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Westlife said they have split from their record label following a “breakdown of contractual negotiations”.
The chart-topping boyband said they parted company with EMI Records “by mutual consent”. They had released 2019 number one album Spectrum with the label.
In a statement, Westlife members Shane Filan, Markus Feehily, Kian Egan and Nicky Byrne said: “Due to a change of leadership and a breakdown of contractual negotiations, we have parted company with EMI Records by mutual consent.
“We enjoyed our time with the label and are very proud of the huge success we achieved together, including our no. 1 album Spectrum and were humbled to be the label’s biggest selling UK signed artist of that year.”
— Westlife (@westlifemusic) February 8, 2021
The band, whose songs include Flying Without Wings, World Of Our Own and If I Let You Go, said they are working on a new album due for release later this year.
They added: “This change now allows us to embark on a very exciting new chapter. The next 18 months is shaping up to be our biggest yet, including a groundbreaking global partnership which we will be announcing imminently.”
Westlife also promised “our biggest ever world tour,” saying it will “take us across 5 continents including a sold out Wembley Stadium and for the first time ever, we will be bringing our live shows to America”.
The group, who reunited to celebrate their 20th anniversary in 2018, cancelled a tour last year due to the pandemic.
Spectrum was the band’s 11th studio album, and their first since 2010 record Gravity, which peaked at number three in the UK charts.
Westlife have sold more than 55 million records.


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Lollapalooza announces 2024 lineup, dates and ticket details
Lollapalooza has announced details of its lineup and tickets for the 2024 edition – and this is everything you need to know.
The festival will take place at Grant Park in Chicago, IL from 1-4 August with some of the biggest names in music.
Tickets for the festival go on general sale from 12pm CT on 21 March via Ticketmaster.
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It’s been confirmed that this year’s Lollapalooza will be headlined by SZA, Tyler, the Creator, Blink-182, The Killers, Future and Metro Boomin, Hozier, Stray Kids, Melanie Martinez, and Skrillex.
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Other names featured on the lineup include Tate McRae, Reneé Rapp, Conan Gray, Deftones, Zedd, Laufey and Dominic Fike.
The likes of Kesha, Victoria Monét, Jungle, Raye, Ethel Cain, The Last Dinner Party, Kevin Abstract, The Japanese House and Romy will also perform across the weekend.
While the day splits for this year’s Lollapalooza will be confirmed in the coming months.
You can check out Lollapalooza ticket details, including presale info and the full lineup so far below.
How to get Lollapalooza 2024 tickets
They go on general sale at 12pm CT on 21 March via Ticketmaster.
You can sign up for a presale passcode at lollapalooza.com using a US mobile number. This will give you access to four-day tickets at “the lowest price” ahead of the general sale.
You’ll be sent details on how to access the presale, which takes place from 10am-12pm CT on 21 March.
They’ve also confirmed that single day tickets and two-day bundles “will be available to purchase at a later date”.
Who’s on the lineup?
This is the confirmed lineup for 2024, with headline sets from the likes of SZA, Tyler, The Creator, Blink-182, Hozier, Stray Kids and The Killers.

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Google Phone rumor has been around the net for months or even years and now still no official announcements yet. But now everybody getting ready for the phone coming to the reality. As reported by T3, Wistron NeWeb has begun development of GoogleTalk mobile, adopting WiFi technology to compete with the popular Skype handset currently available on the market. I can`t wait what the phone will look like but i am sure it should be simple as Google always be.
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China To Rule The World Economy
Nov 06, 2007
The China-Russia Friendship Year is finishing early this month with great pageantry. Economic contacts underlying the galas are asymmetrical-Russia has silently accepted the role of China's sales outlet and raw material supplier. The two countries' political and business leaders are gathering in Moscow, November 6, for a second bilateral economic forum to take stock of mutual interests. Chinese interests are clear as it is, while Russian are based on China's advance to the world economic stage.
Indicatively, Jim Rogers, board chairman of Beeland Interests Inc. investment company, is shifting all his assets from the dollar to the yuan, which he expects to treble or even quadruple in the next decade. The American financial pundit said in late October he was pessimistic about his country's economy. Warren Buffett, the world's greatest stock market investor, and second on the billionaire list, mentioned non-dollar investment as his vital strategy several years ago. Equally tellingly, there are five Chinese blue chips and only three American on the world's capitalization top ten list.
China is, in certain respects, no exception in the developing world, whose markets are growing at an annual 50% rate or even faster from their low starting point-a pace that naturally implies hazards.
The promise of quick money is not the only thing that attracts big business to China. There is a general eastward shift of global finance due to world economic and demographic trends.
Chinese economic growth has kept at an average 10% last years. China firmly leads the world as manufacturer of low price and low-tech consumer goods, and ranked second in high-tech exports last year. It is following the road of Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and Hong Kong, who owed their economic booms to export orientation. With cheap workforce, and free of intellectual property legal restrictions, they were avidly borrowing Western R and D to offer competitive commodities at much lower prices. Western companies soon shifted their own production to Asia.
China differs from its economic forerunners-its population of 1.3 billion makes up 20% of the world total. Low wages satisfy its huge and conscientious workforce. Low yuan rates promote Chinese exports worldwide. Immune to market ups and downs, the yuan has earned its country the reputation of an investment haven.
It is difficult for the Western world to compete. The present-day U.S. economic growth rate is 3.9%, and the European Union's is 2.9%-this against burdensome pension and public welfare expenses as the population is aging rapidly. Social expenditures will peak in 2010-2015, with an expected drop of economic progress and living standards.
Production has shifted its core to Asia. The United States owes its leadership to sophisticated finance in need of steady inflow, with snowballing debts. Its trade gap made $836 billion last year, and the national debt leapt over $8 trillion.
China has a contrasting problem, with a need to slow down its economic growth from the current 10%. Meanwhile, some experts forecast its high pressure economy to treble within the next 20 years, and lead the world in trade and the gross domestic product, if calculated according to PPP (purchasing power parity).
Asia Pacific leads the world economy even now. It accounted for half of foreign trade and 60% of the world aggregate GDP at the turn of the century. The APEC meeting of 2001 called the region to replace the dollar with a new unit, the ACU, hinting at the United States' decline as regional leader.
With all these initiatives, Asia is passing over in conspicuous silence the emergence of China as its its new leader. Certain experts point to its long-established grip on the Asian-Pacific economy. America leads the show through financial institutions. Unlike it, China uses its Diaspora as a tool. Ethnic Chinese control 50% of private capital in the Philippines, 70% in Indonesia, and 80% in Thailand and Malaysia. The Diaspora is China's main overseas investor and export promoter. Now, China needs only to formalize its power. The yuan is forecast to become an all-Asian currency unit within twenty years in just such a formal move, and so bury the ACU idea.


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'Dismantle it and throw it away': FDA warns of 'strangulation' massage machine
A massage machine intended to relieve stress and muscle tension has resulted in at least one death, according to health authorities.
Officials are advising owners of the device to throw it away immediately.
The Food and Drug Administration issued an alert on Friday saying one death and one near-strangulation have been reported with the ShoulderFlex Massager after a necklace and piece of clothing became caught in a rotating component of the device.
Stern alert: The FDA says the ShoulderFlex Massager has caused at least one death
In other cases, the FDA says people's hair became caught in the machine.
The agency urges people who own one of them to 'dispose of the device components separately so that the massager cannot be reassembled and used.'
Manufacturer King International has distributed nearly 12,000 of the massage machines since October 2003 through retail stores and websites in the U.S.
Plans for a recall: The manufacturer says it will recall the device
The company plans to recall the device, according to the FDA.
The agency said it could take additional action against the company.
The device was still available online Friday afternoon on Amazon.com and other websites, where it is sold for about $140.
Calls placed to King's offices in Beaverton, Oregon, by the Associated Press were not immediately returned on Friday.


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Stubbing out cigarettes in Europe - Facts
Saturday 01 January 2011
Spain on Sunday joins the list of European countries that ban smoking in cafes and restaurants.
Here is a look at smoking bans elsewhere in Europe.
- Belgium: Anti-smoking measures for hotels and restaurants are expected to be extended to cafes from 2012 to 2014.
- Britain: Smoking was banned in public places, including bars and restaurants, along with workplaces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2007, while Scotland extinguished smoking in 2006.
- Croatia: After a six-month grace period for small cafes and restaurants Croatia in April introduced what are among the most strict anti-smoking measures in the Balkans.
- Denmark: In August 2007 outlawed tobacco in bars, cafes and restaurants bigger than 100 square metres (1,070 square feet).
- Finland: With a series of laws designed to completely eradicate smoking and tobacco on October 1, Finland is the first country in the world to write into its legislation that it intends to end all tobacco use through law.
- France: The country started 2008 under a new smoking ban in cafes, restaurants and bars. Smokers have moved to sitting at tables outside the cafes.
- Germany: Smoking has been banned in bars and restaurants since July 2008, but there are widespread exceptions allowing people to puff away in separate rooms and in pubs under a certain size.
- Greece: Has Europe's highest rate of smokers and successive bans this decade have been ignored.
- Ireland: By banning tobacco from March 2004 in one of its most venerable institutions, the pub, Ireland is credited with having unleashed a domino effect across Europe in favour of smoke-free bars and cafes.
- Italy: Since January 2005, Italians have been enjoying their espresso without lighting up in cafes, restaurants and other public places.
- Macedonia: Its anti-smoking law is considered one of the harshest in Europe with smoking banned even outside places serving food or drinks.
- Netherlands: Smoking was banned in the hotel, restaurant and catering industry from July 1, 2008. But the government recently announced it intended to exempt bars smaller than 70 square metres (753 square feet) with no staff other than the owner.
- Norway: On June 1, 2004 Norway banned smoking in bars and restaurants.
- Poland: On November 15 banned smoking in restaurants, bars and other public places. Smokers can now light up in bars and restaurants - and any workplace - only if there are separate, ventilated rooms set aside for them.
- Serbia: Smaller bars and cafes can decide to be smoke-free, while bigger ones, as well as restaurants, have to provide a non-smoking space occupying more than half the premises and properly ventilated.
- Slovakia: In September 2009 banned smoking in restaurants, hospitals, schools, student residences and bus-stops. Lighting up is still permitted in pubs and cafes.
- Turkey: Went smoke-free in July 2009 as the government introduced a ban in bars, cafes and restaurants.
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It had already been announced previously, but FlatOut 4: Total Insanity has now started game development. The game is being produced by Tiny Rebel Games, Strategy First, and Kylotonn Games.
As had been promised previously, fans will be able to participate in the development process of the game actively, as fan input and desires will be courted, collected, and then implemented into the game on a routine basis. To start out, fans are being invited to vote on which classic track from the series will make it into the new game.
We also have some brand new screenshots for the game, which you can see for yourself below. Personally, while I am not yet sold on the artstyle, it is hardly undeniable that the tech here looks promising.
FlatOut 4: Total Insanity is slated for a launch in 2016, on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Stay tuned to GamingBolt for more coverage.
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Poulina said Thursday, January 21, it has achieved a turnover of 2.74 billion dinars in 2020, against revenues of 2.86 billion a year earlier, a decline of 4%.
The last decline in turnover recorded by the group dates back to 2009 year, at the end of which revenues went down 5%.
The downturn in activity was due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the general economic downturn that followed, both nationally and internationally, the company said.
Indeed, the local turnover fell by 2% last year to 2.5 billion dinars, mainly due to the decline in tourism, which has impacted the activities of poultry farming and food processing.
As for income from export sales, they declined by 25% to 250 million dinars, compared to 332 million dinars in 2019, given lower demand and travel restrictions imposed by countries.
Following the same rate of decline as that of turnover, the group’s annual production (in value) fell by 4% to the end of last December to 2.73 billion dinars, compared to 2.86 billion at the same date one year earlier.
As for the investments made throughout 2020, they reached 196.6 million dinars, against 177.8 million in 2019, a growth of 11%.
In the fourth quarter, the main investments have focused on the renewal of equipment & construction of new breeding centers (18.3 million dinars), the extension of the ice cream plant in Kairouan and upgrading of plants and renewal of some equipment (16.1 million) and progress in the implementation of the extension of the ceramic plant in Algeria and the ceramic plant in Zaghouan (7.4 million).
In addition, the Group’s total outstanding bank debt declined by 4% to 845.8 million dinars, compared to 879.1 million at the end of December 2019.
It is made up of 431.3 million dinars of medium-term loans and 414.5 million dinars of short-term loans.


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The New Dodge “Talladega Nights” Commercial Is Brilliant
"If you ain't first you're last." That's the Bobby family motto. That's also the approach Dodge is taking in their latest commercial. The ad is almost a prequel to Talladega Nights and features a young Ricky Bobby, Cal Naughton Jr, and Reese Bobby all driving different high-powered MOPARs around Talladega County. And that's not all the ad has...Dodge also sneaks in the all-new AC/DC single "Shot In The Dark". Check it out.
One of my favorite parts of the ad is when the young Cal Naughton Jr, looks into the camera and admits this stunt driver is "a 40-year-old man" and the camera flashes a guy rocking a curly wig in the driver's seat.
Gary Cole reprises his role as Reese Bobby in the ad and then asks the boys to remember his motto. Young Ricky replies "wake up in the morning and piss excellence!" to which Cole replies "No."
The ad which was released on October 2, has gotten the attention of folks on Youtube, as it's already been viewed more than 2.4 million times.
Not only is the ad great some of the comments under the video are just as good. Look who stopped by to leave a comment...none other than Ron Burgandy himself!
Hat's off to the team who imagined and delivered this ad, not only is it clever and funny, it manages to bring in those of us who wanted to hear AC/DC's newest single.
Speaking of that, you can hear the latest from Angus Young and crew below.
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After 15 years leading Good Cheer Food Bank &Thrift Stores, Kathy McCabe is retiring. The longtime executive director announced last week that she will step down this summer to spend more time with her family.
And after so long at the helm, McCabe says she’s ready.
“It is the right decision,” McCabe said. “I’ve really had to think about it because I absolutely love my job and what I do.”
McCabe took the reins in 2002, and in that time she’s helped facilitate the creation of Good Cheer’s food bank and garden in Bayview and a new thrift store in Clinton, while also helping boost revenue. She also pioneered a food points shopping system for food-insecure families in the community that has been adopted by other food banks across the nation. The system allocates a set amount of points based on the number of persons in a household and provides their clients with the dignity of selecting the foods they want.
McCabe has also weathered a recession, a brain surgery in 2015 and the stress of trying to ensure everyone involved in Good Cheer, from the volunteers to the clients, were treated fairly and respectfully.
“There’s a lot of demand on my time and this will free up and eliminate the biggest stress,” McCabe said.
Her last day is July 10.
Shawn Nowlin, community outreach coordinator for Good Cheer, said the board of directors was just recently informed of McCabe’s planned departure and the selection of her replacement has not been discussed. Nowlin said she McCabe will be missed, and that her effort in making Good Cheer into the enterprise it is today, while also attending to people’s dignities, will not be forgotten.
“She’s a risk taker that is willing to have a few failures to make a really successful non-profit,” Nowlin said.
McCabe joined Good Cheer’s staff as a manager of the Langley thrift store with retail and business experience, having owned Ace Hardware in Freeland. Instead of commanding authority and implementing new changes as manager, McCabe opted to take a backseat and learn what she could from Good Cheer’s staff.
At that time, the thrift store in Langley also housed a food bank. McCabe said that from her first day, she was bothered that there was no anonymity between food bank clients and thrift store shoppers. Clients would receive a box full of food, but would have to obtain it in public view.
“I knew there were people in our community, especially older people, that would rather starve to death than do that,” McCabe said. “I knew that we had to move the food bank out of that place.”
A $10,000 marketing plan proposed by McCabe in her first few years on the job also paid dividends. It not only increased awareness that Good Cheer was also a food bank, but garnered support from the community in donations. McCabe said that since she began working for Good Cheer, monetary donations have increased from $40,000 to $300,000 per year. Retail sales have also grown from $300,000 to $936,000, though McCabe made it clear that she was not alone in the effort by adding that “it took many hands to get us where we are today.”
Kay Stanley, who was president of the board of directors at the time, said McCabe’s plan was a big financial jump from what Good Cheer was accustomed to. It was McCabe’s foresight that made the difference though.
“She was a forward thinker,” Stanley said. “We’ve evolved into this beautiful place… thanks to her.”
In November 2015, McCabe underwent brain surgery after hitting her head on the pavement while walking her dog. McCabe said her recovery has gone smoothly, but that it also provided perspective on the value of life. McCabe said she may not have considered retiring at this time had it not been for that life-altering experience.
Rita Tulloch, manager of Good Cheer’s thrift store in Clinton, sees McCabe as both inspiration for women and a personal role model in her life. Tulloch’s first impression of McCabe was that she was a “strong lady” with leadership skills and someone who she wanted to follow and emulate. Her perception of McCabe hasn’t changed.
“She’s a wonderful person,” Tulloch said. “She’s going to be missed here as the leadership here at Good Cheer.”
McCabe said she’s been fortunate to have a board of directors who shared a similar vision and a staff that has been dedicated to carrying their ambitions through. She’s also said she’s proud to have taken part in a job that helps ensure people are fed and nourished.
Finally, she hopes whoever takes over her position will continue to support family support principles, where everyone from the clients to the staff are responsible and should feel proud about the success of the non-profit organization.
“It’s a good time to walk away,” McCabe said.


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US - An overview on trade agreements and key issues were given in four presentations at an education programme on the US–EU Free Trade negotiations at the 2015 International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE).
Jim Sumner, president of both the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council and the International Poultry Council, offered a primer on trade agreements and key issues addressed at the US–EU Free Trade Negotiations: What Are the Implications for Animal Production?' education programme held during the 2015 IPPE in Atlanta at then end of last month.
Mr Sumner introduced the programme, remarking there are now more than 330 preferential trade agreements worldwide with several hundred more under negotiation or proposed.
He said: “This abundance of agreements, some between just two partners and others quite extensive, exists because of their potential to provide immediate net economic benefits.”
According to Mr Sumner, they can also be used as a foreign policy tool, since it is easier to negotiate with a smaller number of countries than participate in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade or the World Trade Organization (WTO).
However, these agreements have a negative aspect as well. The existence of many other agreements can weaken the WTO system and result in rival trading blocs. It may also be difficult to enforce the terms of the agreement without the formal mechanisms of a larger organisation, and the workings of the agreement may be less transparent. Further, it is often claimed that smaller or undeveloped countries are left out of these treaties.
Negotiations over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) began in June 2013, and the eighth round of talks is scheduled for early February. The poultry industry is interested in TTIP because the European Union (EU) is an attractive market for poultry products, but one that has erected barriers to protect its domestic poultry industry.
In his US perspective on TTIP negotiations, Dr Paul Aho, economist with Poultry Perspectives, discussed two future scenarios that could affect the hopes of the US poultry industry – more openness toward globalisation or a protected industry closed to trade.
From Dr Aho’s perspective, if the EU choses to be more open – for example by ratifying TTIP – it could mean somewhat lower domestic poultry production, a degree of accommodation toward EU standards and an end to non-tariff barriers that currently hinder imports. Going in the opposite direction, a protectionist attitude would lead to higher domestic production, lower consumption, higher prices and trade barriers that block imports.
The comprehensive and complicated TTIP being negotiated by the US and EU could have considerable influence on the global economy, according to Gina Tumbarello [pictured above], director of international policy and trade, American Feed Industry Association.
The US agricultural industry has a number of targets and expectations for this treaty. In addressing the implications for US animal production at the farm level, she described TTIP as difficult and challenging but also expressed hope for what it could achieve.
She said: “I think it is a great opportunity. It has the potential, if successfully completed, to change the agricultural dynamics between these two trading partners in a way that has not been achieved in decades.”
The adoption of TTIP would have an impact on various sectors of the economy and on consumers, suggested Dr Martin Banse, senior agricultural economist and director at the Thünen Institute for Market Analysis in Braunschweig, Germany.
He provided a general assessment of the potential impact of the TTIP for European farmers. He remarked that the reduction of tariffs within TTIP would result in only small production reallocation in the EU, and beef would be one of the most affected commodities if food production standards were modified.
Mr Banse also observed that the response of farmers and food companies to sensitive issues addressed in the proposed trade agreement, such as genetically modified organisms, may be more important.
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The central government has introduced a new platform for the bright future of the youth through the digital system. A system called ‘Skill India Digital Platform’ has been introduced to bring skill initiatives under one umbrella and provide entrepreneurial support. More than 264 skill courses from 42,623 centers across the country will be available under the platform. Opportunities for employment, apprenticeships and entrepreneurship will be provided.
Such a system starts with the vision that the future of the youth is the future of the country. Skill India Digital Platform Application is available on Google Play Store and App Store. Apart from Hindi and English, the app will also be available in other regional languages.
It also includes plans to provide optical fiber infrastructure in six lakh villages over the next three years. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that India’s focus on Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is to build digital networking accessible to all.
He said that the common people and the poor will get the benefit of this. It is a system that offers job seekers and entrepreneurs a clear vision with a focus on digital technology and business skills. The Union Minister also stated that through this, skilled talents will be created.


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The pounds 12m plant, being built by AEA Technology in partnership with Mitsubishi and the Japan Storage Battery Company, will create 130 jobs in Thurso in the Highlands and will start production in a year. AEA Technology, which was floated from the Atomic Energy Authority two years ago, will invest pounds 2m in the project to manufacture advanced lithium-ion batteries and take a 55 per cent stake.
The Highlands and Islands Enterprise network will provide pounds 3.3m in funding and will also build the pounds 3.9m facility in Thurso to house the new joint venture company, AGM Batteries.
Peter Watson, chief executive of AEA technology, said the market for customised lithium-ion batteries could reach pounds 150m over the next three years. They can be used in applications such as military communications, police radars, space and medical equipment and portable power tools.
The existing market for commercial lithium-ion batteries used in products such as mobile telephones, lap-top computers and camcorders is pounds 860m. AEA Technology owns the technology and worldwide licensing rights for the battery technology. Mr Watson said revenues from the new facility would replace its existing stream of licensing income which will end in two years.


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Not so smashing for Accident Exchange as fewer drive during crunch
Fewer people using their cars because of the credit crunch and the high cost of petrol and diesel is reducing road accidents - and sparking a collapse in business for Accident Exchange.
The quoted company makes its money from renting out cars when people have a smash.
However, it today admitted a financial crisis means fewer prangs.
Accidental: More people are using public transport to save money
'Reports have cited consumers faced with materially increased fuel costs leading to increased use of public transport, reduced traffic volumes and consequently reduced accident volumes,' said the group.
It admitted that it is facing a vicious circle with its replacement cars out for shorter periods.
'We attribute this to improved efficiency in the speed of vehicle repairs arising from greater capacity within the repair industry which itself has arisen from reduced accident volumes,' it said.
Accident Exchange said it will fail to beat last year's profits of £12.1million and will be taking a charge of about £12.5million for a downward revision in the value of its fleet.
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One of every five beauty purchases online is made via the Amazon marketplace, according to a new report.
Prime’s $79 annual fee now includes access to 5,000 e-books for Kindle owners.
Amazon.com Inc. continues to add to what subscribers to its Amazon Prime program get for their $79 annual membership fee. The e-retailer today announced that consumers who subscribe to Prime and also own an Amazon Kindle e-reader or Kindle Fire tablet computer can borrow e-books to read on those devices as part of their membership.
The company says the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library includes 5,000 titles from a range of publishers, including Amazon’s own imprints. Kindle owners who participate in Prime can borrow one book a month at no cost. Consumers can keep the book on their Kindle devices for as long as they like provided they do not borrow another. When consumers want to borrow another book, they have to return the previous book.
Amazon launched Prime in 2005, offering free two-day shipping on all Amazon purchases in exchange for a $79 annual membership fee. It added free access to Instant Video, Amazon’s video streaming service for movies and TV shows, to Prime subscribers earlier this year. Amazon has steadily signed agreements with movie studios and TV networks to add to the content available in its Instant Video library. At launch in February it had 5,000 titles available to Prime subscribers; it now has nearly 13,000.
Amazon says it expects the lending library will help business. “We expect three immediate results: Kindle owners will read even more, publisher revenues will grow and authors will see larger royalty checks,” says Russ Grandinetti, vice president of Kindle content.
Amazon says it has reached agreements with publishers to include titles in its lending library for a fixed fee, but did not disclose what that fee is. In some cases, Amazon says, the e-retailer is buying the title each time a Prime member borrows it under standard wholesale terms. Amazon says it will demonstrate to publishers that they can ultimately grow sales through the free lending service, as Amazon has with movie and TV studios with Instant Video. “With the growth in Prime membership and the recent addition of Prime Instant Video, we’ve been able to broaden our relationships with movie and TV studios and significantly increase their revenue,” Grandinetti says. “We’re excited to expand that investment to books.”
Amazon does not say how many Amazon Prime members it has, however investment analyst Herman Leung of Susquehanna Financial Group this summer predicted that about 15 million consumers will belong to Amazon Prime by the end of the year. Amazon.com is No. 1 in Internet Retailer’s Top 500 Guide.


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PHOENIX— Make-A-Wish has partnered with WisePies Pizza, an Albuquerque, NM-based, minority-owned and female-led company. The partnership is dedicated to funding more wishes for children with critical illness through the sales dessert pizzas this holiday season.
“WisePies Pizza is humbled and honored to offer a limited-edition dessert pizza supporting the Make-A-Wish efforts to grant more wishes to children experiencing critical illness. The goal of this partnership is to generate community involvement through the consumer purchase of a WishPie that allows more wishes to be granted directly to these children with critical illnesses, leading to more positive outcomes,” said Season Chavez, president of WiseChoice Foods. “My brother was granted a wish when he was 12-years old while fighting a rare form of cancer. I know firsthand the positive emotional and physical impact a wish can have on a child and their entire support system including family, friends and their medical team.”
The stone-fired pizza is infused with a traditional cinnamon crust, cinnamon-sugar sauce and diced gala apples. A vanilla icing packet is also included to drizzle on top of pizza as desired.
One dollar from each dessert pizza sold during Nov. 1 and Dec. 24 will be donated to Make-A-Wish to help grant children’s wishes during the holiday season.
“We hope WishPies become a new favorite holiday tradition for families across the United States,” said Richard K. Davis, president and CEO, Make-A-Wish America. “Partnerships like the one with WisePies allow families to deliver hope and healing to wish kids and their families during the holiday season in an accessible and fun way.”
The Cinnamon Apple Drizzle Dessert Pizza by WisePies Pizza will be sold exclusively at Walmart stores nationwide for a suggested retail price of $6.98 while supplies last.
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How the GDPR Is Shaking Up Big Data
April 26, 2018
In the past, data has not been a popular table topic. If you brought up data at a dinner party, most people would roll their eyes with boredom. But times have changed and data is now making headlines. Who knew data would be a trending topic in 2018 alongside #Beychella?
Most recently, data has been catching a lot of attention because of its use and potential impact on the 2018 U.S. Presidential election. Over the last few weeks, Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg were put in the hot seat.
In short, Cambridge Analytica collected and sold private information from more than 50 million Facebook users in order to target ads in the interest of politics, and that’s a big no-no.
Thanks to the buzz surrounding the topic of data-driven ads, both advertisers and users are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of how data is collected and used. As customers, how much data are we willing to share in order to improve the quality of ads we receive? And as companies, how are we protecting the privacy of users’ data from misuse?
It’s therefore rather timely that the EU is implementing major new data privacy regulation next month to protect the use of customer’s data and to address these pressing questions.
Mark your calendars for May 25th, when GDPR will go into full effect.
What is GDPR?
GDPR is an acronym for General Data Protection Regulation. And what does that mean exactly? It’s a regulation put into place that will address and protect citizens’ data. In the big picture, GDPR will enforce stricter regulations to ensure that people actively provide consent to have their data used by corporations.
Here are some of the biggest changes that GDPR will hold, as told by Business Insider:
● Companies must clearly ask users to have access to their data
● Customers can demand to have their data deleted
● Customers have the right to ask how and why their data is being used
● Customers have the right to ask for copies of their data
● If a company learns that their data has been breached, they must notify users within 72 hours
Who Should be Prepared For GDPR?
As a user, it’s important to know your rights in how your data is being used. But this new set of regulations is of the utmost importance for any company that collects data. And we mean any company.
GDPR will affect any organization with users in the EU. So even if you’re not fortunate to have an office overlooking the Amalfi Coast or have never seen the Eiffel Tower, you still have to adhere to the implementation of the GDPR if you have even one single user based in Europe.
Does This Spell the End for Data-Based Ads?
Short answer: no. It simply means that there will be more rules and regulations to make it absolutely clear how customers’ data will be used, and give them more clarity and authority in just how it gets directed.
However, so long as advertisers abide by the rules, they can still use permitted data to create targeted ads based on location, interests, and more.
What Happens If Companies Don’t Adhere to GDPR?
Time to pay up! Any company that is not prepared to comply with GDPR will be fined — 4% of their annual global turnover, to be exact.
Remember, the Information Commissioner’s Office will be enforcing GDPR and its strict compliance, so you can’t just hope to slide by without updating your strategy.
As more and more information is being shared on the internet, privacy has become a top concern for businesses and individuals alike. And while many people think this new law is a direct response to the scandal with Facebook, it was actually approved back in 2016 and just now making its way into practice.
How Should You Prepare?
As always, using a third-party service for checks and balances can help ensure you avoid the fine. At Taptica, we’re fully aware of the changes that GDPR implementation brings for our partners, and we’re prepared for how to best maneuver in the new ecosystem, with precision data-based targeting that remains in alignment with the latest regulations.
Not quite ready for May 25th? Every brand, charity, and organization alike should read up on the specifics to make sure they’re totally prepared. Check out this rundown from ICO UK, which starts off with 12 key steps you should take to prepare, ranging from understanding the basics of GDPR, updating your access requests, making sure you have the right procedures in place in case of a data breach, and more.
Consider this 12-Step GDPR Setup Guide your bible until the 25th. If you can check all the boxes then you’ll be ready for the data revolution. Any questions in the interim? That’s what we’re here for!


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Alcatel has recruited a former marketing executive to head up its UK business, and boost its notoriously low public profile this side of the Channel.
Under the wing of Peter Radley, formerly a marketing and business development director at Alcatel's headquarters in Paris, the UK business will drive hard in all areas of its business, with special emphasis on transmission and access systems, and fixed mobile convergence.
Radley's appointment as chief executive of Alcatel UK comes as the French company is taking annual sales of around #1 billion in the UK, and has a customer list that includes BT, Cable & Wireless, Worldcom and AT&T.
Alcatel's problem in the UK is that it has had to build a business from nothing, according to UK born Radley. "A number of people have commented that Alcatel has a low profile in the UK. Yes, but partly because of our history - we're building our position from approximately zero."
The company has rapidly gained a presence in new markets before. It now has a 28 per cent share of the Dutch GSM terminal market, something it has built from zero in a short time. In the UK, its GSM terminal market share is around 10 per cent, helped by its mobile phone joint venture with Barclaycard and Cellnet.
Alcatel will be pushing its access and transmission products in the UK, especially to the many new telecomms operators building infrastructure here, according to Radley. "New operators coming into the UK are starting with a transmission rich network. This is a good opportunity for us," he said.
Phones that can be used as regular cordless phones in the home or office and then become cellular phones outside are also a key part of Alcatel's European strategy, said Radley.
"One of the things I'm concerned about is the fragmentation of [telephony] services delivered to end users. Why should we have customers worrying about how telephony is delivered to them?" he said.
In Denmark, telecomms operator Tele Danmark offers a service that provides one number, one bill, one voicemail and two phones, one for indoors and one for outdoors. Radley said he wants to take this further and provide one phone and one service. Alcatel is finalising the standards needed for creating a phone that would work as a cordless and a cellular phone.
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It all started with deleted profile pictures on social media, which sparked rumors of an imminent comeback. Then an announcement, in white letters on a black background, ignited Beyoncé fans and the media: the American singer will unveil a new album on July 29. The surprise lies not so much in the release of this first solo opus in six years, but in the fact that it is preceded by a first single, Break My Soul, posted June 20. Because “Queen Bey” had until now accustomed us to say as little as possible about his projects.
In 2013, she had created a small earthquake by releasing her fourth album in the middle of the night, without warning. “At that time, the artists did a lot of promotion upstream, with giant poster campaigns in Times Square, interviews, photos, so that the public was warned before a release, recalls Keivan Djavadzadeh, lecturer in information and communication sciences at the University of Paris 8. Beyoncé had taken the total opposite of this strategy, with what many perceived as a form of artistic and commercial emancipation.
The singer herself recognizes this desire to “break the codes”. “There are so many things that interfere between the music, the artist and his fans, she justified at the time, in a press release quoted by the New York Times*. I didn’t want anyone to announce when my album would be released. I just wanted it to be unveiled when it was ready, by me and to my fans.” The very content of this eponymous album is unexpected: 14 tracks, but also 17 video clips.
With this “visual album”Queen Bey shows that she “takes seriously the turning point taken with the explosion of audio and video streaming, at a time when physical CD sales are collapsing”Judge Keivan Djavadzadeh, author of Hot, Cool & Vicious. Gender, race and sexuality in American rap (Publishing Amsterdam, 2021). And the repercussions are not only commercial: the star pushes the American music industry to a notable evolution, according to Vox*. The release day for the albums, usually set for Tuesday in the United States, is shifted to Friday, the day the Beyonce.
“Nowadays other artists are popping projects off the cuff or producing ‘visual albums.’ But in 2013, that wasn’t the norm. Beyoncé partly started those trends.”Keivan Djavadzadeh, researcher
This good marketing move pays off very quickly: Beyonce sells 600,000 copies in one weekend, reports The Week*. “At a time when singles represent the majority of pop music sales, the album is presented to fans as a complete multimedia work that must be purchased in its entirety for $16”emphasizes the New York Times. The tour de force is all the more successful since the opus is initially only available on iTunes, Apple’s platform: to avoid any leaks, Columbia has decided to wait for it to be put online to start produce the CDs. Never seen.
Three years later, Beyoncé uses the same recipe for Lemonade. This time, the surprise album is accompanied by an hour-long film and is initially only available on Tidal, the streaming platform of her husband Jay-Z. “Queen Bey” is critically acclaimed and offers itself, in passing, new records: 12 songs appear at the same time in the Hot 100 ranking of the most popular songs of the specialized magazine Billboard* and 653,000 albums are sold in one weekend.
While the illegal downloading of music had all but disappeared thanks to the rise of streaming platforms, Lemonade relaunches piracy, raises pitchfork*. The very limited availability of the album arouses the curiosity and enthusiasm of the public.
But to ensure her longevity, Beyoncé needs to expand her following, dubbed the “Beyhive.” This is the interest of the partnerships that the singer forges with platforms like Netflix and Disney +. The first broadcast a documentary about his concert at Coachella, Homecoming. The second would have signed a contract of 100 million dollars with Beyoncé, including in particular the exclusivity of her musical film Black is Kingaccording to the magazine She*.
“These partnerships are win-win: Netflix and Disney bring diversity to their catalogs; Beyoncé makes her music accessible at all times to an audience that may not necessarily have known her.”Keivan Djavadzadeh, researcher
The advent of streaming has been mostly unfavorable to artists in terms of remuneration. But “Queen Bey” manages to pull out of the game with these lucrative contracts, which allow him to diversify his sources of income. A particularly welcome financial windfall when the pandemic has put a stop to tours, which constitute the bulk of the income of singers. However, not all artists have this type of opportunity. “It illustrates the special status and weight that Beyoncé has in the music industry”insists the researcher.
Beyoncé is “apart”, and this is also noticeable in her long periods of silence. His rare interviews, published in fashion magazines like Harper’s Bazaar* and vogue*, are spaced almost a year apart. And if her Instagram account is regularly enriched with new publications, the singer has not tweeted since May 2020, without this affecting her notoriety.
These very rare communications (which illustrate the star’s constant need to control her image) also contribute to creating enthusiasm. “The majority of stars express themselves a lot, in the media and especially on social networks. Beyoncé, she uses her accounts to promote her projects but reveals very little about her private life”, notes Keivan Djavadzadeh.
For the researcher, it is precisely this character “inaccessible” which allows the American to “to pose as an icon of pop culture”. “It’s a form of celebrity that we thought was outdated, even doomed to disappearhe explains. But by refusing to conform to these new modes of communication, Beyoncé is showing that she is not like the others.”
With Renaissance, Beyoncé is once again striving to be where she is not quite expected. The singer thus returned to a more traditional communication strategy: a single, an interview, announcements in the press.. “Today, putting a project online without announcing it is much less original than in 2013: everyone does it. By taking the opposite view of this approach, Beyoncé finally manages to differentiate herself from other artists”believes Keivan Djavadzadeh.
“She’s in an in-between form: the announcements remain cryptic, which creates a game with fans who don’t know exactly what to expect.”Keivan Djavadzadeh, researcher
This little dose of mystery works very well so far. A month before the release of Renaissance, four boxes were posted on Beyoncé’s website. Sold for $40, each contains a “collector’s box”, a T-shirt and… a CD. In the era of “all digital”, the pop star is returning to a physical format that is in the process of collapsing. Friday, June 24, the four boxes were already out of stock, while we do not know anything about the design of the t-shirts they contain.
This marketing strategy is not revolutionary: many other artists offer their music in premium and limited CD version, from the K-pop group BTS to the French rapper Orelsan. “LThe public buys these boxes above all for the T-shirt. But for artists, it’s often a way to boost sales figures.” according to Keivan Djavadzadeh. Will this strategy allow Beyoncé to break new records with this sixth solo album? Reply July 29. With surely, by then, new surprises to keep the “Beyhive” waiting.
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Fed up with all the negative stereotypes about African-Americans, YouTube personality Frenchesca Ramsey joined forces with Tumblr friend T’Von to promote #BlackOutDay — a hashtag created to celebrate Black beauty and existence, according to ABC News.
The hashtag, which encourages users to share images of themselves, is now trending on Twitter.
Reports ABC News:
“We’re asking black people to share pictures, videos and GIFs of themselves to celebrate our people coming from all different walks of life,” Ramsey said. “It’s a celebration of black beauty and our individuality.
“Unfortunately, in most popular media talking about black people and our bodies, it’s mostly of us breaking the law, being killed or mistreated,” Ramsey added. “So it’s nice to combat these negative images and stereotypes with positive representations of ourselves.”
Are you participating in #BlackOutDay? Let us know in the comments.
Here are a few beautiful images so far:
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— Karis (@kEsquire) March 6, 2015
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As people get busier, time becomes a valuable commodity and people want to spend more time on their leisure and less time working on those home-based jobs.
The dilema: My new work schedule cuts me out of two days of after-school pick-ups and 'taxi' driving of children, ages 10 and 12. I need to outsource my chauffeur skills. Could I find someone to replace me for two hours, twice a week?
It's a question many of us ask as we get busier: can I pay someone to do this?
You may have seen cars scooting around Tauranga emblazoned with Driving Miss Daisy. Janice and Gerard Barnard took over the Bay of Plenty-based business in June. Janice says demand is high not just for seniors, but also for people recovering from illness and injury.
She says a taxi is cheaper for short trips, but ACC often covers transport expenses during recuperation periods.
"We have one child we pick up from school. It's the same driver every day. It's a bit more, not just a taxi service."
Janice has four drivers and four cars operating throughout the Western Bay. "We try to work out the most economical way for the client and get that bit more care."
She says trips cost a minimum of $25, so getting my kids from school to piano lessons, then on to soccer practice could cost around $50. That's beyond our budget, but Janice says her business serves up to 50 people per week. She says a transport service is more economical for older people than keeping a car if they can't drive themselves. Her drivers will help with grocery shopping or sit with clients at medical appointments.
The taxi option would be a cheaper child delivery system. Tauranga Mount Taxis estimates my five-kilometre school and lesson run would cost between $20 and $30.
Operations manager Jacqui Coffey says quite a number of parents use the service for their children. "We'll offer a discount if they're travelling regularly."
Hate oven cleaning? Sheila Logan of VIP Home Services will find someone to do it for you, starting at around $100. Residential cleaning is just one service VIP offers throughout the Bay.
The company also contracts for lawn mowing, office cleaning, gardening, window cleaning, pest control and exterior house washing.
Sheila and her husband Richard bought the business during the global financial crisis in 2008 and have grown from five franchises to 23. She says they started with 600 clients and now have about 2000. Sheila says demand stayed strong during the recession through to today.
"Services such as ours tend to be required by people because they have no personal time. Otherwise, their whole weekend is taken up by doing that kind of task ... that said, when times are good, we find that we're getting more one-off work because people are moving residences."
Select Cleaning owner Mark Gilbert also reports high demand, especially among families.
Quite often they have young children ... and they might be doing cleaning at work. They look at this sort of thing, $50 or $60 a week or fortnight - 'We can do that.' The wife is too busy and he won't do it.
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Express Business Group offers around 30 services through a network of owner-operators. Director Angie Flemming says the company entered the Kiwi market 18 months ago and has already grown to around 70 franchises.
"As people get busier, time becomes a valuable commodity and people want to spend more time on their leisure and less time working on those home-based jobs."
Express services go beyond cleaning to include exterior washing, lawn mowing and gardening, car cleaning, mobile massage and beauty, pick-up and delivery of items as well as computing and phone repairs. Angie says operators accommodate special requests and have been known to clean vomit from vehicles. She laughs, saying, "That's a little bit extra." Cleaning services start at $34.95.
Fancy a personal chef? James Broad of Cuisine Concepts in Tauranga will cater anything from a dinner party to a wedding. And while he's been approached to prepare four or five meals for a client, he says the maths doesn't stack up. "I'm almost having to charge more than restaurant prices, because I'm only cooking five portions. Twenty portions or five - it's the same amount of work." James' sample special occasion menu - a four-course meal, costs $88 per person for 70 people.
He says one of the biggest providers of ready-to-make food in New Zealand is My Food Bag. "A lot of people are knowledge poor. They think it takes a long time to cook a nice meal and costs a lot. To eat well is not expensive and doesn't take all day."
Papamoa mum Sarah Metcalfe says she started using My Food Bag to simplify meal planning for her family that includes two children, ages four and five. "I was also bored with eating meals that tried to cater for the kids and adults ... My kids have become far more adventurous eaters and I'm more relaxed as I'm more detached from the menu." My Food Bag starts at $119 per week for five meals for four people for the Bargain Box option (plus $10 delivery). The Family Food Bag costs $165 (including delivery) for five meals for four people.
NZME in late June reported My Food Bag has 35,000 customers in New Zealand and Australia and 120 per cent annual growth in number of weekly deliveries.
Hire your dog a friend
Jessica Amos is walking four dogs when 48 Hours meets her on the beach in Papamoa East. Jessica picks up Mel, Millie, Rylie and Steiny for regular outings. The 21-year-old, who also provides drop-in visits and overnight pet sitting, says she's quitting her barista job to focus on her business called Paws and Claws on Palm Beach.
She charges $12 for a half-hour walk, $15 for a group hour-long walk and sees 20 to 30 regular customers. "I've massively expanded in the last three months or so." She says some clients work long hours and others are amputees who rely on her to care for their pets. "I'm their pet lifeline. 'Dog Step-mum' they call me." Jessica is on-call 24 hours a day and has taken in pets during emergencies. She also provides taxi service to veterinary appointments.
Garden Magicians owner-operators Erika Dutting and Marco van der Zwaard say their business has grown into a fulltime concern through word of mouth. The couple do garden maintenance, tree pruning and say the Bay's booming housing market has fertilised their business. "If people want to put their house on the market, we can turn it from a jungle into something really beautiful to have the photo shoot," says Erika. Garden Magicians also has a regular client roster. "We do it so they can just enjoy their garden instead of seeing it as work." Prices vary, but the couple can work to a customer's budget.
If you lack the time or inclination to shop, fashion stylist and personal shopper Michelle Macdonald can help. She says one of her most popular requests is weeding through a wardrobe. "You wear 20 per cent of your stuff 80 per cent of the time. I'm about having less and wearing more." Michelle says hiring a professional stylist can save time and money.
Back to outsourcing parental chauffeur duties: for the past two weeks, other parents have brought my kids to soccer. My neighbour recommended posting a notice on Student Job Search. I have an interview with a potential babysitter who drives next week.
Unemployment drop in BOP:
Statistics New Zealand reports the Bay of Plenty's unemployment rate dropped significantly the first quarter of 2016 (Q2 numbers are due mid-month), from 7.8 per cent last year to 5.1 per cent this year. That made it the region with the lowest unemployment rate in the North Island.


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We are all familiar with Parental Advisory stickers, but Chris Brown's latest album got itself a whole new warning stamp at a U.K. music store this week.
Brown's fifth LP, Fortune, was released in the U.K. this past July, where it quickly shot to Number One thanks to dance-friendly tracks like "Don't Wake Me Up" and "Turn Up the Music." Instead of being garnished with one of those promo stickers that applauds the album for its merits three months down the line, Brown's album was stamped with an advisory label that people should not buy the LP because he "beats women." No joke.
The sticker, which reads "WARNING: Do not buy this album! This man beats women!," is a dig on Brown's 2009 assault on ex-girlfriend Rihanna following a pre-Grammy party. Although Rihanna wound up bloody and in the hospital following the altercation, the "S.O.S." singer has since rekindled her friendship with Breezy. She raved about him in a recent interview with Oprah, and had Brown appear on a remix to her track "Birthday Cake" earlier this year. Several domestic violence groups have voiced their disdain for Rihanna's actions, leading people to believe this sticker incident was a well thoughtout scheme by such a group. While some might call it karma, the HMV retail store where the sticker surfaced promises it was a one-off prank.
"It was very much an isolated incident and nothing to do with HMV or representing our views," a spokesman for the store told E! News. "It would appear a member of the public popped into one of our stores yesterday and stickered a handful of CDs. These were spotted and quickly removed, but, before we could act, the individual concerned must have taken a photo and sent it to the media. To our knowledge there are no further stickers in our stores now."


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Thousands of buyers are investing millions of dollars into non-fungible tokens (NFTs). While skeptics claim it’s a fad, the vast volume of sales and experts say otherwise.
In the most basic terms, an NFT is a digital asset that isn’t easily replaceable. They are digital commodities minted by the blockchain. In most cases, there’s an air of exclusivity and a well-planned token has a buzz of pop culture as well.


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Competition for more ad-revenue is heating up as more companies rush to accumulate market share in the highly lucrative mobile advertising business. Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is already flexing its muscles in the space with reports indicating it is in talks to acquire India-based mobile advertising startup, InMobi. The search giant will look to use InMobi to counter Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)’s dominance of advertising on mobile devices.
Economic Times reports that Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) will soon initiate a technology due diligence of InMobi followed by discussions on potential commercial terms. Financial terms are yet to be discussed, but there has been reports that the mobile advertising platform was looking for a valuation in the $2 billion and above range. Talks of a potential merger begun last September although they stagnated.
InMobi was founded in 2007 by Naveen Tewari and fellow IT gurus, Amit Gupta, Mohit Saxena, and Abhay Singhai and is considered as one of the most successful startups in India. The startup specializes in helping some of the world’s biggest brands deliver their advertisement campaigns to their desired crowd at the right time. It is a data-driven mobile advertising business that operates the same way as Facebook and Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) on the advertising front
InMobi already has a working relationships with some of the world’s top brands including Yamaha Motor, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Adidas, having delivered advertisements for them to nearly a billion mobile phones. The ad tech space that InMobi operates in has been under immense pressure in the recent times from the likes of Millennial Media and now Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is believed to have come back to the negotiation tables after witnessing the disruption that Facebook was causing on the advertising front especially on mobile devices. Should a deal in the $2 billion range be inked, it will be the biggest so far in India’s red-hot startup business, which continues to attract attention from foreign companies.
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) will not be the first multinational company to pursue a deal in one of the fastest growing emerging markets. Twitter Inc. (NYSE:TWTR) has already acquired mobile marketing startup ZipDial in the country as it seeks to bolster its capabilities in Asia’s second largest marketplace. Facebook also has on its ranks another India startup’s Little Eye Labs that specializes in analyzing Mobile Data.
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nsane.forums Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 A new rumor claims that Windows 8-based tablets could be priced from between $599 and $999 due to Microsoft and Intel not being willing to drop the prices on the operating system and processors.Will Windows 8 based tablets be on the pricey side? That's the newest rumor from Digitimes which claims via unnamed sources that Microsoft and processor maker Intel are unwilling to cut the prices on their products down to the level that is currently set for tablet products.The story claims that if Microsoft and Intel sticks to their guns on Windows 8 and processor prices, tablets that run on both could be priced between $599 and $999. That's well above the current price for most new tablets coming out on the market that use Google's Android operating system. However, those prices are close to what Apple sells the iPad for, especially if you consider the WiFi/3G versions.The story points out that if Microsoft and Intel do lower the price of their products to make Windows 8 tablets more affordable, it could also hurt the pricing for full PC desktops and laptops.The truth is that if Windows 8 tablets with Intel-based processors are going to sell, they are also going to have to be priced at a point that will encourage others to buy it. Apple can seemingly get away with pricing the iPad at a premium price but as we have seen, tablets that tried to match the price of the iPad have gone down in flames. Amazon has apparently had much better luck with its Kindle Fire tablet, and its $199 price point, in finding an audience. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Whereas phones running on Android 10 have loved the advantages of Dark Mode in Google Play for a number of months, Google has lastly introduced the choice colour mode to units on lower Android variations. In keeping with the most recent Twitter post from the Google Play account, the Dark Mode theme on Google Play is now accessible on all Android units.
With the intention to benefit from the brand new possibility, customers merely want to go over to the settings menu the place there’ll now be a brand new Theme part. From there, you’ll be able to toggle between the Gentle and Dark theme choices or preserve the System default one which matches your phone’s native theme.
Moreover, the toggle would allow these already on Android 10 to power gentle mode when the system’s settings are about to darkish and vice versa. To date, it adopted the system’s default setting.
The brand new Darkish Mode theme naturally replaces the white UI parts with black and dark grey ones whereas maintaining its signature inexperienced accent colours.
Turn on the dark mode in 4 steps.
1. Open Google Play and head to Settings.
2. In Settings, navigate to the Theme menu.
3. Select Dark
4. You’re done.


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Popular Boston market closing over Thanksgiving weekend
A frequented Boston grocery store will be closing its doors over the Thanksgiving weekend.
bfresh’s Brighton location will close on Nov. 25 amid an announcement that Stop & Shop will be integrating bfresh markets into their brand. Stores located in Somerville and Allston, as well as Fresh Formats’ Eastside Marketplace store in Providence, Rhode Island will remain open.
“As part of our brand-centric strategy, Stop & Shop plans to develop new, small store format opportunities,” said Mark McGowan, Stop & Shop President. “Fresh Formats was specifically created to develop and test format opportunities to understand what works and what doesn’t work in urban and other small store locations.
Stop & Shop said the planned bfresh location in Newton will be a new small format store. Staff at the Brighton store will have the opportunity to transfer to the Allston and Somerville stores.
The first bfresh store opened in Allston in September 2015. The Brighton location opened it’s doors on Aug. 19, 2016.


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Modern milkman cuts out middleman with milk factory in a box I Glen Herud, Happy Cow Milk co.
Selling pasteurized milk direct from the farm to the customer has a lot of regulatory barriers around it but people are demanding it and want to celebrate our local food heroes - our farmers.
A new innovative “milk factory in a box” can allow any farmer to sell safe, pasteurised milk to their local community and cafes with a secure payment system and food regulations ticked.
“10 cows would supply 5-6 cafes with the milk they need and a milk refillery station which is equivalent to $14/kg/ms redistributing the wealth to the farmer and the community,” explains Glen Herud, Happy Cow Milk
They have created a system where farmers attach the mini milk factory to your current milking plant into 100L keg, plug it into the internet and you become a fully compliant milk processor.
The farmer gets paid upfront then delivers the milk to a cafe for them to use and sell to customers as a refillery.
Customers fill their reusable containers with fresh, local milk and the local farmer keeps your dispenser full and the Happy Cow system takes care of all payments, sending everyone their share of each purchase to your bank account – instantly!
Happy Cow Milk Co. recently won at the 2021 ChristchurchNZ Supernode Food, Fibre & AgriTech Challenge


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Is it safe to cruise?
On Friday, January 13, Costa Concordia (owned by Carnival Cruise Lines) ran into rocks off the coast of the Italian Island of Giglio. It quickly began taking on water and capsized early Saturday morning. The accident resurrects memories of the sinking of the Titanic and has been called one of the worst cruise ship disasters in modern times.
If you're considering a cruise or have already booked, you're not alone if you're questioning the safety of cruising. And it's a fair question to ask. Have cruise lines gotten lazy with safety procedures? Have passengers?
GoGirlfriend will be cruising this winter and we'll be paying close attention to safety procedures. While there's so much about this accident that points to mismanaged and sloppy emergency procedures, we think it's wrong to let one incident taint an entire industry.
Would you cruise after this disaster?
An opinion tracking website, SodaHead.com, asked readers whether they would now be less likely to cruise. Of those who responded, 25% said yes, 52% said no and 22% said they were not planning to cruise in the first place. Cruise experts across the web are weighing in as well, forcing the cruise industry to take everything about this disaster seriously.
"This is a wake-up call for Costa, most particularly, but also for any line that has slacked off on the nautical rulebook (not to mention those passengers - and we all know one - who brag about evading the muster drill). It's a wake-up call as well for maritime certification organizations, who deem ships and staff procedures in order. And it's our own alert, too. All cruisers shoulder some responsibility for cruising safely."
"Still, no matter how many safety and training protocols are in place, the image of a submerged Costa Concordia will stay burned in people's minds when they decide if they're going to take a cruise, said Jonathan Bricker, a psychologist at the University of Washington. To prevent any decline in bookings, the cruise industry will have to communicate how safe cruising actually is, he added."
"When you have 4,000 people, I think you're looking for trouble - an accident waiting to happen," said Francine Dumont, a travel agent at Plaza Travel in Encino who books mostly cruises. She cites crowd panic and, in the case of the Concordia, the confusion of announcements in multiple languages. She said smaller ships tend to attract seasoned passengers who take the drills seriously, rather than "drinking, chittering-chattering and taking pictures of themselves in their life jackets."
"The last thing the industry wants is a disaster like this," says Peter Wild. "So they make tremendous efforts to avoid any such events." He notes cruise lines have a better record than airlines, in terms of deaths per million passengers. The industry will work hard, he says, to learn from its mistakes.
What's your opinion on cruising after this cruise disaster? Will what happened off the coast of Italy affect whether or not you book a cruise this year?


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Stripe Opens Opportunity for Bitcoin Integration
Stripe co-founder John Collison has confirmed that the company may restore support for cryptocurrency in the future
The latest update comes after the payment company stopped accepting bitcoin for payment due to volatility and inefficiency
When asked about the possibility of crypto support, Collison said: “We don’t yet but I think it’s not implausible that we would.”
Stripe has failed to rule out the possibility of accepting cryptocurrency for payment in the future.
This is coming 3 years after the online payments company ended support for Bitcoin citing volatility and its lack of efficiency for daily transactions.
The company’s co-founder John Collison opened a window of opportunity to reconsideration while speaking at the Fintech Abu Dhabi festival on Tuesday.
“There have been a lot of developments of late with an eye to making cryptocurrencies better and, in particular, scalable and acceptable cost as a payment method.”
When asked if Stripe will reconsider cryptocurrency payment, he said:
“We don’t yet, but I think it’s not implausible that we would.”
The company recently disclosed that it had formed a team dedicated to the exploration of cryptocurrency and “Web3”.
Collison added that several innovations emerging from the cryptocurrency world have potential, such as Solana.
Stripe which was founded in 2009 is the largest privately-owned fintech company in the United States.
Valued at $95 billion, the company processes payment for platforms like Google, Amazon, and Uber and has also into other areas of finance.


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It’s been ages since LG introduced its last Windows Phone, but after much ado, the Korean company has finally unveiled a new device with Microsoft’s mobile operating system onboard. The device, which was first spotted by Windows Central, is referred to as the LG Lancet. It’s now officially coming to Verizon for $120 full price.
Updated on05-14-2015 by Malarie Gokey: Added official announcement details.
The Lancet is hardly the high-spec Windows Phone that everyone’s waiting for ahead of the Windows 10 launch, but it is another budget-friendly, entry-level device for Microsoft’s OS. The Lancet sports a 4.5-inch LCD screen with a mere 854 x 480 pixel resolution. There’s an 8-megapixel camera on the back of the phone and what appears to be a wimpy VGA camera on the front side, though Verizon doesn’t mention it.
The decent 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor and 1 GB of RAM powers the device, which comes with 8GB of internal storage that’s expandable with a MicroSD card. The ability to add more storage to the phone is even more important in this case because just 4GB of space is likely to be useable, the leaked brochure says. A 2,100mAh battery should keep the Lancet running for a sensible amount of time, especially since the screen has a low resolution.
LG did include several of its cool software tricks on the Lancet, including Knock On’s double tap to wake feature, QuickMemo for notes, Gesture Shot for capturing selfies, Soft Light for selfies, and Live Shot.
The low-end Windows Phone just arrived at Verizon, and it costs $120 unsubsidized. You can also get it for $20 on a two-year contract for a certain amount of time. The normal contracted price is $70. Those on device payment installment plans will pay just $5 a month to own the phone. If you’re interested, you can buy it on Verizon’s website.


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Equinix today announced that it invested $60 million for its International Business Exchange (IBX) in Melbourne to meet demand for interconnection and data center services.
The company has invested $60 million for the new facility. Over the last 15 years, Equinix invested more than $7.5 billion to expand its data center presence.
Equinix said the Melbourne data center has 375 cabinets, while future expansion can accommodate additional 1,125 cabinets. The center has over 105,000 square feet of floor space. The facility is Equinix’s fourth data center in Australia, adding to the three facilities already operating in Sydney.
The ME1 IBX data center enables Melbourne businesses to connect with Equinix’s more than 1,000 networks globally including 130 in Australia. It provides access to a large marketplace of over 4,800 potential customers and partners across more than 100 data centers.
Equinix Melbourne data center has tied up with more than 40 new customers including Bulletproof, CacheFly, Entrust ICT, Exigent, First Path, GCOMM, Micron21 Telecommunications, Telstra, Vocus, and Western Australian Internet Association (WAIA).
Cloud and IT service providers account for a quarter of Equinix’s business and are the fastest growing segment for the company.
ME1 is one of five new IBX data centers being opened by Equinix in early 2015. Other locations are in Singapore, London, Toronto and New York.
Jeremy Deutsch, managing director, Equinix Australia, said: “By opening ME1, our first International Business Exchange in Melbourne, this city’s businesses can now choose more than just state-of-the-art carrier-neutral colocation space and carrier-dense interconnections.”
A recent survey by Dimensional Research said that 85 percent of Australian enterprises are planning to deploy to multiple clouds within the next 12 months, 77 percent of which will use clouds operating in more than one country.


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BAA's Heathrow sees busiest June on record
Tuesday 12 July 2011
Heathrow has had its busiest June on record, with more than 6 million passengers going through its doors, the airport's operator BAA said yesterday.
Traffic across BAA's six airports was also strong, rising by 4.4 per cent to 9.9 million passengers last month. But while passenger numbers went up, air freight took a step down, as the post-recession bounce began to moderate. The overall volume of cargo at BAA's airports was down 1.5 per cent last month against a year earlier, although it remains 20 per cent higher than in June 2009.
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Periscope launched in late March after Twitter acquired it back in January but the app is still not available to Android users, on the contrary of Meerkat who launched on Android a few weeks ago.
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To expand its global presence and substantially create new jobs, the Maharashtra-based parts manufacturer for the automobile and consumer durables industry, Dhoot Transmission, plans to build a new factory in Kriton, UK.
Parkinson Harness Technology, the company’s international subsidiary, which currently rents two sites in Boston, hopes to bring its workforce together at a proposed site, a press release from the company said.
The company hopes to grow its turnover by over 50% in the five years following the construction of this new facility. This will see employment growth of 50%, with an increasing proportion of the team either having specialist high-voltage skills, working in administration or having other specialist technical skills. The manufacturing work undertaken on the site is labour-intensive, preparing vehicle wiring harnesses and cables.
The firm, which has provided parts including high-voltage cables, wiring harnesses, and battery leads to the UK and European specialist vehicle market for more than 20 years, will move to a bespoke factory to double its turnover in five years while the workforce could rise by as much as 50%. The company currently has a workforce of more than 7,000 people and has a major presence in the global automotive and consumer durables industry.
The company currently operates 22 manufacturing facilities, including five locations in the UK, Slovakia, Thailand, Japan and South Korea. The remaining 17 locations are in India. The upcoming plant in Kirton, UK, will strengthen its global presence exponentially, the company added.
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Technology.am (June 03, 2009) — Web analytics firm StatCounter said that Norway’s Opera Software overtook Apple’s iPhone browser in May as the most popular mobile browser in the world.
Aodhan Cullen, chief executive of StatCounter, said, “Opera began the year in the number one slot but iPhone overtook it in February.”
In the month of May, 24.6 percent of all Internet pages that were downloaded to mobile devices globally through Opera’s browser and 22.3 percent via iPhone. Nokia retained third place in mobile browsers with 17.9 percent of the market, StatCounter said.
Opera sells its browser to many cellphone makers and operators, and consumers can directly download it for free, while the Apple browser’s ranking reflects only iPhone users surfing the Internet.


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Says statute sought to regulate commerce outside state's bordersThe Associated Press
Updated: 1:07 p.m. ET Dec. 14, 2004
ROCKVILLE, Md. - A Maryland judge has ruled the state's anti-spam law is unconstitutional.
The judge tossed out a suit against a New York e-mail marketer, saying the state law seeks to regulate commerce outside Maryland's borders.
Congress and more than three-dozen state legislatures have passed laws to limit junk e-mail advertising. Appeals courts in California and Washington state have upheld the spam laws and reversed lower court decisions similar to this latest judgment.


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The inaugural Zoo Brew Festival, to be held at the Taronga Centre from 21-23 July, will treat attendees to a selection of local and international brews while overlooking one of Sydney’s most iconic locations.
Zoo Brew is the first in a series of Taronga Centre’s ‘Taste the Wild’ events, which focus on sustainable and ethical sourcing of quality products.
Patrick Maher, the Zoo Brew Festival Director, told Beer & Brewer that the craft beer industry is one that is already delivering the sustainability message.
“The beer industry as a whole is pretty good around delivering that sustainability message. The use of plastics is pretty low and particularly in the craft sector a lot of breweries really do focus on sound production models, whether intentionally or not, that are inherently sustainable. So that messaging is something that I hope we can get across,” he said.
In an effort to minimise waste, a re-usable glass tasting cup and recyclable tasting tickets will be provided to all guests, and food packaging will be recyclable.
“A big part of sustainable consumption is around sourcing local and minimising that carbon footprint around everything that we do, so there’s a high proportion of local Sydney and nearby brewers involved in Zoo Brew,” said Maher.
Zoo Brew will showcase more than 25 breweries. Confirmed already are BentSpoke Brewing Co, Monteith’s Brewing Company, Little Creatures, Balter Brewing Company, Young Henrys, Scharer’s Little Brewery, Beer Farm, Two Birds Brewing, Lord Nelson, Stone & Wood, Hargreaves Hill, The Australian Brewery, Australian Beer Co, and Matilda Bay.
The three-day festival will officially launch with a beer degustation dinner on Friday 21 July, followed by two festival sessions each day on Saturday 22 July and Sunday 23 July.
Maher said that the degustation dinner will focus on delivering “premium food in a premium environment”.
So far 22 breweries are on-board for the dinner and will be given the opportunity to submit beers to match with the menu. A selection of beers will be made available with each course and guests will able to sample whatever they like.
“So if you’re sitting and you’ve got a bucket of beers on your table per course then you can have similar to shared plates with food, we’ll have shared plates with beer,” said Maher.
Tickets to all events are now on sale with festival entry priced at $40 per person and the beer degustation dinner $150 per person. You can purchase tickets through Moshtix.
Limited designated driver tickets including parking are also available for $20 each. A portion of proceeds will support Taronga Conservation Society Australia’s wildlife conservation activities.
Maher also told Beer & Brewer that in early 2018 the Taronga Centre will be hosting a similar food and wine event, somewhere between February and May.
“It will be in partnership with our wine partners at Taronga and will look at sustainable wine practices and particularly sourcing local.”


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Two recent Tnooz articles have shed more light on the evolving mobile habits of Western consumers. The first piece, using data from Tripadvisor, claims that a full third of European travelers "can't survive" without using their mobile phone on holiday, despite worries over roaming and usage charges, and that this obsession with mobile use varies by country:
Country-by-country, Italian travellers are the most obsessed, with 41% declaring their love of the mobile, while Germany (31%), France (30%), UK (29%) and Spain (26%) are less smitten.
In the second article, ComScore reports that American mobile users spent onlt 18.5 percent of their time on mobile devices on websites, and the rest on their applications; this approximate breakdown holds true for social networking sites, with almost 80 percent of consumers' browsing time being spent in the application versus on the actual website:
The data supports a recent theory put forward by TripAdvisor, which says that if a user is visiting a mobile website five or more times a year then it is probably worth creating an application.
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Where will you be shopping for Christmas?
Over recent years, residents in my electorate have watched on with envy as other suburban shopping centres around Perth have been upgraded.
The owners of major centres such as Karrinyup, Innaloo and Carousel have funded significant redevelopment projects to ensure their premises remain fit for purpose.
In contrast, the owners of the Morley Galleria shelved plans for a much-needed redevelopment just days after it received planning approval in 2019. Our Government has done its part by investing significant sums of money in Morley and surrounding suburbs in recent years. I am now lobbying for the owners of the Galleria to do their part by funding the long-awaited redevelopment of the centre.
Many residents have told me they would like to support their local community by shopping at the Galleria, however it has now fallen so far behind other suburban shopping centres that they will be looking elsewhere for their Christmas shopping.
Please help me by completing the following survey.


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According to data released by the Department of Statistics, the value of wholesale and retail trade fell by 0.3% year on year in December, following a 1.2% decline in November.
The latest data show that domestic trading activity failed to gather growth momentum in 2020. After collapsing to historically low levels in April-May, amid the imposition of lockdown measures, wholesale and retail sales have recorded lower values almost every month compared with the corresponding period of 2019. For 2020 as a whole wholesale and retail sales plunged by 5.9% from 2019; this is the first time the data have shown negative growth over a full year since the series was first compiled in 2011. This decrease was broad-based, with all the three components of the wholesale and retail trade category (wholesale trade, retail sales and motor vehicle sales) falling in value terms compared with 2019. A decline in the volume measure also points to persistent weakness in local demand in 2020.
In December 2020 the value of motor-vehicle sales grew at a healthy rate of 7.4% year on year. After contracting sharply (in year-on-year terms) in the second quarter of 2020, this component has registered a steady increase in the subsequent months. However, these gains have been offset by the falls in the value of wholesale trade and retail sales for most of the second half of 2020. In 2020 as a whole we estimate that new-car sales in Malaysia plummeted by 18.6% year on year.
This data series tends to serve as a proxy for trends in private consumption—a component that accounts for around 60% of Malaysia's total GDP and is therefore a major driver of economic growth. The latest data are broadly in line with The Economist Intelligence Unit's view that household spending was likely to have contracted by 1.4% year on year in the fourth quarter of 2020, following a 2.1% drop in the preceding three months. We expect real GDP growth to stage a modest recovery in 2021 as growth momentum builds on a year-on-year basis from the second quarter of the year, supported by an anticipated recovery in external demand and an abatement in the transmission of the coronavirus (Covid‑19).
Impact on the forecast
The data are broadly in line with our growth estimates for the fourth quarter of 2020, and the year as a whole. We maintain our view that new-car sales will continue to contract in the first quarter of this year, along with private consumption, but we expect a partial recovery (on a year-on-year basis) of 11.7% in 2021.


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August 14, 2014 - Industry News
Bendix has unveiled its newly upgraded brake shoe remanufacturing facility in Huntington, Indiana
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The Bendix SMS-9700 and the Bendix FCS-9700 feature a streamlined package design, making them approximately 20 percent smaller and 30 percent lighter than other models on the market.
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Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems launched the Bendix On-Line Brake School at www.brake-school.com, providing access to its knowledge database and technical resources.
Tags: Maintenance, Training, Bendix, Technician Training, Brakes, Technicians
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Bendix engineers are warning truck owners that if they aren't careful about the choice of replacement friction new trucks designed to meet the latest stopping distance requirements, they could negate the improved stopping distance that was designed into the trucks.
Tags: Bendix, Brakes, Mid-America Trucking Show
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Bendix announced the 2013 schedule for its Bendix Brake Training School, continuing its efforts to support and educate both new and experienced technicians
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Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC has achieved a 92% waste diversion rate through its ongoing company-wide emphasis on recycling and remanufacturing.
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