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Last year Atlassian, the software company behind Jira and HipChat products, made headlines as the biggest success story in Australia after its $8 billion float on the Nasdaq in December. It was a long-awaited tech IPO with the Sydney-based collaboration software group, headed by duo Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, trading at $27 per share and beating its listing price by an incredible 30%.
But in between, Australia’s startup scene was littered with other companies kicking major goals.
We compiled a list of the startups that have had an incredible run in 2015, hitting huge milestones and making remarkable progress in their field.
Here’s a look at what they accomplished.
CliniCloud is an Australian health technology startup founded by physicians Hon Weng Chong and Andrew Lin which make connected home medical kits to allow users to manage and monitor their health from home.
This year, the company raised $5 million after closing a seed round led by Chinese internet company Tencent.
The funding was used to accelerate the roll-out of the kits which include a wireless thermometer and digital stethoscope and are connected to an app -- bringing people in touch with a network of medical professionals.
On top of that, the startup managed to get US retail giant, Best Buy, on board who began stocking the connected medical kit in both the US and Canada.
Online parking platform, Divvy Parking, is a startup that's disrupting commercial parking by making use of under-utilised parking spaces in CBDs.
In 2015, the Sydney-based digital company closed a $2.5 million Series A funding round.
Founded by Nick Austin, the startup has been likened to the Airbnb for parking, giving commuters access to short and long term parking via their smartphones for up to 50% less than traditional parking options.
Last year, the business made a huge move from the peer-to-peer space to the commercial property sector and has continued to work with property groups such as DEXUS, GPT Group and Knight Frank, the courier industry and the government to help solve and manage congestion in the CBD.
Technology marketplace platform Marketplacer had an incredibly successful run in 2015 after securing a $10 million Series A investment led by private investors David Paradice and Gerry Ryan.
The Aussie startup allows people to build large scale online marketplaces by providing consumers with access to content marketing services, web store platforms, SEO optimisation as well as CRM and KPI reports.
The company is currently valued at $70 million with offices in Australia, New Zealand, USA and Germany with plans to launch its 'plug and play' marketplace platform in the the UK later this year.
Founded by Jason Wyatt and Sam Salter, the startup also operates four global marketplaces: BikeExchange, TiniTrader, House of Home and Outdoria.
Design platform, Canva, reached incredible milestones in 2015 after raising $21 million in series A funding and taking their total raised funds to $27.6 million.
The online graphic design startup, founded by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams in 2012, offers design tools to users to create everything from presentations, graphics and posters through to menus and album covers.
In 2015, Canva's userbase grew from 1.8 million to 7 million. It also finished the year with Blackbird Ventures and AirTree Ventures and even Hollywood actors Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson among its list of big name investors.
Since its launch, over 52 million designs have been created on the platform with users hailing from 179 countries around the world.
Australian delivery startup, Sendle, made waves in 2015 after closing a $1.8 million funding deal in April 2015 led by NRMA who invested $1 million so that the service could be extended to its members.
The 100% carbon neutral door-to-door parcel delivery service teamed up with courier partners Fastway, Couriers Please as well as logistics giant, Toll, last year with the aim of making parcel delivery easier and quicker with a flat pricing model.
Sendle delivers parcels to 17,000 suburbs and towns across Australia with over 3000 vehicles that deliver more than 70 million packages a year.
The company's revenues are now in the millions with its active customer numbers having grown 100 fold and volumes grown at an average of 60% month-on-month.
Australian crowdsourcing marketplace, DesignCrowd, had an incredibly successful 2015 after raising $6 million in series B funding from AirTree Ventures and Starfish Ventures (taking its total funding to over $12 million).
The company also took huge steps in its global growth strategy -- with the US now making up 50 per cent of its business -- after launching a translation tool to help designers from non-English speaking countries to better understand briefs.
In 2015, DesignCrowd hit over $30 million in payments with plans to reach 500,000 designers on the platform and $20 million in annual revenue.
It was named in Deloitte's fast 50 in 2015, for the second year in a row.
Online legal services business, Lawpath, raised $1.3 million in funding in 2015 with Macdoch Ventures and Adcock Group among its investors.
Co-founded by Damien Andreason and Paul Lupson, the startup aims to modernise the legal industry by removing traditional cost barriers and making the process simpler for small to medium business owners.
The startup provides legal documents such as non-disclosure, intellectual property and shareholders agreements, allows people to apply for a trademark as well as bringing people in contact with a network of more than 650 lawyers.
The company also experienced an 800% increase in revenue and grew its user base by 400% in the space of one year. Since launching in 2013, LawPath has helped 13,000 Aussie SMEs save a combined $5 million in legal fees.
Designer dress and accessory rental service, GlamCorner, has been making huge progress since founders, Dean Jones and his wife, Audrey Khaing-Jones, turned their passion project into a business in 2012.
Last year, the pair closed a $500,000 round of seed funding with AirTree Ventures in April, making it the third startup to receive investment from AirTree, after design crowdsourcing platform DesignCrowd and pet-sitting service, Pawshake.
The startup made its way into Australia's $6 billion a year fashion industry following the success of overseas designer rental services such as Rent the Runway which allows clients to try out new brands and styles by renting a dress online for any occasion.
GlamCorner currently has more than 800 design dresses for rent from brands such as Bottega Veneta, Alice and Olivia, Zimmermann, Ellery and Manning Cartell.
Biteable is an Australian video startup established in 2014 which gives businesses the opportunity to create professional videos online in minutes.
In 2015, the Hobart-based company secured a $1.1 million seed investment to further develop itself as the 'world's simplest video maker', drawing strong interest and demand from freelancers, SMEs and large enterprises.
'Businesses large and small want to take advantage of the power of video to showcase their own products and services, but without incurring the high costs traditionally charged by digital agencies,' said MacGregor.
Since its launch, Biteable has attracted more than 90,000 people to use its innovative tool with over 100,000 videos created.
Nitro is an Australian founded software company who launched in 2005 to streamline the use of PDF documents on both desktop and the cloud.
In 2015, the startup which makes it easy for people to 'create, edit, share, sign and and collaborate—online or offline' acquired DoxIQ to enhance its document analytics technology.
Founded by Sam Chandler who was the Ernst and Young Australian Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year in 2014, the startup currently attracts more than 575,000 businesses as well as more than half of the Fortune 500 companies.
It has since opened offices in Melbourne, Dublin, Nitra and St. Petersburg with the company now based in San Francisco.
Invoice2go is an Australian-designed mobile invoicing app founded in 2002 allowing contractors, tradespeople and other business owners to send out invoices on the go.
Last year, Invoice2go raised $15 million in Series C funding -- making the total capital raised a massive $50 million -- with much of the investment dedicated towards expanding their presence in the fintech sector and developing mobile payment capabilities to be launched this year.
In 2015, it was also one of the first Australians apps and only one of a handful worldwide to launch its app with the Apple Watch in March.
In addition to hitting these incredible milestones, the startup currently attracts more than 200,000 customers worldwide with over $1 billion worth of invoices processed every month.
Digital marketing agency WME has come a long way since it was founded in the bedroom of Nick Bell in 2007.
The startup, which is responsible for providing clients with web design and development services, SEO and SEM strategy as well as social media support, achieved record revenue in 2015 with $22 million in Australia and $46 million globally.
The startup which is self-funded and was named in Deloitte's 2015 Technology Fast 50, currently has 440 employees across eight countries and recently launched a new office in Bangkok, Thailand in October.
It is now Australia's biggest digital marketing agency turning over $45 million with its offices based in Melbourne.
Melbourne tech startup, Unlockd, was one of Australia's hottest startups in 2015 afterlaunching in Australia with Lebara Mobile in October.
The media and telecommunications business came up with an innovative solution to paying phone bills by letting smartphone users watch ads and view content when they unlock their phone in return for credit or data.
Unlockd gives telcos a chance to tap into the phone ad market -- set to hit $100 billion in the next two years -- and has already attracted high profile investors such as Lachlan Murdoch and the Catch of the Day founders, Hezi and Gabby Leibovich.
The company is expected to launch in the US and UK in the first quarter of this year with two top tier telcos, which combined have a total of 60 million plus customers.
Online furniture store Milan Direct rounded off an incredibly successful 2015 after beingacquired by members only shopping club, Temple & Webster, for $20 million in cash and shares.
Founded by Dean Ramler, the startup has grown to be Australia's largest online furniture retailer attracting more than 300,000 customers and having sold over 1,000,000 products nationwide.
Last year, it was ranked by IBIS World as the #1 Retailer in the Online Furniture Space and has even supplied furniture to the 2012 London Olympics as well as the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014.
Milan Direct now sells to over 40 countries with operations in Australia, UK and Europe.
Founded by Philip Weinman, Locomote is a travel and expenses technology platform which simplifies the booking and approval process for business travellers.
The travel management service allows users to manage bookings and approvals, capture expenses as well as discuss and collaborate travel plans, all on the one platform.
In 2015, the startup enjoyed significant growth after signing major global customers such as ANZ, Medibank, Allen & Overy and World Vision and managed corporate trips for more than 200,000 travellers.
Last year, the travel platform also announced its partnership with international workspace company, Regus, as well as a deal with Japan Airlines subdisiary AXESS which was a huge step for the company's plans of global expansion.
2015 was a huge year for business services provider Vocus Communications, founded by James Spenceley.
The company merged with Amcom, creating a ASX200 company worth $1.7 billion.
In November last year, the global telecoms network got the approval of the ACCC to go ahead with their $3.8 million merger with M2 group — which would make it Australia’s fourth largest telecommunications provider.
In 2015, revenue for the company was up 62 per cent to almost $150 million. It now has 3,400 buildings nationally, with a fibre network extending over 1,600 kilometres in Australia and 4,300 kilometres in New Zealand.
Founded by Matt Bullock, eWay is an online payments provider that was launched in 1998 to simplify payment processes.
Based in Canberra, the startup was the first payment provider to offerin Australia and processed close to $6 billion in payments this year which was a record for the company.
Last year, eWay was also seen as the preferred method for online payments by Australians and was responsible for 1 in 4 of all of Australia’s online transactions.
Since its launch 18 years ago, the company has experienced considerable growth and now has operations in eight countries across the world.
WINK Models is one of Australia's leading commercial modelling agencies founded by former model turned agent, Taryn Williams, in 2007.
The company hit huge milestones last year after experiencing a 25% growth in the number of models (clients) represented, a 20% growth in billings as well as reporting an annual revenue of $4 million.
Through its success, the company opened up a new Brisbane office in addition to its Sydney and Melbourne offices as part of its national expansion.
Since starting out as a boutique, WINK Models has grown considerably and now represents over 600 models nationwide.
Home services marketplace, Hipages, has seen incredible success since it was founded by David Vitek and Roby Sharon-Zipser in a garage in 2004.
The startup, focused on shaking up the directory concept, makes it easier to connect homeowners to local tradespeopes such as plumbers, electricians, painters and builders with over 60,000 licensed and verified Australian trade businesses on its platform.
Last year alone, the building and renovation site posted a record $1.35 billion worth of jobs on the marketplace which saw a 44% year on year growth. Prior to this, the company had raised $6 million from investors Ellerston Capital, Right Click Capital, Australian Ethical Investments and Kestrel Capital.
Over 80,000 jobs are now posted on the platform each month an hipages with consumers being connected to a tradie every 37 seconds.


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“Meta Verified” follows Twitter and other social media companies attempting to instill confidence in their services by asking users to pay to prove their identities.
Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, announced on Sunday it would test a paid subscription service.
“Meta Verified,” available in Australia and New Zealand this week, would authenticate users and reward them with a blue badge to show their status.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the subscription would also include extra protection against impersonation and ensure prioritized customer support.
It will cost $11.99 (roughly €11.20) per month on the web or $14.99 a month on Apple’s iOS system and Android.
Other social media subscriptions
It is very similar to Elon Musk’s $8 per month “Twitter Blue” subscription service.
Twitter’s launch last year backfired with an embarrassing spate of fake accounts that scared advertisers and cast doubt on the site’s future.
Musk was forced to briefly suspend the effort before relaunching it to muted reception in December.
Zuckerberg, however, stressed there would be no changes to accounts on Facebook and Instagram that are already verified.
Other social media apps, like Snap Inc’s Snapchat and messaging app Telegram also launched paid subscription services last year, as a new source of revenue.
Meta sales revenue down in 2022
Meta is also under pressure after taking a huge gamble on the metaverse, the virtual reality world that Zuckerberg believes will be the next online frontier.
Earlier this month, Meta posted its first-ever revenue decline since going public in 2012, with sales down by 1% to $116.6 billion last year.
Facebook’s user growth has slowed down but the company also recently announced that the number of daily users on Facebook hit two billion for the first time.
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With chunky off-roaders in vogue, as opposed to soft-roaders, Chery isn’t one to miss the trend. The Traveller, exported as T2, is the Chinese car maker’s latest entrant under its Jetour brand, which originally emerged in the late 2010s.
It’s being sold with the imagery of getting away to the great outdoors, even in China, where the romance of being away from urban jungles is in the Zeitgeist. Whether it can handle the rough stuff is open to question, given it’s a monocoque, and it’s best described, despite its appearance, as a light-duty SUV. However, 40,000 orders have come in since the Traveller was released for sale in China on September 26.
With the option of front- or all-wheel drive, the Traveller is at least geared to on-road usage, with a Borg–Warner torque manager and electronic limited-slip differential, which can switch between modes according to the conditions. The car has MacPherson struts up front and multi-link suspension down the back. Off-road, the strong passenger cell (31,000 Nm/deg torsional stiffness), 220 mm ground clearance, and approach and departure angles (28 and 30 degrees respectively) help it off-road.
Inside is a 15·6 in central control screen and a 10·25 in instrument screen. Engines for the Chinese market are 1·5 or 2·0 petrol, with a plug-in hybrid option featuring the 1·5 on its way.
It’s targeting the Middle East first, with its international début at the Riyadh Motor Show in January 2024, after an April 2023 première on the domestic market in April. First sales after that will be in the UAE.


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In a recent interview, Microsoft’s Phil Spencer talks about the pricing window for the next-generation “Project Scorpio” Xbox console slated for the 2017 holidays. He doesn’t provide any hard figures, but compares Scorpio to the Xbox One S. The post Microsoft’s Phil Spencer teases the pricing window of 2017’s Project Scorpio appeared first on Digital Trends
Are you ready for next week’s Cybathlon, the world’s first ever international sporting competition in which disabled athletes compete using bionic assistive technology? It sounds seriously awesome. The post Cybathlon, the world’s first ‘bionic Olympics, merges tech, disabled athletes appeared first on Digital Trends .
The first season of Marvel’s Luke Cage series on Netflix goes in new directions, but ends up in a good place.
Jeffrey Wright plays a programmer behind the futuristic theme park/world of the epic HBO sci-fi western, Westworld. In this exclusive interview, we learn about the questions the provocative series evokes, and the moral dilemmas it raises in a world already confronting VR and AI. The post ‘Westworld’ tackles the morality of technology, explains star Jeffrey Wright appeared first on Digital Trends .
The LG V20 combines the photographic talent of the V10 and the G5 into one phone, but is this enough for it to be 2016’s winner for LG?
Panasonic has developed a new flexible battery that could one day power devices like bendable smartphones. The tech is currently able to hold between 17.5mAh and 60mAh, and can twist up to 25 degrees. The post Panasonic made a flexible battery that may one day allow for bendable phones appeared first on Digital Trends .
The Que bottle is stylish, 100 percent plastic-free, and collapsible to half its size. Whether you’re a fitness fanatic or a frequent traveller, this water bottle hopes to be a must-have. The post Que is the collapsible water bottle you’ll want for your next hike appeared first on Digital Trends
The newest version of Google Maps adds integration with Calendar, Gmail, and Google Contacts. Upcoming events now appear in maps. Dedicated restaurant albums for food pics are also in tow.
For many attendees, the Land Rover Discovery launch spectacle was as exciting as the new SUV itself. The stage setting was a world-record 42.6-foot-high Lego structure, from which adventurer Bear Grylls rappelled. The post Land Rover launches fifth-gen Discovery from world-record Lego structure appeared first on Digital Trends
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One person was killed and another person was injured in a shooting in a grocery store in Richland, Wash., on Monday morning, the authorities said.
Police officers responded just after 11 a.m. to reports of a shooting inside a Fred Meyer grocery store, Cmdr. Chris Lee of the Richland Police Department told reporters at the scene.
Commander Lee said that the authorities were searching for the gunman, who had fled the store and had not been found. The police circulated a photograph of a bearded man pushing a shopping cart.
“We believe he is armed with a handgun,” Commander Lee said.
It was not clear what had led to the shooting.
“The suspect should be considered armed and dangerous,” the police in Kennewick, Wash., southeast of Richland, said on Twitter.
One person was taken to a hospital, Commander Lee said.
“This is currently an active scene and we ask that individuals avoid the area as the suspect has been located at this time,” Kenna Ladendorf, a crime prevention specialist with the Richland Police Department, said in an interview.
Agents from the Seattle field division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were on their way to assist the Richland police with the shooting investigation, the agency said. A S.W.A.T. team was also at the scene, Commander Lee said.
All of the schools in the Richland School District were on lockdown on Monday afternoon because of the shooting, according to the school district’s website. Richland, a city of about 60,000 residents, is in southeastern Washington.
Fred Meyer, a chain of grocery stores that was founded in Portland, Ore., is owned by the Kroger Co. In a statement, the company said it was “deeply saddened” by the shooting.
“We are cooperating with local law enforcement, who have secured the store and parking lot,” the company said. “The store will remain closed while the police investigation continues, and we have initiated counseling services for our associates.”
Workers at the store voted last fall to unionize after a contested two-year organizing effort.
The shooting at the Fred Meyer store came after several fatal shootings in American grocery stores in the past year.
Last March, 10 people died after a 21-year-old man opened fire in the aisles of a King Soopers store in Boulder, Colo. The next month, a store manager died and two people were injured in a shooting at a Stop & Shop in West Hempstead, N.Y. In June, a toddler and his grandmother were shopping at a Publix supermarket in Royal Palm Beach, Fla., when they were fatally shot by a 55-year-old man who then killed himself.
Giulia Heyward and Patrick J. Lyons contributed reporting.
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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, APhA issued the following release regarding recent news that some pharmacies are moving to cut pharmacy operating hours.
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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The American Pharmacists Association launched a campaign to help small businesses/dispensers with upcoming DSCSA requirements.
Washington, DC—The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) announced the selection of the 2023 APhA Awards and Honors Program recipients today. The APhA Awards and Honors Program is the most comprehensive recognition program in the profession of pharmacy.
The search for APhA’s next CEO has launched with the release of the CEO position specification by the APhA Executive Committee, Search Committee, and executive search firm, Russell Reynolds Associates.
Yesterday, FDA announced modifications to the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for mifepristone (Mifeprex–Danco Labs) that enable pharmacies to become certified to dispense this FDA-approved drug to patients with a prescription, as long as they comply with the certification requirements.


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Microsoft prepares for Vista Service Pack 1
Many consumers and businesses make the decision to stay away from new Windows releases until the first service pack becomes available. According to internal Microsoft emails, the first service pack for Windows Vista could come as early as this year.
Bink.nu posted the email in its entirety which details Microsoft's plans for the service pack and the role that it expects testers to play in the development of the first major update for Vista. Microsoft is looking to tackle "regressions from Windows Vista and Windows XP, security, deployment blockers and other high impact issues are the primary focus for the Service Pack. The Windows TAP team will work with customers to identify and drive these issues."
Microsoft is betting heavily on its customers and partners to ensure that Service Pack 1 is available to customers before the end of 2007. Microsoft lays out these requirements for customers looking to join the Technology Adoption Program (TAP):
Windows Vista was released to business customers on November 30 and will hit retail shelves on January 30. Customers looking to grab a copy of Vista ahead of the official retail launch can grab OEM copies now online.
- Customers must deploy pre-release versions of Service Pack into production environments at each major milestone (Beta, RC, RTM) within 30 days of the milestone release.
- Customers must meet or exceed predetermined deployment count goals for each milestone.
- Customers must actively provide feedback on all builds made available to them through emails, surveys, conference calls, and filing bugs and DCRs.
- Customers must send 1-2 individuals to Redmond for onsite training events.
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HSBC to Offer IMPS for Corporate Customers in India
HSBC India has launched an Interbank Mobile Payment Service (IMPS) for its corporate customers, in partnership with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). IMPS is a payments platform that allows customers to use mobile technology as a channel for accessing their bank accounts and initiate interbank fund transfers in a fast, secure manner. Transfers can be person-to-person (P2P) or person-to-merchant (P2M).
IMPS benefits companies’ receivables function as it provides instant information to the corporate through email and SMS alerts, which will be sent on completion of the transaction. IMPS will also help in reducing the risk and cost associated with other existing modes such as cash and cheques.
Diane Reyes, global head of payments and cash management (PCM) at HSBC, said: “We are partnering with NPCI in this important initiative to help our clients’ improve the experience they can offer their customers. HSBC Group continues to show leadership in mobile payments across Asia. Our commitment to helping clients through IMPS, speeds up the time taken for companies to receive cash – giving treasurers greater clarity and simplicity in running their businesses.”


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Will Ultrabooks dominate the notebook market?
The technology industry is a fickle thing. When tablet computers first entered the market in 2010, many industry observers questioned whether people would get on board with yet another computing device. Nearly two years later, tablets have become a staple in the technology industry, and now many are wondering whether traditional notebook computers can stay relevant in the wake of the new mobile device on the block.
Similar to the tablet, the Ultrabook is lightweight and slender, able to fit easily into a backpack, purse or briefcase. It also features a physical keyboard, like a traditional laptop, meaning users are afforded a level of familiarity with the device.
However, the technology isn't simply an amalgamation between the tablet and laptop. Each Ultrabook is based on a specially designed processor from Intel® that boasts performance as well as energy efficiency. Additionally, upcoming models are expected to include capabilities not commonly featured on either tablets or laptops, such as near-field communication technology.
Intel says it expects the Ultrabook to account for 40 percent of consumer laptop sales in 2012. If this proves to be true, the Ultrabook could be poised to dominate the notebook market for some time.


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You might see advertisements on YouTube Shorts soon
YouTube introduced ‘Shorts’ back in 2020, as a new video format and viewing experience intended to directly compete with TikTok and Instagram Reels. However, Shorts are mostly only helpful for creators as a way to draw people to their regular YouTube videos, because Shorts can’t generate ad revenue. That is now starting to change, as Google has started testing advertisements in Shorts.
Google’s chief business officer Philipp Schindler told investors about the limited test on Tuesday, according to a report from Bloomberg. The current test mainly involves ads for application installs, but the company is also testing other ad formats. Schindler said on the call, “While it’s still early days, we’re encouraged by initial advertiser feedback and results.” It’s not clear if the current advertising test gives creators a share of revenue, like AdSense on traditional YouTube videos.
Even though Shorts first arrived in 2020, it didn’t roll out to all creators in the United States until May of last year. This also isn’t the first time Shorts have been potentially monetizable — the company has offered limited access fund programs for creators making Shorts, which paid up to $10,000 for the largest channels. TikTok offers a similar Creator Fund, which rewards popular creators in the U.S., UK, Germany, Italy, France, and Spain.
Google confirmed on the same call that YouTube Shorts now has 30 billion daily views, which sounds impressive, but it’s worth resembling that most Shorts are only a few seconds long (with a maximum length of 60 seconds). You could easily watch a hundred Shorts within a few minutes, depending on what the almighty algorithm thinks you might want to watch.
No one has quite figured out the best way to monetize short-form videos in a way that also properly pays creators — the TikTok Creator Fund reportedly has much lower pay rates than someone could make from similar content on YouTube.


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Automobili Lamborghini SpA, owned by Germany’s Volkswagen AG , however, sees long-term potential in the nascent Indian market and hopes better-than-expected sales in the United States, its biggest market, will offset the China sales slowdown, Chief Executive Stephan Winkelmann said.
“Unfortunately, there are not so many Chinas around the corner. And China for us is a challenge right now,” Winkelmann told reporters in New Delhi. In China Lamborghini sales have slowed to around 200 cars in 2013. The China slowdown is due in part to the new political leadership’s campaign against lavish spending and gifting. Super luxury brands, such as Lamborghini, are seen as especially vulnerable to the crackdown on lavish spending as pricey sports cars have come to symbolize corruption in China.
Although the Indian economy has slowed over the last year, luxury carmakers see tremendous growth potential in the country, which, according to the Boston Consulting Group, had 164,000 millionaire households in 2012. “This is an opportunity we see for our future. And we hope that sooner or later, in terms of taxation, in terms of infrastructure, this is going to be easier to market, and then you have the opportunity to grow in numbers,” Winkelmann said. Annual sales of luxury cars in India stand at just about 1 percent of the total car market, compared with around 7 percent in China.
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Lloyds parent company: 'We believe pharmacies will close'
The chief of LloydsPharmacy’s parent company has said the new Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework is “neither as good as we hoped nor as bad as we feared” and that he expects the number of pharmacies in England to reduce in line with the Government expectations hinted at in the CPCF, though he did not confirm whether any LloydsPharmacy closures are planned.
Speaking to Pharmacy Magazine, McKesson UK CEO Toby Anderson said the “additional clinical elements” that were announced in the new five-year settlement would help the community pharmacy sector “demonstrate our role in integrated healthcare” and that the multi-year commitment “provides more certainty about future funding”.
“However, flat funding is a cut in real terms,” he said.
‘We believe pharmacies will close’
The Government's flat funding decision comes at a time when high street businesses are under pressure due to factors such as shifting consumer behaviour patterns and “ever-increasing costs” such as business rates, said Mr Anderson.
He said community pharmacy “isn’t immune from these factors and has the additional challenge of funding restriction,” and offered his view that “those businesses that aren’t responding quickly enough to the changing environment will continue to be challenged financially”.
Mr Anderson noted that the DHSC has said “the number of community pharmacies needs to reduce and we believe that will happen,” adding that he hoped this would “be achieved in a controlled way so that vulnerable patients weren’t adversely impacted”.
When asked whether he expected any of his own company’s pharmacies to close in the coming years, he replied: “As far as LloydsPharmacy is concerned, we regularly review our estate and make appropriate commercial decisions including buying and selling pharmacies. We need to operate our stores profitably and sustainably.”
In a May conference call, McKesson CFO Britt Vitalone said the company was “working to reinforce and accelerate our UK restructuring through further closures of retail pharmacy stores and cost management efforts throughout Europe”.
“Don’t lose out on services funding”
Mr Anderson said McKesson was “currently reviewing the full extent of the new contract” and understanding how pharmacy teams would be supported through a mixture of regional leadership and central support.
He explained that the company has set up a working group to determine how it will implement the contract and what training store personnel will require.
“Like all contractors, we need to ensure that we are in a position to introduce the new services so that we don’t lose out on the funding available,” he added.
Mr Anderson said investing in technology such as automated dispensing and an online pharmacy service would help free up pharmacists’ capacity “to do more of the things they are trained to do”.
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Global Ad Spending To Surpass $584 Billion In 2017
Worldwide spending on paid media is expected to reach $584.14 billion in 2017, reports digital marketing researchers eMarketer, and by 2021, annual advertising spending should stand at $757.44 billion, driven for the most part by advertisers’ investments in mobile formats. Over the course of its forecast, eMarketer expects ad spending growth rates of between 4.9 percent and 8.3 percent.
eMarketer also anticipates North America to stay as the top advertising market through 2021, with growth of 5.2 percent in 2017. While behind the global growth rate of seven percent in 2017, the North American market is more established than most regions. Looking ahead, North America’s growth rate should remain healthy, with a noticeable bump in 2020 due to the U.S. presidential elections and Summer Olympics.
Abroad, Argentina, China, India, Indonesia and Ireland are expected to report the fastest ad spending growth rate in 2017, while Finland, France, Hong Kong and Singapore will turn in the slowest. eMarketer also forecasts that in 2019, rapid digital ad growth in India and China will push the Asia-Pacific region’s total spending ahead of North America.


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Hurricane Sandy blew these stores into bankruptcy.
The company that operates Mandee and Annie Sez declared Chapter 11 last night, saying it can’t pay the bills because its insurance companies won’t cough up the cash owed from millions in hurricane-related claims, The Post has learned.
“If the insurance companies had been working with us through the process, we wouldn’t be in this position,” Alan Mandelbaum, the CEO of Big M. Inc, told The Post this morning. “We’re very disappointed. We were making significant progress.”
New Jersey-based Big M plans to keep its 129 stores open through the reorganization process while fighting for reimbursement from insurance carriers, totaling more than $6 million. There are no immediate plans to cut any of Big M’s 1,200 jobs.
Big M had been making a comeback through most of 2012 and was on track to turning a $1.9 million profit – a dramatic improvement from its $8 million loss the previous year, executives said. Then the monster hurricane hit, forcing Big M to shut its corporate offices and distribution center in Totowa, NJ, for a week. Sandy also caused major disruptions in sales and inventory heading into the retailer’s critical Christmas season.


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Country Range, the UK’s leading independent foodservice provider, has launched a six strong range of desserts in time for the Christmas period.
The new range, which is suitable for vegetarians, features – a Chocolate and Raspberry Bar Gateau, Salted Caramel Profiterole Bar Gateau, a Fig and Pistachio Cheesecake, a Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie, a Dark Chocolate and Cherry Cheesecake, and a Cox Apple and Blackberry Pudding.
The luxurious frozen finished products are exclusively available through Country Range Group wholesalers.
Martin Ward, Trading Director of the Country Range Group, said: “We’re delighted to unleash these six fabulous desserts on the foodservice sector in time for the Festive season and are expecting strong interest from caterers and operators over the coming month. Christmas is about indulgence so it’s important caterers can offer something extra special and these desserts are exactly that.”


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HANOI, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam imported 922,000 tons of paper worth 862 million U.S. dollars in the first half of this year, posting respective year-on-year decreases of 5.8 percent and 5.3 percent, the Vietnam Pulp and Paper Association said on Thursday.
Last month alone, the country imported 1150,000 tons of paper worth 1150 million U.S. dollars, mainly from China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea and Thailand, up 1.9 percent in volume but down 0.3 percent in value against June 2018.
Vietnam spent 1.9 billion U.S. dollars importing nearly 2.1 million tons of paper of various kinds, including waste paper last year, witnessing respective year-on-year rises of 14.2 percent and 6.1 percent.
Vietnam's demand for paper of all kinds is estimated to annually grow 8-10 percent in the near future, the association said, adding that country exported nearly 1.1 billion U.S. dollars worth of finished paper products and certain paper materials in 2018, mainly to China, the United States and Japan.
Vietnam's paper consumption per capita is around 51 kilograms per annum, compared to the world average of 58 kilograms, the association said, predicting that the domestic demand for paper will continue to annually rise 8-10 percent.
Vietnam's paper industry has gained average annual growth of 10-12 percent, with packaging paper sales increasing 15-17 percent, the association said, noting that the domestic demand for packaging, tissue, writing and printing paper is likely to expand by around 15 percent in 2019.
The country currently has some 1150 paper enterprises, mostly small, medium and household businesses.


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by Marc Hurwitz
What was once a local chain of seafood restaurants will officially disappear from the landscape next month.
According to a source, Naked Fish in Waltham is closing, with a Facebook post from The Waltham Channel confirming this, indicating that the Totten Pond Road eatery will shut down for good on December 22. The note says that one reason for its closure is the "changing restaurant business" and that other dining spots have shown interest in the space, though no names have been given as of yet.
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At its peak, Naked Fish had a number of locations in and around the Greater Boston area, including in Billerica, Boston, Framingham, Hingham, Lynnfield, Quincy, Waltham, Watertown, and Westborough; the Waltham location has been in business for 19 years.
The address for the soon-to-close location of Naked Fish in Waltham is 455 Totten Pond Road, Waltham, MA, 02451.
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A MAN has been charged with receiving stolen goods following a raid on a men's clothing store.
The 31-year-old man will appear in court following an investigation into a burglary at The Buttery Store in Park Road, Westcliff, in November last year.
The man, who id from Westcliff, was arrested in January along with two others.
He has beenbailed to appear at Southend Magistrates Court on March 4.
The other two men, aged 31 and 37 from Southend have been released from their bail without charge.


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The UK’s trade deal with Australia is close to completion, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack has revealed.
It comes after MSPs at Holyrood debated the potential tariff-free trade deal which they claim will set a “damaging precedent” for future deals.
Mr Jack said he has been involved in discussions around the post-Brexit trade deal, which he said are nearing completion.
Speaking to BBC Scotland’s Sunday Show, he said: “We’re very close and it’s going to be a very good deal for the UK.
“I think it will also take us into the Trans-Pacific Partnership, it’s gateway deal into that, which is a huge, huge opportunity for Scotland’s food and drink industry.”
However, a number of organisations in the sector signed a joint letter expressing concern about the negotiations, claiming they have been rushed and could set a bad precedent.
Mr Jack said the UK Government will not discuss the details of the negotiation in public but said there are “safeguards” built into the trade deal.
He added: “We won’t be taking chlorinated chicken in any trade deal we do, that’s illegal in the UK.
“We won’t be taking hormone-induced beef, that’s illegal.
“We will have safeguards built in around the amount of product coming so we won’t see the market swamped or dramatic price reductions.”
The Scottish Secretary denied the deal would set a precedent for others such as the US.
He said: “We’re very clear it’s not a precedent and trade deals around the world are done on a bespoke basis.”
The SNP’s Jim Fairlie, MSP for Perthshire South and Kinross-shire, who is a farmer, led a debate about the proposed trade deal at Holyrood earlier this week.
He said a tariff-free deal could have a “devastating impact” on the industry and could put some farmers out of business.
Earlier this week, Scottish Rural Affairs Secretary Mairi Gougeon wrote to UK International Trade Secretary Liz Truss to seek an urgent meeting on the deal.
She said: “In their letter, industry representatives have raised concerns at the lack of consultation and have asked that you publish an assessment of the cumulative impact of FTAs with Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States.
“The Scottish Government would echo their ask.
“It is also clear that industry representatives share the same concerns that I raised in my earlier correspondence on animal welfare, environmental and food safety standards.”


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Samsung, Panasonic Debuted Jetbot90AI+ Cleaner, 110" microLED TV, and More
Samsung is always one of the hottest presentations at CES, and this year is no different. During its presentation, the company took on the challenge of helping the world achieve not just a "new, but a better normal" in the age of pandemics and crisis. Through Samsung's AI and smart technology innovation, it hopes to build users' homes into their own, private sanctuaries.
Panasonic is also pushing bespoke technology of its own — with an emphasis on air purifiers capable of preventing infections — including the COVID-19 virus — from causing home in contained spaces.
UPDATE Jan. 11, 10:30 AM EST: Samsung's JZ2000 OLED 4K TV, super low-latency, AI optimization
The JZ2000 OLED — announced just before CES2021 — will be Panasonic’s flagship 4K TV for 2021. The TV boasts super low-latency for gaming and even AI-powered picture optimization in real-time. The input lag is even down to 14.4 ms for a seamless gaming experience.
UPDATE Jan. 11, 10:25 AM EST: V2X open safety platform
Panasonic’s V2X platform will allow vehicles to communicate with the department of transportation servers to streamline the flow of traffic and improve emergency response. The system offers an interface for connected automobiles to interface with external systems, which is vital to smart cities and smart roadways of the future.
UPDATE Jan. 11, 10:20 AM EST: Panasonic's Spydr car computer
Panasonic announced the Spydr car computer ecosystem at CES 2021. This next-generation e-cockpit device creates a cohesive ecosystem for the automotive space. The system can power up to 11 displays. The Spydr system is what Panasonic sees as the system that will power the future of automotive technology.
UPDATE Jan. 11, 10:18 AM EST: World’s first virtual safari at Illuminarium
Panasonic has partnered with Illuminarium — an environmental attraction and event company — to create the world’s first virtual safari. The safari allows visitors to experience wild animals up-close and personal, all on Panasonic’s premiere projector line, of course.
UPDATE Jan. 11, 10:15 AM EST: Hussman Smart Exchange Locker
Hussman, a division of Panasonic, created a smart exchange locker for grocery pick-up that even has refrigerated storage for groceries. This exchange locker allows for seamless — and contactless — grocery pickup in stores that utilize the tech; something particularly useful in the age of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Panasonic's Nanoe X air purification
Panasonic has developed an air-filtration technology — capable of inhibiting the spread of viruses and bacteria in the air, including the COVID-19 coronavirus. Called "Nanoe X air purification," the patented technology uses nano-technology to filter out air pollutants, while always remaining whisper-quiet. The technology can be implemented into existing heating and air ventilation systems, helping improve indoor air quality.
Samsung's 'Bespoke' fridge line
Samsung’s idea of a "better normal for all" starts with some of its new technology. Of note is the company's new fridge and kitchen line, called "Bespoke," which is arguably one of the most stylish kitchen appliances to ever hit the market. This fridge line allows for customization and modularity, making one's fridge more of a style choice than just another appliance.
Samsung’s TV lineup, 110-inch microLED
Samsung announced a new ultra-large microLED TV, that is available in sizes up to 110 inches (279.4 cm).
While this raises the question of who on Earth could or should want a screen this large, Samsung has answered with a new use case that might make it more feasible. Its software allows the TV to be split up into four smaller screens, perfect for multitasking.
Samsung is focused heavily on software in the kitchen. The company's new apps and connected software integrate meal planning into the refrigerator, allowing users to make grocery lists and even have the groceries delivered through partner apps. The internet of things has hit the kitchen harder than ever before thanks to Samsung’s new tech.
Samsung Smart Trainer
In the absence of being able to go to gyms in the pandemic era, Samsung has developed Smart Trainer, which allows users to get their full workout right in their living room — all the while being guided through the workout by a trainer on their massive 110-inch Samsung TV.
This dive into home health seems like a natural step for Samsung, all under the theme of creating a “better normal for all.”
Smart vacuum cleaner, Jetbot90AI+ with LiDAR detectors
Samsung unveiled a new smart vacuum cleaner at CES2021 that incorporates an AI accompanying LiDAR detectors. This sensor and AI technology allows the vacuum to navigate and clean your home without bumping into things, allowing it to carefully avoid breakables.
The vacuum also has a camera on it, making it more of a home-robot assistant than just a vacuum. For example, the vacuum can be used to check on pets while you’re out of the house, or monitor the home for safety.
The vacuum of course can also fully unload itself when it’s done cleaning like most of the premiere robot vacuums of today can do too. The robot will be available in the U.S. in the first half of 2021.
Samsung Bot Handy care to 'fill gaps' of daily life
Samsung took a deeper dive into futuristic robotic tech, creating a robot that can take care of you at home. A line of robots with arms and AI technology could be taking care of users at home in the future. One of the company's robots is even capable of putting away the dishes with its robotic arm.
These robots bridge the gap between smart speakers of today and the physical realm, allowing for a physical robot that moves around the house to work alongside eveyone through the day.
Samsung announced an improved Galaxy Upcycling program that allows users to transform old Galaxy devices into small computers for various uses around the home. The program pairs galaxy devices with new sensors. For example, users could transform their old Galaxy devices into baby monitors, fish tank water monitors, and even more applications as hardware use cases are expanded by independent developers.
University of Cambridge researchers designed radiation-resistant ultrathin solar cells that could improve spacecraft for harsher environments and could help in the search for life on Jupiter's Europa.


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The Harvard Business Review finds more than 75% of brands have a dedicated budget for influencer marketing, and a study from social media resource Influencer Marketing Hub said the industry is expected to grow $21.1 billion this year.


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I’m sure your inbox is filling-up with GDPR related emails (just like ours) as the deadline marches ever closer and businesses scramble to get their houses in order.
But with barely a month remaining, many organisations are still underprepared, as a recent survey by analytics software company SAS shows.
Only 49% of global organisations surveyed said they expect to comply when GDPR takes effect on 25 May. In the UK, the figure is a little higher, at 54%, while our US counterparts are unsurprisingly less prepared, with only 30% expecting to comply.
David Smith, head of GDPR Technology ar SAS UK & Ireland, stresses the need for action “At this point, senior leadership needs to take ownership of getting the whole company on board, from IT to operations, to make sure that all personal data is accurately located and appropriately handled.”
Although most businesses don’t expect to be ready, the vast majority are working towards compliance, with 93% of respondents saying they have a plan in place or expect to have one. But the time has come for action, as businesses large and small must face up to the reality of GDPR.
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Digital currencies have spread their wings into global fora, and the nation requires vision to avoid missed opportunities
Cryptocurrencies have become synonymous with quick money, being cool, and participating in the future, which has impacted the minds of the current generation. Even with increased consumer awareness, trading platforms, informative literature and numerous advertisements, cryptos are not legal tender in India. It is a combination of scepticism among lawmakers and consumers, and the volatility of the indices, that have staggered the sudden spike that we witnessed a while ago.
Learning the basics
To begin with, we must try and understand the basics of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Simply put, blockchain is a type of database that stores data in blocks chained together. Every time a new data input is made to a fresh block and the block gets filled up, it gets chained onto the previous block that already hosts data in chronological order. It is so well designed that it can process copious volumes of data and be accessed and manipulated quickly from anywhere by any number of users.
Cryptocurrency is essentially a digital or virtual currency that relies upon cryptography for security. Several known cryptocurrencies premise themselves on decentralised blockchain technology, a distributed ledger enforced by a disparate network of computers. The decentralised technology stores the currency information in blocks, thus providing safe and secure storage without the necessity of a national bank for accounting and retention purposes.
Anonymity and security are the buzzwords associated with cryptocurrency and have also proliferated the growth of private cryptocurrencies, which use novel tactics such as stealth addresses, and ring signatures to hide a user’s real wallet balance and address. Foreign jurisdictions (South Korea and the US) have restricted private cryptocurrency trading or developing tools to remove the secrecy of transactions conducted through private networks.
Several jurisdictions have been reluctant to impose reactionary restrictions on cryptocurrency trading, owing to the pervasive amounts of investment already secured by such technologies, standing at USD2.3 trillion globally as of 15 December. Furthermore, blockchain technology is rooted in decentralised ledgers, which may render any reactionary ban or embargo futile. People will always rely on ingenious methods to continue accessing such exchanges and ledgers situated outside the country.
In China recently, cryptocurrency mining and trading were both outlawed. This ban was applicable across natural and juristic persons, and resulted in several entities shifting their businesses and setups outside the country. For the period between the distinct bans being implemented, individual users also migrated to foreign exchanges to maintain their investments.
However, while China did weed out the rampant proliferation of cryptocurrencies from their soil, citing environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns as reasons for the ban, there is still a heavy dependency on the use and deployment of the decentralised ledger technology.
Across the border in India, the tale is not very different. Earlier, in 2018, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had imposed a ban on banking and financial institutions from trading in cryptocurrencies, and did not ban the instruments per se. With several homegrown companies offering solutions and currencies stemming from this technology, there was a split between the “adopters” and “naysayers”, and this action of the banking regulator was challenged before the Supreme Court. The legal tussle yielded in the apex court directing the RBI to withdraw the ban, and opened up the floodgates for Indian and foreign exchanges to pursue large-scale operations.
While countries like El Salvador proceeded with adopting a particular cryptocurrency to be accepted as legal tender, India witnessed a continued struggle for an effective bargain between deregulation and complete embargo. The proposed Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2021, was scheduled to be introduced during the winter session of the parliament, amid ambiguity on the government’s stance towards the regulation of cryptocurrencies.
The bill is posed to create a facilitative framework for creating an official digital currency to be introduced by the RBI, and to prohibit all private cryptocurrencies in India. However, from how it appears, there is a possibility that there could be an allowance made for certain exceptions to promote the underlying technology of cryptocurrency and its uses. Owing to the disparity between user demands, entities and the discussions that the government intends to make, it appears that the bill will not be legislated before the end of this year.
In India, the bill recognises the reliance of several sectors, including the financial sector, on blockchain technology, and there is an intention to allow continued use of the underlying technology across several sectors and industries. This is similar to the developments in China. Even the premier government think tank has issued strategy notes discussing the adoption and implementation of blockchain across sectors.
Certain prevalent issues that the government has also acknowledged in India arise because blockchain technologies (some of them) allow for anonymity in their transactions. This becomes a roadblock for the banking and financial sector, where the non-repudiation concept is baked into the consumer journey, which will not be realised for blockchain-based cryptocurrency.
As the financial sector also has other obligations to be met with – in respect of anti-money laundering provisions, know-your-customer obligations, combating of financing of terrorism, and likewise – it could be difficult for technology providers to meet these elements in a uniform manner across their customers.
Given how the technology works, there is the potential of information being stored across nodes on a blockchain network outside the Indian territorial jurisdiction. This will defeat data localisation requirements currently in place, which may come to be should there be the adoption of blockchain technology for banking and financial services. Therefore, any regulation of cryptocurrency will invariably create a ripple effect across other sectoral laws, including but not limited to data privacy and statutory compliance, among others.
Moving away from a complete ban on transactions related to cryptocurrencies, the RBI has come around to accepting that virtual currencies are here to stay. This has resulted in a stated intent to introduce its own version of virtual currency. The proposed bill will have to address this expression of intent and may clarify the presently prevailing confusion around the interplay between existing investments in cryptocurrencies on the one hand, and the virtual currencies that may be issued by the central bank or the regulator on the other.
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are being considered across several jurisdictions to curb the frenzy among investors willing to partake in this dynamic economic venture. The CBDCs typically act as the virtual form of fiat currency, as issued and regulated by the central banking authorities. The intention is to ease the distribution of benefits or calculation and collection of taxes.
Before one decides on taxation, at this juncture it is also important to note that there are different schools of thought on whether cryptocurrencies should be classified as a security or commodity, with several jurisdictions devising novel methodologies.
For instance, the US implements the Howey Test to determine whether a financial instrument will be considered an investment contract, and therefore, a security. The regulation of cryptocurrency as a security would lead to greater oversight and engender greater customer confidence.
In view of the discussions and the anticipated legislation, it will be left to the course of the market and the regulations to decide, and evaluate whether the creation and adoption of a CBDC is the right way forward, and whether to assess this opportunity as one that generates revenue and taxes for the public exchequer.
With the volumes of investment that have been parked by Indians, a complete ban would lead to an opportunity lost. For something that is here to stay, and will most likely find wings to soar high, it is best suited that the RBI, alongside the introduction of the CBDC, also identifies cryptocurrencies as a class that can be taxed and regulated, or at least used as a valid means of trade across sectors.
At a time when the RBI is moving towards tokenisation and tap-and-pay systems, walking away from this might not lead to the desired results.
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Apple Has Finally Fixed The Annoying Telugu Character Bug Which Was Crashing iPhones Last Week
Apple has released a series of software updates for all four of its operating systems—iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS—to fix an issue with its keyboard that was crashing messaging apps on all four kinds of devices.
The issue led to all sort of mayhem over the past few days, and it was all down to a Telugu character.
Last week, reports began emerging that a Telugu character was crashing messaging apps on the iPhone. Sending or even receiving the character in a chat caused the app to force close repeatedly. Apple’s new updates for iOS 11.2.6, watchOS 4.2.3, tvOS 11.2.6, and macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 Supplemental Update supposedly fix that bug, so it’s advisable to go ahead and download them right now.
If you think a Telugu character on an iPhone wouldn’t be widely used, you’d be partially correct. Of course, you’re not considering how much trolls like to ruin everyone else’s day. When the news of the glitch emerged, some people began trolling by posting the character to Twitter, causing Apple devices across the world to basically crash.
Just to be clear, the updates won’t bring you any new features, security additions, or other bugfixes. It’s just a quick patch to fix this Telugu bug, which should be enough to tell you what a problem it can be, so hurry up and go download it.


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Background week, America’s most remarkable dating internet site to possess cheat couples had eggs on their deal with once hackers grabbed many users’ recommendations you to try private. New drawn study apparently included names and borrowing from the bank credit https://besthookupwebsites.org/onlylads-review/ recommendations, images, and you will intimately direct speak logs.
The fresh hackers objected so you’re able to Ashley Madison’s fairly doubtful enterprize model, in addition they tried to blackmail the website towards shutting off.
Ashley Madison would not suspend the actions, now the hackers seem to have retaliated by the initiating the new fresh new pulled study on line. Whenever you are Ashley Madison have not theoretically confirmed the newest data’s dependability, it appears genuine. Which is going to cause acid reflux with the large numbers from folks who are starting profile on the website.
Ashley Madison provides courted controversy of your own position in itself given that an excellent webpages for people seeking to cheat to their partners. Centered in 2001, this site says it has 37 million profiles worldwide. The new web site’s motto was “Life is quick. Keeps an event.”
It has got replaced to the their notoriety to draw users. Last year Ashley Madison tried to rating a television promote from inside the the newest Awesome Bowl, nonetheless give is basically rejected. Although rejection in itself got enough drive, and the promote ended up starting to be more than just so many pageviews for the YouTube. The organization along with discovered to find naming liberties for the Meadowlands stadium, in which the New york giants and you may Jets take pleasure in, yet not, is basically rebuffed.
The company about the site, Serious Life Mass media, in addition to features more other sites, plus Established Males, an internet site one links female which have “profitable and enormous benefactors to meet up the fresh life requires.”
Hackers threatened to share user look unless of course the website change regarding
A great hacker classification contacting by itself the feeling People hacked your website, a buddies associate affirmed in order to copywriter Brian Krebs in the July. This new hackers said they had acquired user information away from Ashley Madison and some quicker internet dating sites owned by Dedicated Life News.
“Severe Lives Development could have been trained when deciding to take Ashley Madison and Dependent People out-of-line permanently in almost any sizes,” the brand new hacker classification wrote into the a statement lay-out to your July. In the event that ALM cannot pursue, “we shall release most of the people information, and you will users utilizing the customers’ wonders sexual goals and you will coordinating credit card sales, legitimate brands and addresses, and you can staff data and you may emails.”
ALM cannot shut down the brand new worthwhile webpages, today brand new hackers appear to have then followed by way of with the the brand new possibility. Ashley Madison has not yet officially affirmed their taken info is genuine. However, to date, you will find the new indication it is.
The fresh new released data files are practically 10 gigabytes in proportions, and “apparently are security passwords and log-in for many 30-a few billion users,” considering Wired.
“I know there clearly was countless AshleyMadison users who need these were maybe not hence, but there is most of the indication which defeat ‘s the real thing,” the fresh new author Brian Krebs wrote on the Wednesday .
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And additionally inquiring people that utilize the site, Ashley Madison and produced currency by charging you users $20 to totally erase counsel regarding the website.
But in an announcement agreed to Krebs, the fresh hackers told you this particular service never performs. “Complete Delete netted ALM $step one.7mm within the bucks after you view the new 2014. Additionally, it is a complete sit,” brand new hacking class composed. “Users generally spend having charge card; their get details commonly eliminated perfectly, you need to include genuine name and address, that is naturally the first advice the brand new profiles require eliminated.”
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The brand new period of the cheat is largely such as for instance awkward to own Serious Life since the organization got seeking to wade social. Yet not, the company told you this new questionable business design helps make raising currency tough. “Europe ‘s truly the only region the place you find a bona-fide choices to carry out a passionate IPO,” the organization told you in an interview with Bloomberg, on account of a lot more liberal considering to the adultery in order to the location.
This new deceive and the crappy exposure it delivered has actually most likely scared away many out of existing and you may new clients. Eager Existence have attempted to secure the wreck by creating new registration removal ability totally free. However, in case your hacked info is genuine, then one horse is beyond your barn. And then people are not hold off prior to entrusting their private information to your team.
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Interview with Bill Lichtensteiger, Director of Communications Technology at Landis+Gyr.
Across the world, a new field of innovation is opening up, spurred by alliances between utility and technology companies, working with Internet of Things solutions that promise to profoundly change business practices, processes and delivery of services. Landis+Gyr is seeking ways to use IoT technologies to bring added benefits to the core business of utility companies and society as a whole.
Is Internet of Things a game changer?
Bill Lichtensteiger: The Internet of Things today is still more of a vision than a reality, since there is no clear and commonly agreed definition of what it actually is. In fact, I believe it is becoming over-hyped. This is evidenced by the many research studies forecasting the many billions of devices that will be connected together in this new market of the Internet of Things. My view is that we are at the beginning of a new future, to be delivered by a large number of standards organizations and industry alliances, developing IoT technology for the benefit of industry, consumers and society.
In terms of scale, estimates of the number of installed connected devices vary from a low of under five billion to around 50 billion by 2020, according to various research companies. Whatever the eventual figure, the speed of projected adoption over the next five years is truly incredible.
What do you see as the significant trends in IoT development of products, services and usage?
Bill Lichtensteiger: IoT can be used in a variety of applications including smart grids, smart gadgets, smart homes, smart farming, smart cities, smart transport and smart healthcare. IoT applications can be broadly distinguished in terms of end-user segment, namely industrial or consumer. Prospects for both segments are looking good.
Although it is difficult to predict what the next big IoT success will be, I expect there will likely be several trends. Common application languages will emerge which enable things from different domains to intercommunicate, thereby allowing innovative solutions and services to develop. Another general trend is the intelligence that will be applied to the large amounts of data being collected from things. This intelligence will be increasingly added down at the communication infrastructure level and not just at the head end, as is customary today, which would help improve performance and efficiency.
How does Landis+Gyr support the policy and regulatory organizations in creating frameworks necessary for IoT implementation?
Bill Lichtensteiger: Landis+Gyr is progressing its vision of IoT by working with other experts and researchers in the key relevant standards organizations and industry alliances in order to help define the architectural frameworks and application languages for use with IoT. For example, we are part of the IEEE P2413 workgroup and also members of the Alliance for IoT Innovation (AIOTI), which was established by the European Commission with the aim of creating a dynamic European IoT ecosystem.
What does Landis+Gyr do to ensure that IoT technologies provide a real step-change for utility companies?
Bill Lichtensteiger: Landis+Gyr is preparing its energy management solutions and communications infrastructure for IoT. Many energy companies have already embraced the IoT concept and started using the same communication networks for different applications such as smart metering, smart grid and street lighting, or connecting a Landis+Gyr smart meter on an AMI network to a SCADA-based distribution management system. In some cases, gas utilities can leverage electricity AMI networks for gas meter reading. We also mine data from smart grid applications to help utilities manage their various operations such as outage management or distributed energy resource management more efficiently.
What is the impact of IoT technologies on utilities?
Bill Lichtensteiger: While it is perhaps too early to determine the financial benefits of IoT adoption, we are likely to see increased openness, greater cost efficiency and flexibility in the way utility customers do things and the entry of new companies providing new services. Hopefully, utilities will welcome their newfound abilities to manage data more flexibly and work with other companies in new ways to drive service innovation. The availability of IoT technologies will enable utilities to provide a richer, wider and more enhanced energy management experience for consumers. Market forces, increased public interest, government regulations and product availability will encourage IoT adoption by utilities as a customer retention marketing tool. In addition, IoT technology will help cut costs, improve efficiencies and reduce grid constraints. By using IoT in smart grids, utilities will be able to mitigate fluctuations in renewable energy generation caused by changing weather conditions. IoT is not a product, but more a driver and a framework for new product and solution development. It opens the gateway to a new exciting innovation playground.
For Landis+Gyr, these are exciting times for innovation and the application of dedicated new IoT-enabled products and services especially designed for the global power sector. While for the utilities themselves, a whole new world of opportunities is opening up!
About Bill Lichtensteiger
Bill Lichtensteiger is the Director of Communications Technology at Landis+Gyr where he is responsible for the global coordination of communication technologies within the Landis+Gyr Group. Bill Lichtensteiger has over 30 years of experience in engineering and business development, managing product management as well as research and development teams, developing hi-tech business and delivering advanced communication technology products and solutions to customers.


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Harman Kardon is releasing a new smart speaker that’ll support Google Assistant called the Citation 500. It’ll be shown for the first time at IFA 2018, and it will be available for preorder in Europe at the end of September.
The speaker comes in gray and black wool cover options, similar to the fabric-wrapped Google Home speakers. What’s not similar is the cost: the Citation 500 is priced at £549, or approximately $700 USD. That’s about $300 more expensive than the Google Home Max, making it one of the most expensive Google Assistant speakers yet. (There are still the absurdly expensive $1,750 Bang & Olufsen Beosound 1 and 2 to beat.)
The Citation 500 has 200W stereo speakers and can support 24 bit/96Khz high-definition audio streaming….


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English rugby union side London Wasps has announced a four-year kit deal with apparel company Kukri Sports.
Under terms of the agreement, which will run until the end of the 2015/16 rugby season, Kukri will supply the Aviva Premiership side with playing and training kit and will also take charge of the club's retail operations.
Though financial terms were not released, based on agreements of a similar nature Kukri Sports' overall commitment to London Wasps is estimated to be worth roughly US$800,000 annually.
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"This is a fantastic partnership for the club with a young brand who have brought some exciting ideas and plans to the table," said London Wasps chief executive Chris Thomas. "We are looking to the future very positively at London Wasps and the club has ambitious plans in place, so it is pleasing to go forward with an equally ambitious partner such as Kukri. We have worked hard together in recent months to develop fresh looking kit and merchandise and we look forward to unveiling these in the coming months.”
Kukri Sports founder and group managing director Phil Morris added, "Kukri are really proud to have been chosen to partner London Wasps. The club have an amazing heritage and are truly one of the few global icons of rugby, so this is a wonderful endorsement for our brand to become their supplier. Kukri looks forward to showing the fans our range of fresh and exciting merchandise in which we can all support the club and team in what promises to be a fascinating new season.”
According to an official press release, ' The new home kit will be worn for the first time on the 13th of July when the squad will wear the Kukri kit at the JP Morgan Asset Management Sevens. The new away kit will be revealed in August ahead of the team’s pre-season friendly matches as they gear up for the 2012-13 season in the Aviva Premiership.'


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Question: What segment of the market has $600 to spend on a smart phone but hasn’t ever bought an iPod or any other product from Apple?
Answer: Corporate executives and managers, account executives, small business owners, and professionals — just about all of whom use Microsoft Windows and software. (The rest of the population that can afford one — the younger generation, consumers, and early adopters — all had iPods before the advent of the iPhone, and many are Mac users.)
Now think about the survey that found that three of 10 Apple iPhone buyers were first-time Apple customers, and 40% had never before bought an iPod. Those people are all Microsoft customers (or, perhaps, former Microsoft customers). This explains why Microsoft is worried, and why the Gartner analysts that adhere to Microsoft’s way of thinking took the first propaganda shot against the iPhone, calling it unfit for business due to lack of security measures.
Microsoft has sold an estimated four million cellphones running Windows Mobile in 2006 (up from two million in 2005). Apple’s stated goal of 10 million by the end of this year is likely to be surpassed — iPhone sales are well ahead of expectations. That puts Apple in the lead in the smart-phone industry, usurping Microsoft. Apple has blindsided the Redmond giant twice: first with the iPod, and now with the iPhone. In each case Apple has taken market share from Microsoft as its customers defect to Macs (or at least to iTunes over Windows Media Player) and now to iPhones.
As for the Gartner scare, it is conveniently vague and easily refuted. It turns out that the iPhone isn’t any more risky than a BlackBerry or Treo. iPhones can connect to Microsoft Exchange servers, so there is no need to support Blackberry or Good Mobile Messaging servers (which are mostly used as middleware for connecting with Exchange) — a deficiency Gartner cited that is pure misinformation. As for the argument that the iPhone is not supported by major mobile device management suites and mobile-security suites, the analysts conveniently forget that the iPhone is designed for Web 2.0 services, and most business software packages can do the simplest Web 2.0 things such as posting to the Web or sending email.
The iPhone’s security could even be better than other smart phones on the market due to the lack of a software developer kit (SDK). Developers may not like it, but Apple is forcing early adopters to consider using Web 2.0 technology exclusively, which shifts the burden of security to the servers and keeps strange software from doing unexpected things on an iPhone. The device is under intense scrutiny by hackers, but those who want to gain financially from malware will probably stick with infecting Symbian OS-enabled phones which represent about 50% of the world market.
Microsoft has lots to worry about and can’t point fingers at iPhone security while living in the glass house of Windows Mobile. The list of new iPhone widgets and applications is growing exponentially and the buzz will last through the rest of the year. I expect major improvements to occur this year and be available by download directly to the device. I see the iPhone as a platform despite the fact that this first version is not quite complete. With all of its workings and interface in software, the design can be easily improved with downloaded updates. With adherence to standards in video, email, WiFi, and Web 2.0 technologies, the iPhone is the first truly smart phone that can change the phone industry and take considerable market share and influence away from Microsoft.


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“Even in the best of times, understanding demand is like playing wheel of fortune,” says Trent Poland, commodity manager at metal powders maker Kymera International. “You hope you don’t go bust and you’re trying to outguess the puzzle.”
At the Spotlight on Copper: Red Metal Market Global Outlook session on March 23 at ISRI2022, Poland was joined by Jason Schenker, president of Prestige Economics LLC. Brian Shine, CEO of Manitoba Corp., moderated.
Poland discussed common issues facing copper mills including staffing shortages, the availability of delivery appointments, and logistics malfunctions. “For mills, the chaos of trying to predict what we need is compounded when the plant deliveries miss their appointment,” he says. Another growing problem is the decline in quality of recycled commodities coming into the mills. “I think it appears to be a lighter shortage issue, but mill buyers have a limited number of warnings and mulligans we can issue before the plant goes into full rebellion where there will be downgrades and rejects,” Poland says.
He recommends recyclers increase their quality checks and do an extra check before loading trucks for the mill. “Let an extra measure of caution rule the day,” he advises. He also discussed the issue of short loads, truckloads of copper weighing between 34,000 and 39,000 pounds instead of the typical 42,000 pounds.
“This is putting the consumer at market risk,” Poland says. “At some point, one must buy an additional load jut to make up for the small shortages. Eventually supplier corrective action will have to take place. A little communication with the mill goes a long way.”
He suggests getting a mill’s approval before shipping a short load. “It’s exasperating on our end when we receive a 36,000-pound load when a plant is not in full production when we could have waited a week or two for a full load,” he explains.
Poland says recyclers and mills are typically good at creative problem solving and conflict resolution. The industry also values personal relationships. “To me, [these qualities] are the fundamental keys of getting past these challenges,” Poland says. “That way we can hammer out a solution we can both live with, and we survive to scrap another day.”
Schenker reviewed positive aspects in the copper market. “There’s strong global manufacturing and global growth coming out of COVID-19; demand for physical goods and copper are high,” he says. “Many manufacturing companies have been taking 2023 orders since October ,” Schenker says. Downsides of the market include rising interest rates; global growth slows; the eurozone facing stagflation; a global credit crisis; and possible third-party sanctions because of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Schenker discussed the Federal Reserve’s March 16 announcement that it would raise target federal fund rates. “They raised rates by a quarter percentage point; from near zero, the rate is now in a rage of 0.25% to 0.5%,” Schenker says. “That’s still pretty low, but through the end of 2023 the members of the Fed are forecasting raising the rates by 25 points 10 times.”
Schenker added to Poland’s notes about recycled commodities quality. “When copper prices are low you may hold onto the material and then wait for the price to go up, it’s speculative trading,” Schenker says. “They’re just waiting to cash out. But with copper prices and other nonferrous [metals] at these [very high] levels there’s few people holding on for higher prices.”
Issues including sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals may impact copper demand in the long term, Schenker said. He mentioned a recent analysis by climate-change activists where the top 25 largest companies in the world were asked about their plans to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. “Some [companies] responded by committing to planting trees, but many of those companies just don’t know how they plan to reach that goal,” he says.
Schenker also discussed the potential impact of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s March 2 announcement that it is exploring rulemaking to require publicly traded companies to disclose their climate-related risks and management strategies. There is a 60-day comment window, with the SEC expected to finalize the rules before December.
Examining data from the International Energy Agency, US Geological Survey 2021, and IMF staff calculations, he noted the current production rates of some important metals, including copper, are likely inadequate to satisfy future demand and to meet the 2050 net zero emissions goals. “We need to be thinking about recycling everything that gets mined even but even if we recycle everything there still won’t be enough metal,” he says.
China and Russia produce several critical minerals that are vital for meeting emission goals. “They’re two of the biggest producers of many critical metals, and there’s no longer a strategic reserve of metals in the U.S.,” Schenker says.
Schenker told the audience if China were to provide Russia with military aid for the war in Ukraine, it’s possible the U.S., Europe, and others would respond by imposing sanctions. “We could be in a severe trade war if China sends military aid to Russia,” he says. “If we have a choice between entering a world war or a second Cold War with sanctions on China, we’d choose the second Cold War every time.”
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New Zealand fruit trade has become a heavy hitter as an export, helping to at least partly offset weakness in the dairy and forest products sectors.
Data out from Statistics NZ showed the value of fruit exports reached an all time high of $2 billion in the year to June, up almost 20 per cent from a year earlier. Wine was another strong performer, up 7.3 per cent to $1.4 billion in the June year.
The performance of fruit and wine wasn't enough to offset downturns in other parts of the primary sector - dairy exports were down by 24 per cent to $12 billion and log exports were down 11.3 per cent at $3.56 billion - but the data showed the downturn was not universal.
Both higher prices and a greater quantity of fruit exports - up 9 per cent - contributed to the overall rise, Statistics NZ said.
Kiwifruit and apples led the monthly increases, with exports in May 2015 being the highest value recorded for both kiwifruit ($280 million) and apples ($157 million).
Statistics NZ said kiwifruit was responsible for 59 per cent of fruit exports, followed by apples (28 per cent), and avocados (5.7 per cent).
"If you could find another export industry that is growing at even a fraction of the rate of those three, then you would be lucky," said Gary Jones, Business Development Manager at Pipfruit NZ. In the Hawkes Bay alone, apple exports are projected to hit $500 million in 2017 from $200 million in 2010, he said.
Agricultural analysts are bullish about kiwifruit as the sector continues to recover from the devastation caused by the Psa virus since its outbreak in 2010.
ANZ, in an analysis of the sector, said New Zealand kiwifruit sector typified many aspects of true "value-add" leading the way in producing and selling a premium offering.
"Despite the challenges posed by Psa, the industry is in good heart appearing to have navigated the worst of its impacts," ANZ said.
Kiwifruit had a strong 2014/15 season with increased volumes and good grower returns.
Zespri chairman Peter McBride told grower-shareholders at the annual meeting that Zespri had delivered $1.57 billion of sales in the 2014/15 season, up 16 per cent on the previous year.
Volumes of New Zealand kiwifruit sales are up 11 per cent to 95.2 million trays this season and set to grow to over 130 million trays in the next five years.
The apple sector is going from strength to strength with new plantings, by area, increasing by 5 per cent a year. NZX-listed Scales Corp - the country's largest grower, packer and marketer of apples - said its export grade apple volumes were about 13 per cent ahead of prospectus forecasts.
The higher percentage of both premium apples and percentage of sales to Asia and "near" markets is expected to result in a higher average price per carton than prospectus forecast, said managing director Andy Borland.
"In addition, apple selling prices and quality have held up well in many of our export markets."
Avocado, the country's third-largest fruit export, faces a rosy future as consumers worldwide focus more on healthier food choices. The season, which goes from August to February, was a strong one but production tends to be lumpy. Last year a record 4.5 million trays were produced with about 2.8 million trays being exported through Avoco. This year, the sector expects to produce about 2.8 million trays in total.
"This year we will have a light crop but will have exceptional prices," Avoco director John Carroll said. "It's not just about supply, it's about demand growth. The real growth in demand keeps steaming along at a staggering rate," Carroll said.
For supermarkets worldwide, avocado had become a "darling product" for promotions.
" ... we have the advantage of being on the doorstep of an exceptionally strong market - Australia - and the doorstep of a potentially bigger market - Asia, in the years ahead."
The nurseries that grow seedlings for avocado orchards are booked out for the next two to three years.


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Seven Seas to close Hull factory with up to 250 job losses
Healthcare company Seven Seas has confirmed it is closing its factory in Hull with the loss of up to 250 jobs.
The company said there would be a phased shut down of the Hedon Road factory over two to three years.
Managing director John Redman said consultation had not changed the company's view that the move offered the "best chance of future success".
Karl Turner, East Hull Labour MP, said: "This is deeply disappointing news from Seven Seas but no surprise."
In October the company said production would be outsourced and operations transferred to London.
Mr Redman said the company was making the announcement now to provide "clarity on the future of the business before the Christmas holidays".
Employment blows landed
He said the consultation process with staff had been thorough.
Mr Turner added: "It is very concerning that this announcement comes before the end of the 90-day consultation process.
"I think this shows that Seven Seas had no intention of staying in Hull".
Mr Turner said he thought the decision to close the factory could be subject to a legal challenge by unions.
More than 250 people are employed at the site but Seven Seas is yet to disclose the exact number of job losses.
A series of other employment blows have hit the Hull area recently.
The news of the Seven Seas closure was announced on the day hundreds of jobs at the Hull headquarters of electrical retailer Comet were lost.
Ongoing cuts to public sector jobs include Hull City Council losing about 171 posts, equivalent to 240 members of staff.
Kimberley Clark is set to close its mill in Barton Upon Humber with a loss of 378 jobs.
Changing shift patterns at the McCain frozen food factory in Hull mean up to 50 jobs are to be axed.
There is also continued uncertainty over jobs at BAE systems in Brough.


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According to experts, the fall food in inflation on a weekly basis is on account of statistical reasons, called as 'high base effect' as food inflation was above 16% in the corresponding period last year
New Delhi: Food inflation fell to 8.84% in the week ended 10th September from 9.47% in the previous week, but provided no relief to the common man as prices of key commodities continued to rule high, reports PTI.
Prices of most commodities, barring wheat, continued to remain firm on an annual basis, as per Wholesale Price Index (WPI) data released by the government today.
According to experts, the fall in inflation on a weekly basis is on account of statistical reasons, called as 'high base effect'. Food inflation was above 16% in the corresponding period last year.
As per the data, wheat prices during the week were down 2.72% year-on-year.
However, onions became more expensive by 29% and potatoes 13.78%. Overall, vegetables became 12.13% dearer.
Milk prices, too, were up by 10.38%, while fruits grew dearer by 17.67% and eggs, meat and fish prices rose by 9.28% year-on-year.
Prices of cereals also went up by 4.13% during the week under review. Even the prices of pulses, which had exhibited a declining trend during recent months, rose by 1.49% during the week ended 10th September.
Overall, inflation in primary articles stood at 12.17% for the week ending 10th September, compared to 13.04% in the previous week. Primary articles constitute over 20% of the WPI basket.
Non-food articles, which include fibres, oil seeds and minerals, recorded 17.42% inflation during the week ended 10th September, up from 18.49% in the previous week, ended 3rd September.
Meanwhile, inflation in the fuel and power segment went up to 13.96% during the week ended 10th September from 13.01% in the previous seven-day period.
Experts are of the view that despite the latest fall pressure on the food price front will continue to keep the government and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on their toes.
Headline inflation, which factors in manufactured items, fuels and non-food primary items, in addition to food commodities, stood at a 13-month high of 9.78% in August.
The RBI has already hiked policy rates 12 times since March 2010 to tame demand and curb inflation.