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DC Comics News
News on DC Comics (Ticker: TWX) continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
DC Comics may have set aside July 23 as a date for celebrating the history of its storied Batman character, but the day actually delivered much bigger news for the future of Spider-Man.
DC Comics and VICE teamed up to give 20 acclaimed artists a white latex reproduction of Batman's famous cowl and cape and asked them to design what they envisioned the Caped Crusader wearing - this is what they came up with.
Grant Morrison has spent much of his career in comic books sketching out the farthest reaches of the comic cosmos, taking iconic characters like Batman and Superman far beyond our fragile borders of space and time.
Irina Shayk Every man's worst nightmare . Better be careful where you park in NYC .
It does not give much away but a new image of Ben Affleck as the Dark Knight has been released by DC Comics.
Markets look set to chalk up another week of gains, barring surprises Friday. Here are the six things you need to know before the opening bell rings in New York: U.S. stock futures were slightly weaker.
CDS on FOX have widened 50% since July 4, compared to just 3% widening observed for Fitch Solutions' North America Media CDS Index over the same time period.
Actor Dwayne Johnson has been teasing fans with the possibility that he's been in talks with Warner Bros.
A statue of the Dark Knight stands in the middle of DC Entertainment's booth preview night at Comic-Con International: San Diego.
Bloomberg's Alex Sherman updates the latest news on a possible Twenty-First Century Fox and Time Warner deal.
Major Executive Changes at Cond Nast Big changes have just hit Cond Nast. Editorial director Tom Wallace and COO and CFO John Bellando are both leaving the company, while David Geithner - a former veteran of Time Inc. - is joining as CFO.
Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu reports that second-quarter results from Ford saw the automaker beating profit estimates due to surprising sales growth in Europe.
Square Enix unveiled a new Play Arts Kai statue that provides a glimpse of what a Batman game might look like in the hands of Tetsuya Nomura .
The mention of the name Paul Pope usually brings with it a mix of images or recollections to most comic book readers.
A new Lego figure - known in the Lego world as a "minifig" - depicts The Joker with the jagged, disturbing face make-up that was distinct to Ledger's portrayal.
The show floor of San Diego Comic-Con is always packed with all kinds of cool stuff.
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Today’s topics include a new report claiming a global cloud shutdown could result in $53 billion in losses; a lackluster second quarter for Google parent Alphabet due to a recent EU fine; Windows 10 making business gains; and IBM X-Force Red launching IoT and connected car security services.
As cyber-threats continue to grow, so too do the costs and risks associated with cyber-insurance. In a 56-page report, insurance provider Lloyd’s of London and cyber-risk analytics firm Cyence provide metrics and insight into how to measure and evaluate modern cyber-risks.
Among the top-line findings in the report is that in a worst case scenario for a cloud service provider, an outage from a cyber-attack could result in $53 billion in losses.
“Generally, an extreme event would be multiple days of complete downtime, something that has not yet happened but is possible in the future,” George Ng, CTO and co-founder of Cyence, told eWEEK.
While the report specifically calls out worst case scenarios, Ng said everyday cyber-risks “could be even more important because they are more plausible and occur more frequently.”
For its latest quarter that ended June 30, Google parent Alphabet saw profits drop by nearly 28 percent compared to the same quarter last year. That drop was the result of the massive $2.7 billion fine imposed on the company in the European Union in June.
With the charge, Alphabet earned $3.5 billion on revenues of $26.01 billion, compared to $4.9 billion on revenues of $21.5 billion in 2016. EU regulators imposed the fine on Google for abusing its search dominance to favor the company’s own comparison-shopping site over that of rivals.
Google has said that it intends to fight the decision. While its profits were down, Alphabet’s revenues were up 21 percent over last year and beat Wall Street expectations for the quarter.
As the two-year anniversary of the Windows 10 launch approaches, new research from Spiceworks indicates that enterprises are warming to Microsoft’s latest desktop operating system, but Windows 7 still rules the roost.
In its latest survey of desktop operating system penetration rates in business, Spiceworks, an IT management specialist and professional online community, found that 60 percent of organizations worldwide are running at least one instance of Windows 10 somewhere on their networks.
In terms of adoption rates, this places Windows 10 ahead of Windows Vista, Windows 8 and the 16-year-old Windows XP. However, Windows 7, released in October 2009, remains the most popular desktop operating system with a penetration rate of 84 percent.
When IBM launched its X-Force Red security testing team a year ago, the stated purpose was to help organizations improve security with better testing. IBM X-Force Red is now expanding its offerings with new connected car and internet of things security services.
The size and broad scope of IBM’s overall business provides X-Force Red with significant opportunities to improve both automotive and IoT security, according to Charles Henderson, global head of IBM X-Force Red.
IBM has a facility in Germany that is specifically dedicated to working with automotive companies to help design connected cars, Henderson said. X-Force Red is also launching a new service to help further improve the security of connected IoT devices.

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the 24-hour reporting system, private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 456,000 tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2020/2021 marketing year. USD was 50 higher and WTI 41 cents lower and equities lower.
The CBOT ag futures are seeing little direction on thin news. Tender business was quiet. 286 meal were delivered and 63 soybean oil receipts were cancelled. Malaysian palm fell 7 points while cash palm was unchanged. Early June Malaysian regional palm
oil production data is indicating an already expected sharp decline from the previous year. China traded higher for soybeans and vegetable oils. CBOT soybean oil is under pressure presumably from end of week profit taking. Lack of direction is leaving a
slightly negative trade for corn and soybeans. Wheat is slightly higher on technical buying. Jan-Jun China soybean imports are 18 percent higher than the same period year ago to 55.2 MMT. July imports were a large 10.1 million tons, up from 8.63 MMT for
June 2019 and down from 11.16 MMT for June 2020. China imported 956,000 tons of vegetable oils in July, down 6.1% from the previous month. For Monday we look for US crop conditions to improve one point for corn, soybeans, and spring wheat.


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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican health officials are recalling a face cream linked to cases of mercury poisoning in the U.S. and Mexico.
The federal Health Department warns in a statement that the Mexican-produced Aguamary Cream contains elevated mercury levels and said officials have closed a factory in northwestern Sinaloa state.
The department says it also is removing the cream from store shelves and notes that the Aguaruto Cosmetics company sells the product on websites.
A telephone number listed for Aguaruto Cosmetics rang unanswered Saturday.
Texas health officials warned in September of at least 18 cases of mercury poisoning linked to Aguamary, including two infants whose mothers used the product during pregnancy. Health officials say Mexico had one case.


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RAIN News published a report referencing a new study from MyersBizNet 2016 forecast in which they project an increase in “legacy” media like Radio. Here is an excerpt below:
A new edition of an annual research projection from MyersBizNet forecasts 7.7% growth in ad spend across audio/radio, video/TV, display, video, mobile, and other categories. It is the 29th Annual Advertising and Marketing Spending Forecast, and was sent to RAIN News by Jack Myers.
In a break-out of the forecast, the audio and radio categories show growth on both sides of the digital divide, but with much stronger progress in digital ad sales. The report identifies “Legacy Terrestrial Radio” as growing 2.6% this year in ad spend, to $14.6-billion. On the other side of the fence, digital ad spending on terrestrial brands is projected to grow 28%, to about two-billion dollars. A blended projection from those two figures arrives at 5% growth to $16.5-billion for terrestrial radio in 2016.
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A well-known tourism marketing website in China, Ctrip, named Bali the best tourist destination at the Top 10 Best Tourist Destinations Network Selection and Award Ceremony. “During the event, Ctrip presented two awards to Bali, the Best Island Tourist Destination Award and the Best Overseas Tourism City Award.
We hope these awards increase the number of tourists, particularly those from China, visiting Indonesia this year and in the years to come,” Indonesian Tourism Minister Arief Yahya said on Thursday. The event, which Yahya stated was held annually by Ctrip, was organized in Lijiang city in Yunnan province in China on Monday (January 13) and was attended by several Chinese officers and businesspersons of the tourism sector.
Ctrip has a major influence in the Chinese tourism market because it dominates 55.9 percent of online tourism marketing in the country. Yahya further noted that his ministry will focus on promoting Indonesian tourism through online or digital networks. These efforts will include creating mobile applications, carrying out digital and interactive campaigns, and implementing viral marketing tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and blogs.
“As much as 70 percent of Chinese tourists get their information on Indonesia through the Internet. It is a challenge for the ministry to boost promotion strategies through digital media,” Yahya remarked. The ministry will also focus on easing accessibility by introducing direct flights from cities in China to Indonesia, particularly to Bali, he affirmed.
Furthermore, the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) and the Indonesian Tourism Ministry are determined to increase the number of tourists visiting both countries to 2 million by the end of 2015. As many as 883,725 Chinese tourists visited Indonesia from January to November 2014. The ministry recorded that Chinese travelers tour Indonesia for an average of 4 to 5 days, spending US$100 to 110 per day.
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g src=”/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/aPerez.jpg” alt=”Adolfo Perez” width=”250″ height=”188″ style=”margin: 5px; float: left;” />Carnival Cruise Line has named Adolfo Perez senior vice president of sales and marketing.
A 36-year veteran of Carnival, Perez has been serving as vice president of sales and trade marketing since 2015. Under his leadership, Carnival said it has rolled out several successful initiatives and programs to reinvigorate and fortify relationships with travel agents and reestablished partnerships with various associations.
In his new role, Perez will continue to be responsible for Carnival’s business development teams and trade marketing functions in the U.S., Canada and international markets, reporting to Ken Tate, who has been promoted to executive vice president & chief commercial officer.
“Adolfo has been critical to driving growth in our travel agent business, both domestically and internationally, and we want to recognize the success of his leadership and the efforts of his team and the results they have delivered,” said Carnival Cruise Line President Christine Duffy. “We greatly value our relationship with our travel agent partners and all of us at Carnival are committed to continuing to work hard to develop innovative and beneficial programs to support them.”
Perez joined Carnival in 1982 as an embarkation agent and has held multiple managerial positions within the company’s sales and reservations departments over the past three and a half decades, including vice president of reservations sales, overseeing the line’s reservations contact centers where he developed many relationships within the travel agent community. Prior to joining Sales & Trade Marketing, he launched the company’s international sales and marketing office in London and upon his return to the U.S. served as the company’s vice president of new markets and product marketing.
“Working with the sales and trade marketing team for the past two and a half years has been an incredibly rewarding experience and I look forward to forging ahead with even more initiatives in the next phase of this role,” said Perez. “From Agentpalooza to our popular ‘Travel Agents Rock’ program, it’s been gratifying to see the relationship with our valued travel partners grow stronger and this is just the beginning.”
A resident of Miami Beach, Fla., Perez earned a master’s degree in business administration from Florida International University in Miami, as well as a Certified Travel Counselor (CTC) designation from the Institute of Certified Travel Agents (ICTA).


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The Pine Manor Improvement Association’s annual teen culinary class recently graduated 8 students. The three week course teaches teens cooking basics and the importance of sustainable farming by using the community’s own garden.
Each student gets a cookbook and a set of cooking utensils to sharpen their new skills.
The Pine Manor Improvement Association’s culinary classes are the brainchild of Florida Gulf Coast University professor Chef James Fraser.
He founded ICARE – or The Institute for Culinary Awareness Research & Education. Fraser recognized a desperate need in Pine Manor, which is considered a food desert, an area with limited or no access to fresh, healthy and affordable foods.


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Google Pixel line-up got a remarkable position in the category of Best Smartphones last year with amazing features and stylish design. Since launch, Pixel is enjoying the appreciation, but the Pixel 2 is impressing people with Google Pixel 2 concept video.
Google Pixel 2 Concept Video
Rumors About Google Pixel 2
A few days ago, we had stumbled upon Google Pixel 2 leaks that feature 3D photography. There was a report that said that the new phone will have improved camera version. Google Pixel 2 concept video that recently got viral on the internet is giving a huge competition to various flagship devices. Google Pixel 2 is ready to make a big hole in the pockets by arriving on the market at end of this year. Unlike other flagship models, Google Pixel 2 will be using Qualcomm’s latest Octa-core Snapdragon 835 SoC.
Render Video on Google Pixel 2
Instead of giving proper specifications, the concept creators of the company released a video showing Pixel 2 designs and features. Due to the immense popularity of iPhone 8 and OnePlus 5, Google Pixel 2 is still under the covers, but the company is observing every move of rivals and their designs. According to the rendered video, Pixel 2 is having dual rear camera setup which means dual camera on both sides. Google Pixel attracted its customers through amazing camera setup, and this has to make Pixel 2 follow the steps by highlighting the best camera setup in its concept video.
Adopting the New Trend
Famous companies like Samsung and LG are launching Smartphones with a full front display, then how can Google not follow this trend? There are rumors about Pixel 2 that it will be coming with a large display and minimum bezels to become a part of the latest trend.
Google Pixel 2 concept video is giving high hopes to the users with its ravishing design. It will be interesting to see if Google Pixel 2 succeeds in bagging the position in Best Smartphones of the year or disappears in no time.


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Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions that workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.
It is appropriate for our nation to pay tribute on Labor Day to the creator of so much of the nation's strength, freedom, and leadership - the American worker.
We at the Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office know that many people throughout the United States will be traveling to celebrate the holiday. We want to remind everyone to travel safely - remember to wear your seatbelt, wash your hands frequently, and do not drink and drive.
If you plan to participate in water activities such as swimming, boating, or floating, be sure to wear a life jacket and be aware of boating safety laws. Also, do not operate a boat while intoxicated.
We wish everyone a safe and fun holiday weekend! Please celebrate responsibly.
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It doesn’t look good for anybody trying to unseat Apple’s iconic music player. Over the last year or so, many rivals of Apple’s iPod and iTunes have either begun to close their online stores (Sony), stopped making music players (Dell) or quietly let their music services go stale (Napster and Yahoo). via Washington Post.
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It seems that all we've been doing for the last few days is reporting about crossovers. I mean what can we do, they are more popular than Barack Obama is on Twitter.
Everyone is creating some sort of crossover to make sure their product portfolio is complete.
The Paris Motor Show and Sao Paulo Motor Show saw a slew of crossovers taking center stage. Back at the 2012 Delhi Auto Expo, we saw the XA Alpha Concept, EcoSport concept and the Duster touch down, so we predict India's got the virus too!
Suzukifan reports that Suzuki is planning an onslaught of crossovers to take on the competition. The list includes –
C-segment Crossover – Although the SX4 is offered in a 4X4 variant, Suzuki has planned a full blown crossover for the C segment to compete against European compact cars such as VW Golf, Opel Astra, Ford Focus, Renault Megane and Peugeot 308. This new crossover will be the production version of the S-Cross Concept showcased at the Paris Motor Show. This new Crossover will not replace the SX4 crossover but will sell alongside it. It is slated to debut in 2013.
B segment Crossover – The XA Alpha Concept showcased at the New Delhi Auto Expo will enter production in late 2014. Because the XA Alpha Concept is a bit bigger than the current Jimny, Suzuki is in a conundrum of whether to use the Jimmy brand or not in countries where it is already popular.
A segment Crossover - Kenichi Ayukawa, a board member of Suzuki, has confirmed that an A-segment Crossover from Suzuki is scheduled for debut around 2014-2015 and will be limited to 3.55-3.65 meter in length. Suzukifan reports that this crossover will head to developing countries. Could this be an off-road version of the Wagon R or is it just the kei version of the Jimny Ayukawa saan is talking about?
Next generation Jimny – An all new Jimny (also known as the Gypsy in India) is planned for early 2014. If the XA Alpha is launched in India, we will not see the next generation Jimny on the Indian roads.
Next generation Grand Vitara – The Vitara recently received a small facelift in small markets around the globe. An all new Grand Vitara was planned for 2011 but unfortunately it is now delayed till early 2015. It is based on the Kizashi platform.
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Apple’s Entrepreneur Camp Wraps Up Fourth Year With 42 Women-Led Companies Participating
The first year of Apple Entreprenuer Camp today wraps up after its fourth cohort of 2019.
Today marks the end of the program’s first year, which Apple is highlighting today. The entire program is designed to help female entrepreneurs develop applications (which will ultimately get released within the App Store). The program consists of several different sessions along the way, including one-on-one guidance from Apple employees, hands-on technology labs, ongoing support, and much more.
Today marks the completion of Apple Entrepreneur Camp’s first year with its fourth cohort of 2019. Apple Entrepreneur Camp is specifically designed for organizations founded and led by women, and dedicated to helping entrepreneurs as they work on the next generation of cutting-edge apps. The camp offers a hands-on technology lab, one-on-one code-level guidance from Apple experts and engineers as well as mentorship, inspiration and insights from top Apple leaders. After the lab concludes, participants get ongoing support and become part of a growing community of exceptional alumni who can help create and build businesses.
One hundred innovators were part of the program’s first year, with female leaders and their teams from 42 different companies participating. The program touched on several different elements over the course of its first year, including machine learning, augmented reality, app development and design, and even tips on public relations and marketing for attendees who were interested in that.
“I’m in awe of the passion and drive of our first year of Entrepreneur Camp innovators,” said Esther Hare, Apple’s senior director of Worldwide Developer Marketing and executive sponsor of Women@Apple. “They are using apps to impact peoples’ lives and solve problems, from building connections for underrepresented groups in tech to making solar power affordable and giving people tools to improve mental health. It’s great to hear incredible women leaders telling us their experience at Camp has helped them make their apps even better, and given them the confidence and the tools to build new connections, form support networks and raise rounds of venture capital. And we’re just getting started.”
Apple Entrepreneur Camp is designed to encourage women in the male-centric tech industry to make their place in the world. For a company to be eligible, it needs to have a women founder, co-founder, or CEO and a woman developer on the team.
The next cohort is scheduled for January 28 to February 5, 2020. The application deadline for this is November 15, accepted here.


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Taiwanese authorities on Thursday fined U.S. computer giant Dell US$30,500 for customer rights infringements after it failed to honor an online price offer.
The punishment came after Taipei City Government received more than 1,400 complaints against Dell after it charged customers more than it had advertised on its Web site.
In the most recent incident, the company's Latitude E4300 notebook, which usually retails at 60,900 Taiwan dollars, or about US$1,850, appeared online at less than a third of the price, reportedly prompting bargain-hunters to place up to 100,000 orders.
"Dell was insincere in resolving the disputes and refused to accept the 25%-off compensation deal advised by the city government," said Chen Po-ching, the city's senior consumer rights official.
Municipal authorities said they would consider imposing repeated fines or even barring Dell from selling its products online if the company fails to provide an acceptable compensation package within two weeks.
Dell apologized to customers for the pricing errors in a statement on its Taiwanese Web site but is yet to comment on the fine.
It will charge customers who placed orders the correct price but has also offered a voucher of 20,000 Taiwan dollars per customer in compensation.
The cabinet-level Fair Trade Commission has also launched a probe into whether Dell is guilty of false or misleading pricing of its products. The company could be fined up to 25 million Taiwan dollars.
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OnMilwaukee.com Offers "Lift," Giving Local Online Magazine National Reach
By partnering with Centro, a technology and media services company, OnMilwaukee.com is now able to offer an innovative, one-stop shop service of location-based, targeted online ads. The product is called "Lift."
Local advertisers can buy additional reach through national sites, behavioral targeting, channel targeting and more through a single contact at OnMilwaukee.com.
“This is what our advertising partners want. It’s not a new ad network with unsold inventory, but a strategic system of hitting local online users. Now, our clients can buy OnMilwaukee.com and/or local readership on national sites while reaching nearly 90 percent of the market,” said OnMilwaukee.com president Jeff Sherman.
OnMilwaukee.com made sense for Centro, who also is partnering with The Seattle Times, New York Daily News, Morris Newspapers, The Toledo Blade and a few other national publishers with their Lift offering.
“As one of the first publishers to embrace Centro’s Lift product, we are excited to see OnMilwaukee.com tap into and engage expanded local audiences online,” said Katie Risch, Vice President of Media Relations at Centro.
“Through Centro Lift, OnMilwaukee.com will be able to offer additional reach to their local advertisers providing a full service solution to their clients. Advertisers can now target through behavioral categories on Facebook and hundreds of premium, national Web sites like CNN.com, Forbes.com, About.com, HGTV.com, Politico.com and WebMD.com all while going through their OnMilwaukee.com contact.”
Site is One of Seven Publishers in the U.S. selected by Centro to Offer New Ad Product
Centro is a digital media services and technology company. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Chicago with 17 offices nationwide, Centro serves more than 350 agencies representing more than 1,100 advertisers. Centro’s commitment to culture, innovation and great customer service has allowed it to receive many industry awards including Red Herring 100, Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Inc. 500 and Crain’s Chicago Business Best Places to Work award. centro.net.


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The University of Leeds is leading a pioneering £4.2m national infrastructure research project with the vision of creating self-repairing cities.
The project will develop small robots to identify problems with utility pipes, street lights and roads and fix them with minimal environmental impact and disruption to the public. Continue reading “University of Leeds is leading a pioneering £4.2m national project with the vision of creating self-repairing cities”
The market for military drones is expected to almost double by 2024 to beyond $10 billion (€8.9 billion), according to a report published Friday by specialist defense publication IHS Jane’s Intelligence Review.
“The global defense and security market for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) will expand at 5.5 percent per year over this decade, from the current figure of $6.4 billion,” according to the analysis. Continue reading “Drone Market to Reach $10 Billion by 2024”
People could soon see more drones in the sky thanks, in part, to leading chip manufacturer Qualcomm QCOM -0.09% .
The company recently announced it was launching a new platform called Snapdragon Flight, which will make it easier (and cheaper) for companies to create unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Continue reading “Drone Revolution: World's Largest Companies Keen on Launching their own Drone Business”
Posti, the Finnish postal service, started experimenting with drone delivery today. For four days, Posti will use drones to deliver packages bought online to customers in Helsinki, between the mainland and an island just off shore. Continue reading “Finnish Postal Operator Posti Tests Parcel Deliveries Using a Robotic Drone Helicopter”
Big IT companies have largely been mum on plans to use drones, but emerging technology from Bay-area startup PreNav appears to have at least intrigued wireless service providers and cell phone tower operators. Continue reading “PreNav beta-testing drone- and cloud-based inspection system (Video)”
Intel just announced a more than $60 million investment into Shanghai-based drone maker Yuneec. The news comes the same week that fellow Chinese drone company Ehang raised $42 million, and Sony unveiled its own drone prototype due out in early 2016. Continue reading “Intel Announces $60mn Investment in Shanghai-Based Drone Maker”
Aerosense, Sony Corp.’s joint-venture drone company, Monday unveiled a prototype of the flying machines it will use to serve business customers. The airplane-shaped drones will take off and land vertically, and are expected to carry objects weighing up to 22 pounds, and fly for more than two hours at a maximum speed of 106 miles an hour. Continue reading “Sony Venture Launches Drone Protoype Addressed to Business Customers (Video)”
”What the Internet did for immaterial goods, the unmanned cargo aircraft will do for material goods,” predicts Dr. Hans Heerkens from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems at University of Twente, Netherlands. Continue reading “Vision of Future: "What the Internet did for immaterial goods, the unmanned cargo aircraft will do for material goods"”
If James Bond had a drone, it would soar through the skies in search of bad guys, and then dive-bomb into the ocean, seamlessly transforming into an underwater evil-lair-seeking submarine. Continue reading “Boeing Patent Drone is Designed with Components that Automatically Separate When it Hits Water”
Facebook has built the first full-scale version of its connectivity drone today, a V-shaped high-altitude device meant to connect people in underserved areas. Its eventual fleet of drones will be part of the company’s plan to bring Internet service to billions of people around the world. Continue reading “Facebook to Test Connectivity Drone That Can Deliver Internet at 10 Gigabits a Second (Video)”


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Motorola Atrix HD LTE to hit Virgin Mobile Canada soon
It’s only been a few weeks since Motorola officially took the wraps off the new Atrix HD LTE, but it seems that Google’s subsidiary has some big plans with the super-phone. In US, AT&T has for now been granted the “honor” to be the only supplier of the 4.5-incher, while in Canada the Atrix could come to two carriers.
We reported on the rumors that Bell could be the first carrier up north to get the phone just over a week ago, and now it seems that Virgin Mobile is ready to follow suite. The new rumor comes from the same source as the old one, Mobile Syrup, and, while not yet officially confirmed, it’s very trustworthy.
Again, a leaked internal screenshot makes the revealing, but this is even sketchier than the one picked up from Bell. Neither the phone’s release date, nor its pricing details are disclosed, so we’re knee deep in guessing territory.
One thing seems to be certain nevertheless, and that is Virgin will be getting the Atrix HD LTE later than Bell, which is supposed to start selling the new phone on August 2. As far as pricing goes, we can expect the new Atrix to go for $99 with a three-year carrier agreement, and for $599.99 outright.
As a quick reminder, Motorola’s Atrix HD LTE is set to sport a 4.5-inch LCD touchscreen with 1280 x 720 pixels resolution, feature a snappy dual-core 1.5 GHz S4 “Krait” processor, as well as 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB of on-board storage, dual 8 MP/1.3 MP cameras, a 1,780 mAh embedded battery, Android 4.0 ICS with MotoBlur UI, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, and Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity.
Are there any Canadian tech lovers listening? Will you be looking for the new Atrix in stores once it’ll be released? And if so, are you planning to go for Bell’s or Virgin’s model?


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Enhanced Alibaba B2B marketplace features Office Depot, BigCommerce
Chinese B2B e-commerce marketplace Alibaba.com is opening its platform to U.S. small-to-midsized businesses (SMBs).
Alibaba.com, a business unit of Chinese online giant Alibaba Group, is now enabling U.S. SMBs to sell their products to Alibaba buyers in the U.S. and globally. The company is also unveiling an enhanced ecosystem of participants, including anchor sellers and B2B service providers.
Notable anchor sellers include Office Depot, who is expanding upon a partnership initially announced in March 2019, and Robinson Fresh, a division of transport company C.H. Robinson. Anchor sellers will provide extended product catalogs. Service providers include e-commerce platform BigCommerce.
Enhanced platform capabilities for U.S. sellers include streamlined ability to build and manage a store, transactional capabilities including online payment, and CRM, communication and digital marketing tools. Buyers will receive a more robust inquiry functionality that enables them to begin discussions and negotiations, expanded product selection, and improved search.
Alibaba.com is also co-producing a series of “Build Up” workshops and webinars with local chambers of commerce and B2B organizations across the country.
“Alibaba aims to empower entrepreneurs and help them succeed on their own terms,” said John Caplan, head of North America B2B at Alibaba Group. “With 10 million active business buyers in over 190 countries and regions, we are reshaping B2B commerce by providing the tools and services needed for U.S. SMB companies to compete and succeed in today’s global marketplace.”


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MoreApple CEO Tim Cook speaks about the Apple TV during an event at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California March 21, 2016.
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI Reuters - Apple Inc will set up a software laboratory in India to help Indian startups and developers working on the company's iOS platform, Apple said hours after Chief Executive Tim Cook began his first official visit to the country.
The company is also expected to unveil plans to expand its software development center in the southern city of Hyderabad, also home to Microsoft's first India office, where engineers are working on Apple Maps.
The app design and development accelerator - the term used for hothouse laboratories in the tech sector - will open in Bengaluru, as Bangalore is now known, in early 2017.
Indian government sources expected Modi to encourage Cook to set up production facilities in India, supporting the government's drive to find jobs for millions of Indians joining the workforce every year.
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After missing 2006, the year in review returns for 2007. These are the trends that most seemed to effect my little part of the Interweb during the past 12 months.
Sure, the social networks have proliferated over the years, but it wasn't until May 24 of this year that the landscape really came into shape.
Facebook's launch of its developer platform heralded in a new area of speculation and rapid growth. Watching its evolution was like watching the Web’s own growth over the past 10 years, but accelerated at an exponential rate. Geeks create some clever applications that attract tens of thousands of dedicated users, and then an entire new business stream develops. Quickly, Facebook faced competition from an alliance of services lead by Google. And even more money comes pouring into the sphere.
With Facebook becoming a platform, some smaller social networks started getting some attention: the Digg crew launched Pownce, Google bought Jaiku, and Twitter became the de facto micro-blogging tool.
All of this led to some smart people trying to figure out how to allow the social relationships defined in each of these networks to be shared amongst all the networks. Tim Berners-Lee defined this as the GGG and advocated the complex XML, while others like Tantek Celik argued for the simpler microformat approach.
The announcement, and then release of Apple ’s iPhone created shock waves amongst fan-boys, UI experts, phone manufacturers and carriers, and at least one search engine. It even inspired me to finally get a cellphone. From the perspective of Web development, the iPhone introduced a concept for displaying Web pages that is provoking discussion in that community: it takes sites designed for a desktop and shrinks the display to fit on its screen. Other mobile browsers, notably the Opera flavours, relied on the a separate style sheet to render an optimized version of a given site.
With the iPhone and Google’s “gPhone” system, Android, mobile Web browsing is becoming far more common — even Canadian carriers have deigned to lower their rates for 1Gb of data from $2,400/month to $100/month.
The iPhone’s big feature was undoubtedly the use of the first consumer friendly multi-touch screen. Effectively, a couple of fingers and some natural gestures replaced the stylus and keyboard. Almost immediately, Microsoft introduced Surface, which is table that uses the multi-touch interface to act as a sales unit, a waiter, a photo album, or a paint canvas.
By the end of the year, other mobile devices were appearing with a multi-touch screen, and speculation is rampant that Apple will introduce a multi-touch laptop or desktop in the coming months.
After years of lobbying, the W3C decided to reopen development of the lingua franca of the Web. The consortium promised to make the development of the new HTML standard open and transparent, and quickly, hundreds of passionate Web developers signed-on to participate. Many of those were members of the alternate HTML standard group, WHATWG; and as a result WHATWG’s proposals have become the draft recommendation.
What that draft contains, however, is quite contentious, and the Web standard community is splitting over both its proposal and the methods used to come to said proposal.
No matter what the final recommendation, practical implementation may occur faster than many expect. Already parts of the draft have been built into beta releases Opera, Safari, and Firefox.


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Intel has recently launched its 11th Gen CPU for laptop. There are 10 new 11th Gen laptop CPUs that are based on the Tiger Lake architecture. The all new CPUs mainly focuses towards gamers and professionals. With the launch of these new CPUs, the company claims to provide desktop-quality performance. Also, these may offer up to 19 percent better gen-on-gen multi-threaded performance. The all new H-Series CPUs comes under Intel 11th Gen Tiger Lake CPUs. The latest 11th Gen Intel CPUs lineup is mainly launch for the thin and light weight laptops.
Intel 11th Gen Tiger Lake H-Series processor: Features
Meanwhile, The all new 11th Gen CPU under H-Series includes Core i7 and Core i9 models. These comes with eight cores each. The Intel i5 11th generation models comes with six cores. The all new Xeon W-Series models comes with two cores. Out of all these, five CPUs comes with the additional support for Intel’s vPro business platform. Additionally, these also comes with a new Thread Detection Technology and Control-flow Enforcement Technology. These technology mainly helps in protecting its users from any kind of ransomware and crypto-mining attacks.
The all new 11th Gen CPUs from Intel comes in pair with company’s own new UHD Graphics integrated GPU based on the Xe-LP architecture. This GPU comes with 32 execution units. The Tiger Lake processor series uses the Willow Cove core architecture. This architecture is based on company’s own 10nm SuperFin process. Also, The latest platform comes with 20 PCIe 4.0 lanes and support for a high-bandwidth discrete GPU and support for fast NVMe SSD. Additionally, the support for new Dual EDP graphics pathways will allow the latest laptop series to make use of built-in secondary displays. Also, this platform will also provide support for Thunderbolt 4, Wi-Fi 6E and DDR4-3200.
Using these latest Tiger Lake H-Series processors, companies can provide users with more than 17-inch gaming laptops. These laptops can launch with minimum of 1440p resolution or a 1080p resolution which comes with a refresh rate of 360Hz. Hey check out more about Apple M2 Chip coming on next generation Apple devices.
Top-End 11th Gen Intel Tiger Lake CPU:
The company offers that the Intel Core i9 11980HK will be the top-end processor under this newly launched 11th Gen Intel CPU series. The company claims that this Intel Core i9-11980HK is the world’s best mobile gaming processor. Also, This processor will power “halo enthusiast laptops”. As per company’s claims, the 11th gen Intel CPU can be fully unlocked and can be overclocked. However, its unlocking and overclocking can be restricted by the OEMs. I will depend upon the kind of enclosure and cooling apparatus an OEM uses.
The top-end CPU features an eight cores with Hyper-Threading and 24MB of L3 cache memory. It offers a base frequency of 2.6GHz which can reach upto 3.3GHz frequency with a 65W configurable TDP. Additionally, it can also go up to 5GHz on two cores. This can be achieve using the company’s own Turbo Boost Max 3.0 technology.
Laptops with Intel 11th Gen H-series processors:
In an official press release, Intel states that over 80 laptops will be powered by these new chips. All the upcoming laptops will be soon announced by the OEMs. The company also confirmed that lot of these laptops are likely to be the gaming laptops. Most of the laptops are likely to be power by the GeForce RTX 3050 and GeForce RTX 3050 Ti discrete GPUs.
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McDonald's, AT&T, Intel, and Reebok also sign deals with the digital music service.
Coca-Cola wants Facebook users around the world to listen to tunes via a Spotify app on its Facebook Timeline page. It's just one small part of major brand developments announced by Spotify today, including app deals with McDonald's, AT&T, Intel, and Reebook.
For Coke, it's a global initiative that will offer various ad opportunities on Spotify's platform, such as a branded app that will be unveiled at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Interestingly, that app is the product of a two-day Coke-branded "hacker den" event - where developers got together last weekend in New York to pitch products on the Spotify API.
Additionally, Coke promises to advertise Spotify globally via paid media and product packaging.
Joe Belliotti, director of global entertainment at Coca-Cola, said the partnership showcases his brand's commitment to digitally engaging with music fans. "The potential for this partnership is limitless," he said in a statement.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek disclosed the Coke deal while keynoting the Ad Age Digital Conference in New York Wednesday. In addition, his London-based company also revealed today that branded apps for AT&T, McDonald's, Intel, and Reebok were on the way. According to a report by The Verge, the branded apps will live inside Spotify's desktop app.
Spotify recently told the The Financial Times it has 3 million paid subscribers, stating that figure represents more than 20 percent of its active users. In other words, it has roughly 11 million active users of its free service worldwide.
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It’s hard to be a leader.
Staffers expect you to be a hot-cold person: Have passion about what you’re doing, but at the same time keep your temper.
So consider a BusinessWeek report that former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer lost his job because he lost his head with the board of directors over whether the company should buy the handset business of Nokia.
According to many media report Ballmer has a short fuse. So it comes as no surprise that — according to people who were told about the meeting — last June he shouted at the board that if he couldn’t get his way he couldn’t be CEO.
The Nokia purchase was controversial on two levels: Price, and whether Microsoft needed to be in the hardware business. (Those who say yes point to Apple; those who say no point to BlackBerry and Android.).
Reportedly then chairman and co-founder Bill Gates initially was on the no side.
It’s an interesting piece about Ballmer’s decade as CEO, which includes word that present CEO Satya Nadella (who wasn’t on the board) was also initially against the deal.
The article doesn’t quite say that the reported explosion before the board was the last straw. But two months later he announced his resignation.
Ballmer is sticking to his guns. ComputerWorld U.S. reports that he told a business school audience at Oxford University Microsoft should have had a mobile hardware play years ago.
On the other hand what he regrets most was the move from the triumph of Windows XP to the raspberries thrown at Windows Vista.
Now Nadella is left with crafting Microsoft’s mobile strategy, for better or worse, with Nokia. It’s going to be an interesting 12 months.


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There are countless fires in the Amazon rainforest: large and small. They are for the most part illegally ignited by farmers who want to clear land. Forest fires in the Amazon are not a new phenomenon, but the current size is unprecedented. The Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE) noted 75,336 fires this year, the highest number since the measurements started in 2013 and 84 percent higher than last year.
Why is the Amazon rainforest burning?
Agriculture is the driving force behind deforestation. In the Amazon, many of the fires are caused by farmers who burn off pieces of forest…
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After four long years! Eurozone jobless rate falls to lowest level
Unemployment across the 19-country eurozone has fallen to its lowest rate in a little more than four years
London: Unemployment across the 19-country eurozone has fallen to its lowest rate in a little more than four years, official figures showed on Thursday in the latest sign that the economic recovery in the region ended 2015 on a relatively chipper note.
Following surveys this week that suggested the eurozone economy is poised for solid growth in 2016, statistics agency Eurostat found that the unemployment rate in the region fell to 10.5 percent in November from 10.6 percent the previous month. The rate has not been lower since October 2011, when the eurozone was mired in a debt crisis that raised questions over the future of the single currency bloc.
Perhaps most encouragingly, the statistics agency found that the number of unemployed fell by 130,000 people during the month. That took the total down to 16.9 million people in a population of around 330 million. It's the first time since November 2011 that unemployment in the eurozone has been below 17 million.
Though the unemployment numbers are encouraging, big disparities remain across the region with many countries, such as Spain and Greece, still lumbered with jobless rates above 20 percent. In contrast, Germany's unemployment rate was just 4.5 percent in November. The differences among the bloc's young workers are even more dramatic. Again in Spain and Greece, the rate of unemployment among those aged 15 to 24 is almost 50 percent.
Though the overall figures suggest that the economic recovery from recession, which had lasted for more than two years, is paying some dividends in the labor market, there's little evidence that the region is poised for a turbo-charged liftoff. Anxiety is growing over trouble in the global economy, particularly in China, where financial markets are extremely volatile.
Separate figures from Eurostat showing that retail sales fell in November for the third straight month show that the recovery is patchy. In November, retail sales declined 0.3 percent.
Subdued consumer spending over the past few months has come as somewhat of a surprise to many economists as a number of factors should be supportive. These include the sharp fall in fuel prices at the pump in the wake of the slide in oil prices, as well as super-low inflation.
A December survey from the European Union's executive arm suggested there was unlikely to have been much of an improvement in the crucial period around Christmas. Though the European Commission's economic sentiment indicator struck a 4-1/2 year high, retail sector confidence eased slightly, possibly in light of the Paris terrorist attacks on Nov. 13 that saw 130 people killed.
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One of the biggest mysteries hanging over the protest mayhem that drove Ukraine's president from power: Who was behind the snipers who sowed death and terror in Kiev?
Russia said that sanctions levied against Moscow could, in the words of the Kremlin, "boomerang" back on the US and Europe.
Ukraine is predicting that the UN General Assembly will adopt a resolution Thursday reaffirming the country's territorial integrity and calling the referendum that led to Russia's annexation of its Crimean Peninsula illegal.


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In a communication due to be adopted by the Commission next week, Trade Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan will stress that as environmental damage occurs across national boundaries, it is inappropriate to deal with such problems unilaterally.
Brittan is expected to suggest new ground rules to prevent problems when simultaneously implementing apparently contradictory trade and environmental agreements.
The paper will stress that there is no reason why the GATT agreement should interfere with measures, for example, to protect the ozone layer.
But Brittan will also underline the correlation between trade and environmental aims. “The CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) wouldn’t mean much if it wasn’t expressed through rules on trade in the species concerned,” said a Commission official.
Similarly, efforts to control damage from hazardous waste and trade in ozone-depleting substances depend on trade restrictions. The Commission may also consider whether there is any need for a safety net, under the auspices of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), to establish a notification system for dangerous goods not already covered by other instruments.
Brittan will suggest that‘eco-duties’ – import charges on products from countries where environmental standards are not as high as those in the EU – are an “anathema” and that it is a recipe for political trouble to attempt to ban such imports.
The effect of environmental measures on market access is of particular concern to developing countries. “Things like the German packaging law force not only other EU states to package their produce in a certain way, but also countries like Bangladesh, who are much less able to afford it,” pointed out a WTO official.
The paper will also represent a clear statement that the WTO should not be allowed to become a forum in which countries can sort out their environmental disputes through trade sanctions.
But as pollution damage cannot always be compensated through multilateral agreements, the Commission will examine how far aggrieved countries can go in taking punitive trade measures.
“Multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) ought to have their own dispute settlement procedures, but still allow countries to appeal to the WTO on purely trade disputes,” said a senior Commission official. “We don’t want the WTO to become the world environmental agency.”The communication will set out the areas for debate, including the need for internationally accepted rules on eco-labelling, recycling and goods which are prohibited on domestic markets.
The recent dispute over fur imports from countries where leghold traps are used is a classic example of a case where the EU’s plan to impose its domestic welfare standards on foreign countries brought it into potential conflict with world trade rules.
Officials also plan to examine whether eco-labelling schemes go against the basic rights of certain WTO members and treat their products more harshly than domestic products.
The idea is to draw up an EU platform, after consultations with other Union institutions, for further discussions in the WTO’s Committee on Trade and Environment, leading up to the organisation’s first ministerial conference at the end of the year in Singapore.
Brittan set out his views on unilateral trade actions by some WTO members at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Such moves, he said, “will drown the solution to environmental problems in a confusion of tit-for-tat measures, mutual recrimination and misunderstanding”.
His paper is likely to address the concern of environmentalists that post-GATT trade liberalisation could place further strain on the exploitation of natural resources, but will also aim to ease business fears about restrictive environmental rules.
Speaking in Davos, Brittan claimed that “open trade encourages efficient production. Efficient production is less demanding on the environment.” He argued that greater prosperity made it easier to achieve high environmental standards. “There is no evidence to suggest that high environmental standards are a key factor in location decisions or have led to large-scale relocation of industry,” he insisted.
Brittan pointed out that the world market for environmental technology was now worth 194 billion ecu per year and was growing by 8% annually.


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// Go Outdoors named as retailer that rescued Fishing Republic from administration
// Fishing Republic initially appointed administrators on December 20
// New owners were secured soon after, but identity was not known until now
Go Outdoors has been revealed as the new owner that acquired Fishing Republic out of administration at the tail end of last year.
Fishing Republic initially fell into administration on December 20, with Andrew Poxon and Julien Irving from Leonard Curtis appointed as administrators.
News emerged following day that the administrators managed to complete a deal to sell the fishing retailer, but the identity of the new owner was not disclosed at the time.
Go Outdoor’s rescue deal secures the jobs of all 111 staff across Fishing Republic’s 14 stores.
Go Outdoors itself was acquired by JD Sports in 2016 in a £112 million deal.
Fishing Republic will now be added to JD Sports’ division of outdoors brands.
“We’re delighted to have secured the business and are very excited about the acquisition,” JD Sports outdoor division chief executive Lee Bagnall said.
“Our Go Outdoors fishing business is already significant and this gives Fishing Republic and some of our branded partners a huge opportunity for the future.”


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June 15 (Bloomberg) -- Inditex SA, the world’s largest clothing retailer, reported first-quarter profit growth that beat analysts’ estimates as it opened stores from the Netherlands to Australia and expanded online sales.
Net income in the three months ended April 30 rose to 332 million euros ($479 million) from 301 million euros a year earlier, the Arteixo, Spain-based company said today in a statement. The average estimate of 10 analysts compiled by Bloomberg was 316 million euros.
Inditex, whose dresses are worn by Prince William’s wife Kate Middleton, is adding outlets in emerging countries such as China to compensate for weaker consumer spending in its domestic market. The Spanish retailer reported a 7 percent rise in first- quarter earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization amid “tight” control of operating expenses. That compares with the 27 percent decline reported by Swedish rival Hennes & Mauritz AB in March after its costs increased.
“It’s fairly self-evident which business model is working best at present,” said Simon Irwin, an analyst at Liberum Capital. He doesn’t plan to change his “buy” rating on Inditex.
Inditex shares rose 12 cents, or 0.2 percent, to 61.87 euros as of 11:28 a.m. in Madrid. H&M, which today reported May sales that missed estimates, fell as much as 3.4 percent and traded 3.1 percent lower at 11:28 a.m. in Stockholm.
Inditex’s gross margin narrowed to 58.8 percent of sales in the quarter, from 59.9 percent a year earlier. The retailer’s “best estimate” for 2011 is that it will retain a minimum of 50 percent of the gross margin gains achieved in 2010, Marcos Lopez, capital markets director, said on a conference call, reiterating comments made in March.
Clothing retailers face higher expenses as cotton prices increase and manufacturing wages rise in Asia. Gap Inc. last month cut its full-year profit forecast by 22 percent as costs to make clothing rose faster than expected.
Inditex’s first-quarter revenue rose 11 percent to 2.96 billion euros, matching the average estimate. Store sales in local currencies gained 11 percent between Feb. 1 and June 12.
Sales growth was “respectable, but not impressive, bearing in mind the strength of April for clothing retailers across Europe and the boost that Inditex should be seeing” after introducing online sales, Anne Critchlow, an analyst at Societe Generale in London, said by e-mail. She calculated that same- store sales growth was 3 percent in the period.
H&M, which sells bikini tops for less than 7 euros, today said sales in stores open at least a year rose 2 percent in May, missing estimates of some analysts including Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Richard Chamberlain.
Inditex, which has 5,154 stores in 78 countries, said it would introduce Zara in South Africa, Taiwan and Peru in coming months and start online sales of the brand in the U.S. Sept. 7.
In China, the company is likely in coming years to open more than the 120 stores it has planned for this year, Inditex Chief Executive Officer Pablo Isla said on the call.
Inditex’s performance in Spain is “stable” and it doesn’t plan to raise prices, Lopez said on the call.
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Goodwill Industries of Michiana, Inc. announces the Grand Opening of their Plymouth Retail Store and The Larry Neff Center for Career Connections at 1547 Pilgrim Lane. The Grand Opening Celebration is planned for Thursday, October 14th with a Clothesline “Ribbon Cutting” Ceremony at 8:30 am. Customers may begin shopping at 9:00 am when doors open to the public. “The Plymouth Goodwill Store will have an open layout with wide aisles and a large furniture department. There will be a work area to process Attended Drive-Thru donations so we’ll be able to put the items we receive directly on the sales floor. We have also included wall graphics to show our guests how their donations help others in the community,”comments Mark Ziegert, Vice President of Retail Sales.
The Larry Neff Center for Career Connections is a free self-help facility for anyone who would like to learn more about how to find a job – those who are employed, under-employed or un-employed. Individuals can drop in to work on their resumes, write cover letters and hone their interview skills. It is not necessary to be enrolled in a government program to use the services provided. There will also be workshops available at no charge, taught by Goodwill experts and corporate partners. “The Larry Neff Center for Career Connections is named in honor Goodwill’s former President and CEO. Mr. Neff’s diligence and careful management brought growth to Goodwill Industries of Michiana and provided the foundation to become the thriving organization it is today. The Center for Career Connections will serve a need in the Plymouth area for an accessible employment resource,”says Debie Coble, President and CEO. “It offers an opportunity to bring the mission of Goodwill and the retail store operation together. Our customers can see what their donations and purchases help to facilitate. And, they can use the Center for Career Connections themselves, which is an exciting opportunity,” comments Mark Ziegert, Vice President of Retail Sales.
The first 100 customers arriving on Thursday and the first 50 customers on Friday will receive a 50% Off Discount Coupon. Coupons distributed at the Plymouth Store can be used on that day and that location only. Saturday, October 16th, customers shopping at all Goodwill Industries of Michiana store locations can receive 50% Off using their Good Points Reward Card (free sign up at register). Debie Coble, President and CEO says, “We’re thrilled to welcome the community into Goodwill’s new Center for Career Connections and Retail Store. Our customers will enjoy the convenience of dropping off their donations at the Drive-Thru, and shopping for affordable merchandise in a bright new space. Best of all, their purchases and donations help fulfill our mission to strengthen communities by empowering individuals and families through education, training and job placement.”


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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a lawsuit against a company that claimed clients could make thousands of dollars in sales on Amazon.com if their use their system.
In the lawsuit against the company, the FTC says Amazing Wealth Systems has nothing to do with Amazon and made money by enrolling people in their system. According to the FTC’s complaint, people who followed the system didn’t earn anywhere close to the advertised income if anything at all. Furthermore, because what the system instructed was against Amazon’s polices, many people received warnings from Amazon.com or had their Amazon seller account suspended.
“Get started selling on Amazon and make $5,000 – $10,000 in the next 30 days… even if you’ve never sold anything online before” is one example of the pitches used by promoters to lure potential victims into the bogus business opportunity.
The FTC also claims Amazing Wealth Systems allegedly failed to comply with the FTC’s Business Opportunity Rule. The Rule requires that a company promoting a business opportunity with specific earning claims must have proof that people can earn that amount of money. In addition, the company must give prospective buyers a disclosure document that includes specific information about the business. If the business opportunity is promoted in Spanish, the disclosure document must also be in Spanish.


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Peacock, a new streaming service from Comcast's NBCUniversal, launches in the US next week, but if you're hoping it will bring you some surprise new movies to stream during your coronavirus lockdown, don't hold your breath. Peacock won't likely deliver any Hamilton-style launches along the lines of Disney Plus -- at least, not soon.
"Certainly nothing near term," Matt Strauss, the chairman of Peacock, said in an interview when asked if movies like Trolls World Tour or The King of Staten Island should be expected to stream on Peacock soon, even as Comcast's movie studios have brought those movies online in other ways.
As the coronavirus pandemic has shuttered cinemas and forced people to entertain themselves at home, demand has surged for movies and shows you can watch online. And that's made media companies braver about tinkering with the rigid rules of big-screen movies releases, like how long flicks are exclusively in theaters and how swiftly they can offer them online. Studios owned by the same company as Peacock have been among the most aggressive in moving some of their big-screen films online instead.
DreamWorks Animation's Trolls World Tour was one of the first big-screen movies to test its fortunes in the coronavirus pandemic by letting people rent the movie online exactly as it released the flick in a smattering of theaters. Universal's The King of Staten Island followed in its footsteps weeks later. Peacock, DreamWorks Animation and Universal Pictures are all owned by Comcast, which also owns Focus Features and TV networks like NBC, USA, Bravo and Syfy.
Trolls World Tour ended up being a home-viewing smash, one that infuriated theater owners because they felt cut out of the process, despite a lockdown that has shut virtually all theaters. Cinema chain AMC even vowed it would ban all Universal movies from its screens.
But streaming services, too, have been getting more assertive in bringing new, big-screen movies to their homebound subscribers. Disney Plus, for example, pulled forward the release of Hamilton, the filmed version of the hit Broadway musical, to stream more than a year earlier than its planned theatrical date. A Hamilton bump that weekend boosted downloads of Disney Plus' mobile app 72% in the US. And Friday, Apple TV Plus will stream Greyhound, a World War II battleship drama starring Tom Hanks, after the movie's theatrical plans were sunk last month by the virus.
However, Strauss said Peacock wasn't built as the streaming delivery arm of NBCUniversal's programming quite the same way some other services are.
"We did not call this service NBC Plus. We called it Peacock. In many ways, that was by design -- yes, pay homage to NBCUniversal but not be limited to just NBCUniversal content," Strauss said.
A bigger library, a free trial
Instead, Peacock has ramped up its work licensing content, Strauss said. The coronavirus disrupted production on many of its original shows and derailed Peacock's plans to launch in tandem with the Summer Olympics, now delayed until next year. But dealmaking hasn't slowed down, he said.
Peacock will have closer to 20,000 hours of programming available at launch, Strauss said, after the company said in January that it would offer about 15,000 hours. Peacock revealed deals with A+E and ViacomCBS to stream some of their programming, for example. (Note: ViacomCBS is CNET's parent company.)
The service will also have a seven-day free trial offer standard for anyone to try Peacock's premium tiers that let you watch the full catalog.
Peacock will launch July 15 with three levels of service: a limited free tier with advertising that blocks off some of the library, and two premium tiers that are basically all-access passes to everything on the service. A premium tier with advertising costs $5 a month or $50 a year, and you can upgrade to an ad-free version for $10 a month or $100 a year.
But Peacock wants its premium service bundled with other video subscriptions you may already have. The company is still in active discussions toward deals like those it already has with Comcast, its parent company, and Cox Communications for their cable customers can access Peacock Premium at no extra cost.
It's not the first Peacock perk Comcast customers enjoyed. Customers of Comcast's Xfinity cable-video service and its Flex streaming-video service have already been watching a sneak-peek version of Peacock since April.
Strauss has been impressed by the early response by those Comcast customers, he said. Within 60 days of Peacock's soft launch to Comcast customers, Peacock exceeded the internal goals it aimed to reach by December, he said -- metrics like how much time spent per user, how often people return to the app or how many video selections they make. Peacock "might have lightning in a bottle," Strauss said, but he declined to give specific numbers for any of those metrics.
Peacock is staying mum on other details too.
Virus-disrupted theatrical movies aren't set to arrive on Peacock in the near term, but Trolls World Tour at least will stream on Peacock sometime, eventually. Peacock just won't say when. The timing of when the Fast and the Furious movies, a franchise with its own popular fan base, coming to Peacock is a mystery too for now.


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New Delhi: Prices of many daily use products have been increased by many companies while some are evaluating final options before observing a price hike, reported the ET.
It may be noted that the prices of many daily commodities will increase by about 5-8 per cent from the third quarter as companies look to offset the losses due to all-time high fuel prices, hike in minimum support price from farmers and certain commodities prices scaling upwards.
Speaking to the publication, Varun Berry, managing director of listed biscuit-maker Britannia Industries suggested that companies are finding it hard to deal with the increasing inflationary pressure, adding that “it will not be possible to hold on to prices going forward”. He concluded by saying that the company will try to balance value and volume growth.
Worth mentioning that this will be the highest price that companies will have to pay in two years as petrol and diesel rates have touched a record high. As of now, petrol price has crossed the R 87-mark in Mumbai and considering that it is a more product used by FMCG firms, the price hike seems inevitable.
According to a recent report by global financial companies firm Jeffries suggested that consumer goods giant Unilever has hiked the rate of detergents, skin care products and select soap brands by 5-7 per cent in the last month. Mirico, which makes Parachute hair oil and Saffola oil, increased price of hair oil portfolio by 7 per cent while Colgate Palmolive increased prices of some brands to the tune of 4 per cent last month.
B Krishna Rao, senior category head at Parle Products told ET that the company is mulling an increase in price to the tune of 7-8 per cent, adding that the impact of MSP has lowered their revenue. Worth mentioning that operational costs incurred by companies have also gone up due to higher packaging expenses.
There are several other factors that may lead to an increase in prices of not only daily products but also imported goods. The weakening rupee against the dollar is another factor which has triggered fresh inflationary pressures.


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Wallis closes after 30 years in Devonport
Landmark Devonport fashion store Wallis is closing down after 30 years trading in the main street.
And for founder Carol Mountford it ends more than 40 years retailing in the suburb.
Her first store was Dress Box, opened in 1976, followed by Down Under in 1980, under Manuka restaurant, and then The Store, opposite the Victoria Theatre. She followed these by launching the renowned Low Flying Duck Cafe in the main street in 1987, before setting up Wallis in 1989.
For her daughter Anna Mountford, Wallis has always been a part of her life.
“It was my first job when I was 14. Mum used to open the shop on a Sunday so I could work there,” she says.
After secondary school, Anna did a physical-education degree, and was a teacher, but returned to work for Wallis in 2000.
“It was a family business in every sense of the word, and it worked really well. (Her dad David joined the firm in 1994, working on administration and accounts).
Over the years, the firm, which sold the Wallis and Mountford labels as well as a host of other lines, had stores in Mt Eden, Parnell, Mt Maunganui, Tauranga and Papamoa. It had a policy of at least half its stock being New Zealand-made.
However, when the lease for the Devonport shop came up for renewal recently, the decision was made to close the whole business.
“David and Carol have been living on Waiheke for the last couple of years and are wanting to retire, and it was time for me to try something different,” says Anna, who has been living in Tauranga for 11 years.
“We had thought about selling, but it has been so much a part of all our lives it just didn’t seem right,” she says.
Anna has no idea what she will do next, but plans to follow her daughter Maia Horlock, who has been selected in the New Zealand junior volleyball team for the Asian champs.
Anna says Wallis was always grateful to its loyal Devonport customer base, some of whom had shopped at the store since it opened 30 years ago.
Carol Mountford said that along with the customers, dating back 40 years, the Wallis staff had also been fantastic.
“With a family business, the staff become family as well.”
This article originally appeared in the 14 February edition of the Devonport Flagstaff. Download PDF.


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Nestle SA (NSRGY) hit back at activist investor Dan Loeb and his Third Point LLC hedge fund Monday, insisting the company is "delivering results" for shareholders but noted that it takes "all shareholders' perspectives seriously" and values continued input.
Nestle said that it's repositioned its portfolio to focus on high growth, high margin businesses, put CEO Ulf Mark Schneider in place to lead its Nutrition, Health and Wellness strategy and completed a global coffee sales partnership with Starbucks Corp. (SBUX - Get Report) . The comments followed a Sunday letter from Loeb and Third Point, which built a $3 billion stake in the Vevey, Switzerland-based group last year, calling for "urgency - rather than incrementalism" in changes to the group's broader strategy, which Loeb insists should be focused on three main business areas -- beverages, nutrition and groceries -- and must include the sale of divisions such as frozen foods and confectionary.
"Nestlé has delivered strong total shareholder return over the long term (+135% total shareholder return in [Swiss francs] over the past 10 years) and continues to focus on creating sustainable shareholder value," the company said in a statement published on its website. "Nestlé's Board and management take all shareholders' perspectives seriously and welcome their continued input."
Nestle shares, which had booked early losses in Zurich trading Monday, were marked 0.44% higher from their Friday close and changing hands at Sfr77.24 each following the statement, although they're still down around 7.83% for the year to date.
Third Point also reiterated its view that Nestle should dump its 23% stake in cosmetics giant L'Oreal SA (LRLCY) , which is worth around €23 billion, and invest the cash back into both the company's core business and share buybacks. L'Oreal CEO Jean-Paul Agon sad earlier this spring that "if Nestle one day wants to sell, we are ready", but the Vevey, Switzerland-based group has insisted it's making no changes to its 44-year-old pact with the Paris-based cosmetics group.
L'Oreal shares were seen 1.1% lower on the session in Paris at €209.20, but have rise more than 13.2 so far this year amid speculation of a potential bidding war for the Nestle stake.
Nestle's biggest move since Loeb first revealed his stake last year came in early May, when the group announced a $7.15 billion deal with Starbucks for the exclusive worldwide rights to sell the Seattle, Wash.-based company's branded products, establishing Nestle as the world's biggest coffee company, a move Schneider said as the time was "all about growth."


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Security cameras captured the moment a group of smash-and-grab robbers escaped with over $15,000 worth of merchandise in Palmdale on Thursday.
The owners of Kimberly’s Jewelry located on the 440 block of E Palmdale Boulevard said the theft happened around 12:06 p.m. when three masked thieves stormed into the shop.
Video shows one suspect immediately spraying the security guard with bear spray before directing the spray toward two other employees.
A second suspect wielding a hammer focused on smashing the store’s glass display cases.
A third suspect followed closely behind and was seen grabbing all the jewelry and merchandise from the shattered display cases and throwing them into a large plastic bin.
The employees inside the store are seen fighting back and tossing stools and other items at the robbers.
The masked thieves escaped quickly and the owners are hoping someone can help track them down before they strike again.
The owners are still totaling the final amount, but estimated around $15,000 to $25,000 worth of merchandise was taken.
Authorities are investigating the incident and no further details were released.
Full video of the robbery can be seen in the video player above.


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The wait is nearly over for the first phase of Rushden Lakes to open - and this video shows what people can expect when they visit.
The virtual tour of the multi-million pound retail and leisure scheme shows many of the high street names which will soon be welcoming shoppers through their doors.
House of Fraser, M&S, Primark, River Island and Boots are just a handful of the well-known shops on the way.
This video by HPW Architecture also shows the lakeside area, where a number of restaurants will be, as well as the new wildlife visitor centre which will be run by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
The first phase of Rushden Lakes is set to open this summer, with work on the second phase including a 14-screen cinema likely to start later in the year.
And with the first units due to open in July, a jobs fair is taking place next week.
The Recruit Rushden Lakes programme has been designed to help people from the area find work at the site just off the A45 at Rushden.
As part of this, a jobs and skills fair is being held at the Pemberton Centre in Rushden from 10am to 4pm on Friday, May 26.
The free event will bring employers, job-seekers and employment support services together under one roof.
People from the area are being encouraged to attend and register their interest, meet prospective employers in person, and access skills workshops or advice sessions hosted by Jobcentre Plus.
To find out more about the shops and restaurants due to open at Rushden Lakes, click here


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Has Someone Named ‘Zhang’ Created a Battle.net Account Using Your Email Address?
Recently, a surge of Battle.net users (and non-users) have been receiving emails indicating that their email address has been used to create a new account, and that they need to authenticate this account prior to use. Everything looks perfectly legit at this point, and the email even comes from what appears to be a legitimate Battle.net email address. Unfortunately, this is a phishing scam intended to trick you into revealing passwords you normally wouldn’t tell anyone at all.
By clicking the link to activate (confirm) or deny the account, you are taken to what looks like a normal Battle.net page where you can submit a request to reset your password before you can deactivate the account. While it may appear that you’re actually disabling an unauthorized account, you could actually be giving someone the data they need to serve their malicious purposes.
If you feel that your email address has actually been used to create someone’s account, you can contact Blizzard to have your email address cleared.
In recent days, being a recipient of one of these phishing emails has been referred to as being “Zhanged.” While it never feels good to get an email that appears to be a legitimate breach of privacy and/or identification theft, we are only going to continue to see more of these as gaming (and other cloud-based) platforms continue to become more and more popular.


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Wendy Bridges, Goodyear Economic Development Director
By Audrey Jensen | Phoenix Business Journal
The city of Goodyear was one of the first West Valley cities to kick off industrial growth along the Loop 303 corridor and has seen a surplus of warehouses being built around its airport that have become home to a number of logistics companies.
While some major industrial projects are still on their way to Goodyear, the city’s new economic development leader said she wants to shift the city’s focus away from distribution uses and more toward clean energy, light manufacturing and also retail and restaurant growth.
Read the full subscription story from the Phoenix Business Journal.


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Oct 26 2012, 6:35am CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
We heard rumors about an Apple Online Radio service a while back already. Now Bloomberg reports that people with knowledge of negotiations between Apple and music labels said that the Apple Online Radio comes 2013.
The service would be advertising supported and more flexible than Pandora. Apple would release special apps for the iPhone and iPad to use the service. This could be a nice service, but I think what Apple tries to do here is to find ways to advertise to mobile users. It is not so much about the music, but about finding ways to monetize the growing mobile platform. If online radio can play a big part in mobile advertising remains to be seen.
Pandora's stock meanwhile had a big loss yesterday after Bloomberg broke the rumor report. The stock fell 12%.
Luigi Lugmayr (Google) is the founding chief Editor of I4U News and brings over 15 years experience in the technology field to the ever evolving and exciting world of gadgets. He started I4U News back in 2000 and evolved it into vibrant technology magazine.
Luigi can be contacted directly at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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The impact of social media
Information and communication technology has changed rapidly over the past 20 years, with a key development being the emergence of social media.
The pace of change is accelerating. For example, the development of mobile technology has played an essential role in shaping the impact of social media. Across the globe, mobile devices dominate in terms of total minutes spent online. They put the means to connect anywhere, at any time on any device in everyone’s hands.
1. The Impact of Social Media on Politics
A new study from Pew Research claims that about one in five U.S. adults gets their political news primarily through social media. The study also finds that those who do get their political news primarily through social media tend to be less well-informed and more likely to be exposed to unproven claims that people who get their news from traditional sources.
2. The Impact of Social Media on Society
Social media and relationships
One particularly pernicious concern is whether time spent on social media sites is eating away at face-to-face time, a phenomenon known as social displacement .
Fears about social displacement are longstanding, as old as the telephone and probably older. “This issue of displacement has gone on for more than 100 years,” says Jeffrey Hall, PhD, director of the Relationships and Technology Lab at the University of Kansas. “No matter what the technology is,” says Hall, there is always a “cultural belief that it's replacing face-to-face time with our close friends and family.”
3. The Impact of Social Media on Commerce
The affirmation of social media platforms has radically changed customers purchasing habits and the way businesses develop their e-commerce sites. Indeed, e-vendors no longer invest money exclusively on advertisements on their e-commerce platforms; rather there is a fierce online competition among companies promoting their goods and services on social media channels. On the other hand, customers use social media to generate content and to network with other users so as they can gather and share as much information as possible about prices, product quality, customer service and e-sellers reputation. In addition, it is believed that social media facilitates social interaction among customers, leading to increased trust and intention to buy
4. The Impact of Social Media on Training and Development
There is a push towards the integration of technology in training environments to enhance the learning experience, but no set limit, no specified Structure, no curated approach that tells us how far we can go, or how creative we can get when leveraging technology for training. The tech savvy, next generation workforce, is a provoking force whose learning habits, characteristics, styles, and expectations can guide innovation in corporate training.
5. The Challenges of Social Media
Challenges on social media have gained much momentum over the past several year as a means of getting rid of indoor boredom that resulted from the coronavirus pandemic. With physical and social distancing measures in place, many people sought online methods of connecting with others, and challenging each other on social media became a way to do just that.
From creating content that was made to entertain, to uplifting others in times of need, a number of social media feeds were inundated with online challenges that made the global lockdown a little more bearable. Social media challenges have since become a staple marketing method for generating content, engaging users, and growing one's follower count.
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From Cocktails to Coffee: Local Bartender Plans East Boston Café
Will Isaza (Blossom Bar, Birds of Paradise) will open Café Gloria this summer, featuring coffee and Colombian rice bowls.
If you’re a cocktail enthusiast in Greater Boston, chances are Will Isaza has served you a drink. Next, he wants to serve you espresso. Isaza plans to open Café Gloria, “a neighborhood coffee and espresso bar,” in East Boston around late summer 2023, and he has just launched a crowdfunding campaign via NuMarket to get the project to the finish line.
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Isaza—who was born and raised in East Boston and currently lives in the Jeffries Point section of town—has been involved in the Boston-area hospitality industry for over a decade, he tells Boston. He’s been behind the bar at Fairsted Kitchen in Brookline, Tapestry and Tiger Mama in Fenway, Pammy’s in Cambridge, and more, ultimately landing with celebrated local cocktail expert Ran Duan and his team. For nearly six years, Isaza has been working with Duan as director of bar operations for Blossom Bar, Ivory Pearl, and the newly opened Birds of Paradise.
Café Gloria will be Isaza’s first solo project, but he’ll have the full support of his family, he says, including his brother Moe Isaza, also a local cocktail veteran. The café is named for Isaza’s mother, Gloria, and her snack recipes “will be sprinkled into the food menu,” while his father will be assisting with the buildout.
So, how’d all of Isaza’s cocktail experience lead to this more caffeinated concept? From a cocktail competition, actually. In 2019, Isaza made it to the top 16 in the Bacardi Legacy Global Cocktail Competition, featuring his cocktail, Gloria. The drink—aged rum, passionfruit, cinnamon, mascarpone, and coffee—nods to the flavors of his childhood, growing up in a family with roots in Cali, Colombia. Now, he’s dialing in on the coffee part of the equation. “Café Gloria was born out of wanting to introduce my family and its food and beverage history to the community,” he says. And yes, a version of the Gloria cocktail will be on the menu, but in the nonalcoholic form of a latte “with all the same tropical flavors.”
When Café Gloria opens, it will likely operate from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., with coffee and espresso as the main focal point, says Isaza. He is partnering with Cambridge’s Broadsheet Coffee Roasters on a co-branded roast, which will be served at the café and also available for purchase in whole bean form, and Colombian coffee beans will also be highlighted. Plus, there will be traditional coffee shop beverages and a canned cold brew.
To eat: Colombian rice bowls. “This was a quick snack my mom would make for me growing up,” says Isaza. “Think of arroz con pollo, egg and rice, and even rice and avocado.” Colombian rice bowls are similar in execution to an Asian-style rice bowl, he says, but seasoned differently.
Isaza isn’t ready to share the exact address yet but is thrilled to build something in his own neighborhood. “With the changes happening in East Boston and the influx of residents, I have always wanted to invest in the community that raised me and keep it true to what has always and will always be my home,” he says. “There is a big community of new buildings, condos, and overall Eastie growth that is searching for that perfect cup of coffee. Café Gloria will aim to be that place.”
East Boston, instagram.com/cafegloriabos.


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According to the publication MySmartPrise, Realme is preparing to release wireless neck headphones with
What is known
The novelty will be a new version of the regular modelRealme Buds Wireless 2 and will likely get a more "classic" look. Unfortunately, the characteristics of the device are not yet available. We can only assume that they will not look like the current version.
As a reminder, Realme Buds Wireless 2 have 13.6mm drivers with enhanced bass, proprietary R2 chip, support for the Sony LDAC codec for high-definition audio, active noise canceling technology, low latency audio game mode, and Google Fast Pair function for fast pairing with smartphones. The earphone works from a single charge up to 22 hours.
When to expect
The release of Realme Buds Wireless 2 Classic should take place in India soon.</ p>


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The tone perfectly suits her skin, but we think she already knew that ahead of going for the makeover, as mum Debbie Bright has been wearing that colour (and looking great with it) for years.
Lydia shared a first look at her new hue over on Instagram the other week, but has taken to Instagram Stories over the weekend to give her 1.2 million followers a close-up look.
“Successful day shooting a new hair campaign. Yes, that’s a full glass of wine,” she captions the stunning snap.
Her blue eyes pop against the new ashy shade of blonde, and we can’t help but notice just how much she looks like Debbie, 57, in the stunning snap.
You could be forgiven for thinking the star just fancied a change of tone for the sunshine season, but Lydia actually says she switched to a more grey shade of blonde so that it would be easier for her to hide grey strands.
“Now there’s no reason to worry about my greys coming through!” she writes underneath the short grid video showing off her look.
“Loretta went on a two day holiday with my family and came back to a brand new mumma.”
Fans were quick to compliment Lydia on her hair, with some wondering if she really had greys showing through at the young age of 30.
“I bet you had no grey hairs coming through yet at your age, did you Lydia?” wonders one.
“Yes I started getting greys this year. I think it’s Loretta’s energy taking its toll on me,” the star jokes back, implying her 17-month-old is the root cause of her ageing.
“Embracing the greys is the way to go!” another fan comments.
There’s no word yet on the hair campaign Lydia has been busy shooting for, but we can’t wait to shop whatever she’s selling!
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text: French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault will return two rare Chinese relics whose auction in 2009 outraged Beijing, his company said on Friday during a visit to China by France’s president. China has vehemently protested the sale of artefacts it says were stolen in the 19th century when European powers began encroaching on its territory, and has successfully pressured for some sales to be cancelled. The two bronze fountainheads owned by Pinault were taken along with many other relics in 1860, when British and French troops pillaged Beijing’s Old Summer Palace during the Second Opium War. The announcement came during French President Francois Hollande’s two-day visit to China, which included a banquet Thursday with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other guests, including Pinault, the CEO of the luxury group PPR. “Yesterday evening, Francois-Henri Pinault, at the state dinner with Xi Jinping, told him of his intention to hand them to China,” said a spokesman for PPR, whose brands include Gucci and Puma. The relics’ previous owners -- late French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Berge -- had auctioned the pieces at Christie’s for about $20 million each. The sale enraged Beijing, and a mystery Chinese bidder later said he would not pay and the items were returned to Berge. The artefacts were then purchased by Pinault’s family, the spokesman said. The businessman is married to actress Salma Hayek, and his father is the PPR group’s founder, Francois Pinault. In November two Chinese antiques were withdrawn from auction in Britain after the proposed sale sparked fury in China amid claims they were looted from the Old Summer Palace. Beijing estimates 1.5 million relics were taken at the time, though historians say it is likely that some antiques were sold off by local dealers.


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KPMG Australia recently announced the launch of mLabs, a market-first corporate fintech accelerator connecting forward-thinking mutual Authorised Deposit-taking Institutions (ADIs) with some of Australia’s most exciting fintech startups.


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As the stock market soars to new heights, companies have been racing to issue shares, leveraging the enthusiasm to generate cash for their businesses.
But the game isn’t just being played on Wall Street. What’s happening: This has been a huge week for initial public offerings in India, which has been churning out billion-dollar startups. Digital payments firm Paytm is planning to raise as much as 166 billion rupees ($2.2 billion) in an initial public offering in Mumbai, according to documents filed on Friday. The IPO, which is set to be a record tech listing for the country, would value Paytm at $25 billion, according to Reuters.
The news comes just two days after food delivery giant Zomato began raising $1.3 billion from its share sale in Mumbai, my CNN Business colleague Diksha Madhok reports. It was the country’s first tech unicorn to go public. Step back: 2021 has produced the best start to the year ever for initial public offerings, according to data from Dealogic. Globally, there have been 1,522 deals worth almost $350 billion. Stock issuers from the United States raised $213 billion on global markets during the first half of 2021. That was up 8% compared with levels seen a year ago, per data from Refinitiv.
But the rush to tap markets isn’t just benefiting American companies, with US firms accounting for a smaller share of global stock issuance than in 2020. A global phenomenon: Stock offerings from issuers in the Asia-Pacific region hit a record $253 billion during the first half of 2021, an 81% increase compared to 2020, according to Refinitiv. Plenty of the action is still passing through the United States. Chinese ride hailing giant Didi, for example, opted to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange. But the flurry of listings in Mumbai could encourage more of the country’s unicorns to consider the option. Walmart-owned Flipkart, which is the only Indian tech unicorn to have been acquired at a valuation of more than $1 billion, is also said to be considering a public offering. And as China exerts more control over listings of domestic companies, Shanghai and Hong Kong could see an uptick in deals, too.


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Fixit45, a Nigerian autotech platform, has announced the acquisition of Parkit, a network of tech-enabled autocare and car wash centers.
BasiGo, an electric vehicle startup, has announced that it has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding. The startup also disclosed
Autochek has secured $13.1mn in seed funding co-led by follow-on investors, TLcom Capital, and 4DX Ventures. The round also included
Autochek, the Nigerian cars marketplace, has officially launched operations in Kenya as part of its pan-African expansion. This expansion was
Fixit45, a tech enabled automotive aftermarket platform, has launched to redefine service experience and enable value-creating interactions across stakeholders within
Autochek, the Nigerian cars marketplace, and ROAM Africa have entered into an agreement for Autochek to acquire automotive marketplaces Cheki Kenya and Cheki Uganda,
Jumia has partnered with Solartaxi, a modern eco-friendly mobility facilities startup, to provide affordable and eco-friendly delivery of online orders
Odiggo, an Egypt auto tech startup, has raised a $2.2 million investment from top investors including Y Combinator, 500 Startups,
Autochek has announced a partnership with Appzone to provide Nigerians with quick and flexible access to car financing. The partnership
Plentywaka has partnered with Autochek Africa to facilitate vehicle inspection, financing and maintenance for its teeming number of vehicle partners.