuel.
Analysts say now that the transition is complete, prices should continue to decline.
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The National Retail Federation announces the Vendors In Partnership Awards Gala as the premier solution provider celebration for the inaugural NRF Retail Week calendar.
Retail leaders from around the world will descend on New York for the NRF Big Show with an expected 38,000 movers and shakers set to come together to learn, share, collaborate, network and inspire. In a first for the NRF, the introduction of the NRF Retail Week, January 9 – 16, 2020, will surround Retail’s Big Show with a robust calendar of events that support the industry and the people that work in it
The Vendors in Partnership Awards Gala will take place Friday January 10 at 6:00PM and has been recognized as an integral part of Retail Week. The event will bring retail solution providers together under the one roof to celebrate the businesses that are willing to make meaningful change to their companies that continue to support and grow the industry.
The gala will feature a keynote from Ashley Stewart’s Chairman & CEO and FirePine Group Founder, James Rhee, on how friendships, partnership, and an openness of spirit create success in business. James has one of the best stories in retail, the turnaround of clothing brand Ashley Stewart by doubling down on values.
The inaugural Vendors in Partnership Awards will be held the evening of January 10, 2020 at Gotham Hall, NYC.
For more information and to book your tickets, visit www.vendorawards.com


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THE Ford Fiesta retained its place as the UK’s best-selling new car in March, according to the latest SMMT figures, released today. And as well as topping the list for the month, it’s the most popular car of the year so far.
Ford’s supermini led the way in March with 25,753 registrations while its bigger brother Focus came second with 16,860 units.
The Vauxhall Corsa held strong in third place, recording a total of 16,231registrations. This was around 600 units fewer than the Focus but significantly in front of the fourth-placed car, the Volkswagen Golf (13,142).
In fifth position was Vauxhall’s Astra with 11,359 units while Nissan’s Qashqai was sixth (8,858). The Volkswagen Polo and Fiat 500 took seventh and eighth places with 8,306 and 8,136 units respectively.
Making up the top 10 were the BMW 3 Series, in ninth place with 7,782 cars registered during March, and the Toyota Yaris, in tenth position (7,438).
The figures for the year-to-date reflect just how far ahead the Ford Fiesta is, with 39,240 registrations to its name so far in 2014.
In fact the top five in the year-to-date stats reflect the sales for the month of March with the Focus in second with 24,759 units, Corsa in third with 23,839 units, Golf in fourth with 19,160 and the Astra in fifth with 17,465.
Running down the rest of the year-to-date top 10 from sixth place onwards, the SMMT lists the VW Polo (13,631); Nissan Qashqai (12,937); Fiat 500 (11,685 units); Audi A3 (11,583); and BMW 3 Series (11,027).


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‘Millions’ from your yard
13 April, 2018, 12:00 am
WHAT began as a one-man job has now turned into a family business for the Singh’s family of Nasekula St in Labasa Town.
Mamta Sigh, 43, who has won the Prime Minister’s backyard farmer of the year award during the Crest Agriculture Show farmer awards in 2012, describes their business as a family affair.
“We all contribute as families and I must acknowledge my husband’s family who began this tradition and love of farming,” she said.
Mrs Singh said her love for gardening goes back to when she was really young.
“I have always loved gardening and being married to a family that has a gardening background is the icing on the cake for me.
“My husband and I helped each other a lot from ploughing the land, planting and then marketing of vegetables,” she said
The Singh’s family supplies lettuce, spring onion and cabbage to supermarkets and hotels in Labasa and Savusavu.
“We only have a small space in front of our house where we plant lettuce, cabbage and spring onion which are later sold to our main markets,” she said.
“My husband is sickly and stays at home and this little garden of ours is doing us really well in terms of earning an income.”
Mrs Singh said the money earned from their sale of vegetables had helped put food on their table and pay for other costs around the house.
“We earn thousands every year, if the weather is favourable.
“This is good money and we have been in this business for more than 20 years now and we supply to Supermarkets like New World, Shop N Save, RB Patel in Labasa and Savusavu supermarkets and hotels as well,” she said
Mrs Singh said they had a middleman in Savusavu who bought from them.
“I have two children who are studying at tertiary and high school,” she said.
“We rely on each other for help and as a family we have always pushed each other forward so we can all come out successful in whatever areas of work we do.”
Mrs Singh said her love for planting had been passed to her two children.
“My children also love gardening and during their holidays or school break, they are out planting with me,” she said.
“I must say this small front yard garden that we have here definitely pays for the bills and my advice for everyone to make use of the very little space they have at home.
“You can make millions if you look positively in to it.”


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A high-profile Supreme Court case that may redefine the retail market began with an alumnus who resold textbooks manufactured abroad in the U.S. may put a stop to people reselling goods they own.
On Monday, the court heard oral arguments in an appeals case waged by Supap Kirtsaeng ’02, who was ordered to pay $600,000 after losing a copyright infringement case in August 2011. The case, Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons Inc., addresses the legality of purchasing textbooks manufactured abroad and reselling them in the United States.
Kirtsaeng, a Thailand native, was attending graduate school at the University of Southern California after graduating from Cornell. After friends and family sent Kirtsaeng textbooks they had purchased abroad, he resold $900,000 worth of books at a higher price on eBay, according to The Associated Press.
Eight of these books were published by the Asian subsidiary of publishing company John Wiley & Sons, which successfully sued Kirtsaeng for copyright infringement in May 2010.
The case could have much broader implications than its ruling on Kirtsaeng’s lawsuit.
At a hearing Monday, several justices expressed concern over granting copyright holders such as John Wiley & Sons the right to block the resale of goods that were first purchased overseas, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
Justice Stephen Breyer appeared skeptical Monday of the plaintiff’s claims. According to The Journal, Breyer questioned whether copyright laws could be violated by consumers who resold products like used Toyota cars — which may contain GPS systems that were manufactured abroad — or by libraries and art museums who lend or display foreign-made works.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 seemed to lean toward supporting Wiley. The Journal reported that when Kirtsaeng’s lawyer suggested that a ruling in favor of Wiley would give copyright holders the right to repeatedly resell goods if they were made abroad, Ginsburg asked, “Has that ever happened?”
Companies that sell many of their products online — such as eBay, Google and Costco — have also weighed in on the case. In court documents, companies claimed that a ruling against Kirtsaeng could “threaten the increasingly important e-commerce sector of the economy” by affecting the sale of goods online and in discount stores, the AP reported.
Lawyers for organizations such as the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America and the Association of American Publishers have countered that stringent copyright laws are “fundamental to the creative industries.”
Tracy Mitrano, director of IT law and policy at Cornell, said that the case could affect the resale of a variety of goods procured abroad that are protected by copyright laws.
She also added that one of the more contentious aspects of the case is the application of U.S. copyright law on the international stage.
“No one thought about how inappropriate it was to extend U.S. copyright law, already content-owner heavy, onto developing nations,” she said.
Peter Hirtle, senior policy advisor for digital scholarship and preservation services for the Cornell Library, echoed Mitrano’s assessment that the case highlights some faults in U.S. copyright law.
“The case highlights the problems that can result when support for specific business models — in this case, differential geographic pricing — is built into the Copyright Act,” he said.
Hirtle added that the court should make it clear that “first sale rights apply to all copyrighted works, regardless of place of manufacturing” and that issues surrounding the regulation of “so-called ‘gray market goods’ are best addressed outside of copyright law.”
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One of the first people in the country to use the controversial new diet pill has revealed how he lost two stones in a month.
Tony Mullins, of Staffordshire, was part of a special programme to take the new fat-busting Alli drug, which becomes the first non-prescription pill to go on sale over the counter from today.
The operations support manager for Lloydspharmacy, who lives in Biddulph, jumped at the chance to try out the pills at a hefty 28 stone - and is already down to 26st five weeks later.
Diet aid Alli is being sold without a prescription and is believed to help people to boost weight loss by up to 50 per cent as it prevents the absorption of fat and allows excess fat from food consumed to pass naturally through the body.
But it is only suitable for the overweight with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 28 or more.
“I lost a stone in the first week alone and needed to buy a belt to stop my trousers falling down,” Mr Mullins said.
“Over weeks two to four, the weight loss has been much more gradual.
“I’ve tried all sorts of other diets in the past but never stayed the course.
“What this pill does is keep me on the straight and narrow. I know that if I eat too much fat the end result may not be very nice and that motivates me to stick to the rules.
“It also provides you with that extra incentive to lose weight by ‘rewarding’ me with an extra 1lb of weight loss for every 2lbs I lose through my diet.”
Mr Mullis added: “Before I started the treatment I read up on Alli so I knew exactly how it worked. I also had a consultation with a pharmacist who talked me through the guidelines and recommended I eat no more than 19 grams of fat per meal and no more than 1,800 calories per day. I’ve managed to stick to that and haven’t had any problems at all. My medium-term target weight is 18st.”
Even though the weight-loss treatment is going on sale nationwide, pharmacists have been warned they can only be sold after a proper consultation.
James Hallatt, general manager at GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare UK, said: “Obesity and overweight are a major concern of our society and people need help. Alli offers a clinically-proven way to help people lose weight but it is not a magic bullet.
“Users must be committed to weight loss. Alli launched in the United States in June 2007 and has been well received by millions of people, we are very excited about the opportunity to help overweight people in the UK achieve their weight-loss goals.”
Mr Hallatt added that patients taking it needed to ensure they had a balanced diet while taking the drug.
Andy Murdock, governance director of Lloydspharmacy, voiced concerns that some people may obtain the treatment even though it is not clinically appropriate for them to take it. “It’s important that all sectors of the pharmacy profession uphold the very highest clinical standards when providing this treatment,” he said.


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By: Steve Outing
“Online matchmaker” Match.com has begun co-branding its popular online personals service with other publishers. This week, the service announced three additional partnerships, including one with the New York Daily News and its just-launched mostNew York Web site.
The deal that Match.com offered to the Daily News is similar to deals that are popping up from various Internet companies seeking co-branding relationships with publishers. Expect to see more such offers as entrepreneurs with stand-alone World Wide Web services that they have created seek additional market share by partnering with established publishers. It can be a good deal, in that the newspaper partner gets a ready-made niche service to add to its overall Web site — no muss, no fuss, just lend a brand name, begin marketing the service and share revenues from the co-branded service.
Match.com, a service of San Francisco-based Electric Classifieds Inc., is a national online personals service founded in 1993 by entrepreneur Gary Kremen. As a stand-alone Web service it’s also a competitor to newspaper personal ads, since users can target their searches for prospective mates to selected cities. Match.com is most useful to singles in major metro markets, and is an increasingly used alternative to daily newspaper and alternative newsweekly personal ad sections (which typically rely on $2-a-minute 900-number calls by users for revenues). Match.com is a $7.95 per month subscription service that allows users to communicate with potential mates via anonymous e-mail, among other high-tech features.
Co-branding opportunities simply create a secondary Match.com site that is co-branded throughout with newspaper and Match.com logos. According to Match.com general manager Fran Maier, when a user registers with the mostNew York site he is tagged by the system as a mostNew York subscriber. Even if this user enters Match.com through the national site rather than via mostNew York, the system recognizes him as a mostNew York subscriber and serves up co-branded pages from then on out. A mostNew York subscriber will see only co-branded pages and links back to other content on mostNew York, but no backlinks to the national Match.com site, says Maier.
The business model is a sharing of revenue between Match.com and the publishing partner. The publisher gets 5% to 20% of subscriber revenues from subscriptions generated by the co-branded site; the exact amount depends on the particular deal. Advertising revenues also are split, with the selling party keeping the majority share, says Maier. Other factors in a co-branding deal can include an exchange of promotion and advertising between the two parties. Each deal can be a little different, she says.
The co-branding option is a good opportunity for a newspaper to quickly create a matchmaking service for its Web site and bring in new revenues. Match.com does not currently offer integration with a newspaper’s 900-number personal ads, but Maier says that the company hopes to add that capability soon. A co-branded newspaper-Match.com site could be treated as a separate service from the newspaper’s print-audiotex personals. Maier says the co-branded sites should not be viewed as a replacement for the 900-number service.
mostNew York is the first newspaper co-branding deal for Match.com, though Maier says she hopes to do more. Other Web ventures offering a co-branded Match.com service include Women’s Wire, Thrive (self-help Web site), GNN (a subsidiary of America Online), NetNoir, Latino Link, iVillage and Lifetime TV.
Match.com’s parent, Electric Classifieds, also offers newspapers a turnkey online classifieds system that can include a personals component, which is based on the same technology as Match.com but does not include Match.com content. Global Online Classifieds was released in version 1.0 in recent weeks.
Other options for newspaper publishers looking for online personals solutions include the Personals Online Network (PON), a new service from Tele-Publishing Inc.. Publishers join PON as an affiliate, and share in revenues generated by the service, which uses a paper’s existing personal ads and is branded primarily with the newspaper name. The service costs nothing for publishers to join and relies on the revenue split model.
A similar concept is offered by audiotex company MicroVoice and its Internet partner, InterStep. The companies’ PersonalsPage system and network hosts a newspaper’s personal ads online, tied in with the paper’s existing audiotex personals system.
Contact: Fran Maier, email@example.com
(Author’s note: Besides writing Stop The Presses! I wear another hat it my career, as an interactive publishing consultant to publishers and technology companies. In 1996, I have been an occasional consultant to Electric Classifieds Inc.)
New Haven Register to the Web
The New Haven (Connecticut) Register has launched a site on the World Wide Web at http://www.ctcentral.com/. The Register was the last newspaper to have the misfortune of signing up to create a service on the ill-fated AT&T Interchange Network proprietary online service, which AT&T killed earlier this year.
The Web site will publish daily news from the newspaper, offer discussion and live chat areas, entertainment guides for movies, events and television, and more, according to electronic publishing editor Sara Glines. In another month, four other daily newspapers of the Register’s parent, the Journal Register Co., will go on the same Web site.
Contact: Sara Glines, firstname.lastname@example.org
Digital City Denver, part 2
Jefferson Sentinel publisher Bob Cox wrote in with a clarification on my Monday column about his suburban newspaper company becoming a content provider for Digital City Denver:
“It would be better to describe my experiences with commercial online services, AOL included, as one in which they couldn’t give me the time of day, more than wouldn’t. My sense is that although those I spoke to thought the local content approach was a good idea, it was an idea that, at the time, was well under their radar screen — and who could blame them? When you’re busy signing up a few million subscribers, there are bigger fish to fry than worrying about when potholes will be filled in Dogpatch. Now that the industry has started to get a better sense of the services it can provide, it’s reasonable that the folks at AOL have come around to looking at local content, and I’m glad they have, and that we now have the chance to participate.”
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Britain leaps out of double-dip recession
With the fastest rate of growth in five years, the UK economy has shown definite signs of recession recovery between July and September this year, official figures have shown today.
Gross domestic product (GDP) grew by one per cent, marking an end to the declining numbers over the last three years. Experts had predicted a rise of 0.6 per cent, but this unexpected rise is the largest in a quarter since 2007.
The news comes at a good time for homeowners, who have been feeling the pinch since recession first started. It is though that major events such as the Jubilee and the Olympics helped claw back income usually lost over Bank Holiday weekends, while the services sector, which makes up 75 per cent of the economy, saw a huge 1.3 per cent rise in growth.
Chancellor George Osbourne said that although the UK is not quite out of the economic woods, the increase is a sure sign that we are “on the right track,” adding that the UK was still facing “many economic challenges both at home and abroad.”
Those hardest-hit have been the construction industries, while the number of home-grown companies producing goods and undertaking their own business models has increased as a result of jobs lost. The internet has also helped to encourage grassroots companies, providing an outlet for people to access personalised business supplies and a platform on which to sell and advertise, keeping the economy moving forward.


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04/17/2018: The gig economy for accountants
April 17, 2018
It's Tax Day, and if you are one of the 50 million people who prepared their taxes online, you might have seen an option to talk to a real accountant through video chat. That’s because accountants are now part of the gig economy — and many certified public accountants are working gigs with TurboTax. On Marketplace Tech, we look at the need for accountants on demand and discuss how the gig economy is changing for highly educated workers.


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The Mango Store, which opened in Austin in April, reimagines the entire banking experience for this market. Rather than treat the unbanked as transient customers, Mango aims to forge transparent, long-term relationships. Clients pay a one-time $10 fee that lets them “cash” as many checks as they want by loading the money onto debit cards (backed by a local bank). More sophisticated services, such as international money transfers and bill payment, cost extra. Even so, Mango’s operating costs — and, by extension, its fees — are significantly lower than other alt-finance outlets because it uses its own technology (developed by Mpower) and offers a multitude of services (including Web and mobile-phone apps). “It’s a smart strategy,” says Jennifer Tescher, director of the Center for Financial Services Innovation. “If Mango helps its customers grow financially, it can stick with them as they climb the ladder.”
But first, it has to get them through the door. Tescher likens the store to “a cross between an Apple Store and a high-end yogurt shop,” which could confuse patrons. Yet once customers are inside, Sosa says, the warm, spacious interior is designed “to educate customers and encourage them to stay awhile.” Here’s a look at a few notable features.