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Over the past several months, retailers and consumers have been working to identify which pandemic-era habits are likely to stick around — curbside pickup for online orders, probably yes; wearing pajamas all day, most likely no.
“People are more and more inclined to make appointments and to schedule time for their shopping,” de Jong told PYMNTS in a recent interview. “Before, you’d just go into town and browse around and shop. I think people are more destination shoppers by now — they go in for something very specific.”
Suitsupply schedules over 4,000 appointments per week at its 150 stores worldwide, de Jong said, and a lot of times, the retailer’s stylists are “just booked out.” Suits start at about $500, with shirts, sweaters, turtlenecks, shoes and accessories also available. The retailer has nearly 40 stores in the U.S. with the majority of the others located in Europe.
And while appointment shopping first emerged during the pandemic when people only left their homes for specific needs, he said, it has hung around even as restrictions have loosened, because “people are more efficient about how they go about their lives right now and how they address these kinds of things.”
“People say, ‘Okay, I’m not going to go in on a Saturday because it’s probably going to be busy. Let me block a time on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday,’” de Jong said. “With working from home, people have gotten a little more flexibility, so sometimes you just run some errands in some other moments.”
To be sure, appointment shopping won’t work for everything — groceries, for example, or other purchases that don’t require as much person-to-person interaction, may be less likely to benefit from the feature. But PYMNTS research, conducted in collaboration with Carat from Fiserv, found that 31% of shoppers are making purchases at the physical locations of nationally known retailers less than they were last year.
And consumers aren’t making decisions based on online or in-store availability, per se. Rather, shoppers are choosing based on what fits with their schedule and whether they need the item now, from a store, or later, from an online marketplace. Clothing and accessories have seen the biggest shift in buying now to get later, the data shows, with 17% buying more of these products online and less in-store now than last year.
This shift, de Jong said, is part of the reason that Suitsupply has focused on making stores more of an experience, with rooftop lounges for people to hang out in while clothes are tailored in addition to the appointments feature.
“We actually used COVID at some point to look at how can we add more experiential additions to our retail experience and make it more fun and more relaxed for people to shop,” he said.
Preventing a Dissatisfying Experience
Appointments not only provide consumers with more structured shopping time — retailers are also able to better prepare for each customer’s shopping experience.
“Shopping could be generally a dissatisfying experience if you see something online and it’s not in the store, or it’s not in your size,” de Jong said. “It’s never possible to have the same physical representation of what you see online in a store, and our style advisors being able to prepare for people to come into the store helped … our business, because there was more stuff available for them (customers), so they spent more.”
John Federman, CEO of experiential relationship management platform JRNI, told PYMNTS earlier this year that while appointments can also help brands create a streamlined digital and physical experience for customers, “the sport of shopping,” or the non-specific time spent browsing stores, isn’t going away. Some retailers are also utilizing appointment scheduling to set up virtual queues for fitting rooms.
De Jong said that ultimately, appointment shopping is about making the experience “a lot more frictionless and effective for guys that want to look good and like to dress up, but don’t want to spend a huge amount of time shopping.”
“We found that people actually want to have the personal shopping experience, at least for our kind of product,” he added.


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With the sixth season of the TV show returning this weekend, fans of The Walking Dead have another reason to be excited this month: the new Telltale Games Michonne focused mini-series is premièring from February 23.
In a blog post on their website, Telltale revealed the release date along with the release schedule of the whole three part series stating episodes will drop monthly, concluding in April. This is a little surprising given Telltale have in the past released their episodes on a six-to-eight week schedule, or in The Wolf Among Us‘ case, whenever they damn felt like it.
Set within the world of the graphic novels, The Walking Dead: Michonne is set during her absence in issues #126 to #139, which readers will know was a pivotal turning point for the ongoing narrative. What little Telltale has revealed is that the première episode, “In Too Deep”, takes Michonne on board a ship searching for survivors on the coast, only to discover new horrors in a nearby colony.
Starring Orange is the New Black’s Samira Wiley as the blade master herself, The Walking Dead: Michonne will première on Playstation 4, Playstation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC/Mac on February 23. It launch on the Google Play and iOS stores on February 25.
Here’s hoping it will be as much of an emotional gut punch as previous seasons were…

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US antimony trioxide prices move down
Published: Wednesday, 22 November 2017
US antimony trioxide prices decreased this week while Chinese and European markets remained unchanged due to low consumption levels.
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Avid collector Christopher Fisher counts himself blooming lucky to turn up a rare 50p coin.
He is one of very few people to have the Kew Gardens commemorative piece in their possession.
And charities are set to benefit if he decides to sell the coin.
The penny dropped for Mr Fisher, of Idle, Bradford when he saw reports that the 2009 coin could be a real collector's item. Only 210,000 were released into circulation to mark the 250th anniversary of the Royal Botanic Gardens.
“I have collected coins and other things ever since I was a child,” he said. “I found this in a drawer after reading these 50p pieces might be valuable.
“I don’t know what to do now. I might sell it and give the proceeds to charity. I will see how much I get and then share it out.”
Kew coins have already sold for more than £20 on eBay.


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To date, the state of Florida has weathered no less than four attempts to classify Kratom as a designer drug. The nationwide crisis with synthetic opioids has seen many products incorrectly classified as structural or functional analogs of a controlled substance. This is the case of Sarasota County, which banned Kratom back in 2014.
With the exception of the Sarasota region, Kratom is legal in Florida. However, legislators making a move against this Southeast Asian plant are prone to think of it as a synthetic compound, rather than what it actually is: a plant used for medicinal purposes. This is what happened in Sarasota, where, in 2014, local authorities incorrectly classified Kratom as a designer drug.
The Sarasota bill quotes manufactured substances such as flakka, bath salts, or spice, in their attempt to argument against Kratom. Yet all of the previous compounds are man-made, whereas Kratom is a plant commonly used as a natural remedy in the ecosystems where it thrives. In April 2019, St. John’s County wanted to follow the example of Sarasota, but after Kratom was eloquently defended in front of the commissioners, the authorities decided to indefinitely postpone the ban.
Florida’s two bills that could have banned Kratom in 2016 were effectively powered by a grieved parent who thought the plant was responsible for their child’s suicide. While the autopsy results did found traces of Kratom, they also showed a cocktail of prescription anti-depressants. Two additional bills in 2017 also attempted to illegalize Kratom, but they were postponed indefinitely.
You can buy and consume Kratom anywhere in Florida with the exception of Sarasota County. However, the state is yet to enforce the Kratom Consumer Protection Act, which means that local shops are likely to sell products that may have been tampered with. To ensure that your orders are 100%, premium Kratom, we advise you to purchase from trusted, online kratom vendors.
Shops like The Golden Monk ensure that all of their products are tested for quality and safety in order to adhere to the highest possible standards. This is not necessarily the case with head or tobacco shops in area where there are no regulations in terms of merchandising Kratom.


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St. Anthony's Seminary to sell gorditas for Labor Day weekend
The inability to gather for fall festivals with Labor Day weekend coming up may be one more reason to stay in bed amid the coronavirus.
But at least one organizer, the Franciscans at St. Anthony's Seminary, are trying to adapt by offering a drive-thru bazaar, if you will, by selling gorditas on Sept. 5-7.
The sale will be from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day at the seminary, 4501 Hastings Drive. The gorditas will cost $6 an order. Agua frescas also will be for sale.
People can also pick up enchilada plates, also $6, on the same days at St. Francis of Assisi church, 5750 Doniphan Drive.
It won't be the same as attending the usual Labor Day festival with its popular food and fun games. But you can at least enjoy the festival foods at home and play your own Loteria.
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New midnight purple 3DS coming in May
A new midnight purple-colored 3DS is scheduled to release May 20 for a suggested retail price of $169.99, Nintendo announced today.
Rumors of the new color first reared their head on GameFaqs earlier in the month when a reader spotted a listing for the product at EB Games. These were further cemented over the weekend when another listing on website Sam's Club appeared for a "3DS Midnight Purple 3DS Handheld" priced at $168.58.
This is the fifth color available for the system, joining Nintendo's previously released Cosmo Black, Aqua Blue, Flame Red and Pearl Pink 3DS'.
The release of the midnight purple 3DS is timed with May 20 launch of Mario Tennis Open.


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[Helsinki, 9.12.2021] UpCloud, the European leader in high-performance cloud hosting, announces new prices in its Sydney data centre, AU-SYD1.
UpCloud opened its first data centre in Australia in March 2021, and after great local growth is now lowering the regional prices to offer an even higher price to performance ratio for its customers.
UpCloud’s Sydney data centre is located in Equinix’s flagship Sydney data centre SY5, which belongs to the locally most networked data centre campus. With 9,220 cabinets when fully built, it is the largest Equinix’s data centre in Australia and meets all the highest security and reliability standards.
We’ve been happy to see the strong uptake in our Sydney data centre right from the launch. However, we want to help even more customers in Australia to run their services on the world’s fastest cloud servers by cutting our prices by 33%.
Antti VilpponenCEO, UpCloud
The data centre provides the same performance as UpCloud’s 11 other data centres, and geographical proximity to Australia and Oceania makes it particularly fast for local businesses. It also features the AMD EPYC processors with even more CPU cores and increased performance compared to the previous Intel generations.
The new prices are in effect as of today and match UpCloud’s worldwide pricing. Furthermore, UpCloud continues to offer the same pricing model for all their services, including the 100% uptime SLA and 24/7 technical support as standard.


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Just ahead of the company's official debut this weekend, Oak Highlands Brewery has received word from the TABC that five of their beers have received label approval. That means consumers can expect to find Allgood, Derelict IPA, DfDub, Freaky Deaky and Golden Mustache at bars and restaurants in and around Dallas beginning next week.
The Capitol Pub in Uptown is one of those slated to be among the initial spots to carry the brewery's beers, as they plan to stock both Golden Mustache and Derelict IPA (keep an eye on social media as to when they'll be tapped). As for others, once accounts have been finalized you'll be able to find a list by clicking the following link on the brewery's website:
Regarding grand opening festivities, the celebration starts on Saturday, July 18 at noon. Admission to the event is $15, which gets you a pint glass, koozie and three beer tickets. Food and other beverages will be sold by the Easy Slider and OinknMoo food trucks, while live music will be provided by Charley Sullivan (noon), Ole G (3 p.m.) and Shotgun Friday (6 p.m.). Plus, for those wanting to stay out of the heat, it's worth mentioning that Oak Highlands is home to a fully air-conditioned taproom. Tickets are still available and can be purchased on Eventbrite:


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Privately-owned distributor of high-quality sanitary ware, Haiflow SAL, in collaboration with Spain-Ghana Chamber of Commerce has hosted players in the building and real estate sector to an evening of wine and cocktail at its Spintex showroom in Accra.
It was a networking event to get its customers and housing stakeholders familiarized to its new range of household products.
Haiflow’s Sales Director, Tarik Ghazale, speaking to journalists at the event said the company is poised to play a leading role in Ghana’s building and interior décor space.
“We always strive to partner with the government from both the business standpoint and as our social responsibility. That’s why we’re always looking to reinvest more into the brand because we believe in the future of Ghana,” he assured.
“We’re working on all types of industry projects, from health care and education where we do a lot of school projects aside dealing in high end residential where have the products to support,” he added.
According to Mr. Ghazale, the real estate and construction sector is currently experiencing a boom and as dealers in household and décor accessories , they are ready to work with industry stakeholders to provide decent accommodation for both the high and low end of the housing market.
“Everybody deserves to have, you know, a decent place a decent living quarters, a decent sanitation system, and we are here to support in that. So I believe just to go back and conclude on your question. I think that Ghana can only go up upwards and I believe that hand in hand we can all strive to make it a better place,” he said.
Sales and Marketing Support Specialist at Haiflow, Mia Ghazale, said the of the event: “Today’s cheese, wine and design event, we basically invited architects, interior designers and real estate development companies to our showroom to mingle outside of their work environment,” she told journalists in an interview.
She added: “The idea is to interact, see what’s new in the country with the projects and to introduce to them our new product lines. It’s a sales activation as well, but we’re mostly doing it to get to know everyone that we might not know at the moment.”
According to Mia, the maiden networking event has been successful adding that it would be held regularly as a sales activation and customer engagement activity.


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The Super NES Classic Edition flew up store shelves when it launched on September 29. Since then it’s been difficult to find one, despite stock levels being much higher this year compared to last year’s NES Classic shipping debacle.
If you’re still yearning for a system of your own, GameStop has announced that more shipments are going out this week to its U.S. locations. No word on how many or which specific stores will be receiving them, so it’s best to check in with your local location to see if they have any new information. Good luck!
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The tech giant made $62bn in revenue and a net income of $21.9bn during the second quarter of its 2024 financial fiscal results. Its revenue rose 18% with net income increasing by 33%.
Gaming revenue increased 50% to $7.1bn for the quarter, this included over $2bn in revenue from Activision Blizzard. This earnings report is the first time the Call of Duty and Candy Crush publisher’s earning results have been included in Microsoft’s revenue.
Microsoft reported that Windows revenue rose to $5.3bn for the quarter, marking a rise of 9.5%. This was pushed on by an 11% increase in sales of Windows PCs.
However, the healthy return to growth for Windows PC sales was not enough to catch up to the gaming unit. This marks a historic milestone for Microsoft Windows, which has long been the frontrunner for Microsoft revenue.
Although the Activision Blizzard acquisition has helped boost Microsoft’s gaming business well ahead, video games have been edging closer to Windows for some time now.
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This time last year Microsoft’s gaming unit fell just $50m below its Windows revenue.
Rupantar Guha, analyst at research company GlobalData, told Verdict that the acquisition of Activision Blizzard has reinforced Microsoft’s gaming leadership.
“One of the quickest ways to excel in a theme is to acquire a company that is already excelling,” Guha said.
“The acquisition reflected Microsoft’s focus on the thriving mobile gaming and esports sectors, where Activision Blizzard was dominant,” he added.
The gaming software market was worth $197bn in 2021 and will become a $470bn industry by 2030, according to GlobalData’s Video Games: Thematic Research 2022 report.
Mobile gaming will be the dominant segment, accounting for more than half of global gaming software revenues by 2030, according to the research company.


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Verizon, Equipment Cos. Improve IMS For Real World Deployment
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Verizon today, along with equipment manufacturing heavyweights unveiled two documents proposing improvements to IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS). IMS is the new standard that is supposed to allow carriers to switch to an all IP network, including voice calls as well as create a unified experience for subscribers across a number of networks. The advances proposed today address a number of IMS's weaknesses. The proposal outlines systems to improve IMS when handing off data streams from one network to another (as UMA does now), it also addresses communication between IP-based devices and a traditional circuit switched cell phone and other non-IP devices. Because a majority of IMS equipment providers such as Cisco, Lucent, Motorola, Nortel and Qualcomm all worked with Verizon on the advances to IMS, it is highly likely they will get these improvements passed by the standards body and will be able to launch networks with the changes in place.
Sep 7, 2022
Apple has revealed the iPhone 14 series, with new features, improved specs, and new size options. In place of a Mini option, the iPhone 14 will come in the same 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch screen size options as the Pro models.
Nov 15, 2022
Qualcomm has announced its newest top-end chip, intended to power most flagship-level Android phones in 2023. As expected, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is more powerful and power-efficient across the board (compared to Gen 1), but the most impressive improvements and new features involve AI.
Sep 12, 2023
Apple has revealed the iPhone 15 series, which moves to a USB-C connector and brings several key features from last year's Pro models to the more-affordable standard models. These include the pill-shaped sensor cutout in the display that Apple calls Dynamic Island, a brighter display that can reach 2000 nits, a 48 megapixel main camera, and the A16 Bionic processor chip.
Jan 25, 2021
Beeper is a new $10/month app and service that unifies over a dozen different messaging services into one unified, searchable chat interface. It supports iMessage, Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, Android Messages (SMS), Telegram, Twitter, Slack, Instagram, Skype, Discord, Signal, and more.
Sep 1, 2021
The newest beta version of Google's Chrome web browser for Android includes two major new features. After executing a Google search and choosing a result, a new bar below the address bar lets you quickly navigate to a different search result.
IMS is actually a massive shift in how all of the back-end stuff will be handled on the network side. It's moving everything from circuit-switched to packet-switched.
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March 25, 2013
PARIS, March 25 (Reuters) - France Telecom will remain an owner of video sharing website Dailymotion even as it searches for a partner to help the Youtube competitor expand in the United States, the telecom operator's chief executive told Le Figaro newspaper. "I have no intention of selling Dailymotion," said Stephane Richard in the interview. "What Dailymotion needs today is the means to accelerate its developing especially in the U.S. to compete with Youtube...We will remain an influential shareholder in Dailymotion and will be attentive to the consequences for Orange and for France of any eventual partnership.
December 10, 2012
(Reuters) - Yahoo! Inc and NBC Sports Group said they will integrate and promote each others sports content on the Internet as well as on television in a move that would help both the companies draw on their respective strengths across both mediums. The collaboration will increase NBC's digital presence as well as bolster its college and fantasy game coverage, while Yahoo will gain access NBC's video content, live sports coverage and big name television personalities. The two companies will maintain separate websites and independent newsrooms, but will collaborate on big sports news stories as well as events coverage both online and on the air, the companies said in a statement late on Sunday.
April 4, 2007
Unlocking the advertising potential of the Web remains a conundrum. Big media companies are trying partnerships with Google and Yahoo, pop-up ads are still popping up despite nearly universal disdain for them, and some video ads refuse to let you close, stop or mute them. But with a Web reader being worth a tiny fraction of what a print reader is worth in ad dollars, nobody feels full value is being achieved. Much of the current focus is on making Web video pay off, and the new offerings by the Onion humor site may point the way to a workable model.
November 4, 2006
Google Inc. has won U.S. antitrust approval for its $1.65 billion purchase of video-sharing site YouTube Inc. Antitrust authorities ended their review of the transaction, according to a list of terminated merger reviews published by the Federal Trade Commission. The approval paves the way for Google to buy YouTube, leapfrogging it to the top spot in online video sharing. The acquisition also gives Google a way to tap the Web video advertising market, which will generate $1.1 billion in U.S. revenue in 2008, up from $385 million this year, according to market researcher EMarketer Inc. YouTube was founded in February 2005 for people looking for an easier way to share their video clips online.
July 11, 2013
After seeing ratings dip against the Mouse House, Nickelodeon has hit its stride with freshman series "Sam & Cat," and ordered an additional 20 segs of the live-action skein to be rolled out this year. Since its launch last month, "Sam & Cat" has averaged 3.7 million viewers in its Saturday night timeslot, and draws the most eyeballs of any Nickelodeon property on Nick's app and website. Series is a crossover spinoff of "iCarly" and "Victorious" and stars Jennette McCurdy and Ariana Grande.
May 5, 2014
UTA TV chief and partner Matt Rice has been named a member of the agency's board of directors. Rice joins Peter Benedek, chairman Jim Berkus, Tracey Jacobs, managing director David Kramer, managing director Jay Sures and CEO Jeremy Zimmer on the UTA board. Rice is a TV lit stalwart who runs the agency's scripted TV business with Sures. The promotion to a board seat gives him expanded management responsibilities. "Matt's contributions are everything we hope for from a partner and a board member.
October 22, 2010
Before she was a celebrity New Yorker with her own Manhattan-based TV show, comedian Tina Fey was a Chicagoan — one who apparently loved a good, cheap meal. In a "30 Rock" Web video that made its way around blogs Friday, Fey, who lived on the North Side when she was with the Second City improv group, offered some dining tips to a Columbia College student who had written to her. "You need to go to a place called the Athenian Room on Webster," Fey said, earnestly. "You need to order the roasted chicken.


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And particularly in demand is a set of 20 titled Clowns and Circus Artistes which has the key appeal of being prototype versions that were never issued.
When they do come up at auction high four-figure prices will result.
The latest was offered by specialist saleroom Loddon Auctions (22.8% buyer’s premium inc tax) on May 3. It sold via a phone bid at the low estimate of £8000.
The set came from the private collection of a ‘renowned deceased collector’, and several other Taddy cards featured in the Berkshire sale were from the same source.
Reeman Dansie of Colchester sold another Clowns set for £8400 in May 2021, while last year Lewes saleroom Toovey’s took £4200 for one c.1915 catalogued as ‘by family repute these cards were gifted to the vendor’s grandfather, an avid cigarette card collector, by an employee at the Taddy factory’.
The Taddy company dates back to the 18th century and by the end of the 19th century it was one of the most important tobacco companies in Britain.
A 2021 article by a Mrs K Hart on the website of the Cartophilic Society of Great Britain noted that by 1897 cigarette cards were being put into the Taddy packets.
It said: “That year the company produced Actresses collotype and a five-card set called English Royalty. Then the next year came a set called Royalty, Actresses and Soldiers, while 1899 brought us Natives of the World.”
In 1900 the set of 20 cards called Clown and Circus Artistes were produced but “didn’t go out on general release. Only a few sets got out of the factory. It was on the July 29, 1987, at Phillips Auctioneers, that they sold a set for £15,500 – plus 10% premium making a total of £17,050. This was a breathtaking price as Murray’s [card specialist firm] catalogue price at the time was only £6500.”
Hart added: “I have never seen the packet, only an illustration of one with a date of December 21, 1900, in a copy of Tobacco Journal.”


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Rubicon Project, the ad marketplace, has just released positive Q1 2016 financial results, driven by the strength of its mobile exchange. The company grew overall revenue by 26% year-on-year. First quarter non-GAAP net revenue jumped 71% to $63.6m the year over, whilst GAAP revenue climbed 86% to $69.2m. EPITDA grew 269% to $15.5m.
Rubicon Project releases Q1 2016 results
Frank Addante, CEO and Founder, Rubicon Project, says:
“I am proud of our record setting execution in Q1 accentuated by another profitable quarter and record first quarter results in non-GAAP net revenue, non-GAAP EPS and Adjusted EBITDA. Our differentiated and growing market position has well positioned Rubicon Project for long-term growth as we continue to engineer the world’s highest quality advertising marketplace, drive strong adoption of what is now the third largest mobile exchange in the world, develop the next generation video and orders marketplace and continue to deepen relationships with the premier content creators, application developers, brands and advertisers who rely upon our technology to connect with one billion people around the world.”
Rubicon Project did reveal that 30% of the company’s business is now within mobile and 70% in desktop. As mobile marketing grow dramatically, the firm may need to adjust to focus more strongly on mobile.


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AT&T is to sell its Crunchyroll anime business to Funimation Global Group, a joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.’s subsidiary, Aniplex for $1.175 billion.
WarnerMedia is preparing a sale for its anime video streaming service Crunchyroll.
Crunchyroll has reached three million paid subscribers globally and over 70 million registered users.
Anime and manga VOD platform Crunchyroll has officially surpassed one million paid subscribers and more than 20 million users.
Crunchyroll, a SVOD service specialising in anime and Asian content, is approaching 750,000 paid subscribers and 20 million registered users.
MIPTV 2014 – CANNNES. Anime streaming service Crunchyroll has signed an exclusive online distribution partnership with Fuji TV.


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Fruit exports going back to normal as Chilean truckers’ strike ends
An agreement was reached on Tuesday to end the Chilean trucker strike that had persisted for eight days and alarmed the country's fruit industry.
Authorities announced that an operational plan will be designed by local police to improve security on the routes between Arica and Coquimbo, as well as a bill to maintain the price of diesel and the construction of six new rest areas.
Iván Marambio, president of the Chilean Fruit Exporters Association (ASOEX) told FreshFruitPortal.com there had been losses of almost $500 million per week.
During the strike, cherries were among the most impacted exports, followed closely by blueberries.
Marambio said on Tuesday:"As of this morning, we are back to normal. We are working hard to be able to ship in the backlog of containers left by the stoppage."
"Our first priority is to receive all the fruit export cargo, which we know is the most critical to be shipped quickly, and also to empty the terminal, that is, to empty all the imports that had arrived and had accumulated in the port," said Oliver Weinreich, South Pacific Terminal’s general manager, at the port of Valparaiso.
On the export front, María José García, commercial manager of Joy Wing Mau, said that "We are currently on our way to the port as we are going to load the first camera ship of the season (below deck) Lady Rosebud to China and I will be able to see how the road and operations are."


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Results of a five-year study on telemedicine showed that patients can be treated virtually by physicians as effectively as if the patients made physical visits to the doctor's office. In another finding, the remote treatment also improved doctor-pati...
Google must pay a fine of €100,000 ($US142,000) for the unauthorized collection of information about the location of Wi-Fi hotspots in France by its Street View cars, France's National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL) has ordered.
AT&T’s surprise buyout of T-Mobile USA for $39 billion has industry watchers scrambling to figure out what the deal means for subscribers, the U.S. cellular industry and investors.
The $599 price for the Wi-Fi only Xoom tablet from Motorola Mobility has triggered an online debate about whether it's competitive with Apple's iPad 2 or way overpriced.
Android hasn't just surpassed Apple's iPhone in terms of total device sales, but in Web page load time as well.
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The number of devices and modules that come equipped with LTE has grown to 98, according to a report from industry organization GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association).
The sale of switches and adapters for use in storage area networks (SAN) "rebounded nicely" in 2010, after a drop in 2009, according to data from Infonetics Research.
The company that helped pioneer the controller-based enterprise wireless LAN is now selling wired Ethernet switches -- with a twist.
The dual-screen Kyocera Echo, an Android smartphone, will sell for $199.99 with a two-year agreement starting April 17 exclusively from Sprint, the carrier announced Monday.
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An Apple senior VP has confirmed that the company will have a white iPhone out this spring, but it's still a mystery as to whether it will be an iPhone 4 or iPhone 5.
An analysis of iPad 2 finds that Apple's total cost to produce the tablet is almost identical to that of the original iPad introduced a year ago.
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The all-electric two-seat MG sports car is poised to follow the likes of the MG TF and MGB, and our exclusive renderings preview how it could look.
MG has built much of its reputation on small, simple roadsters that were fairly affordable, but aspirational. This is something that the Chinese-owned iteration of the brand hasn’t been shy to emulate. And now a new MG sports car takes a step closer, as fresh leaks all but confirm that the brand is returning to its roots, with a small, probably all-electric roadster.
The car could hit the roads in 2024 to coincide with MG’s centenary, possibly with an MGC EV badge, following parent firm SAIC filing a trademark for the name. Direct rivals will be few and far between, but the new car could give buyers of internal combustion-engined convertibles like the Mazda MX-5 and BMW Z4 a new avenue to explore.
Back in 2017, MG unveiled its E-Motion Coupe concept. Designed to be a flagship all-electric coupé, the project now looks dead in the water. Attention has turned to a drop-top car based on last year’s Cyberster concept. It was successfully greenlit for production after a crowd-funding effort that saw over 5000 potential buyers place money down to make it happen. MG could decide to name it after the concept, too, given that a trademark for ‘Cyber X’ has also been filed.
London-based SAIC Design created the concept with plenty of eye-catching details, such as Magic Eye headlights that open when turned on, the Laser Belt line of LEDs along the side, and the squared-off Kammback tail. Leaked patent images reveal a production MG based on the concept is very much imminent, including plenty of the Cyberster’s design features. Our exclusive images above bring these leaks to life, showcasing what MG’s new roadster could look like in the metal.
We can see it’s retained a version of the concept’s face, albeit a little less aggressive, with a small grille at the bottom of the front bumper and a long bonnet with plenty of creases and slashes that cascades into the nose. The Magic Eye headlights have been replaced with more conventional units.
The finned side skirts of the concept remain, although the Laser Belt has been toned down. Plus, the open-top speedster design of the concept has been swapped for a folding fabric roof.
As on the Cyberster, the rear end of the new car features some outlandish brake-light design. However, whether or not the units resemble the British flag (like the rear lights on the current MINI) or gigantic arrows is up for debate.
The concept’s rear diffuser has shrunk, but the Kammback rear end remains. It gives the car a traditional profile, with proportions more akin to the classic MGB, rather than MG’s most recent convertible car, the TF.
Don’t expect to see the concept’s yoke-style steering wheel, but the centre console with integrated touchscreen, wraparound driver’s display screen and even the Zero Gravity floating head restraints could all make production. The driver-centric two-cockpit layout could also feature.
What’s less likely to be reflected in the production car are the concept’s 800km range and 0-100km/h time of less than three seconds. But that’s not to say the Cyberster won’t offer up impressive stats?
MG recently unveiled its Mulan hatchback for the Chinese market. This will go into right-hand drive production as the MG4 and is claimed to be capable of 0-100km/h in four seconds, but is yet to be confirmed for Australia.
It will be offered with rear-wheel drive on the SAIC Nebula pure-electric architecture, which would provide a perfect base for MG’s new sports car. Full specs for the Mulan have not been revealed, but some of its technology could transfer into the new roadster.
The sports car’s powertrain is likely to be geared for performance rather than efficiency. But its proportions should result in a lighter kerbweight than MG’s other EVs, so we expect it to at least match the 440km range of the ZS Long Range SUV. It will depend on how much underfloor battery can be packaged beneath the passenger cell while still keeping the car low, however.


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Sky News has learnt that IHG's board met a few weeks ago to consider the offer, but dismissed it on the grounds that it was too low.
The identity of the bidder was unclear this weekend, although analysts said it may have been Starwood Hotels & Resorts, the owner of the Le Meridien, St Regis and Westin brands, or a specialist investment fund such as Starwood Capital.
Sources said that IHG was braced for the bidder or a rival to return, with US hotel operators understood to be enticed by the prospect of moving their tax domicile to the UK in a process known as a tax inversion.
That mechanism, which allows US companies to avoid paying tax on their overseas cash holdings, has been at the centre of Pfizer's £69bn offer for AstraZeneca, provoking a political outcry on both sides of the Atlantic.
Senior sources said on Saturday that Pfizer was likely to issue a statement on Monday under Rule 2.8 of the City's Takeover Code, which will confirm its intention not to make a formal bid at this stage for its British pharmaceuticals rival.
Pfizer would then be barred from making another approach for six months, although as Sky News revealed this week, AstraZeneca's biggest investor is pressing it to re-open talks with the US company in three months' time.
The recent approach for IHG, which owns brands such as Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn and its eponymous chain, could fade away and not be revived, according to insiders.
One added that IHG's stock repurchases in the last fortnight meant that it was not involved in live takeover talks.
Starwood Hotels has a market value of just under $15bn (£8.9bn), while IHG is capitalised at £5.6bn.
The British group is chaired by Patrick Cescau, a former boss of Unilever, and run by Richard Solomons, who has pleased investors with a series of large capital returns.
These have been generated by the sale of many of its flagship hotel properties, including most recently sites in San Francisco and New York, as IHG shifts its business model to hotel management rather than ownership.
IHG still owns the LeGrand Paris and InterContinental Hong Kong, but is also expected to sell these properties and return hundreds of millions of pounds more to shareholders.
It has also been accelerating the expansion of its pipeline of new hotels, with 237 locations opened last year and 444 more added to its roster of future openings.
The company operates about 5% of the world's hotel rooms but has more than twice that volume of the industry's known slate of new rooms.
Last year, IHG reported pre-tax profits of £600m, a 10% rise on the previous year.
Its future growth will be driven by emerging markets, with Hualuxe, a premium brand aimed at Chinese customers, launched in 2012.
A spokeswoman for IHG, shares in which closed up 0.3% on Friday at 2226p, declined to comment.


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The woman has filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Economics in the Netherlands, and, apparently against Intel too, claiming that the processor gives off particular radiations which cause her to break out in hives.
She didn't have any problems with the 486 processor, apparently, but is claiming that high frequency radiations from the Pentium is making her sick.
The woman appears to have been discharged for medical reasons but so far claims that those problems are down to the Pentium appear to have been rejected by tribunals.
The article doesn't say whether the Ministry uses AMD or C3 X86 processors, so it's hard to determine whether these might cause allergies too.
We are currently in day seven of the annual silly season called August.
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Oracle founder has almost literally all the money in the world. But what does he spend it on?
Built-in cigarette lighter? Yes please
Kaspersky warns against charging via PCs, Macs and public charging stations
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As You Sow, an NGO based in Oakland, California, U.S.A., is riding a wave of success from its tactic of borrowing the shares of activist investors to submit shareholder proposals aimed at securing greater corporate transparency and commitments on ocean plastic.
As You Sow focuses on changing corporate policy on topics like climate change or ocean plastics by engaging with shareholders, who in turn seek greater environmental commitments from the… Read More
One of the biggest sushi chains in Japan is being investigated for stealing proprietary information from a rival.
Police searched the Yokohama, Japan-headquarters of Kappa Create Co., Ltd., which operates the Kappa Sushi conveyor-belt sushi chain on 28 June. On 5 July, the company issued a press release acknowledging that a complaint from a competitor, Hama-sushi Co., Ltd., had been filed against one of its officers.
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A project of the National Marine Mammal Foundation (NMMF) in the United States, in collaboration with the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, aims to measure the frequency range that minke whales can hear.
The research would fill in an information gap and help lessen human disturbance to a wide range of baleen whales. But it involves capturing and temporarily restraining wild whales, a tricky procedure that some animal rights groups say… Read More
The return of glass eels to Japan improved this year, but a subcommittee of the Fisheries Policy Council meeting held in Tokyo approved maintaining the current cap on the number that can be stocked to aquaculture ponds in line with a regional resource management agreement.
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Japan’s Fisheries Agency has released its annual Fisheries White Paper explaining trends and reviewing the policies of 2020, and setting forth new policies for 2021.
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Image recognition technology using artificial intelligence (AI) to discern target and non-target shapes is finding uses in aquaculture and fish processing.
Two such recent applications are the Automated Fish-Counting System developed by Osaka, Japan-based Yanmar Marine Systems Co., Ltd. (YMS) and ImageAnalyzer Ceres-II by Tokyo-based CDEX.
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Tokyo, Japan-based Seafood Legacy Co., Ltd. announced that on 1 June, its fishery and science departments, which provided consulting to fishery or aquaculture producers, would become independent as UMITO Partners Inc.'s Shunji Murakami – formerly vice president and COO of Seafood Legacy – left those positions on 31 May to become CEO and president of the new Tokyo-based company.
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The Australian Prime Minister has dismissed a campaign against gendered toys, saying people should “let boys be boys and let girls be girls”.
Tony Abbott put the No Gender December campaign, similar to Britain’s Let Toys Be Toys, down to “political correctness”.
It is gaining traction in Australia ahead of Christmas, with Greens senator Larissa Waters backing the push to stop toys and games perpetuating outdated stereotypes, saying “no child’s imagination should be limited”.
When asked about the campaign by Channel Nine news on Tuesday, Mr Abbott, who has three daughters, said he did not support it.
“I certainly don't believe in that kind of political correctness,” he added.
“Let boys be boys, let girls be girls - that's always been my philosophy - and above all else, let parents do what they think is in the best interests of their children.”
The campaign is asking people to sign online pledge that “there is no place for gender stereotypes under my Christmas tree”.
Ms Waters said the separated pink and blue aisles of categorised toys and gender targeted advertising can seem “harmless” but has repercussions.
“Setting such strong gender stereotypes at early ages can have long-term impacts, including influencing self-perception and career aspirations,” she added.
“Outdated stereotypes about girls and boys and men and women, perpetuate gender inequality, which feeds into very serious problems such as domestic violence and the gender pay gap.”
She was lambasted by Australia’s right-wing press for her statements, with one accusing her of trying to “ruin Christmas” under the headline “Greens’ War on Barbie”, with her head Photoshopped on to a doll.
Writing in The Hoopla in the wake of the criticism, she slammed the “sensationalist outcry” and pointed to the example of a seven-year-old British girl, Maggie, who said Tesco was “stupid” for having a sign labelling superhero toys “for boys”.
She added: “Research shows that countries where gender stereotyping is more accepted have higher levels of violence against women.
“Of course, the gendered marketing of toys is just a small piece of the cultural context that creates attitudes of gender inequality. But it doesn’t mean that we should ignore the issue.”
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DETROIT—The Michigan Israel Business Accelerator announces the launch of StartupMichigan.tech, a free web platform featuring more than 300 startups and connections to funders and tech hubs.
The platform will launch at an invitation-only event Monday, May 20 at the Shinola Hotel in Detroit.
Michigan will join the countries of New Zealand and Thailand as licensees of the discovery platform, created by Israel’s Start-Up Nation Central, an independent non-profit that builds contacts in the Israeli entrepreneurial network, including more than 6,000 companies, investors, accelerators, universities, and research centers.
The StartupMichigan.tech database currently features pages on more than 335 startups, 25 investors, 27 innovation hubs, and more. A search option allows users to filter startups by business model, funding stage, location, product stage, and more. Results can be saved to a user’s personal collection or exported.
“Startups are key to driving Michigan’s new economy,” said Mark Davidoff, chair of the MIBA board and Michigan managing partner for Deloitte LLP. “The launch of the StartupMichigan.tech database will be a game-changer for Michigan and MIBA is proud to be the power fueling the effort.”
StartupMichigan.tech has received funding from the Michigan Economic Development Corp., the William Davidson Foundation, the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation, the Paul E. Singer Foundation and the New Economy Initiative.
“Michigan has a long history of entrepreneurial innovation, whether through early stage funding, mentorships, or university programs that foster the next generation of entrepreneurial talent,” said Jeff Mason, MEDC CEO. “We are committed to supporting emerging high-tech startups in the state. StartupMichigan.tech is an opportunity to extend our startup ecosystem and foster both the spirit of innovation and economic development opportunities.”
Added Chris Rizik, CEO and fund manager of Renaissance Venture Capital of Ann Arbor: “The ability to edit our own page without going through an intermediary is significant, because things are changing all the time. We often work with investors from outside the state, and try to introduce them to Michigan startup companies. But there has never before been a single resource that included the relevant startup business and fundraising information that StartupMichigan.tech has. The central resource provides strong tangible value that will be a great help to the startup community in Michigan.”
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For the second election in a row, voters will face conflicting medical marijuana measures that could reshape the cannabis industry in Kern County once again.
One measure, Measure D, qualified for the ballot after a successful signature campaign led by medical marijuana advocates Cecilia Latu and David Abbasi (who is also running for 5th District supervisor).
The second measure, Measure E, was put forward by the Board of Supervisors as an alternative to the Latu and Abbasi option.
Each measure would overturn a ban on marijuana sales in unincorporated Kern County areas that was instituted by the Board of Supervisors after recreational cannabis became legal.
While both measures would maintain the ban on recreational marijuana sales, both would overturn the ban on medical marijuana dispensaries.
However, that is effectively where their similarities cease. The measures differ greatly in which dispensaries would be allowed to open if approved by voters.
The county’s measure, Measure E, aims to provide a “clean slate” for new dispensaries, while Latu and Abbasi’s measure seems tailored to benefit dispensaries that have already operated in Kern County.
Measure D would effectively shut out any new dispensaries from coming into the county, and provide the opportunity for dispensary owners already in the area to reopen easily. Proponents say this method prevents county officials from picking and choosing their own preferred dispensaries.
An analysis by the county said Measure D would allow for as many as 60 dispensaries to reopen, most of them clustered in Rosamond and Oildale. Abbasi has disputed the county's figures, saying the number of dispensaries that would be allowed to reopen would be significantly less.
Each measure is required a 50 percent plus one "yes" vote in order to pass. If each measure passes, the one with the most "yes" votes will go into effect.
Below are the main aspects of both measures.
Latu describes Measure D as the “people’s initiative.” She claims the passage of Measure D would bring jobs and economic growth to Kern County.
“It’s more so the veterans and patients that we are deeply concerned about, because those are the ones that are impacted by this ban,” she said. “Providing safe access to medical cannabis is a focus.”
Provided owners can show documentation that proves they were open prior to Jan. 1, 2018, all previous medical marijuana dispensaries would be allowed to reopen.
The initiative also:
● Requires dispensaries to be located 1,000 feet from schools, in a zone where pharmacies may operate.
● Gives supervisors the option to enact a special tax on medicinal cannabis businesses for up to $37.50 for each $1,000 of adjusted gross income. The proceeds would be deposited into the county’s general fund and may be used for law enforcement and drug abuse education and treatment.
● Authorizes commercial cannabis activity by cannabis testing laboratories.
● Allows for delivery services and off-site cultivation or manufacturing.
● Allows dispensaries to relocate if they are more than 1,000 feet from an existing dispensary and not in a neighborhood commercial zone.
Supervisor David Couch described Measure E as the only option for voters who want the community to have some say in the permitting process of medical marijuana dispensaries.
"Access to legal medicinal cannabis can be done right," the supervisor wrote in the official ballot argument distributed to voters. "A YES vote on the Kern County Medicinal Cannabis initiative is a vote for community involvement to decide where retail medicinal cannabis stores locate and operate in your community."
Measure E would require dispensaries to obtain a conditional use permit before they would be allowed to open. The permit would apply for three years, and involve a public hearing.
The initiative also:
● Requires dispensaries to be located only in industrial zones, and bans dispensaries from being located within 1,000 feet of schools, day care centers, public parks, youth centers, libraries, city limits, places of worship and other dispensaries. Dispensaries also are banned from being located within 350 feet of residences.
● Only allows retail sales of medical cannabis. All other commercial cannabis activity would be prohibited.
● Imposes a general tax of $35 per $1,000 in gross receipts. The tax revenue may be used for general governmental purposes decided by the Board of Supervisors.
● Sets development and performance standards for lighting, signage, noise control and hours of operation.
● Allows the county to revoke the conditional use permit if dispensaries fail to meet performance standards or sell non-medical marijuana, along with other grounds.
This article has been changed to reflect attributes of Measure D that were mistakenly attributed to Measure E related to new dispensaries coming into the county and how many would be allowed to reopen.


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Chinese Register 7.86m Domains; 3.5m .CN Domains
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There are 7.86 million domain names registered in China - .COM domains account 3.7 million of these registrations, or 47.1 per cent of the total number of domain names registered within China, while there were 3.5 million .CN domain names, 44.6 per cent of all domains.
The figures come from the latest report on the state of the internet in China at the end of June 2011 using statistics from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) in a report published by research firm iResearch China.
The report also notes that at December 2010, China's Internet based services market size is worth $5.25 billion, with domain name registration market revenues accounted for 15.4 per cent of this total or $808.5 million.
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Hillary Glaser serves as Lowes Campbell Ewald’s SEO Manager, an ad agency that defines itself as a, “Full service, fully integrated advertising and marketing communications agency.”
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Joining the firm in 2012, Glaser got her start in SEO more than a decade ago creating social media and marketing content as a copywriter and editor for travel and e-commerce websites.
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BBTV Holdings Inc. (TSX: BBTV) today provided a corporate update on its Q4 2020 activity to date.
Wednesday, November 25th 2020
Vancouver, B.C.: BBTV Holdings Inc. (TSX: BBTV) a media tech company that uses technology enabled solutions to help content owners become more successful, today provided a corporate update on its Q4 2020 activity to date:
More specifically, the fourth quarter is typically BBTV’s highest revenue quarter due to seasonal ad spending during the holiday season, typically representing 30-35% of the total revenue for the year. To date, the company has experienced significant, sustainable growth throughout the year, and revenue growth rates in Q4 have accelerated over Q3 as anticipated. Moreover, according to the most recent August 2020 Comscore data, the number of unique viewers watching BBTV content on a monthly basis has increased by 19M from June 2020, going from 596M to 615M. Similarly, monthly minutes watched increased over the same period, from 54 million to 55 million minutes respectively.
“We’re very pleased to provide this corporate update, BBTV’s business continues to grow from strength to strength with continued progress in revenue and gross profit generation” comments Shahrzad Rafati, Chairperson and CEO of BBTV, “Also, we’re thrilled to report that our newest mobile gaming app was ranked the number one family game on the Apple App store in the US, earlier this week.”
BBTV’s New Mobile Game TheOdd1sOut Ranked #1 Family Game on iPhone & iPad
BBTV’s recently announced mobile gaming app, “TheOdd1sOut: Let’s Bounce”, announced November 2nd 2020, in partnership with James Rallison, was ranked the number one family game on the Apple App store (US) this week. In addition, it was the number two Casual game on iPad, the number three Casual game on iPhone, the number four game on iPad and number six game on iPhone, speaking to the success of the launch, and popularity of the game.
“This is another fantastic proof point that highlights the quality of BBTV’s mobile games, and ability to successfully launch into the market,” comments Lewis Ball, VP of Strategy, BBTV, “Not only does BBTV know how to produce great apps, but we have incredible scale and an engaged audience that allows us to easily market the app and give it the best possible chance of success. It’s an exciting proposition for content owners that are looking to engage with their fans on a deeper level, and broaden their revenue potential.”
The Mobile gaming apps revenue stream is a key part of BBTV’s Plus Solutions, helping to further unlock value from BBTV’s compelling portfolio of content partners and driving revenue expansion for both BBTV and its content owners.
 “Adjusted EBITDA” means net earnings or loss, as applicable, before financial expenses, income tax expense (recovery), amortization and depreciation, share-based payments, unrealized and realized gains or losses due to foreign exchange, transaction-related costs, and certain other items set out in the reconciliation table under the heading “Selected Consolidated Financial Information – BBTV – Reconciliation of Non-IFRS Measures” in the preliminary prospectus.
BBTV is a media and technology company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. BBTV is an enabling platform with a stated mission of advancing the world through the democratization of content. From individual content creators to global media companies, BBTV monetizes the media of content owners through end-to-end management, distribution and monetization solutions, powered by its innovative VISO Platform, including related proprietary technology, while allowing content owners to focus on their core competency – content creation. In August 2020, BBTV had the second most unique monthly viewers among digital platforms with 615 million globally, who consumed more than 55 billion minutes of video content, the most among media companies* www.bbtv.com
*Calculations and classifications made by BBTV based on data from Comscore contained in Comscore’s “Top 12 Countries = August 2020 comScore Video Metrix Media Trend – Multi-Platform – Top 100 Video Properties Report”.
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Founding a successful company is one thing, but do you have the skills to be a leader for decades?
The path of entrepreneurship can be a lonely one, but leadership experts reflect that often, it’s the experienced chief executives that can struggle the most to see their failings and affect change.
Director of the Australian Centre for Business Growth at the University of South Australia, Dr Jana Matthews, tells SmartCompany she has sat down with countless business leaders over the years and has seen that seasoned professionals find it very tough to make big decisions.
“The whole issue of delegation is really a problem, because they think it’s either one of zero; yes or no. They think, ‘I can’t delegate, people can’t do as well as I can’, so they don’t do it at all,” she says.
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The tendency for experienced chief executives to still want control over all elements of their business can take its toll, though, with many business leaders still worried about being “found out” as impostors decades after starting their businesses.
“They’re afraid deep down of making the wrong decision, and they feel “maybe the problem is me” [instead of business conditions]. Many have talked to me about impostor syndrome,” Matthews says.
Matthews and the University of South Australia have been working with ANZ on the issue of business leadership, running a “Business Growth” program for the bank’s customers to let founders to reevaluate the challenges their companies face.
At a panel event in Melbourne last Friday to mark the launch of some of the Business Growth Program’s tools being made available online, four former program participants told an audience of entrepreneurs that they still face tough decisions years after starting their enterprises.
Here are three lessons from their experiences.
Know your values and keep the passion
Long-term success can come down to understanding what drives you and what your company’s values are in the first place.
For chief executive of Smarter Bathrooms and Kitchens, Andrew Cranshaw, entering the ANZ growth program revealed his company still had more work to do in nailing down its values and approach to customers after starting in 2002.
“I think one of the major things we realised was that we hadn’t taken the company with us,” he says.
“We sat down as a team and had to clearly articulate that to ourselves.”
Then it was a matter of working out how customers were responding to the company.
“The other thing we did is we reinvigorated the net promoter score among our customers. The first time we did it, we got a net promoter score of -4, and we realised we were actively pissing off customers,” he explained.
The business is now all united in a goal to reach a customer satisfaction score of more than 80%.
Understanding your values is also important for sustaining passion in your business, particularly if you’ve started it from scratch.
Chief executive of Canterbury Sink and Tap, Nicolas Hermence, told the crowd he started his business after buying just one sink and tap set from overseas, having tried to purchase kitchen supplies for himself in Australia but being unable to find the types he wanted locally.
What followed were years of passion for kitchenware, with Hermence reflecting he has been able to set a strong trajectory for himself by injecting enthusiasm into everything part of his company’s growth.
“I look at a tap and I love it,” he says.
What began as a quest to find a tap that suited his own home has become a quest to inform others about new options and products, with Hermence reflecting that his passion in showrooms and with customers has seen him grow no matter what stage of the business he is at.
“They call me the thesaurus of taps – if someone says, ‘can you tell me what this tap is’ – I’ll tell you.”
Delegation and planning
Leaders of successful businesses can struggle under the weight of making every single decision, says founder of technology reseller Blonde Robot, Chris Horsley Wyatt.
When he came to the business growth program, he and his co founders had already seen considerable success within the business – but didn’t realise they could have been empowering staff more.
“We decided as we were growing that we wanted to be involved in every single conversation,” he explains.
The team identified that part of the reason for this reluctance to delegate was that they had yet to sit down “and work out what our company plan was”.
Once the team had reviewed this, the founders were more confident to make tough decisions about the business, but also delegate more freely.
The result was “giving people confidence to to their own work”, which has been liberating for the business, he said.
You have to be ready to see the challenge
Chief executive of Moira Mac’s Poultry and Fine Foods, Dean Russell, started the growth program after decades at the helm of his business.
He might have been a seasoned company founder at the time, but told the crowd that he reached a point where he was ready to re-evaluate things, after a period of “turbulence” for his business.
“The number one thing was that I was ready [to look at new growth plans],” he says.
Having gone through a period where a business deal had seen the company end up in a dispute with another party only to emerge “a bit battered and bruised”, Russell says he was forced to think about his own leadership and new growth plans.
Reflecting on the course and what he learned from it, he says leaders have to consistently work to be genuine, and change won’t work if staff “can’t warm themselves under your solar system”.
“If you’re not going to be a genuine leader, don’t even bother – they’ll find you out,” he says.
Having founded Moira Mac’s in 1983 with his wife, Russell says he’s still considering how new trends in the food space can influence his business, including the rise of veganism and vegetarianism.
After more than three decades in business, he says leadership is still something to be constantly worked on.
“You’ve got to show the team, you’ve got to do the hard yards,” he says.


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Redruth shopkeepers fight back against parking charges blight
9:51am Tuesday 3rd September 2013 in News
Shopkeepers in Redruth have collected in the region of 3,500 signatures calling for Cornwall Council to lower car parking charges in the town.
Tracey Hellings from the Bits and Bobs shop in the town is among the 15 or so shopkeepers who have put together the petition.
She said: “Our businesses are so quiet because they put the car parking charges up. It's stopped people coming into the town.”
Ms Hellings said many people used to pop into the town briefly to go to the bank and the odd shop, but the change in parking prices meant shoppers were now put off.
It used to cost 50p per hour to park, but drivers are now charged £1 for two hours (the minimum stay), which rises to £3 for over that time.
“Now people are taking chances and parking on double yellow lines and getting tickets,” she added. “Everyone is agreed that it should be lowered back to 50p for one hour and then £1 for two to three hours. It would encourage people back into the shops.”
A spokesperson from Cornwall Council said that the original one hour car park tariff was removed from the town in order to reduce the charge of the two hour tariff, from £1.90 to £1.
“The aim of the change was to try and encourage people to stay longer in the town in order to promote the use of a wider range of facilities. The council will seek the views of local members on the issue and will return to the original tariff structure if such a move is supported,” added the spokesperson.
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Game developer Invader Studios recently announced that it will be partnering with another company Destructive Creations to finally launch Daymare 1998.
Daymare 1998 finally getting released
After a long while from the developers, Invader Studios has finally announced some new information about the third person survival shooter video game. Aside from publishing the game, Destructive Creations will be assisting the development team with in-game animations and cutscenes.
The game focuses on three characters with their own individual personalities. They will be involved in a town that gets super destructive with all of the zombies wreaking havoc in it. These three characters are Live, Raven, and Samuel.
There is no specific date for its release, but there is a window: second quarter of 2019. It will be launched on PlayStation 4.
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The publishing company said it’s raising the circulations of both Wired and The New Yorker by 25,000 each on the strength of their tablet businesses.
...The more notable development here is that Condé said it’s raising the circulations of both Wired and The New Yorker by 25,000 each on the strength of their tablet businesses. Two years after both magazines created iPad replicas, the publisher is starting to see results at many of its titles, Sauerberg said.
“The numbers are really starting to scale,” he said, adding that by the end of the year, digital subscriptions will be well more than 1 million.
Like most major publishers, Condé Nast took a while to create a digital business. “Prerecession, we didn’t have to fool around with the digital business because of the rate of growth in the print business,” Townsend explained at the Paley Center. But then the recession shaved off 40 percent of the company’s revenue, and it was time to reorganize. Sauerberg was brought in to find new business besides print. “The postrecession moment is really the introduction of alternative platforms that take the pressure off print, not replace it,” Townsend said....
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Apple Music rolled out a new feature comprising ‘Top 100’ charts on Friday. To be precise, the company released 116 ‘Top 100’ music charts – one global and rest of them are for each nation where Apple’s music streaming service is available.
So, if the Apple Music subscribers travel from one nation to another, they can now easily get to know which top music the country people are listening to.
New Feature of Apple Music
Apple Music, in a software upgrade, showcases the 116 ‘Top 100’ music charts under the tab ‘Browse’. The appearance of these charts is similar to that of a regular playlist or album, both on laptop and mobile.
Moreover, the upgraded version of Apple Music displays the lists of top 100 streamed songs of all the regions it is present, irrespective of from which location the music app is opened. The feature will subsequently allow subscribers to discover the popular music of diverse regions and one can follow, stream or download any of the playlists.
Apple will update the list once each day at 12:00 am PST, as reported first by RollingStone.
At the same time, the company also made few changes to artists’ listings and categories with the software upgrade, cited Verge. In the earlier version, singles, collections and studio albums of a single artist were put together, making it difficult to identify/search that artist’s most popular songs. But now, there is a separate tab for studio albums, live albums, singles/EP, along with an all-new category – Essential Albums featuring prominent an artist’s most famous songs.
Apple Music Subscription Plans
With the rise in consumption of digital music services, Apple launched its music streaming app in 2015. After three months of free trial, listeners can subscribe to Apple Music for $9.99 per month/user, while a family subscription plan is available for $14.99 per month supporting 6 people. Besides this, there is another student plan costing $4.99 monthly.
Apple Music streams ad-free music videos and audios and currently encompasses a library of over 45 million songs. The innovation giant, however, is facing a tough competition in the music streaming service industry. Even with 50 million subscribers (as reported in May 2018), it still lags far behind Spotify with over 75 million subscribers, as announced in April 2018, and YouTube in terms of favoritism.
Music Industry in the US
Meanwhile, the US music streaming industry is going through a transformation phase.
In June this year, Billboard, the company publishing a collection of top 100 songs and albums for the US music industry changed its algorithm for ranking various music genres. After facing a lot of criticism, it has started now weighing paid streams higher than the free streams. Even then, though this step met a plenty of approvals, it equally received negative comments.
Similarly, YouTube in May revamped its entire platform by launching a new dedicated music app, YouTube Music and rebranding YouTube Red as YouTube Premium.
Audius, another music streaming service platform took initiative to integrate blockchain in the music industry to reclaim value for audio creators and listeners.
Apple in June introduced a browser extension for web player, offering desktop subscribers another mode of listening to their favorite music than the iTunes only. A month later on, it facilitated users to set up a listening mix in the music app that accumulates the top 25 songs their Apple Music friends are streaming.


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Spotify’s True Value for Brands
By: Hayley Jennings
March 1, 2018
Is Spotify really worth as much as its new listing on the New York Stock Exchange claims? The popular music streaming service announced it was going public on the NYSE on Feb. 28, choosing a direct listing—rather than a conventional IPO—valued at $23 billion. A direct listing allows only existing investors to publicly trade their shares without issuing any new stocks, and bypasses the traditional Wall Street process of determining the value of a company externally, causing some to speculate that this number may be too high.
Spotify touted approximately 159 million currently active users as of the end of 2017, with around 71 million users paying for their monthly ad-free subscription service at $9.99. This paying user base may not be enough to sustain the company though, as they reported a $1.5 billion net loss in 2017. Perhaps this is why it overhauled the “Spotify for Brands” program last year, to try to attract new brands to invest time and money into the service.
Spotify for Brands is a strong offering of statistics, allowing businesses to laser focus their ads to their intended audience. The company appears to collect a large amount of data on its users, and since music marketing is typically very identity-driven, brands can use this to their advantage when advertising on Spotify.
Here are the three main ways Spotify is providing value for brands:
Spotify uses what it calls “streaming intelligence,” which gives the company “insights that reflect the real people behind the devices,” according to the Spotify for Brands website. The company claims that a user’s music streaming habits can reveal a lot about who they actually are offline—not just their age and location, but also their interests, moods and behaviors. Using their five main streaming habits—discovery, diversity, tilt (how much a user curates their experience), nostalgia and obsession—brands can determine not only who should receive their ads but when those people are most likely to be listening.
Curating Ad Experiences
By offering companies the option to place their ads using a variety of formats, including audio, video, immersive overlay and sponsored playlists, Spotify is enticing brands to work with them in whatever way(s) would benefit them. Aside from the opportunity to partner with Spotify directly, the company also offers a third-party database of marketing partners and a self-serve ad studio for brands that would rather advertise on their own.
The streaming service measures the impact of advertisements itself based on reach, resonance and reaction, and also partners with third-party measurement organizations such as Nielsen and Integral Ad Science to offer brands more insight into how much their ads are influencing audiences.
Though these services might seem incredible, there are some issues to consider. The collection of so much data raises privacy concerns, which may be why such a large portion of Spotify’s users choose to pay for premium service so they can avoid ads (Spotify will still provide their data to companies but it’s not very useful if those users won’t see or hear the branded content). And as we all know too well, data points and algorithms can fail to accurately pinpoint a user’s personality.
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Farfetch partners with Nataal to “champion Black creativity”
3 Feb 2021
Farfetch is launching a partnership with Nataal, the leading global multimedia brand celebrating contemporary fashion, beauty, visual arts, music and culture from Africa and its diaspora, as part of its commitment to give more space to Black-owned brands, boutiques and creatives.
The year-long partnership will see Farfetch working with Nataal and their community of change-makers to create content that supports their talent, as well as bring Nataal’s vision to a global audience.
The first iteration of the partnership launches on February 3, as part of Farfetch’s celebration of US Black History Month, and is brought to life through a collaboration with Balmain and their creative director, Olivier Rousteing.
The editorial, captured by photographer Kenny Germé and stylist Edem Dossou, is inspired by Rousteing’s Black style icons. It showcases how the ground-breaking spirit of these icons remains an enduring influence on modern luxury today.
Nataal creative director, Marie Gomis-Trezise, said in a statement: “It was important for us to share this opportunity with Kenny and Edem, two Black artists in Paris who have brought their unique gaze to this story alongside a diverse creative team. We hope this project opens doors for more young Black French artists to work with luxury houses in future.”
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Picks and shovels versus pure play. U.S. versus Canada. Large cap versus small cap. Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG 3.05%) and Supreme Cannabis (SPRWF) present a dramatically different choice for investors on all of these fronts.
These two stocks also provide a stark difference in performance so far this year. Scotts stock is up well over 60%, while Supreme Cannabis' shares are down by a double-digit percentage. But which of these marijuana stocks is the better alternative for long-term investors now? Here's how Scotts Miracle-Gro and Supreme Cannabis compare.
The case for Scotts Miracle-Gro
After a rough year in 2018, everything appears to be going splendidly for Scotts Miracle-Gro in 2019. The company's Hawthorne subsidiary, which ranks as a top leader in supplying hydroponics products to the cannabis industry, has been a big factor behind its success.
Scotts Miracle-Gro blew away revenue and earnings estimates for the third quarter thanks largely to the contribution from Hawthorne. The cannabis-focused business posted year-over-year sales growth of 138%. Although Hawthorne's acquisition of Sunlight Supply last year made a big difference, the subsidiary still generated impressive organic sales growth of 49%.
The underlying reasons behind Hawthorne's tremendous growth make Scotts an attractive stock for long-term investors. Hawthorne's biggest market, California, continues to gain momentum after a stumbling start to its recreational marijuana market last year. Emerging markets in other key states, particularly Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Ohio, are also driving significant growth for Hawthorne.
While Scotts is well positioned to profit as its current markets expand over the next few years, the company could also have an even bigger market opportunity in the future. Nine states could potentially vote to legalize marijuana in some form in 2020. Five of them could vote on the legalization of recreational pot, including big states like Florida and New Jersey.
Don't overlook Scotts Miracle-Gro's core business of selling consumer lawn and garden products, though. This business is also performing well so far in 2019. The launches of new organic product lines have helped fuel higher growth. With the potential for climate change to result in longer growing seasons for lawns and gardens in the future, Scotts could enjoy sustained momentum over the long run with its core business.
Scotts also offers an added bonus for income investors. The company's dividend yield currently stands at nearly 2.3%. Scotts has steadily increased its dividend payout in recent years.
The case for Supreme Cannabis
Analysts don't think investors should count out Supreme Cannabis just because things haven't gone so well for the stock so far this year. In fact, they project that Supreme Cannabis' shares could more than double.
The Canadian cannabis producer's revenue growth is more impressive than that of Scotts Miracle-Gro. Supreme Cannabis reported that its Q3 revenue skyrocketed 90% -- not from the prior-year period but from the previous sequential quarter. It also achieved positive adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) for the first time ever.
Most of Supreme Cannabis' rivals have focused primarily on cranking up production capacity. Although Supreme Cannabis has expanded its capacity as well, it's done so while staying true to its prioritization of high-quality premium cannabis products.
The primary growth opportunity for Supreme Cannabis continues to be the Canadian adult-use recreational marijuana market. As the company transitions from wholesale distribution of its products to building up its 7ACRES brand, it should be able to drive revenue significantly higher.
Supreme Cannabis could also receive a big boost from the launch of the "Cannabis 2.0" derivative products market in Canada. The company is one of only four licensees to market Pax Labs' popular Pax Era vaporizer in Canada.
Although Supreme Cannabis hasn't done much in the past outside of Canada, that's changing. The company recently launched Supreme Heights, a U.K.-based business that will invest in what it calls "high-growth potential, early stage CBD brands across a variety of product forms in the health and wellness space" in Europe. The European CBD market is projected to more than quintuple in size over the next five years, giving Supreme Cannabis another major growth opportunity.
Better marijuana stock
Investing in marijuana stocks is inherently risky, but some stocks are riskier than others. My view is that Scotts Miracle-Gro isn't nearly as risky as Supreme Cannabis.
Scotts enjoys a significant competitive advantage due to its scale of operations. It sells its products in multiple countries, but, most importantly, is a leader in the biggest cannabis market of all: the U.S. In addition to its high-growth Hawthorne subsidiary, Scotts' core consumer lawn and garden business generates solid cash flow that should keep the nice dividends flowing.
Supreme Cannabis could deliver big gains, but I think the better risk-reward profile belongs to Scotts Miracle-Gro.


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September 19, 2021
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A comfort camping experience unlike any other where the mountains meet the ocean.
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June 16, 2021
The Westin Carlsbad Resort & Spa is celebrating its reopening by gifting a dreamy Mini-Moon to one lucky couple whose wedding or honeymoon was impacted by 2020.
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Explore some of Sonoma County’s most scenic and challenging cycling routes.
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Guests at Post Ranch Inn can once again enjoy indoor dining at the resort's cliffside Sierra Mar restaurant.
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text: Sixteen U.S. states, two large climate organizations, and the United Auto Workers (UAW) union are suing the U.S. Postal Service in an effort to block its purchase of more than 140,000 new mail delivery trucks over environmental issues, according to The Washington Post. The new vehicles would improve working conditions for USPS workers, but they wouldn't significantly improve fuel consumption or carbon emissions. The suit cites the potential environment impact of the new fleet and the USPS paying Wisconsin contractor Oshkosh to begin production without first conducting a thorough climate-based analysis, according to the Post. The UAW joined the suit after Oshkosh announced it would build the new mail trucks in South Carolina rather than a union state. California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in announcing the suit that the USPS is, quote, "doubling down on outdated technologies," stating, "Once this purchase goes through, we'll be stuck with more than 100,000 new gas-guzzling vehicles on neighborhood streets, serving homes across our state and across the country, for the next 30 years."