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Romanian ironmakers: ‘We can’t sell our products’
RTE 6 May 15 : 19:50:55 Romania’s largest steelmaking company is set to open an ironmaking facility in the capital Bucharest.
Romania’s biggest steelmaking giant is set for an ironworking plant in the Romanian capital.
Romanian steelmaker Hisarna Ironmaking has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Romania’s National Ironworks Agency (NIA), which aims to expand its ironmaking capabilities to a number of countries.
The company, which employs more than 50,000 people in Romania, is set on expanding its workforce to more than 1,000, and will invest an additional $15m (£10m) in the facility, the NIA said.NIA director general Marius Popescu said the company would begin operations in 2018, and that it would invest an extra $15 million to increase the capacity of its ironworks to 2,000 employees.
“We are now ready to expand and we will invest even more in this area, we are ready to hire more employees,” Popescus told RTE.
“I am convinced that this facility will give us a better chance of expanding our operations and our output in Romania,” he said.
“There is no other ironmaker in Romania that is able to produce such high quality and to do it in a safe and secure environment.”
The company is planning to open the factory in 2019.
We are also very confident that the ironmaking capacity will grow.
“Romania has one of the most extensive ironmaking operations in Europe, employing around 200,000 workers.
The country also produces more steel than any other country in Europe and is ranked third in the world for its steel production.
Its steel industry is widely regarded as the second-largest in the European Union behind Germany.
The government said the facility will provide opportunities for Romanian steel producers to increase their output and increase the quality of their products.
The agreement with NIA also aims to create a new company for the Romanian steel industry, which would be an official branch of the government.
The NIA, which is based in Brest, is one of Romania’s biggest industrial authorities.
The head of the Romanian Ironmaking company, Antonescu Pajic, told RTV that he hopes the new facility will lead to greater export opportunities.”
It is good news that the company is going to invest in the future,” he told the channel.”
In addition, we will work with our partners and customers to bring a better quality product to market.
“The NAA has said that it is committed to increasing production and quality of steel.


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Tesla has appointed Robyn Denholm as chair of its board of directors, replacing the company’s billionaire founder Elon Musk, who was ousted from the role in September following several controversies.
Denholm, 55, will assume the position at the electric carmaker immediately and go full-time once her six-month notice period at Australian telecommunications company Tesltra ends.
Tesla said Musk, 47, who remains the company’s chief executive and biggest investor, would provide Denholm with any support she requests to ‘ensure a smooth transition’.
Musk was fined $20m (€17.5m) by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and agreed to step down as Tesla chairman for three years over tweets he made about taking the firm back into private ownership.
In August, Musk tweeted: ‘Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secure,’ implying he had secured funding to buy all outstanding Tesla shares for $420 each.
The SEC sued Musk, alleging he had made ‘false or misleading statements’ regarding the sale of Tesla as he had ‘recently learned about the number’s [420’s] significance in marijuana culture.’
The US financial regulator claimed in court filings that Musk thought his girlfriend, the singer Grimes, ‘would find it funny, which admittedly is not a great reason to pick a price.’
Musk is also being sued by British diver Vernon Unsworth, who led efforts to free a boy’s soccer team from a cave in Thailand, for calling him a ‘pedo’ and got in trouble for smoking cannabis during a podcast recording.
The incidents led to Tesla’s share price being hammered on the stock market, falling from a high of $380 when Musk made his ‘420’ tweet to a low of $264 in the days before he agreed to step down.
Despite the scandals, Tesla made profits of $312m (€272m) in the third quarter from revenues of $6.8bn (€6bn) as the Tesla Model 3 became one of the most popular cars in the US.
Of Denholm’s appointment, Musk said: ‘Robyn has extensive experience in both the tech and auto industries, and she has made significant contributions as a Tesla board member over the past four years in helping us become a profitable company.
‘I look forward to working even more closely with Robyn as we continue accelerating the advent of sustainable energy.’
‘I believe in this company, I believe in its mission and I look forward to helping Elon and the Tesla team achieve sustainable profitability and drive long-term shareholder value,’ Denholm said.

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A massive jump of 37% in in stainless steel imports has set the industry reeling. While domestic capacity for manufacture of stainless steel is around 2.68 million tonne per annum led by key players like, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and Jindal Stainless Ltd, a portion of it has remained idle due to threat of imports.
Apart from China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand have also started exporting stainless steel to India, though China still accounts for bulk of the imports. Many of them are taking advantage of the lower tariff regime as part of the various existing Free Trade Agreements.
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More than 4,000 retired food store employees covered by a union-employers benefit fund saw their health insurance premiums double this month, and their union plans to protest the increases by picketing supermarket offices today.
Retirees will picket the Baltimore offices of the Giant and Super Fresh chains and the Landover offices of Safeway, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers union.
The supermarket retirees found that their insurance co-payments jumped from $80 a month to $171.95 in January.
"The co-payments were increased by the [plan] board of trustees based on utilization in 1990, but the union wants other alternatives rather than socking it to the retirees," said Joseph Kerhart, a spokesman for Local 27, UFCW, in Baltimore. He said the union hoped the picketing would convince the supermarkets to find a way to roll back the retirees' increases.


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I am humbled by the opportunity I received to go to New York City as media for the BlackBerry 10 Launch last Wednesday. Thanks to Art, and NerdBerry for bringing it about. When it comes to a summation of the experience I cannot narrow my view of BlackBerry but RIP, RIM. While many pundits believe the launch lacked steam, I see it entirely differently. The brief BB10 launch highlighted many nice features of the Z10 and Q10 but did little to wow anyone. And that is all by design.
BlackBerry’s biggest problem is one of supply and demand. Think back to the delay of BlackBerry 10 into Q1.
“The Company announced its CORE (Cost Optimization and Resource Efficiency) program in March of (2012). The program is focused on delivering operational savings through various initiatives, with financial objectives for the program targeted to drive at least $1 billion in savings by the end of fiscal 2013, based on RIM’s Q4” (Press Release)
“Celestica has been a high-performing manufacturing supplier for RIM and will work closely with RIM throughout the transition. As discussed on the company’s first quarter results conference call on April 24, Celestica has been working with RIM as it assesses its supply chain strategy. ” (Press Release)
Back in November of 2012 Heins interviewed with Engadget saying they already had 60 million in the bank after “Right Sizing” the company based of CORE. Meaning they are off to a steady start.
With a smaller, leaner and meaner BlackBerry launching into the mobile arena what is their strategy?
To Keep Moving,
As they further reveal the depth of the platform you will see BlackBerry 10 launching through key partner arrangements which will unite the brand name and identity with a new age of connected electronics in the domain of mobile computing.
Innovation is the key to the recipe and yes the competition is stiff but as the market turns, BlackBerry wants to be a rocket in the space. Leveraging the reality they’ve birthed with BlackBerry 10 and utilizing its remarkable QNX 8 micro kernel to bring The platform full circle.
BlackBerry’s very real problem is that they have become a smaller player by choice in a game of giants. BlackBerry is releasing their new BB10 platform piecemeal so as to keep ammo for the fight throughout the year. Ultimately being a smaller player means you have a higher cost proposition when building hardware. They have taken a staggered global approach to launch BlackBerry 10 so they can be sure they have enough supply to meet their demand, and the demand is growing every day, and that’s the point. As BlackBerry gains traction in the game they’ll have more skin to successfully launch the rest of the platform and by the end of February you’ll start to see just how large the platform is.
The BlackBerry World application storefront is shabby to say the least, with good titles hidden inside. BlackBerry is holding back a lot of the big names, while others finish up their apps so that when the BB10 launches in the US in March, it will have a more quality app store with which to attack the American market.
The Keep Moving projects will be standalone campaigns tied to the core message the new brand wants to portray. Inside BlackBerry its all about the successful launch of BB10.
As the UK, Canada and China get there hands on the Z10 a global buzz will build around the brand, reigning American interest and pushing shareholder value. BlackBerry is going to pose incremental updates to PlayBook and BB10 which will bring new innovative features to all the core applications while bringing in big name apps to bolster the application perspective of the company to gen consumers. They want the message to be resounding like BlackBerry is back, relevant, and innovative as if things were riding–business as usual. Their subtle Super Bowl ad was a nod to that strategy. While having nothing to do with the Keep Moving campaign it set the stage for millions of Americans to pique their interest, as the world begins to hear more and more about BlackBerry 10.
Managing costs will be crucial as they aim to cut the 1 billion in operating cost. Streamlining your company while also trying to grow it is a risky play. But the ongoing strategic review has been adding factors into the mix for months as they line up their ducks for a great 2013.
Sure their Z10 phone isn’t an iPhone killer but the point is it doesn’t need to be to a killer to be successful. CEO Thorsten Heins is too wise to bet the future of his company on cell phones alone, and the vertical play will come as BlackBerry starts making bigger moves into the Internet of Things, connecting automotive and health care (places the QNX operating system already dominates) into the brand mindshare.
The consumer play will come through licensing as BlackBerry 10 stands up on its first two feet the Z10/Q10.
By the end of February as we get closer to the US launch BlackBerry will be doing everything right to make sure they can afford to keep playing ball, if they came out guns blazing and didn’t deliver it would impact the overall strategy they plan to unveil. Why shoot yourself in the foot out of the gate?


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PHOENIX, Ariz. (May 12, 2020) – In response to surging demand for electronic claim payments, leaders at Vālenz™ today announced the rollout of the Valenz payment solution. This development further expands the Valenz ecosystem to include fully automated solutions for electronic provider payments.
With the Valenz payment solution, payers and third-party administrators can automate and streamline payment processes for health, dental and workers’ compensation claims – eliminating the delays of manual payment processes and ensuring payments arrive on time. While the need for electronic payment solutions was already on the rise, the widespread shift to working from home has led to rapid acceleration of the Valenz payment solution, now being released ahead of its original late 2020 schedule.
“COVID-19 has presented many unforeseen operational challenges, especially for organizations with manual processes that raise barriers to conducting business as usual right now,” said Jordan Hersh, Vice President, Enterprise Solutions at Valenz, adding that Valenz is dedicated to meeting client needs even as those needs change day by day during the pandemic response. “The current situation called for us to provide electronic payment solutions as soon as possible for our clients, and we were very happy to make that happen.”
The Valenz payment solution enables clients to send provider payments on time and according to their providers’ own preferences, including virtual card payments. Timely, accurate payments are an important part of maintaining healthy relationships with hospitals and providers, and electronic claim payments eliminate manual steps to streamline operations and reduce expenses. With the Valenz payment solution, all payments are processed on a single system of record, regardless of payment type. And, because security is paramount, the platform is HIPAA and NACHA compliant, and it meets all federal and state requirements for electronic payments.
“Simplified payment processes, operational efficiency and clearer communications benefit all health plan partners, especially while working through significant changes in the work environment,” said Rob Gelb, Valenz Chief Executive Offer. “The Valenz payment solution is an important part of our promise to support our clients in achieving smarter, better, faster healthcare.”
Learn more here.
Through a complete health administrative ecosystem, Valenz connects cost and quality data on a single-source, end-to-end analytics platform for smarter, better, faster healthcare. Valenz solutions integrate data from comprehensive care management services (Valenz Care), high-value provider networks (Valenz Access), claim flow management (Valenz Claim) and solutions for payment integrity, revenue cycle management and eligibility compliance (Valenz Assurance) into the ecosystem. More information is available at valenzhealth.com. Valenz is backed by Great Point Partners.
About Great Point Partners
Great Point Partners (“GPP”), founded in 2003 and based in Greenwich, CT, is a leading healthcare investment firm, currently with approximately $1.8 billion of equity capital under management and 28 professionals, investing in the United States, Canada and Western Europe. Learn more at www.gppfunds.com.


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According to recent reports, Apple is introducing 700 new price tiers for programs in its App Store, with the lowest tier starting at $0.29 and the highest at $10,000, however, the extremely high tier is only available “upon request” by developers.
The modifications come after a $100 million settlement with developers in August 2021, as part of which the company guaranteed, among other things, to increase the price points developers can provide to customers. The App Store will become an even better economic prospect for developers, according to what Apple announced at the time.
Additionally, Apple’s changes also come at a time when Apple is under fire for the limitations and costs it imposes on developers, notably the 30% commission it charges for some of the programs available in its app store.
Apple announced on Tuesday that in addition to the new price points it’s rolling out, it is also releasing new tools that will make it simpler for developers to establish prices depending on a country or region, handle changes in foreign exchange rates, and do lots more.
It stated that the new pricing improvements would be made accessible for apps that offer automatically renewing subscriptions beginning on Tuesday and for additional apps and in-app purchases starting next spring.
The Apple App Store currently offers 900 distinct price tiers for apps. From the lowest price of $0.29 up to $10, every $0.10 mark is now available, and between $10 and $50, every $0.50.
Although it might be surprising to see an app listed on the App Store with a $10,000 worth of price tag, however, it’s not uncommon to see expensive apps in the store. Some apps cost $999.99 right now, a typical example is the piano tuning program Cyber Tuner. The very high-end pricing is available to developers “upon request” only


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San Francisco-based startup Flingo today launched a suite of white-label applications to integrate Web and television into an intelligent type of interactivity.
Flingo enables broadcasters, advertisers and creators to add additional elements to what the viewer sees on the television screen. It knows what the content is, so it make sure what its apps contribute is relevant to the viewer’s experience.
Broadcasters can deliver content enhancements or other options for increasing engagement, since Flingo enables them to build mobile and web applications that are aware of what television content the viewer is watching.
Flingo also makes interactive advertising into almost a native application. It can offer clickable adds directly into the browser or app the consumer is already using, making it possible for the consumer to interact without leaving the entertainment content. This also delivers a direct response opportunity for television advertisers.
“TV is essentially the last frontier. Until now, the Web hasn’t penetrated the TV viewing experience,” said Ashwin Navin, CEO and co-founder of Flingo. “Flingo’s goal is to build that bridge between Web and TV so that the TV experience is a better reflection of what the viewer cares about. We have taken careful steps to forge an ecosystem where businesses and viewers alike can participate and benefit from the tremendous potential of Internet-connected television.”
The company, which was launched in 2008 by BitTorrent alumni Navin and David Harrison, has been quietly building smart TV apps as it grew out its product line. It also has been making deals to be embedded in TV chipsets. To date it has been licensed by consumer electronics manufacturers like LG, Samsung, Vizio, Insignia, Sanyo and Western Digital, meaning 5.7 million screens in 117 countries are already Flingo-enabled.
Flingo enters into a nascent but promising market where among its competitors is Yahoo!’s Connected TV. DisplaySearch forecasts say connected TV shipments will exceed 138 million units annually, for a total of 500 million by 2015.
Flingo’s new suite of publishing tools uses an open API that is freely available for developers to download. These tools are in addition to Fling, the company’s Open Source project that lets people “fling” videos and music from the Web to a queue of programming on their television screen. Viewers drag a bookmarklet to the browser bookmarks bar, and then browse a Flingo-supported website such as YouTube or Vimeo from a laptop or tablet. The website automatically searches for and discovers the viewer’s smart TV.
DisplaySearch forecast: http://tinyurl.com/66tmrkr


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Delegates from North and South Korea held talks Saturday on restarting a stalled joint factory park that had been a symbol of cooperation between the bitter rivals, but there was no word on whether any significant progress had been made as discussions went into the night.
Cameras that check around the car for pedestrians. Radar that stops you from drifting out of your lane. An engine able to turn off automatically at traffic lights to conserve fuel. Technology that saves lives — and fuel — is getting better and cheaper. That means it's no longer confined to luxury brands like Mercedes and Volvo. It's showing up in mainstream vehicles like the Nissan Rogue and Ford Fusion.
Chinese authorities have filed criminal charges against nearly a dozen public officials blamed for the high death toll in a fire last month that killed 121 people in a poultry plant in the northeast. China's top prosecuting agency has charged 11 public officials with dereliction of duty, according to a report Friday in the agency's official publication, Jiancha Daily.
Chrysler is recalling 282,000 minivans from the 2013 model year because the side air bags can deploy on the wrong side in a crash. Side air bags are supposed to deploy on the side of the vehicle that's involved in a crash. Chrysler says a software problem is causing its air bags to deploy on the opposing side of the vehicle.
A group of primarily European retailers and clothing makers has set a deadline of next spring to inspect clothing factories in Bangladesh that make garments for the companies. The group of 70 companies includes Swedish retailer H&M, Italian clothing maker Benetton and French retailer Carrefour. They say they will concentrate on renovating the most hazardous factories.
Economic activity in the manufacturing sector returned to a slow, steady expansion in June, say the nation’s supply executives in the latest ISM Report On Business. The PMI number indicated expansion in manufacturing for the fifth time in six months, reversing May’s contracting PMI rate of 49 percentage points. Although U.S. manufacturing is growing at a slow, steady rate, it’s still in line to meet yearly expectations.
According to the business consulting firm Jones Lang LaSalle, there has been a significant uptick in the number of tech manufacturing jobs in the U.S. since 2001. One of the major reasons for expanding manufacturing to the U.S. stems from the desire to have factories closer to consumers and those who can then fix problems.
Bigfoot OSH (Occupational Safety and Health) is an add-on solution that can help maintenance organizations ensure worker health and safety, pass regulatory inspections, and avoid fines.
The innovative optical system of DELOLUX 202 / 400 generates an extremely even irradiation area with intensities of more than 200 mW/cm², says the company.
The LED Telescoping Magnetic Flashlight Pick Up Tool that offers the ability for the user to find and retrieve objects in hard to reach areas.
The special-purpose conveyor chains are used for gripping, collecting, and transporting thin-walled, large-surface materials.
The new RW6072 features a 20 HP pump curve reservoir mounted vertical centrifugal pumps, giving approximately 200 gallon per minute pump capacity at approximately 65 pounds per square inch pressure.
A new line of Safety Contact Mats is now available for safeguarding personnel around machines, presses, robots, and other types of active equipment.
The OPTIMAX 400 features a high-output LED that causes fluorescent dyes to glow more brilliantly and with greater contrast than conventional lamps, says the company.
The shelves are easily adjustable and removable, and have a 180-pound capacity. The cart itself can hold up to 1,800 pounds.
The Milwaukee WP features oil-and slip-resistant non-marking rubber outsole and patent-pending asymmetrical steel toes delivering lightweight protection to a boot built to work.
Terminator Impact Bits include two component impact absorbing materials combined for enhanced tool life and optimized dual material torsion zone allows 60 degrees of twist.
The SUP-500 NF is an Upcut Circular Cold Saw designed specifically for cutting non-ferrous material.
Meeting stringent design and performance specifications, the self-testing, self-diagnostic EON is UL 924 listed as “Emergency Lighting Equipment” and “Auxiliary Lighting and Power Equipment,” as well as NFPA compliant as “Life Safety Equipment,” says the company.


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On June 16th, we’ll all be a little wiser about exactly how harsh 2015 will be on our collective gamer wallets.
Phil Spencer has tweeted tantalising hints about the Xbox One presentation. We know that it’ll carry more first party IP than ever before, something people criticised the Xbox 360 for lacking; we know that Microsoft will announce new exclusives and we now know that HoloLens will make its presence known on the Xbox stage for the first time.
Square Enix and Bethesda both have their own presentations for the first time, and we have mammoth amounts of beloved franchises in development for their first outings on Xbox One and PS4.
I’ve put together a list of my personal most anticipated E3 announcements, partly to kick off discussions and partly to vent some of my bottomless hype.


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MINNEAPOLIS (August 27, 2018) - Indian Motorcycle, America’s first motorcycle company founded in 1901, today announced its 2019 Scout lineup with new paint options on Scout Sixty, Scout and Scout Bobber. Key feature upgrades for 2019 include an expanded ABS offering and a new USB charging port on Scout and Scout Bobber models.
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@indianmotocycle •@SturgisRally •@AMAProFlatTrack •MINNEAPOLIS (August 8, 2016) — Indian Motorcycle®, America’s first motorcycle company, unleashed its all-new Indian Scout FTR750 flat track race bike in a place synonymous with the brand – the 76th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
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@indianmotorcycle •MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (November 30, 2015) — Indian Motorcycle®, America’s first motorcycle company, today announced its ‘Project Scout: Build a Legend’ custom program.
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@Indianmotocycles • MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — November 18, 2015 — Indian Motorcycle®, America’s first motorcycle company, today introduced the latest addition to its 2016 lineup — the all-new Indian Scout® Sixty — from the floor of the EICMA International Motorcycle Show in Milan, Italy.
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MEDINA, Minn. — August 4, 2014 — As a sneak peek to its model year 2015 lineup, Indian Motorcycle®, America's first motorcycle company, is pleased to announces the launch of the 2015 Indian Scout™, a contemporary yet classic interpretation of one of motorcycling's most famous and coveted bikes.
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"You're basically saying, 'We had power failure in a location but unfortunately we were unable to continue operations from a secondary data center despite the fact that we spent hundreds of millions of dollars on it."
Empowers customers to fight back by detecting malicious activity as it appears on the Internet
San Francisco – July 28, 2016 – RiskIQ, the leader in external threat management, today announced general availability for its Security Intelligence Services, a ground-breaking new product that uses the Internet itself as a detection system to automatically defend a network from cyber attacks. Attackers use automation and can launch sophisticated attacks at very low cost by rotating and reusing undetected infrastructure. RiskIQ has provided defenders with access to Internet datasets, advanced analytics and machine learning to stay one step ahead. With Security Intelligence Services, RiskIQ now detects unknown threats at the source and tracks how attacks change and spread—in real-time.
Users can now more easily collaborate with global sales teams with real-time multilingual translation within the Salesforce platform
WAKEFIELD, Mass., 22nd June, 2016 – SDL today announced it has launched Global Team, a new app on the Salesforce AppExchange that empowers businesses to connect with their customers, partners and employees in entirely new ways across more than 100 languages.
Built on the Salesforce App Cloud, SDL Global Team is currently available on the AppExchange.
Whenever a new version of the SharePoint is about to be launched this “migration fever” catches many who just can’t wait for the dose of the feature-packed new SharePoint. But, an unsuccessful migration will only make things complicated, and you may find yourself riding on the road to nowhere. Nevertheless, the hard work pays off. The right preparations will ensure that you do the migration right and the SharePoint 2016 does exactly what it promises to do: work wonder for your organization’s collaborative content development.
Here is a list of top five points that you just can’t skip before you migrate to SharePoint 2016.
Global leader in content delivery streamlines website management for its own multilingual web properties to deliver improved customer experience and reduce internal costs
WAKEFIELD, Mass. – June 07, 2016 – SDL (LSE: SDL) today announced that Akamai, the global leader in content delivery network services, has rebuilt its corporate website and increased the effectiveness of its multilingual marketing efforts by leveraging SDL’s web and language technologies alongside specialized language services.
Akamai revolutionizes how businesses optimize the delivery of consumer, enterprise and entertainment experiences for any device, and its web presence is instrumental in demonstrating the value of its services. The company had previously been managing its corporate site in-house and had been using a third-party to manage translated regional sites through a translation proxy solution. To gain more control and to leverage the digital channel to the fullest, Akamai invested in bringing all of the sites in-house on an enterprise CMS.
Digital Transformation is bringing content, insights and experience together to generate value. The use of digital transformation helps enterprises to streamline their business processes which are essential for achieving ideal output. With the advent of upgraded applications, enterprises are investing major proportion of their revenue in digital technologies and in research and development for the organic growth of the company. Today, it has become important for all CXOs to look technology adoption in line with the business needs of each department and function.
The proliferation of digital channels such as Mobile, Social media on the one hand and disruptive technologies such as the Cloud, Internet of Things and Big Data on the other have created new opportunities for the enterprise providing a level playing field for companies, young and old. These technologies are used by enterprises to discover new revenue opportunities, improve features to their traditional systems, as well as help in improving their customer relationships, thus becoming qualitatively more efficient.
Bizagi 11 to help enterprises accelerate the speed of transformation
London, UK – June 1, 2016: Bizagi, a leading global provider of digital process automation software, today launches Bizagi 11 – The Digital Business Platform – a solution powerful enough to deliver rapid digital transformation effectively across a wide range of business environments.
The release of Bizagi 11 ensures the company continues its independently recognized technology leadership by providing a single, proven platform that delivers both efficiency and engagement improvements across employee and customer digital touchpoints. By easily wrapping legacy IT systems with Bizagi technology, enterprises of all sizes can seamlessly orchestrate processes, communication channels, data streams and devices to deliver the operational agility required by incumbent businesses to win in today’s disruptive digital economy.
London 31st May 2016: IOCS, the provider of the world’s first service automating end-to-end financial agreement processes, has today announced a full rebrand and unveiled its new corporate identity. Effective immediately IOCS will be known as Dealflo, a name that better represents its unique solution.
Dealflo is a Fintech pioneer, offering cloud based financial agreements automation to leading providers across sectors including motor and retail finance, banking and insurance. Its long term and rapidly growing user base stand as testament of the way Dealflo revolutionises financial agreement processes whatever their workflow, risk or complexity.
The new name better represents where the company is today and its vision for the future. Dealflo’s new look and tagline ‘Financial transactions re-imagined’ demonstrates its innovative approach - pushing the boundaries of financial agreement automation beyond traditional electronic signature providers. Dealflo decreases risk and cost whilst increasing conversion and sales.
SAN MATEO, Calif. – May 23, 2016 - Searchmetrics today announced it has secured nearly $8 million in new financing to fuel new growth opportunities and initiatives for the company’s award-winning search optimization and content performance software suite.
Searchmetrics, a leading vendor of global SEO software and analytics tools, has raised more than $31 million in equity funding over five rounds since it was founded in late 2007. Major investors include Holtzbrinck Digital and Iris Capital. The new financing, a 7 million euro ($7.96 million US) debt facility, comes from Kreos Capital, Europe’s leading provider of growth debt financing to high-growth companies.
“In Kreos, we found an ideal partner to refine and expand our investments in the product and in customer service,” said Searchmetrics Chief Executive Officer Volker Smid. “We look forward to continuing the momentum seen in the first five months of the year.”
Five key insights unveil technology trends and forecasts for the market future
SDL announced the release of its Translation Technology Insights research study, examining the role of technology in the translation industry. With nearly 3,000 respondents across 115 countries and nine languages, the survey findings are comprised of responses from freelance translators, employees of translation agencies and translation-related roles within business – making this the largest and most expansive within the translation industry to date.
With 30 years’ experience in the industry and over 70 percent market share, SDL is keen to better understand trends within the localization space and the challenges that stifle progress within it. The findings from this survey provide a realistic view of the issues, direct from the people within it. Centered around the role of technology within translation, SDL uncovered the following five critical insights...


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Africa: Easier payment - Mobile wallet platform Paytoo is to work with Infenix in order to offer a remittance solution to more than 79 million subscribers in 29 African countries. Paytoo's mobile wallet services are being combined with Infenix's remittance payout distribution network, giving Paytoo Mobile Wallet customers the ability to send remittances to 29 countries and 50 branded mobile wallets in Africa.
Africa: Mobile movies - Movie streaming company iROKOtv's move to mobile-only is paying off. CEO Jason Njoku Jason said it has seen some 'amazing' usage around downloads in Africa, and average daily subscription has jumped 36 percent, Techcabal reported.
Egypt: Talks tabled - Telecom Egypt (TE) expects to complete talks with mobile operator Mobinil over interconnection rates by September. TE CEO Osama Yasin said talks have been extended a further two months, Amwal Al Ghad reported. A case filed by Mobinil against TE in April was rejected by the Arbitration Committee, which sought to compel TE to apply the same interconnection rates that had been applied by Mobinil since June 2008. The Arbitration Committee ordered the two to reach a mutual price agreement. TE will start a new round of talks with Vodafone and Etisalat after it has reached agreement with Mobinil.
Ghana: Customer service focus - Tigo's Customer Operations Director for Africa, Ingeborg Nieuwenhuis, has just concluded a one-week visit to Ghana, citfmonline reported. Director for Customer Service at Tigo Ghana, Stephen Essien, said the visit formed part of several on-going efforts to revamp Tigo Ghana's customer experience strategy. The entire customer operations team has also participated in a 3-day Customer Experience leadership-training programme in the central region.
Ghana: Tap triumph - Airtel Ghana claims it now has more than 2 million customers, representing 25 percent growth in two months. This follows the recent launch of 'Tap 'N' Pay', which allows users to make payments with Airtel Money with a tap of their mobile phones at POS terminals. The Airtel Money service is available at 13,000 registered agents, 500 merchant outlets, 80 shops that accept Airtel Money, seven partner banks and over 215 ATMs nationally.
Kenya: Airtel insurance cover - Airtel Kenya has launched a free insurance product in conjunction with Pan Africa Life Assurance and MicroEnsure. Airtel Kenya subscribers will be eligible for life, accident and hospitalisation insurance, with increasing benefits based on their monthly airtime usage. Airtel Insurance is open to all Kenyan residents of 18+ years.
Kenya: Broadband for new buildings - Safaricom is forming partnerships with real estate property developers to provide Internet-ready premises for businesses. The new service, dubbed Jiji Smart, will see Safaricom provide broadband infrastructure such as fibre connectivity to buildings while under construction to ensure premises are Internet-ready. Safaricom Business General Manager, Ms Rita Okuthe said it was leveraging on its capabilities in fibre and 4G to offer high speed Internet.
Kenya: Smartphone for students - Infinix Mobility and online store Jumia have launched the Infinix X509 (Zero2) smatrtphone, targeted at young entrepreneurs, professionals and students. The Infinix X509 was available from the e-commerce Website jumia.co.ke from 13 July and is retailling at an introductory price of KES 19,999 (USD 195).
Kenya: Speedy settlements - M-Pesa merchants can settle their deposits within seconds using a new service launched by Safaricom and Standard Chartered. The time taken to convert the e-value available to them into cash is now literally seconds. The previous manual RGTS system took a minimum of six hours for the conversion.
Malawi: Customer cover - Mobile operator TNM says it has paid out over MK 58.5 million (USD 130,238) in life insurance claims under its Moyo Cover insurance offered to customers registered on its mobile money-transfer service, Mpamba. TNM Products Manager Asante Chitimba said that there had been 259 claimants people since September 2013 when the service was launched. TNM Moyo cover is administered through Nico Life Insurance and MicroEnsure. Premiums are paid by TNM on behalf of all users who recharge or use a minimum of MWK 1,000 airtime per month. Usage in the current month provides cover for the following month.
Morocco: Low-cost access - icflix has agreed an exclusive partnership with Maroc Telecom (MT). The deal will allow MT customers to access icflix for what the VoD service described as an 'unprecedented' price of MAD 50 (USD 5). Earlier this month Zain Kuwait signed with icflix for access to Jazwood, Hollywood and Bollywood content, including films, TV shows, cartoons and documentaries.
Nigeria: Better broadband - MTN HyNetLTE has been launched by MTN Business in Lagos, following the upgrade of its WiMAX network; the new LTE service will soon be expanded to other parts of the country that currently have the 'MTN HyNet' WiMAX network. The old HyNet modems can be exchanged free of charge for an LTE-enabled one, The Vanguard reported. MTN Business is offering existing and new customers up to 10 GB of free data this summer for every new subscription. Cities with 'MTN HyNet' WiMAX include Kaduna, Warri, Ilorin, Makurdi, Osogbo, Bauchi, Sokoto, Abuja and Port Harcourt, covering 11.8 percent of the population at the end of 2014.
Nigeria: Mobile music - MTN Nigeria and Globacom generated over NGN 9 billion (USD 45.1 million) for the local music industry in 2014 through the monetisation of caller tunes. The Punch newspaper reported that while MTN generated over NGN 5 billion (USD 25.1 million) for artists who sell their work as caller tunes on its platform.
Nigeria: New name - Helios Towers Nigeria is henceforth to be formally known as HTN Towers. Inder Bajaj, Chief Executive Officer of HTN Towers, said the rebranding heralds a new phase in the company's growth and reflects its pan-African expansion ambitions. HTN currently operates in 33 of 36 states in Nigeria, and is the third largest tower company in the country, with over 1,200 towers and 2,300 tenants.
Nigeria: Wearables coming - A range of Huawei wearable devices will be launched in August, including the Huawei Watch, TalkBand B2, and TalkBand N1. Senior Marketing Manager for Huawei Consumer BG, Olaonipekun Okunowo, said the first to be offered would be the Huawei Talkband B2.
Qatar: VoD offering - Ooredoo Qatar has signed an exclusive deal with Starz Play. The OTT Video on Demand streaming service offers Hollywood TV series, films and children's content. Qatar will be the first MENA market to offer the service, with other markets in the Ooredoo footprint to follow. The service will be available via Ooredoo's Mozaic service and Mozaic GO app in Qatar by the end of 2015. Operator billing will be offered in some Ooredoo markets for Starz Play.
Sierra Leone: Network management - Airtel has confirmed that it will be working closer with Ericsson and Huawei, the Concord Times reports. Bharti Airtel Sierra Leone Managing Director Sudipto Chowdhury said that Huawei will be responsible for day-to-day operations with a strong local presence to improve response times, whilst Ericsson will continue to supply and install new radio and transmission equipment for 2G and 3G sites. Ericsson is to commission 28 new 2G base stations, with the focus on chiefdoms, which are not currently covered. Some 127 new 3G towers will also be erected to improve coverage in Freetown, as well as extending 3G technology to all district headquarters.
South Africa: Bidders short-listed - Vodacom Group has short-listed four bidders to provide network maintenance, Agence Ecofin reports. The three-year contract is due to start on 1 November 2015 are Huawei Technologies (China), Alcatel-Lucent (France), Ericsson (Sweden) and Neotel (South Africa). Vodacom spokesman Richard Boorman said that the outsourcing plan would not see any job losses.
South Africa: CEO calms troubled waters - MTN South Africa CEO Mteto Nyati said agreement had been reached with the Communication Workers Union (CWU) to end the two-month strike. The breakthrough followed the departure of MTN CEO Ahmad Farroukh and the appointment of Nyati. The union has accepted MTN's bonus and salary adjustment policies. The CWU said MTN had agreed to a 12 percent annual bonus for staff, payable regardless of company performance, down from the initial claim of 16 percent. Casual workers are to be offered permanent contracts, and payments for Sunday working will be improved. The issue of an overall pay rise requires further talks.
South Africa: Cheap cellphones - Indian-based Karbonn is to launch a number of new models. Karbonn is a joint venture between Jaina Group and UTL Group formed in 2009, and is aiming to meet the consumer demand for lower cost smartphones and it has had some success in India and Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly as most of its devices are dual SIM, MyBroadband reported. The cheapest smartphone is the A5 Turbo, with a dual core 1GHz processor for ZAR 699 (USD 57), whilst the octa core powered Mach Two starts at ZAR 5,499 (USD 445) and has dual 8 megapixel cameras with Sony sensors.
South Africa: Open access - MTN South Africa Chief Technology Officer Eben Albertyn has said it is committed to an open access network environment in which it supplies fibre infrastructure for service providers to offer residential customers high-speed Internet connectivity. MTN has appointed a team to focus on the wholesale offering. MTN has deployed FTTH to the gated community of Monaghan Farm outside Johannesburg. It is currently trenching in a number of suburbs including Parkmore, Morningside and Lonehill in Johannesburg, where it is deploying FTTH in partnership with their residents' associations.
Tanzania: Promotional pennies - Vodacom Tanzania is launching its 'Spend and Get Campaign', which gives back to customers TZS 100 (USD 0.05) which is deposited into the M-Pesa account for every TZS 1,000 (USD 0.46) and more spent on GSM (voice, SMS, and data). The account has to be activated. Vodacom claims that users can add TZS 3,000 (USD 1.38) in a month regular SMS and Voice usage.
Uganda: P8 launched - The Huawei P8 smartphone is now on sale, with Kampala the latest destination of a worldwide tour that has included South Africa, Bangkok, Singapore, New York and London. Retailers include Simba Telecom, Banana phone world shops, Nilecom and Go phones in Kampala.
Uganda: Rural remittances - Online shopping community Kaymu Uganda is partnering with MTN Uganda to provide a dedicated Mobile Money payment option for buyers living outside of Kampala, PCTechMag reported. Currently, Kaymu Uganda only sells to buyers residing within Kampala. The buyer will, however, have to pay the transport fees which is dependant on the buyer?s location.
United Arab Emirates: Philippine buy-out - Liberty Telecoms Holdings, which provides high-speed Internet services in the Philippines, is to buy out its Qatar-based partner Ooredoo (formerly Qatar Telecom). SMC said in a stock exchange filing that its board had authorised subsidiary Vega Telecom to buy all the holdings of Qtel West Bay Holdings, Wi-tribe Asia and White Dawn Solution Holdings in Liberty Telecoms. The deal will also require a tender offer of common shares of Liberty Telecoms. Liberty has been losing market share in the high-speed Internet business.
Zimbabwe: New MVNO? - TelOne is to partner with NetOne to activate its mobile operating licence, The Herald reported. The licence was granted in 2011. TelOne MD Chipo Mtasa said it would pursue the partnership route as it has not the resources to provide the required infrastructure.


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I came back to work after a two-week vacation last Thursday and couldn't miss the story about the USDA's internal endorsement for Meatless Mondays, then rapid reversal and resultant fallout, most of which read like an Onion article.
In case you missed it, here's what went down:
We are naturally disappointed that the USDA does not wish to endorse Meatless Monday, particularly since cutting out meat once a week helps achieve two key recommendations in the USDA Dietary Guidelines -- reducing saturated fat intake and increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables.
Today's cattlemen are significantly more environmentally sustainable then they were 30 years ago. A study by Washington State University found that today's farmers and ranchers raise 13 percent more beef from 13 percent fewer cattle. When compared with beef production in 1977, each pound of beef produced today produces 18 percent less carbon emissions; takes 30 percent less land; and requires 14 percent less water," Alexander said.
Then -- and here's where things get a little egregious -- the Cattlemen's Association went on to suggest that the memo mishap was evidence that the USDA doesn't understand its own role:
"This is truly an awakening statement by USDA, which strongly indicates that USDA does not understand the efforts being made in rural America to produce food and fiber for a growing global population in a very sustainable way," Alexander said. "USDA was created to provide a platform to promote and sustain rural America in order to feed the world."
America's farmers have been struggling for years, and this summer's devastating droughts are hurting them badly. But the Cattlemen's implication that the USDA's primary duty is to fall in line and promote its products, no matter the cost, is troubling, and the organization's all-or-nothing attitude is a gross oversimplification of language, let alone politics. Certainly, one of the agency's duties is to promote American-raised beef -- but it is also tasked with similar promotion of other agricultural products, including fruits, vegetables and grains, the regulation of much of the food industry, the enforcement of existing regulations, encouraging conservation in agriculture and lending guidance to a nation full of people who are increasingly confused by the foods they find in their markets. Here, the Cattlemen seem to suggest that the USDA should act like a defense attorney, standing behind its client to the point that it willfully ignores information that would call its practices (or at least, size) into question.
I can't think of another industry that would dare to react with such misplaced self-righteous indignation as the beef industry did last week. What if the energy lobby freaked out every time the Department of Energy told consumers how to cut back on their consumption?
Lastly, it's also worth noting that nobody was surprised by how this went down. The only shocked responses came from the beef lobby and the Farm Bureau, and bearing in mind that evidence of meat production's environmental impacts has been building for years, one can only call their astonishment shrill, and likely feigned. That the USDA's rapid reversal was no big surprise to anyone is not evidence of a politically savvy citizenry, it's evidence that people have resigned themselves to government agencies that serve corporations over people.
What say you, readers? Should the USDA have reversed course? Doth the beef industry protest too much? Sound off in the comment section.
(*In the interest of full disclosure, GRACE works closely with Meatless Monday.)
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“It’s a real testament to Bitmain that they’ve been able to fend off the competition they have fended off. But still, you haven’t seen an Intel and a Nvidia go full hog into this sector, and it would be interesting to see what would happen if they did,” says Garrick Hileman, an economic historian at the London School of Economics who compiled a miner survey with the University of Cambridge.
At the end of the day, all of this can go over your head without much danger. Just remember that it’s good to know what you’re dealing with. Bitcoin wallets make use of a fundamental cryptographic principle that we use for things ranging from https for websites or sending anonymous tips to Wikileaks. Most importantly, by understanding private keys you’ll have a much easier familiarizing yourself with Cold Storage wallets.
When you pay someone in bitcoin, you set in motion a process of escalating, energy-intensive complexity. Your payment is basically an electronic message, which contains the complete lineage of your bitcoin, along with data about who you’re sending it to (and, if you choose, a small processing fee). That message gets converted by encryption software into a long string of letters and numbers, which is then broadcast to every miner on the bitcoin network (there are tens of thousands of them, all over the world). Each miner then gathers your encrypted payment message, along with any other payment messages on the network at the time (usually in batches of around 2,000), into what’s called a block. The miner then uses special software to authenticate each payment in the block—verifying, for example, that you owned the bitcoin you’re sending, and that you haven’t already sent that same bitcoin to someone else.
One of Bitcoin’s most appealing features is its ruthless verification process, which greatly minimizes the risk of fraud. Since Bitcoin is decentralized, volunteers—referred to as “miners”—constantly verify and update the blockchain. Once a specific amount of transactions are verified, another block is added to the blockchain and business continues per usual.
In parts of the basin, utility crews now actively hunt unpermitted miners, in a manner not unlike the way police look for indoor cannabis farms. The biggest giveaway, Stoll says, is a sustained jump in power use. But crews have learned to look, and listen, for other telltales, such as “fans that are exhausting out of the garage or a bedroom.” In any given week, the utility flushes out two to five suspected miners, Stoll says. Some come clean. They pay for permits and the often-substantial wiring upgrades, or they quit. But others quietly move their servers to another residential location and plug back in. “It’s a bit of a cat-and-mouse game,” Stoll admits.
Let’s say a hacker wanted to change a transaction that happened 60 minutes, or six blocks, ago—maybe to remove evidence that she had spent some bitcoins, so she could spend them again. Her first step would be to go in and change the record for that transaction. Then, because she had modified the block, she would have to solve a new proof-of-work problem—find a new nonce—and do all of that computational work, all over again. (Again, due to the unpredictable nature of hash functions, making the slightest change to the original block means starting the proof of work from scratch.) From there, she’d have to start building an alternative chain going forward, solving a new proof-of-work problem for each block until she caught up with the present.
Recently, there has been a lot of excitement around Bitcoin and other altcoins. It is understandable that some newcomers have the impression that Bitcoin is some sort of collectible item, yet the fact remains that Bitcoin is simply a currency. Stripped of all the hype and value predictions, Bitcoin is primarily a means of exchange. OpenDime is a relatively new cold storage platform that truly embraces the values of decentralization and relative anonymity. In an era where highly, accessible centralized hot exchanges are all the rage, OpenDime hearkens back to a purer philosophy and with it brings its own new take on hardware wallets to the marketplace.
In 2014 prices started at $770 and fell to $314 for the year. In February 2014 the Mt. Gox exchange, the largest bitcoin exchange at the time, said that 850,000 bitcoins had been stolen from its customers, amounting to almost $500 million. Bitcoin's price fell by almost half, from $867 to $439 (a 49% drop). Prices remained low until late 2016.


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iPad 2 Event Later This Month With A March Release Date A Possibility
I’ve said before now that we are firmly into ‘silly season’. With both iPhone and iPad updates expected to be announced in the coming months, this is the time we start to get all those juicy rumors about specifications, prices and possible release dates. Today we have some more, thanks to Macotakara (via MacRumors).
This time around the Japanese news blog believes Apple plans to hold a news event near the end of February to announce the iPad 2. They go on to say the hardware will ship in the following month, March.


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Plymouth magnate Chris Dawson’s retail chain has inked a deal with grocery giant Iceland which is likely to see its frozen foods sold in The Range outlets nationwide.
The fast-growing companies have agreed a “strategic alliance” that will introduce Iceland’s food offering into The Range’s home, garden and leisure stores.
The alliance has so far seen the opening of Iceland stores-in-store within three branches of The Range in the Midlands and Liverpool.
They all carry the complete Iceland Foods range and are supplied by Iceland, though staffed and operated by The Range.
Due to the very successful launch of these three stores, The Range will be announcing plans for a further rollout in due course.
It is predicted that it could mean Iceland foods across much of the 150-store The Range estate nationwide.
Iceland, which is based in Wales, said the two chains were "natural partners" while The Range said the alliance was "unique".
Mr Dawson, founder and chairman of The Range, said: “This alliance is so exciting. The Range’s massive non-food offering under the same roof as Iceland’s unique food offering will provide customers with a ‘one stop shop’ and access to over 80,000 different products under one roof.
“I think our customers will be surprised and delighted to view the extent and quality of Iceland’s food range.”
The Range – officially titled CDS (Superstores International) ltd – made profits up to £90million and created about 1,000 jobs in the past year to bring its workforce to 8,846.
That makes it the largest company in the South West, topping the Western Morning News/KPMG Top 150 List in the Western Morning News’s Annual Business Guide.
And the firm’s stellar performance has cemented its position in the UK’s top 100 list.
The Range smashed its way into The Sunday Times HSBC Top Track 100 chart in 2016 and appears in the new list this year.
The firm has, however, fallen six places to number 86, but its profits and staff numbers are going in the opposite direction.
The growth of The Range
Chris Dawson's The Range empire keeps growing, here's how The Times' lists of UK firms has reported its vital statistics:
2019 - sales £869m, profit £86m, staff 9,524
2018 - sales £761m, profit £90m, staff 8,846
2017 - sales £761m, profit £88m, staff 7,910
2016 - sales £661m, profit £82m, staff 7,910
2015 - sales £564.9m, profit £56.9m, staff 6,634
2014 - sales £470m, profit £46m, staff 5,800
In 2017 the list relied on a predicted profit figure of £88million, but last year’s figure has now been revealed to be even better, with the firm making a £90million surplus.
That total, £8million up on 2016, comes on sales of £761,287,000.
And the firm saw staffing levels rise from 7,910 to 8,846. The total was recorded in early 2017 so the firm may have even more staff by now as it continues to open stores.
Meanwhile, Iceland, which employs more than 700 people at its Deeside base in Flintshire, saw sales rise eight per cent to more than £3billion in 2017.
It was also named the UK's top supermarket for customer satisfaction for the first time in 2018.
Iceland founder and executive chairman Sir Malcolm Walker said: “The ethos of The Range – ‘to bring our customers great quality products at the most competitive prices’ – is absolutely identical to Iceland’s, so I feel that we make natural partners in this new alliance.
“We look forward to working with Chris Dawson and his team to make our unique food range available to more customers in a new type of location, where we hope we can extend our appeal by reaching people who have not shopped at Iceland before.”


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Coult a new Abarth Roadster use the KTM X-Bow's platform? Get the details inside.
Abarth could be working on a competitor to the Lotus Exige, if the latest edition of Auto Express is to be believed. The British magazine says that the KTM X-Bow would be the basis of the new Abarth model, contrary to previous conflicting reports for the Abarth 500 Speedster and two-seater coupe.
The mid-engined two-seat roadster could be released by 2013, unnamed sources at Abarth allegedly told the magazine. The limited-edition car would bypass the X-Bow's Audi TFSI engine in favor of a new Fiat-produced 1.8-liter MultiAir turbocharged unit, also using petrol.
This new engine is expected to produce over 200 horsepower (149 kW), compared to the 237 hp (177 kW) generated by the Audi unit, which also delivers up to 310 Nm of torque. The 700-kilogram X-Bow is able to sprint to 100 km/h in 3.9 seconds.
Still, the Abarth model is expected to have a completely different exterior, bearing little-to-no resemblance to the topless carbon fiber X-Bow. If produced, the Abarth roadster could be limited to 2,000 units, with a pricetag ranging from £42k to £50k (€50,686 to £60,341).


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16 July 2021, 10:11
Deal could be Intel's largest ever, estimated to be worth about $30bn.
10 June 2021, 12:11
It says that after fab acquisition GF broke its contract to develop the next generation of chips.
29 October 2019, 10:11
The chip foundry rivals will instead indulge in broad global patent cross licensing.
27 August 2019, 11:11
TSMC has "violated 16 chip production patents" and customer products are in the firing line.
9 August 2019, 11:21
12LP chip uses Arm 3D mesh interconnect tech to boost performance and efficiency.
19 February 2019, 12:11
Meanwhile it has put 7nm, more advanced node R&D on hold, according to reports.
8 December 2017, 12:01
Meanwhile GlobalFoundries has sketched out its 7nm and EUV plans.
28 September 2017, 10:01
Say motherboard maker sources speaking to a Taiwanese IT industry journal.
21 September 2017, 12:01
Shrink is expected to boost performance by 10 per cent or so.
21 September 2017, 10:01
Tesla is already running tests on the first processor versions, says an insider.


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When HP announced it was pulling out of the smartphone and tablet market, and was considering ditching its world beating PC business, many in the tech industry were taken aback, to say the least.
Certainly we were surprised. A few days before the announcement went out, we conducted an in depth interview with a senior HP UK exec about its growing, and already leading, PC business, and its ambitions in the tablet market – which included some bullish remarks about giving Apple’s iPad a run for its money as the category’s top dog.
The move has been compared to IBM’s exit from the PC market, when it sold off its division Lenovo in 2004. And it’s a pertinent comparison. Both are giants in the industry – IBM a pioneer of the personal computer revolution, and HP is currently the biggest manufacturer.
Unlike its smartphone and tablet businesses, it should be remembered HP is only ‘considering’ getting rid of its dominant PC division. But it is doing so in the most public way it possibly can, which is bound to send out signals.
Signals which immediately resounded with a story only the week before, tellingly from IBM. Mark Dean – who is now a chief technology officer at the firm but who co-created the first PC – said they are “going the way of the vacuum tube, typewriter, vinyl records, CRT and incandescent light bulbs.” He apparently prefers tablets.
Strange as that may seem, IBM’s business model is now more in line with a firm like Microsoft’s, fervently fixated on the cloud as both firms are. Many have speculated this is the way HP will go – software and services rooted in the online space.
Cloud services will no doubt one day play a much more dominant role in computing – God knows we’re told so often enough. But there’s no future projection I’ve seen that doesn’t involve some form of hardware with which to make use of it.
The point is, we’re still going to need companies making the desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones whatever happens. Personal computing hardware underpins all these flashy new services, and unless things change fundamentally they always will.


text: Online retailer ModCloth, perhaps best known for its cutesy patterned frocks, has decided to nix its separate section for plus-size garb. Instead, shoppers will be able to peruse sizes XS through 4XL in one place. The decision was spurred by feedback ModCloth gathered through an inclusivity survey of its customers sizes 16 and up: More than half of those surveyed were averse to the term "plus size," and 79% of respondents said "that the fashion industry ignores the needs of 'Plus' women," according to a ModCloth representative. Customers' positive reactions to seeing 95% of the company's merch available in such an inclusive range of sizes at the brand's pop-up shops in L.A. and San Francisco also prompted the e-tailer to get rid of its separate merchandizing. "I think there is still an outdated notion in the [fashion] industry that ‘plus’ should be separate because it’s less aspirational, or because that consumer is less fashion-forward, or less willing to spend on herself,” ModCloth founder Susan Gregg Koger wrote today on ModCloth's blog. “But what we’re hearing and seeing from our community is that it is simply not true." ModCloth isn't the first to come up with this more expansive approach to sizing in retail. The brand is joining an industry-wide conversation to ditch the tired practice of siloing plus-size merch to its own separate area (whether that's online or in a brick-and-mortar store) that's been getting louder in recent months. In August, Melissa McCarthy spoke to Refinery29 about her issues with the term "plus-size," and why she was adamant about her Melissa McCarthy Seven7 line being carried in sizes 4 through 28. There's also #DropThePlus, a hashtag-driven movement that was rolled out on social media earlier this year by Australian model Stefania Ferrario. However, #DropThePlus has its detractors, since Ferrario is a U.S. size 8, which may place her beyond the traditional physical specs of a runway model but doesn't qualify her as plus-size. But any move toward a more inclusive shopping experience is a good thing — and this one doesn't actually seem like all that radical a change at all.


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Glen Raven to Open Plant for Sunbrella Specialty Yarns
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BURLINGTON, N.C.--Glen Raven Custom Fabrics has begun work on a new facility for manufacturing yarns for its Sunbrella fabrics to be located here.
The plant, representing an investment of $10 million, will be located in a 130,000 square-foot facility that formerly served as Glen Raven's Ultra Spun division. It is being retrofitted with automated yarn-manufacturing systems and configured around a manufacturing model engineered to support high levels of flexibility and customization. It is expected to be completed in summer 2013.
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The month of October has been quite disappointing for the domestic car market in India.
Maruti Suzuki continues to rule the roost in the Indian domestic car market with 12 of its cars featuring in the top-selling cars’ list. Though the Dzire, Alto and Baleno clock a negative growth in sales, they continue to be in top three slots. The list above is self-explanatory and let’s talk about the new car launches that happened in the month of October 2017 and of course, the cars that couldn’t make it to the top selling list.
The launch of the Jeep Compass in India has not only turned around the fortunes for FCA in India but it has also made the carmaker lose the tag of being the worst performer. Skoda is that now. It sold only 1706 units with the Rapid accounting for over half of that number. Newly launched Kodiaq sold 289 units. General Motors reported 0 sales for the month of October 2017. Fiat sold 2455 units of the Jeep Compass and just 90 units of the Punto, Punto Evo and Avventura. German carmaker Volkswagen sold 2165, 1224 and 50 units of the Polo, Ameo and Tiguan respectively. Total sales of the carmaker are 3929 units for October.
Ford continued to bank on the EcoSport brand in India to date but the news of the launch of its new avatar probably has held back its sales. The American carmaker sold just 400 units of the EcoSport in October while the Figo and Aspire sold 1112 and 2180 units respectively. Datsun’s redi-GO, GO and GO+ continue to back Nissan’s India sales. 2544 units of the redi-GO were sold in the month of October and Datsun also recently rolled out its 1 lakhth car from its Chennai facility.
The Micra and Sunny sold 686 and 163 units respectively. The Kwid sold 8136 units while the Duster sold 919 units for Renault. Meanwhile, the French carmaker also launched the Captur in India this month. How well has the Captur been received, next month’s sales figures will tell. Toyota continues to bank on the Innova and Fortuner brand in India with both selling 6455 and 2192 units respectively. The Etios sold 2440 units in October 2017.
Honda loses the fourth spot to Tata Motors by selling 14,234 units of which the Jazz and Amaze (the most sold Honda cars after the City and WR-V) contributed 2646 and 1845 units respectively. The last 4 car launches of Tata have made other car manufacturers sit up and take notice. The recently launched Nexon sold 3099 units while the Tigor and Tiago sold 1945 and 6990 units respectively. Mahindra sold a total of 21,525 units in October with the Bolero, Scorpio, TUV300 and XUV500 contributing 8395, 3422, 2781 and 2697 units respectively. The automaker launched the KUV100 NXT in the last month which fetched sales of 3621 units.
Hyundai sold a total of 49,588 units in October with the Verna emerging as the top-selling mid-size sedan in India for the second consecutive month. The cooled seats and the other long list of features seem to be doing the trick for the Verna. Maruti sold 1,35,128 units in October as opposed to 1,50,521 units in September 2017 thereby clocking a negative growth of over 10 percent. Surprisingly, the S-Cross features this time on the top-selling list. It sold 5510 units in October 2017. Will it give the Creta and others a run for their money? We seriously doubt!
Top 25 Selling Cars
– Maruti S-Cross sold 5510 units and features in the top selling list
– Dzire’s sales fall while Celerio’s rise
– Skoda sells 78 units of the Superb while Volkswagen sells 79 units of the Passat
– Other than the Renault Kwid, all other cars are Asian


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A brand new trailer of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands trailer was released today, showcasing the game's open world.
Ghost Recon is scheduled to release on an undisclosed date later in 2016 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC and is available now for pre-order. Along with this trailer, three special editions for the game were announced. Here's the rundown:
If you pre-order the game, you'll also receive a bonus mission, dubbed "The Peruvian Connection." This mission takes you into the mountains of Bolivia to sabotage an alliance between Santa Blanca and the Peruvian Cartels.


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Sky Mavis, the game studio behind the highly successful play-to-earn blockchain game Axie Infinity, announced today that its latest Series B funding round successfully raised $152 million. As per the studio, the round was led by the prominent venture capital company Andreessen Horowitz and was majorly participated by Paradigm and Accel.
As part of the successful funding round, Andreessen’s general partner, Arianna Simpson, is set to join the game’s board of directors moving forward.
According to Sky Mavis, although they have scaled rapidly within the past year, incorporating institutional investors would represent a significant development for them. It would drastically legitimate their regulatory protection protocols on top of giving them the flexibility to expand further without having to tap into their AXS token backup.
In much simpler words, Sky Mavis states that the funds accumulated would be used to establish financial and economic freedom for gamers worldwide.
In addition to today’s successful series B funding round, Axie Infinity has also seen its AXS token reach a new all-time high just yesterday, making it one of the year’s best weeks for the rapidly growing blockchain game.
In fact, CryptoSlam’s latest analytics report states that the game has now recorded over $2.2 billion worth of transaction nonfungible token (NFT)-based transactions, with the majority of it recorded within the past quarter. This speaks volumes to the insane momentum the game currently has, and the best is seemingly yet to come.


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The brand new 2013 Nissan GTR was get its new engine which powered 560 Horse Power. As like oldest one, this 2013 Nissan GTR gets better and better every year and will no exception fot this one. As we know the first version of GTR was launched in 2007 at the Tokyo Motor Show delivered a total of 473 HP. The 2012 models was got impressive 530 HP and things aren’t slowing down for the Japanese automaker which prepare the next model year (2012 in Japan, 2013 in USA) will deliver an impressive 2013 Nissan GTR 560 HP.
Behind Audi completely new ideology behind this electric R8 and the normal gasoline version, they serious about bringing this Audi R8 E-Tron to the market. And after the E-tron Detroit Show car, Audi has brought us the e-tron technology platform based on the 2013 Audi R8 E-Tron. The supercar form of R8 was made an easier job for the Audi engineers to develop an electric version of this Audi R8 E-Tron. Mid-engine design of the 2013 Audi R8 with E-Tron technologies provides the perfect location to store heavy batteries without distorting the weight balance that Audi wanted to achieve.
2013 Chevrolet Malibu the first global version of the popular mid-size Chevy, has finally been revealed in 2011 New York Auto Show. 2013 Chevrolet Malibu was revealed one day before at 2011 Shanghai Auto Show. The 2013 Chevrolet Malibu concept will take all of modernism of car design include exterior and interior of the car. Like 2012 Dodge Avenger R/T in New York 2011 Auto Show, the Chevy got many eyes look on its beautiful modern design style. The new Malibu is 4.5 inches smaller in wheelbase at 107.8 inches, and it’s 191.3 inches long–but an inch wider.
From the exclusive blockbuster movies at hollywood and have appeared in a growing number of them that involve superheroes, from the Batman Dark Knight Rises a Lamborghini Aventador become a new Batmobile. The supercar hollywood movies has strated from Iron Man that trend when Tony Stark, played by Robert Downey Jr., was seen riding the Audi R8 a few years back. That trend made another superheroes movie adapted the supercars like Audy R8 Spyder on Iron Man 2. Ferrari 458 Italia and Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 was used on Transformers: Dark of the Moon and The Dark Knight.
After old schools BMW 3-Series when the day of announcement it was 25 years ago. This 2014 BMW M3 was appeared on four different generations and evolved from a 2.3 liter inline-four cylinder engine with 200 HP to an impressive V8 hitting 420 HP. 2014 BMW M3 maybe not the best sport cars out there, but it have the most needed functions as sport cars such as extraordinary look, great performance, the best class handling, and a luxurious interior. The brand new 2014 BMW M3 concept was continuity from 2013 models which the sports car’s history will move on to its next chapter as BMW will be set to reveal the new generation M3.
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Behind Audi completely new ideology behind this electric R8 and the normal gasoline version, they serious about bringing this Audi R8 E-Tron to the market. And after the E-tron Detroit Show car, Audi has brought us the e-tron technology platform based on the 2013 Audi R8 E-Tron. The supercar form of R8 was made an [...]
2013 Chevrolet Malibu the first global version of the popular mid-size Chevy, has finally been revealed in 2011 New York Auto Show. 2013 Chevrolet Malibu was revealed one day before at 2011 Shanghai Auto Show. The 2013 Chevrolet Malibu concept will take all of modernism of car design include exterior and interior of the car. [...]
After tuning an Audi R8 V10 Coupe which providing a smooth package for the V8 version at 2010, today German based tuner, Wheelsandmore dressed up an R8 V10 Spyder for their latest project. Tuning an 2011 Audi R-Stream V10 Spyder which give a similar package as the previous two with optimized performance and an exceptional [...]
Today without being noticed by many people in the world, Suzuki was design a concept of their new mid-size sedan, Suzuki Kizashi EcoCharge they named it. The Suzuki Kizashi EcoCharge was adapted eco green concept which will be a future technologies. Suzuki Kizashi EcoCharge was featured in Suzuki’s first-ever Super Bowl ad, a modified version [...]
Mercedes Benz E-Class Cabriolet is one of the famous cars that most people choice to become their ride. With this Mercedes Benz E-Class they can smoke even the most powerful of exotics in the world with it. But Brabus, a german based tuning company has cooked up to have to pick your jaws up off [...]
The new 2012 Subaru FT86 will be revealed on Tokyo Auto Show according to topspeed informations. This new 2012 Subaru FT86 will be unveiled its new details actually in this later year and will be expected a longer than average life cycle for the car and is looking at variant packages. 2012 Subaru FT86 is [...]
Xplore has coming with the latest family pieces, the Jeep Xplore Grand Cherokee from the Xplore FJ Cruiser at SEMA and Xplore Wrangler in Moab. Some people said this Jeep Xplore Grand Cherokee is a Trail Rated car. The official spesification of this Jeep Xplore Grand Cherokee is not yet published but the past Xplore [...]
Facelifted the XF range at this New York 2011 come to the new 2012 Jaguar XK with convertible body styles. The new 2012 Jaguar XK range, which consists of both Coupe and Convertible bodystyles, has evolved to take on an elegant new look, elements of which are shared with the XKR-S, first revealed last month [...]
From the last best tuning from German tuner, Graf Weckerle, for the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano and the Aston Martin DBS or oozed style and sophistication with engine upgrades, quality upgrades, and those infamous Fleur-de-Lis ornamental wheels. The new tuning package was created for the Ferrari 458 Italia which is currently on sale on Jameslist. [...]
Based on Disney Tron the Movie, Timur Bozca a young and enthusiastic designer has developed the Tron Car. For those people who fans of this awesome movies, this Tron Car will be the choosen one to give applause which has vehicle that seems suitable for any ride on both Earth or Grid. Aired last year [...]


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RIP to the comment sections on Instagram because now everyone can finally drop in GIFs to posts and Reels in lieu of a thoughtful analysis or a masterful quip. So if you’re only on Instagram for the comments, you can finally just add a Michael Jackson-eating popcorn GIF.
The feature was already enabled for some users in a limited availability phase. Now, Meta has unlocked the feature for global use, and it should be available for everyone today. The GIFs are sourced through Giphy’s library and can be accessed by tapping a new GIF button that’s on the side of your comment typing box.
Meta is also rolling out new Instagram Reels editing abilities that are being added to the new TikTok-like features that dropped last month. “In the next few weeks,” according to the press release, you’ll be able to split video, speed up and slow down clips (slo-mo), and replace clips in the timeline nondestructively.
After previewing their addition in an Instagram broadcast with Mark Zuckerberg and Adam Mosseri on Monday, the company launched GIF comments and Reels editing updates during a creators workshop in Mumbai, India, where it’s also announcing the release of Instagram Gifts for the Indian market. Meta is rolling out the gifting feature in India so that creators there can start earning money from fans of their Reels. People can buy stars and themed virtual gifts while viewing Reels — and while they’re at it, may as well drop in a GIF.


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Rombauer Vineyards Hosts Virtual Joy of Wine Event
According to the BusinessWire
Rombauer Vineyards is marking its milestone 40-year Anniversary and the release of its popular 2019 Carneros Chardonnay with an entirely virtual event from the Napa Valley based winery. The Joy of Wine event on Saturday, July 25th will broadcast on Facebook Live and YouTube Live. Starting at 3 p.m. PT/ 6 p.m. ET, guests will enjoy a stroll through the winery caves, hear from the Rombauer family and lifelong friends of the Founders, Joan and Koerner Rombauer, sample wine, watch cooking demos, meet the team, view the vineyards and winemaking practices, and even enjoy live music.
This historically sold-out and in-person event held each July at Rombauer Vineyards in St. Helena, CA is an opportunity for fans of Rombauer to try the latest release of their popular Carneros Chardonnay. For this 2019 vintage release in July 2020, The Joy of Wine event is also a time to celebrate the winery’s 40th Anniversary. With in-person events not an option this year, the team at Rombauer Vineyards decided the celebration was too important to cancel and by taking the event virtual, the invite/attendee list has no limit.
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Activision has released the debut trailer for Destiny 2, revealing the game’s release date. Destiny 2 will be coming out on September 8th, and will be available on the PC platform.
The game is currently available for pre-order and those who do so will gain access to its beta phase.
Here is the game’s description:
“Humanity’s last safe city has fallen to an overwhelming invasion force, led by Ghaul, the imposing commander of the brutal Red Legion. He has stripped the city’s Guardians of their power, and forced the survivors to flee. You will venture to mysterious, unexplored worlds of our solar system to discover an arsenal of weapons and devastating new combat abilities. To defeat the Red Legion and confront Ghaul, you must reunite humanity’s scattered heroes, stand together, and fight back to reclaim our home.”


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FORMER Miss Scotland Stephanie Willemse will be one of the models to take to the runway as part of schoolgirl Erin Geddes’s fundraiser for the children’s cancer ward that saved her life.
The determined 14-year-old St Matthew’s Academy pupil, who is recovering from a rare form of bone cancer, made up her mind to host a fashion show to raise money for the Schiehallion Ward at Yorkhill Children’s Hospital. And she has organised the fashion show to be held at the Gailes Hotel this Sunday, February 5.
West FM DJ Fiona Shields will be hosting the show and the clothes have been supplied by Sainsbury’s in Irvine, New Look in Irvine, Natalie Naseby Boutique, The Dress Exchange in Kilmarnock and AX London.
Excited Erin said: “When I suggested organising the show my mum encouraged me to go for it and when the people at The Gailes Hotel were happy to host it I decided that it was worth a go.
“Many of the models have been treated or know someone who has been treated in the ward.
“And on top of that former Miss Scotland Stephanie Willemse has agreed to come down and model for the show too and she is beautiful.
“I can’t wait to meet her.
“There will be face painting for children and also a nail stall where you can get your nails done.”
The plucky teenager was only nine when she was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare bone cancer.
She endured 12 months at Yorkhill Hospital undergoing a series of painful operations and chemotherapy. Brave Erin underwent a nine-hour bone transplant in a bid to remove the cancerous bone and replace it with a new one.
Now in recovery, she has even penned a book charting her cancer treatment and the effects the chemotherapy and operations have had on her life.
Doors open at 2pm for the fashion show at the Gailes Hotel and tickets priced £5 can be bought at the door.


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Tim Chitwood, VP of Agronomy
Price patterns show specific months in North America with historically significant price changes. “Summer fill” programs usually offer better fertilizer deals, particularly at the end of July and early August, considered a potential period for a pricing “reset.” This reset not only readies supply chains for the next season but also establishes a baseline for ingredient costs in the upcoming year. Some industry experts believe a reset might occur after the annual Southwest Fertilizer Conference (SWFC), a historic conference that recently completed its 97th year. Drawing over 2000 attendees from nearly 800 companies in late July, the SWFC is crucial for the fertilizer industry to trade crop nutrient inputs and share insights on trends and price movements. The 2023 SWFC may have hinted at relief for a much-needed reset in the 2024 season, following a record year in 2022 with historically high prices.
Unseasonal Trends. Data compiled from The Green Markets Report of Bloomberg, comparing the past five years, reveals fluctuations and seasonal trends in fertilizer prices. This report, with a history of over 45 years, assists professionals in making informed decisions. Covering nitrogen, phosphate, and potash markets weekly, it provides valuable market transparency. The report’s objective and unbiased fertilizer market data, drawing from over 300 independent price assessments, make it a trusted resource for comprehensive coverage of the global fertilizer industry. Attached are graphs created from Green Market Report data, presenting averages of Midwest corn belt retail pricing for three fertilizers grouped by seasons: Spring (April/May), Summer (July/August), and Fall (November/December).
Not just in time inventories. The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented disruptions in the shipping industry, leading to congested shipping lanes and significant delays in transporting goods. Consequently, the cost of shipping containers soared to historic highs. For instance, the cost of shipping from China to the U.S. West Coast surged to $14,000 per container in January 2022 but dropped to $5,250 in the following months. The East Coast experienced a similar trend, with costs falling from $16,000 to $9,215 during the same period. Despite these challenges, supply chains and shipping lanes have gradually returned to some semblance of normalcy.
Global Competition Impacts. QLF Agronomy’s dedicated customers rely on the proven performance of L-CBF 7-21-3 MKP, a starter package featuring Monopotassium Phosphate (MKP), a unique P&K fertilizer source (0-52-34). This formulation ensures better plant starts, benefits to soil biology, and safe nutrient delivery. However, challenges have arisen due to increased demand for high-quality fertilizer sources like MKP, compounded by shipping difficulties and rising freight costs. MKP, primarily produced by China, Russia, and Israel, countries experiencing conflicts, faces geopolitical tensions and trade disputes, impacting global competition, driving costs up, and causing supply shortages.
Despite these challenges, QLF remains committed to its formulations, ensuring a consistent supply of essential phosphorus and potassium. Israel Chemicals Ltd. (ICL Group), the world’s largest MKP manufacturer, sets industry standards for quality, consistency, and pricing. While many fertilizer manufacturers saw significant profit margin increases in 2021-2022, ICL Group experienced a decline in gross profit in 2023. This trend reflects the volatility and impacts of the fertilizer market, suggesting a potential return to more normal price fluctuations within the industry.
Fall Fill Possibilities. The recent QLF Agronomy “Fall Fill” promo was a big success once again. From September to November 2023, QLF made and delivered over 30% more fertilizer than in fall 2021. This shows a growing demand for fall fertilizer fills. Rising fertilizer costs at the end of the 2021 growing season drove this demand. Many users of Liquid Carbon-Based Fertilizer (L-CBF) noticed this trend and filled their tanks early to lock in prices. Confidence in the storability of L-CBF during winters has boosted this demand, with farmers taking charge of inputs sooner. In the past three falls (September to December), QLF sold and delivered an average of +103 more truckloads than each fall prior.
“Better is Better, Before More is Better”. The unique carbon-based starter, L-CBF 7-21-3 MKP, enhanced with QLF’s quality micronutrient blend CornSpike, has consistently shown positive agronomic returns over the years. In the recent 2023 season, another independent trial highlighted a substantial difference in dry down and achieved a noteworthy +24 Bu/A advantage in yield compared to another quality starter in the central Illinois region, especially noteworthy in a dry year.
The typical application rate for L-CBF 7-21-3 MKP in furrow for corn is 4 – 6 gallons per acre, with an extra quart of micronutrients. In 2019, the cost ranged from $3.80 – $4.30 per gallon. Over the next few seasons, it went up to $4.00 – $4.50 per gallon in 2020 and 2021. In the spring of 2022, due to ingredient costs, it rose to around $6.80 – $7.00 per gallon. By the spring of 2023, many secured the QLF starter for $5.80 – $6.30 per gallon. By fall 2023, QLF successfully lowered costs, providing the same premium starter for $4.80 – $5.20 per gallon. Despite ingredient cost fluctuations, the L-CBF 7-21-3 MKP didn’t change much on a per-acre basis. Considering the cost differences over a 5-year span and corn prices during those years, this premium in-furrow fertilizer wouldn’t cost a grower more than a bushel difference per acre.
Working Together. QLF has invested significantly in expanding manufacturing plants and onsite fertilizer storage capacity, ensuring ample ingredient supplies. This expansion is in response to the growing demand for L-CBF, overcoming supply chain disruptions, and addressing the challenges in our country’s logistics landscape. With a shortage of skilled truckers and reliable transportation, it’s crucial for farmers to support trucking efforts. Many QLF Agronomy customers have taken advantage of promotions to invest in larger tanks and upgrade on-farm storage capacity, reducing the trips needed to meet seasonal needs and allowing for better purchasing opportunities. Proactive customers taking early deliveries can alleviate strain on the supply chain, contributing to smoother operations. Collective efforts can enhance the resilience and efficiency of the supply chain, preventing bottlenecks and unnecessary shortages that may contribute to price increases. QLF urges all partners to support the diligent work of the QLF Transportation department in ensuring efficient and timely delivery of L-CBF needs ahead of schedule.


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Digital Turbine (APPS) shares climbed Tuesday after the mobile app and advertising software maker announced a “multiyear strategic partnership” with Alphabet‘s (GOOGL) Google Cloud Platform. APPS stock moved above its 50-day moving average with the gain.
Digital Turbine said it’ll work with Google cloud partner SADA to build products for the Android mobile ecosystem. SADA is a global business and technology consultancy.
“By partnering with Google we are efficiently powering app discovery for nearly a billion Android devices globally while simultaneously expanding our footprint across the Android ecosystem including mobile, TV and connected devices,” Digital Turbine Chief Executive Bill Stone said in a news release.
APPS stock climbed 4.8% to 66.52 in early trading on the stock market today. Digital Turbine stock has gained 19% in 2021.
APPS Stock Expanding Into Internet TV
The company’s third-quarter earnings were 44 cents a share, up 193% from a year earlier, amid acquisitions. Also, revenue rose 338% to $310.2 million. That topped estimates of a 39-cent per-share profit on revenue of $306.5 million.
Digital Turbine connects wireless service providers, smartphone makers, and publishers with app developers and advertisers. In addition, the company has expanded from mobile into internet TV.
Most revenue comes from Digital Turbine’s “dynamic installer” for mobile apps. With the February 2020 acquisition of Mobile Posse for a reported $66 million, Digital Turbine diversified into supplying content.
Also, APPS stock holds an IBD Relative Strength Rating of 26 out of a best-possible 99, according to IBD Stock Checkup.
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Millions of National Lottery players have been urged to change their passwords following what parent company Camelot describes as "suspicious activity" involving lottery accounts.
Camelot, which runs the National Lottery, insists there's been no access to core systems or databases that would affect lottery draws or prizes, but has recommended that its 10.5 million registered users change their passwords following a number of unauthorised logins.
A Camelot spokesperson told ZDNet that the account breaches are thought to be the result of "credential stuffing", a type of cyber-attack where previously-stolen account details are entered into other websites in the hope that the victim uses the same username and password.
In this instance, it means the affected National Lottery users have previously had their details stolen elsewhere and shared among cybercriminals.
In an email sent to registered users, Camelot said it had uncovered suspicious activity on some accounts as part of "regular security monitoring".
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Cyber-attackers are believed to have gained access to up to 150 accounts and "very limited information" about those users, including their first name and the amount of money loaded into their National Lottery account.
A handful of accounts -- believed to number under 10 -- also saw attackers carry out "limited activity" after breaching them, but Camelot said that no player has experienced any sort of financial loss and that financial information isn't displayed in online accounts.
"We would like to reassure our players that we do not display full debit card or bank account details on their online National Lottery accounts," Camelot said in a statement.
Accounts where suspicious behaviour was spotted have been suspended and the owners have been directly contacted.
Camelot has recommended all users change their passwords as a precaution -- particularly if the user uses the same password on other websites -- in order to prevent further unauthorised logins and hacking of additional accounts on other websites where people use the same login details.
A Camelot spokesperson told ZDNet that the company is "continually looking at ways to improve our IT security procedures" but that "cybercrime is constantly evolving and, unfortunately, this type of activity is almost indistinguishable from normal player activity -- particularly the very sporadic and low-level activity we have recently seen".
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Around 26,500 National Lottery accounts were previously hacked, in late 2016. That hack took also took place as a result of credential stuffing after attackers were able to take emails and passwords previously stolen from other websites -- and likely shared on the dark web -- then use them to login to National Lottery accounts. Users were told to change their passwords following the incident.
Camelot has reported the incident to the police, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
"We are aware of an incident involving The National Lottery's website and are in contact with the company and other agencies," an ICO spokesperson told ZDNet.
"We have been working with Camelot UK Lotteries after suspicious activity was noted on a small number of players' accounts," an NCSC spokesperson told ZDNet.
"Everybody should take steps to keep themselves as safe as possible from cyber incidents and the NCSC's website includes security advice, such as around passwords and two factor authentication," they added.
The NCSC also recommends that users should a change their passwords for any online services where they use a similar password to the one they use to login to their National Lottery account.
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text: Secaucus, NJ - When Kosherfest 2015 opens next Tuesday, The Bites Company is hoping to shatter a myth about kosher certified biscotti. What used to be the popular log like biscotti’s has now turned into a cookie! The Bites Company says that its biscotti stays crunchy and bite sized while staying 100% natural and made from scratch. Dina Upton, owner and baker of The Bites Company, is very excited to be featuring her biscottis at Kosherfest this year. “We decided to participate in the largest kosher food trade show to present our Biscotti Bites to the kosher world.” The Bites Company hopes to meet new contacts and establish relationships with buyers for years to come. Says Upton: “We are newly kosher certified through the Kof-K and are looking forward to meeting kosher distributors and buyers and entering the kosher marketplace.” Biscotti Bites come in three delicious flavors- almond, lemon and cocoa. They take pride in being all natural, preservative free, with no trans fat or added salt. Each Biscotti Bite is only 12 calories with just a gram of sugar! Additionally, the biscottis are baked in a peanut free facility to accommodate those with sensitive nut allergies. This snack makes a perfect guiltless treat. The Biscotti bites can be bought online or Amazon, as well as supermarkets in the NY/NJ area.