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Why Businesses Need to Become More Flexible
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — BBB Youngstown’s president and CEO, Melissa Ames talks about email fraud, the impact of the pandemic on local businesses, and why they need to be more flexible in how they operate.
“Really taking a look at your business and saying ‘Just because this is the way we did it in the past doesn’t mean this is the way we have to do it in the future’,” says Ames. “Take a look at your operations and take a look at the needs of your consumer and say ‘How can we do what we do, but do it a little better.'”
This is an excerpt from The Daily Buzz. You can watch the entire interview by clicking HERE.
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Leica T type 701 Mirrorless Camera To Be Announced in April
Leica is rumored to announce a new mirrorless camera called Leica T type 701. The Taiwanese NCC government agency has a filing for a new Leica T Type 701 camera.
According to LR, The new Leica T series (type 701) mirrorless camera is rumored to be announced in April, 2014. The camera will have an APS-C sensor and expected to be made in Germany.

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There’s plenty of big, international trade fairs dedicated to pet and animal products. Florida’s Global Pet Expo brings together 14,000 visitors annually, Bologna’s Zoomark – about 28,000 international guests. And yet none of them even come close to Cologne’s Interzoo, a biennial expo whose last edition brought together over 38,000 trade visitors and almost 2000 exhibitors.
The wine sector is one of the most potent in the trade fair world, with every continent sporting dozens upon dozens of events. It makes sense – wines obviously can’t be judged entirely based on a catalogue, so it’s important for major breweries to establish meeting spots at which connoisseurs, press and members of the public alike can actually taste their newly released products and make an informed choice on what to buy.


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Vodafone has brought its M-Pesa mobile money transfer and payment service to Europe today.
The service, which was launched in Kenya seven years ago, is now being offered in Romania.
The number of banking transactions made on mobile phones by British customers has doubled in a single year, according to new figures from a UK banking trade organisation.
Customers of the five biggest retail banks used mobile phones for 18.6 million transactions a week in 2013, according to the BBA. That compares with 9.1 million in 2012.
HTC goes One better
Mark Bridge writes:
“Hey, everybody, we’re releasing a new flagship smartphone that carries all the hopes of the company with it. If this sells well, we could be saved. If not, it could be disaster.”
“Great. What shall we call our new phone?”
“Oh, we’ll give it the same name as the previous model. That’ll be fine.”
UK communications regulator Ofcom has published information about the volume of complaints it received between October and December 2013.
It’s the organisation’s twelfth quarterly report and reveals that the number of complaints had fallen quarter-on-quarter across landline telephone, broadband, ‘pay monthly’ mobile and pay TV services.
The final quarter of BlackBerry’s financial year, which ended on 1st March 2014, saw the company selling around 3.4 million smartphones to end users.
However, it says over two-thirds of these ran on the older BlackBerry 7 platform, which means just 1.1 million were newer BlackBerry 10 smartphones.


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Albany, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/09/2018 -- The positive investor sentiment in the manufacturing sector will prove immensely beneficial to the growth of the global electric motors market, finds a latest report by Transparency Market Research. The report, titled, 'Electric Motors Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2013 - 2019,' states that the market will log a 6.3% CAGR between 2013 and 2019, as it rises to a valuation of US$120.68 bn by 2019. With organizations prioritizing energy efficiency, the role of electric motors in various industry verticals has become crucial.
Although projected to register a healthy rate of growth, the global electric motors market's growth is expected to be held back by factors such as the high prices of energy-efficient motors and volatile raw material prices. TMR analysts recommend market players to invest efforts in producing electric motors that offer higher standards of efficiency.
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The report segments the global electric motors market on the basis of output power, by type, by geography, and applications. The regional markets studied in the report include: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Rest of the World. As per the findings of the study, the Asia Pacific electric motors market was not only the largest in the world in 2012, but is poised to be the fastest growing market in terms of compounded annual growth rate (CAGR). Much of the dynamism in the Asia Pacific electric motors market stems from the superlative industrial growth that has been seen in China and India in recent years. To add to this, rapidly industrializing countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand are contributing substantially to the demand for electric motors for various applications.
Competition has always remained intense in the global electric motors market with the presence of a number of local and global players. While this has made it difficult for companies to foray into new markets confidently, it gives consumers higher bargaining power. Even though the market is witnessing a greater degree of standardization, price and product differentiation remains low.
From the standpoint of application, the market has been segmented into motor vehicles, industrial machinery, HVAC equipment, aerospace and other transportation equipment, household appliances, and commercial and other industry. Of these, the motor vehicles segment represented the largest share in the electric motors market in 2012. A sudden and sweeping interest in electric vehicles can be credited for the high demand for electric motors from the automotive industry. Countries such as the United States, Germany, China, Japan, India, and others are at the forefront of the EV adoption trend and this is also where electric motor manufacturers face an opportunity. The HVAC industry is also expected to generate massive demand for electric motors, making the HVAC segment of the electric motors market a lucrative one. Other applications where such motors will find progressively higher usage are in industrial machinery and household appliances.TMR's report also states that AC motors garnered higher revenue than hermetic and DC motors in 2012. The coming years will, however, see a spike in the use of hermetic motors.
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A review of payments received by the world’s 17 largest crypto exchanges has shown that Bitcoin Cash (BCH) use in commerce has decreased, according to blockchain analytics firm Chainanalysis, Bloomberg reported August 20.
A group of analysts from Chainanalysis found that BCH payments dropped to $3.7 million in May from $10.5 million in March, while the volume of Bitcoin (BTC) payments was estimated $60 million in May, down from a high of $412 million in September. Kim Grauer, senior economist at Chainalysis, said in a phone interview with Bloomberg:
“There are fewer users of Bitcoin Cash, fewer holders.”
This year, the BCH price decreased by 75 percent, while BTC dropped by about 55 percent. Grauer sees “concentrated ownership” as the reason for the low BCH adoption rate, where almost 56 percent of the cryptocurrency is controlled by 67 wallets that are not located on exchanges.
Between 10,000 and 100,000 BCH are held by two wallets. Grauer said it is possible that “the wealthiest holders are the ones sending a lot of the traffic to merchant services.”
BCH appeared a year ago after a hard fork from the BTC blockchain. While the launch of BCH caused controversy in the community, BTC.com vice president of business operations, Alejandro de la Torre told Cointelegraph about the importance of the fork:
“The ability to make forks while keeping the community aligned was a great achievement. By providing much greater bandwidth per block by first increasing to 8 MB and then again to 32 MB. This additional room is more than what is needed right now, but BCH seems to be looking ahead and getting ready to process high volumes of traffic. The greater block size also enables BCH to store more information in each transaction, giving the blockchain space to write smart contracts on-chain at low costs.”
According to data from Coinmarketcap, even with the recent decline BCH is still the fourth largest cryptocurrency, with a market capitalization over $9 billion. At press time, BCH is down almost 9 percent and is trading around $522.


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Crafting a living out of making toys
Nearly 700 women artisans in a village under Dupchanchia upazila of Bogura have been making tomtom and other toys from bamboo, papers, earthen pots, and colours for decades, changing the economic conditions of their families.
In the Kholash village, 150 families are engaged in the making of toys, which are sold at the village-level fairs organised on various occasions, including Pahela Baishakh.
During a visit to the village recently, it was found that almost every village woman was making hand-made toys as Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the Bangla calendar, is approaching.
Some are busy making designs on paper with colours, some are making various parts of a tomtom toy, a wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse, and the rest are putting them together and making a finished product.
Artisans make around 1 lakh tomtom toys every month worth Tk 10 lakh.
Women make up the majority of the toy-makers. There are four to five women in every household who remain engaged in the trade throughout the year, excluding the rainy season, according to Babu Pramanik, an entrepreneur.
Each woman makes 300 to 350 tomtom toys a day. At Pramanik's house, six workers produce 15,000 to 20,000 tomtom and car toys a month.
It costs Tk 6 to make a tomtom toy and Tk 10 a car toy. Pramanik gets Tk 20 for a tomtom toy and Tk 30-40 for a car toy when he sells them at fairs on his own.
"I can earn Tk 30,000 a month. We are doing well. I have two kids who are going to school."
Each of his workers takes home Tk 300 to Tk 350 a day by making toys after finishing their household chores.
Abu Bokkor Siddik, a sixty-eight-old villager, recalls one of the villagers named Kurano went to Bihari Palli in Saidpur in the Pakistan era and learnt how to make toys. Subsequently, he became the first person in the village who initiated a toy-making business.
"Over the years, this business has spread throughout the village. Now, toy-making is the main source of income," he said.
Deloara Bewa, a 55-year-old toy-maker, says toy-making has become a profession for many women and they can earn money to support their families.
"The most important thing is we don't have to leave our house to make a living."
Anowar Hossain, an artisan, makes 5,000 to 10,000 tomtom toys each month and rakes in Tk 15,000 to Tk 20,000 in profit.
The business is not without challenges.
Artisans say although they are making handicraft products, they have never received any training to run their business properly. Besides, the handicraft business is shrinking as plastic toys wash across the market and dominate every village fair across the country.
"We have to compete with imported Chinese toys. But we are not getting any training or low-cost loan facility to upgrade our business," said Lutfar Mollah, another entrepreneur.
The higher prices of raw materials are another headache for entrepreneurs.
For example, before the pandemic, they used to buy 1,000 earthen pots for Tk 500. Now, the same number of pots costs Tk 1,800.
In the last two years, both artisans and entrepreneurs in the village in the northern part of Bangladesh suffered losses due to the pandemic as village fairs were banned owing to Covid-19 restrictions. As a result, many were forced to move to other professions to survive.
As the pandemic receded thanks to the sharp drop in infections, they have returned to the village's five-decade-old profession.
Since there had been no income during the peaks of the pandemic, each family engaged in toy-making took out loans from banks and non-governmental organisations.
"If you come to this village early in the morning and stay throughout the day, you will find a lot of NGO workers who are collecting installments," said Md Redowan, a 25-year-old toymaker.
As fairs are being organised everywhere after a lull, the demand for tomtom and other handmade toys has gone up, so every entrepreneur is taking up a higher amount of loans to expand their production.
Siddik has secured loans amounting to Tk 2.5 lakh from a bank and three NGOs recently. He pays Tk 6,000 to Tk 8,000 every month in installments.
AKM Mahfuzur Rahman, acting deputy general manager of the Bogura BSCIC (Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation), says he did not know about the village artisans and entrepreneurs.
"Now I will go and visit the village. If they really need training and loans, we will arrange them as per our capacity."


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Want to know why video game stocks pop or drop? Check the reviews.
For years, investors have turned to video game reviews to help make buy or sell decisions, moving the share prices of some video game companies higher or lower.
They consult the website Metacritic, which tracks a large amount of reviews and comes up with an average score, as well as reviews from top video game outlets such as News Corp’s IGN.com and GameStop Corp’s Game Informer.
And with the holiday shopping season approaching, when companies in the $64 billion video game industry generate the bulk of their sales and earnings, investors will be scouring reviews more closely than usual.
“The review scores are a first indicator of how a game will perform commercially,” said Jesse Divnich, a consultant and analyst for EEDAR, a research firm focused on the video game industry. “Investors will keep a close eye on them to measure potential success of a game.”
Shares of Electronic Arts fell 6 percent last October after review scores for “Medal of Honor,” a military game in which EA had invested millions of dollars, came in below rival shooter games such as Microsoft’s “Halo” and Activision Blizzard’s, “Call of Duty.”
In March, “Homefront,” a first-person shooter game from THQ Inc received weaker-than-expected reviews and scored 75 out of a possible 100 on the website Metacritic. Analysts called the scores disastrous, sending THQ shares down 20 percent that day.
Just as negative reviews can harm video game stocks, positive reviews can boost them. Shares of Take-Two Interactive surged 10 percent over three sessions and reached a 52-week high in May after its crime solving game, “L.A. Noire,” received glowing reviews and achieved a high score on Metacritic.
One of the reasons why video game reviews carry so much weight with investors is because avid gamers tend to rely on them to help make purchasing decisions.
Case in point: Eric Choi, a 23-year-old Chicago resident who buys between 10 and 15 games a year. After having fond memories of playing the action shooter title “Duke Nukem” growing up, he was happy to spend $60 on the latest edition of the game, which Take-Two released in June. That was until the reviews changed his mind.
“When the reviews came in about how it was apparently a terrible game, it influenced my opinion and my decision not to buy,” Choi said.
Investors also took note. Take-Two shares fell as much as 5 percent on June 14 after the game scored in the low 50s out of 100 on Metacritic.
Reviews have become so influential on sales, Divnich said, that his firm has been hired by major video game companies to write mock ones so that they can anticipate what real reviews might say.
Divnich, who said he consults for about 90 percent of video game companies, brought in a former video game critic from a top website to both play the game and write the review, which is designed to look like a review coming from a large video game publication. The reviews are then sent to video game makers and never appear in print.
“We’ll type up a review as if it would be in a magazine,” he said. “It’s critical for them to know how well their game is going to be received before they launch a title.”
While Frank Gibeau, president of EA Labels, agrees that game critics and reviews play an important role in consumers’ buying decisions, he also said that they are not always indicative of a game’s success.
“There is a correlation between the critical index and sales of any given game, but there are exceptions to the rule - games that don’t score high marks in reviews but sell well and others that critics love but gamers ignore,” Gibeau said.
For example, THQ has said “Homefront,” which received poor reviews, may end up selling 3 million copies, which would make it a commercial success.
THQ and Take-Two declined to comment on this story.
A poor review of a highly anticipated game may not be enough to convince an investor to sell off shares of a company entirely either, said Ted Pollak, portfolio manager of the San Francisco-based Electronic Entertainment Fund, which focuses on video game investments.
Besides reviews, Pollak does other research to figure out if a game might sell well, including beta testing or monitoring early versions of games. He also considers the development teams behind the game and even looks at what type of technology was used in its creation.
“If I was in a situation where I needed to trim a position, reviews could have an influence. But I wouldn’t completely dump a company because one game didn’t score well,” he said.
When publishers release their biggest games of the year — the games that are expected to have a major impact on a company’s bottom line — the importance of reviews is heightened.
“If ‘Call of Duty,’ which is half of Activision’s earnings, gets a poor review this year, it will be bad,” said Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter, referring to the possible impact on Activision’s stock.
Activision will release the latest version of the game, its biggest video game franchise on consoles, in November. Last year, the game set a new record by selling 5.6 million copies, or $360 million worth, on its first day.
Pachter says he considers review scores on websites Metacritic and Gamerankings.com, which are both owned by CBS Corp, for his investment recommendations.
EA is mounting a challenge to Activision with its own first-person shooter game, “Battlefield 3,” which comes out in October.
Divnich, from EEDAR, expects Activision’s game to sell twice as many copies as EA’s game. But, he added, “if EA can gain higher review scores, it shifts the momentum in EA’s favor.”
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Videocon D2H one of the leading DTH operators with over 525 channels and services including 41 HD channels, has announced that it is ready for the increased demand for set top boxes in phase 3 of digitisation of analogue TV signals which is scheduled to be completed by 31st December 2015. The company expects phase 3 to be 50 million TV households in terms of size.
TRAI has expressed satisfaction at the progress of the seeding of set-top boxes (STBs) in Phase III areas. TRAI has also advised consumers of urban areas who are still receiving cable TV services without STBs to avail and install STBs before the cut-off date in order to receive uninterrupted TV/services. It has reaffirmed its commitment to meet the deadline in its latest press release dated 8th December. TRAI has been taking steps to create awareness among consumers and stakeholders by holding workshops on the implementation of DAS and consumer outreach programmes.
Mr. Saurabh Dhoot, Executive Chairman, Videocon d2h said, “We welcome the digitisation mandate by Government wholeheartedly and will continue to support this initiative. The latest communication by Government in reaffirming its commitment is encouraging. This will ensure world class services to end consumer and create a level playing field between DTH and Cable.”
Consumers who are on analogue cable mode can subscribe to a Videocon d2h digital STB to access uninterrupted services before digitisation is implemented. Existing d2h SD subscribers can upgrade to HD STB for just Rs.999 which also includes 12 months free HD content and 2 months of d2h cinema subscription worth Rs.120. Videocon d2h has ample STBs to cater to the demand of the digitised towns. “Our factory can deliver half a million STBs in one month. So we have one million in hand and we can get another half a million on notice of 30 days, which is good enough to cover any spurts during digitisation,” Videocon d2h executive chairman Saurabh Dhoot had said.


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Your credit score can be decisive in whether or not you are permitted to take out a loan or get a new credit card, and also affects the interest rates you pay on them. But until recently they were difficult to get hold of unless you were willing to stump up a fee. Experian’s Credit Expert, for instance, lets consumers see their score for 30 days before signing up for a not-inconsiderable £14.99 per month.
But last year along came ClearScore, with a plan to give the incumbents a kicking and help people access their data for free. Its CEO Justin Basini, former marketing boss at the payments company Zapp, launched the company alongside Dan Cobley, who used to run Google in the UK.
Rather than charging the consumer to get their credit report, ClearScore makes its money by promoting loans and credit cards that are suited to certain customers’ needs. ‘About 5-10% of people who come to ClearScore are actively in the market for a credit card or a loan or a mortgage,’ Basini tells MT. ‘When they come to the site... I can offer them products that I know they’re very likely to get accepted for and work out how much they might save.’
ClearScore doesn’t actually compile its own credit reports, instead buying the data it provides from Experian rival Equifax. That made getting off the ground an expensive task. ‘We brought in £10m start-up capital into the business, that’s quite a large initial round,’ says Basini. ‘I knew that we needed to move very quickly and I wanted to invest a significant amount in marketing to be able to get a good base of people. And I needed to be able to do a big deal with the credit reference agencies to be able to buy the data at a good price.’
Raising that kind of cash is ‘always challenging’ he admits, but with a background in tech start-ups Basini was fortunate in having experience of doing it all before and a book full of contacts. ‘The second thing that makes it easier is we are following in the footsteps of a proven market that’s developed in the US,’ he adds.
One year from launch and it’s clear things have taken off. He’s not willing to disclose financials but Basini says ClearScore now has 2.2 million users signed up, hundreds of thousands of which have bought loans or credit cards through the platform. As of last week its website is now the most visited of any credit scoring company in the UK.
ClearScore has a growing workforce of around 43, but Basini says recruiting talent hasn’t been a walk in the park. ‘It has been very difficult and it’s one of my major concerns about the decisions the country has made over the last few weeks with Brexit,’ he says – 13 of its workers come from Europe. ‘Recruiting talent is and continues to be a really difficult thing. The reality is if we’re going to come out of Europe then the government needs to give serious thought to how we’re going to train the next generation of software engineers on a mass basis because god we’re going to need it.’
Either way the plan is to reach a headcount of 90 next year, to expand into other financial products and also to look at foreign markets.
And what of the future of credit scoring? There’s much talk of new forms of data revolutionising lending decisions, as number crunchers factor in things like social media use to predict behaviour. ‘I am really excited by the integration of other data sets – whether that’s social media, behavioural data, mobile phone data,’ says Basini. ‘But I think it’s got to be done with the user’s permission, they’ve got to understand why it’s happening.’
Part of the challenge will be finding a way to turn all this new data into information that can actually be used to make decisions. ‘There’s quite a lot to do to work out the signal versus the noise. It can be quite difficult to work out what’s valuable versus what’s not valuable.’


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10 non-profit organizations launch Plastics BAN (Better Alternatives Now) List
Plastic Pollution Coalition and Made Safe have teamed up to create the first-ever Healthy Baby Guide, with everything you need to keep you and your children safe from harmful chemicals.
End Open Burning; Create Long-Term Waste Management Plan
It’s Time for Carpet Manufacturers to Disclose their Toxic Secrets: In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month
As the planet fills up with plastic and the EU ponders its new ‘plastics strategy’, is the great re-framing and concern co-option strategy of the plastics industry finally going to run out of road?
83 percent of drinking water samples worldwide tested positive for microscopic plastic fibers.
Because CPA is collaborating with business, governments, and individuals to make critical information available on what chemicals are in products.
Pollution, especially endocrine disrupting chemicals, may be undermining male fertility.
In previous studies, researchers determined that BPA can disrupt sexual function and behavior in painted turtles
Plastic pollution has devastating effects, but several African countries have had recent successes in the fight.
Six popular BPA alternatives all mimic estrogen in breast cancer cells; three of them more so than BPA itself, according to new research.
A new study links food packaging chemicals to lower testosterone, vital for male fetuses’ growth.
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…a few pieces from the Ed Cummins Garden Guardian collection… …artist unknown…
These new metal sculptures have been popping up all over town. I’ve heard that some also hold provisions for the … More
Friday night, three local artists – a photographer [Kurt Hernon], a painter [Tony Trunzo], and a clothing designer [Jevon Terance] … More
We have featured Ed’s Garden Guardian artwork before – here and here.
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It's within the first week of July and that means the Nexus security patches were due to hit the web any day now, and that day is today as Google has just released the patch for all compatible Nexus devices. For those that don't like waiting on the over-the-air updates to hit devices on their own, Google has kept things similar to last month and has released both the factory images and the OTA images on the OTA page, making it possible to flash the software to your device manually. What Google has done a tad bit different this month is split the security patch for July up into two separate groups, one that was released and labeled with the date July 1st, and one that was released and labeled with the date July 5th.
This might cause some confusion for users who are looking to make sure that they're getting the correct download files for their device, but the good news is that there is essentially not much different about the two groups of patches. When it comes down to it, the July 5th release patch contains everything that the July 1st release patch contains, plus additional fixes for drivers that needed them. Users should end up getting the appropriate patch release for their device, so if it doesn't need fixes for the drivers your device would for example, presumably end up with the July 1st release.
According to the details, there are a decent number of drivers fixes included in the July 5th patch level, and are meant for Android One devices, the Pixel C, and of course, Nexus devices. The driver fixes will apply to a few different hardware types since the fixes are designed for Android One, Pixel, and Nexus devices, meaning the driver fixes will include chips manufactured by Qualcomm which you'll typically find in the Nexus hardware, as well as MediaTek which can be found in Android One devices, and NVIDIA which will be found inside of the Pixel C tablet. As stated users will now be able to flash the OTA and factory images for the July security patch already, or you can simply wait for the OTA to push out to your phone.


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Syrma SGS Technology- an engineering and design entity is set to launch its public issue or initial public offer on August 12. The IPO shall close on August 18, 2022. The anchor book shall open on August 11.
The company has announced the price band for its IPO at Rs. 209-220 per share. The firm aims to garner a total of Rs. 840 crore considering the upper end of the price band.
The company, in consultation with its book-running lead managers (BRLMs), garnered a sum of Rs. 110 crore through pre-IPO placement by allotting 37,93,103 equity shares for Rs 290 apiece.
Notably this shall be the first public issue in the last 2.5 months.
The IPO comprises fresh issuance of shares amounting to Rs. 766 crore and an offer for sale of up to 3.37 million shares by promoter Veena Kumari Tandon.
The proceeds from the fresh equity issue shall be put to fund capex requirement for strengthening manufacturing as well as R&D facilities and also to finance long term working capital needs, said the company in its DRHP.
Investors can apply for a minimum of 68 equity shares and in multiples of 68 equity shares thereafter.
Syrma SGS, a Chennai based company, is a leader in innovation and manufacturing for 40 years. The company carries out turnkey electronic manufacturing that specializes in precision manufacturing and caters to various industries such as automotive, healthcare, IT, consumer products and industrial appliances.
The company’s revenue for Fy22 grew 43% YoY to Rs. 1267 crore and net profit came at Rs. 76.46 crore, up 17%.
DAM Capital Advisors, ICICI Securities and IIFL Securities are the book-running lead managers for the offer, while Link Intime India is the registrar to the issue.
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The St. Regis Washington, D.C. has completely revamped its bar and lobby area to look like an old-school English club, Eater.com reports.
The Rockwell Group created the design which features wood herringbone floors, Chesterfield sofas covered in distressed leather, silver-studded wooden tables and custom-made upholstery.
There is also a new chandelier, a refurbished bronze-accented bar and a modern fireplace fixture.
The bar's original 16-foot carved ceilings remain.
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text: Or maybe not? Maybe Apple has just been toying with us. Apple is going to announce the 11th generation of the iPhone on 12th September 2018, and just as an another thought, I was keen on knowing how much has the design changed since its inception. And you can easily conclude that designs of all the previous iPhones, they are all just a rip off of the first gen iPhone. But when you actually compare it with other phone makers, Apple hasn’t been that bad after all. There have been 5 major design changes in the lifetime of the iPhone, they are. Introduction of the first generation ‘iPhone’. The most basic of all and kind of a start to the legacy the iPhone currently holds, but there were a lot of unresolved bugs and flaws when Apple announced the iPhone back in 2007. The design of this iPhone was heartily welcomed and could have been one of the reasons for an unchanging design strategy of Apple. 2. Introduction of the iPhone 4. The next major design change came with the iPhone 4, the box-shaped design and metal borders took Apple to new heights with this iPhone. 3. Introduction of iPhone 5c. This was the first ‘budget’ phone from Apple, the 5c was considered for budget buyers and it was released in a plethora of colors, to me personally, it was just a bad rip-off. 4. Introduction of the iPhone 6/6 plus. The design changed for the first time after iPhone 4 with the introduction of the iPhone 6, while increasing the size significantly with iPhone 6, Apple decided to go overboard and launched an iPhone 6 plus accompanying the generic model. The ‘plus’ model was considerably larger and was launched to cater to the demands of people who wanted phablets. 5. And introduction of the latest design (pun intended) of the iPhone X. iPhone X was launched last year along with iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 plus. iPhone ‘X’ means the 10th iteration of the iPhone line up. While Apple didn’t change the design (except for the glass back) a bit for the iPhone 8, iPhone X had an all-new front fascia and chrome borders (taken from the iPhone 4 probably?) Apple could have revamped the design and launched a new phone altogether but it chose to give its customers bit by bit every year, tomorrow we are going to witness the 11th generation of the iPhone and as for the rumors goes, it will be exactly like the ongoing iPhone X, with of course, a bigger variant to keep people engaged. The truth is everyone understands this isn’t the best strategy, but in fact, its way better than everyone else on the market, and, who buys an iPhone for its design anyway? Maybe we can all agree on the fact that the optimization and the iOS are what keeps apple going, this is strategy that rules the world right now, with the iPhone being the largest selling phone in the world.


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We love Thanksgiving. Then again, we’re fans of any holiday built around a meal. Whether you’re into traditional turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce, or would prefer to branch out with Indian, Japanese, or even pizza — we’re here to make the Thanksgiving season easy and delicious.
We took a look at order data from Thanksgiving 2013, and learned some interesting things about how takeout fits into this national holiday — including the fact that pizza accounts for almost 20% of all Thanksgiving Day orders (what?!). Check out the highlights, below.
So what (besides pizza) are people ordering on Thanksgiving Day? Burning the dinner rolls must be more common than we thought – after all, cheesy breadsticks are six times more commonly ordered on Thanksgiving than throughout the rest of the year. (Why didn’t we think of just ordering breadsticks from the beginning? Ain’t nobody got time for that!)
As well, we found that Indian food makes up 48% of the dishes more commonly ordered on Thanksgiving than throughout the rest of the year. Is it because Indian restaurants are open on Thanksgiving, or because people like to bring interesting dishes to traditional potlucks? Either way, we’re into it.
Besides what is being ordered, we also looked into when Thanksgiving orders are taking place. According to our data, those who order on Thanksgiving like to kickstart the day with a good breakfast – in fact, there are twice as many breakfast and lunch orders on Turkey Day than usual (and, in related news, late-night orders placed the night before Thanksgiving are up to six times higher than average. #Party.)
To round things out, our data shows where these Thanksgiving Day orders are most commonly placed. According to last year’s orders, diners in Minneapolis are more than twice as likely to order takeout on Thanksgiving Day than the national average, followed by Seattle (77% more likely) and Columbus, OH (50% more likely).
So that’s the long and short of things. Whether you’re ordering breakfast in preparation for a long day of cooking, ordering food to get you out of a rut from the night before, or ordering a few great sides for your “Friendsgiving” potluck, we’ve got you covered on Thanksgiving Day.
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Shake Shack is coming to Rice Village on February 28th or March 1st, according to a company employee at The Galleria.
Shake Shack is making a splash in Downtown.
Construction is nearly finished at the Rice Village Shake Shack.
Shake Shack is bringing its burgers and fries to Houston once again.
Shake Shack's throwback roadside burgers are loved across the country.
When the Rice Village Shake Shack didn’t open as expected in November, burger devotees were a little shook. But there’s good news, the new Shake Shack looks almost completed (see our exclusive photo gallery above) — and is on the verge of debuting.
The location at 6205 Kirby will be open “in the next few weeks,” Kristyn Clark, Shake Shack’s senior manager of brand communications, tells PaperCity. An employee at The Galleria Shake Shack is even more specific, sharing that the opening date will be February 28 or March 1.
It’ll just be a few more weeks before you can chill with a frozen custard or partake in a signature hand-spun shake in the beloved Danny Meyer chain’s second full restaurant Houston location.
Shake Shack’s Rice Village space was formerly home to a La Madeleine, which closed in March of 2017.
“Like many of our locations, the neighborhood and specific corner often comes calling,” says Andrew McCaughan, vice president of development at Shake Shack. “We love the vibe of the community hang out we can create on this great corner.”
The first Houston Shake Shack opened in The Galleria in November 2016 to long lines. There’s also a big Shake Shack stand in Minute Maid Park that’s packed on Houston Astros game days (a new feature for the upcoming season — suite and Diamond Club seat holders can order Shake Shack to be delivered to them during games.)
There are now eight total Shake Shacks across Texas. Shake Shack is a big fan of the Lone Star State, “embracing and learning the local culinary scene,” McCaughan says.
Shake Shack History
Shake Shack began as a hot dog cart in Madison Square Park in 2001. It won fast food favor quickly, and a permanent kiosk opened in the park just three years later with an expanded menu. It has since spread across the United States with Shake Shacks in Delaware, Washington D.C., Georgia, New Jersey, and beyond.
Fancy something fast casual during a trip overseas? After stamping your passport, you can also enjoy a 100 percent all-natural Angus beef patty with ShackSauce in Russia, Japan, and more.
Shake Shack’s 1950s-inspired throwback menu is all about American cheese and its proprietary beef blend. It was developed with Pat LaFrieda Meat Purveyors. A patty seasoned with salt and pepper is “smashed” on a griddle. That salt-smash combo creates the juicy crust.
While you’ll find Shake Shack classics everywhere, different, regionally inspired items pop up on each state’s menu. Shake Shack looks forward to “creating delicious things for the menu, like our Link Burger,” McCaughan notes. The Galleria Shake Shack features the Texas-exclusive Lockhart Link Burger. A griddled Kreuz Market jalapeno cheese sausage link spices up a cheeseburger served with pickles and the standard ShackSauce.
Shake Shack is not the only beloved burger spot in these parts. Celebrated Austin-based Hopdoddy Burger Bar opened in Rice Village just last spring to great fanfare. And its own long lines.
Time will tell if there will be beef between the neighboring burger joints. Maybe they’ll split the territory peacefully, but we can’t see these two shacking up.


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Lannett Co. (LCI) Downgraded by TheStreet to Hold
A number of other research firms have also commented on LCI. Deutsche Bank AG initiated coverage on shares of Lannett in a research report on Wednesday, June 29th. They set a hold rating and a $26.00 price target for the company. Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of Lannett from a hold rating to a buy rating and set a $28.00 price target for the company in a research report on Friday, July 1st. Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. restated a hold rating on shares of Lannett in a research report on Tuesday, July 12th. Finally, Raymond James Financial Inc. boosted their price target on shares of Lannett from $31.00 to $43.00 and gave the company an outperform rating in a research report on Wednesday, August 24th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have assigned a hold rating and four have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. The company presently has a consensus rating of Hold and an average target price of $31.36.
Shares of Lannett (NYSE:LCI) traded down 3.94% during midday trading on Tuesday, reaching $21.95. The company had a trading volume of 187,450 shares. Lannett has a one year low of $16.91 and a one year high of $49.44. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $29.08 and a 200-day moving average price of $25.99. The firm has a market capitalization of $809.78 million, a P/E ratio of 18.29 and a beta of 1.93.
Lannett (NYSE:LCI) last issued its earnings results on Tuesday, August 23rd. The company reported $0.73 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.59 by $0.14. Lannett had a net margin of 7.91% and a return on equity of 23.75%. The business had revenue of $168.90 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $161.55 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.91 EPS. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 70.1% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, analysts anticipate that Lannett will post $3.39 EPS for the current fiscal year.
In related news, insider G. Michael Landis sold 4,334 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, September 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $32.30, for a total value of $139,988.20. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider now directly owns 6,461 shares in the company, valued at $208,690.30. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, Director James M. Maher sold 1,478 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, September 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $33.91, for a total transaction of $50,118.98. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now owns 20,320 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $689,051.20. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 15.10% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.
Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Telemus Capital LLC raised its position in shares of Lannett by 10.7% in the third quarter. Telemus Capital LLC now owns 6,482,126 shares of the company’s stock valued at $172,230,000 after buying an additional 627,816 shares during the period. Vanguard Group Inc. increased its stake in Lannett by 12.8% in the second quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 2,059,084 shares of the company’s stock valued at $48,985,000 after buying an additional 233,726 shares in the last quarter. BlackRock Fund Advisors increased its stake in Lannett by 2.6% in the second quarter. BlackRock Fund Advisors now owns 2,047,025 shares of the company’s stock valued at $48,699,000 after buying an additional 52,121 shares in the last quarter. Deerfield Management Co. acquired a new stake in Lannett during the second quarter valued at $21,306,000. Finally, BlackRock Institutional Trust Company N.A. increased its stake in Lannett by 2.6% in the second quarter. BlackRock Institutional Trust Company N.A. now owns 689,158 shares of the company’s stock valued at $16,395,000 after buying an additional 17,459 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 78.88% of the company’s stock.
Lannett Company, Inc develops, manufactures, markets and distributes generic versions of brand pharmaceutical products. The Company manufactures and/or distributes prescription products with the exception of a small portfolio of over-the-counter products manufactured by its subsidiary, Silarx Pharmaceuticals, Inc As of June 30, 2016, the Company’s products included Acetazolamide Tablets; Butalbital, Acetaminophen and Caffeine Tablets; Butalbital, Aspirin and Caffeine Capsules; C-Topical Solution; Digoxin Tablets; Glycolax Rx; Isosorbide Mononitrate CR; Levothyroxine Sodium Tablets; Methylphenidate HCL CD; Methylphenidate ER; Nifedipine CR; Omeprazole DR; Oxbutynin ER; Pantoprazole DR; Pilocarpine HCl Tablets; Triamterene w/Hydrochlorothiazide Capsules, and Ursodiol Capsules.
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Facebook aims to speed up the delivery of news on the companys mobile apps with Instant Articles. The New York Times, National Geographic and others will use it to publish interactive articles directly on Facebooks iPhone app.
People already share a lot of articles on Facebook, particularly on its mobile apps. To date, however, they take an average of eight seconds to load, by far the slowest content type on Facebook, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday. Instant Articles promises to change that with much better responsiveness.
Users will be able to watch auto-play videos as they scroll through a story. They will also be able to view interactive maps, zoom in on high-resolution images, listen to audio captions, and comment on individual parts of an article in-line, as long as publishers have to added the necessary content.
Instant Articles is launching on Facebook for iPhone with a special set of stories published by The New York Times, BuzzFeed, National Geographic, NBC and The Atlantic. The Guardian, BBC News, Spiegel and Bild are also on board. The two German newspapers are interesting additions, since they in the past have been critical of Google News.
The German publishers felt they gave away too much of its content to Google without making any money from it. They unsuccessfully tried use a local law to get paid via abitration, and then agreed to alllow Google to publish news snippets.
Last month Google said it plans to give €150 million ($168 million) to European publishers and digital journalism startups in the next three years to support the news sector.
Facebook seems to have learned from the problems Google has faced with News, and chosen a more publisher-friendly approach. Instant Articles was designed to give publishers control over their stories and monetization opportunities, according to Facebook. Publishers can sell ads in their articles and keep the revenue, or they can choose to use the company’s Audience Network to monetize unsold space, it said.
For Facebook the goal is to get users to come back more often to its apps, and not just to see what their friends are up to.
The company didn’t get off to the best of starts on mobile, but its fortunes have now changed in a big way. Last month, Facebook said it had an average of 798 million mobile users in March, up 31 percent year-on-year. That was about 85 percent of the total number of users, which grew by 17 percent.
Instant Articles is yet another example of how the way news is consumed is changing, with social networks often at the center. However, they aren’t alone. Verizon Communications’ $4.4 billion acquisition of AOL also comes with a lot of content, including websites such as The Huffington Post, TechCrunch and Engadget. Even if Facebook and Verizon have taken different approaches, the goals are the same: make their offerings more attractive and make money from selling ads.


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CFO says X5 Retail Group aims at EBITDA margin of over 7%
MOSCOW, Apr 26 (PRIME) -- Russia’s X5 Retail Group targets an earnings before taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) margin above 7%, CFO Svetlana Demyashkevich said in a conference call on Thursday.
In January–March, the company’s adjusted EBITDA margin fell to 6.3% from 7.7% in the same period of 2017. In 2017, the company’s EBITDA margin remained flat on the year at 7.7%.
“We still keep the target of over 7% for the year. As we’ve said before, the first quarter is the most difficult for us from the point of view of maintaining profitability,” Demyashkevich said.
The EBITDA margin in January–March and April–June of 2017 was unusually high backed by amendments to the trade law and cost cuts. “If we look at dynamics that we had in 2015 and 2016, I would say that the current margin dynamics are normal from the point of view of seasonality,” she said.
Russia’s food inflation fell to an all-time low of 1% in January–March 2018, which had an impact on all retailers, she added.


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WASHINGTON — U.S. consumers boosted their spending only modestly in May, a disappointment to economists who said the weaker-than-expected gain will likely mean a lesser economic rebound in the April-June quarter than many had envisioned.
Spending rose just 0.2 percent last month after no gain in April, the Commerce Department said Thursday. The two months followed a robust spending surge of 0.8 percent in March.
Income rose a solid 0.4 percent in May after a 0.3 percent April gain.
Last month’s 0.2 percent gain in spending was just half the increase that analysts had been expecting. Some said that unless June brings a big increase, spending may not provide as much support to the economy in the second half of the year as they had been expecting.
Paul Dales, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics, said consumer spending may end up rising at an annual rate of 1.7 percent in the April-June quarter, which he said “wouldn’t be much of a rebound” from the sluggish 1 percent growth last quarter.
Consumer spending is closely watched because it accounts for about 70 percent of economic activity.
Dales said strength in other areas should still lift economic growth to about a 3 percent annual rate in the current quarter.


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Digital TV News: Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV
Verance brings watermarking to HbbTV
Oct 1, 2019 – Verance has announced plans to bring its Aspect watermarking to HbbTV. Aspect uses Verance’s implementation of the watermarking technologies sanctioned by the HbbTV Association in their 'Application Discovery over Broadband' specification.
News categories: Verance, Joe Winograd, Digital TV, HbbTV, Watermarking, Worldwide
Intertrust and Vewd introduce content protection for HbbTV
Jun 6, 2019 – Intertrust and Vewd have announced pre-integration of Intertrust's ExpressPlay XCA with Vewd Core, for operator HbbTV deployments. Using the solution, device manufacturers are able to offer a more complete software stack of content protection and HbbTV support.
News categories: Vewd, Intertrust, Frode Hernes, Guido Cugi, Content Protection, Digital TV, HbbTV, Smart TV, Worldwide
Telecentras and LG to introduce HbbTV for Smart TVs in Lithuania
Apr 18, 2019 – The Lithuanian Radio and Television Centre (Telecentras) and LG Electronics have agreed a cooperation aimed at introducing HbbTV intended for smart TVs. The launch of HbbTV in Lithuania is scheduled for the first half of this year.
News categories: Telecentras, LG Electronics, Remigijus Šeris, Digital TV, HbbTV, Lithuania, Smart TV, Terrestrial
Verance and Fincons Group partner for Next Gen TV
Jan 22, 2019 – Verance has announced that it has partnered with Fincons Group. The partnership, targeting the U.S. and Europe, combines Fincons' expertise deploying HbbTV applications with Verance's watermark technology.
News categories: Verance, Fincons, Nil Shah, Francesco Moretti, ATSC, Digital TV, Europe, HbbTV, USA, Watermarking
BBC R&D shows content substitution at IBC with Vewd and Mediatek
Sep 15, 2018 – Together with Vewd and MediaTek, BBC R&D is showcasing the latest HbbTV advancements in content substitution at IBC. Vewd worked to optimize Vewd Core, its HTML5 SDK for smart TVs, as well as the Vewd Core HbbTV module, to support some of the BBC’s most advanced use cases.
News categories: Vewd, MediaTek, BBC, Frode Hernes, Content Distribution, Digital TV, HbbTV, HTML5, IBC2019, Semiconductor, Smart TV, UK
Samsung releases open source HbbTV media player
Sep 20, 2016 – Samsung has announced that its Hybrid broadcast broadband TV (HbbTV) media player will be available as an open source project named HbbPlayer on github, an open source developer community.
News categories: Samsung, Miyoung Yoo, Digital TV, HbbTV, Smart TV, Worldwide
ETSI publishes HbbTV spec for UK and Italy
Sep 6, 2016 – ETSI has published HbbTV 2.0.1 specification TS 102 796 V1.4.1 that will allow the United Kingdom and Italy to transition from MHEG and MHP to the new standard in 2017.
News categories: ETSI, Digital TV, DVB-MHP, HbbTV, Italy, MHEG-5, Set Top Box, Smart TV, UK
Toggle Red Button HbbTV trial begins in Singapore
May 31, 2016 – Toggle has launched a new service, Toggle Red Button. The service is based on a hybrid technology known as Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV). Mediacorp, the company that runs Toggle, is the first in Asia to deploy HbbTV technology.
News categories: Mediacorp, Sofia Digital, Anil Nihalani, Digital TV, HbbTV, Singapore, Smart TV, Terrestrial
Freeview Play specification available to all
Feb 18, 2016 – Digital UK has published the technical specification for Freeview Play, opening the connected TV service to broadcasters, platforms and equipment manufacturers worldwide.
News categories: Digital UK, James Jackson, Digital TV, OTT, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, UK
- 4C to power reach optimization on NBCUniversal's One Platform
- Nordija and VGL team up for Andina Link 2020
- North American pay TV revenues to fall by $50 billion
- Altibox selects Technicolor set-top box for Android TV services
- Altice One available on Apple TV 4K
- Video ad impressions on U.S. CTV triple in two years
- Viaccess-Orca Stream Guardian certified by Cartesian
- Comcast acquires XUMO
- NBCUniversal updates audience targeting and transaction models
- Mola.tv selects Verimatrix Multi-DRM for OTT in Indonesia
- Telikom PNG selects UniqCast for OTT/IPTV deployment
- Beachfront, Beeswax adopt LiveRamp IdentityLink bidding for CTV
- WOW! streaming partnerships to help customers cut the cord
- Globecast deploys Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for cloud-based playout
- TiBO deploys Verimatrix Multi-DRM in Albania
- Kinetic by Windstream partners with YouTube TV
- Cinedigm adds Roku support to its app platform
- HbbTV Association releases Targeted Advertising Specification
- EnTouch Systems joins RCN, Grande, Wave group
- Disney+ available directly on VIZIO SmartCast TVs


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7th > February > 2005 Archive
AOL man pleads guilty to selling 92m email addies
An ex-AOL employee has pleaded guilty to stealing 92m customer names and email addresses from the ISP's database. The 24-year old, Jason Smathers, sold the email addresses for $28,000.
AOL UK doubles broadband speeds
AOL is the latest British ISP to double the speed of its broadband products without charging net users more. But it won't happen overnight: the firm is rolling out the upgrade to its 750,000 (ish)UK broadband over the next six months.
Intel Japan faces anti-trust action
Intel is facing warnings from regulators in Japan concerned about its business practices.
Intel details dual-core Itanium
Intel boffins will this week discuss the creation of the 90nm dual-core Itanium 2 processor and detail 'Foxton', the chip maker's energy conservation system for server processors.
Ask Jeeves if it'll buy Bloglines
Search engine Ask Jeeves is planning to buy Bloglines, the leading RSS aggregator, and integrate its technology into its search system, according to unconfirmed reports.
University of California moots barcodes for corpses
The University of California is considering using barcodes and RFID tags to keep track of the bodies donated to medical research, following a series of scandals involving illegal trading in body parts.
Alliance touts holographic disc 'revolution'
Forget HD DVD, forget Blu-ray Disc, the future is the HVD - the Holographic Versatile Disc.
Revealed: the tech consumer as prawn
Comment"I wouldn't eat prawns," said Julie Walters, portraying a prissy housewife in one of Victoria Wood's comedy sketch shows. "You know how they are. They spend all day treading water at sewage outlets with their mouths open."
XML - past, present and future
Last week I had the pleasure of meeting up with Jean Paoli of Microsoft. In November, Jean was presented with the XML Cup 2004 to recognise his lifelong work in XML and its precursor SGML. The meeting gave me an opportunity to hear about the fascinating history of XML and understand some of its importance to Microsoft and the industry.
eBay backtracks as it cuts some fees
eBay is cutting some of the fees it charges sellers in the US and Canada after being stung by criticism over recent price hikes. Less than a month after eBay announced new fees would be introduced from 18 February has reined back some of its proposals after "listening to you, our Community".
Google loses another trademark fight in France
Google has lost another trademark infringement fight in Europe, this time to luxury goods company Louis Vuitton.
Broadreach to bring Wi-Fi to motorway eateries
UK public-access Wi-Fi provider Broadreach Networks announced today that its ReadyToSurf Internet access service has pushed out rival WISP Swisscom from UK motorway stops run by Moto.
3G success hangs on handsets
The slowness of 3G to start to deliver on its promises is well documented, and the operators have laid the blame firmly at the door of the handset makers. Many of their complaints were politically motivated, as part of the ongoing battle between phonemakers and cellcos to take the 3G driving seat. But now that UMTS and EV-DO networks are rolling out, commercial success will rely heavily on having handsets with the right functionality, usability and price.
US telcos Sprint for the line
AnalysisThe face of US telecoms has changed dramatically in the past year. Following the consolidation of the cellular sector with the mergers of Cingular Wireless with AT&T Wireless, and then Sprint with Nextel, the most dramatic of them all has been agreed – the acquisition of AT&T by SBC, one of the regional ‘Baby Bells’ it was forced to spin off when its monopoly was broken up.
Rude software causes emotional trauma
Scientists at California University in Los Angeles (UCLA) have discovered computers can cause heartache simply by ignoring the user. When simulating a game of playground catch with an unsuspecting student, boffins showed that if the software fails to throw the ball to the poor student, he is left reeling from a psychological blow as painful as any punch from a break-time bully.
Sanyo S750 3G handset
ReviewWe've come to believe that your choice of mobile phone says more about what you are than who you are. But one thing is clear: we all like to think we're ahead of the technology curve. Sanyo may be a late entrant into the UK mobile phone market - this is the first device the company has launched here - but it has managed to include everything the mobile phone user could want, writes Stephen Patrick.
Acer spills user details Down Under
A security breach uncovered last week left customers of Acer's Australian store able to see other user's order histories, complete with contact details. Credit card details were not disclosed but complete contact information (email and phone addresses) and detailed order information was left exposed. This data, samples of which have been seen by The Register, might be used by fraudsters posing as Acer to trick users into handing over sensitive bank or credit card payment details.
Aussies deploy toad-blasting audio killing machine
An enterprising Australian reckons he has found an answer to the plague of poisonous cane toads which is marching its way inexorably across Oz, according to a transcript of an ABC Radio National broadcast last week. The cane toad was introduced into Australia from Hawaii in the 1930s to fight the spread of cane beetles. Since then, it has advanced across the in-this-case-not-so-Lucky Country at up to 30 miles per year while swelling its population to 100m individuals.
TI licences PowerVR phone graphics core
Texas Instruments has extended its PowerVR MBX Lite graphics engine licence, the chip maker said today.
Energis calls for BT break-up
Ofcom should "just get on with it" and break up BT, according to Energis CEO John Pluthero. Today he urged Ofcom to reject BT's proposals for a regulatory settlement and instead focus its attention on the structural separation of the UK's former telephone monopoly.
US brewer adds caffeine to beer
A US brewer is set to exploit Britain's mooted 24/7 licensing laws by launching a caffeine-laced beer. Anheuser-Busch's 4.5 per cent "BE" brew boasts a hit of caffeine equivalent to half a cup of coffee, plus ginseng and Brazilian fatigue-busting guarana. It is seen as a rival for non-alcoholic looney juice Red Bull - commonly mixed with vodka by British youths when they want to get plastered and throw a few shapes on the dancefloor simultaneously, UK tabloid The Sun reports.
PPARC sets up Mars committee
PPARC has appointed a board of space experts to oversee the UK's participation in the European Space Agency's Aurora programme.
U2 says soz for online snafu
Rock gods U2 have apologised to fans who were unable to get their hands on early tickets for the band's next tour.
Small.biz demands return to tech college system
A report by the Small Enterprise Research Team at the Open University reveals that 50 per cent of entrepreneurs believe that schools and universities do little to instil practical skills in their students, and that two thirds of UK small business owners are calling for the return of technical colleges in order to boost entrepreneurial success. Bosses also cast doubt over work placement schemes, which they believe are not taken seriously by enough schools.
Egenera freshens blades with a touch of Opteron
Egenera this week spruced up its blade server line in a major way with the release of new Opteron-based systems and a refresh of the BladeFrame hardware that sits at the center of the company's technology.
MCI 'makes $5m a year from spam gangs'
Spamhaus has slammed MCI for hosting a website selling spamming software that is allegedly integral to the illegal trade in compromised PCs. The site - send-safe.com - sells spamware called Send Safe which uses broadband-connected PCs infected by viruses such as SoBig to distribute junk mail.
13 EU countries link up to fight spam
Anti-spam enforcement authorities in 13 European countries have agreed to work together when investigating complaints about cross-border spam from anywhere within the EU. The countries are Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands and Spain. The idea is to make it easier to identify and prosecute spammers anywhere in Europe.
Your 'fancy' Napster bashing bites
LettersOur recent column challenging Napster's new To Go music rental service triggered an unusual volume of letters. The vulture flock appears to be divided where Napster is concerned with many saying $14.95 per month for tethered downloads sounds pretty good and others insisting that Apple's per song model will win the online music wars.
Firefox spoofing flaw goes international
A security loophole in Mozilla and Firefox browser could be used to spoof the URL displayed in the address bar, SSL certificate and status bar. The vulnerability also affects Opera and Konqueror and stems from a flawed IDN (International Domain Name) implementation within the browsers.


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- On Friday, Adobe launched a new feature called Technology Previews to its popular Adobe Analytics product, which will allow customers to test out new artificial intelligence features while Adobe gathers feedback.
- Previously, Adobe ran into problems with developing this kind of software because by the time they gathered feedback, the team would have to spend many more months redesigning the product.
- By giving customers the option to test out these features, customers can access Adobe's latest analytics technology, while Adobe can work on improving its algorithms.
- Read more on the Business Insider homepage.
One of the big challenges of building software is getting feedback. Building software is one thing, but figuring out if it actually solves the users' needs is quite another, and it can be a huge drain on time and energy.
On Friday, Adobe Analytics — the $130 billion tech giant's tool for measuring how people actually use your products — announced a new feature called Technology Previews, which gives access to cutting-edge new features powered by Adobe's AI technology Adobe Sensei. With Technology Previews, customers can choose to try out new AI-powered data analytics features, but only if they want, and provide feedback on how to make it better.
Typically, engineers may make small incremental changes to software while constantly gathering feedback from customers, in a process known as the agile method. Alternatively, engineers may create a beta of a product that's nearly finished, and seed it with some select users to try it.
The problem, says John Bates, director of product management of Adobe Analytics, is that the agile method is not as effective when it comes to artificial intelligence products because the algorithms that power them can change so quickly, based on the data that comes in.
And beta programs are too slow, as Adobe says it found out with an earlier take on a similar initiative. In a beta program, you seed an almost-finished version of the software to select users to gather their feedback. The problem, Bates says, is that if the beta software is off-target, you have to start all over — which Adobe found out the hard way.
"After that experience, we said 'never again,'" Bates told Business Insider.
Rather than pushing these new features onto customers, Technology Previews is just an option that users can try out with the click of a button. That way, Adobe can test to see if its algorithms are fine-tuned to be useful enough to customers, and learn early on what users like and don't like.
Bates says it's a win-win for both: customers can access the latest technology, while Adobe collects feedback.
"We help our users have more influence and become a virtual product manager," Bates said. "We can see where are we going to further innovate and further invest for future solutions. It all depends on the feedback of our users."
The first feature previews
Adobe is putting three test features into Technology Previews. The first uses that Sensei AI technology to help users find the ideal audience for their products. The second is an intelligent forecasting feature to predict what will happen in the future based on their data, such as revenue forecasting or customer behavior. The third will help users understand how their customers interact with their product.
"These technology previews are in production, applied to our customer data," Bates said. "They don't have to wait for perfection in the development of these."
Then, Adobe can tweak these products, improve its analytics algorithms, and prioritize what products to release. Bates says this method will help engineers test products and make decisions faster.
"We can prioritize where to further invest," Bates said. "It will help us reduce the risk of a miss of developing something where we didn't give feedback on their data and really running the risk of developing something that wasn't the right end experience once it was applied to their data. It's a risk reduction method."


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Last week was a watershed moment for the cinema industry. Two of this year’s most anticipated films broke records. Spectre finally hit the big screen with the James Bond film breaking the record for the biggest opening seven-day gross in UK history, with £41.3 million. That wasn’t from the full week either, with the first public screenings on the opening day not starting until 7.30pm after the commencement of the world premiere.
The previous record holder, Bond’s last outing in Skyfall, could only manage a paltry £37.3 million in a full seven days. Brand Bond continues to launch in cinema with spectacular results.
In fact, any way you look at it, Spectre is huge, and well placed to make a shot at being the biggest film of all time in the UK.
If it gets there, however, it may not be number one for long though, as pre-sale tickets for Star Wars: the Force Awakens also went on sale, with Disney reporting that a record 200,000 plus tickets were sold in the first 24 hours, beating marks for Skyfall, Spectre, The Hunger Games and 50 Shades of Grey. A total of 1.5 million tickets have been sold already and it’s not in cinemas until 17 December.
In our office we have a poll going and there’s a clear split between Bond and Star Wars about which will be the bigger film.
At DCM, we have seen unprecedented demand from brands looking to book into the Bond pre-reel and the line-up now showing in cinemas is pretty spectacular.
A variety of advertisers including Facebook, Virgin Media, HTC, Seat, Amazon, Heineken, San Miguel and Sky, among many others, all took advantage of the opportunity to reach cinema’s engaged and undistracted audience. Google also booked into cinema’s most premium position, nabbing the Gold Spot directly before the film.
This was one of our busiest ever ad reels, with a record number of playlists – nearly 100,000 to be exact. Almost 180 campaigns were scheduled for last week alone, across almost 20,000 showings (Monday-Thursday).
It’s been a busy time for DCM’s production team as they’ve had to manage double the number of jobs due to the Spectre effect. And we expect no different for Star Wars, with 70 per cent of the first week of the ad-reel already sold out.
The latest AA/Warc UK Expenditure report, released earlier this month, also highlighted that UK cinema ad expenditure rose 2.7 per cent over the first six months of 2015.
While this paints a positive picture for the industry, this figure doesn’t reflect DCM’s Gold Spot figures or our sponsorship, creative solutions or out-of-home spend, with DCM revenues in fact up a stellar 20 per cent year-on- year.
We already know we have something special and unique in the big screen but this huge growth in cinema ad revenue shows that advertisers are also increasingly understanding cinema’s role in the media mix.
Brands are now thinking cross-device, platform and channel to create coherent communications plans that amplify the consumer experience, meet consumer needs and build brand value.
We know that TV, online video and cinema as AV channels all complement each other on a plan, for example, and have recently commissioned a meta-study with Millward Brown to better understand the role cinema plays to prove that the media mix is weakened without cinema. We will reveal the results at our Upfronts on 23 November.
Attention is also turning to 2016 and it looks to be just as strong a year for cinema, with the release of The Hateful Eight, Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Justice, The BFG, Finding Dory, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them and Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One.
While the film slate looks spectacular, we are also confident that our medium will remain just as engaging and powerful for advertisers as it continues to reach and engage audiences with no distractions via the biggest screen, a dark room and the best sound.Karen Stacey is the chief executive of Digital Cinema Media


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In recent times, the advertising industry has started to look more closely at the relationship between paid media and "owned" media or content.
Can they work together? Is one better without the other? Well, a lot of these questions were explored and answered by new research revealed this week by content marketing agency Seven.
The research was conducted with 71 members of advertiser body the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA), representing an annual UK adspend of more than £10 billion.
Members were questioned on their views on content and their perception of consumers' views on content, as well as ad spend. The research also surveyed online a representative sample of 2,000 British adults sourced and validated by YouGov, on the role different media channels play in their lives.
One stat that jumps out of the research and spells good news for all in the content marketing industry is that £4 billion is now spent annually on owned media in the UK, equating to 21 per cent of brand comms budgets. It also shows that the four most used marketing channels (by volume of marketers using them) are ‘owned' - websites, email, branded social media platforms and search engine optimisation.
To further emphasise this point, the research revealed 96 per cent of brands have used an owned media channel or format this year and 85 per cent tend to agree or definitely agree that brands have a greater opportunity than traditional media owners to be innovative with content.
So, good news for owned media. But how can owned and paid media, the ‘converged media' approach, work for brands?
This shows that both paid and owned media have their place and video is an interesting example to prove this - YouGov research shows people are just as likely to find original branded videos from paid media as they are owned, demonstrating that the two are not in competition, but in fact can work well together. The use of video is definitely on the up, with 56 per cent of brands now using original, branded video content, making the channel more and more prominent.
There has also been an increase in brands having a strategy for video, with 81 per cent already having one or planning to implement one, as well as a six per cent rise in video spend by senior marketers from last year to this, with a forecast that it will increase another 10 per cent next year.
Importantly, this leaning towards video is echoed by consumers, with over 40 per cent able to recall, on prompting, seeing a specific original branded video online.
What else is owned media good at? While consumers use paid media to make themselves aware of brands, they overwhelmingly choose content-led websites and emails as the preferred way to compare, select and purchase products and services, as well as to stay in touch with brands, for verticals including travel, retail, automotive, finance and telecoms.
So there is an increased appetite for investment - and innovation - in content marketing, but the key is that a converged approach to media ensures a consistent experience whenever people encounter a brand; where paid media makes promises, owned media helps keep those promises. In effect, content delivers authenticity and gives consumers reasons to believe advertising claims.
In conclusion, whilst not a match made in heaven, paid and owned media work well together from the start of the customer journey right through to conversion. Brands can ensure their own channels and content are valuable in their own right, whilst complementing their paid media investment.
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Robert L. Crandall, the former chairman of American Airlines, helped to pioneer the hub-and-spoke system that many travelers hate because of all the connecting flights. Mr. Crandall now says the system's days could be numbered.
Speaking to the Wings Club, an aviation industry group, in New York last week, Mr. Crandall said the system might be rendered obsolete by the success of airlines like Southwest and Jet Blue that fly simpler routes, and the post-Sept. 11 delays and decline in business travel.
''There is no easy answer for traditional carriers,'' Mr. Crandall said, but he speculated that this could mean fewer flights on many routes. While Mr. Crandall no longer runs an airline, fewer flights could hurt him -- he is a director of Milepoint.com, an online shopping venture that allows customers to use frequent-flier miles as currency. Jane L. LevereContinue reading the main story


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The Barclays Accelerator is a 13-week intensive startup program aimed at supporting new businesses delivering breakthrough innovations. The first cohort of companies concluded the program in September, and included ideas such as a peer-to-peer lending platform and customer engagement system that integrates with point of sale.
Ten companies, selected from applicants across the globe, will be selected for a place on the program, which will begin in March 2015. The startups will be guided through the process of growing and developing their businesses with the help of world-class industry experts, and will be granted access to a catalogue of Barclays APIs and data to refine their business models. The companies will also receive up to $100,000 (£62,500) in funding from Techstars.
“We have already seen some incredible success stories come out of the Barclays Accelerator with businesses delivering disruptive technologies and fresh solutions that are tackling some of the challenges financial services face today,” said Derek White, chief design & digital officer at Barclays. “We are also delighted that the successful startups and …read more
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Playtech Plc expects to win more business from customers Paddy Power Plc and Betfair Group Plc as a result of their planned merger, the gambling software provider’s chief executive officer said Thursday.
Mor Weizer said in an interview that his company -- founded by Israeli billionaire Teddy Sagi -- is also in talks to do more deals of its own, following its agreed 459.6 million-pound ($712 million) acquisition of online trading platform Plus500.
Commenting on the Paddy Power-Betfair combination, which will create the biggest publicly-listed online gaming company, Weizer said the new entity would have “more firepower to invest” and provided an “opportunity to extend Playtech’s relationship” as a technology partner. Playtech counts Paddy Power and Betfair among its 10 biggest customers.
Weizer’s comments came as Playtech reported a 19 percent increase in first-half adjusted net profit to 115 million euros on the back of growth in its casino division and sales from its newly acquired financial trading platforms.
Revenue rose 33 percent to 286 million euros, beating the average analyst forecast of 284 million euros, the Douglas, Isle of Man-based company said in a statement. However, average daily revenues from its gaming division are down 2 percent in the current quarter when compared to the previous three months. The shares fell 1.8 percent to 875 pence as of 10:06 a.m. in London.
Playtech, which also provides online gaming software to companies such as Ladbrokes Plc, has been diversifying by acquiring financial trading businesses and is expected to complete the Plus500 deal by Sept. 30. Earlier this year it bought a majority stake in TradeFX Ltd., another online trading platform, which then agreed to buy AvaTrade for 68 million pounds in July.
“We definitely have a pipeline of companies,” Weizer said. “With some, we are in discussion as we speak. Obviously we can’t refer by name to specific acquisitions, but definitely there is a list and we see M&A as being a very important element of our strategy.”
Revenue from the company’s new financials division contributed 10.6 million euros to total sales, while casino revenue increased 28 percent to 148.9 million euros.
Adjusted earnings per share rose 19 percent to 39.6 cents. The interim dividend increased 8 percent to 9.6 cents per share.


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The Dow extended its longest losing streak of the year to six days, suffering a triple digit loss after the Fed minutes were released at 2pm. It was a very choppy trading session as the market dropped, recovered, and dropped again heading into the close. The main issue at hand for investors remains a tapering of the central bank's bond-buying program aimed at stimulating the economy. As far as the economy goes, today's biggest report was on existing home sales. The National Association of Realtors says sales rose 6.5% in July to an annual rate of 5.39 million homes. Expectations had been for a figure of 5.15 million units annually. June's number was 5.08 million.
Home improvement giant Lowe's (LOW) jumped nearly 4% on a robust earnings beat. The chain reported profits of 88-cents a share versus expectations of 79-cents. That's up from 64-cents a year ago. Sales were also higher than estimates at $15.7 billion compared to $15.07 billion. Lowe's says it's drawing more business due to the housing recovery, echoing sentiments yesterday from its larger rival Home Depot. Today's gains put Lowe's at a new 52-week high.
Target (TGT) fell more than 3.5% despite a quarter that truly hit the bullseye. The retailer made $1.19 a share, a quarter better than expected. Revenue also topped estimates though not by as wide a margin coming in at $17.27 billion versus $17.265 billion. This is one of the few retailers we've seen surpass estimates for the quarter. Competitors like Wal-Mart, Kohls, and yesterday J.C. Penney all disappointed. Prior to today Target was up 16% overall in 2013.
Staples (SPLS) truly got hammered falling more than 15% on its earnings. The office giant missed estimates, with profits of 16-cents, versus expectations of 18-cents, which would have been flat from last year. Sales were also slightly below expectations at $5.31 billion versus $5.37 billion. Staples pointed to weak business in Europe and Australia. The stock hit its 52-week high last Tuesday and went into today's session up 47% year-to-date.
PetSmart (PETM) had a dog day, rolling over despite an earnings beat. Shares sank more than 5% on a report that showed the company logging profits of 89-cents a share when estimates were for 86-cents. Revenue met expectations at $1.71 billion which was up 6% from a year ago. Same-store sales rose 3.4% for the period and the company upped its outlook. Shares of PetSmart had been up a relatively modest 8% this year prior to today's losses.
Goldman Sachs (GS) dipped 1.5% as word spread of a costly trading glitch. The firm executed a bunch of botched transactions yesterday morning when an internal computer system sent out options orders at incorrect prices. There are multiple reports Goldman could wind up shelling out upwards of $100 million because of the mistake. Options officials are reviewing the trades and at least some are being canceled. Goldman released a statement saying "neither the risk nor the potential loss is material to the financial condition of the firm."


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Energy watchdog Ofgem said it shared EDF Energy's goal of a simpler energy market, but warned the single-unit price option was "not as simple as it sounds".
Ofgem's retail markets and research partner Maxine Frerk said it did not take into account discounts for payment method, dual fuel and paperless billing.
Ms Frerk said, "Our extensive consumer research indicates that customers value these discounts, and our reforms seek to deliver simplicity while retaining the choice that consumers value".
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Assassin's Creed Unity publisher released a gameplay video from the Paris-based action title today, showing off an 11-minute mission early in Arno Dorian's adventure.
Dorian is tasked with taking down a corrupt Templar named Sivert who is hanging out in the Notre-Dame Cathedral. According to commentary from Assassin's Creed Unity creative director Alex Amancio, assassinations in the game take place in a mission type known as the "black box," where players have complete freedom to carry out their task. This is aided by optional objectives that open up new paths.
For example, the pre-mission cutscenes illustrate a few different characters who will prove useful to Dorian. The cathedral is locked, but Dorian can steal the keys; Sivert is supposed to meet someone in the confessional, but Dorian can take that person's place because he's already killed him.
Watch the full video above. Assassin's Creed Unity is set for release Oct. 28 on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. For more, check out our comprehensive coverage from E3.


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Indie games have been constantly on the rise in recent years, and rightly so. After the successes of the likes of Disco Elysium and Journey, it’s only a matter of time before the big guns come knocking on these developers’ doorsteps.
And the result of such a prospect is the new PlayStation Indies Initiative. Announced by the former SIE Woldwide Studios president, Shuhei Yoshida himself, who is now head of the Indies Initiative, this platform is Sony PlayStation’s efforts to make indie devs more recognised in the mainstream gaming space.
The montage above revealed a whopping 9 new games, including the likes of the familiar Worms Rumble by Team 17, and couch co-op fun with the likes of Heavenly Bodies and Where the Heart Is. As part of the initiative, one title will be coming out each month, starting with Hello Neighbour in July.
Here is the list of titles revealed at the PlayStation Indies Initiative:
Carto – Humble Games & Sunhead Games
Creaks – Amanita
F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch – PlayStation China Hero Project
Haven – The Game Bakers
Heavenly Bodies – 2pt Interactive
Maquette – Graceful Decay
Recompile – Phigames
Where the Heart Is – Armature Studio
Worms Rumble – Team 17
Marion has a serious RPG addiction. Sometimes it bleeds into real life; he forgets to sleep because he thinks he has a Witcher’s body clock. Forgive him in advance if he suddenly blurts out terms such as “Mind Flayer” and “Magic Missile”, because never once does he stop thinking about his next Dungeons & Dragons game.


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FRANKFURT • The US will likely benefit from a sharp slowdown in China's economy even as the rest of the world suffers, according to calculations by Germany's Bundesbank.
What may seem like a counter-intuitive scenario has its roots in trade relations. The United States, the world's largest economy, imported goods worth more than US$500 billion (S$681 billion) from China last year, over three times as much as it exported to the country.
The Bundesbank says lower prices in the Asian nation because of weaker growth would be a stimulus for US private consumption and investment, bolstering American output by as much as 0.2 per cent over two years.
The estimate also assumes the Federal Reserve would react more strongly to a Chinese slowdown than the European Central Bank when setting monetary policy.
While prospects for the Chinese economy remain favourable overall, a steep increase in company debt and opaque financial linkages pose non-negligible risks, the German central bank said in its monthly report. Standard economic models based on expectations of a general demand shock may understate those risks, it said.
That is a concern for much of the world economy.
0.2% Expected rise in US output over two years if there is a sharp slowdown in China's economy, according to Bundesbank.
History shows that the financial crises that follow extraordinary credit growth have a more pronounced impact on domestic investment than on private consumption.
Since Chinese investment tends to draw on imports such as machinery, countries providing those goods - including Germany - may be more exposed than widely assumed.
Using an adjusted model, the Bundesbank calculates that global gross domestic product without China would be damped by 1 per cent over two years, instead of the 0.7 per cent estimate in a standard model.
The central bank cautioned that even those predictions might turn out to be too optimistic.
The models assume a stable Chinese currency and do not take into account a potential deterioration in global economic confidence.


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Back on April 10 we received news that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, which entered Steam Early Access on March 23, had sold a million copies. Today we learned the multiplayer battle royale shooter is showing no signs of slowing down, as less than a month later it has doubled its sales to 2 million copies.
Along with the sales news, developer Bluehole has announced that it'll be matching donations up to $100,000 during their first charity invitational. The invitational, benefiting Gamers Outreach, will take place this Thursday, May 4, beginning at 9am Pacific and will feature 32 two-player teams from both North America and Europe. Here's the link to donate, and you can tune into the official Battlegrounds Twitch channel on Thursday to watch.


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Oreo cookie lovers have long faced off in the cream versus cookie debate.
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Now they have more to wrangle over As Nabisco rolls out limited edition flavors and asks fans to pick a favorite out of Cherry Cola with little popping candies in the creme filling. Kettle Corn with little puffed pieces in them and Piña Colada.
The three finalists whittled down from hundreds of thousands of fan submitted ideas which included avocado Oreo cookies and Unicorn. Those did *not* make the cut.
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Miami, Fla. (Oct. 5, 2018) —The Genesis Essentia Concept vehicle earned top honors as “Star of the Show” for the 2018 Miami International Auto Show, it was announced Friday (Oct. 5) at the annual show luncheon hosted by the Southern Automotive Media Association (SAMA) and sponsored by Volkswagen.
A panel of five judges chaired by SAMA member Juan G. Robbin chose the all-electric concept from a field of hundreds of vehicles on display at the 48th edition of the show. Runner-up as Star of the Show was the Jeep Nacho Concept by Mopar.
A South Florida staple, the show opened Friday evening (Oct. 5) at the newly renovated Miami Beach Convention Center and continues through Oct. 13.
The judges also selected four other vehicles for recognition.
The 2019 Nissan Altima was selected as “Car of the Show,” a category made up of sedans, coupes, convertibles and sports cars. Runners-up were the Audi A7 and Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo.
The 2019 Ford Ranger was selected “Pickup Truck of the Show” with the GMC Sierra Denali and Ram 1500 as runners-up.
The 2019 Jaguar I-Pace, the first battery electric vehicle (BEV) to be offered under the Jaguar brand, edged out the Hyundai Nexo as the “Eco Vehicle of the Show,” and the 2018 Jeep Wrangler nosed out the Lincoln Aviator, Jaguar E-Pace, and Chevrolet Blazer as “SUV of the Show.”
In addition to Robbin, serving as judges were SAMA members Tony Lesesne, José Carlos De Mier, Joaquin Ruhi, and Jonathan Brownfield.
Robbin also was announced as the recipient of the annual Terry Jackson Memorial Award for his service to the betterment and support of SAMA and contributions to the South Florida automotive community.
A new award recognizing late SAMA founder Ron Beasley also was instituted this year. Ariel Garcia-Linares, Southern Region Representative for Hyundai Motor America and a SAMA founding member, received the “Ron Beasley Memorial Award” as a “Friend of SAMA” for his continued support of the organization’s events and projects.
SAMA is an organization of automotive journalists, media organizations, corporate communications specialists, marketing and advertising representatives, and auto manufacturers related to South Florida’s dynamic automotive industry. Based in Miami, it was founded in March 2007.


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The financial services company announced USD Coin back in May 2018 and released by September. Currently, USDC is one amongst emerging cryptocurrencies notionally in a ratio as 1:1 with a comparison to major fiat currency.
Binance recently announces to include USDC into their listing coins. They are open to access the deposit for this particular coin. Moreover, Binance is not the initial giant exchange to list USDC for trading. The U.S biggest exchange Coinbase is also supporting this asset since the end of October. Binance specifies in their blog post saying,
For increased transparency, USDC has engaged a top-ranking auditing firm to release monthly balance attestations of the corresponding USDC and USD balances held/issued.
The exchange also mentions that trading for particular pairs like USDC/BNB and USDC/BTC will start from November 17. There are crypto exchanges who are stepping their efforts to support fiat-backing stablecoins.
Recently, the world’s familiar crypto exchange OKEx and Huobi lists four USDC stablecoins following each other. Binance has always shown their enthusiasm regarding stablecoins.
The CEO at Binance, Changpeng Zhao says that he “hope more” to surface while the exchange adds Paxos asset in September. Moreover, Binance remains the world’s second-leading cryptocurrency exchange with regards to 24-hour trade volumes. Also, they hold around $1.5 billion in trades at the time of press release.
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