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Nintendo is planning to release new consoles in emergent markets, according to company president Satoru Iwata.
In an interview with Bloomberg, Iwata said that the company wants to build new platforms, instead of releasing cheaper versions of existing products.
"We want to make new things, with new thinking rather than a cheaper version of what we currently have," Iwata explained. "The product and price balance must be made from scratch."
Elsewhere, Iwata said that entering the mobile sector isn't as straightforward as it seems.
"The smartphone market is probably more competitive than the console business," he continued.
"We have had a console business for 30 years, and I don't think we can just transfer that over onto a smartphone model."
Despite his comments, Nintendo announced a mobile and PC companion service for Mario Kart 8 during an investors call.
Iwata also confirmed plans to release an interactive toy line for the Wii U and 3DS (above).
Using near-field communication technology, the Nintendo Figurine Platform will debut on the Wii U later this year, before launching on 3DS in 2015.
Nintendo will announce more at its E3 'Digital Event', which will air on June 10 at 5pm UK time (9am PT).


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Samsung’s Galaxy Note: Is it a tablet or phone?
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Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note, a new 5.3-inch touchscreen device, on Thursday at the IFA electronics trade show in Berlin.
But in announcing the new gadget, Samsung described the Note as neither a phone or a tablet, but instead something different.
Whether consumers end up buying into Samsung’s vision -- instead of seeing the Note as just a big phone or a little tablet -- remains to be seen.
The 5.3-inch display is bigger than just about any smartphone, yet it is smaller than most tablets, which typically run as small as a 7-inch screen size.
One thought that comes to mind is whether or not the Note could repeat the category confusion of the Dell Streak 5, which had a 5-inch touchscreen, ran Android and failed to catch up with consumers in any significant way. Dell has since released a 7-inch version of the Dell Streak.
Samsung has high hopes for the Note, touting it as being the first in a ‘new category of product, developed through Samsung’s deep consumer understanding and insight.’
‘It combines core on-the-go benefits of various mobile devices while maintaining smartphone portability, to create a whole new user experience,’ Samsung said.
Another curiosity of the Note is the inclusion of a stylus that can be used to take notes or draw, as well as replace the tapping normally done on Android with a finger.
‘An advanced pen-input technology, called the S Pen, is combined with the Galaxy Note’s full touchscreen to introduce a new type of user experience,’ Samsung said. ‘Through this, consumers are able to freely capture and create ideas while on the go.’
So, does anyone actually want a device that fits between tablets and phones, with a digital pen? Samsung seems to think so. What do you think? Sound off in the comments.
-- Nathan Olivarez-Giles
executive vice president of Samsung, presents the Galaxy Note at the IFA mobile trade show Thursday in Berlin. Credit: Odd Andersen / AFP/Getty Images

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The South West is the cheapest place to buy a second-hand car in the country. While buyers in the region are now paying an average of only £6,951 for a second-hand car, those in north east England are having to fork out as much as £10,805.
Used car prices are now at their lowest for 15 months. The average price for a used car is now £8,540 - the lowest figure since September 2011.
Prices of second-hand vehicles dipped by an average of 1.71% between November and December last year.
As motorists face rising prices in insurance and fuel, it certainly pays motorists to shop around to get the best used-car deal - which will probably be in the South West.
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A chilly night and day ahead, but there'll be plenty of sunshine around..
The weather overnight and tomorrow is chilly, so probably a good idea to check the central heating is working.
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Most federal authorities companies are continue to having difficulties to absolutely-put into practice required cyber protection controls, with much more than 70 percent reporting underneath baseline degrees of maturity very last calendar year.
The discovering, contained in the Australian Signals Directorate’s to start with cyber protection posture report to parliament, proceeds a worrying craze to start with unveiled by the national auditor a few decades back.
The report, unveiled very last week, reveals that implementation of the ASD’s top four cyber mitigation procedures by companies remains at “low degrees across the Australian Government”.
The top four have been required for non-corporate Commonwealth entities (NCCEs) for the earlier seven decades in a bid to avoid the huge the vast majority of percent of cyber intrusions.
They now sort element of the much more exhaustive checklist of essential 8 procedures, which is considered the government’s new baseline for cyber protection.
But the report reveals seventy three percent of NCCE’s documented possibly ‘ad hoc’ (13 percent) or ‘developing’ (60 percent) degrees of maturity in 2018-19 protecting protection coverage framework (PSPF) reporting.
An advert hoc ranking is considered the most affordable achievable rating under the scoring metric, and signifies only “partial or essential implementation and management” of the top four.
A creating ranking, just one the other hand, is just one step up from advert hoc and suggests an agency implementation and management of the top four has been “substantial, but not absolutely effective”.
Both ratings are underneath the baseline maturity amount for reporting entities, which is described as ‘managing’ or the “complete and effective implementation and management” of the top four and consideration of the remaining voluntary essential 8 controls.
Just under twenty five percent of companies documented a ‘managing’ amount of maturity, whilst the remaining two percent look at them selves ‘embedded’ and “excelling at implementation of superior-observe guidance”.
When it is difficult to ascertain how the implementation of top four has altered given that 2017-18, as the PSPF reporting method has altered in the very last calendar year, the the vast majority of companies stated some enhancement was desired.
ASD stated PSPF reporting from 2018-19 indicated that 67 for each cent of NCCE’s acknowledged the “require to elevate the maturity of their cyber protection from at least just one of the top four procedures” in upcoming decades.
The final PSPF report in advance of the scheme altered very last calendar year unveiled that nearly 40 percent of companies had not absolutely-carried out the top four. It also indicated that compliance with the top four had improved by just a few percent between 2015-16 and 2017-18.
Inspite of ongoing problems with top four implementation across the federal authorities, the cyber protection posture report signifies that companies are starting to enhance their compliance with the voluntary controls under the essential 8.
“In 2019, implementation of the essential 8 across Commonwealth entities improved slightly in comparison to earlier decades,” the report states.
“More entities are getting ways to implement the baseline procedures and maximize the maturity of their implementation.”
The report, which cites information from the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s cyber protection study, stated fifty percent of companies had “progressed from partly to largely aligned with the essential 8 technique on user software hardening” between 2018 and 2019.
“This assists lessen the potential assault area of Commonwealth workstations, as properly as restricting adversaries’ skill to bypass other protection controls,” ASD stated.
Extra than thirty percent of companies have also progressed from social gathering to largely aligned with procedures all-around multi-component authentication and configuring Microsoft Office macros.
Nevertheless, ASD stated baseline adoption of the essential 8, a great deal like the top four, “still calls for even more enhancement to meet the fast evolving cyber protection menace environment”.
This incorporates the twenty five companies that were assessed as element of ASD’s uplift method in the wake of the state-sponsored cyber assault from Parliament House – Australia’s “first national cyber crisis”:
“While all of the Commonwealth entities assessed through the cyber uplift sprints were identified to be getting beneficial and proactive ways to enhance their cyber protection, the ACSC assessed that they had not nevertheless attained the suggested maturity amount for the essential 8,” ASD stated.
“As a consequence, these entities are susceptible to present cyber threats focusing on the Australian Federal government.”


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SSE profits up with more price rises expected
• Rise in profits put down to winter being colder than previous year
• SSE say more prices rises expected
• Company reduces executive bonuses over mis-selling scandal
The latest windfall was described as a “slap in the face” for customers after the company was last month hit with a record fine for mis-selling and in October raised its tariffs by an inflation-busting 9 per cent.
Full-year results showed that profits from SSE’s retail division, which supplies energy to UK households, were up to £410.1 million in the 12 months to March – or £1.1m a day – from £321.6m the year before.
They revealed that earnings just from energy supply were up by an even greater 34 per cent, from £271.7m to £364.2m, when falls in areas such as boiler installation and meter supply were stripped out.
Overall, 2012-13 pre-tax profits at SSE, which trades as Southern Electric, Swalec and Scottish Hydro, were up 6 per cent from £1.34 billion to £1.41bn.
It said it took more money from UK households because the weather was colder in 11 of the 12 months of the year than it was the year before. Gas consumption was up 21 per cent while electricity rose 5 per cent. Customer numbers fell 80,000 to 9.47 million.
SSE said it was disappointed that it had to raise tariffs in October, blaming costs including wholesale energy price rises. But it warned that more were in the pipeline because it was facing additional costs of more than £80 per dual-fuel customer in 2013-14.
“Unless there is a sustained reduction in prices in wholesale gas and electricity markets, it is highly likely that these additional costs will eventually have to be reflected in higher prices for household customers,” it said.
The company added that it intended to “resist this trend of higher costs for as long as possible to shield customers from the unwelcome impact of higher prices”.
Meanwhile, it announced that annual bonuses for executive directors were being slashed by 40 per cent in the wake of the mis-selling scandal.
Outgoing chief executive Ian Marchant, due to leave in June, has waived his entire £329,000 bonus, as well as a share payment from 2012. He missed out on this bonus for 2013.
But he will still benefit from a 2011 share award and a £10.4m pension pot which will pay him £420,000 a year from the age of 60, unless he cashes it in earlier.
Last month, SSE was fined £10.5m by regulators after potential customers were misled over prices and savings that could be made by switching supplier. The company has set up a compensation fund for those affected.
Lord Smith of Kelvin, SSE’s chairman, apologised over the scandal. He said: “Companies don’t just have to earn profits; they have to earn profits in the right way.”
But the words were likely to come as cold comfort to customers being landed with large rises in their bills after the prolonged cold spell earlier this year.
The company defended its profits, taking out a full-page newspaper advert ahead of the results, saying: “What has an energy company ever done for us? Quite a lot, as it happens.”
The advert set out SSE’s contributions to the UK, including millions of pounds a day of investment and taxes, adding: “For doing this, we make a profit.”
But Richard Lloyd, executive director of consumer group Which?, said: “Such a large profit announcement will be a slap in the face for SSE’s customers who have been hit with an inflation-busting price rise and seen this company given a record- breaking fine for mis-selling.”
The group Consumer Futures called on SSE to use its bumper profits for a one-off energy debt write-off, targeted at the most hard-pressed households.
Caroline Flint, Labour’s shadow energy secretary, said: “Like all the other big energy firms, when SSE imposed inflation-busting price hikes last winter they claimed they had no choice.
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Two CUs Participate in Pilot Phase of National Study on Credit Score Genesis, Education
Two credit unions are piloting a national study with the Filene Research Institute to investigate the establishment and trajectory of a credit score, and to devise effective ways to educate members about credit scores.
The $1 billion, 69-000 member Dupaco Community Credit Union in Dubuque, Iowa, and the $450 million, 38,000-member Del Norte Credit Union in Los Alamos, N.M., are joining with Filene in the project by the Filene’s i3 (Ideas, Innovation, Implementation) program.
“Unveiling some of the initial triggers, both positive and negative, on a credit score could be groundbreaking for consumers who struggle with home and car ownership, rental ability, and even job acquisition,” said George Hofheimer, Filene’s chief research and innovation officer.
“The insight gleaned from this study may give consumers a real step up in the credit game, helping them establish habits that will open the doors to better opportunities and lives.”
To assist with the study, the credit unions are taking creative steps. For example, the Dupaco Great Credit Race will follow the use of a VISA credit card for six months by 20 individuals who have no established FICO score.
The goal of Dupaco Great Credit Race’s is to ascertain key variables that affect the score’s opening growth, said David Klavitter, Dupaco senior vice president of marketing and a member of Filene’s i3 program. Since considerable weight is put on revolving credit for credit score determination, the Great Credit Race has made the use of a credit card the crux of the investigation.
Participants in the study each receive a VISA credit card with a $500 limit and are only told they must make monthly payments in a timely manner and cannot exceed the set limit. On the last day of each month, each credit union will do a soft pull of the credit score via TransUnion. On the 180th day of the race, the individual with the highest score will be deemed the winner and receive $500.
“The irony for people is that it’s difficult to obtain credit without a credit score,” Klavitter said. “In addition to understanding behaviors that affect an individual’s score, the study will provide insights into more effective ways of helping consumers understand money.”
Other i3 credit unions contributing to the project include Elevations CU, Boulder, Colo.; Leaders CU, Jackson, Tenn.; Vancity CU, Vancouver, B.C.; and Xceed Financial CU, El Segundo, Calif. Currency Marketing of Chilliwack, B.C., is providing marketing support and guidance.


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Apple’s ‘environmental move’ to axe iPhone 12 accessories ‘riled people up’17/10/2020|5min
Apple's decision not to include a charger or earphones with its new iPhone 12 for environmental reasons has people “riled up”, according to Tech Guide Editor Stephen Fenech. “The whole idea was to try to make that package even smaller just so that they could ship even more units in the same container,” he told Sky News. “So it’s another environmental move to reduce their carbon footprint.” Mr Fenech said the iPhone 12 Pro was “surprisingly” cheaper than the iPhone 11 Pro from 2019. “I suppose you’re entitled to a little bit of a discount considering you’re not getting the chargers and the earphones in the box,” he said.


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Motoring journalist Quentin Willson says Tesla was “clever” to address people’s concerns by creating charging stations
Shares in Tesla Motors have surged after it announced plans to build a vast new factory in the US which could more than double the global production of lithium ion batteries.
Battery costs had been seen as a major obstacle to the widespread adoption of electric cars in America.
Motoring journalist Quentin Willson told BBC World that Tesla had been “clever” to address people’s concerns by creating charging stations across the US.
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’s master plan to dominate the news cycle continued into Monday night with a major press event that unveiled a new Flickr site with greatly expanded storage while introducing Tumblr founder David Karp alongside Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave an introduction at the event, which started at 5pm EST at R Lounge in New York’s Times Square.
The Tumblr deal had been the talk of the day with media and techies alike debating how the popular platform will operate within the Yahoo fold following its $1.1 billion purchase. For FORBES’ coverage so far, see colleague Jeff Bercovici’s Jan. cover story for the definitive profile of how founder David Karp took Tumblr to this point. Then read here for Bercovici’s take today on how Tumblr will likely continue to develop independently from Yahoo. Lastly, check out why brand experts and social marketing gurus see the deal as a no-brainer for the Yahoo brand here.
Update: After the event, Mayer told FORBES that the quick turnaround of the new Flickr site with its guarantee of a full terabyte of storage per user is part of her push for speed at Yahoo. Mayer said the trick of the last few months has been to find the right people to move at her preferred pace. As for getting Flickr updated so fast, Mayer noted the storage issue was one that went down to the wire: "It's cool, but a heart attack for our data center guys!"
LIVE BLOG (images and details of the event below):
5:02pm: David Karp is holding court in the atrium of the event; we have to head inside. Flickr branding is everywhere.
5:06pm: Marissa Mayer is out to speak to the group. "It's been an action packed day here at Yahoo and tonight we have something different... tonight we have product news."
5:07pm: Yahoo CEO Mayer says all New York employees will be moving to one unified office. Here comes New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
5:08pm: "This is very exciting use not just for Tumblr and Yahoo but for New York City."
5:09pm: tips his cap to Tumblr for both being too cool for his own early use and for expanding the city's tech toolkit, stresses its New York origins.
5:14pm: The mayor calls this Yahoo office move and event a validation for the New York tech scene.
5:15pm: Mayer here talks up Tumblr's strong numbers and says "we couldn't be more excited." Slumped in front row, David Karp claps.
5:16pm: Tonight's about Flickr, Mayer says, and starts showing some features. "The feel is about photos and being unbounded. That's what Flickr is about."
5:19pm: Adam Cahan, SVP of mobile and emerging products at Yahoo, is now up on stage. Cahan says 881 billion plus photos will be taken in 2014.
5:22pm: Why wasn't Flickr working? Yahoo's Cahan says the service had become about words. Shows a new image only, visually rich "new Flickr."
5:23pm: Yahoo announces a new Flickr experience for Android. "We want to be a company that is completely partner centric. We want our users to upload once and send it to any device, any screen, any friend, any follower, any service."
5:24pm: Yahoo is offering a full terabyte of image hosting for every user. That's a big number--"no internet company has ever offered you a terabyte"--and they are quite proud with it.
5:25pm: Yahoo's Cahan says that if you took a photo every day, it'd take 61.5 years to fill a terabyte. The new Flickr promises to offer photos in exactly their original quality, pixel for pixel.
5:27pm: The new Flickr stream is endlessly scrolling. There's noticeably less dead space on the page; it's almost all the photo series. Markus Spiering makes a joke about how easy it is to connect Flickr to other social sites--"and of course, to Tumblr!" Easy laugh from Karp and the crowd.
5:31pm: Flickr video time! Cue the funky instrumental music.
5:32pm: Marissa Mayer is back on stage. "It's heart-stoppingly beautiful, an immersive experience," Mayer says.
5:33pm: The one number Mayer finds the most striking, she says, is that the storage space in terabytes available to the 80 million current users is 10x more space than would be needed to store every photo taken on the planet to date.
5:35pm: Mayer is taking us through a before and after of what Flickr looked like. "Ze Germans" are having a beer in full justified image quality.
5:38pm: "I think Flickr is awesome again," Mayer says. "Photos make the world go 'round, Flickr was awesome once, then it languished. And now again it is."
5:39pm: Questions time. Mayer laughs off a question of Flickr and Tumblr collaboration, noting the Tumblr buy is only "6-8 hours old."
5:40pm: Mayer says Tumblr's team and David Karp will NOT be moving to the new Yahoo office. They'll stay in their offices downtown.
5:41pm: Flickr team is boasting how many partnerships they have across tech companies, not just Yahoo. That's , Apple and the like.
5:44pm: Mayer is asked about the Tumblr deal. She says the acquisition was sort-of backed into as result of convos starting late last year with Karp. Mayer says Yahoo wasn't specifically looking to buy; Tumblr wasn't looking to sell.
5:46pm: Yahoo's Mayer says Tumblr is strong in youth, art, fashion and architecture. Flickr gives photo; Yahoo already claims strength in news and sports.
5:49pm: Terabyte of storage will be hosted in Yahoo's data centers.
5:51pm: Mayer: the storage commitment was the result of a dare with her Flickr execs.
5:55pm: "We've worked on increasing velocity and really shipping products when they are ready," Mayer says. She just had the Flickr conversation for increased storage and the redesign in the latter half of March. "This is a sign of things to come." Yahoo--gunning for quick wins?
5:58pm: Mayer is asked if Yahoo is moving too fast and needs to slow down and monetize. Mayer disagrees with the premise that Yahoo is not earning revenue. "We think we can increase engagement while increasing revenue," she replies.
5:59pm: Mayer reiterates what she said this morning that Yahoo won't be involved in revising Tumblr's content policy, suggesting Tumblr won't have to shut down its popular porn pages soon.
6:00pm: Flickr team says that as retina display gets common, the details in photo quality online are more noticeable.
6:01pm: Karp is texting; he's got places to be. We are on the last question, and Mayer says Yahoo will invest in Tumblr for new hires and help in discovery of content there.
6:03pm: Mayer: "We are really excited." And with that, "Empire State of Mind" is playing and we are done.
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Following last year’s success, Brixton Market Traders Federation CIC is once again hosting an extravaganza of culinary delight on Saturday, 27th April. The Great Brixton Bake-Off II will be a showcase of the best that local bakers have to offer.
The event will be held on Brixton Station Road, the venue for the weekly Brixton Station Road Community Markets, and all participant bakers will have the opportunity to enter the best of their delicious treats into the Bake-Off competition.
There will be six categories: Cakes, cupcakes, biscuits & bites, savouries, vegan and bread.
There will also be a grand prize awarded to the yummy treat judged Best in Show!
The tough decision of whose baking is best will fall on our panel of judges made up of local business owners, such as Mellissa Morgan, from Ms Cupcake; Stacey Raymond, Manageress of Morleys of Brixton department store; the Deputy Mayor Councillor, Adedamola Aminu; the Managing Director of Patisserie Valerie, Victor Scalzo; and the television personality, celebrity chef and businessman, Levi Roots.
The judges are also donating the winners’ prizes and are sponsoring the event.
The baker all have a chance to win one of the prizes, sell their delicacies to the great Brixton public, and also have the opportunity to meet a wide range of local catering businesses who will be hoping to spot a potential supplier.
Last year the event was a great success despite the heavy rain. Anna Smith, the overall winner of last year’s Bake Off, said: “The Great Brixton Bake-off was a great launch pad for my business. On the day, despite the awful weather, I was inundated with customers and sold out of the large volume of cakes I had baked! Winning was an added bonus and has been a great accolade to mention when looking for new business in local cafes. I highly recommend participating in this year’s bake off, especially if you are a start up business.”
Levi Roots, one of our judges, said: “I had a fantastic time at the event, it is always brilliant to see our Brixton this way with people enjoying and expressing themselves through food, taste and flavours even on a wet rainy day as it were yesterday. Big up to the organizers for all their efforts in making the day one to remember.”
Cake lovers will not only be able to treat themselves with delights from 30 different bakers, but will also enjoy a great atmosphere with live folk music from “The No Frills Band” and tea dance in the afternoon. From 10 am to 12 pm, there will also be a kids Monstrous baking craft section, concocting disgusting delights, slightly less savoury recipes and rhymes, illustrations and competitions.
The event also counts with the support from Brixton’s local communities and volunteers.
Number of Bakers’ stalls: 30
Name of event: The Great Brixton Bake Off II
Date: April 27th, Saturday
Time: From 10 am to 5 pm
Winner’s announcement: 2:30pm
Monstrous baking kids craft section: from 10 am to 12 pm
Live music and dance group: noon
Address: Brixton Station Road, SW9 8PD
Nearest tube: Brixton Tube Station
Public Admission: Free
The age group the event is intended for: All ages
Web address: http://www.brixtonmarket.net/home/brixton-bake-off
The link below is a video of last year’s Bake Off competition, made by Green Bean London:
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Bashas’ announced all of its private label eggs would be cage-free by 2017. The Chandler, Ariz.-based retailer said it is working with supplier Hickman’s Family Farms to begin transitioning its eggs starting in November.
“We are committed to being a good corporate citizen,” Edward “Trey” Basha, CEO of Bashas’, said in a press release. “It’s important to us to offer local, responsibly-sourced foods at affordable prices. Bringing cage-free eggs to our customers is the right thing to do, and we are happy to be partnering with another local, family-owned business to make this happen.”
The Fresh Market, which already offers only cage-free eggs for its private brand, said all eggs in its stores would be cage-free by 2020.
“Our customers have responded positively to the increasing number of cage-free, pasture-raised and organic options in our shell egg offering,” said Pamela Kohn, EVP and chief merchandising officer for The Fresh Market. “We look forward to continuing on the path toward 100% cage-free eggs and providing our customers with a growing variety of responsibly-sourced eggs.”
Like other retailers, Aldi has named 2025 as its target date for 100% cage-free eggs in stores. All Aldi stores will offer a cage-free option by the end of 2016, the retailer said.
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Physical home buttons on smartphones could soon be a thing of the past, as both Apple and now Samsung are rumored to be ditching them from their next flagships, and potentially building a fingerprint scanner into the screen instead.
In the case of the Samsung Galaxy S8, rumors of the home button’s death are fuelled by a post from a Weibo leaker, stating that none of Samsung’s component suppliers have received orders for home button components, which they surely would have done by now, given that the Galaxy S8 release date is pegged for February 26 next year.
That doesn’t necessarily mean the fingerprint scanner would be built into the screen, but we’ve heard whispers of this being the case before now. If nothing else, removing the home button is likely to mean smaller bezels around the screen, which ties into talk from Samsung of an upcoming phone with a 90% screen-to-body-ratio.
Some things never change
In other ways, the screen might stay quite similar to the Galaxy S7’s display though, as the same Weibo source claims the S8 will have a QHD display, rather than the 4K upgrade that had been rumored.
We can believe that, as while 4K would be beneficial for Gear VR, it would be overkill for everyday use, and could have a serious hit on battery life.
Interestingly, the display is also said to use “new materials”, but the source doesn’t specify what those are.
It’s unlikely that Samsung would move away from the AMOLED screens it’s been so highly praised for, but if a fingerprint scanner is being built in then some changes in material might be necessary.
Of course, with no evidence to back any of this up we’d take these rumors with a big pinch of salt for now... just try not to get too attached to your home button.
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In a few days, I’m starting a new job at The Wall Street Journal and will no longer be blogging here. I want to thank all of you who’ve read the blog, posted comments and sent me tips and other information to assist me with my reporting on the domain-name market. I’ll continue to keep abreast of developments in the market for my book, which is slated to be published next year. You can still reach me at the email address listed under the “contact” heading on this blog.
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The suit, filed in iREIT’s hometown of Houston, accuses the closely held company of operating more than 90 domains that are typographical variations of its trademarks, including verizonwirelessgames.com, virizonpcs.com, virizonwirles.com and verizonwirelessreabates.com. Verizon says iREIT has been displaying pay-per-click ads on the sites for various products that compete with Verizon’s. The phone company is seeking an injunction barring iREIT’s use of the names, as well as damages of $100,000 per name under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, which was enacted in 1999.
The suit, filed March 23, also claims iREIT owns thousands of other domains corresponding to other companies’ trademarks, such as bankofanmerica.com, disnelyland.com and ebayonlineauctions.com. In addition, the suit claims iREIT has intentionally provided “material and misleading false contact information” when registering some of its names.
Bob Martin, the chief executive of iREIT, said in an email that “we are already in contact with Verizon representatives and plan to have a thoughtful response to them soon.” iREIT’s financial backers include Maveron LLC, a Seattle venture-capital firm co-founded by Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz; Perot Investments, a Dallas investment company founded by billionaire and former presidential candidate H. Ross Perot; and Jacobson Family Investments, the investment vehicle of a wealthy New York Family.
Earlier this year, I first reported iREIT’s ownership of large numbers of Web addresses that correspond with major corporate trademarks, including those of Google, its paid-search advertising partner. iREIT, co-founded by Martin and Marc Ostrofsky, who’s famous for selling business.com for $7.5 million in 1999, owns roughly 400,000 sites, including bands.com and officesupply.com.


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The YRA in Europe will also get a mild-hybrid variant.
According to a report on Autocar India, the next generation Suzuki Swift will get the 1.0-liter turbocharged Boosterjet engine which Suzuki announced at the Geneva Motor Show this month. This engine will debut on the production version of the iK-2 concept (codenamed Maruti YRA) later this year, but future small cars like the Swift will also receive it.
The engine, which also gets direct-injection technology, is reported to deliver high fuel efficiency and come with weight savings thanks to an optimized layout and "various technologies to reduce weight", Suzuki said in a press release. The power and torque of this engine remain under wraps.
For the Chinese market, the same engine family will spawn a 1.4-liter turbocharged unit, which could be used on the SX4 S-Cross crossover and even the Ciaz (Alivio) sedan. However, Maruti is yet to confirm this engine for the Indian market.
Also read: Maruti's premium offerings to be badged 'Suzuki'
The YRA premium hatchback is due to go on sale in India in the second half of this year, while sales in Europe will start early next year. For India, the YRA will be powered by petrol and diesel engines, whereas in Europe, a mild-hybrid version would also be introduced.
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Farmers in trouble
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Trump's tariffs are hurting the Midwest farmers. Will they ever rebound? Instead of selling to China $20 billion in harvest, the harvest is rotting in the fields. Losing the world's most populous country as an export market has been a major blow to the agricultural society. This and other markets lost are not coming back. Farm laborers are laid off since there is no harvest. Sales of farm machinery are sliding downward and the price for used machinery is also decreasing.
American taxpayers are forced to pay farmers because Trump played chicken with China and lost. The government has borrowed $15 billion from China (repayment falls to the taxpayers) to give to the farmers. The government is also discussing cutting Medicare to cover the $15 billion deficit. Most of the money is going to the agricultural corporations. Mom and pop family farms are getting little to nothing. They cannot repay the loans they were forced to take out to live. Dairy farmers are being forced to sell their herds. Bankruptcies and suicides among farmers are increasing. It looks like recovery will take decades. This is affecting everyone in the United States.


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With its newest streaming shake-up, Amazon is bringing Fire TV inside your automobile.
THE NEXT STAGE FOR AMAZON’S FAMOUS Fire TV COULD BE IN YOUR CAR – now that’s something Google’s Chromecast can’t compete with!
Amazon’s famous Fire TV streaming platform is already available in a wide range of devices, ranging from inexpensive HDMI dongles to more expensive set-top boxes with hands-free voice commands, soundbars, and Smart TVs. Amazon, on the other hand, has great aspirations to build its television empire.
In-car infotainment systems may be the next frontier for Fire TV. Yes, it’s true.
Expansive touchscreens are prevalent in current vehicles, having been pioneered by electric cars but quickly becoming mainstream across the industry. Amazon views these screens as a great way to get popular Prime Video shows like Clarkson’s Farm and The Boys to people on the go. Of course, these will be directed at passengers rather than the driver.
In an interview with Protocol, Amazon vice president Daniel Rausch said of this new prospect, “We do see interest in the vehicle industry.” Automobiles are getting more screens, and I’m interested in being where people want to be entertained, which is, really, just about anywhere, including on the road.
“Streaming in the living room isn’t the only option. 5G connectivity will change that as well, because you’ll be able to have a high-quality connection anywhere you travel in your car.”
Back in March, Amazon announced its first partnership between the Fire TV team and Dutch automaker Stellantis, which resulted in new Jeep Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer models being sent with Fire TV in the entertainment systems.
When the car is parked, the front infotainment screen can access Fire TV services.
Passengers in the back seats can use the rear screens to browse Amazon’s enormous library of apps and streaming services throughout the voyage. After all, Fire TV not only gives you access to Amazon’s own Prime Video, but also to industry behemoths like Netflix, Disney+, BBC iPlayer, Shudder, Apple TV+, and a slew of other services.
Touch controls are available on the screens, as well as a dedicated Fire TV For Auto remote control with Alexa voice control.
When Alexa is connected to the internet via mobile connection, it may be used to control smart home devices such as thermostats and lights while traveling to and from home. Amazon supplies a specific Alexa Auto gadget that can be used in the past. “Brinkwire News in Condensed Form.”


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The FMCG sector of India is flourishing like no other sector and the sector is not showing any signs of slowing anytime soon. Although the rural demand for these products has seen a downward trend and the companies are doing everything they can to make it an upward trend
Wipro consumer a soap manufacturer from India has optimistic views of the FMCG market and is expecting a huge boom in demand from the rural parts as the monsoon has been quite favourable for the rural areas and benefitted them a lot.
The product from Wipro’s manufacturing is Santoor which is largely popular in the rural areas as the same it is in urban areas. The CEO of Wipro’s soap business has said that they have great hopes of rise in demand from the rural sector for almost all FMCG products. As the company prepares to see a great demand hike it is putting a new plant in Hyderabad and is expecting to make it operational by 2020. Wipro’s optimism is great and will be doing wonders for them as a positive attitude towards thing is always good and time and again this has been proven by almost all of the businesses.
We expect that the estimation of Wipro turns out to be true which will be a great boon for the FMCG sector and will boost the gains of the sector by manifold and balance out the deficits of the economy that have been mounting amid the slowdown of the economy.
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Sphere Drones, a key player in the drone industry, has revolutionised businesses by offering a self-sustaining mobile drone platform that allows them to collect aerial data effortlessly across any terrain and in remote areas.
HubX is a self-sustaining mobile drone platform that businesses can use to capture aerial data on-site and deliver it back to the office with a single click.
The HubX, which is all-terrain, solar-powered, and internet-enabled, removes hurdles to Drone-in-a-Box (DiaB) deployment at mine sites, farms, utilities, and emergency services. It also has built-in redundancies to guarantee that organisations can continue to operate in remote areas and during network failures.
“HubX has been developed entirely at Sphere Drones’ Sydney headquarters for use by miners and utilities to streamline the most time-consuming surveying tasks, saving them thousands of hours and millions of dollars in the process,” Sphere Drones’ CEO Paris Cockinos said.
“We have already attracted interest from our existing and new clients in Australia and overseas looking to either complement their own operation of drones or looking to Sphere Drones to manage their remote drone operations”, he added.
Sphere Drones’ high-profile clients include Yancoal, Rio Tinto, Fortescue Mining Group, Glencore, Roy Hill, Woodside Petroleum, Thiess, Sydney Water, and Agriculture Victoria.
Yancoal’s My Thorley Warkworth site Survey Superintendent and Chief Remote Pilot Adrian Wall stated that HubX’s evolution has the potential to streamline surveyors’ workloads, reduce field time, and increase data collection frequency by automating UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) operations.
“HubX includes everything you need to roll out a BVLOS (beyond visual line of sight) operation, it’s innovative, turnkey and portable which can help businesses like ours meet their daily operational requirements,” Warkworth stated.
Sphere Drones has assisted over 11,000 clients, including 3,000 corporates, in selling or renting drones, parts, accessories, software, training, and support for airborne and underwater operations.
“Sphere Drones provides the game-changing benefits of drone technology to save costs and provide more efficiencies to miners and other organisations,” Cockinos said.
An Australian Government study predicts that the expansion of drone use will significantly boost Australia’s economic growth, potentially resulting in up to $10 billion in business savings.
Drones are gaining significant cost savings in various industries, including mining, agriculture, forestry, construction, and fisheries.
Every month, more than 700 individuals in Australia are educated in drone operation, and 98 firms are granted licences, with about 10,000 drones already in commercial use.


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This report categorizes the market into three broad segments, namely, Instrumentation, Accessories & Consumables, and Reagents.
RnRMarketResearch.com adds "Gas Chromatography Market by Instrumentation (Systems, Detectors, Autosamplers, Fraction collectors), Consumables & Accessories (Columns, Fittings & Tubings, Flow Management)
FORT WORTH, Texas, December 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The demand for the SFC chromatography reagents is anticipated to increase, due to the rise in the number of research
DALLAS, December 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the new market research report The "Preparative and Process Chromatography Market by Instruments (Liquid & Gas,
DALLAS, December 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the new market research report The "Gas Chromatography Market by Instrumentation (Systems, Detectors, Autosamplers,
The global revenue for separation and purification was valued at nearly $11.2 billion in 2013 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.7% to reach $14.3 billion by
The North American Chromatography Solvents market is driven by high demand of chromatography reagents from the proliferating pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.
Asian Solid Support (Chromatography Reagents) Market driven by increased investments by leading companies in the region.
European Solid Support (Chromatography Reagents) Market driven by growing number of chromatography technology symposiums in the region
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Opening sales outstrip the iPhone 4S by one million.
Apple has sold five million iPhone 5 handsets in three days, following sales beginning on Friday, September 21st.
That outshines the efforts of the iPhone 4S, which hit four million in its debut weekend last October.
Of course, demand was already through the roof with iPhone 5 pre-orders passing two million in 24 hours – more than doubling and tripling the respective efforts of the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 – though many buyers aren't likely to receive their orders until next month.
The 5 is available in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore at launch, but will land in 22 more countries on September 28th.
The goal is to reach more than 100 countries by the close of 2012, which will likely add to sales surge ahead of Christmas.
Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, said: "Demand for iPhone 5 has been incredible and we are working hard to get an iPhone 5 into the hands of every customer who wants one as quickly as possible.
"While we have sold out of our initial supply, stores continue to receive iPhone 5 shipments regularly and customers can continue to order online and receive an estimated delivery date. We appreciate everyone’s patience and are working hard to build enough iPhone 5s for everyone."
In other iPhone-related news, one O2 worker was so keen to get his hands on a device that he stole 252 handsets from his store.


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The Star Wars: First Assault game has been on and off for the past couple of months now. Apparently it’s a downloadable multiplayer game that is set to coexist with Battlefront 3. Gaming sites first got light of First Assault back in October 2012.
Since then though, Walt Disney have acquired the Star Wars brand/franchise from Lucas productions after founder George Lucas decided to sell up shop. First Assault was due out sometime this spring but has now apparently been pegged back for a September release date.
LucasArts had to suspend the development of the game because of the high profile Disney takeover it has emerged. If the First Assault game does get the go ahead, there’s to be 16 players competing in an epic online multiplayer shooting game.
A strong unit of eight storm troopers against a unit of eight of the rebel soldiers fighting it out on different planets and terrain from the famous franchise. We’ll have more info on this particular story as it develops throughout the year.
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That is why we are building Constantia Ecoflex Ahmedabad: a modern plant entirely dedicated to sustainable packaging meeting all requirements of the modern world.
The state-of-the-art plant in India will become operational in Q3.
Even that the plant is located in India, we will be supplying our customers worldwide from here.
The European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy stipulates all plastic to be recyclable by 2030. With the products produced at Constantia Ecoflex Ahmedabad we support the food industry to meet the legal requirements and at the same time create products appealing to the increasing number of consumers caring for sustainable products.
More information to follow soon.
In the meantime feel free to watch the video explaining the concept of the plant in just 90 seconds.


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Good Luck to Jim Lanzone; CEO Departs Ask.com
IAC will see a change of CEO for its Ask.com search engine. Jim Lanzone is leaving to join venture capital firm Redpoint Ventures as entrepreneur-in-residence. Jim Safka will take over the role of Ask.com’s CEO immediately, as well as retain his title as CEO of Primal Ventures, an IAC investment arm.
Safka served as CEO of IAC’s online dating unit Match.com from 2004 to 2007. He has been credited with cultivating 25 percent annual revenue growth during his tenure and an annual 52 percent rise in operating income before amortization.
In the last year, Ask.com has expanded its services, launched an aggressive marketing campaign, pushed into mobile Web applications and has seen the number of unique users rise.
Lanzone has accomplished a lot during his tenure, and I’m sure Safka will soon realize that it’s not going to be easy taking market share from Google.
Best wishes to Jim Lanzone!


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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) published figures today 19th May 21 that the UK consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rose by 1.5% in the 12 months to April 2021, which is up from 0.7% the previous month.
Prices were driven by household, utility, clothing, and motor fuel.
In the 12 months to April 21 the CPI including owners’ occupiers housing costs was up by 1.6% which is a 1% rise from the previous month.
The largest contributors being housing and household services with 0.57% points and transport costs 0.56% points.
The ONS said “Price rises were partially offset by a downward contribution from recreation and culture”.
Prices rises are in line with expectations and driven by demands linked to the end of lockdown with delays in manufacturing supply chains. Brexit trade issues, rising commodity and freight prices are also adding pressure costs in UK manufacturing, these factors are short term but exactly how long before the delays are resolved remains uncertain. As lockdown eases and the economy recovers inflation is likely to continue to rise and various commodity shortages feed through to rising prices. The recent strength of the pound may counteract inflation as it reduces the cost of imports but how long will the pound continue to strengthen?


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New corporate tax measures aimed at preventing multinational companies making profits in the UK and then shifting them overseas where they incur lower taxes could potentially impact a number of tech companies, including Apple, Google and Amazon.
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Amazon today announced a new hardware product called Echo. It’s essentially a speaker unit dedicated to being a voice-control system. It kind of sounds like Siri but in a speaker for a single room instead of in your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch.
You can set alarms, control music, ask about the weather, search the web, ask questions, and access local news. It streams content via Bluetooth and WiFi, and connects to the Fire Phone (if you have one, lol), iOS via the browser, Android, and desktop computers via the web. Instead of “Hey Siri,” you say “Alexa” to start speaking the device. You’ll need a Fire OS/Android device to take full advantage, but music should work fine via iOS.
The whole concept is very futuristic, and it’s unclear how beneficial this will be to people with voice-controlled phones. But, hey, this comes from the developers of a faux-3D phone and delivery drones, so this is not completely out of left field. The Echo is $99 for Amazon Prime users, $199 for everyone else, and (for some reason) you need an invitation to receive the honor to buy one of these untested things.
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Amazon just upped the Cloud Photo storage ante with free unlimited Cloud storage for Photos for its Prime customers. The Amazon Photo service, which has apps for iOS or Android and is native to Amazon’s Fire products including its recently announced Fire stick, will no longer be capped for Prime customers.
Introducing Prime Photos. Your cherished memories are safe in Amazon Cloud Drive and accessible anywhere you are. It’s like having a virtual album of every one of your photos that you can access at any time, no matter which device you use.
According to TechCrunch, a Mac app is in the works but for now the web uploader works as well.
Prime is Amazon’s all-in-one premium service which allows free streaming music, 500,000 free eBooks, free Netflix-like TV service, free 2 day shipping on goods and services bought at Amazon. It is $99/year but grabbing a 30-day free trial 1 month before the holiday shopping season starts isn’t a bad idea. Folks who don’t want to fork out the $99 can get a 5 GB of free storage on Amazon Cloud Drive which is the equivalent to up to 2,000 photos. expand full story
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Update: A spokesperson for Amazon confirmed Amazon Rewards Visa cards now support Apple Pay: “Amazon Rewards Visa Cardholders can now pay with Apple Pay. The website (https://www.chasedigitalpayments.com/) has been updated and cardholders can now start provisioning their cards.”
Just two days after Amazon said it was working to enable its Rewards Visa card in Apple Pay, the company has made good on its promise. Reddit users are reporting success in adding the card, and TechCrunch posted the above photo of a card loaded into the app … expand full story
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We’re 2 short weeks away from Apple’s iPhone 6 announcement and that of course means it is almost time to trade in your current but now outdated tiny iPhone 3/4/5/s/c. Giving your non-sapphire 4-incher to a friend or relative? That’s nice of you but for those in the US who prefer cold hard cash, there are lots of great options out there.
In years past, we’ve put together roundups (2013, 2012) that include 12 different options but things change pretty quickly so we wait right until launch week to update ours. This year, Statista compared the major US trade in options out there two weeks ahead of time to find the best pricing.
The TL;DR is that Amazon gives you the most credit for an iPhone across all carriers and models and we’ve had good success here using Amazon. Additionally, Amazon credit for most of us is almost as good as cash (compared to say Best Buy where we might not be making another electronics purchase in the near future). That said, Amazon doesn’t offer the iPhone directly as a purchase and many folks will prefer to use the credit to directly buy their next iPhone.
As for cash money options, Glyde and NextWorth seem to be the winners with Gazelle bringing up the rear in most cases (Gazelle is offering a price lock which might be driving down their current offer).
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Small businesses looking to take occasional card payments without paying monthly fees now have a third option as Amazon has launched Local Register to compete with Square and PayPal Here – as we predicted last month. The $10 card-reader is compatible with any iPhone from the iPhone 4 onward, as well as any iPad or iPad mini.
Amazon is undercutting both competitor services with a flat fee of 2.5 percent per transaction (vs 2.7 percent for PayPal Here and 2.75 percent for Square). Not enough? Amazon is sweetening the deal with a special introductory rate of 1.75 percent until the end of 2015, and will also credit the $10 cost of the cardreader in full against transaction fees … expand full story


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For some time now we have heard that Apple is hard at work building up original TV shows likely for some unannounced service. Now we are getting a look at what we can expect from these new shows.
According to a report from Bloomberg Apple will not allow its upcoming shows to feature nudity, strong language, or violence. Instead, the company wants to focus on comedies and dramas.
According to reports produces and partners have labeled Apple as “conservative and picky.” Apple already has a history of editing their shows the Carpol Karaoke show on Apple Music has a been edited by Tim Cook in order to remove “foul language and references to vaginal hygiene” in the past.
Yet this has not stopped Apple from striking several deals with big names. Recently we learned that Apple had teamed up with Steven Spielberg to receive his Amazing Stories series from the 1980s.
Recently the online streaming originals have been dominated by services like Hulu, Amazon, and Netflix. For now, we will have to wait and see what Apple does next. Currently, all Apple originals end up on the Apple music service but they have a tie into Music. These new shows do not seem to be a good fit for Apple’s music service. Likely pointing to some type of new service and others have speculated that Apple plans to sell the shows exclusively through iTunes.
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Trade bodies representing alternative lenders have responded to Google’s policy to ban payday loan adverts from its systems.
The policy was announced on Wednesday May 11 as David Graff, director of global product policy for Google, effectively told the world that the search engine “will no longer allow ads for loans where repayment is due within 60 days of the date of issue.”
In a statement published on Google’s site Graff said: “We have an extensive set of policies to keep bad ads out of our systems. In 2015 alone, we disabled more than 780 million ads for reasons ranging from counterfeiting to phishing. Ads for financial services are a particular area of vigilance given how core they are to people’s livelihood and well being.
“In that vein, today we’re sharing an update that will go into effect on July 13, 2016: we’re banning ads for payday loans and some related products from our ads systems.
“In the US, we are also banning ads for loans with an APR of 36 percent or higher. When reviewing our policies, research has shown these loans can result in unaffordable payment and high default rates for users.”
Graff said the change is designed to protect Google’s users from deceptive or harmful financial products and will not affect companies offering loans such as mortgages, car loans, student loans, commercial loans, or credit cards.
But Jason Wassell, chief executive of the BCCA, said: “It is important to stress that this action is being taken against legal and licensed businesses without any consultation. Google, as a commercial business, should not be attempting to regulate global financial services.
“From what we can tell, Google are banning ads for loans that are less than 60 days in duration. They seem to be ignoring the fact that there is a legitimate need for small loans, for short periods, to tide people over to their next payday. It is interesting that they are not placing similar restrictions on car loans and credit cards.”
Wassell added: “We are particularly disappointed because this seems to be based on perceptions of the situation in the US. It does not recognise the new regulations that are in place here in the UK.”
Russell Hamblin-Boone, chief executive of the Consumer Finance Association, said: “We will be interested to read the evidence that Google uses to justify over-ruling open market advertising of a legal, regulated industry to deny people freedom of choice.
“Short-term loans are a legal source of credit used by millions of people across the UK and the industry is highly regulated with a cap on the total cost of credit. Under such intense scrutiny the rogue firms have been driven out of the market and reputable lenders will only lend to people who can afford to borrow.”
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One of the best plans of action in the stock market is staying with sector leaders. Typically those are more mature companies, but many times a newer outsider hits Wall Street, goes public and takes over an entire industry. For example, Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), which has only been a publicly traded company for just over four years. Regardless of their duration, the sector leaders tend to stay that way, especially in technology.
In separate new research reports, Merrill Lynch is very bullish on mega-cap tech companies. Three top stocks are highlighted here, and all three are rated Buy at Merrill Lynch. While not suitable for all accounts, they all make sense for longer term growth accounts with some risk tolerance.
This time two years ago, this company was the hottest thing on the planet and getting ready to come public. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE: BABA) is the largest online and mobile commerce company as measured by gross merchandise volume, and it had the highest profile initial public offering (IPO) of 2014. The stock has acted horrible since, printing highs at $120 in mid-November of 2014.
Plain and simple, the dominance in Alibaba’s core business, the very hard barrier to entry for competition and new growth opportunities like cross-border e-commerce make the stock extremely attractive. With most of the damage to the China equity markets seemingly subsided for now, the residual effect to the company may all subside some.
The Merrill Lynch team sees the company as cheap, with outstanding premium growth potential. They also note that the company has gone beyond e-commerce and developed into a sophisticated new type of conglomerate in the cyber-era with e-commerce as the base for the rest of the four businesses: logistics, finance, data-computing and cross-border infrastructure. They expect a whopping 24% compounded annual growth rate between now and 2018 for e-commerce in China.
The company recently reported huge quarterly numbers, and the driving force for some of the outperformance included social features, customized mobile app for users, cross-platform user tracking and ad targeting for merchants. In fact, growth returned to the levels the company was at when it went public.
The Merrill Lynch price target for the stock is $110. The Wall Street consensus price target is lower at $105.23. The shares closed Friday up big on the day at $98.25.


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British lender CYBG has signed a referral partnership to offer Worldpay’s payments services to its business customers.
The five-year alliance will enable the bank’s customers to avail the complete Worldpay payments suite. These include traditional and mobile POS solutions, online gateway products, and omni-channel payments technology.
Under the agreement, the bank’s customers can also access the payment firm’s other tools such as the Worldpay Business Dashboard.
The aim of the partnership is to accelerate the time taken by small businesses to set up and start operations.
CYBG group customer banking director Gavin Opperman said: “The completion of this new agreement marks the next phase of our partnership with Worldpay and the provision of merchant services to our customer base is an important cornerstone of our business offering as a full-service challenger bank.
‘As well as enhancing the services available for existing customers, this will also benefit customers who change their banking provider once the RBS Business Bank Switch Scheme launches in February 2019. This is a significant opportunity to increase competition in SMB Banking and the introduction of these additional payment products with Worldpay further boosts our technology offer.”
Worldpay currently processes over 40 billion transactions per year in 146 countries. The firm supports more than 300,000 small businesses in the UK.


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Intel has officially announced the new 8th Generation U and Y-series processor codenamed Whiskey Lake and Amber Lake respectively. The company has stated that these processors are specially made for thin and light laptops.
The processors that fall under the U-series are the i7-8565U which has a base clock speed of 1.8GHz and a boost clock speed of 4.6GHz, the i5-8265U has a base clock speed of 1.6Ghz and a boost clock of 3.9GHz, and the i3-8145U which is clocked at 2GHz with a boost clock of 3.9GHz. The most impressive improvement that Intel claimed these processors can offer is up to 16 hours of battery life and with power-optimized systems, they target to reach 19 hours of battery life.
The Y-series consist of the i7-8500Y comes with a base clock speed of 1.5GHz and boost clock speeds of 4.2GHz, the i5-8200Y has a base clock speed of 1.3GHz and boost clock speed of 3.9GHz and lastly, the m3-8100Y has a base clock speed of 1.1GHz and boost clock of 3.4GHz. It is not as impressive as the U-series but it will still come with faster WiFi and LTE speeds as well as an obvious gain in performance.
The U-series processors could be equipped in the upcoming 13-inch MacBook Air, which Apple has confirmed that they are releasing a device that will follow the design factor of the MacBook Air.


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WASHINGTON: A trade group representing alcohol retailers is stepping up a campaign blasting Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and General Motors.
The American Beverage Licensees (ABL) contends that MADD has strayed from its mission of fighting drunken driving to demonize all alcohol consumption, said Rick Berman, president of public affairs firm Berman & Co., which is handling the campaign for ABL.
It is attacking the group by pressuring GM to stop its continued support of MADD, which is now at a critical juncture. The auto giant's five-year commitment to donate $2.5 million to MADD ended in December, but GM plans to continue supporting the organization, said Alan Adler, GM's manager of product safety communications.
A test of the campaign began about a year and a half ago in Wisconsin and has now spread to 12 states. The group's board will meet in the next several weeks to discuss expanding the effort further and targeting other companies that give money to MADD, Berman said.
"We'll just allow the campaign to grow until there's some relief from the auto industry," Berman explained.
Efforts so far have included coasters, posters, and brochures at member bars and taverns; outdoor advertising at NASCAR events; and a website, www.MADDatGM.com. The brochures encourage people to think twice about buying from the car company.
ABL contends that the automaker is supporting MADD so that it doesn't have to talk about other driving problems, such as cell-phone use or excessive speed, said Berman.
But Adler said that isn't the case. "GM cares very, very much about impaired driving," which includes "anything that causes you to have anything but your eyes on the road and your hands on the wheel."
Heidi Castle, MADD's director of communications, said in a statement: "This campaign is an effort to distract the public from the real issue: drunk driving continues to be a threat to all of us."


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Just like the unseen parts used to make automobiles and airplanes work, the contributions of the Keystone State are often experienced — even if not always seen — every day around the world. The products manufactured in Pennsylvania help make the world function, but all of that could slow down if a critical trade agreement with our North American neighbors is not approved by Congress.
This is why, as president of Foerster Instruments, a manufacturer of equipment for the nondestructive testing of materials and components, I joined manufacturers from around the country in Washington last week to tell lawmakers how important it is to support and ratify the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.
According to the National Association of Manufacturers, more than 40,000 manufacturing jobs in Pennsylvania depend on manufacturing exports to Canada and Mexico. Of the more than 3,000 Pennsylvania manufacturers that export products to Canada and Mexico, 80% of them are small- and medium-sized companies. Pennsylvania’s small- and medium sized businesses benefit in many ways from the tariff-free trade made possible by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and that’s true in different sectors of our economy.
Consider, for instance, that small- and medium-sized businesses make up nearly three-quarters of the state’s exports of chemical and electrical equipment to Canada and Mexico — and that Pennsylvania’s chemical and electrical equipment exports to Canada and Mexico have increased by more than 60% over the last decade under the current NAFTA framework.
But NAFTA is now more than 25 years old and in need of an update. That’s why the leaders of the U.S., Canada and Mexico negotiated a new and modern agreement to replace it. Soon it will be submitted to Congress for a vote. That new agreement is the USMCA, and companies like mine are counting on Congress to pass it.
I had the opportunity to meet with top lawmakers and explain the importance of tariff-free trade to my business and how the USMCA would build on previous trade deals and provide less onerous requirements to ship manufactured goods to our North American neighbors. I let them know how many of the products we make are shipped to customers in Canada and Mexico.
I also explained that, without tariff-free trade across North America protected by a strong trade agreement, our state’s manufactured exports to Canada and Mexico could be hit with as much as $1.7 billion in extra taxes. Costs like that are enough to devastate any business. As a result, many of Pennsylvania’s manufacturers and the workers and communities they support would lose sales as competitors from Europe and Asia swoop in on our missed opportunity, steal our business and, along with it, the American dream. We can’t let that happen.
We need to cut the red tape and the arduous regulations that make it harder to do business. The USMCA does this for small manufacturers. If the USMCA is ratified, businesses like mine will be able to continue doing what we do best: create highly sophisticated components and provide constant innovations in products to our global customers. That’s good for Pennsylvania and it’s good for our country.
I hope you will join me in urging our lawmakers to support this vital agreement and ratify it when it comes to a vote this year.


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27th March 2024 – (Rome) U.S. automotive titan Tesla Inc. is reportedly in advanced discussions with Italian authorities to establish a new electric vehicle manufacturing hub in the nation’s southern region, Italian outlets revealed on Tuesday. The Elon Musk-led company is poised to focus on the production of electric trucks and vans, potentially marking a significant investment in Italy’s automotive sector.
The dialogue, which has been ongoing for several months, involves the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy, underscoring Italy’s strategic push to revitalise its car manufacturing industry. Tesla’s exploration of possible locations for the facility underscores the seriousness of the negotiations.
Italy’s overtures to Tesla come as part of a broader initiative by Rome to invigorate domestic car production, which has seen a decline in recent years. In a statement earlier this year, Minister Adolfo Urso highlighted the imperative to increase Italy’s annual car production from its current level of fewer than 800,000 vehicles to an ambitious target of 1.3 million. This surge is seen as vital to safeguarding the nation’s automotive industry, particularly as it navigates the seismic shift towards electric mobility.
The American electric vehicle giant’s interest in Italy aligns with the country’s broader engagement with global automakers. Reports indicate that Italy is also in discussions with a trio of Chinese manufacturers—BYD, Great Wall Motors, and Chery Automobile—suggesting a competitive international landscape as countries vie for a leadership role in the burgeoning EV market.


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Canada Crackdown – The Canadian government just announced that going forward it will regulate any businesses “dealing in virtual currency” as Money Services Businesses (MSBs). This move is aimed at protecting Canada’s financial ecosystem from potential terrorist financing activities and money laundering.
Canada considers money service businesses as those that handle money, but are not ‘official’ chartered banks; such as money transfer services and foreign exchange services.
The report states:
“Persons and entities that are “dealing in virtual currency” would be financial entities or other entities deemed domestic or foreign MSBs, as …
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Thousands of homes and businesses in Sydney’s CBD will be without phone, internet or mobile services today – and some could be cut off for several days – after a contractor accidentally severed crucial underground cables.
While the exact extent of the outage is not yet known, the impact to businesses could be as high as millions of dollars, businesses say.
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Travel Trade Madlives Opens Voting for TTM Awardfs 2022!
Travel Trade Maldives – leading travel trade business resource of the Maldives has opened voting for the TTM Awards 2022.
Travel industry professionals and consumers worldwide are invited to cast their votes for resorts and hotels they consider to be the very best in the Maldives for each category.
The voting process will consist of 25% votes from the TTM editorial team, 25% votes taken from an expert panel and 50% votes taken from the public for all the categories.
To vote for the nominated resorts and hotels, you can.
Each person can cast their vote once and voting will continue until 31st July 2022.
The winners of TTM Awards 2022 will be unveiled at TTM Awards and Gala Night on 25th August 2022 at CROSSROADS Maldives. The awards and gala night is set to be even larger and better this year, providing all tourism industry professionals with a fun-filled evening.
This year, Travel Trade Maldives also revealed a stunning new award design for TTM Maldives 2022. The design incorporates varying shades of blue you can see in the oceans and lagoons of the Maldives, along with corals and a majestic whale shark.
The award’s design also centers around the theme: “Save the Oceans”. The ocean provides coastal destinations such as our nation with jobs such as fishing, a practice that has been passed down through generations, as well as other significant industries, like tourism. The coral reef system of Maldives is considered the seventh largest on Earth, representing 3.14% of the world’s reef area and are literally the basis of the Maldivian life-support system. It is our responsibility to protect the marine ecosystem as our livelihoods depend on the conservation and preservation of the oceans.
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Spanning across 20 cities, the first set of experiences is slated to take place in Vadodara on July 15, 2023, Surat on July 16, 2023, and Hyderabad on July 16, 2023
TVS Apache series offers performance-led motorcycles across two categories - Naked and Super Sport
The 2023 TVS Apache RTR 160 4V Special Edition in Pearl White colour is priced at Rs. 1,30,090 (ex-showroom, Delhi)
As a segment first, these motorcycles get three ride modes namely - Rain, Urban and Sport, showcasing their adaptability to different conditions.
To commemorate the 4 million global sales milestone celebrations, TVS Motor Company, in collaboration with its TVS Apache customers has created the “Longest Chequered Flag” spanning a length of 957 feet.
TVS Apache RTR 200 4V is powered by a 197.75cc single-cylinder motor which is mated to a 5-speed gearbox.
This special edition would be available in Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, and Karnataka at an attractive price of Rs. 1,20,000.
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Early impressions of the Samsung Galaxy Fold got a lot of users excited for the device until potentially big display issues started popping up. Now, Samsung has reportedly made the decision to postpone the official launch of the Galaxy Fold, at least in China.
Reports today reveal that Samsung has apparently canceled its launch events for the Galaxy Fold in Hong Kong and Shanghai which were both scheduled for this coming week. Now, the 4/23 and 4/24 events have been postponed until further notice as Engadget’s Richard Lai notes on Twitter.
SamMobile explains that Samsung is claiming the delay is due to a last-minute issue with the venue, but Ice Universe says on Twitter that multiple other activities have also been canceled relating to the Galaxy Fold launch. That combined with last week’s display issues support the idea that Samsung is delaying the phone in general, despite sticking firmly to the April 26th launch last week.
Samsung Galaxy Fold launch events in Hong Kong and Shanghai have been postponed. They were originally scheduled for this Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively.
— Richard Lai (@richardlai) April 21, 2019
The Galaxy Fold launch has been looked forward to by many since the device’s official reveal back in March. However, after last week’s frightening display issues, many are expecting Samsung to delay the device. Phillip Berne, a former Samsung employee, believes that this delay is because the company doesn’t have answers on what is to blame just yet. Another working theory is that Samsung is postponing the launch to revise the device’s packaging with more obvious warnings.
Personally, I’d say it’s a wise move either way.
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Goodwill stores in Kentucky are letting folks know that they have all the necessary components for a timely Halloween costume: presidential debate sensation Ken Bone.
The tweet said people can stop by their local Goodwill to pick up the requisite apparel to help them channel the St. Louis native.
“Red sweater. White tie. Khaki pants. Stop by Goodwill to become a hero (read: #KenBone) for Halloween,” said the tweet, which was sent out Tuesday morning.
Bone grabbed the attention of debate viewers across the country Sunday when he stood and asked the candidates about energy policy. Viewers hit social media to praise the man for everything from his outfit, name and demeanor to the disposable camera he whipped out at the end of the debate to capture the moment.


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By Victoria Capital
In a context of unusual stability and then a sharp drop in Bitcoin in general and crypto-currencies in particular (-17% over one month for Bitcoin), atrad.io achieved a monthly performance of 7.32% in September (118% over 12 sliding months).
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Creative Investment Research announces the publication of our latest research paper on cryptocurrency and monetary policy.
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Derivatives offer this solution as they provide the ability to hedge in volatile markets. PLOUTOZ believes every crypto asset can be hedged and every blockchain community has derivative market.
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Assemblymember Phil Ting of San Francisco introduced AB 953, which will allow cannabis businesses to pay state taxes using virtual currency.
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Winemaker Paul Charles’ journey into the wine industry started off with a visit that changed his life.
As a scientist, Dr. Dawna Darjean Jones' first introduction into winemaking was by studying the grapes.
As South Africa's first black winery owner, Jabulani Ntshangase is on a mission to make sure black South Africans take ownership in the wine industry.
Noted as the first black winemaker in the state of Oregon, Bertony Faustin of Abbey Creek Vineyard is proving that if you put your focus on something, it can be a success.
5 fabulous chefs from around the country team up with the House of Mandela to pair 2 great wines with 10 delicious recipes.
As the first and only black-owned craft beer company in New Orleans, Cajun Fire Brewing Co. is on track to begin distributing next spring.
With an upcoming documentary about black and Latino winemakers in the state of Oregon, André Mack continues to grow Mouton Noir as the largest black-owned wine label in the United States.


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NEW YORK — Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson expects the price of oil to remain low over the next two years because of ample global supplies and relatively weak economic growth.
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A bipartisan bill backed by OOIDA would reverse a longstanding law that prevents truck drivers from receiving overtime pay.
Rep. Andy Levin, D-Mich., has introduced H.R. 7517 – the Guaranteeing Overtime for Truckers Act. The bill would repeal the motor carrier overtime exemption in the Fair Labor Standards Act. The bill aims to ensure that truck drivers are fairly compensated for all of the hours they work.
The original design of the exemption passed in the 1930s was to prevent truckers from working too many hours. The reality, the Association says, is that the “outdated law” prevents truckers from receiving fair compensation.
“We know that for too long, too many people throughout the supply chain have placed little or no value on a driver’s time,” OOIDA President Todd Spencer said. “This is partly because of the FLSA overtime exemption.”
OOIDA said that requiring overtime for truckers will force shippers and receivers to move freight in an expedited fashion or compensate drivers for the time they are stuck at the facility.


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Verizon has announced that the 4G LTE version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 is now available from their network, costing $500 (plus at least $30 more for a monthly data service).
A new rumor provides details a few more details regarding Samsung’s next “Big Thing”: The Galaxy S IV will reportedly rock a 5-inch 1080p screen.
In the market for a point-and-shoot that also comes with Android smarts? Something like that is about to hit the store shelves later this week. The Samsung Galaxy Camera is set to land on AT&T on Friday, November 16th, for $500.
Samsung is bundling a copy of Assassin’s Creed III with their 840 Pro drives. They’re still too expensive for the mainstream crowd, but this might lessen the sting if you’re looking to match an awesome system with an awesome game.


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New Logistics Trade Association for IrelandUKWA – the United Kingdom Warehousing Association – has announced the formation of the All Ireland Warehousing Association (AIWA).
AIWA embraces all companies in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland that provide warehousing and other logistics support services in the supply chain. Like UKWA, it is also open to retailers and manufacturers who operate their own warehousing and distribution functions.
The Association will be directly affiliated to UKWA and will be run from an office in Claremorris, County Mayo.
Roger Williams, UKWA’s CEO, announced the launch of the AIWA at a the annual UKWA networking luncheon held at the Slieve Donard Hotel, Newcastle, County Down.
He commented: “The new organisation will be able to properly serve the needs of the whole of the Irish warehousing and logistics sector. We believe that an organisation affiliated to UKWA and working closely with us will provide a focus for this important sector.”
A dedicated website – www.warehousingireland.ie – has been established and an executive steering group formed to take the new association forward.
The launch of the new association means that for the first time Ireland’s third party storage and warehousing community has an Ireland-based trade body dedicated to its needs.
Roger Williams added: “Membership of AIWA will give companies the peace of mind to concentrate on their core business, confident in the knowledge that the Association is representing their interests at all levels and keeping them updated and informed on news and developments covering a wide range of issues affecting the 3PL sector.”
The new Association’s Membership categories have been structured to allow companies whose distribution sites are less than 50,000 square feet in size to those with facilities of over 1,000,000 square feet to join AIWA cost effectively.
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