text:
Dapper Dan has influenced Gucci in a major way.
When Gucci foolishly released a sweater that resembled Blackface, many people across the globe took a stand to boycott the fashion house but famed fashion designer Dapper Dan refused, looking at the disappointing situation as an opportunity for growth.
"For those that want to continue to hate Gucci and boycott, you are entitled to do as you please. But if anyone should be boycotted it's the brands that won't give our young people an opportunity to learn," Dapper wrote on Instagram, after announcing that he would join the brand to steer them in the right direction.
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
The fashion house has now announced a new initiative dubbed Gucci Changemakers that will promote inclusion and diversity within the company through a global program and scholarship fund. The new plan - that also includes a volunteering initiative - is amid a meeting Dapper Dan had with Gucci's CEO and President Marco Bizzarri.
"We will invest important resources to unify and strengthen our communities across North America, with a focus on programs that will impact youth and the African-American community," Marco said in a statement. "I believe in the promise of the next generation, and through our scholarship fund we will also create more opportunities for talented young people of diverse backgrounds to gain access to careers in the fashion industry."
Dapper Dan added: "As a partner, I am proud to work with Gucci and other community leaders to help guide programs that will create meaningful impact for the Black community and fashion as a whole. It is imperative that we have a seat at the table to say how we should be represented and reimagined. Through our work together, Gucci is in a position to lead the overall industry toward becoming a better more inclusive one."


text:
Harry Hill goes nuts at London Zoo
By Sanchez Manning Harry Hill has made the unlikely decision to launch his own brand of snacks. The Bafta award-winning comedian showcased his new brand of Fairtrade salted peanuts, aptly named Harry s Nuts, at London Zoo in Regent s Park on Tuesday. He
By Sanchez Manning
Harry Hill has made the unlikely decision to launch his own brand of snacks.
The Bafta award-winning comedian showcased his new brand of Fairtrade salted peanuts, aptly named Harry's Nuts, at London Zoo in Regent's Park on Tuesday.
He has teamed up with community interest company Liberation to develop the tasty treats, which are due to go on sale at 59p a packet in corner shops and pubs.
But Mr Hill has no plans to rake in the cash from the venture, with almost all of the profits going back to the farmers in Africa and Latin America who grow the nuts. And his fans can rest assured that he is not going to give up his day job to go into the nibbles business.
The comic says that his main motivation for getting involved in the project, aside from his long-term support of Fairtrade, was his passion for nuts.
- 1 Calls to make road in front of a Highgate school safer
- 2 Barnet leader pledges council tax rebate and an end to outsourcing
- 3 Positives for Arsenal despite missing top four
- 4 Parliament Hill flower shop comes to pupils' rescue
- 5 Camden teacher's cycle ride to find a cure for daughter's 'sleeping beauty' syndrome
- 6 The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee flypast: Where, and when, the planes will fly over north and east London
- 7 Harry Hill's Tony Blair rock opera premieres at Park Theatre
- 8 Nazanin was 'forced' to sign false confession by Iran
- 9 Major tube strike to follow Queen's Platinum Jubilee long weekend
- 10 Highgate woman pledges £1million for children's autism charity
He was heavily involved in the tasting, the packet design and even penned a cheeky backing card against which the product will be sold.
"I love salted peanuts myself and feel I am doing a service to snackers everywhere who want to know the farmers who grew what they are eating have been paid a fair price," he said at the launch event at the zoo.
Mr Hill said he was inspired to come up with the idea for his nuts in May this year after visiting Fairtrade banana and cocoa farms in Ghana.
He then contacted Liberation, who already supply cashew and peanut mixes to supermarkets, to help him get the scheme off the ground.
Talking about his visit to Africa, he said: "When you see it in action, that's when you get hooked because it really works. It's about quite small things and relatively cheap solutions.
"Then when I went to Malawi, I visited small peanut holdings and saw the benefits in concrete. If Liberation hadn't come along they would never have had the chance to trade their nuts abroad and would have just sold them on the side of the road."
Aside from his nutty commitments, Mr Hill is also gearing up for a new run of his massively popular TV Burp series.
He added that he is limbering up to return to form by watching some quality episodes of Robson Green's Extreme Fishing and The Apprentice.

domain: news


text:
Nokia 2 will roll out in the United Kingdom soon, here's when
Facebook losing younger users to Snapchat in the UK
Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Launched in India; Know Specification, Price
NASA space probe takes 'furthest ever' photo from Earth
Facebook confirms it is testing 'downvote' button for comments
LG Q6 with FullVision display launched in India for Rs 14990
10 August 2017, 01:21 | Camille Rivera
LG Q6 targets discerning millennials
LG today announced the LG Q6 in India. It is available exclusively through Amazon India and comes with price tag of Rs. 14,990. The Q series will offer many of LG's most sought after, premium features at an extremely attractive price. The Q6 looks almost identical from the front, with a near edge to edge glass with curved corners.
Display and Design: The LG Q6 features a 5.5-inch Full HD (2160 x 1080) display and is made from the durable 7000 series aluminium metal. The main highlight of the new LG Q6 is its wonderful FullVision display with 18:9 aspect ratio as we have seen on the company's flagship LG G6.
The rest of the spec sheet will likely not blow you away.
The smartphone runs on Android 7.1.1 Nougat out-of-the-box and is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 processor coupled with 3GB of RAM.
LG Q6 comes with a 13 Megapixel rear camera with LED flash. Sale of LG Q6 will also start on this day.
LG is offering a one-time screen replacement guarantee that will last six months from the date of purchase in India. It has 32GB in-built storage which can be expanded upto 2TB using MicroSD card.
For the selfie lovers, Q6 offer a wide 100 degree selfie camera and instant social share featureswhich allows to takes great selfies and also share it with friends and family. Dimensions of LG Q6 measure 142.5 x 69.3 x 8.1mm and Weight is 149g. The device packs in 3GB of RAM on the inside, while it also offers 32GB of expandable storage. Connectivity options of LG Q6 include 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.2, and NFC. The variant of the LG Q6 which will be launched in India is of two SIM cards.
Although the phone comes with a facial recognition technology and has gone through the military-grade MIL-STD 810G test, it is not IP68 certified for dust and water resistance. However, the Q6 lacks a fingerprint sensor, which might be a deal-breaker for some of you. The battery in the Q6 is also subjected to an extra harsh testing process, more demanding than worldwide testing standards. The bold, innovative features of the phone will provide an unmatched smartphone experience to them.
Mobile Tips Budget-Friendly Revvl Phone
A few days ago, Evan Blass took to Twitter to outline all of the specifications for the upcoming T-Mobile REVVL T1 smartphone. So while it may get security updates, it's unlikely you'll ever be able to install Android O or even 7.1 on the Revvl .
Worldpay and Vantiv agree terms on £9.3bn merger
Worldpay said "positive discussions" are continuing between the two companies as they thrash out the final details. Wordplay also raised its interim dividend by 23% from previous year to 0.80p for the first six months of 2017.
Voting in Kenya is peaceful; early results favor president
Odinga on Tuesday rejected the results displayed by the election commission, saying, "They are fictitious, they are fake". In some parts of the country, voters lined up outside polling stations at 3am, hours before booths officially opened.
Baby abandoned in trash bag survived 3 days, police say
Court papers reveal startling new details about a mother who allegedly left her baby girl in a trash bag to die. Anyone with information is asked to call the Elmira Police Department at 737-5626 or its tip line at 271-HALT.
Chicago sues White House for sanctuary cities plan
Sessions accused the city of open hostility to enforcing immigration laws and said they are protecting, quote "criminal aliens". Among the other bigger USA cities with such policies are NY and Philadelphia.


text:
Hackers may have just made some big strides towards possibly jailbreaking the PlayStation 5 over the weekend, with the hacking group Fail0verflow claiming to have managed to obtain PS5 root keys allowing them to decrypt the console’s firmware.
Additionally, Andy Nguyen (a security engineer at Google who’s better known under his handle, theflow0) managed to access the PS5’s debug settings menu on a retail PS5 over the weekend, too. Both exploits were spotted by Wololo.net.
The two exploits are particularly notable due to the level of access they theoretically give to the PS5’s software. Decrypted firmware — which is possible through Fail0verflow’s keys — would potentially allow for hackers to further reverse engineer the PS5 software and potentially develop the sorts of hacks that allowed for things like installing Linux, emulators, or even pirated games on past Sony consoles.
Obviously, Sony is presumably keen to prevent users from doing those sorts of things and will presumably be doing whatever it can to prevent those exploits from reaching a broader audience, in addition to attempting to patch the vulnerabilities there.
For now, the two exploits won’t result in much of a change for PS5 owners — there’s no sudden PS5 jailbreak available today, and neither Nguyen nor Fail0verflow have published the details of their respective hacks — nor is it even clear if they ever will. Nguyen has already said that he has “no plans for disclosure” of his hack, while Wololo.net notes that Fail0verflow held off on publishing its PS4 hacks last console generation until Sony patched things, meaning that it’s possible none of this will lead to concrete changes in the PS5 hacking scene.


text:
Cisco, Axis vets team at Next Level
CARLSBAD, Calif.—Pete Jankowski was chief technology officer of Cisco’s physical security business unit until the networking giant decided to close its San Diego offices. Not wanting to move, Jankowski has decided to return to his start-up roots—having been CEO and CTO of SyPixx before Cisco bought it in 2006—and has created Next Level Security Systems, keeping with him much of his former Cisco/SyPixx staff.
Joining him is Jumbi Edulbehram, most recently director of business development at Axis and before that VP of strategic marketing at analytics maker IntelliVid, which was purchased by Tyco in 2008.
As VP of business development, Edulbehram will be charged with spreading the word about Next Level’s value proposition, but he said he’s not quite ready to divulge exact details about what Next Level will be selling. The coming out party, he said, will be ISC West.
However, what he does have to say about the company is intriguing.
“We’re building systems,” he said, “hardware as well as software, and there will be several hardware components, enough to build out an entire system. The whole idea is to build a wholly integrated system, basically accomplish all the core security functions, and have everything available on the network and available to be offered as a hosted service.
“And intelligent,” he continued, “meaning that it will have all the kinds of intelligence that are available in the security industry.”
Intelligence, however, doesn’t mean expensive. “I wouldn’t have done this,” he said, “unless this whole package is available at a cost point where it becomes a no-brainer. No matter how great all this stuff is, if it’s at a price point that turns people off, it’s just not going to get traction.”
He said the solution will be so cheap—inexpensive, rather—that end users considering replacing a DVR, and not even a high-end DVR, will see the Next Level solution as comparable in price, but accomplishing all that a DVR accomplishes, plus access control and intrusion functionality.
“We thought: Why not integrate all the core functions,” Edulbehram said, “provide all the information on the network, but do it at a price that competes with DVRs?”
In addition to price, Next Level will focus on ease of installation and integration, he said. “In our industry, if integrators were capable of quickly integrating everything at the software level and customizing it, that would be great. But the truth is that they’re not. They want a device that does what they want it to do, it’s easy to install, and it’s easy to manage. And these open platforms that run on off-the-shelf equipment, we found they’re just not that easy to configure because that’s the price you pay for the openness. Ours is literally targeted to these applications—you plug it in, and it finds everything, it’s a basic configuration, and if you want to do more you can do more.”
Which is not to say the Next Level equipment will be incompatible with other systems. But it will be appliance based, and it will be a platform that other applications can plug into, something along the iPhone model.
The products will also feature pre-configured network security—“we’ve taken care of all of that,” Edulbehram said—that should make the product IT-department-friendly.
Edulbehram said the company is moving fast, and should have a suite of products ready to sell at ISC West. Because the company is privately funded, “we’re really moving at a breakneck speed,” he said.
“We don’t have to justify every decision we make to anybody.”


text:
The NYT has caught onto web video ads. (For my initial report on this, read my column in 2.0 from last year). The news: The ads seem to be working….The caption from the Times piece says it all, in terms of how Big Media views this: “Such ads have annoyed far fewer viewers than expected.” What do you know!
An online survey of 1,700 Internet users who saw the full-motion commercials, which ran from late January until late February, showed that viewers found them less annoying than some marketers had expected. Indeed, just 28 percent found them annoying – compared with 38 percent of TV viewers, on average, who found commercials annoying in three separate studies. The survey on Web commercials was paid for by the advertisers.


text:
Hackers posted an archive containing data they said includes LinkedIn IDs, full names, professional titles, email addresses, phone numbers and other personally identifiable information (PII) on a popular hacker forum, according to a report in CyberNews on Tuesday.
Yet, a recent update to its privacy statement reveals that they may share your personal information with Facebook if you use their website:.However, it is especially alarming when you see those tactics in use by organizations that supposedly fight for privacy.
Neeva isn’t saying that it doesn’t collect any information when it talks about user privacy; it says that you can trust it to keep your data safe and not pass it on to advertisers or third parties.
For Mail on iOS, open the main Settings app then choose Mail and turn off the Load Remote Images option.If images aren't loaded up, then any embedded tracking pixels won't be accessed and won't report that they've been opened.
List of emails I have received about inserting malware into my extension.I've been seeing a lot of stories about extensions getting taken over by unknown developers and becoming malware.Sadly, with how many permissions many extensions have, it can do a lot of damage.
Telesforo Aviles, a 35-year-old former employee of home and small office security company ADT, said that over a five-year period, he accessed the cameras of roughly 200 customer accounts on more than 9,600 occasions—all without the permission or knowledge of customers.
Image: Ubiquiti Networks Networking equipment and IoT device vendor Ubiquiti Networks has sent out today notification emails to its customers informing them of a recent security breach.According to Ubiquiti, the intruder accessed servers that stored data on users, such as names, email addresses, and salted and hashed passwords.
Advertisement A proof-of-concept video the researcher sent to Telegram showed how he could discern the address of a People Nearby user when he used a free GPS spoofing app to make his phone report just three different locations.
T-Mobile states that the data breach did not expose account holders' names, physical addresses, email addresses, financial data, credit card information, social security numbers, tax IDs, passwords, or PINs. In a statement to BleepingComputer, T-Mobile stated that this breach affected a "small number of customers (less than 0.2%)."
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The suspected Russian hackers behind the worst U.S. cyber attack in years leveraged reseller access to Microsoft Corp services to penetrate targets that had no compromised network software from SolarWinds Corp, investigators said.
In the case of Protonmail, another encrypted mail provider, you'll need to find OpenPGP keys and you're basically back to square one.Tutanota doesn't have any bulk tools but it's easy enough to just shift-click all the email in the desktop client and export to eml files.
Thunderbird email client users who use the program's built-in email encryption functionality need to set a master password in Thunderbird to properly protect their encryption keys.Thunderbird email client users who use the program's built-in email encryption functionality need to set a master password in Thunderbird to properly protect their encryption keys.
Privacy concerns in Europe have led to some of the world’s toughest restrictions on companies like Facebook and Google and the ways they monitor people online.It would also restrict the use of software that scans for child sexual abuse imagery and so-called grooming by online predators.
The app has been downloaded over 50 million times on Android, according to the Google Play Store , and over 98 million in total across other platforms including iOS, according to Muslim Pro's website .The news highlights the opaque location data industry and the fact that the U.S. military, which has infamously used other location data to target drone strikes , is purchasing access to sensitive data.
The email, titled "Regarding Zoom Conference call," claims that the attacker exploited a zero-day vulnerability to access the victim's private data.
Popular file sharing service MEGA recently shared the content of a user's suspended account after the FBI provided the service with a list of potential passwords in a child abuse case, according to court records.
An Amazon Web Services employee emailed a series of internal Amazon listservs and told them that their communications were being monitored for labor organizing efforts and processed in a data farming project by the company's Global Security Operations, according to an internal email obtained by Motherboard.
Razer offered the following public statement concerning the leak: We were made aware by Mr. Volodymyr of a server misconfiguration that potentially exposed order details, customer and shipping information.
But if you prefer another text based web browser or would rather view the email in a GUI web browser such as Firefox, simply use the.$ tmpmail [ Inbox for [email protected] ] 83414443 [email protected] Test Email.$ tmpmail -t 83414443 To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Subject: Test Email Hello World.
Why does it keep mentioning LinkedIn. Last but not least, why does it offer to me to opt-out of reselling my personal information?All that personal data on LinkedIn/SlideShare will be transferred to ScribD.Check your LinkedIn resell-your-info settings.
In an analysis released by Check Point Research today, the latest wave of Qbot activity appears to have dovetailed with the return of Emotet — another email-based malware behind several botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks — last month, with the new sample capable of covertly gathering all email threads from a victim's Outlook client and using them for later malspam campaigns.
Not only has pretty much every piece of information they’ve ever entered into the platform been exposed to hackers, but this may have been going on since January 2018.Hackers offering data for sale on the dark web claim to not only have access to the full contents of all of these accounts, but also that the service has been storing user passwords in plaintext for over two years now.
Many users keep their profiles open, allowing companies such as Deep Social to collect that data and compile it further.While the database belonged to Social Data, the evidence point toward Deep Social, another company used to scrape data from online sources and has since dissolved.
Save the answer to the security question in the text file with the login and password.Then click “Approve Login!” .Now when you go back to the tab which asked you to check your email, you should see the following screen.
While Gmail doesn’t scan the content of your emails to collect information for its advertising machines, data from your Google account is used to serve ads in your Gmail inbox.
Here are some examples of how potential attackers can use the data found in the unsecured Amazon S3 bucket against the owners of the exposed email addresses:Spamming 350 million email IDsCarrying out phishing attacksBrute-forcing the passwords of the email accountsAttackers can also combine the leaked email addresses with data from other breaches and build more detailed pictures of their potential targets.


text:
The industry’s most influential contemporary designers are showcasing their latest jewelry designs.
This Emerald and Diamond Necklace Just Fetched $7M at Auction
It led the Christie’s Hong Kong Magnificent Jewels sale.
Hong Kong—A special necklace led the Christie’s Hong Kong Magnificent Jewels auction on Nov. 29.
Of the total $51.5 million the sale garnered, $7 million went to a spectacular emerald and diamond double riviere necklace created by Edmond Chin for Boghossian.
Pictured above, the design features 117.6 total carats of Colombian emeralds and diamonds—28 cushion- and octagonal-cut Colombian emeralds ranging from 1.48 to 10.41 carats, as well as 22 oval- and rectangular-cut diamonds ranging from 0.7 to 4.22 carats, as well as fancy-cut diamonds and fancy-cut jadeite.
Chin, a Singapore-born designer, got his start at Christie’s Hong Kong, working in the jewelry and jadeite department.
The second highest-earning lot, above, was a pair of fancy intense blue internally flawless diamonds, weighing 3.29 carats each, set as earrings alongside colorless diamonds, which sold for $6.1 million after a period of heated bidding, according to Christie’s.
Other notable lots were the above 4.9-carat fancy intense pink diamond ring, which earned $3.8 million, and, pictured below, an important fancy vivid yellow diamond ring weighing 18.08 carats, which doubled its low estimate, selling for $1.4 million.
The sale sold 79 percent by value and 76 percent by lot, with half of lots selling for more than their high estimates.
Vickie Sek, chairman of jewelry Asia Pacific, noted: “Collectors from 24 countries and four continents around the world bid enthusiastically for some of the most coveted jewels offered at Christie’s Hong Kong today, achieving strong prices for top quality colored diamonds, jadeite and rubies.
“The depth of global participation and the encouraging sale results reflect healthy market demand and continue our leadership in offering the finest jewels at auction.”
Created by Maitri Lab-Grown Diamonds and graded by IGI, it’s slightly bigger than the record-setting lab-grown diamond GIA just examined.
The marketing agency has integrated its first C-suite.
The most trusted diamond report, available in print or the GIA App.
The jewelry trade show also will debut educational content centered around social media.
Luxury kicks off today, with the full show in swing on Friday.
One of the three new collections was inspired by the legend of a woman who traded her mansion to Cartier for two strands of natural pearls.
Navigate origin determination with Continuing Education seminars offered by the GIA Alumni Collective™.
Rob Ballew will be tasked with communicating the jewelry giant’s plans and financial performance to investors.
With the app, customers receive a 15-day insurance offer on new purchases while their coverage needs are being evaluated.
It is in House of Showfields, a bazaar-style retail space in the borough’s Williamsburg neighborhood.
From consumer trends to retail technology, these are the JCK Talks sessions that should be on attendees’ radar.
They will be celebrated at the annual dinner dance and gala in the fall.
Gemologists have long used machines in diamond grading but technology has made it possible for them to “learn” how to do it on their own.
Supplier Spotlight Sponsored by IGI
Watch retailers Jeffery Bolling and Bobby Bengivengo discuss employee training, customer education and the sticky subject of future value.
The company has plans to revamp the Movado brand and offer less expensive watches this year.
Sponsored by Noam Carver
As cybercrime incidents threaten the industry, jewelers need to know what they’re up against and the best ways to protect their businesses.
The Pittsburgh jeweler is redoing the lighting and showcases, and adding a full hospitality bar as well as new shop-in-shops.
The Yurman Family Crystalline Pass is inside the museum’s brand-new Richard Gilder Center.
Zale has more than 40 years’ experience in the diamond industry, including 17 years as Stuller’s VP of diamonds and gemstones procurement.
The Strip is full of new restaurant and entertainment offerings.
National Jeweler’s senior editor covering fashion, trends, and design highlights the latest looks in the market.
From what ChatGPT is to how to use it, this is the explainer tailored to jewelers.
The D-color, internally flawless, Type IIa stone will be offered without reserve.
When it comes to pricing jewelry repairs, you should start by asking a simple question about the piece at hand, Peter Smith writes.


text:
Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Watch now.
With Amazon’s Echo now facing competition on multiple fronts, the ecommerce giant is really starting to ramp up the marketing for its voice-enabled intelligent speaker.
As part of a broader “Music Unites” campaign to promote Amazon Music and the Echo on billboards in 15 cities across the U.S. and Europe, Amazon teamed up with Outfront Media and Rapport to launch a 79-foot-tall Amazon Echo replica in the heart of New York’s iconic Times Square.
As with its campaigns in other cities, Amazon’s billboard is designed to promote the Echo’s lyrics’ search feature that lets users search for music armed with just a handful of words that they remember from the song.
With the Times Square installation, Outfront said that the gargantuan aluminium Echo breaks a record for the biggest physical ad install — set by Pepsi (via a giant bottle) way back in the 1940s — with Amazon’s effort weighing in at seven tons and boasting a circumference of 24 feet.
The giant Echo — which, to be clear, doesn’t actually function — sports an LED light ring designed to mimic that of a real-life Echo. It will be on display in Times Square from today until June 25.
The huge marketing campaign is perhaps inspired by the growing number of competitors in the home assistant space. Earlier this month, Apple unveiled the $349 HomePod, following on the heels of Google Home, which went to market late last year.
VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital town square for technical decision-makers to gain knowledge about transformative enterprise technology and transact. Learn more about membership.


text:
Luxury electric vehicle maker Lucid Motors Inc. has an undisclosed commitment to build a dedicated EV assembly facility in Saudi Arabia. The commitment was reportedly made after the company accepted over $1 billion in financing from the Saudi Pacific Fund in 2018.
News of Lucid’s reported electric vehicle plant in Saudi was initially reported by The Wall Street Journal. Citing people familiar with the matter, the publication noted that at least one prominent institutional investor that was part of Lucid’s SPAC deal had been made aware of the company’s Saudi Arabia plans.
The PIF, a Saudi Arabia sovereign-wealth fund, initially invested over $1 billion in Lucid Motors in 2018. The PIF also agreed to provide more funding through the electric vehicle maker’s SPAC merger, with the fund producing $600 million in bridge financing, as per comments from CEO Peter Rawlinson last month. The PIF currently stands as one of Lucid’s largest shareholders.
As per the Journal’s sources, Lucid’s electric vehicle plant commitment to Saudi Arabia could be an expensive endeavor that costs several hundreds of millions of dollars. This is partly due to Saudi Arabia not being optimized for car manufacturing, which could result in many of Lucid’s parts being imported. The WSJ’s sources noted that these factors could potentially double the costs at the upcoming Saudi plant.
To make its Saudi plant a reality, Lucid executives are reportedly pushing for more incentives to help cover the costs of the pant, as well as the inherent inefficiencies that the facility’s buildout would likely experience. Senior PIF executives, for their part, are reportedly encouraging Lucid to stand by its 2018 commitment.
When asked about the topic, a Lucid Motors spokesperson noted that the electric vehicle maker is expecting to “establish manufacturing facilities in multiple geographies, including Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and potentially Europe in the coming years.” However, the spokesperson also highlighted that the company’s near-term priority is to start the production of the Air at its Arizona plant.
Over the years, the PIF has attempted to attract high-profile companies to invest in possible Saudi Arabia-based facilities. Among the most notable was Japanese carmaker Toyota, which was courted by the Middle Eastern country a few years ago as part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s plan to create jobs for the younger generation. Following talks, however, the veteran automaker declined the offer, reportedly due to high labor costs, a small domestic market, and a lack of local supplies.


text:
Japanese automaker Nissan announced Monday that it will stop producing Datsun-branded vehicles, ending a nearly 100-year history.
Datsun was one of the brands that helped establish Japan as a reliable automaker after World War II.
However, despite selling millions of vehicles, Datsun was withdrawn from the market in the 1980s.
In 2013, Nissan, owner of the brand, decided to revive it with a new series of low-cost vehicles that it considered “an important part of the company’s DNA.”
Nissan spokeswoman Azusa Momose told the BBC that the company will continue to sell the remaining Datsun units it has and will continue to provide after-sales service to vehicle owners.
“We can assure all current and future Datsun owners that customer satisfaction remains our priority“, he pointed.
More than 100 years of history
Before the creation of the Datsun brand, a vehicle called the DAT was built in 1914 by the Kaishinsha Motorcar Works in Tokyo.
The name DAT was an acronym made up of the names of the three main investors: Den, Aoyama and Takeuchi. In fact, it literally means: “fast lightning” in Japanese.
In 1933, Nissan founder Yoshisuke Aikawa purchased the company.
All this while imposing a previously launched model: the “DAT-son” or “The son of DAT”, which was very popular for being cheap and light.
Soon the name was changed to “Datsun”.
After World War II, the Datsun brand was consolidated in the markets of Europe, the United States and Asia and opened the door for Japanese manufacturers.
In fact, it was one of the main brands that Nissan promoted globally, along with Nissan itself and its line of luxury vehicles. Infinity.
In the 1970s, thanks to its fuel efficiency, Nissan offered it as an option over other brands that were considered “wasteful on gas.”
For that reason managed to sell more than 20 million units in 190 countries.
But in 1981, when Nissan unified all its lines under one name, the brand disappeared.
However, in 2012, Nissan announced that Datsun was returning and that it would seek to be in several global markets such as India and Indonesia.
At that time, like many car manufacturers, Nissan was facing reduced sales in Europe and the US. and was looking for new customers in emerging economies with cheaper models.
But despite reviving a well-known brand, sales have plummeted in recent years.
Nissan accepted on Monday that it will now focus on “models and market segments that bring more benefits to customers, dealers and the business,” as part of a transformation in the company’s global strategy. (I)


text:
A 110-carat yellow jewel called the Sun Drop Diamond, thought the biggest of its kind in the world, sold for a record 10 million francs ($10.9 million) at auction in Geneva. The gem was discovered in South Africa in 2010 and wowed visitors to London’s Natural History Museum where it was displayed earlier this year. [...]
This Tag Heuer Link Smartphone has a white lizard leather cover with 1007 diamonds, totaling 2.53 carats, placed around a stainless steel body. 974 brilliant cut diamonds adorn the front housing, sides, back cover and crown. A white mother-of-pearl plate on the back is graced with a further 33 diamonds. Finest white lizard skin and [...]
Luxury Swiss watchmaker Hublot has created a $5 million diamond-encrusted ladies’ watch and plans to unveil it next year, Bloomberg reports. The watch contains as many as 300 carats of polished diamonds, and is more expensive by $2 million than the Big Bang diamond watch model sold this year. “Women are buying more than men, [...]
Astronomers think they have recently found a star that was transformed and condensed into a planet made of solid diamond. The team was able to detect the “diamond planet” with the 64m radio telescope in Parkes, Australia, and found out that it orbits an unusual star known as a pulsar. The scientists’ measurements indicate that [...]
Camael Diamonds has just released a special edition iPad ornamented with 1kg of 18 carat gold and 300 carat flawless diamonds. Priced at $1.2 million, it is the world’s most expensive iPad. It is also adorned with black diamonds on the home button and the Apple logo on its rear.
Stuart Hughes has designed the world’s most expensive liquor, with a content invented by Antica Distilleria Russo from Italy. A national drink of Italy, Limoncello is made by infusion in alcohol of peels of lemons from the stunning famous Amalfi Coast. The bottle itself houses at the neck 3 single cut flawless diamonds totalling 13 [...]


text:
» View Gambar Lucu 17 Agustus 2013
View Gambar Lucu 17 Agustus 2013
We are sorry, article about "View Gambar Lucu 17 Agustus 2013" is not found or may be has been deleted. You may read other articles below or searching by type keyword in search form above!
The latest news coming from the future phablet Samsung, Galaxy Note 3. According to a benchmark results are uploaded into the virtual world, this product is equipped with Android 4.3 operating system.
Unclear codename of Android’s, whether they [...]
According to research from GameStop, as many as 60 percent of gamers not interested in buying the PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720.
This is related to the possibility of a second next-generation gaming consoles can not play the game used or resale.
Jakarta – Plastic may be a major culprit in the garbage problem in some countries. However, Japan had already found a solution for reducing plastic waste. A Non-Government Organization (NGO) from Japan named Ecoparty come to Indonesia to introduce [...]
Among users of Android smartphones again got good news. This time, an application that has been available only on devices with iOS platform, will also be present on the platform bearing the green robot.
Snapchat, an application that allows you to transmit [...]
Although the majority of smartphone users prefer to communicate via messenger applications, many of them are also fond of making phone calls.
Some of the applications are available both on the iPhone, Android, or BlackBerry can be used for free calling [...]
Apple Inc. finally officially launched the smallest version of the iPad on Tuesday (10/23).
iPad Mini-sized 7.9-inch marks Apple’s first breakthrough in the segment of a smaller tablet. Apple hopes its products is given at crushing the tablet market [...]
Computer’s security applications are competing to produce the best protection applications. One of them Kaspersky Lab, which has launched the latest version of its flagship product, Kaspersky PURE Total Security 3.0, on Wednesday (03/13).
Who says Gangnam Style fever is gone? Maybe so for some people, but not for these robots.
Quoted from ITN UK, Tuesday (11/06), in a robot competition called Chinese Intelligent Industrial Exposition and Forum Summit in Hangzhou, China, robots skill performance.
This is good news for the fans of Nintendo games. Wii U, Nintendo’s latest console launched across the United States starting on Sunday (11/18) morning.
Wii U offers high definition clearer, innovative, and control tablet called GamePad. GamePad [...]
“Microsoft chose HTC to be the first smartphone that shows a real Windows Phone.”
Mobile phone manufacturer HTC back innovate through the launch of Windows Phone distinctively, namely HTC Windows Phone 8X and HTC Windows Phone 8S.
Increasingly sophisticated technology. Now charger technology created without cable. Wireless Charger technology names.
Another name Wireless Charger is Inductive Charging. This technology utilizes magnetic force to deliver power between the two objects.


text: The latest Campaign magazine profiles Moving Brands’ client, Mindshare, as one of the UK’s most influential companies. Much of their recent success is attributed to a successful restructure and delivering on a new proposition. As their branding agency, we found them to be a visionary client who were deeply involved in all stages of the brand identity development. The resulting re-brand has allowed them to build on their heritage, reaffirm their market leading position and herald in a new, future focused era. Mindshare have also been named Global Media Agency of the Year by Advertising Age.


text:
In addition to the expansion in Springdale, Ohio, the company plans to enhance its corporate headquarters in Evendale, Ohio. Both facilities, nearby one another, sit just outside of Cincinnati.
Enable Injections plans for its new 90,000-square-foot manufacturing center to support ongoing in-house manufacturing and supply of its enFuse medicine delivery technology. The company develops the enFuse platform, which allows hands-free, hidden needle drug delivery of up to 25 mL. Its simple design enables flexibility for at-home self-administration or in-clinic use.
The FDA cleared the system for the delivery of Empaveli in October. Enable Injections says it’s the first-ever hands-free wearable technology that allows patients to self-administer large-volume medications subcutaneously without an IV or syringe pump.


text:
Stocks discussed on the in-depth session of Jim Cramer's Mad Money Program, Thursday, April 7.
Cramer thinks there is a war being launched on business. "I think the rhetoric against business is insane. In my view, business, the creation of capital through hiring and building something, is worth celebrating. I look at business as way to put food on the table. We lavish praise on sports figures, but it is not like they create any jobs," said Cramer.
He thinks people who create jobs are heroes. However, the government is clearly not looking at them in a similar manner. The war is aimed at business and investing, which can be damaging. First, the rules were changed to block the Allergan (NYSE:AGN)-Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) deal. Then, it blocked the Halliburton (NYSE:HAL)-Baker Hughes (BHI) deal without explaining how the two companies could comply with anti-trust laws.
Another issue worrying Cramer is the rising popularity of Bernie Sanders. He has put up a good challenge to Hillary Clinton's nomination. "Sanders has launched an attack on business that is unprecedented in modern presidential politics - it is like the guy is a second coming of Eugene V. Debs," said Cramer. He plans to break up the big banks, while the government not only allowed the likes of Bank of America (NYSE:BAC), Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) and JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) to buy failing banks, but it pleaded with them to do so, as Cramer remembers.
He was also surprised at Sanders' comment on General Electric (NYSE:GE), saying "destroying the moral fabric of America because it has become skilled at avoiding taxes." Cramer said, "No company is perfect, and GE has had its share of faux pas, but it is hardly an example of corporate greed at its worst."
Cramer is not against the government. He appreciates the government raising tariffs on foreign aluminum and also changed rules that require financial advisors to put their clients' needs first. He just wants to government to be rational and predictable. It was unfair that the Treasury changed inversion rules without warning, as Allergan was playing by the rules. The administration should not wait until companies go wrong and then attack, as owning stocks with personal money would be terrible.
"I say stop the war and declare a truce, so companies can do what they do best: hire, create, serve customers and generate wealth for shareholders of all shapes, sizes, colors and creeds," concluded Cramer.
CEO interview - Signet Jewelers (NYSE:SIG)
Like many stocks, Signet Jewelers has also struggled in 2016. It is down more than 23% from its highs in October. It is the no. 1 specialty jewelry play in North America, with brands such as Kay Jewelers, Jared and Zales. The company reported a good quarter earnings-wise, but weaker-than-expected revenue. However, its same-stores sales figure of 4.9% was healthy. Cramer interviewed CEO Mark Light to know what lies ahead for the company.
"We have been pretty consistent. If you look at Signet over the last 20 years, we have been consistently up 5% and outpacing the jewelry market," said Light. More than half of its business comes from gift giving and the other half from bridal purchase. It is a very stable business, and the company is the largest jeweler in the mid-market segment.
Signet has also been offering credit for the last 30 years, and that portfolio is very good. On the same-store sales, Light said that people still go to the mall, since jewelry is a personal purchase. The company's portfolio of mall properties helps its same-store sales.
Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ:BBBY)
Bed Bath & Beyond was a great retailer at one point, and a cash cow. After the company's report last quarter, it is too late for a comeback. "While Bed Bath now has 500 IT professionals, and it has welcomed the new digital world, I think it might be too late for them," said Cramer.
BBBY has huge number of stores across the country, run by people who know what customers want. It generated lot of cash, which was used to shrink its share count from 243M to 158M. This company's buyback is a typical case of buyback waste, in Cramer's opinion. Its market cap in the last four years has shrunk to $7B from $14B four years ago. In the years that the company bought back 35% of its stock, its market cap shrunk in half.
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has gained a lot of popularity as people have shifted from brick-and-mortar retailers to online shopping. This has hurt Bed Bath & Beyond. Company management admitted that they have fallen short on technology on their conference call. "Bed Bath was a dinosaur living in the ice age of the web and failed to keep up with Amazon's algorithmic ability to figure out what shoppers wanted faster than any flesh-and-blood merchant," said Cramer.
Bed Bath & Beyond's same-store sales have stagnated over time. Customers have started avoiding cumbersome trips to stores. On the conference call, the CEO said that they have started to prioritize mobile search, user interface navigational improvement and digital offerings.
Cramer thinks it could be too late for the company to come back, since it has spent all its money on buying back stock.
Cramer came back with the homework on stocks he couldn't opine on earlier.
NovoCure (NASDAQ:NVCR) is a biotech company which has developed a potentially revolutionary way to fight cancer with a proprietary technology known as Tumor Treating Fields. It uses low-intensity electrical fields to disrupt key molecules within cancer cells. In Cramer's opinion, this may be the least invasive way of cancer treatments. The company has clinical data and regulatory approvals for the technology to work. It came out with an IPO last October, which was bad timing. Healthcare is back in favor with M&A activity in sight. Cramer thinks this stock is worth speculating.
Ollie's Bargain Outlet (NASDAQ:OLLI) is a bargain retailer that sells branded merchandise at huge discounts. Customers come here to pay less than what they would pay at a store. It has 187 locations across 16 states. The company reported a good last quarter, and its stock went up by 10%. It makes sense for Ollie's Bargain Outlet to open more stores in the coming months. "This could be the kind of regional and national growth story that money managers get very excited about," said Cramer. The company came public last July with the help of PE-backed IPO. The firm behind the company was CCMP Capital Advisors, which still owns 59% in Ollie's, which means that its interests will come before those of the shareholders. The stock is expensive compared to traditional stores, and Cramer advised waiting for a pullback before buying.
The next stock is NeoPhotonics (NYSE:NPTN), which is a supplier of fiber-optic components for high-speed communications networks. The stock has bottomed in August 2014, and since then, has been on fire. NPTN is up 30% in 2016. There is no doubt that the area it operates in is red hot. The demand for optical components is picking up in China, and the stock trades at 16 times next year's earnings. "If you want to speculate on optical equipment, then NeoPhotonics might be the way to go, but please, I'm begging you, wait for the stock to get hit before you consider doing any buying," said Cramer.
The last stock is Celator Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:CPXX), which is a small biotech working on cancer treatments that help patients take their drugs in the right ratio. It has a proprietary platform that measures the compounds of dosage that a patient takes. The company got positive trial data, after which CPXX shot up. Cramer thinks the stock is too risky. Those who own the stock should ring the register.
Viewer calls taken by Cramer
Bristol-Myers (NYSE:BMY): Bristol-Myers has a great portfolio of anti-cancer treatments. It's a good company.
Southwest (NYSE:LUV): Cramer thinks no one can go wrong buying Southwest.
L Brands (NYSE:LB): The stock yields 2.8%. Company management is good, and the fall in the stock is a buying opportunity. Buy more when it starts yielding 3%.
American Electric Power (NYSE:AEP): It's a good company. For people in their 20s, go for it for diversified growth.
Get Cramer's Picks by email - it's free and takes only a few seconds to sign up.


text:
DAILY DIGEST / Super Micro admits selling Iran banned components
Published 4:00 am, Wednesday, September 20, 2006
A San Jose computer company has admitted illegally exporting computer components to Iran in 2001 and 2002 and agreed to pay a $150,000 fine, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
In its guilty plea Monday in San Jose, the company admitted selling 300 computer motherboards to Super Net, a company in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in December 2001 and January 2002, knowing that the components were to be sent to Iran, prosecutors said.
Federal commodity export rules at the time banned shipment of the motherboards to Iran for security reasons, a prohibition that has since been lifted.
Government monitoring has found no evidence of further violations since the company instituted a new export control program in February 2004 in response to the U.S. Commerce Department investigation, prosecutors said. They said the company's remedial actions were taken into account in determining the sentence.
LATEST BUSINESS VIDEOS
- First-Class Passenger Booted From Flight After Sneaking Drinks to Friends in Coach Buzz 60
- SpaceX Upgraded Rocket Soars For Bangladesh Associated Press
- Here's How Much to Tip in 8 Everyday Situations Buzz 60
- Uber Is Changing the Way It Handles Sexual Assault Fortune
- US Postal Service Struggles to Keep up With Amazon Veuer
- Elon Musk's Life-or-Death Decision for Tesla's Future Cheddar TV
- Lobbying Firms With Ties to The Trump Administration Receive Millions: Report Buzz 60
- There Are More Billionaires Today Than Ever Before Buzz 60
- Over 40% of Americans Are Afraid to Know What's in Their Hot Dogs Buzz 60
- Amazon Gives Police Access to Facial Recognition Wibbitz
"We didn't have all of the required policies and procedures in place back then," said Winnie Tsai, a lawyer for Super Micro. "We have admitted responsibility and we've taken corrective action. We believe this is behind us now."


text:
Apple Plans Major Expansion In Austin, Texas, and Other Cities
The company also announced plans to establish new sites in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City and expand in cities across the United States including Pittsburgh, New York and Boulder, Colorado over the next three years, with the potential for additional expansion elsewhere in the US over time.
“Apple is proud to bring new investment, jobs and opportunity to cities across the United States and to significantly deepen our quarter-century partnership with the city and people of Austin,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Talent, creativity and tomorrow’s breakthrough ideas aren’t limited by region or zip code, and, with this new expansion, we’re redoubling our commitment to cultivating the high-tech sector and workforce nationwide.”
Apple’s newest Austin campus will be located less than a mile from its existing facilities. The 133-acre campus will initially accommodate 5,000 additional employees, with the capacity to grow to 15,000, and is expected to make Apple the largest private employer in Austin.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said, “Their decision to expand operations in our state is a testament to the high-quality workforce and unmatched economic environment that Texas offers.”
Jobs created at the new campus will include a broad range of functions including engineering, R&D, operations, finance, sales and customer support.
“Apple has been a vital part of the Austin community for a quarter century, and we are thrilled that they are deepening their investment in our people and the city we love,” said Austin Mayor Steve Adler.
“Apple is truly a part of our Texas family,” said Williamson County Director of Administration Rebecca Clemons. “Apple’s vision on innovation, quality and simplicity align with the values here in Williamson County. We are both committed to continued job creation and outstanding quality of life. This new expansion is a perfect example of the astounding growth and opportunity that are possible when a company and a community work together.”
Apple plans to grow its employee base in regions across the United States over the next three years, expanding to over 1,000 employees in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City each, and adding hundreds of new jobs in Pittsburgh, New York, Boulder, Boston and Portland, Oregon. The company recently opened its newest office in Nashville, Tennessee and Apple’s Miami office is projected to double in size.
Apple plans to invest $10 billion in US data centers over the next five years, including $4.5 billion this year and next. Apple’s data centers in North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada are currently being expanded. In Iowa, preparations are underway for the company’s newest data center in Waukee. All of the company’s data centers are run on 100 percent renewable energy.
2023's Leading Metro Locations: Hotspots of Economic Growth
2023 Top States for Doing Business Meet the Needs of Site Selectors
38th Annual Corporate Survey: Are Unrealized Predictions of an Economic Slump Leading Small to Mid-Size Companies to Put Off Expansion Plans?
Manufacturing Momentum Is Building
Making Hybrid More Human in 2024
20th Annual Consultants Survey: Clients Prioritize Access to Skilled Labor, Responsive State & Local Government
Public-Private Partnerships Incentivize Industrial Development


text:
Global Timber and Wood Market Report - 6th July 2012
Wood chip trade flows in the Pacific Rim have changed substantially the past five years. Vietnam, Chile, Thailand and Uruguay have all been increasing their shipments of chips, while Australia and South Africa have been losing their market share as fiber suppliers to the pulp mills in Japan, China, Taiwan and South Korea.
Exports of hardwood chips from Australia fell eight percent in the second half of 2011 compared to the first half, making 2011 the slowest year for chip exports since 2000, as reported in the Wood Resource Quarterly. Japan was a major importer of wood chips from Australia for many years, but shipments fell almost 30% in 2011 as compared to 2010, reducing Australia’s market share has declined.
The good news is that Australian chip shipments to China picked up during 2011. Total exports reached a record high of almost 700,000 ton, which was up 12 % from 2010 and more than three times as much as five years ago. With the expansion of pulp capacity in China, it could be expected that Australian exports to China will continue to increase. There is, however, a substantial difference in the average value for chips going to China as compared to chips for pulp mills in Japan. In 2011, the premium for Japan-bound chips was almost US$60 per ton.
Australia has been the largest wood chip supplier in the world for almost 20 years, but in 2011 Vietnam overtook this role with shipments accounting for about 20% of globally traded chips. Exports of Eucalyptus and Acacia wood chips from Vietnam have increased at a phenomenal pace the past ten years. In 2001, the country exported only 400,000 tons of wood chips; in 2011, a new record of 5.4 million tons was reached. Last year’s shipments were 36% higher than the previous years and a tripling from 2007.
The biggest boost to the establishment of fast-growing hardwood plantations and chipping facilities in Vietnam has been the expanding pulp industry in neighboring China. With limited domestic resources in China, the country will continue to rely on neighbors to supply wood raw-material in the future.
No comments posted yet. Be the first to post a comment
Please enter your name
Please enter your comment
Your comment submitted successfully.Please wait for admin approval.
Some error on your process.Please try one more time.
The permanent eradication of Bovine Viral Diarrhoea [BVD] in Scottish cattl...
The abolition of milk quotas in Europe on 1st April has resulted in a numbe...
The top 14 milk producing countries in Europe will increase their productio...
Matt Ware is the NFU's head of government and parliamentary affairs, based ...
There is a 'desperate need' to improve farmgate returns given low incomes a...
Rapid stem extension, after a slow start to spring, is likely to create spl...
The time has come for landlords to expect to see reductions in farm rents, ...
Cogent’s reputation as a source of the highest calibre sires has been enhan...
The spread of exotic and aggressive strains of a plant fungus is presenting...


text:
Local business owner wants Washington to support new job bill.
Amjad El Nasir, 58-year-old business owner, said that President Barack Obama is “doing as much as he can possibly can,” when it comes to lowering the unemployment rate of 9.1 percent and trying to create new jobs for Americans.
“He can suggest and submit programs and packages all day long, but if it’s not passed by the [U.S. House of Representatives] or the Senate, then his hands are tied,” Naisir said. “The bigger issues I think are the idea of infrastructure, transportation, the roads, and all of the basic things that need to be dealt with. I think that is a wise route to take.”
Nasir sees himself as an entrepreneur, in the sense of developing ideas, concepts and businesses in the African-American community. Before moving here in 1998, he took a serious long look at Philadelphia, especially North Philadelphia, and found it to be a very fertile ground to develop business ideas.
Cookies and Cream, once a shoe repair shop and then a television repair shop at the corner of 23rd and Berks streets, held within it four stores that gave Nasir the opportunity to implement the idea of the ice cream shop.
He agrees with the president’s new job act, believing it to be an “excellent idea,” adding that if you can take the common man (and not the corporate man), and give them the opportunities to employ themselves, it will prove to be beneficial.
“I think the president is doing a lot,” Nasir said. “On the flip side, African-Americans are those who are really low in the employment market and suffer more than anyone else. Those who are, perhaps, not really well educated enough to sustain themselves in such a way to meet their day to day operations. I think those things hurt more than anything.”
Nasir said there is a gridlock in Washington because of the “rival groups” of the democrats and republicans, who have different interests that they want to see reached. He is also not surprised by the current unemployment rate, but said he has not seen it this bad.
“It’s no different than gas rising up in the market,” he said. “There’s no middle-class now in America. It’s either you have or you don’t have, and so the common person really suffers.”
Dominique Johnson can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.


text:
2012 Honda Civic Hatch On Sale In Australia From June
Honda's all-new 2012 Civic Hatch will hit Australia next month, less than a year on from its Frankfurt Motor Show unveiling in 2011.
The news follows the local launch of the new Civic Sedan in February, which debuted with three trim grades and
The news follows the local launch of the new Civic Sedan in February, which debuted with three trim grades and a top-shelf Hybrid model.
While the sedan is offered in VTi-L, Sport and Hybrid grades, just two models will be offered in the Hatch range: entry-level VTi, and the up-spec VTi-L.
Both versions are powered by the updated 1.8 litre four-cylinder engine found in the Sedan (and in the previous model), producing 104kW at 6500rpm, and 174Nm of torque at 4300rpm.
Fuel consumption is listed at 6.1 l/100km in manual form, and 6.5 l/100km with the automatic. Honda's fuel-saving Eco Assist, Econ Mode and improved aerodynamics are featured.
Honda Australia also confirmed last year that a diesel model will join the local line-up in early 2013.
With the five-door Civic Hatch sourced from Europe, the diesel engine is expected to be the updated 119kW/350Nm 2.2 litre i-DTEC four-cylinder engine offered in that market.
Features in the cabin include USB and iPod connectivity, along with Bluetooth audio streaming in the VTi-L.
Honda's multi-information display carries over from the new Sedan into the Hatch, and there is also a new tilt and telescopic steering wheel with steering-mounted controls.
All have a black interior, and the VTi-L gets leather trim and heated front seats.
Standard safety features include six airbags (front, side and full length curtain), Advanced Compatibility Engineering (ACE) body structure, Vehicle Stability Assist (ESC), Honda’s G-Con technology, tyre deflation warning system and a reversing camera for the VTi-L.
The new Civic Hatch carries a five-star ANCAP crash safety racing.
Pricing for the new Civic Hatch will be revealed closer to launch.


text:
A vegan products-only supermarket will make its debut in Australia's Gold Coast this week.
The Vegan Aisle, which is located in Tweed Heads, will be opening its doors today.
Co-owners Brett Page and James Denney believe the fully plant-based store will fill a gap in the foodie market as a 'one-stop shop' for vegans.
The owners also mentioned that they focused on offering products not generally found in standard supermarkets.
"It’s fully vegan, people don’t need to check the labels," Page told news outlet Gold Coast Bulletin.
"For instance, we’ve found a great pesto aioli from Melbourne, you can’t get that anywhere. We’re trying to find up-and-coming vegan products."
Page also added that they are planning to offer online shopping in the near future.
The Vegan Aisle will stock a wide range of products, including vegan cheeses, chocolate, household items, nuts, and fresh produce.
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article are prepared in the author's capacity and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of Plant Based News itself.Reuse this content
Diana is a London-based writer dedicated to bringing you the latest updates in ethical consumerism and plant-based nutrition. She is a recent media graduate with extensive journalistic experience, and writes in hopes of changing the narrative. You can follow Diana on Instagram and Twitter @dianalupica
Since you're here...
Plant Based News is a FREE service that receives millions of views each week. This takes a lot of our personal time, money and hard work. But we do it because we KNOW it makes a difference. If those following our reporting helped by contributing, we could do even more. Please consider supporting us so we can create further awareness about animal rights, environmentalism, ethical consumerism and the plant-based lifestyle. Not a false narrative - but information that empowers people to make better choices.


text:
FuboTV, one of the many players in the now-crowded live TV streaming subscription space, is reportedly going to add a free, ad-supported streaming option to its existing paid subscription business, according to TechCrunch and an interview given to The Wrap, by FuboTV CEO and co-founder, David Gandler.
Digital Trends asked FuboTV to confirm the report and a company spokesperson responded that, “FuboTV believes in the future of pay TV and we are looking at launching an ad-supported channel, not a platform.”
Expected to launch sometime in 2019, possibly as late as the October to December window, little is known about how FuboTV plans to run the channel, or exactly what content will be available on it. FuboTV has traditionally been a sports-centered service, appealing to those looking to amp up their sports diet while cutting the cord from their satellite or cable provider. In recent months, the company has dramatically expanded its non-sports offerings, including a slew of channels from Viacom, such as BET, CMT, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Paramount Network, TV Land, and VH1. However, with expansions comes greater expenses, and in March 2018, FuboTV increased its base price by $10 per month, to $55. That’s $5 more per month than DirecTV Now’s Plus package, which also includes HBO, and ESPN, two major channels that FuboTV lacks.
A free, ad-supported channel would give FuboTV access to a much larger audience — assuming its programming is compelling — and an easy way to promote its paid subscription as a desirable upgrade for those who haven’t taken the plunge yet. It remains to be seen whether or not Apple will let FuboTV include its free channel within the Apple TV app — FuboTV recently joined Playstation Vue and DirecTV Now as one of the three live TV streaming services supported by Apple’s video platform.
The free, ad-supported model is starting to make inroads into the live TV streaming market. Viacom recently purchased PlutoTV, a free streaming service that will now offer a selection of Viacom’s shows. YouTube recently announced that it would be making all of its Originals free to stream as an ad-supported product, and even though it denies it, it’s highly likely that Amazon is eyeing a similar move. Walmart-owned Vudu has had a free movie option since 2016.
There is also plenty of appetite for the free ad-supported model among music streaming services, too. Amazon and Google both launched free tiers of their music services, specifically for users of their smart speakers, a move which gives listeners a new option beyond Spotify’s own free streaming option.
- What is YouTube TV? Here’s everything you need to know
- What is Orby TV? The prepaid satellite service for cord-cutters
- FuboTV: Everything you need to know about the sports-centric live TV service
- How does Hulu work? Pricing, plans, channels, and how to get it
- Where to watch free movies online


text:
The European road haulage sector has faced a challenging couple of years. After enjoying strong demand and limited transport capacity, the tide has turned.
Consumers have shifted their spending back to services, leading to aftershocks in demand, while international trade flows have faced the impact of the economic slowdown, war-related sanctions, and geopolitical tensions. These factors have sent throughput figures in the seaports of Rotterdam, Antwerp-Bruges, and Hamburg down 6% over the first three quarters of 2023, alongside lower hinterland traffic. In turn, road transport volumes have been pushed into negative territory, and some haulage companies active in manufacturing have had to temporarily idle capacity, which has been rare for years.
However, there is some hope for a mild recovery in 2024. Following a correction of elevated spending on goods, European road haulage is set to see some pick-up. Nevertheless, economic stagnation is curbing the upward potential for volume and investments. In turn, cost control will be plunged into the spotlight, and sustainability will also become a more crucial part of the deal.
Challenges facing the European road haulage sector
European haulage companies are facing a challenging combination of continued rising wage costs, covering up to 50% of the cost bill, and a deteriorated tariffs outlook. Spot rates dropped below contract rates over the course of 2023. Lower fuel costs, accounting for some 20-25%, tempered total costs, but many carriers have hedged diesel price risks in contracts. CO2 pricing also starts off in Germany, which significantly raises charges. All in all, keeping margins up is set to be more difficult.
As soon as demand recovers, structural capacity and available supply of drivers may again prove tight. Therefore, some shippers may also consider securing long-term availability and value sustained relationships with haulage companies, which may help in re-contracting.
Investment updates and opportunities
Following a slowdown in transport demand, economic headwinds, and higher interest rates, the investment climate has clearly deteriorated. But delivery times have improved, and transport equipment is also more accessible now. Still, there remain both positive and negative drivers for investment.
Delayed investments and an aging fleet both create an underlying solid demand for the replacement of transport equipment. With trailers, this is less prevalent due to longer life cycles and a slower pace of technological renewal and greening. Efficiency improvements provide an incentive for carriers to invest. New generation models of trucks are typically 10%-15% more fuel-efficient than the previous generation. Increasing policy pressure to decarbonize transport in Europe will support investment activity. Manufacturers started producing electric trucks in series, and retail clients across Europe aim to start deploying them.
However, sharp rises in interest rates and softened transport demand reduced the urgency to invest. Prices of new equipment have risen sharply and have not dropped materially. Electric trucks are still much more expensive to buy. The shortage of drivers still limits companies' ability to grow in some cases.
Sustainability regulations and focus
On the road to 2030, a range of new regulations are set to come into force, which will sharpen the focus on sustainability for investments in transport equipment. CO2 pricing will be introduced for the first time, and CO2 reporting should provide a push for large corporates and manufacturers to produce zero-emission vehicles.
The emissions profile of transportation is becoming increasingly important. Taking the lead in Europe, Germany will put a price on emissions from 2024 by including the costs in the road mileage charging (MAUT). This pushes up transport rates for EURO VI heavy-duty five-axle truck and trailer combinations by almost 16 cents per kilometer to just under 35 cents per km, resulting in an increase of over 80%. The cost increase benefits the business case for electric vehicles but could also lead to a modal shift to rail in specific long-distance cases. On a European scale, the road transport sector will be submitted to the Emission Trading System (ETS) from 2027. This means that moving forward, companies will need to buy carbon allowances to compensate for emissions.
The European Commission's Mobility Package and the introduction of rules surrounding the return of vehicles to member states have generated much discussion and raised questions over efficiency. Throughout 2023, however, we've seen much of the debate begin to die down. In practice, the impact of these changes appeared to be almost non-existent - and in November, it also emerged that the European Court of Justice would likely cancel the highly disputed return home vehicle element. A repeal would offer trucking companies greater flexibility in optimizing the deployment of internationally operated trucks. As a result, we could begin to see increased efficiency gains, although larger companies have also adapted.
Cabotage rules are also more restrictive under the Mobility Package, which does show in transport activity. The cooling-off period of four days makes cabotage less attractive. As a result, total cabotage in the EU fell to 4.5% from 4.9% in 2022. The new rules are particularly relevant for Germany and Belgium, with cabotage levels doubling Europe’s current average.
Looking ahead: Opportunities for growth
Overall, the European road haulage sector is facing many challenges, from economic headwinds and a deteriorated tariffs outlook to sustainability regulations and a shortage of drivers. However, there are also opportunities for growth, particularly in terms of scaling up and investing in more efficient and sustainable transport equipment. As the industry adapts to these challenges and opportunities, we can expect to see slower speed and tighter control, with a focus on cost control and sustainability.
Click below to read the full report and access the reasearch data.


text:
Happy times are here for singer and entrepreneur, Tony Green as his laundry outfit Sharrp Laundry located at Lekki unveiled top Nigerian celebrities and influencers including Nasboi, Stan Eze and Ify Amadu as its brand ambassadors as part of its plan to keep positioning itself as one of the top brands in Lagos State.
The singer who is also planning to release a new album in the coming weeks during an interactive session with R said he has always believed in running a business that connects people beyond music and having this laundry being supported by top celebrities goes to show how much he is loved.
Speaking about his decision to unveil three stars as his brand ambassadors, Green said that he is determined to take his business to the next level and the best way to do so is to introduce some of Nigeria’s sought after faces to further push his brand and make the business well known.
“I’m focused on building a big brand that anyone can easily identify with. The goal is to draw attention to what we do which is offering premium laundry services as well as to achieve optimum customer satisfaction and this is what aided the decision to involve some of Nigeria’s sought after faces as our brand ambassadors”, he said.
The big reveal saw the introduction of the three celebrities; Nasboi, who is an Instagram comedian who broke into the entertainment circle mimicking award-winning singer Davido’s voice, earning him the title “low budget OBO”. He has since become a popular skit maker on social media platforms.
Also unveiled was popular actor, Stan Nze who is known for his role in Rattlesnake: The Ahanna Story and won the 2022 AMVCA award for the best actor category, and Ify Anadu who won the Miss Curvy 2014.


text:
|Are you looking for funding for your startup?|
The 2020 MEST Africa Challenge, MEST’s tech startup competition is offering a chance to win $50,000 in equity investment to talented entrepreneurs as they build and scale successful businesses that add value to African economies.
Expanding from last year’s reach, the 2020 pitch competition is targeting startups in Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sénégal, South Africa, and Tanzania. Funding opportunities are even that much more important during COVID-19, so the competition will be held entirely online to allow for all interested startups to participate safely.
Interested startups can find more information about the application criteria and submit an application on the VC4A platform.
|MEST has been strengthening the ecosystem for tech startup success since 2008.|
“There is more talent in Africa than there are opportunities,” says Ashwin Ravichandran, MEST Africa’s Managing Director. “This is what we’ve learned after twelve years of training, funding, and supporting tech founders and startups. In order to bring more investment to African economies and strengthen the tech ecosystem (as a whole) for startups to thrive, we’ve expanded the MEST Africa Challenge to four new markets this year.”
| The #MESTAfricaChallenge is a search for Africa’s emerging tech entrepreneurs with the aim of providing them with investment capital, coaching, and access to a continent-wide network of startup hubs. |
- Pre-seed or seed-stage (have raised $100k total or less cumulatively since inception)
- Currently generating revenue
- Can demonstrate traction in one or more of the nine MAC Markets (Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Côte d’Ivoire, Sénégal, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Rwanda)
- Has been in operations for 2 years or less
- Tech-enabled (software company)
- Industry agnostic
- Any business model (B2B, B2C, B2B2C, B2G, etc…)
- *All applications and pitches must be in English* Click here to Apply


text:
A CIBC poll finds paying off debt remains the top priority for Canadians, who named it the number one New Year’s resolution of 2015. Here’s how to make the debt-free dream a reality this year.
Here’s a list of the top 5 things you can do to get the most out of your credit card.
I was able to catch up with the Globe and Mail’s Dianne Nice last week to discuss our Credit Card Tips that outlined a few key ways to get the most out of your credit cards while you’re shopping this holiday season. You can see the online version here, entitled “Avoid a holiday credit card …
During the frenzy of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, RateSupermarket.ca was out educating consumers about how to save money when using a credit card this busy holiday season.


text:
It looks like Nintendo will be showing off a couple of upcoming games for the new Nintendo Switch console this week.
The Nintendo Direct conference will focus on information about Splatoon 2 and Arms when it takes place on Wednesday, April 12th, at 3pm Pacific time (6pm Eastern/11pm BST). The event will be streamed on the official Nintendo website, and will also feature information about other upcoming Nintendo Switch titles, as well as Nintendo 3DS games.
Details about the highly-anticipated Splatoon 2 have been slow to release, but Nintendo did allow for a public “Testfire” demo period last month. We know very little about the release date for the game, save that it is due out sometime in the summer of this year. However, the game has the potential to rank right up there with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in terms of popularity…
View original post 281 more words


text:
Online Extra: The Mayo Clinic's Best Devices
By Steve Hamm
Mayo Clinic's main calling will always be treating patients, but, in surprisingly short order, it has become a player in a brand-new business -- medical devices. In the past, it would simply license the technologies it developed to companies, which turned them into products. Now it's able to develop products for sale to other hospitals, thanks to its ability to outsource some of the design and all of the manufacturing, sales, and marketing functions to other companies.
Think of its as Virtual Mayo. "There are a lot of innovations coming from our physicians. Why pass them off to others when you can do it yourself?" asks Nina Schwenk, who heads the technology committee for the clinic's parent, the Mayo Foundation.
This venture was a major departure for Mayo, located in Rochester, Minn. Over the years, more than 1,000 technologies developed in its research labs have been licensed to other companies to bring to market. But in early 2003, their researchers sized up MRI technology for capturing images of the forearm and hand and decided they could produce a better-quality device -- and do it faster -- if they didn't pass the idea off to somebody else. So Mayo hired IBM (IBM ) to help design and manufacture the product, and relied on medical equipment giants GE (GE ), Siemens (SI ), and Philips to market and sell it.
It looks like Mayo made the right decision. Within eight months of its initial conversations with IBM, the tech giant had delivered the new devices, Mayo Clinic MRI coils, for use in Mayo's own medical facilities. A second version, begun in January, 2004, was readied for sale by GE four months later. A more typical time-to-market span in the medical-device field is 16 months to 24 months, according to "How Fast is Fast?" a product-development benchmarking study by IDEO, one of America's leading contract design firms.
So far, Mayo has sold more than 100 of the MRI coils, plowing profits back into medical research. Amazingly, the medical device has exhibited no defects, which is almost unheard of in the industry.
VIRTUAL DESIGN TEAM.
What made the process so fast and the quality so high? Primarily, it was IBM's ability to bring together all of the expertise needed for design and manufacturing from the beginning, and to collaborate closely with Mayo's people. "We hired them, but it worked like a partnership. It ended up being a virtual design team," says Steve Van Nurden, director of technology commercialization for Mayo.
Even while IBM's materials experts and industrial designers were working with Mayo researchers to develop the device, special tooling was being created in an IBM factory, and manufacturing operators were being trained in the specialized skills it would require to assemble these complex devices. Nobody was waiting around for somebody else to finish their part.
Now Mayo has more medical products in the works. One due out this year: a device that helps patients hold their breath properly during biopsy procedures. Less pain, and, for Mayo, more gain.
Hamm is a senior writer at BusinessWeek


text:
#SootinClaimon.Com : ขอบคุณแหล่งข้อมูล : หนังสือพิมพ์ The Nation.
U.S. retail sales rose in October at slowest pace in six months
InternationalNov 18. 2020
By Syndication Washington Post, Bloomberg · Katia Dmitrieva · BUSINESS
U.S. retail sales rose in October at the slowest pace in six months, suggesting consumers are becoming more hesitant amid a surging pandemic and lack of fresh federal stimulus.
The value of total sales increased 0.3% from the prior month, when there was a downwardly revised 1.6% gain, Commerce Department figures showed Tuesday. The median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for a 0.5% increase. Excluding autos and gasoline, sales rose 0.2%, compared with estimates for a 0.6% gain.
Weaker momentum in consumer spending — which accounts for two-thirds of the economy — indicates growth could slow more sharply following the third quarter’s record jump in gross domestic product. November and December could prove tougher with states and cities reimposing restrictions on indoor dining and nonessential business to contain a rampant coronavirus, while hopes for additional fiscal stimulus this year keep fading and political uncertainty hangs over government policy.
U.S. stock futures and 10-year Treasury yields extended declines after the data. Other data Tuesday morning are due to deliver additional readings on the U.S. economy, including industrial production for October and home builder sentiment for November.
The subdued government figures follow strong quarterly results earlier Tuesday from two large retailers — Home Depot Inc. and Walmart Inc. Home Depot’s comparable sales jumped 24.1% in the latest quarter from a year ago as the home-improvement retailer benefited from a surge in renovation activity, while Walmart’s sales also climbed more than projected as online demand soared at the world’s largest retailer.
The retail report provides a snapshot of activity in October: eight of the 13 major retail categories decreased, led by clothing and sporting goods and hobby stores. Nonstore retailers — which include online vendors like Amazon.com Inc. — recorded the biggest increase, at 3.1%.
Restaurants and bars recorded the first decline since the initial depths of the pandemic in April, a sign that colder weather is discouraging the outdoor dining that kept many businesses afloat during the summer.
So-called control group sales — often a more reliable gauge of underlying demand — increased 0.1% from the prior month, missing forecasts. That figure excludes food services, car dealers, building-materials stores and gasoline stations.
While overall retail sales rose 5.7% from a year earlier, several categories remain well below pre-pandemic levels, including gasoline stations, clothing stores and restaurants.
The data point to spending that’s moderating at the start of the fourth quarter as coronavirus cases rise in every U.S. state, prompting some, including California and New Jersey, to issue new restrictions. Other regions have paused full reopenings.
Early trials from companies including Moderna Inc. have proven effective, though a vaccine must be developed and deployed in scale before consumers feel comfortable enough to regain regular activity. In the meantime, an elevated savings rate is likely to continue supporting some spending.


text:
Three local social ventures kicked off the launching of a new collaborative to develop affordable housing in the city.
It’s called Project RE, a co-venture of Carnegie Mellon University’s Urban Design Build Studio, the Trade Institute of Pittsburgh and Construction Junction, the nonprofit reused building material retailer, in whose 100,000-square-foot facility the new venture is based.
With $2.3 million in funding support from organizations that include the Heinz Endowments and the Colcom and RK Mellon foundations, Project RE launches as a 10,000 square foot production facility within Construction Junction in which architecture students within the UDBS work with the apprentice laborers from the Trade Institute of Pittsburgh, which operates a few blocks away, to design and build new affordable housing and other prototype products out of reused materials collected by neighboring retail operation.
The venture is the brainchild of John Folan, a professor at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Architecture, with the name inspired by the collaborative mission to “reuse materials, rebuild communities and restore lives.”
Folan and partners Mike Gable, executive director of Construction Junction, and Steve Shelton, executive director of the Trade Institute of Pittsburgh, will get up and running with a fully equipped shop that includes a studio prototype structure of what Project RE is capable of that has already garnered design awards.
Folan said Project RE seeks to combine both cutting edge technology in fabricating new structures and products with trained craftsmanship, employing the laborers of the Trade Institute of Pittsburgh. The Trade Institute of Pittsburgh operates as a nonprofit trade school which provides training in masonry skills to help people with troubled pasts reestablish themselves with a career in the construction trades.
Folan introduced Project RE in front of the modular studio within the facility that was designed and built with materials collected by Construction Junction.
"When I look at the building behind us, I see the doors from a high school that’s no longer there. I see doors from hundreds of houses that are no longer there. I see the splintered wood from houses that are decaying and ended up vacant. I see insulation that’s extracted from ruined buildings that no longer have a use,” said Folan. “Hopefully, people aren’t looking at the building and thinking about what’s been lost. They’re taking a look at that and seeing a composition that speaks to the future and honors that past.”
Project RE has made early inroads in establishing clients, producing a shed for a garden center business in Hazelwood and plans to produce an affordable home within the studio, working with Action Housing Inc., the local affordable housing nonprofit.
The partners of Project RE also hope to devise prototype models for a variety of different kinds of products that can eventually be spun off into new entrepreneurial ventures.


text:
Market report: Thursday close
SPECULATIVE buying sent housebuilder John Laing bouncing off the bottom with a jump of 17 1/2p, or 13%, to 150p. Word went round the Square Mile that rival George Wimpey, up 9 1/2p at 290 1/2p, wants to buy Laing's housebuilding division, leaving the 150-year-old firm to concentrate on its infrastructure arm, specialising in lucrative Private Finance Initiative projects.
Analysts say Laing's housebuilding operations could fetch about £300m. That compares favourably with a current stock market value for the whole group of £263m. Despite the housing boom, Laing's share price has collapsed from a peak of 406 1/2p during the past year. In April the group sold its remaining property portfolio.
Shares responded with enthusiasm to Wednesday's bear squeeze on Wall Street and fresh gains when the US market resumed trading. The blue-chip FTSE 100 rose 156.4 to 4327.5.
British Airways was an early riser, adding 1 3/4p at 140 1/2p as it shrugged off the news that United Airlines, America's second-biggest, had become the latest casualty of the 11 September downturn and may file for bankruptcy protection. US Airways filed earlier this week. Brokers argue such a move would not affect European airlines, and that the misfortunes of the US companies may provide BA with opportunities to pick up new business.
Mining giant Anglo American dipped 2p to 785p after Merrill Lynch reduced its target price from 1500p to 1400p because results from its three key divisions came in below expectations. It remains a strong buyer of the shares along with rival broker Investec Securities. Merrill was also said to be behind the support for Enterprise Inns, up 18p at 481p, and Punch Taverns, 15 1/2p firmer at 188 1/2p.
Fresh food distributor Geest jumped 18p to 496 1/2p. Earlier this week, Goldman Sachs urged clients to switch out of the shares and into Northern Foods, unchanged at 169p.
BPB climbed 23p to 298p as UBS Warburg again repeated its 'strong buy' recommendation ahead of an expected 15% rise in the price of plasterboard. The broker said the price rise, effective from next month, should underpin selling prices through till the spring. If the price rise sticks, Warburg will increase 2003-04 profit estimates by 13%. On Monday, Warburg raised its recommendation from 'buy' to 'strong buy'.
British Energy rallied off the bottom with a rise of 1p to 60p following the steep fall in the price that greeted news of the shutdown of its Torness reactor. HSBC Securities has kept its 'buy' rating on the shares even though it has slashed its target price from 320p to 130p.
Invensys rose 1p to 65p. Credit Suisse First Boston cut its target price from 90p to 75p while continuing to rate the shares a 'hold'. CSFB said it now expected the engineer's sales to fall by 1.2% in 2003 and rise by 3.1% in 2004.
Jewellery retailer Signet was also heavily traded with the price adding 4 1/2p at 85 1/4p. One buyer picked up a line of 2.5m shares at 84p.
• Prices and indices in this section are supplied from various sources and calculated at different times and may not always match those listed on the site.
Stephanie Bentley on yesterday's trading
World markets, updated every 2 minutes
Every share, updated every 2 minutes
AIM, updated every 2 minutes
techMARK, updated every 2 minutes
Today's gainers and fallers
Most watched Money videos
- The classic Moke is reborn as an electric vehicle
- Are BP and Shell worth investing in despite green concerns?
- MGB Roadster Limited Edition in detail
- Range Rover announces new fully electric version
- New £95k Range Rover unveiled - and will have an EV version
- Renault show off AIR4 retro drone version of Renault 4 without wheels
- Volkswagen launch stunning all-electric cars ID.5 and ID.5 GTX
- 5% of public electric car chargers revealed to be unusable
- Portable electric vehicle charger that can be stored in the boot
- Government unveils new design for electric vehicle charging point
- Kia creates an electrical storm with all new battery-powered EV6 GT
- Renault unveils retro drone based on classic 4 for 60th anniversary


text:
There are an estimated 45 million users of Twitter
Social networking website Twitter has confirmed that it has closed a "significant round of funding".
Co-founder Evan Williams said in a blog post that the site had secured money from five investment firms.
However, he did not confirm earlier reports that suggested the firm had managed to secure $100 million (£62m), which would value the firm at $1bn.
The site, which allows users to write and share 140-character messages, has more than 45 million users worldwide.
The site had previously raised $35m in February in a deal that valued the business then at $255m.
"It was important to us that we find investment partners who share our vision for building a company of enduring value," wrote Mr Williams.
"Twitter's journey has just begun."
Industry watchers have pointed out that the firm still has no way of making money.
However, earlier this month the site revised its terms and conditions to allow advertising on its service.
"We leave the door open for advertising. We'd like to keep our options open," wrote co-founder Biz Stone in a blog.
The new funding has come from new investors Insight Venture Partners and T Rowe Price, as well as existing backers Institutional Venture Partners, Spark Capital and Benchmark Capital.


text:
Now, it seems Samsung has plans to ensure Galaxy A-series smartphones remain as appealing to buyers. As per a report by Sammobile, the company may increase the refresh rate of the display in the upcoming handsets.
As per the report that cites unnamed sources, Samsung’s upcoming A series phones Galaxy A52 and the Galaxy A72 will feature a 90Hz display. This will be highest for mid-range Galaxy smartphones, as the flagship handsets come with a 120Hz refresh rate. Further, the company is also likely to add support for 120Hz refresh rate to the display of the 5G version of the Galaxy A52, adds the report.
As per rumours, the Galaxy A52 is expected to be powered by the Snapdragon 750G SoC. Storage-wise, it is speculated to come in two options: 128GB and 256GB models. There may also be two RAM models,6GB and 8GB. The handset is rumoured to offer a 6.5-inch Full HD+ Infinity-O Super AMOLED display and for imaging duties, house a 64MP main rear camera, a 12MP ultra-wide camera, a 5MP depth camera, a 5MP macro camera, a 32MP front-facing camera.


text:
By Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY and the Detroit Free Press
GM, which abandoned Super Bowl advertising earlier this month, is expected to announce a broad marketing and sponsorship plan with popular European soccer team Manchester United, a person familiar with GM's plans confirmed.
The deal would give GM major visibility alongside a soccer team that has a worldwide following – and it would fit with the automaker's strategy of making Chevrolet and Cadillac strong global brands. But about all most Americans know about Man United is that David Beckham used to "bend it" for the team.
GM's decision to pivot from the Super Bowl, whose popularity is concentrated in the U.S., to Manchester United, which is popular globally, offers insight into its marketing priorities.
Joel Ewanick, GM's global chief marketing officer, is expected to discuss the Manchester United deal with reporters Thursday.
The deal also comes about two months after GM formed a new advertising agency called Commonwealth – a 50-50 partnership between competitors San Francisco-based Goodby Silverstein & Partners and New York-based McCann Erickson Worldwide – to lead Chevrolet's global ad strategy:
What role Commonwealth played in reaching the Manchester United deal is not clear.
Manchester United, one of the most successful clubs in English soccer, released a survey Tuesday conducted by Kantar Media Compete that showed it has 659 million followers throughout the world. But about 89.2% of its fans are located outside the Americas, the survey found.
The team is particularly popular in Asia, where it has 325 million followers. It also boasts 173 million in the Middle East and Africa.
Chris Woodyard is an auto writer for USA TODAY who covers all aspects of motoring. He revels in the exhaust note of a Maserati and the sharp creases of a Cadillac CTS. Chris strives to live a Porsche life on a Scion budget. More about Chris


text:
Virgin Atlantic unveils campaign with RKCR/Y&R
Virgin Atlantic is to run a new global campaign, created by RKCR/Y&R to promote the airline’s flights to the city.
The ad drawing on iconic imagery of the capital and the airline to make up the Union Jack, and will run in markets such as USA, South Africa, Hong Kong and Australia.
Breda Bubear, head of global advertising and communications at Virgin Atlantic, said: “With the Queen’s Jubilee and so much else going on in London, the spotlight is truly on the UK this year. Our new campaign is designed to excite our passengers around the globe and put the emphasis on the ‘Britishness’ that our nation is famous for.”
Mark Roalfe, chairman and ECD of RKCR/Y&R, said: “We wanted to celebrate what an amazing destination London is, by taking a great British icon and putting a Virgin spin on it.”
Content created with:
RKCR/Y&RFind out more


text:
Bob Will’s small cheese factory has made a big impact on the development of Wisconsin artisan cheese — many cheese artisans made their early batches at Cedar Grove before moving to their own vats. At the factory, Cedar Grove’s “Living Machine” uses natural algae, bacteria and plants to process waste water — just one of many signs of the company’s commitment to their land and environment. In 1993, Cedar Grove became the first cheese company in the nation to ban bovine growth hormones in their milk. Bob Wills is currently at work on another Wisconsin first, the state’s first urban creamery, which will be based in Milwaukee and focus on fresh-style cheeses such as ricotta and mozzarella.
* ACS 2015 2nd place winner


text:
Remote online notarization passes in New York
STATEWIDE — Remote notarization is back.
It was a law that was passed temporarily during the COVID-19 pandemic that was popular amongst attorneys, and now it has been made permanent.
New York has passed a law this week that will allow licensed electronic notaries to offer remote notarization services to clients anywhere in the world, including countries without a U.S. consulate or where consulates are closed, like Ukraine.
This new law brings numerous benefits, including reduced travel requirements, lower error rates and paper costs in loan closing documents, and faster delivery of executed documents via email.
Before COVID, traditional notaries had to be physically present with their clients to notarize documents. The pandemic led to a temporary order allowing remote notarization, which has now been replaced by the new law. The law requires that electronic notaries obtain a separate license to provide these services.
Electronic notaries must use a third-party vendor for video conferencing, identity verification, and credentialing analysis. This vendor must meet specific requirements set forth by the secretary of state, ensuring a secure and compliant process. While the electronic notary must be physically located in New York during the process, the client can be anywhere as long as the document in question meets certain criteria.The process to electronically notarize a document is relatively simple, with the electronic notary sending a link to the principal, who signs in on the third-party platform. The electronic notary then verifies the principal’s identity and witnesses their electronic signature before signing and stamping the document themselves. The electronically notarized document can then be printed and mailed or electronically transmitted.
New regulations require all notaries, including electronic ones, to maintain records of their notarizations for at least 10 years. While some argue that this record-keeping requirement is burdensome, remote online notarization offers better safeguards against fraud and duress due to the audio-video recording that is saved for a decade.
Leave a Comment
Leave a Comment