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LONDON — Ivanka Trump calls her father a homebody. “If it were up to him, he’d seldom leave New York,” she once wrote.
By contrast, she has been her family’s leading globalist — doing deals around the world in her father’s name and her own. Even since her father took office, her own fashion brand has continued to look abroad, filing four new trademarks in Canada and the Philippines, according to a New York Times analysis of trademark records.
The continued activity is tricky territory for Trump’s new job as White House adviser. While she has stepped down from both her own fashion company and from the Trump Organization and put her brand in a trust, she has not given up her financial control, an unusual situation to navigate now that she is subject to federal ethics rules on conflicts of interest.
Even though many of her trademark applications were filed long before she took her government job, they could be decided on by foreign governments while she works in the White House, creating ethical issues with little precedent. While trademarks do not directly confer financial gains, they protect the use of logos and other intellectual property, making them valuable tools for companies looking to build new ventures or expand existing operations.
Earlier this month, China approved three new trademarks for her brand on the same day she met China’s president, Xi Jinping, according to an Associated Press report. Japan also approved trademarks in Ivanka Trump’s name in February that included footwear, handbags and other apparel, records show. And trademark applications in her name are awaiting decisions in 10 countries, the Times analysis showed, including Kuwait, Qatar, Panama and Brazil.
Trump has long been conducting a corporate two-step, trying to build her own global brand as she has helped push her father’s name into new parts of the world. Overall, Ivanka Trump Marks LLC, her trademarking business, has filed 173 foreign trademarks in 21 countries, as well as in Hong Kong and the European Union, in little more than a decade, according to the Times analysis. There are probably more, since there is no single repository of all global trademarks. All of the applications on record took place before she was a White House adviser.
特朗普长期以来一直在跳企业二步舞，一边帮助父亲把他的名字推向世界的新领域，一边也努力建立自己的全球品牌。根据时报的分析，总体而言，她的商标业务公司“伊万卡·特朗普商标公司”(Ivanka Trump Marks LLC)十几年间已在21个国家及香港和欧盟申请了173个外国商标。因为不存在全球所有商标的统一信息库，实际可能还有更多。所有记录在案的申请都是在她成为白宫顾问之前提交的。
Trump’s previous role as an informal adviser to President Donald Trump had already raised questions. She is a woman with a multitude of overseas business ventures who since the election has been afforded prime seating at meetings with a who’s who of foreign leaders — from Justin Trudeau to Shinzo Abe to Angela Merkel.
特朗普此前只是唐纳德·特朗普总统的非正式顾问，然而那个角色已经带来了问题。她拥有众多海外商业机构，自从大选之后，在同贾斯汀·特鲁多(Justin Trudeau)到安倍晋三(Shinzo Abe)乃至安格拉·默克尔(Angela Merkel)等众多外国政要会面时，她都得到了重要席位。
Now such issues become more complex. While presidents are exempt from federal conflict of interest law, Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, another senior White House aide, are not. They are barred from making decisions in government that could benefit their financial holdings, which are worth as much as $740 million, according to recent filings. They are also covered by the Constitution’s emoluments clause barring federal officials from accepting “any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign state.”
Whether trademarks run afoul of such rules is a matter of debate between the Trump administration and its critics. Trademarks are certainly valuable assets as companies seek exclusive control over their global brands, and Trump herself has said that the first step in building a brand is to “do a comprehensive trademark search.”
Trump has taken steps to separate herself from her company. Her brother-in-law and sister-in-law serve as trustees, while Abigail Klem, her brand’s president, runs the company’s day-to-day operations.
But she has kept her financial interest in the company, and retains the ability to approve or veto certain deals through her trust arrangement. Trump also maintains a stake in the Trump International Hotel in Washington, just down the street from the White House.
但她一直保持在公司的经济利益，并保留通过信托安排批准或否决某些交易的能力。她也保留了华盛顿的特朗普国际酒店(Trump International Hotel)的股份，这家酒店就在白宫的那条街上。
“When they weren’t going into the White House, I thought there was a lot of leeway there,” said John Pudner, the executive director of the conservative nonprofit Take Back Our Republic.
“他们还没有进入白宫时，我认为这里仍有很大的余地，”保守非盈利组织“夺回我们的共和国”(Take Back Our Republic)总干事约翰·普德纳(John Pudner)说。
Now, he said, “anything can be viewed as influence.”
“I think it’s bad for the administration,” added Pudner, who voted for Donald Trump. “It could call into question any decision made, people wondering if there’s a business angle to it.”
The White House referred comments to the Trump Organization, which did not comment.
Klem, president of Ivanka Trump’s brand, said in a statement, “The brand has filed, updated and rigorously protected its international trademarks over the past several years in the normal course of business, especially in regions where trademark infringement is rampant.
“We have recently seen a surge in trademark filings by unrelated third parties trying to capitalize on the name, and it is our responsibility to diligently protect our trademark.”
Trump has long had an international outlook. In her 2009 book, “The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life,” she credited the influence of her mother, Ivana, for her own love of travel. And not long after she joined the Trump Organization in 2005, she helped lead her father’s business abroad.
特朗普早已具有国际视野。她在自己2009年的《特朗普王牌：工作和生活的双赢之道》(The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life)一书中写道，是母亲伊万娜(Ivana)影响她爱上了旅行。2005年加入特朗普集团后不久，她开始协助将父亲的业务引向海外。
“Before my brothers and I joined the company, our business was primarily a New York-based operation,” she wrote in her book, adding that her father would say, “There are plenty of great deals right here in New York.”
It was not long before she began to concurrently push her own brand in many of the same markets as her father’s.
While she was overseeing the development of a controversial Trump Tower in Azerbaijan, which has since been abandoned, she was also filing trademarks for her own brand, for clothes and cosmetics.
In China, while she was helping her father’s company make inroads, she developed her own following, taking out at least 23 trademarks for everything from swimwear to wedding dresses, both to battle locals trying to infringe on her name and to support her own interests.
Ivanka Trump has a following in China, where young professionals often equate material wealth with success. A video of her daughter singing in Chinese even went viral. But for many Chinese, Trump is the epitome of the fuerdai, a Mandarin expression that means “rich second generation,” a term provoking a mix of respect and resentment.
A spokesman for the brand said several of its licensees wholesale products in China. More than a dozen of Ivanka Trump’s own Chinese trademarks were filed during the election campaign.
It is not clear how Trump, now a federal employee, will navigate continuing ties to far-flung foreign business interests. Robert Weissman, the president of Public Citizen, a left-leaning watchdog group, said that if Trump’s brand was trying to expand operations or import from other countries, there could be “meaningful interaction” with foreign governments. Foreign companies, too, might also try to cut special deals with the brand to curry favor with the Trump administration, Weissman added.
如今特朗普已经成为联邦雇员，目前尚不清楚她接下来将如何处理涉及范围极广的海外商业利益关系。左派监督组织“公众公民”(Public Citizen)的会长罗伯特·魏斯曼(Robert Weissman)表示，如果特朗普的品牌试图扩大经营或从其他国家进口，那么就有可能同外国政府发生“有意义的互动”。魏斯曼补充说，外国公司同样也有可能会尝试与特朗普品牌进行特别交易，以求获得特朗普政府的青睐。
“Then you get into the issue about improper influence,” he said.
Jamie Gorelick, a Washington ethics lawyer who is acting as an independent adviser to Trump’s trust, said in a statement that since Trump had resigned from her company, she “has had no involvement with trademark applications submitted by the business."
“The federal ethics rules do not require you to recuse from any matter concerning a foreign country just because a business that you have an ownership interest in has a trademark application pending there,” she added. “Ivanka will recuse from particular matters where she has a conflict of interest or where the White House counsel determines her participation would present appearance or impartiality concerns.”


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Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicks off Monday, June 6 at 10AM PT, and while the keynote is usually software-centric, there’s reason to believe some hardware will appear as well.
Apple tends to announce a lot of software features to a wide variety of consumer devices, but updates that attract creative professionals tend to make their way to iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.
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As a developer conference, WWDC tends to rely more on software announcements than hardware, and Apple is quite certain to show off new features coming to iOS in the fall. Bloomberg Mark Gorman, who is a fairly reliable source when it comes to Apple rumors and was correct with his predictions of Apple’s latest event, says that iOS 16 will introduce new Apple apps as well as a new way to interact with the operating system.
Gorman says in his weekly article employment the news. “It will be full of changes across the operating system, including updates to notifications, multitasking on the iPad, messaging apps, and health. The change also includes a part of the interface that is often an afterthought: the lock screen.”
This could mean that Apple plans to add more widgets or tweak how users interact with them, which could help Apple users feel like there’s more to do before they actually unlock their devices. Gurman says he rarely interacts with his iPhone when it’s locked, and guesses that’s the case for many other users as well. Apple may be looking to change that with iOS 16, add Always On to the next iPhone, and add software that powers that capability.
iPadOS is also likely to get an upgrade about multitasking:
I know better than to get excited about the improvements in the iPad, because we got burned so many times…
But WebKit just added an infrastructure for a “multitasking mode” on iOS which certainly looks like a system switch allowing windows that can be resized freely https://t.co/NBNGhHiaxB
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The update will likely make tweaks to allow windows to be resized freely and could enable different form factors for iPads. While Apple appears reluctant to put the full capabilities of macOS on the iPad, this could be a huge leap that would enable compact devices to compete more squarely with two-in-one PC offerings like Microsoft’s Surface.
WWDC will probably bring an update to macOS as well, but very little has made its way into the rumor mill other than that it might get something similar to put the focus on the iPhone and could be called macOS Mammoth.
Macbook Air, M2, and Mac Pro
The hardware rumors are once again coming courtesy of Gurman who predicted that Apple would release at least two PCs in the middle of the year.
While some believe this could mean the next generation of Apple’s processor, the M2, in the new MacBook Air, the edge He seems to think that WWDC’s audience of developers, professionals, and enthusiasts makes it a great place to launch the promised Mac Pro.
During a March event, Apple said that the Mac Studio would not be the last device to run the M1 and hinted that it would be the Mac Pro. With most expecting the M2 to appear in lower-end machines this year, it makes sense that Apple would ditch the M1 series with a big hit.
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The last major device to be seen at WWDC is Apple’s much-anticipated virtual reality (VR) headset. While it’s certainly not something to expect, it could appear alongside the announcement of software support for VR which will go well with the WWDC audience.
Hear the keynote at WWDC on June 6 at 10 a.m. PT.
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Mrs. India Beauty Queen crowned was organized by Women on Women Welfare (WOWW) foundation and Mrs. India Beauty Queen (MIBQ) foundation. The grand finale was held on 26th of August at Vivanta by Taj, Dwarka. MIBQ Foundation, directed by Bir Kaur Dhillon former winner of “Mrs India Globe” is a beauty pageant for married women that acknowledge and admire the accomplishments and achievements of a wife, a mother, a complete woman with true beauty and intelligence.
WOWW foundation, set up by Rose Khaira, provides a platform to all the women who wish to prove their worth despite having numerous other responsibilities. This is the platform where married women will have the opportunity to make a difference in the world. This platform hopes to empower women and enrich opportunities for personal growth.
Mrs. Dhillon, the director of Mrs. India Beauty Queen had shortlisted top fourteen potential candidates from all over India and abroad, who further battled for Mrs. India beauty Queen title. The contestants were judged on various features like time management to self-assessment, fitness to wardrobe skills, from a ramp walk to hair and make up.Contestants were groomed by virtuoso model Nayanika Chatterjee and show director for the four days pageant.
Contestants were appraised during the course of the pageant through personal interviews and various sub contests which included rounds like swimwear, talent and fashionista along with concept photo shoots.
The contestants were judged by a panel of judges including renowned fashion designers like Rakesh Thakore, Rohit Karma, Jeevandeep Singh (owner of santabanta.com), Tarun Gill, Bir Kaur Dhillon and UmangMonga (owner of Harrison Locks) who equated beauty with smartness and chose Mrs. India Beauty Queen 2016.
Adding to the glamour of the show, various known artists like Naina Arora — the official make up artist of the show, VIDM-Institute of Design and Management as fashion institute, Suchismita Sahoo— conceptualised photographer, dressed in designers, Niket Mishra and NidhikaShekhar, official designers of the pageant. Pulkit Bandana and Manish Chauhan— makeover artists joined hands to make this edition, yet another success.
As the event progressed judges announced the results, Ruth Charlesworth from Mumbai was crowned as Mrs. India Beauty Queen 2016, followed by Aditi Sharma & Shalini Sood who secured the position of first and second runner up respectively.
Ruth Charlesworth will now represent India at the world finals of Mrs. India Beauty Queen to be held in Shenzhen, China in November 2016. Aditi Sharma, first runner up will also represent India as Mrs. Indian Ocean Globe for the same pageant. Shalini Sood, second runner up will represent India at Mrs. United Nation Pageant followed by Sushma Bharti and Manaeka Will who will represent India at the Mrs. Universe and Mrs. Top of the World Pageant.
To add to the existing glory, this year MIBQ introduced their classic titles. Now women over the age group of 45 years can also participate in the contest. Veena Jain was crowned Mrs India Beauty Queen Classic Winner and will represent India at the Mrs. Globe 2017, followed by Gayatri Sandeep from Bangalore—first runner up who will also represent India internationally.


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Eco India looks at the environmental impact of food. One third of the food produced worldwide gets lost or wasted – a huge social and environmental problem.
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There's a new trend among popular fashion brands: "eco friendly" collections. Organic cotton is everywhere this summer, but is the label just a marketing strategy?
140 countries, 140 diets, 140 different ways each of them contributes to climate change. A new US-study looked at what dietary changes need to happen across the globe to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Countries that are least responsible for causing climate change are the ones suffering most from its effects, especially regarding food insecurity and nutrient deficiencies, reports show. Scientists warn we must act now.
The UN's scientific body on climate change highlights in a new report the strong connection between land use and climate change. A radical change in the food system is key to people's livelihoods and health worldwide.
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Donation: Christmas In Wadena light show
As the 2010 Christmas In Wadena light show has concluded, it was time to drop off the food and money donations to the Wadena Food Shelf. This year's efforts raised 440 pounds of food and a check for $1,590.25. G.P. Anderson presented the funds to Mary Ann Hagen and Mary Pierce. In the three years of the Christmas in Wadena light show, a grand total of 812 pounds of food and $2,562.81 has been donated. One hundred percent of all contributions go to the food shelf.


text: Apple CEO Tim Cook sat down for an interview with Charlie Rose last week, the second half of which airs Monday night on PBS. In the interview, Rose pressed Cook on Apple’s privacy policies, which recently came under scrutiny during the iCloud hacking scandal. Cook deflected off of Apple and reminded viewers that their data is in the hands of other companies like Google and Facebook, whose business models depend on your personal information. (He didn’t mention those companies by name, but it’s clear who he was talking about.) “We take a very different view of this than a lot of other companies have,” Cook said. “Our view is, when we design a new service, we try not to collect data. So we’re not reading your email. We’re not reading your iMessage.” “You’re not our product,” he said. Cook suggested consumers “follow the money” to determine whether or not a company is actively protecting their data. “If [companies are] making money mainly by collecting gobs of personal data, I think you have a right to be worried,” he said. “And companies I think should be very transparent about it.” Apple’s CEO said he thought privacy would continue to be a “key topic.” “We’ll reach higher and higher levels of urgency as more and more incidents happen,” he said.


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Supreme Court Sides With American Express In Antitrust Case
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The Supreme Court has ruled that American Express can force restaurants, dry cleaners and other businesses to agree that they won't try to get their customers to pay with other credit cards. American Express is historically known for charging retailers higher fees to use their cards. The court was divided, but more conservative justices won out in a 5 to 4 vote. NPR's Chris Arnold has more.
CHRIS ARNOLD, BYLINE: Let's say you get the check at your local favorite restaurant, and you go to pay with American Express. If the waitress or the owner says, hey, you know, if you could pay with a different type of card that would really help us out because Amex charges us higher fees, you might say, sure, no problem; I'd be happy to do that. But American Express makes retailers sign an agreement saying that they promise not to steer customers towards other credit cards.
STEPHANIE MARTZ: The market is not functioning right because the consumers don't have this kind of information.
ARNOLD: That's Stephanie Martz, a top lawyer at the National Retail Federation. She argues that American Express is using its leverage on store owners in an unfair way and not allowing customers to make informed choices.
MARTZ: And the result is that there's no downward pressure on the fees that merchants have to pay for the credit cards. It has hampered competition and resulted in higher fees for the cards all around.
ARNOLD: And Martz says that results in retailers passing along those higher costs to customers so everybody pays more and American Express makes more money. More than a dozen states around the country agreed that this was a problem, and they brought an antitrust lawsuit against American Express. The case made its way all the way to the Supreme Court.
But today the court sided with the company. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority saying, quote, "the plaintiffs offered no evidence that the price of credit card transactions was higher than the price one would expect to find in a competitive market." But while the court may not be convinced, many consumer groups are. Michael Landis is with the U.S. Public Interest Research Group.
MICHAEL LANDIS: Today's decision from the United States Supreme Court means that consumers across the United States will continue to pay artificially inflated prices for basic goods and services.
ARNOLD: For its part, American Express said in a statement that the decision is a major victory for consumers and American Express. Chris Arnold, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Reese's Elvis Cup Planned
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To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, the Hershey Co., the nation's largest candy maker, is planning to introduce a limited edition, peanut-butter-and-banana-creme Reese's cup. Featuring a dashing picture of a young and svelte Elvis on the front of the package, the Reese's Elvis Cup, as it will be called, will land on store shelves next July, in plenty of time for Elvis Week in August. The week draws thousands of visitors to Memphis for events that include music, parades and a candlelight vigil. Elvis died on Aug. 16, 1977.
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Child Safety Smartwatches Easy to Hack
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Smartwatches for kids like Gator and GPS were found to have insecurities.
The Norwegian Consumer Council (NCC) tested watches from brands including Gator and GPS for Kids and found security issues.Insecurity They discovered that attackers could track Surveillance, eavesdrop or even communicateIntrusion with the wearers. The NCC said it was concerned that Gator and GPS for Kids' watches transmitted and stored data without encryption. That meant strangers, using basic hacking techniques, could track children as they moved, or make a child appear to be in a completely different location.
The manufacturers involved insist the problems have either already been resolved or are being addressed. UK retailer John Lewis has withdrawn one of the named smartwatch models from sale in response.


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Hemos from the keeping-it-retrospective-from-the-get-go dept.
Jacek Fedorynski writes "On this day five years ago the shareware version of Quake has hit the Net and changed the world forever. There's a pretty good article about the history of Quake on Methos Quake. It's got an interview with John Romero and Tim Willits."
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Online property industry review site, allAgents, has called for Purplebricks Chairman, Paul Pinder, to step down in order to steer the company in a new direction. Following Purplebricks’ recent announcement that it was putting itself up for sale and warning of serious issues facing its future, allAgents suggests that the company requires fresh leadership.
Martin McKenzie, spokesperson for allAgents, said: “Purplebricks doesn’t need to be sold, all that is required is a new chairman and a fresh direction. Even Nicola Sturgeon knows when it’s time to go!”
McKenzie went on to criticise Purplebricks for failing to improve its customer experience, stating that “Based on the industry’s very own review platform, Purplebricks is the worst rated agent in the UK for customer experience, yet on Trustpilot and Feefo, they are 4 and 5 star rated. How is this possible?”
This is not the first time allAgents has taken issue with Purplebricks. In 2017, the online review site accused the company of corporate bullying after it threatened legal action over the publication of negative reviews. allAgents challenged the validity of Purplebricks’ Trustpilot reviews and called for an independent audit, which Trustpilot declined. Purplebricks’ early investor, Paul Pinder, became the company’s Chairman in 2015 and is the last of the original leaders to remain.
McKenzie continues, “Both consumers and investors are no longer being fooled and that a change in leadership is necessary for the company’s future success.
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The $ 41-billion valuation for the ride-sharing service Uber may or may not be a bubblicious number, but it certainly shows that the venture capital industry is in a bad place.
To understand, you need only peruse the startling valuations for other companies that have received venture capital funding in the last few weeks. Here are some of them:
n Instacart, a same-day grocery delivery service based in San Francisco, began a $ 100-million fund-raising round valuing it at $ 2 billion.
n WeWork Companies, a company that provides shared office space (think Uber for offices), closed a $ 355-million funding round valuing it at $ 5 billion.
n Stripe, an online payment company, completed a $ 70-million investment round that valued it at $ 3.5 billion, double its $ 1.75-billion valuation earlier this year.
n The mobile games maker Kabam announced that employees and investors were selling $ 40 million in shares to a group of investors. After an earlier round of investment last summer, the company was valued at more than $ 1 billion, up from $ 700 million last year.
What do these four companies have in common, beyond the fact you probably haven’t heard of them?
For starters, these companies didn’t exist a few years ago and are now worth more than a billion dollars. They are also example of how valuations are skyrocketing in Silicon Valley as start-ups are priced for perfect execution, something that almost never happens. The trend spreads far beyond the names you know, like Uber and Snapchat.
It is not just about apocalyptic valuations. Companies are going from zero to billion-dollar valuations faster than ever before, despite a lack of revenue and, perhaps, even a market plan. In the frenzy, ideas that once were discarded as failures are being recycled into billion-dollar start-ups. Remember, same-day grocery delivery is nothing new. Kozmo.com and Webvan were same-day delivery services that failed when the dot-com bubble burst, losing hundreds of millions of dollars. Yet Instacart, a company with service in only 15 areas, is hurtling toward a valuation in the billions.
The high valuations have gone beyond old ideas and new ones that want to be the Uber of office space or dry cleaning. In the past few weeks, Vox Media, the internet media start-up, closed a funding round that valued it at $ 380 million, $ 130 million more than Jeff Bezos paid for The Washington Post, while Change.org, the online petition service, raised $ 25 million at an undisclosed valuation from a number of investors, including the Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang, the Twitter co-founder Evan Williams and others. When media start-ups can raise millions just because they are new companies, rather than the old struggling ones, you know the froth has spread.
It is easy just to dismiss all this as another bubble driven by Silicon Valley executives. These executives live in their own, well, bubble. They are pushing up Bay Area housing prices with their new-found wealth and thinking that they can change the world if we would only listen to them.
Yet something more nuanced is going on. Take Uber, for instance.
The company is a rocket, no doubt. In less than five years, it has reached a $ 41-billion valuation. About six months ago, investors put its value at $ 18 billion. This valuation exists even though all the revenue from the taxi industry in the US is only about $ 11 billion a year. Uber is also being banned in some countries, like Spain, has a bad public relations problem of late, and the business is at heart a commodity that anyone can mimic. Not only that, but taxis are fighting back by starting their own app services and there are significant competitors like Lyft.
With all of these issues, the only way that the Uber valuation works is as a bet that Uber will be able to induce more people to take taxis, expand to ride-sharing and even replace cars. Still, this bet supposes that Uber is a category killer and that only the biggest, fastest-growing company will survive. In other words, Uber will change the way we get taxis as well as how people and things get from here to there.
It is clear that Uber is changing the way people use taxis and will make hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions, if it doesn’t implode first because of mismanagement. But again, Uber is being priced to perfection. And it is being priced based on a big bet of what its market share will be, similar to the old eyeball-count valuations that were used to justify Yahoo!’s multibillion-dollar purchases of GeoCities and Broadcast.com. (Both failed.)
This isn’t to say that the venture capitalists aren’t correct. Uber may be a game-changer. And the hunt by Google, Facebook and others for new businesses is also pushing up valuations. This is all driving aggressive assumptions in the valuation of start-ups that are deemed to have a good idea. That may be a small number of firms. But they are setting off a valuation feeding frenzy.
Still, the spree of billion-dollar valuations in the past few weeks shows us that something more is going on. That is where the terrible business of venture capital comes in. In the last five years ending in 2013, according to Cambridge Associates, venture capital’s returns trailed the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index by 5.4 percentage points, earning 12.5 per cent a year against the S&P 500’s 17.9 per cent.
In this market, the crazy valuations are just the price of survival for venture capital firms. That’s how an online grocer like Instacart or WeWork can have billion-dollar valuations. These companies may have ideas that work, and if they do, the pay-off is perhaps another Facebook. But more likely, everyone is overestimating market share and pushing assumptions to even get the privilege of investing.
So where does that leave us? It means that Uber may end up justifying its huge valuation. Certainly, a lucky few in Silicon Valley will make billions of dollars. But the same Ubernomics is being applied across the board. It is impossible that all, indeed most, of these companies will succeed. And in the failure of these companies, some venture capital firms will be brought down, except for the lucky few that actually catch a rising star.
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By now, just about everyone who follows gaming has heard about “Grand Theft Auto V” being delayed until September of this year, but this does not bode well for the Rockstar title.
According to a report from IGN on Thursday, Rockstar Games has announced “GTA V” will be delayed until Sept. 17th, but this is a sign of bad things to come.
Let’s be clear about one thing, “Grand Theft Auto V” is not bigger than the next-generation of consoles from both Microsoft and Sony.
Assuming either of the Xbox 720 or PlayStation 4 release this coming November or December, “Grand Theft Auto V” can say goodbye to some of the attention and spotlight the game would’ve had if it would have released before E3.
The amount of distraction that will be going on during this time frame is going to be outrageous. That distraction will not be the good type of disruption that “GTA” wants.
With all the build-up that has been going on during these past few years for the next Xbox and PlayStation, it’s tough to see “GTA V,” which is still a current generation title, garner a major number of sales like they would’ve if it released this spring.
Some of you may be thinking, “well it’s only a few months difference,” but what will happen in between those months is going to shake the gaming industry to its foundation.
Yes “Grand Theft Auto” is one of the biggest franchises in gaming, but these are once in every ten year consoles that “GTA” will be going up against.
This is not “Epic Mickey 2.”
Rockstar blew this one. Yes it’s important to have a polished game, and have a game that is worthy of your reputation, but they should’ve used the years they’ve been working on this title better.
Hell, if there was even a remote chance this game was not going to launch before E3 2013, they should’ve just said screw current generation systems, let’s go with next-generation systems and port it to older systems. That would make a lot more people want the game and those systems.
After E3 of this year, it’s going to be difficult for titles hitting the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 to seem relevant, unless the Xbox 720 and PlayStation 4 are not ready for a release anytime this year.
Regardless of how invincible you think this game is, delaying “Grand Theft Auto V” until this coming September is a move that will ultimately injure the game’s overall performance.
Do you think Rockstar Games knows a little something about when next-generation consoles are going to be released, and that is why they are willing to push the game back to September?


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In a major restructuring of its business model, consumer electronics major BPL has decided to reposition its 16 colour television models under a series of five sub-brands.
The initiative has been taken to escape the impact of recession, which has hit the consumer durables market.
The sub-brand series will be targeted at the various segments of the market -— one for the lower end, one for the middle end, and so on. BPL plans to study the profile of the dealers, their investment capacity, their customer profiles and then offer them the particular series that suits them.
In the last four years, the CTV market has doubled and the average compound rate of growth has been 25 per cent. The year 2000-01 is the first year that the market has flattened. Simultaneously, many more brands have entered and the pie has been divided, as a result of which prices are coming down.
While the CTV market grew from 2.8 million in 1996-97 to 5 million in 1999-2000, the number of dealers has stagnated at 3,500. By splitting the 16 models into five series, it will also be easier for the company to spread itself and market its less popular models along with the most competitive ones.
Despite the difficulties, BPL expects to maintain its sales figures this fiscal — it has maintained its leadership position at the end of the last third quarter. The company’s net profit declined by 28 per cent to Rs 20.1 crore in the third quarter of the current financial year from Rs 28 crore in the corresponding period of the previous year.
For the nine-month period ended December 31, 2000, BPL has registered a 20 per cent decline in net profit to Rs 61.3 crore, on a turnover that has fallen 16 per cent to Rs 1,356 crore over the previous corresponding period.


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The iPhone 6 launch is less than three hours away. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s media event at Flint Center kicks off at 10:00 a.m. Pacific (1:00 p.m. Eastern). Ahead of the official launch, a Chinese leaker claims to have gotten their hands on a functioning iPhone 6. The Chinese social networking site Weibo user named Rui Kee (username “zzray”) has spilled the beans about almost every feature of the new phone.
iPhone 6 to be more powerful than HTC One M8
Note that it’s the same person who posted videos and photos of a functioning iPhone 6 over the weekend. Now they have tested the device to see how fast it is. Rui Kee has also taken several pictures from Apple’s new device to assess its camera capabilities. The Weibo user also tested the smartphone’s performance on Geekbench benchmarks.
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Benchmarks revealed that the A8 processor in iPhone 6 scored a 1,633 for single-core performance and 2920 for multi-core performance. The benchmarks were first spotted by GforGames. These scores indicate that the new device will be 20% more powerful than the iPhone 5S. If these benchmark scores are correct, the iPhone 6 will be more powerful than HTC One M8.
iPhone 6 to have the same 1GB RAM
The Chinese user claims that the 64-bit A8 processor will have only two cores. In contrast, most high-end Android phones have processors with four or eight cores.What’s more, the iPhone 6 will have the same 1GB RAM as its predecessor, though with a slightly better clock speed of 1.4GHz. Apple enthusiasts expect the company to increase RAM of its new device. But additional RAM consumes more battery, resulting into faster battery drain. Anyway, Apple has always managed to deliver top-notch performance despite lower RAM.
Kee said the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 will have a resolution of 1334×750. The device will have 8-megapixel main camera, though Apple will improve the camera performance in other ways. It will have storage options of up to 128GB. And of course, the iPhone 6 will run the newest iOS 8.


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The global view from the desk of Pablo Soria del Lachica indicates the global response to President-Elect Donald Trump’s economic policies holds a cautionary trading tale with powerful implications. President-Elect Trump’s protectionist agenda suggests dismantling the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, or TPP, likely to be accompanied by the unintended potential to initiate trade wars, depress global trade, and spark global recession. If the Trump administration chooses to impose increased tariffs on imports from China and Mexico, a 0.5 percent reduction in U.S. GDP could result, according to a Nov. 13, 2016 Business Insider article quoting Barclays chief US economist Michael Gapen. That reduction could go as high as a full percent, according to chief Citi economist Willem Buiter. Prices of goods in the US would likely rise, since parts for many items are manufactured overseas.
Destroying the TPP agreement after lengthy negotiations among 12 nations would also undermine US credibility not just in trade, but also in commitment. “To leave Asian partners hanging now would be disastrous for U.S. leadership in the region,” according to Euan Graham, a former U.K. foreign officer now studying regional security at Sydney’s Lowy Institute for International Policy. Further explaining the response to a TPP failure should the new administration deny passage, a U.S. Trade Representative was quoted “We’re a vote away from either cementing our leadership in the region or handing the keys of the castle to China.” Many experts believe that the deal is a critical point deciding whether the US or China will make future rules regarding global trade.
China, excluded from the TPP, is not waiting on the U.S. to move forward. Engaging in regional and bilateral agreements with other nations, talks with the EU, and a post Brexit agreement with the U.K., all agreements under consideration exclude the United States. Strengthening alliances with these Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP nations, Pablo Soria de Lachica sees a strong bond is forming among Australia, China, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, New Zealand, and members of ten ASEAN member states, resulting in a weakened U.S. position. In an August 25, 2016 article in Bloomburg Businessweek, Bruce Einhorn notes that, ” Congressional rejection of Obama’s trade pact would provide a boost to RCEP,” focusing on improvements in trade agreements that strengthen the Asian dynamic. International trade scholar Giovanni Di Lieto of Melbourne’s Monash University notes, “China is using the RCEP to show they can drive international relations better than the Americans can,” sending a very big, strongly political message.
Pablo Soria de Lachica, with decades of global experience in international trade and stock brokerage, understands the intricate network of trade agreements and the ripple effects created by changing the rules. As a collaborator of Kartoshka, a sales, telemarketing, and customer support firm, Seria de Lachica is also a self-taught expert in FOREX trading, offering a broad range of competitive options and online trading tools suitable for both new and seasoned investors.


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Premium pet food and treats, diagnostic testing and services, and hygiene solutions are key segments that will see strong growth, according to Eurovets. In the Middle East, especially in the UAE, pet care is of the utmost importance and with the UAE ready to host events such as WVA, MEVMAS and MEAVC in 2022, this will only strengthen industry.
Global pet care industry to surpass $ 148 billion by 2025: Eurovets
Global pet care industry sales, which reached $ 100 billion in 2020, will reach $ 148 billion by 2025, as pet owners demand better care and better quality for their animal companions.
Eurovets, the UAE’s leading animal health industry distributor that offers a full line of premium products for small and large animals, cites the demand for quality animal care as the main reason for industry growth.
According to Eurovets, the pet care industry is currently vibrant given high spending on research and development, and 2022 will only see the industry accelerate its position.
Eurovets is the trusted name in providing veterinary and animal health products, serving clinics and businesses in the UAE and the Gulf region for the past decade.
The company has eight departments dedicated to the management of the work flow. From distributing over 2,000 products from strategic facilities to importing the highest quality products to meet the veterinary, companion, wildlife, bird, horse and camel markets. Eurovets aims to add value to its clients’ businesses and raise industry standards locally.
Its fleet of temperature-controlled vehicles is paired with a state-of-the-art inventory management system that helps deliver products to customers on time.
This includes deliveries from clinics, pet shops to stables, farms in remote areas, and even royal palaces. Eurovets supplies product lines from around the world including pharmaceuticals, disinfectants and treatments, consumables, feed and supplements, veterinary equipment, veterinary instruments and more – TradeArabia News Service
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Apple, Pandora Named In New Privacy Suit
Apple, Pandora, The Weather Channel, and five other major iPhone application makers are the defendants in a Federal lawsuit filed earlier this week in Northern California. Apple is named because it maintains final approval over all apps available in the store. The app makers, however, are accused of accessing iPhone users’ UDID and allowing advertisers to access the personal information of their users, without asking permission.
UDID is not an infection, it is the Unique Device Identifier “akin to a social security number for a phone,” writes Ryan Singel at Wired.
The lawsuit seeks monetary damages and the cessation of UDID usage in Apple applications. A similar case ended in settlement, but if this one results in a decision against Pandora, digital music could lose a shot at building simple streaming radio charts, much like those of terrestrial radio which provide artists, managers and labels with spin counts and zip codes.
RootMusic Sprouts Giving Tree
Shortly after becoming the number one most utilized music application on Facebook with over twelve million active users, SF based RootMusic is starting to put their non-profit initiative into motion.
The Root SF will serve as a local information incubator and resource hub for bands in the bay area and bands coming through the bay area. RootMusic Founder J Sider says “its very much about focusing on the music community and figuring out what we can help and support and guide.”
SoundHound Free For All
Music and music melody search company SoundHound, (who you may have known previously as midomi) made a major move last week by removing limitations on the number of searches in its free app. SoundHound competes with well known Shazam in music identification and melody search, but the paid version of SoundHound’s app released just last April included more search functionality including lyrics and videos.
Previous to last week, the free version of SoundHound limited users to just five searches per month. But now anyone with a smartphone can identify an unlimited number of songs. I asked WaldenVC’s Larry Marcus (an investor in SoundHound) if the removal of search limitations was the result of other revenue streams gaining momentum, or if perhaps increasing usage is more beneficial than paid accounts. SoundHound is confident that giving users what they want (and possibly need) is the path to success.
“They are so happy not to constrain users,” says Marcus about SoundHound, “People who want the premium ad free experience or to show their support will buy the paid version.” Check out the SoundHound app for iPhone & Android.


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Duckhams Announces Rebranding Initiative
The move will introduce unified branding for the company, aligned with its global direction.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Internationally renowned and leading motor oil brand Duckhams announces its rebranding and repackaging of products in Malaysia and Singapore to align its regional presence with the overall global positioning.
The shift to a unified branding and messaging which was recently shared with distributors and partners on July 23 at an event, illustrates Duckhams growing ambition in the market when delivering top-quality products to consumers across the world.
"This brand refresh by Duckhams in the ASEAN region will help blend the brand's great legacy with today's customer and consumer needs. We believe this will give the brand a tremendous facelift in the region and enable the brand to appeal to a new set of younger audiences who have entered the market in the last 10 years," shared Jabir Sheth, Chairman of Duckhams.
"Duckhams will continue with this journey of contemporizing the brand to reaffirm their commitment to clients as a trusted and reliable company in the region."
As a brand, Duckhams has had a celebrated history not just within Malaysia, but also in neighbouring Singapore since the 1980s. Having undergone a significant change, Duckhams announced a global rebranding in 2017 with a keen eye on expanding internationally. With a long-standing market presence in the region, it only made sense for Duckhams to position Malaysia and Singapore as their key markets.
"Duckhams has a legacy of over 100 years. We believe this will make the brand more contemporary and relevant for today's times. The new modernised look will enable the brand to speak to a wider age spectrum of the population from the age of 20 years onwards. We believe the rebranding will elevate awareness, more identifiable and trustworthy, and will progress the brand to a more successful journey for the next 100 years," said K.R. Venkataraman, Duckham's Global CEO. "It is not just the rebranding; it is our commitment to understand the needs of our current younger generations and to reaffirm our continuous strive for better products to serve the industry," added Venkataraman
First established in 1899 by British chemist Alexander Duckham, the brand has been a leading lubricants technology powerhouse fueled by a legacy of technological advancement embodied in the products. The history of Duckhams Oils includes pioneering engineering developments in aviation, breaking land speed records, and prestigious motorsport heritage. Some of the greatest names in motorsports, including James Hunt and Ayrton Senna, rely on Duckham Oils for an edge.
To learn more, visit www.duckhams.com.
An independent company based in UK, Duckhams has been inextricably linked to British motoring heritage since 1899, having invented Europe's first multigrade oil an advancement that changed the face of automotive lubricants forever. Today, Duckhams has relaunched with a range of products for both historic vehicles and mainstream passenger cars alike, while sticking firmly to the principles that have guided the brand for over 100 hundred years.


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frequency questionnaire and had retinal photos taken at five-year and 10-year follow-up exams. An interviewer-administered questionnaire assessed participants smoking status. BMI and blood pressure were also measured. Current smokers were found to ...
Pot bellies linked to early signs of cardiovascular disease
...dont have to clean our plates. Its better to throw food
out than add it to our waists. Using the waist-to-hip measurement to gauge cardiovascular risk has certain clinical advantages, said Raimund Erbel, M.D., West German Heart Center Essen. The WHR can be easily measured, taking only a few moments and ...
Disability payments may spur drug abuse
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Hormone regulates fondness for food
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have strong effects on the same key brain regions ...ence and the rewarding or appetising properties of food
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Diet foods for children may lead to obesity
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with the amount of caloric energy it provides, and...he energy value of their food. "The use of diet food
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'Heroes of Chemistry' honored for medical, energy, environmental breakthroughs
...products and a process that improves packaging for food
are the inventions of the 2007 Heroes of Chemistry... produce plastic pipe, film, detergent bottles and food
and beverage containers. S1H is the first and only commercial process to selectively produce comonom...
Where's the beef? Not enough of it is on elders' plates, muscle-metabolism study suggests
...just as good as young ones at turning protein-rich food
into muscle. A new study published today suggest... diet containing a moderate amount of protein-rich food
such as beef, fish, pork, chicken, dairy or nuts may help slow the deterioration of elderly peoples ...
Parents' depression can weigh on children
...o lose weight. Often, children only have access to food
at home, so what a parent puts on the table usually determines what the child eats, Janicke said. Also, the behaviors a parent models affect the lifestyle choices a child makes, too. When parents are struggling, they may have less energy and not be...
Diets high in choline may increase risk for colorectal polyps
...Journal of the National Cancer Institute . Major food
sources of choline include red meat, eggs, poultry, and dairy products. Choline is involved in a biochemical process known as one-carbon metabolism. Studies have shown that people with increased intake of other nutrients required for one-carbon metab...
Young children's taste preferences may be influenced by fast-food branding
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Old McDonald's has a hold on kids' taste buds, Stanford/Packard study finds
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Fine as North Dakota wine
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Fat is the new normal, FSU researcher says
...at people eat more -- and thus gain weight -- when food
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Organic farming can feed the world, U-M study shows
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K-State researcher working on a way to make snack foods with extra fiber
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producers may be able to use this precooking method to add fruits and vegetables to snack foods. "With fruit- and vegetable-based snacks, it's still hard to process the dough, so you really don't see those kinds of products out there," he said....
Chemical in brain acts like a fuel gauge
... that a drop in blood sugar triggers a craving for food
is best understood just before lunchtime. But exactly how the process unfolds has proven difficult to explain, even on a full stomach. Solving the puzzle would yield new insights in the fight against diabetes. Neuroscientists at the University o...
A new direction: Integrating best-practices to improve food responses
...est-practice standards for emergency international food
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Columbia dentists to improve oral health in sub-Saharan Africa
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Paying taxes, according to the brain, can bring satisfaction
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Coast’s $7.6m ‘trophy’ pub up for auction
A waterfront hotel on the Sunshine Coast labelled a "trophy" pub by its parent company will go under the hammer later this month.
Ale Property Group is selling southeast Queensland establishments including the Pelican Waters Tavern as well as Brisbane's Kedron Park Hotel and Edinburgh Castle Hotel.
The hotels are on the market either in one line or individually.
The properties will go to auction at Melbourne's Crown Casino through Burgess Rawson on March 31.
Ale Property Group lease the pub to Australia's largest pub operator ALH on a 25-year term to 2028 plus four 10-year options through to 2068.
Burgess Rawson Queensland sales director Glenn Conridge said it was rare for three properties to hit the market at once.
"Single tenanted pubs on this scale that are on long leases to ALH, don't hit the market often," Mr Conridge said.
He said the Pelican Waters Tavern was a "stunning" waterfront pub sitting on an 8600sq m site along Pelican Waters Boulevard.
The venue is close to Coles and Woolworths supermarkets and comes with a sports bar, gaming room, BWS liquor store and separate bistro with outdoor dining deck.
According to Ale's website, the hotel is valued at $7.6 million.


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Apparel companies investing in research, development to stay cool
As innovation becomes increasingly critical, a couple of local textile companies are investing in research incubators to generate product ideas that will resonate with consumers.
Consider Greensboro-based VF Corp., which plans to establish a trio of Global Innovation Centers to focus on product advances in technical apparel, footwear and jeans. The Jeans Center will be located in Greensboro and is expected to be operational during the first half of 2014.VF’s Technical Apparel Innovation Center will be in Alameda, Calif., while the Footwear Center will be in Stratham, N.H.
Scott Baxter, vice president at VF Corp. and group president for Jeanswear Americas and Imagewear, said a specific location for the jeanswear center has not yet been selected and that it will take some time to put the right team in place. But the goal is for the center to house a handful of employees who generate jeanswear ideas.
Meanwhile, Cone Denim, a division of the International Textile Group that has taken great pride in being at the forefront of innovation since the early 1900s, has already started an incubator.
This spring, Cone launched its “Cone 3D” research incubator to develop denim products that will attract customers. The Cone 3D initiative — which stands for denim, design and development — is similar in nature to ITG’s “Burlington Labs” research-and-development division within its Burlington WorldWide business.
The goal was to take the Burlington Labs concept and “move it over to the denim side,” says Steve Maggard, Cone Denim’s vice president of operations, planning and forecasting.
“We felt like we needed to have some dedicated resources and a dedicated team to focus on this as 100 percent of their job title,” he says.
Tom Tantillo, Cone Denim’s director of denim innovation, is leading a handful of employees who brainstorm and identify product innovations that customers don’t even know they need yet, Maggard says.
“We have very high expectations for the initiative, but it’s going to take some time to develop,” Maggard says. “We don’t want to touch on things that are already available. We really want this group and this initiative to be focused on bigger-picture, longer-term things.”
Focusing on bigger-picture innovations does not require a physical location. Maggard says Tantillo has the freedom to work across any existing Cone location, including the flagship White Oak production facility in Greensboro or even China, to come up with ideas.
“We’re not set up where it is a brick-and-mortar type thing,” Maggard says. And Tantillo also has the power to pull resources from various company departments, whether it’s supply chain or finance.
“If he needs a financial person, he pulls a finance person,” Maggard says.
Fresh ideas from Cone Denim are already about to hit the shelves.
The product is being tested at the company’s White Oak facility and is expected to hit store shelves by the end of this year. The denim product would be particularly useful for those working in their jeans all day or moving from one climate to the next, Sides says.
“Denim can sometimes be very hot,” Sides says. “Now you would have a denim that would absorb moisture away from your skin.”
Katie Arcieri covers manufacturing, transportation/logistics, aviation, textiles, tobacco and furniture. Contact her at 336-370-2913.
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Ubisoft Sues Apple And Google Over Rainbow Six Knock-off Area F2
- Ubisoft has decided to sue Apple and Google over the distribution of Area F2.
- Actions against AF2 developer Alibaba run Qookka Games still unknown.
Ubisoft Entertainment has sued Apple and Google over a game called Area F2, claiming it is a ripoff of Rainbow Six: Siege. Area F2 - Global Launch is listed on Apple's App Store and the Google Play Store by developer Qookka Games, a name Alibaba’s Ejoy.com does business under. It currently has over 5 million downloads on the Google Play Store.
According to a Bloomberg report, "Area F2", created by Alibaba owned Ejoy.com, is a "near carbon copy" of Rainbow Six Siege, and that can't "seriously be disputed," Ubisoft claimed in a complaint filed on 15th May in the federal court of Los Angeles.
The company added that R6S is "among Ubisoft's most valuable intellectual properties" and "virtually every aspect of AF2 is copied from R6S", including the operator selection screen, final scoring screen "and everything in between”.
Apple and Google are being sued for enabling distribution of AF2, rather than Qookka Games for the original infringement. It is still unclear if Ubisoft plans any action against Qookka Games. The developer had previously notified both Apple and Google of the infringement but no action was taken by either App Store or Play Store. Rainbow Six Siege has over 55 million registered players with 3 million active players daily.


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Swedish-based Husqvarna, maker of outdoor power equipment, reported full-year 2013 net sales of SEK 30,307 million (approx. USD $4,659 million), compared to SEK 30,834 million in full-year 2012. Net sales were up 2% after adjusting for the impact of currency exchange.
Operating income for 2013 was SEK 1,608 million (approx. $247 million), compared to 2012's SEK 1,931 million), excluding items affecting comparability.
“The year ended with a continuation of the positive sales development from the third quarter. Sales for the seasonally weak fourth quarter were up 8%, adjusted for changes in exchange rates, with higher sales in all business areas," said Kai Wärn, president and CEO. "The operating loss for the quarter decreased to SEK -308 million (from SEK -348 million), excluding items affecting comparability, where the Americas contributed with the largest improvement."
Wärn said 2013 started off slow, but a stronger second half resulted in a 2% net sales growth for the full year, adjusted for currencies. "From a market demand point of view, North America recovered in line with the relatively positive macro economy, while Europe had a more mixed picture."
Wärn said the decline in operating income arose from Europe and Asia/Pacific markets, with earnings hurt by unfavorable exchange rates and lower factory utilization due to planned inventory reductions. "For the group, changes in exchange rates and under-absorption had a total negative impact on operating income of almost SEK 0.5 billion compared to 2012."
He added, "For Americas, prior year's large operating loss was turned into a slightly positive result. Growth in the higher-margin dealer channel was double digit and productivity improved. We are now moving into the next phase of the U.S. turnaround."
The company also started a new organization for retail and dealer operations.
"In 2014-2015, our main priority is to execute and build momentum in our accelerated improvement programs to support margin improvement," Wärn said. "In terms of demand, I am cautiously optimistic given the continued improvements in the U.S. economy and by the European indications of stabilization."
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BREXIT-related factors are still being flagged by UK companies as a cause of lost business from overseas, a senior economist has declared.
Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit, underlined this drag as he noted the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply’s services, manufacturing and construction surveys pointed so far to UK economic growth of 0.2 per cent in the first quarter.
The latest services survey from CIPS, compiled by IHS Markit and published yesterday, showed a slowdown in growth in this key sector in February. The services business activity index fell from 53.9 in January to 53.2 on a seasonally adjusted basis but remained above the 50 no-change mark.
Some services companies flagged an impact on bookings from overseas visitors resulting from the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. They also highlighted delays to new projects among clients in Asia.
CIPS said: “There were a number of reports citing a negative impact on sales from the coronavirus outbreak, particularly to clients in overseas markets.”
In spite of the coronavirus outbreak, the survey shows UK services companies’ overall optimism about prospects for increased business activity on a 12-month horizon rose in February to its highest since March 2015.
Highlighting the continuing influence of Brexit, Mr Williamson said: “While Brexit-related worries have moderated significantly since late last year, Brexit uncertainty continues to dampen sentiment, with firms concerned about upcoming EU trade negotiations. Moreover, analysis of reasons cited by companies for changes in export orders indicates that Brexit-related factors continue to be seen as a cause of lost overseas business on balance.”
The UK left the EU on January 31, and is now attempting to secure a future comprehensive free-trade deal with the bloc before the transition period ends on December 31.
Howard Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY ITEM Club, noted the think-tank had trimmed its forecast of first-quarter UK growth from 0.4% to 0.3% because of some anticipated negative impact from the coronavirus outbreak.
This projected 0.3% quarterly growth rate, although weak by historical standards, would be an improvement from stagnation in the final three months of last year.
Mr Archer noted the effect on activity from this outbreak was likely to be “significantly more marked” in the second quarter, but expressed hopes it would be temporary.
He said: “A particular concern for the economy is business willingness to commit to investment is likely to have taken a renewed hit from the hit to the domestic and global economies from coronavirus and it may remain limited further out due to significant concerns and uncertainties over the UK-EU relationship.”
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Do you know that you likely consume plastics every day? Researchers found that Americans eat from 39,000 to 52,000 particles of plastic a year. Those who drink bottled water may ingest an additional 90,000 microplastics.
Recent studies found microplastics, tiny pieces of plastic smaller than five millimeters in size, in food. One study published in the August issue of Environmental Research looked at vegetable and fruit samples. Researchers discovered microplastics in the produce samples, with fruit showing the most contamination, and calculated the estimated daily intakes (EDIs) for adults and children of each type of vegetable and fruit examined. The highest EDIs among adults and children were due to apples, and carrots had the lowest EDIs. The results indicate that “toxicological and epidemiological studies to investigate for the possible effects of microplastics on human health” are urgently needed.
A study published in June looked at microplastics in agricultural soils. What they found is that microplastics can accumulate in soils. Researchers concluded that the accumulation of microplastics in soil “can have both direct ecological effects and implications for agricultural sustainability and food safety.”
Microplastics in the ocean
Our oceans are teeming with microplastics. For example, Zooplankton consumes microplastics. Salmon consumes zooplankton. A 2015 study found that zooplankton causes juvenile salmon in coastal British Columbia to ingest two to seven microplastic particles a day, and returning adult salmon ingest more than 91 salmon a day. Another study published the same year found that in Indonesia, plastic debris was found in 28 percent of individual fish and 55 percent of all species.
Plastics occur in the deepest parts of the oceans, and the animals living there have ingested them, a British study found. The research teams tested samples of crustaceans found in the deepest trenches in the Pacific Ocean. They discovered that plastic ingestion ranged from 50 percent to 100 percent.
“We felt we had to do this study given the unique access we have to some of the most remote places on earth, and we are using these samples to make a poignant statement about mankind’s legacy,” said research lead Dr. Alan Jamieson.
The low-down on microplastics
The microplastics found in the food supply and oceans come from various sources, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ranging from beads, fragments, pellets, and fibers. Plastic sources can range from larger pieces of plastic to microbeads, a type of microplastic added as exfoliants to health and beauty products. Microbeads, a primary form of microplastics, can pass through water filtration systems and wind up in the ocean and lakes. Microbeads first appeared around fifty years ago in personal care products but are much more common now.
Larger pieces of plastic are secondary sources. They come from plastics that include beverage bottles, bags, and food containers. Natural elements such as the sun, wind, and waves cause the plastics to degrade and break into smaller pieces, which can turn into microplastics.
What you can do
There is something you can do to reduce microplastics. The first thing you can do is reduce the amount of plastic you use. Opt for reusable grocery bags. Some stores will not allow the use of reusable bags due to COVID-19 concerns. There is a workaround. Ask the store employee to put your groceries into the cart without bags and bag them once you get to your car. Reuse plastic containers whenever you can. Always properly dispose of them. Garbage belongs in a garbage can and not thrown out in nature.


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Elon Musk Widens Lead As Richest Person On EarthElon Musk's personal wealth is now $222 billion, widening his gap as the richest person in the world according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index.
Bay Area Space Lovers Watch With Awe Jeff Bezos's Voyage To Outer SpaceOn the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, the Bay Area space community watched in amazement Jeff Bezos’ trip to the edge of space aboard a Blue Origin rocket, Tuesday morning.
Amazon Says Jeff Bezos Will Step Down As CEOAmazon CEO Jeff Bezos will step down as chief executive of the company he founded 27 years ago, the online retailer announced Tuesday.
David Rubenstein Dishes On Jeff Bezos, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton, Others In New Book 'How To Lead: Wisdom From World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, And Game Changers'David Rubenstein is the co-founder of the private equity firm The Carlyle Group and talks with some of the world's biggest leaders in his new book like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Whole Foods Files For Statewide Restraining Order From Animal Rights ProtestersAn animal rights group says Whole Foods Market has filed for a restraining order to ban them from all their California locations, in wake of a protest in San Francisco earlier this week.
Berkeley Protester Enters Disorderly Conduct Plea After Confronting Amazon CEO Bezos At ConferenceAn animal welfare activist from the Bay Area entered a no contest plea in Las Vegas to misdemeanor disorderly conduct for approaching Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos on a conference stage.
Berkeley Animal Rights Activist Due In Court For Confronting Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos In VegasA plea deal may be in the works for an animal welfare activist from the Bay Area who was arrested after approaching Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos on a conference stage in Las Vegas.
Amazon's Carbon Footprint: Analysts Say It's Huge, Company Stays MumUnlike most of its technology peers, Amazon keeps its carbon footprint figures hidden. The company promised to disclose its carbon-emission figures this year although it declined last week to elaborate on its timeline to CBS News.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of BlackmailAmazon CEO Jeff Bezos says the National Enquirer is threatening to publish revealing photographs of him unless his private investigators back off the tabloid and he accused the Enquirer of "extortion and blackmail."
Amazon Is Now Worth $1,000,000,000,000Amazon has become America's second $1 trillion company.
Look Out, Apple! Amazon May Soon Be Worth $1 Trillion TooApple may soon have some company in the trillion dollar club.
Amazon Asked To Stop Selling Facial Recognition Technology To PoliceMore than two dozen civil rights organizations are calling on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to stop selling its facial recognition technology to the government.
Amazon Profit More Than DoublesAmazon said Thursday it made $1.6 billion in profit during the first three months of 2018, more than double the same period a year earlier.
The Typical Amazon Employee Makes Less Than You ThinkAmazon disclosed in a filing Wednesday that the median pay for its employees was just $28,446 in 2017.
Amazon Reveals It Has More Than 100 Million Prime MembersAmazon has more than 100 million Amazon Prime subscribers around the world, Jeff Bezos revealed in a letter to shareholders.


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Vimeo is now launching a dedicated music licensing section for its users, according to details now leaking to Digital Music News.
The ‘Vimeo Music Store,’ slated for a formal announcement Wednesday morning, will contain thousands of pre-licensed, legit tracks for video producers to employ as soundtracks. That will make it even easier for the higher-end Vimeo crowd to properly license their visual audio – and compensate creators accordingly.
It looks like producers will have to pay for some of this content, though other soundtracks will be available via Creative Commons licensing. Powering the backend will be Audiosocket, whose ‘MaaS’ platform (which stands for ‘Music as a Service’) will deliver about 33,000 film-ready tracks. “This is big for artists – the exposure via Vimeo to the filmmaking community is huge,” an Audiosocket executive relayed. “This also sets up indie filmmakers to finally tackle one of the greatest challenges out there: to make music licensing easy, accessible, and affordable.”
It’s a potentially game-changing commercial deployment for Audiosocket, and a nice in-house move for Vimeo. More details as they become available.


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Despite Nintendo’s stated statement that there will be no new Switch hardware this year, there is no doubt that the development of the Switch 2 should be in secret. Judging from paper, the Switch upgrade 1080P display and the more powerful processor are withlittle suspense. However, when it comes to processor choice, NVIDIA seems to have a hard time getting into Nintendo’s eye.
Although the Tegra X1 has not been blamed for its performance, the premature emergence of the vulnerability has put a lot of effort into The Nintendo Blocker. Moreimportant, Tegra and even ARM have faded from NVIDIA, weakening brands and even turning to areas such as artificial intelligence, automated machines, and car driving, rather than consumer-grade graphics computing products.
For Nintendo, the new Samsung SoC, which introduced AMD GPU technology, would be a great choice for Nintendo’s next-generation Switch,media reported. If this is the case, then the three major consoles in the GPU technical level will achieve a unified, other than that, game vendors or developers will certainly be greatly excited, which will reduce a lot of repetitive development work.
Last week, South Korean netizens reported that the initial results of the Samsung Exynos 1000 test chip, which integrates AMD GPU, are very powerful, and the gFXBench can be nearly three times the number of SnapSnapdragon 865 representing the Adreno 650.


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For Peak Innovation Park, two major hotels and one Amazon delivery center are on the horizon — and Garrett Baum says that’s just the beginning.
“I expect in the next 18 months we’ll have hotels, we’ll have restaurants,” said Baum, managing partner at Urban Frontier, master developer for the park. “If you start adding four-story hotels, the landscape out here is going to change and the feeling amongst tenants is going to be one of excitement.”
In the long term, the 900-acre master-planned business park at the entrance to Colorado Springs Airport is envisioned as a destination, with retail, parklands, hotels, offices and restaurants.
In the short term, Amazon is expected to open its 66,780-square-foot last-mile delivery center in the park’s southwest corner by October, the Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC confirmed. And two hotels — a Courtyard by Marriott and a Residence Inn — are slated for a 6-acre site not far from Northrop Grumman and The Aerospace Corporation, which are already tenants in the northern half of the park. The proposal is for one hotel of about 120 rooms with an approximately 4,000-square-foot conference center, and a second hotel of about 120 rooms.
“We expect to see those break ground likely in the first quarter of next year,” Baum said.
With big names on the books, Baum anticipates waves of development and increased attention from businesses and brokers who’ve previously set their sights on the city’s north side.
“With our experience at Interlocken [Business Park, between Boulder and Denver] and some other business parks where we’ve developed, it definitely goes in waves,” he said. “Part of that is driven by the economy; part of that is driven by momentum that you get from doing certain deals.
“My opinion is, should the economy continue to do well here in Colorado Springs — and we’re seeing that … the Springs is definitely picking up momentum — I see a scenario where we can have many, many deals over the next 18 to 24 months. … Over that period of time, I am extremely excited about the prospects to see a big wave of good quality development here.”
And that, he said, could mark a tipping point: Interquest and Briargate will have to start sharing the spotlight.
“It’s interesting, because the business parks have really focused north … and when you talk to the brokerage community in Colorado Springs, they’ve really focused on that market as well,” Baum said. “So when we first got involved in this project and talked to brokers, it was ‘Well, really more happens in the North Colorado Springs market.’ And I sometimes wondered if it was more the mentality of low-hanging fruit — it’s maybe easier to do deals there.
“Now as we continue to build this momentum on an international scale, I believe we’re going to see more and more companies focusing on this [Southeast] market, and in particular Peak Innovation Park, and all of the good things happening at the airport. We’re going to start seeing maybe that local brokerage community also begin to focus on this southern market growth.”
The vast, airport-anchored park will unfold with segments of retail, hospitality, office space and industrial buildings, Baum said, adding that Amazon “has set the bar that we wanted for the industrial segment.
“From an industrial standpoint, I think it’s absolutely fantastic,” he said. “Companies that do business with Amazon are going to want to locate around Amazon, and Amazon is a well known and well liked company. People like to work there; people like to be associated with it.
“People also consider Amazon to be a technology company — it’s not necessarily brick and mortar — so for me, and the vision that we have for Peak, it brings not only that industrial and distribution and R&D, but also this technology theme. I can see a possibility where we start getting companies that maybe are more a Flex R&D feel, that want to be in close proximity.”
(Flex R&D is defined as an industrial building at least 25 percent office space, and consisting of either warehouse/distribution or specialty industrial space such as research and development or high-tech space.)
Urban Frontier is planning major site tours for potential office tenants in the coming month, and is in active talks with convenience retail and four restaurants.
While most interest so far has come from national chains, the master planners are already pursuing local businesses — both new Springs companies, and those looking to expand.
Baum said Colorado Springs Airport is actively adding to the park’s appeal.
“The airport is doing some amazing things — they’re increasing flights and they’ve done an incredible job of lowering costs, so that they’re more and more competitive,” he said.
“What was frustrating was that so many people would drive from south of Colorado Springs up to Denver and bypass the airport here in the past, because [Denver] may have been less expensive, or there may have been more options.
“Now what we’re seeing is an incredible increase in options to fly places from Colorado Springs, but at comparable prices. So Colorado Springs — and southern Colorado in general — really has this incredible gem with the airport here.”
Greg Phillips, director of aviation for Colorado Springs Airport, said COS’ air traffic has grown 40 percent over the past three years.
“What we’ve seen with our legacy carriers is incremental growth — some of it’s in larger aircraft, some of it’s in more flights per day on a route, like Salt Lake City. All those things help and build our ability to provide the service that our community would like to have,” he said.
“You know, we’re still working on it, and there’s still lots more routes that we’d love to add. … But the easier it is to fly out of Colorado Springs, the easier it is for business to do business out of Colorado Springs.”
As Peak Innovation Park grows and adds more jobs closer to the airport, Phillips said, that will boost airlines’ interest in adding routes.
“This really is a use-or-lose proposition — but if we’re using the airport, if the demand is there, it may take some time but the airlines will recognize that,” he said. “And I guarantee you we’ll be making sure to beat that drum with them. So the more business that happens at the airport, the easier we can make it for people to get in and out of the airport.
“The hotels will also provide an opportunity for people across the southern Colorado region to be able to come stay near the airport and use the airport. All these things add up to our ability to promote more service out of Colorado Springs.”
Baum said Peak Innovation Park is ideally positioned to attract a desirable labor force, given its ample space and the lifestyle-focused amenities it will provide.
“It used to be that businesses would locate where executives wanted to go and then the labor would follow,” he said. “What we’ve found over the last decade is that the labor is saying, ‘Hey, this is where we want to be. We want these amenities. We want these running trails, we want these bike trails, we want the amphitheater where we can go and see music and eat outside’ — which then makes the companies take a look at where they locate, because the business park of the ’80s or the ’90s is very different than the business park of the 2020s.
“We want to be the business park for the next generation, not the last generation.”


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Chairman Barton speaks out again on protecting personal information
The New York Times recently ran an editorial pointing out how crucial California’s data breach notification law has been in bringing to light the current vulnerabilities of personal information:
But for a single innovative law in California, the nation’s consumers might not even be hearing some of the more outrageous news about mass heists of supposedly secure computer information from reputedly trustworthy sources: LexisNexis gently announces about 32,000 suspected thefts of identity data, which soon balloon to 310,000. ChoicePoint, a data broker and credit reporting agency with access to 19 billion records, lets 145,000 consumers know their personal data may have been stolen [...]
Consumers, not data dealers, deserve controlling interest in their vital information [...]
Today the paper published a letter to the editor (dated April 18) from U.S. Representative Joe Barton (R-TX), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee (which has jurisdiction over many of the issues involved), in which the Chairman largely agrees with the paper’s sense of the current crisis:
Your take on a leading cause of identity theft was exactly right: nobody should have his or her Social Security number sold without permission.
Some say otherwise, and they’ve been pleading their case before my committee lately. But the plain fact is that in our society, our Social Security numbers are the keys to the bank vault for swindlers.
I’m probably going to be a lot more careful about imposing regulation on business and the economy than you would like, but if it takes action to stop the buying and selling of Social Security numbers without the knowledge and agreement of consumers, count me in [...]
Given these comments and his previous remarks, expect to see SSN-related legislation from Chairman Barton before long.
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Android-based Nokia Normandy, aka Nokia X, shown off in a brilliant concept video
posted by Chris P. / Jan 24, 2014, 9:05 AM
According to him, the phone will be dubbed the Nokia X if it ever does make it. It goes without saying that the marriage between Nokia hardware and Google's OS has been something of a blissful prospect for many. Unfortunately, it does appear unlikely that such a device will make the cut once Microsoft takes over Nokia's handset division, seeing as it'll be a direct competitor to its Windows Phone 8 platform. Reality aside, we invite you now to take a look at the below concept video, showcasing the Normandy running on its own version of Android. The folks behind TechRadar obviously felt that Nokia would go ahead and profoundly customize the stock Android experience, and we tend to agree -- the Finnish company does have quite some experience with the software side of things. Let's take a look.Obviously, there's still no hard evidence that such a device will indeed reach the market, though serial leaker, @evleaks, has once again fueled discussions about the possibility.
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Bring it on quickly Nokia!...love you forever!...:)
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we know nokia make UI fabulous so really hope nokia made ui like this one.
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BRING MORE SALES and i want A 41MP NOKIA ANDROID PHONE
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Are you currently in the market for an Nokia Asha 503 feature phone? If not I doubt you will like the "Nomandy". This will be a very low end phone placed in the model line-up below phones like the Lumia 520 that currently sells for $150. I think you are expecting too much from a $100 phone. I expect Nokia will execute this new UI very well and may revolutionize the low-end market. However, this phone is targeted at developing countries not markets dominated by high-end smartphones.
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If (if) it makes it, don't expect to see anything on it "Google", this thing will be Binged out worse than an LG Revolution on Verizon (remember when?). Regardless, I'm still getting a few "collector's items" if they make it. Nice render though, props to Tech Radar.
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True. It'll be one heavily modified Android UI for sure. It almosts looks like an Android/Windows Phone hybrid, so Bing as the default search engine won't be a surprise. I actually got over Google and adopted Bing as my default search. I'm glad I switched.
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I don't like it! It looks cheap!
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I agree it looks too cheap
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Do not get too enthusiastic about this device because within 6 months Microsoft will be in charge of all of Nokia's feature phone and smart phones devices and service when this happens Microsoft will have to pay the costs for this smart phones further development, Manufacturing and marketing. I think Microsoft should make this smart phone to get into the Android world. Microsoft should load it with MS office and Nokia apps. I think it will sell well enough to make a profit
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Friday, July 15, 2005, 09:00 am PT (12:00 pm ET)
Overstock.com helps moves iPod photo inventoryTrue to previous mumblings, Overstock.com yesterday sold through a supply of Apple's previous generation 60GB iPod photo players. Interestingly, the online discounter listed the players for $399 — the same cost of a new 60GB iPod, which was re-branded dropped 'photo' moniker. Today Overstock.com appears to have sold out of the iPods. It was previously rumored that Apple had contacted Overstock to help move excess iPod inventory. During Apple's previous fiscal quarter, inventory grew 18% sequentially to $193 million.
On Topic: General
- Apple CEO Tim Cook to appear at WSJDLive conference in October
- Apple chose to handle iOS 8 rollout with own content delivery network
- Apple invents bone conducting EarPods for better iPhone noise cancellation
- Tim Cook touts new Apple privacy policies in open letter to customers
- Tim Cook explains consolidation at Apple in new interview


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Tesla is facing another class action lawsuit after a former employee released a report detailing alleged breaches of customer privacy.
In a sensational report earlier this week, Reuters released information provided to it by a former Tesla employee, alleging that a group of workers at the automaker privately shared photos and videos taken of customer vehicles between 2019 and 2022. Now a Tesla Model Y owner in San Francisco is suing the automaker for violating privacy, which can dramatically affect the industry’s general guidelines for privacy.
Henry Yeh, a current Model Y owner in the San Francisco, California area, has sued Tesla for the aforementioned privacy violations. In his suit, Yeh states that he is suing on behalf of “himself and similarly situated class members, and the general public.”[ads1]; Tesla’s legal team has yet to respond to the allegations.
In a comment to ReutersYeh’s lawyer Jack Fitzgerald states: “As anyone would be, Mr. Yeh was outraged by the idea that Tesla’s cameras could be used to invade family privacy, which the California Constitution carefully protects. Tesla must be held accountable for these intrusions and for misrepresenting its lax privacy practices to him and other Tesla owners.”
This isn’t the first time Tesla has faced allegations of privacy violations stemming from its vehicle cameras. Most recently, Tesla has been forced to introduce new privacy-oriented features and change its “guard mode advertising” in Germany following a similar lawsuit.
It should be noted that while Europe and the EU generally have stricter privacy laws, especially when it comes to recording and photographing citizens, the actions of employees accessing this data in the US may still be illegal.
The lawsuit by Henry Yeh has not been given a court date, nor has Yeh’s lawyer specified what the damages may amount to. However, in the suit released by Yeh, he is seeking payment for both actual and punitive damages, which are likely to run into the millions, depending on the extent of the alleged privacy violations.
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A Lincoln-based online upholstery business is hoping to become the first in the UK to offer a 3D modelling and prototyping service to furniture manufacturers and restorers worldwide.
Heritage Upholstery was awarded an innovation voucher by the University of Lincoln worth £3,780 as part of the European Regional Development Fund to help develop the company.
Based at Cedar Parc near Lincoln, Heritage Upholstery supplies furniture components to retail and trade customers in Europe, the US and Australia.
Bespoke products are also sold to high-end furniture manufacturers and interior designers.
Previously, the process of designing and manufacturing a furniture part from scratch would have taken several months. However, using 3D design and print technology, Heritage Upholstery can complete the process in a few days.
“The grant will enable us to become the only company in the UK providing 3D models and prototypes of both bespoke and preconfigured furniture parts to restorers, designers and manufacturers,” said Managing Director Martin Fahy.
“We hope that by offering a unique low-cost service and much faster turnaround times Heritage Upholstery will become a market leader.
“We already have an extensive customer base in the UK, Denmark, Sweden and US and this could open up a truly global marketplace for our business,” he added.
The success of Heritage Upholstery is expecting to be boost for Lincolnshire as rather than looking to Asia or other European countries for the prototypes the company can create their own but still at a low cost.
Jessica Boot-Marshall from the University of Lincoln said: “The Innovation Programme is designed to enable SMEs throughout the county progress and develop by innovating their products and services.”
“Heritage Upholstery is a great example of a forward thinking regional business working in a traditional industry but with a pioneering edge. The University has a wealth of expertise in product design and development which, thanks to this funding, Heritage Upholstery has been able to benefit from.
“This is a really interesting project to be involved with, particularly given the clear benefits to the local economy through business growth and job creation.”


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Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2022 kicked off as it usually does — with details aplenty about its next operating system upgrade: iOS 16. It will debut this fall after spending the summer in beta testing, offering more personalization options, an improved lock screen with widgets, and some welcome updates to Messages for the typo-prone among us.
The lock screen is at the center of Apple’s iOS 16 updates, starting with the ability to customize fonts and colors used. It will be possible to add widgets and configure multiple lock screens that you can switch between by swiping across the screen. Different focus modes can also be assigned to different lock screens. Apple-supplied wallpapers get a refresh too, with animated and Pride-themed choices.
Notifications appear on the lock screen differently, too. Instead of piling up across the screen, they “roll in” at the bottom of the screen. There’s also a “live activities” feature to display notifications associated with an event like an Uber ride or sporting event in a single tile.
There’s a major update coming to messages, too: iOS 16 adds the ability to edit typos out of sent messages, recall messages that you didn’t mean to send, and the ability to mark a message thread as unread so you can come back to it later. SharePlay is also coming to messages.
Apple’s powerful Live Text feature will be coming to video. Additionally, there will be more actions available when you use Live Text in photos or videos. Wallet gets some expanded features too, with a way to share saved IDs securely by supplying only necessary information. It’ll be easier to share saved keys, too. Apple Pay gets a new “Pay Later” feature, adding the option to split a bill into four equal payments without interest or fees. Apple Maps will get multi-stop routing in iOS 16, and six more cities will be added to the “detailed city experience” introduced in iOS 15.
Apple is also adding shared iCloud photo libraries, in an effort to make it easier to share certain photos across family and friends’ accounts. Up to six users can access a shared library. Photos will include sharing suggestions, and image edits and keywords will be synced for all users.
There’s also a new feature called Safety Check, which is aimed to protect people in abusive situations. It allows you to easily revoke access to certain information, like location, that you may have shared with someone else previously.
iOS 16 will be available this fall for iPhone 8 and later, and will most likely debut alongside the iPhone 14 series, which is rumored to offer an always-on display for the first time in an iPhone.