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Apr 26 2014, 11:38pm CDT | by Bijon Kumar Pramanik
Apple is one of the most profitable companies that the world has ever known. With that being said, it is easy to see why so many people want to invest in their stock, but the high price is often prohibitive. It is profitable for people who own it, but buying in isn’t easy.
Apple Balla reports that Apple is preparing to split their stock and make it much more affordable. They last did this in 2005, when Apple stock was only $41 per share. Since then, it has climbed to over $550, an almost 12 fold increase. That kind of climb might not be expected after this split, but it will nonetheless prove profitable for investors just arriving.
The price remains to be seen, but it is known that it will be a seven way split, meaning the price could very well be around $70 at the start. This will allow more people than ever to invest, causing the price to climb even further and reach new highs if it is handled properly. They are also in the process of buying back incredible amounts of stock as well.
They have been looking for more control over the company, but they have also increased the amount that they send to investors, making it just as profitable despite this fact.
Stay tuned for more information leading up to the June 9th split of the stock. This is coming ahead of several new product launches, making it a great time to invest at any price, although with enough money it will be easy to become wealthy at this new price point.
Bijon Kumar Pramanik
Bijon Kumar Pramanik is an experienced technology writer working since years in the consumer electronics field.
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If you haven’t already noticed, health and wellness are all the rage these days. They are all over the place on social media, particularly Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, where all things related to health and wellness have been reaching a global peak and finding a secure niche in Egypt particularly among the affluent classes.
Keto and paleo diets, clean eating, gluten-free and plant-based diets, all-natural products and detox smoothies — all these things are part of a growing trend, with more and more people inclined to take better care of their health and give themselves over to the growing cult of wellness.
Various studies suggest that our digestive systems can be what decide our immunity, mood, hormonal balance, and mental well-being. “You are what you eat,” as one health coach once put it. Recent research suggests that 80 to 90 per cent of the feel-good hormone serotonin is produced in the digestive system rather than in the brain, and that stress can be a major detriment to any diet plan.
As a result, life and health coaching have reached a peak, and dieting is being included in a holistic approach to well-being that has given an unprecedented boost to health tourism, spas, and even health housing, a new concept that has also been growing into a global trend.
Experts say that our guts should no longer be considered as just organs that digest and absorb our food. Rather, they are now widely recognised as being the main organs affecting other aspects of our health, like enhancing the immune system, affecting mood and behaviour, producing certain vitamins and hormones, and, of course, affecting weight.
Nutritionists explain that the digestive system has a diverse population of 300 to 500 different kinds of bacteria containing nearly two million genes. Research suggests that each person is different in terms of his or her bacteria and that those in healthy people are different from those with certain kinds of diseases. People who are sick may have too little or too much of a certain type of bacteria.
Recent studies have also suggested links between certain kinds of illness and the bacteria in a person’s gut. Obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease are all suggested to be linked to gut bacteria, which can also affect a person’s metabolism. Dieticians suggest that the number and type of a person’s gut bacteria also determine the amount of calories and nutrients he or she will get from food.
“Lesser known is that scientists estimate that 90 per cent of serotonin is made in the gut, and imbalances in this peripheral serotonin have been linked to diseases ranging from irritable bowel syndrome and cardiovascular disease to osteoporosis,” writes US commentator Catharine Paddock on the website medicalnewstoday.com.
Serotonin is probably best known as a brain chemical that affects emotions and behaviour, an imbalance of which is thought to contribute to depression. Brain, Behavior and Immunity, the journal of the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society (PNIRS) in the US, has revealed that stress can cause “almost immediate changes to the gut bacterial population, and that some of these affected sub-populations strongly influence the effect that stress has on immunity”.
Jeffery Gordon of the Washington University School of Medicine in the US has been quoted in the Western media as one of the first researchers to link intestinal bacteria and obesity. He found that a diverse mix of gut bacteria is the key to staying slim. Increasing intake of fruit, vegetables and whole grains is said to encourage the production of a diverse mix of good gut bacteria, increasing metabolism and producing energy.
The Egyptian Toronto-based health coach Dana Dinnawi sums it up this way: “Your health is not about losing weight; it’s about gaining life.
“What if, instead of waking up every morning and jumping on the scales to check your weight, you wake up every morning and check your energy levels, you check your mood, you think about what you want to create for yourself that day and then see how excited you are to wake up and live your life,” she queried on her health and wellness page.
THE WELLNESS BOOM: Dinnawi’s logic seems to be resonating with a growing number of people worldwide.
Recent research by the Global Wellness Institute (GWI), a non-profit research and educational resource for the wellness industry in the US, has revealed that the “wellness market is growing at a historic rate, nearly twice as fast as global economy,” and is even expected to be the next burgeoning industry over the next 20 to 30 years.
According to the GWI, “the global wellness market grew 10.6 per cent to $3.72 trillion from 2013 to 2015, while the global economy shrank 3.6 per cent over the same period.”
The GWI’s 2018 Global Wellness Economy Report finds that the global wellness industry continued to grow by 12.8 per cent from 2015-2017, from a $3.7 trillion to a $4.2 trillion market.
“To put that in economic context, from 2015-2017, the wellness economy grew 6.4 per cent annually, nearly twice as fast as global economic growth (3.6 per cent),” the report said. “Wellness expenditures ($4.2 trillion) are now more than half as large as total global health expenditures ($7.3 trillion). And the wellness industry represents 5.3 per cent of global economic output.”
On the prospects of the wellness business, the report expects that the industry will continue to boom.
Likewise, the Forbes Los Angeles Business Council in the US also noted in a recent report that “the health and wellness industry is experiencing a ‘healthy’ boom that is shaping the ever-growing industry like never before.”
“There are companies disrupting the marketplace with staggeringly fast growth and massive media coverage,” it elaborated. “Part of this boom is due to the fact that consumers want to adopt healthier habits with products that are actually good for them. They are reading labels, and they are diving in and digging for any research they can find on products labelled healthy, all-natural or plant-based. Millions have even taken to social media to share their love for slathering on and ingesting products with fewer toxins.”
The GWI’s Global Wellness Economy Monitor, which has been providing comprehensive global wellness economy data for business leaders, researchers and the media since 2014, provides in its 2018 report updated figures for the ten industry segments that comprise the global wellness economy: fitness and mind-body; healthy eating, nutrition and weight loss; personal care, beauty and anti-ageing; preventative and personalised medicine and public health; the spa economy; thermal/mineral springs; traditional and complementary medicine; wellness real estate; wellness tourism; and workplace wellness.
According to the report, “beauty and anti-ageing account for $999 billion, with healthy eating and nutrition behind at $648 billion,” of total value. “Wellness tourism comes in third at $563 billion, and fitness/mind-body fourth at $542 billion,” the report says.
Among the main factors contributing to the growth of the global wellness business is “an increasing consumer interest in all things related to maintaining and improving health driven by ageing, a rising global epidemic of chronic disease and stress, the negative health impacts of environmental degradation, and the failure of the ‘sick-care’ medical model to improve quality of life,” it adds. It also gives credit to “a collective, growing awareness among a subset of (more educated and affluent) consumers that their choices convey meaning, purpose, and impact.”
“Once upon a time, our contact with wellness was occasional: we went to the gym or got a massage,” notes Katherine Johnston, a senior research fellow at the GWI. “But this is changing fast: a wellness mindset is starting to permeate the global consumer consciousness, affecting people’s daily decision-making — whether food purchases, a focus on mental wellness and reducing stress, incorporating movement into daily life, environmental consciousness, or their yearning for connection and happiness.”
Healthy eating trends seem to be dominating the landscape. “From organic and plant-based food selections at the grocery store to the numerous weight-loss and healthy food delivery services available at our fingertips, this trend shows no signs of slowing down,” the GWI notes.
EGYPT’S WELLNESS TREND: When Dinnawi launched her career as a health coach six years ago, she was living in Toronto in Canada, and her online plant-based recipes included ingredients that were widely available there.
It was sometimes challenging for her online Egyptian clients back home to find those ingredients in Cairo, and she would try to find them substitutes as a result. “The list of unavailable ingredients was really long,” Dinnawi told Al-Ahram Weekly.
Dinnawi has been living in Cairo since, before she moved back to Toronto a few weeks ago. It was during those few years that Dinnawi noticed a major change in the Egyptian wellness market.
“Today, almost every single ingredient in my recipes and shopping lists for my programmes is available (pricey, but available),” she told the Weekly. “We used to have one healthy food store providing organic ingredients and super foods, but now we have them all over Cairo. And they are only increasing.”
Even ingredients that may sound unusual for many Cairenes, and which are not essential and may have easy substitutes on the local market, “are now available for those who want and can afford them,” according to Dinnawi. “And, yes, there is a growing need and adaptability happening that’s making it possible for these shops and products to have loyal customers,” she went on. “The reason for that is that people feel the difference in their health when they make this shift and so the demand increases.”
A recent report by Euromonitor International (EI), which carries out extensive country-based market and business analysis of 100 countries, may attest to Dinnawi’s observations. A recent EI country profile already says that “health consciousness” has risen in Egypt.
“Thanks to increased connectivity and awareness of global trends, there has been an increase in health, fitness and diet programmes and plans, as well as the introduction of several health and wellness products” in the country, the EI report noted.
That said, however, the report also warned that this “increased health awareness that is spreading in Egypt is threatened by double-digit inflation.”
Egypt has experienced unprecedented inflation as a result of a sluggish economy following the 2011 Revolution. It started to bite hard in 2017 following the economic reform programme adopted by the government, which started with the floatation of the Egyptian pound, causing a hike in the prices of imported products, including health and wellness products. This was followed by the application of a new value-added tax (VAT) and the gradual lifting of fuel and power subsidies as part of a loan deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
“Suppliers offering health and wellness products have thus faced challenges from declining consumer demand, as [other] purchases are being prioritised,” the report noted. “Imported products face a greater challenge, as the devalued local currency means it is now much more expensive to import.”
To face up to such economic challenges, the report showed how those in the health and wellness business have adapted to survive. “Health and wellness products have been directed by the suppliers and manufacturers to certain channels, targeting specific consumer segments that are aware of the health trend and products and can afford them,” the report said. “As such, health and wellness products are usually found in chain supermarkets in areas where middle- and higher- consumers live.”
That said, the report speculated that “the health and wellness trend is expected to continue as more Egyptians become connected and the desire for a healthy lifestyle spreads. However, the challenge will continue to be the double-digit inflation in the country,” the report concluded.
Yet, Dinnawi is not worried about such trends. She says that the health and business market “definitely started with the affluent classes and cultural elite simply because they were exposed to it earlier than other people.”
“But today I can see this trickling down, and more and more people from all walks of life are starting to pay more attention,” she noted. “I was interviewed last year by a group of students from Arish University who were starting a wellness magazine for their University to spread awareness, for example.”
Dinnawi also insists that eating well does not necessarily demand a big budget. “This is a misconception,” she notes, as the basics of eating healthily are fruit, vegetables, and good protein.
“Everyone has access to fruit and vegetable,” she explains. “They don’t even need to be organic. There are a lot of ‘add-on’ ingredients that may cost more, but they aren’t essential: you can choose to keep them or remove them. And at the end of the day, I always ask people to consider their health. Getting sick is very costly.”
MORE WELLNESS OUTLETS: Over the past few years, Egypt has been witnessing a surge in the number of restaurants, stores, online caterers, and wellness sites providing clean, organic and nutritious recipes and products.
Bakeries offering gluten-free pastries, cafes offering dairy-free coffee with almond milk substitutes and detox smoothies, restaurants and online caterers serving organic and super-clean dishes, and stores offering needed products — all these are growing in number in Cairo and some other cities, encourageing more people than ever to stick to a healthy diet.
All-natural beauty products have also been a trend in Egypt, since more and more people now understand that detoxing is not just a matter of a quick weight fix but is more of a way of life. The skin is the largest organ in our bodies, and it can allow toxins into the body if we use chemical products.
Health tourism has also been finding a niche in the Egyptian market, and health resorts have been popping up recently. One resort that has recently opened up on the Cairo-Assuit Western Road, has been seen as perhaps the first in Egypt and the Middle East offering weight-loss and anti-stress camps for clients.
Located 40km from the Giza Pyramids, the luxurious premises of this resort have been providing a set of stay-in programmes and camps with personally tailored nutrition, treatment and fitness plans for each client under the supervision of a staff of dietitians, doctors and trainers.
The programmes promise a total transformation of the body, not just weight-loss. They emphasise tightened skin, a pain-free body, and a detoxed body and mind. The resort also offers anti-stress packages that aim at breaking the stress-cycle and help clients to disconnect from daily life and focus solely on themselves.
Such luxurious services, however, remain reserved for the affluent classes that can afford them. But for online health coaching like that offered by Dinnawi, the real challenge is not necessarily related to budgets, but is more because for many people health coaches still do not carry the credibility of doctors.
“When we talk about nutrition and learning how to balance the body and re-balance uncomfortable symptoms and diseases using nutrition instead of medication, there can still be a lot of scepticism,” she explained. “The other part of this, of course, is that we teach people to completely change how they’ve been eating all their lives and how their parents and grandparents have been eating, so this is a huge mindset shift that takes work to bring about.”
After all, according to Dinnawi, “people are programmed for quick fixes, whether those are crash diets or instant relief from medications. They don’t like, or don’t have the patience for, long-term nutritional rebalancing and lifestyle changes that health coaches prescribe.”
Another challenge facing those following specific diet plans is finding the time to prepare recipes and buy groceries. Today, however, a number of online services have been catering healthy and super-clean foods that may also conform with many famous diet plans like the keto and paleo plans.
Nadine Al-Alaili, the founder of BodyBlocks, an online site that both designs personalised health programmes and caters healthy meals in Egypt, says that “there definitely is a growing market for healthy food [in Egypt], but we still have a very long way to go.”
BodyBlocks was launched over five years ago to offer nutritional consultations to clients, offering functional nutrition sessions that take into account all aspects of client health and well-being, such as diet, sleep, workouts, family health history, stressors, as well as blood tests to uncover missing nutrients or imbalances.
“Luckily, we were successful and created our BodyBlocks online platform around three years ago to offer healthy packages, since we noticed that many clients’ main obstacle to eating healthy food was their lack of time to prepare or find that food in the marketplace,” Al-Alaili said. “We realised there was a big gap in the market for healthy options, and so we started outsourcing meals and delivering them to our clients to facilitate healthy eating.”
A year ago, Al-Alaili decided to open her own small manufacturing facility and start expanding the range of healthy meals and options for her clients. “We currently offer nutritional consultations, healthy eating packages, and a tailored option where we can customise our clients meal plans for them based on their specific condition and goals,” she noted.
She said that the number of her clients was growing in Egypt because “more and more people are finally realising the link between what we eat and chronic disease. And with chronic diseases on the rise, more and more people are starting to look into their foods and are wanting to invest in their health.”
She expects the wellness market in Egypt to continue to boom, even with the background of all inflation. “With chronic diseases on the rise, more people are realising that if they make better food choices, invest in quality food, and go for regular checkups, they can prevent chronic diseases,” she explained.
“In the past, you might hear of a few people you knew that had cancer; now almost everyone either has a family member with cancer or has had cancer themselves. As this problem increases, people are going to want to prevent it and to take care of themselves and make healthier choices for the children and teach their children how to make healthier choices as well,” she said.
The real challenge, she added, is “to find ingredients that are without chemicals, preservatives, additives, and hormones, which can be challenging in Egypt.” Besides, she said, “high quality ingredients can be expensive.”
This has the effect of making healthy choices something that is still too often reserved for the affluent classes. But could that change soon?
“Even though we have started off by attracting the more affluent and the cultural elite, we are hoping to gradually grow our offering to be more affordable for more families,” Al-Alaili said. “The whole challenge is finding ingredients that are clean, that follow our core beliefs (no sugar, preservatives or processed food), and that are affordable to a larger part of the population.”
“That will definitely be more of our focus over the coming year,” she concluded.

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Sony Xperia Honami Mini shows up next to the Z1. Xperia M launched in the US
We can now take another look at what’s believed to be a mini version of Sony’s Xperia Z1 smartphone. The front panel of the upcoming handset – let’s call it Honami Mini until its official name is revealed – appeared yesterday on the Web. And today the smartphone has been allegedly pictured next to two (larger) Xperia Z1 units.
Of course, the photo (seen below) could be fake. It shows the back of a Honami Mini in purple (one of the official colors of the Z1).
It’s said that the Honami Mini features a 4.3 inch HD display, 20.7MP rear camera with Sony G Lens, quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor, 16GB of internal memory, 2GB of RAM, and a 2,400 mAh battery. According to the details found at Chinese portal Digi-wo, the new smartphone will be announced in January 2014 at CES.
In related news, Sony’s affordable Xperia M (unveiled back in June) is now available in the US. Sold for $249.99 (unlocked) via Sony Store, the Xperia M can be purchased in black, white, yellow, or purple.
Running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the Sony Xperia M features a 4 inch display with 854 x 480 pixels, dual-core 1GHz processor, 5MP rear camera, VGA front-facing camera, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of internal memory, MicroSD card support, and a 1,750 mAh battery.


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Maruti Suzuki India on Friday reported a whopping 80.3 per cent increase in net profit at Rs 3,716.5 crore in July-September quarter driven by better sales, softening commodity prices, cost reduction efforts and higher non-operating income.
The company had posted a net profit of Rs 2,061.5 crore in the second quarter of FY23, Maruti Suzuki India said in a statement.
During the quarter under review, the company registered net sales of Rs 35,535.1 crore, against Rs 28,543.50 crore recorded in the same quarter of the previous fiscal, owing to higher sales volume and product mix, it said.
The company sold 5,52,055 vehicles during the quarter as compared to 5,17,395 units in the second quarter of last year.
Of the 5,52,055 vehicles sold in the July-September period this year, 4,82,731 units were sold in the domestic market while the remaining 69,324 cars were exported, the company said The car maker also said that it recorded its highest-ever quarterly sale volume, net sales and net profit in this quarter.


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Microsoft Teams is getting an overtake with new features like call transfer between desktop and mobile, and Apple CarPlay improve. Microsoft announced that Teams will now offer a more streamlined calling experience. It added that people will be capable of shift their calls between their mobile and desktop starting early 2021. Apple CarPlay improve will allow people to use their vehicle’s built-in controls and Siri to place and answer calls.
According to a blogpost by Microsoft, the Microsoft Teams enhancements are rolling out for commerce and non-business customers. Firstly, the app is getting important calling elements — the dial pad, call history, voicemail, contacts, and settings into a unmarried location that will allow users to quickly shuffle their contacts and easily place calls.
Those the use of Microsoft Teams on their desktops in addition to on phones will be capable of transfer their calls from a desktop endpoint to a smartphone starting early 2021. In addition, users can now combine more than one calls through the Call Merge feature, which is now to be had for both PSTN calls and VoIP calls.
Furthermore, starting in early 2021, users will be capable of adjust settings in Microsoft Teams to cap the amount of data that will be used all over video calls. So in case you’re in an area that offers naughty connectivity, you’ll be able to make a selection low data mode to make a call. Microsoft could also be extending CarPlay improve that will allow users to place and receive calls in the car the use of the vehicle’s built-in controls. They are able to also use Siri to place and answer calls.
Microsoft Teams to also have Spam Identification feature
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Other features include Spam Identification in which Microsoft Teams will identify potential spam calls. Furthermore, there is an automatic reverse number look-up feature wherein users will be capable of see the name of the caller when they receive a call in addition to in their activity feed and voicemail. Teams users will also be capable of save call recordings in OneDrive and SharePoint.
Along with the above-mentioned features, Microsoft Teams Trade customers will also get extra calling capabilities and workflows. Firstly, there’s a new collaborative calling capability that will enable teams to integrate call queues into a particular channel, “taking into consideration collaboration and information sharing before, all over, and after the call”. This feature will be rolled out in early 2021.
Microsoft Teams for Trade will also get contact centre solutions that can use presence and user APIs to seamlessly integrate with Teams, allowing agents to find the correct colleagues to assist. “Now, contact centre providers can apply for Microsoft certification of their solutions to supply customers with the confidence needed to administer important customer interactions,” reads the blogpost.
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WILMINGTON — One of Wilmington’s newer light manufacturing companies — Tri-State Media — has broken ground on a second facility at its Davids Drive site.
In town since 2012, and in business since 2001, Tri-State Media is a manufacturer of pressure sensitive labels and tags. The new 10,500-square-foot facility will be used for shipping finished products and warehousing the raw materials.
With a workforce of about 18 people, the company makes products such as custom synthetic labels, pressure sensitive labels, drum labels, bar code labels, stock labels, tags and ribbons.
They produce a variety of labels and tags for the relatively harsh environments that can be found in industries such as the automotive, brick, petro chemical | drum, foods including frozen food, lumber, and rebar | steel sectors.
Because of the circumstances and temperatures that come with those industries, using the correct adhesive can be the difference between a label staying on or falling off.
While the firm produces labels for multiple companies connected to the automotive industry and its suppliers, “you got to be diversified,” said Tri-State Media President John Clary during an open house tour of the existing facility. For a couple examples of its diversification, the company makes patients’ wristband ID labels for Kettering Medical Center and labels for dairy goods producers Dannon and Yoplait.
Clary shared some of his thinking on employee relations and retention. He said he believes in taking care of the workers already employed.
Tri-State Media ships its products to 45 of the country’s 50 states.
It has a digital press which enables it to do prototype labels for customers to assess, said Clary.
Clary is a disabled veteran of the U.S. armed forces. He participated in Army ROTC during college and served in the Navy after college graduation.
For more information on Tri-State Media, visit www.tri-statemedia.com or call 937-366-6416.
Reach Gary Huffenberger at 937-556-5768 or on Twitter @GHuffenberger.


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Governments could demand access to iPhone cameras and microphones to spy on civilians if Apple loses its high-profile battle with the FBI, one of the company’s most senior executives has said.
Eddy Cue, Apple’s head of internet software and services, said if the security service wins its court battle over the unlocking of a terrorist’s iPhone, it could lead to a slippery slope in which governments ask for even-greater access.
“When they can get us to create a new system to do new things, where will it stop?” he said in a Spanish-language interview to US television channel Univision. “One day they might want us to open your phone’s camera, microphone. Those are things we can’t do now.”
Apple has been fighting an increasingly bitter battle with the FBI over its refusal to build special software that will unlock the iPhone 5c used by Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the gunmen in December’s shootings in San Bernadino, California, that killed 14 people and left 22 seriously injured.
The company argues that creating such a backdoor, which doesn’t yet exist, could leave the security of millions of iPhone users compromised, making them potentially vulnerable to criminals and hackers from rogue nations.
The FBI has been accused of wanting to set a precedent with the case, with some security experts saying it can in fact unlock the iPhone without Apple’s help.
“What they want is a key to the back door of your house and we have not the key. Since we don’t have the key they want us change the lock,” Cue said. “When we change the lock, it changes for everyone. And we have created a key that opens all phones. That key, once it exists, exists not only for us [but for] terrorists and criminals.”
Remotely accessing a smartphone’s camera or microphone is a worrying thought but not unheard of. Stagefright, a bug on Android phones that emerged last year, potentially gave hackers access to both.
Apple and the FBI are due in court on March 22 for the latest hearing in the legal battle. The company has also filed a motion to dismiss the FBI’s order.


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Veppo products ship the very best quality e-liquid, rechargeable e-cigarette and cartomizers to make vaping affordable and gratifying. When you select VaporFi electronic cigarettes, you’re selecting the best in high quality, the highest in innovation, and essentially the most flexible merchandise on the market.
The Tobacco Control Act required the FDA to issue regulations to establish age verification necessities for the internet and other non-face-to-face purchases of any tobacco products. However, the FDA has yet to implement this set of regulations.A 2014 examine of internet tobacco vendors promoting e-cigarettes found that 52.3% of distributors had an age warning on the homepage of their website. However, fifty one.9% solely used age-verification methods that would not successfully verify the age of a client. As of late October 2019, nonetheless, the New York, Michigan and Oregon bans had been briefly suspended.
To actually assist tobacco customers quit and to strengthen world tobacco management, governments need to scale up policies and interventions that we know work. Tried and tested interventions, such as brief recommendation from health professionals, nationwide toll free stop strains and cessation interventions delivered via cell text messaging is recommended. Where economically feasible, governments also needs to think about selling nicotine alternative therapies and non-nicotine pharmacotherapies for cessation. The World Health Organization lately warned governments, as well as the general public, to not trust the tobacco business’s newest health claims concerning e-cigarettes.
Fda Regulation Of Electronic Nicotine Supply Techniques
For instance, e-cigarette promoting appears on television and radio, regardless of the ban on cigarette advertising in each retailers since Congress passed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act in 1970. The FDA additionally banned flavors, except menthol, in flamable cigarettes in 2009 to curb youth appeal, whereas e-cigarettes capitalize on offering many child-pleasant flavors, similar to mint, cotton sweet and gummy bear.
What’s Juul Or Juuling?
- Regulated US FDA products such as nicotine inhalers may be safer than e-cigarettes, however e-cigarettes are generally seen as safer than combusted tobacco products corresponding to cigarettes and cigars.
- Reviews of the protection of e-cigarettes have reached quite different conclusions.
- A 2014 WHO report cautioned about potential risks of using e-cigarettes.
- There is little information about their safety, and a substantial number of liquids are used as carriers, and thus are present within the aerosol delivered to the user.
- Research has not but supplied a consensus on the dangers of e-cigarette use.
In Massachusetts, the governor took the extraordinary step of suspending the sale of all e-cigarettes. And whereas the ban has not been overturned, a judge just lately dominated that it should be resubmitted with a possibility for public comment. Several different governors have ordered their legislatures to contemplate legislation to restrict e-cigarette sales. The Utah Department of Health also issued a brief emergency rule to limit the sale of flavored e-liquids to licensed specialty tobacco shops. The introduction of e-cigarettes has allowed corporations to advertise via conventional shops which were closely regulated to scale back flamable podsmall.com cigarette advertising to children.


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Apple has launched the new 4.7 inch iPhone 7 and 5.5 inch 7 Plus, revealing that it is to come with a better battery life than the previous iPhone 6S and 6S Plus.
The new models will feature the longest battery life ever in an Apple smartphone. An iPhone 7 is set to last two hours longer than an iPhone 6S. On average, it will last 14 hours whilst using WiFi and 12 while using 4G, with the 7 Plus lasting 15 hours on both.
There are a number of changes to the new device, including the disappearance of the 3.5mm headphone jack and an improved camera. The iPhone 7 will also be IP67 certified, meaning it will be water and dust resistant, one reason the headphone jack is no longer present.
New lightning port headphones will be supplied with the phone, but it means that charging will not be possible at the same time. Users will also have the opportunity to buy Apple’s new wireless AirPod headphones, which would allow the phone to be charged while making a call.
The increased storage capacity will be of interest to certain business users. The new iPhones will come in 32GB, 128GB and 256GB.
Apple has also said that its new A10 Fusion processor is 40 per cent faster than the A9 processor inside of the iPhone 6S. It is also reportedly twice as fast as the A8 processors, found in the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.
The improved camera will allow users to take sharper photographs with its ability to let more light onto the lens.
Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, said: “The completely redesigned cameras shoot incredible photos and videos day or night, the A10 Fusion chip is the most powerful chip on any smartphone while delivering the best battery life ever in an iPhone, and an entirely new stereo speaker system provides twice the sound, all within the first water and dust resistant iPhone.”


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After more than 30 years in the cruise industry, Frank J. Del Rio will retire at the end of June 2023. Harry J. Sommer, the current president and CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line, will take Del Rio's place. The transition will begin April 1 when Sommer will become president and CEO-Elect in a transitional role, where he will oversee all three of the cruise company's brands and tri-branded departments, reporting to Del Rio. Taking Sommer's place as head of NCL will be David J. Herrera, NCL's current chief consumer sales and marketing officer.
When he retires, Del Rio will also be stepping down from his spot on the cruise company's Board of Directors. He will, however, continue to serve the Board in a consultant capacity as a Senior Advisor through 2025. Sommer will take Del Rio's position on the board.
Del Rio has led Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. since 2015. Prior to that he led Prestige Cruise International, Inc., and its predecessor, which operated Oceanian Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises, from 2002 until its acquisition by Norwegian. Del Rio founded Oceania Cruises in 2002.
Under his leadership at NCL Holdings Ltd., the company added eight new ships and introduced NCL's second private island destination, Harvest Caye.
"On behalf of the Board and the entire organization, I thank Frank for his invaluable contributions to this Company and the cruise industry throughout the last 30 years," said Russell W. Galbut, chairman of the Board of Directors of Norwegian Cruises Line Holdings, Ltd. "He had delivered superior financial results, expanded our fleet with luxurious and innovative ships, strengthened our global footprint and deliverd unparalleled experiences for our guests. His passion and dedication will have a lasting impact on both our business and the industry at large."
"Leading Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my professional career," said Frank Del Rio. "My heartfelt gratitude goes out to our 39,000 team members around the globe whose innovation, tenacity and collaboration have strengthened this Company and built the industry's most passionate and loyal base of cruisers. With the Company solidly positioned for 2023 and beyond, I am confident that now is the right time to pass the baton to Harry."
NCL Holdings' New Chapter
Sommer has more than 30 years of cruise industry experience across sales, marketing, revenue, management, passenger services, itinerary development and international business development and operations. During his tenure in the industry, Sommer has held a variety of executive roles at Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd., Prestige Cruise Holdings, Renaissance Cruises and Viking River Cruises.
In addition to his role as president and CEO of NCL, Sommer recently expanded his responsibilities to include oversight for all of the company's other revenue-generating functional areas, including Oceania Cruises, Regent Seven Seas Cruises and the tri-branded Onboard Revenue department.
"The Board is thrilled to appoint Harry to succeed Frank as the Company's next CEO, -- the culmination of a thoughtful succession planning process. A highly experienced leader and operator, Harry has worked alongside Frank for many years and helped drive the success of our largest, award-winning brand during a critical time. He successfully relaunched the NCL fleet following a more than 500-day pause, delivered the game-changing Norwegian Prima, the first of six ships in the brand's new class, and let the team to a record-breaking booking year in 2022."
"I am incredibly humbled to succeed Frank as this iconic Company's next president and CEO, and I'm grateful to have the unwavering support of him and the Board to lead the Company as we embark on the next chapter for our storied brands," Sommer said. "I'm particularly happy that David will be leading Norwegian Cruise Line as he has been a key contributor to NCL's success in recent years. With his strong financial, sales, marketing and business development background, David will be further empowered to guide the NCL brand on an accelerated path forward."
David Herrera currently serves as chief consumer sales and marketing officer for NCL, responsible for driving demand and global market share across NCL's key global source markets. In his role, he oversees the organization's consumer advertising and promotional strategy, as well as direct outbound and online sales channels.


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People in the UK lost £1.2bn to fraud in 2022, the equivalent of £2,300 every minute according to bank industry group UK Finance.
UK Finance said around three million scams took place – slightly less than the previous year – with frauds involving payment cards being the most common. UK Finance said losses were not always reimbursed and urged tech firms to “share the burden” of covering costs.
Within the total figure, unauthorised fraud losses across payment cards, remote banking and cheques reached £726.9 million in 2022, a decrease of less than one per cent compared to 2021.
Remote purchase fraud, where a criminal uses stolen card details to buy something online, over the phone or through mail order, remains the biggest category of losses at £395.7 million – although this figure was again down on the previous year. Fraud on lost and stolen cards increased by 30 per cent to £100.2 million and card ID theft, where a criminal opens or takes over a card account in someone else’s name, almost doubled to £51.7 million. Victims of unauthorised fraud cases such as these are legally protected against losses.
Authorised push payment (APP) fraud losses reached £485.2 million, down 17 per cent compared to 2021. Within this, 57 per cent of all reported cases related to purchase fraud, with case volumes breaking 100,000 for the first time. Investment fraud continued to be one of the largest proportion of APP losses (24 per cent), although there was a 34 per cent reduction compared with 2021. Overall, the amount of APP fraud losses reimbursed increased by five per cent in 2022 compared to the previous year.
The banking and finance industry spends billions of pounds each year fighting fraud and economic crime. However, the majority of fraud originates outside the banking sector and UK Finance has conducted analysis on over 59,000 APP fraud cases to show the sources of fraud.
The analysis showed that 78 per cent of APP fraud cases originated online – these tend to include lower-value fraud such as purchase fraud and therefore account for 36 per cent of losses. Social media platforms account for the greatest number of online fraud cases – around three quarters of online fraud starts on social media.
Meanwhile, 18 per cent of fraud cases originate via telecommunications – these are usually higher value cases, such as impersonation fraud, and account for 44 per cent of losses.
Given so much fraud is initiated from criminal activity taking place through online platforms and telecommunications, UK Finance and its members have long called for far greater cross-sector action to tackle the problem at source.
David Postings, Chief Executive at UK Finance, said “Fraud has a devastating impact on victims and over £1.2 billion was stolen by criminals last year. The banking and finance sector is at the forefront of efforts to tackle this criminal activity. The sector spends billions on detection and prevention and also refunds people who have fallen victim, even if the fraud originated outside the banking system. ”
“Our data also makes clear just how much fraud emanates from online platforms and through telecommunications. The government’s new fraud strategy rightly says we need to focus on stopping it at source and that these other sectors need to do far more to tackle the problem they are facilitating.”
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Emma Lovell, CEO of the Lending Standards Board said “Whilst we are pleased to see that efforts to prevent scams have resulted in a decline in the overall rate of APP scams, scammers still pose a significant threat to society.”
“Falling victim to a scam can have devastating long-term emotional implications. Reimbursement is only one part of the picture; it is vital that we don’t lose focus on the preventative measures that protect customers from the distress and turmoil scams cause – while halting the funding of these criminal enterprises. The CRM Code exists to ensure signatory firms protect their customers with procedures to detect APP scams, prevent them, and respond to them when they do slip through the net.”
“Despite scammers becoming more sophisticated by the day, the statistics have shown that firms are succeeding in reducing the number of successful scams, a key focus for those signed up to the CRM Code. We must continue to hold firms accountable by having independent standards in place to further drive down the volume of successful APP scams. Our priority remains focused on ensuring that the best protections are in place for customers, and we will continue to work closely with regulators and industry to ensure this happens.”
“The government has also indicated this month that it favours technology firms working together to stop scams at the source – potentially via a voluntary code. This is a positive step given there are multiple organisations involved in getting people to the point they press ‘pay’ during a scam. All players in the customer journey need to work out where the ‘danger spots’ are to understand the role they can play in stopping scams.”


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When AI Meets Social Media: A Techy Story
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What benefits do social media channels gain from artificial intelligence?
- Facebook acquires deep learning technologies that help in pattern face-recognition algorithms which are used to help the users tag their friends and predicts hashtags to make it easier for the users to input as much.
- Pinterest acquires deep learning technologies which help them level up from a bookmarking network to an e-commerce engine by boosting Pin recommendations to users that in the same way, are relevant to their Pin history.
- Google acquires deep learning to help them in the process of creating new products that have the ability to learn and comprehend images, videos, and text over the Web.
With the development of artificial intelligence (AI) throughout the years, digital marketing, social media marketing, and other related services have taken a piece of the technology to incorporate in their respective fields. There is the natural language processing (NLP) that enables programs to interact with users in the way humans do, natural language generation (NLG) which also imitates how humans convert data to narrative writing, and artificial design intelligence (ADI) which is designed to create great content and design an appealing website through feedbacks from users – all these have succeeded in its aim to make work easier and convenient for people in various industries.
However, among all these services, marketers have taken more attention on the collision of artificial intelligence and social media – given their individual significance and relevance in the digital era. Still, there is a lot to unfold with the entrance of AI into the growing social media marketing landscape, and that is what this article is about to tell you.
Artificial Intelligence in Social Media Networks
Various entities in the social media landscape have embraced the importance of artificial intelligence to boost the business and provide users the best experience to date.
Facebook is the largest and fastest growing social media business in the history and remains unstoppable as of today. With its large user base, definitely, the challenge to enhance the social media site is becoming more and more superficial. Of course, Facebook isn’t backing down; having established an AI lab in their office and having hired the well-known New York University professor, Yann LeCun, in 2013, the journey towards developing the best technologies for Facebook isn’t impossible. The recently publicized researches online, at the very site of Facebook AI Research (FAIR), included neural networks learning to pattern face-recognition algorithms which are used to help the users tag their friends, and predicting hashtags to make it easier for the users to input as much.
Focusing on today, artificial intelligence is very much used in Facebook through deep learning technologies. These technologies sort through the giant social media site’s database, enabling it to adjust its News Feed filters and suggestions, tag the user’s friends when uploading photos via face-recognition, and discover trending topics around the world. Arguably, artificial intelligence, in the form of deep learning technologies, is the best way to make the platform work given the many users who log in every day from around the world.
Pinterest is revving up their marketing strategy to a whole new level. Being the world’s renowned bookmarking network where people mostly look for ideas and creative projects – the network’s channeling its inner e-commerce prowess to serve its users better, and of course, to further develop the social media channel itself. Having acquired partnership with Kosei, a data software company which specializes in personalized recommendation modeling and Visual Graph which on the other hand, specializes in image recognition and search, Pinterest is dedicated to implementing deep learning into their processes. Notably, the network benefits in AI through object recognition which boosts Pin and product recommendations, detecting spam content and users, and boosting ad performance and relevance prediction. Through these technologies, Pinterest is on its way to becoming one of the giant e-commerce engines to date.
Yet with all these technologies, Google remains at the lead in implementing AI into their channel. In 2014, Google has acquired DeepMind, a British AI startup that, as the AI researcher Yoshua Bengio has worded it, “…has the largest concentrations of deep learning experts.” But why, you might ask – why is Google collaborating with deep learning experts? For some time now, Google was aiming for deep learning to help them in the process of creating new products that have the ability to learn and comprehend images, videos, and text over the Web – which meant, further improving the search engine’s capabilities in catering to its users’ needs. Moreover, given Google’s reputation in technology, it’s not impossible to make something over time with all their researchers. One instance of this is the recent program made by Google DeepMind – which beat the human player in one out of 30 Atari games. Thing is, this program is a combination of two forms of machine intelligence, the reinforcement-learning algorithm and the deep neural network, which analyzes, infer, and learns from the patterns of an existing data in order to achieve a particular goal – which in this matter, takes in the form of winning the said games. Surely, Google has its ways in turning futuristic ideas into reality.
Having highlighted specific social media networks’ collision with AIs, it is evident that artificial intelligence can guarantee the future of the industry with progressive researches and studies turning into products. Furthermore, not only does it make a huge impact on the world, but to the brands as well as it helps them grow and strengthen their business along the process. To this regard, please be reminded that this story isn’t going to end anytime soon – as there are a lot more flipping to do before people even reach the ending.


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The deal is as follows … Cardi and Real Women Are (fashion doll brand) have collaborated to create a limited edition Cardi B doll and started pre-ordering for $ 35 a pop in March, but the shipping deadline I wasn’t in time. And people started to think it was all a scam.
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The role of Grinch is played by a Cardi B representative who tells TMZ … No dolls will be released as a result of COVID-related manufacturing and shipping delays. It is also said that Cardy himself was worried that the doll might not meet her high quality standards.
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Nokia takes aim at the enterprise
Users are demanding more from their regular phones and smartphones, and market competition is driving innovation. We look at how current market leader Nokia is trying to tackle the fickle business market for its products.
The world's largest mobile phone company knows how to put on a show. Nokia is not only the leading mobile brand, but it is almost certainly the only vendor with its own house band.
The music is rather heavy on Robbie Williams covers, although this did not seem to bother the 2,300 Nokia developers and business partners in Amsterdam this week for the Nokia World conference. And Mr Williams' chorus line, "Let me entertain you", is a good approximation for much of Nokia's strategy.
Chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo used his keynote speech at the event to point out that Nokia is now competing as much with MP3 player manufactures, such as Apple, and digital camera makers, such as Canon, as with other mobile phone companies.
Kallasvuo, who took over as chief executive from Jorma Ollila in June this year, points out that Nokia is the world's largest maker of MP3 players, and that the company has been shipping music player and FM radio technology in its handsets since 1999.
Doing so makes business sense for Nokia, because by the company's own estimates handset upgrades account for 65 per cent of mobile sales. This is expected to rise to 80 per cent by 2010. Many consumers will pay for a better, more feature-rich handset.
Whether business users pay much heed to features such as better music players or better camera functions is open to question, however. But part of Nokia's strategy is to segment the market, and to develop devices specifically targeted at each user group.
Nokia unveiled no new business devices this week, with consumer devices once more in the limelight. However, for enterprise mobile users who need stability in their upgrade cycles, this might not be a bad thing.
The manufacturer's current E Series business phones are gaining significant ground among enterprise users.
Meeting the UK demand
The E Series includes conventional "candy bar" phones such as the E50, the BlackBerry-style E61 and the innovative E70, with a folding out QWERTY keyboard. "The appeal of the range includes the choice of form factors, as well as voice quality, battery life and the range of email applications we support," says Mary McDowell, general manager of Nokia's Enterprise division.
Nokia is also hoping that consistency across the range will appeal to business users and to IT managers. E Series handsets are standardised around QVGA screens, for example, making it easier to write applications for the devices. The E Series phones all run the Series 60 operating system, Nokia's version of Symbian.
Nokia is working on updates to its older, Communicator handsets that will move these devices on to Series 60 as well. In addition, handsets are being equipped with voice over IP software, allowing calls over wireless LANs, as well as with software for office phone systems from Avaya and Alcatel that allows phones such as the E61 to work as cellular "extensions" to the PBX. Such software is also being developed for Cisco equipment.
Standardising the software platform
Research carried out among European CIOs by Nokia found that 40 per cent were looking at "mobilising" their PBX systems. The cost savings on calls, as well as productivity benefits, are significant according to the vendor.
A government department in Spain that has 80 staff using Nokia handsets connected to the PBX instead of separate desk and mobile phones is saving euro8,000 to 9,000 a month, says Ruano Toivonen, Nokia's director of product marketing for enterprise voice solutions. Typically, companies can expect to save between 18 and 28 per cent on telephony costs.
Nokia still has work to do, however, to convince companies that it is as serious about the business market as it is about selling to consumers.
One issue it needs to address is the attitude of operators to its products: the full Nokia range of business phones is not available through every operator in the UK, for example.
If an operator does not stock the right phones, IT managers will have to justify the higher cost of buying SIM-free devices. This could be hard to do when phones with at least nominally similar functions are available with heavy subsidies from other manufacturers.
Mobile VoIP services and connectivity
Nokia already sells a version of the E61 in the US minus its Wi-Fi connection, apparently due to pressure from mobile phone network operators fearing competition and lost revenue from VoIP and low-cost third-party Wi-Fi networks.
The company will also need to speed its development work with Cisco and quite probably, develop compatibility for its phones with Nortel equipment. But the biggest challenge will be to sell its vision for enterprise communications - which is still heavily hardware centric - in as market where software is increasingly important.
That will put Nokia into even more direct competition with Microsoft that, in addition to developing its Windows Mobile operating system, is pushing its Real Time Collaboration server and VoIP solutions in the enterprise market, in part in conjunction with Nortel.
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said this week that one of Nokia's objectives is to achieve scale. But gaining the scale needed to take on Microsoft in the enterprise will not be easy, even for a company that has already sold 850m phones.
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SB 372 creates an extended producer responsibility program that reduces costs for consumers
Sacramento – With California’s bottle recycling program in tatters, the state Senate Environmental Quality Committee today approved a bill by Senator Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont) to create a new streamlined stewardship program that places redemption and recycling responsibilities on distributors operating inside the state.
“Our recycling system is broken and antiquated,” said Wieckowski, chair of the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review’s subcommittee on Resources, Environmental Protection, Energy and Transportation. “We have amended the original bottle bill more than 75 times. “Applying more Band-Aids to a broken system will not solve the problem. SB 372 will move us to an extended producer responsibility model that reduces the state’s bureaucratic function so that CalRecycle’s focus will be on oversight and enforcement. The program would be run by the private sector at no cost to the taxpayer. This will add more convenience for consumers and more locations to recycle. That’s the model that is successful in Oregon where the recycling rates are much higher than in California.”
Oregon created the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative that is run by distributors and retailers and has more locations for consumers to turn in their beverage containers. Companies such as Waste Management, Coca Cola, Safeway and Whole Foods are among the participants in the Oregon program.
Under SB 372, distributors of beverages must form a Beverage Container Stewardship Organization. The organization must then submit a plan and budget for the redemption and recycling of beverage containers to be approved by CalRecycle. Wine and distilled spirits bottles would also be included in the new program. The stewardship program would become operational in January 2024.
“I congratulate Senator Wieckowski on introducing SB 372, which recognizes that no amount of short-term fixes to the current system will allow the program to operate sustainably in the long term,” said Sarah Edwards, the head of the New York office of Eunomia, an independent consulting firm that put out a report last year on California’s beverage container program. “While we recognize that further work is needed to the bill, the principles of an extended producer responsibility program that will enable consumers to conveniently reclaim their CRV (California Refund Value) is key to ensuring California is an environmental leader.”
In Governor Newsom’s summary of his recently released state budget, he said “the California Beverage Container Recycling Program is an example of a system that provides clean, recyclable material, but is also in need of reform. The Administration will continue to collaborate with the Legislature to determine needed reforms, with a focus on consumer access.”
Wieckowski said his legislation builds on recommendations from stakeholder meetings during Gov. Jerry Brown’s final term, the Legislative Analyst’s Office and previous Senate Environmental Quality oversight hearings on recycling.
SB 372 is supported by Consumer Watchdog, Environment California, Californians Against Waste, National Stewardship Action Council, TOMRA, and The Story of Stuff Project.
Senator Wieckowski represents the 10th District, which includes southern Alameda County and parts of Santa Clara County.


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On Wednesday this week, around 36,000 Verizon employees walked out in a strike to protest about changes taking place in the business. These union workers belong to the Verizon Mid-Atlantic and Northeast wireline businesses, providing landline 'phone, television and Internet services. In particular, it's the network maintenance, home installation and tech support, and customer service teams that have walked out. Verizon has been preparing for the strike for a number of months by training temporary non-union workers to take up these posts. In an emailed statement, Rich Young explained in an email statement that the temporary workforce are trying to handle day-to-day operations as best they can but there are some impacts to services. Verizon has cancelled new installations of its high speed Fio Internet and TV service for the next one to two weeks. Jeff Kagan, a telecommunications anslyst, explained the likely impact to consumers: "…if you have no problems with your phone service, you're not going to notice but, if you have a service call, or an installation or anything that requires them to do some work, you're going to be out of luck for a while."
As the strike drags on, so customers may expect more and more issues. Currently, any problems are centred around the fixed line services but it is possible that ongoing staff shortages will impact Verizon's primary business: wireless, where they are America's largest carrier. And this highlights the issue at the centre of the strike: Verizon, which has almost 178,000 employees, is shrinking its slow-growing wireline business in response to changing consumer habits. Customers are using landlines less and less and instead switching to smartphones. Similarily, paid television use is slowing and instead people are opting for a wireless television service, such as Hulu or Netflix. From a business perspective, Verizon is doing the right thing by concentrating on the wireless side. As part of the slimming, the company is attempting to consolidate call centres and reduce health care costs. Employee unions also claim that Verizon is increasing its reliance on cheaper, outside contractors for certain jobs and that they are working to preserve good-paying American jobs. It's something that Democratic candidate, Bernie Sanders, spoke about earlier in the week although he also claimed that Verizon were not paying taxes, something the company denied.
Verizon's Chief Executive Officer Lowell McAdam explained via LinkedIn that: "Nostalgia for the rotary phone era won't save American jobs, any more than ignoring the global forces reshaping the auto industry saved the Detroit automakers." Verizon is trying to manage the situation as best it can, aware that the wireline business faces stiff competition and any price increases could result in more customers switching away. However, the longer the strike goes on and the more people are impacted, the greater the risk that customers will switch away anyway: something both Verizon and the unions must surely be aware of.


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Disposable cups may get warning labels so coffee drinkers will be warned they take up to 30 years to decompose
- Coffee drinkers could be warned disposable cups will take 30 years to degrade
- Andrea Leadsom will consider scheme put forward by the packaging industry
- Disposable cups from outlets such as Costa and Starbucks are difficult to recycle
Coffee drinkers could be warned their disposable cups will take up to 30 years to degrade under plans to cut down on their use.
Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom will consider a scheme put forward by the packaging industry whereby cups are marked with a ‘decomposition date’.
Disposable coffee cups from outlets such as Costa and Starbucks are very difficult to recycle, meaning every year millions of them end up in landfill.
It is hoped that making coffee drinkers consider how long their cups will take to decompose will help tackle the issue – just as health warnings on cigarette packages have cut down on smoking.
Disposable coffee cups from outlets such as Costa and Starbucks are very difficult to recycle, meaning every year millions of them end up in landfill (Stock image)
Ministers are interested in Dutch research which found that the use of such messages can lead to a 5 per cent reduction in littering.
They are also looking at ideas such as printing a picture of eyes on packaging, as other research has shown this can stop people throwing them in the street.
The plans will we welcomed by environmental campaigners, but will disappoint those who want to see a plastic bag-style 5p charge placed on disposable coffee cups to persuade people not to use them.
The idea was contained in a litter strategy published yesterday by Ms Leadsom, which included plans to fine litter louts could up to £150 for dropping rubbish, as well as fining motorists who let people drop litter from their car.
Just one in every 400 cups handed out by firms including Costa, Starbucks and Pret a Manger is recycled because they include a plastic membrane that cannot easily be separated.
As a result, an estimated 2.5billion are binned and end up in dumps where they take decades to degrade, releasing greenhouse gases as they do so.
In its litter strategy published yesterday, the government said it would look at industry-led schemes such as coffee cup decomposition messages.
‘Research in the Netherlands has demonstrated that the use of on pack messaging about the decomposition time of a paper cup (based on health warnings on cigarette packets) led to a 5 per cent reduction in observed littering,’ the report said.
‘But we think there may be potential to go further using insights from behavioural science to encourage better behaviour. For example, recent research by Newcastle University found that printing images of eyes on packaging reduced people’s tendency to litter it.’
Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom will consider a scheme put forward by the packaging industry whereby cups are marked with a ‘decomposition date’
It went on: ‘There is, of course, also scope for well‑designed labelling to go further and not just deter littering but help to ensure that items are actively recycled by people who are already inclined towards responsible disposal.
‘Including this type of disposal information on the item may act as a nudge to encourage consumers to think of the item as a resource with potential value, and thus to take greater care over its disposal.’
Under the strategy, people who litter the streets could face increased fixed penalties while the owners of vehicles could be fined if rubbish is thrown from their car by any driver or passenger.
Ministers will also stop councils charging householders for disposing of DIY household waste at the tip, as it legally should be free to dispose of such waste at municipal waste sites and they warn the charges can contribute to fly-tipping.
The Government also wants offenders on community service, including fly-tippers, to help clean up the streets.
The strategy also warns councils against employing private contractors to collect litter fines if they impose targets on their staff, as this could give a false incentive.
Ms Leadsom said: ‘Litter is something that affects us all, blighting our countryside, harming our wildlife, polluting our seas, spoiling our towns and giving visitors a poor impression of our country.
‘Our litter strategy will tackle this antisocial behaviour by building an anti-litter culture; making it easier for people to dispose of rubbish and hitting litter louts in the pocket.
‘We want to be the first generation to leave our environment in a better state than we found it and tackling litter is an important part of our drive to make the country a better place to live and visit.’
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Chart of the Day: Snapchat and Instagram dominate teens' favourite social media platform
Piper Jaffrey has released the results from its twice-annual survey of US teens into their favourite brands, websites, and social media platforms. The results show that Snapchat and Instagram have been pulled away from their competitors in the minds of the American youth.
Snapchat has held the top spot since the Spring 2016 survey, and now has a dominant 46% of people stating it's their favourite platform. Instagram has seen a major upswing from the Spring 2018 survey, moving from 26% to 32%.
Interestingly, Instagram's growth in popularity hasn't encroached on Snapchat, but it seems to have made a huge impact on Twitter. Facebook's status as 'most popular social platform' has more than halved from 12% (in Spring 2015) to 5%, while Twitter has plummeted from 21% to 6% in the same time.
It could be worse. Look at Pinterest.
Also of note is that when it comes to overall usage, Instagram and Snapchat are practically neck-and-neck (85% vs 84%). If you want to make an impact with a young target audience, ensure your company is taking advantage of these platforms.


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U.S. New Home Sales UP
Unbelievable as it may seem, with rising mortgage costs and falling prices in home-related stocks, new home sales actually set a new record in October! (Just when it seemed that all the 'experts' were starting to line up in a row...)
It could be that people bought those new homes before mortgage rates could rise any further. It's interesting to note however, that home "resales" fell a larger than expected amount in the same month. So, while I was watching real estate ads drop in my area, it would seem that the business was going to the new home builders!
Housing does contribute substantially to the US economy. It contributes not only through construction but also when consumers of new homes buy the new appliances and furniture that usually accompanies their home purchase.
What we do need to be aware of is the fact that we are still "extracting" capital from our homes through refinancing, and that can be dangerous when prices do start to fall. After all, refinancing other purchases through our homes is one-time money, and we will need to pay it back in the form of paying off our mortgage. As a result, the decline in sales and the slowdown in prices -- which is still being predicted by economists for next year -- could seriously weigh on our economy as all the easily available sources of money to the consumer "dry up".
I hate to be a "kill-joy" in the midst of abundance, but like the story of the ant and the grasshopper -- we need to ensure that we have resources put away for the "winter" of an economic downturn. After all, economies still go up and down, and we still have to be prepared for poorer times.


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Reddit's valuation doubles to $6 billion after new $250 million funding
(Reuters) - Reddit Inc, which has been at the heart of a recent social media-driven retail trading frenzy, said on Monday it raised more than $250 million in a new round of funding that doubled its valuation to $6 billion.
“Valuations are very high right now. It never hurts to raise money when there’s an opportunity to do so and Reddit had a strong year,” Huffman said, according to the WSJ report.
Reddit, which has more than 50 million daily active users, said in the blog post that advertising revenue rose 90% in the last quarter from a year earlier.
The rally has drawn the attention of regulators, although U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Sunday it was too soon to say whether new policies or regulations were needed to deal with the volatility.


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Wicked Local Framingham | By Jim Haddadin
August 15, 2016
FRAMINGHAM — Bacon, eggs and buttermilk pancakes will soon be available around the clock at a shopping plaza off Rte. 9 near Framingham State University.
Members of the Planning Board recently approved plans for a new 24-hour IHOP to open on Edgell Road. The 182-seat eatery will replace the former Red Pepper Chinese restaurant, which has been shuttered since last year.
The Planning Board in July granted several waivers for the project, and also approved special permits easing parking requirements and allowing the plaza to offer 158 spaces rather than the required 230.
The developers contend the available parking will “more than satisfy” the actual demand, based on parking counts conducted while Red Pepper was still open last year. The new IHOP will have more seating and more employees than the previous restaurant, but would be busiest at times that don’t conflict with surrounding businesses, according to the developers.
Also known as the International House of Pancakes, IHOP specializes in breakfast dishes, including its signature “Rooty Tooty Fresh ‘N Fruity” pancakes.


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Malaysia will not, for now, take the issue of negative labelling of palm oil products by France to the World Trade Organisation.
The Malaysian Minister for Plantation and Commodities Bernard Dompok told a press conference here on Monday that the two countries had decided to set up a joint working group to look at the issues involved in France labelling its food products as palm oil-free.
He was speaking after the inauguration of the Palm Oil Trade Fair and Seminar 2012 here, organized by the Malaysian Palm Oil Council.
“We are alarmed” about the things that were being done, said the minister about France’s move, triggered by allegations of destruction of rain forests for palm oil cultivation in the country. This was unfair to the oil palm industry and a non-tariff barrier, the minister added.
Chairman of the Palm Oil Council Dato’ Lee Yeow Chor said that a joint working group had already been set up and that the representatives of the two countries were set to meet shortly.
The minister said that Malaysian palm oil refiners, who were handicapped by the relatively high price of crude palm oil vis-à-vis the commodity from Indonesia, now stood to gain from a decision by his ministry to lower export duty on crude palm oil.
He said that palm oil refineries in Malaysia had to do some catching up now as he referred the decision last week to lower duty on export of crude palm oil. He said that the Malaysian palm oil industry was resilient, and would overcome the challenges.
Malaysia, last week, decided to cut duty on export of crude palm oil which will make Malaysian supplies cheaper for Indian importers provided Indonesia does not change its strategies, according to the Executive Director of The Solvent Extractors’ Association of India, B. V. Mehta.
He was speaking to journalists on the sidelines of a two-day Palm Oil Trade Fair and Seminar 2012.
Under the new regime, effective January next year, the duty will range between 8.5 per cent and 5 per cent depending on the price range per tonne.
He said import of vegetable oils stood at 9.5 million tonnes between November and September this year. During November-September last year, India imported 7.77 million tonnes of vegetable oils.
(The correspondent is in Kuala Lumpur at the invitation of Malaysian Palm Oil Council.)


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Soft drinks giant Coca-Cola is partnering with Japanese beverage firm Kirin to develop functional drinks, according to a Nikkei Asia report.
The companies are said to be collaborating to create drinks that contain lactococcus lactis strain plasma (LC-Plasma), a postbiotic ingredient developed by Kirin Holdings that is claimed to boost immunity in healthy people.
The collaboration will reportedly help Coca-Cola to bolster its position in the growing health drinks segment, with Kirin potentially able to access new markets where Coca-Cola has an existing presence.
Coca-Cola is said to be planning to include LC-Plasma in products under its Georgia, Irohasu and Minute Maid brands. Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency is reported as having approved the new drinks to tout health benefits.
Source: Nikkei Asia


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The Tesla Cybertruck is, for all intents and purposes, a very large vehicle. With its hulking design and cold steel exterior, the Cybertruck is an imposing presence on the road. It is then quite a sight when such a large pickup truck is spotted moving so nimbly, it almost looks like a much smaller vehicle.
The Cybertruck footage was captured by longtime drone Tesla Giga Texas watcher Joe Tegtmeyer, who was fortunate enough to spot the all-electric pickup truck during a recent flyover of the complex. As could be seen in the video, the Cybetruck drove away from a Supercharger and promptly headed over to the road, where it performed a smooth U-turn.
Seeing a large pickup truck perform a U-turn is nothing special, but one could immediately tell that the Cybertruck’s turning radius is very impressive. The video showed the Cybertruck taking the U-turn from the left lane and finishing the maneuver on the incoming right lane. The whole turn was one quick maneuver, which is quite impressive considering that the roads in the area only had two lanes.
There are a variety of apparent reasons why the Cybertruck has an impressive turning radius. For one, the vehicle looked like it was using its four-wheel steering system during the maneuver. The all-electric pickup truck also has a very short nose, which likely helps the driver perform technical maneuvers properly, even in tight areas.
This is not the first time that the Cybetruck’s impressive turning radius has caught the attention of electric vehicle enthusiasts online. Back in March, a video of the Cybetruck using its four-wheel steering system in action was shared on X, Elon Musk’s social media platform. The Tesla CEO responded to the video, noting that the Cybertruck may actually be better than a Model Y in turning.
Musk’s comment was received with some excitement, especially since the Cybertruck is so much larger than the Model Y. The Model Y features a length of 187 inches, while the Cybertruck is expected to be around 231 inches long. If the Cybetruck would indeed be better at turning than the all-electric crossover, it would be quite an accomplishment for the electric vehicle maker.
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Tesla Cybertruck turning radius looks insane in recent footage


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CAPCOM and LG Electronics announced three months ago a partnership to bring the former’s Street Fighter franchise to the latter’s Android smartphones.
Although the companies did not mention when exactly the games will be launched, they confirmed that the first game of the franchise that will be released for LG’s first HD Android smartphone will be “Street Fighter IV.”
Under agreements, “Street Fighter IV HD” will be exclusively available for AT&T’s LG Nitro HD and for the LG Optimus LTE, for three months after the game’s launch. The game will reach other Android phones as soon as the three months exclusivity period is over.
In the same news, the companies teamed up for a global championship tournament that will challenge players against each other in Japan, United States and Korea.
“We are honored to be able to bring one of the most popular fighting games of all time into the Android ecosystem. We are also confident that LG’s soon-to-be-unveiled HD display technology will give Street Fighter fans a whole new reason to play the game again,” Dr. Jong-seok Park, President and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications.
Tournament applications kicked-off on December 15, so all those who want to apply for the global competition can do so via the online application system
CAPCOM and LG offer a US$10,000 (7,700 EUR) prize for the tournament’s champion, while the runner up will get US$2,500 (1,900 EUR). There’s also a US$1,200 (920 EUR) prize for the third place winner.
The tournament will being in the United States on January 14, 2012 with online applications running through January 10. According to the tournament’s rules players must be 12 years or older in order to be accepted for the competition.
It is also worth mentioning that all U.S. finalists will receive an LG Nitro HD and will be flown to Seoul, Korea where it all ends on TV.


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Toyota is continuing to develop its hydrogen-powered internal-combustion engine technology through the lens of motorsport, but has now revealed its most road-going concept yet.
The Toyota Corolla Cross H2 concept largely looks like a regular Corolla Cross SUV but has the powertrain of a race car.
The race car in question is the hydrogen-powered GR Corolla H2 that has been competing in the Super Taikyu endurance racing series in Japan since May 2021 by the Rookie Racing division of Toyota Gazoo Racing.
The powertrain was also used in a GR Yaris concept that competed in a special demonstration run during the ninth round of the World Rally Championship (WRC) in Ypres, Belgium in August this year.
Although this Corolla Cross H2 concept uses the same fuel source as the Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicle (FCEV), the two are different.
The Mirai FCEV uses a chemical reaction in its fuel cells to generate energy and is therefore an electric vehicle of sorts, whereas the Corolla Cross H2 concept has an internal-combustion engine using hydrogen as the fuel.
Powering the hydrogen-powered Corolla Cross concept is a 1.6-litre ‘G16E-GTS’ turbocharged inline-three-cylinder engine that’s very similar to the petrol-powered GR Yaris and GR Corolla models but has a modified fuel supply and injection system for the hydrogen fuel source.
The concept also features the same high-pressure hydrogen storage tanks and refuelling process as the Mirai.
Toyota hasn’t disclosed power or torque figures for the Corolla Cross H2 concept, nor does it mention how fast it can do the 0-100km/h sprint.
Toyota has been developing its hydrogen combustion engine technology since 2017 and thanks in part to its involvement in the Super Taikyu endurance racing series with the GR Corolla H2 racer, it claims hydrogen combustion power has increased by 24 per cent and torque by 33 per cent, making it on par with a conventional petrol engine.
Range has also been extended by around 30 per cent and refuelling time has been reduced by five minutes to one and a half minutes.
The Japanese carmaker didn’t seemingly have racing pedigree in mind with this Corolla Cross H2 concept, as it was developed to showcase that hydrogen-combustion technology can transport five people and their luggage.
Toyota says the Corolla Cross H2 concept will soon being winter testing in northern Japan, alongside ongoing digital development.
The Japanese carmaker claims it’s currently 40 per cent along the path to commercialisation of products vehicles like the Corolla Cross H2 concept.
It believes it’s not yet possible to say if the technology will reach maturity for road cars, but there is a clear future for it in motorsports.
Toyota says the key merits of hydrogen combustion technology include the ability to leverage existing existing internal-combustion engine technologies, quick refuelling times, and reduction in the use and necessity of elements like lithium and nickel.
Only a few carmakers are currently exploring hydrogen-combustion engine technologies, including Alpine and GAC.
Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe in an interview with Automotive News earlier in the year dismissed Toyota’s plans for hydrogen-fuelled internal-combustion engine, saying it would not become mainstream.
The company did just announce it’s going to be building a plug-in hydrogen fuel cell variant of the new-generation CR-V in the US from 2024 though.
Rather than focusing exclusively on electric vehicles (EVs), Toyota is known for currently offering, exploring and developing a range of hybrid, battery-electric (BEVs), plug-in hybrid electric (PHEVs), hydrogen fuel-cell electric (FCEVS), and hydrogen-combustion engine vehicles.
The automaker’s UK arm said this week it would make prototypes of the Toyota HiLux ute with a hydrogen fuel cell electric (FCEV) drivetrain, and aims to put the zero tailpipe emission ute into small-scale production.
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