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“Apple is closing in on its largest ever acquisition with the planned $3.2bn purchase of Beats Electronics, the headphone maker and music streaming operator founded by music producer Jimmy Iovine and the hip-hop star Dr Dre,” Matthew Garrahan and Tim Bradshaw report for The Financial Times.
“The deal could be announced as early as next week, people familiar with the negotiations said, but they cautioned that some details had yet to be agreed and talks could still fall apart,” Garrahan and Bradshaw report. “A deal of this scale would represent a radical departure for Tim Cook, chief executive of the iPhone maker: under the late Steve Jobs, Apple was reluctant to pursue high-profile acquisitions.”
“Apple will acquire Beats’ streaming music service, which launched this year, and its audio equipment business, which includes its brand of headphones and audio equipment. The Beats management team will report to Mr Cook, said people familiar with the deal,” Garrahan and Bradshaw report. “While Beats commands a leading position in the premium headphone market, its real value to Apple is in revitalising its ‘cool’ at a time when iTunes has waned in popularity and Samsung’s marketing campaigns have savaged the iPhone’s brand.”
MacDailyNews Take: Oh, yes, absolutely “savaged.”
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How will Apple ever survive such raw, unbridled savagery?
Garrahan and Bradshaw report, “Apple has dabbled in music streaming but never launched an unlimited subscription service to compete with fast-growing rivals to iTunes such as Spotify. In 2009 it acquired Lala, a music streaming service, and last year launched iTunes Radio, which competes with elements of Beats, as well as more established players such as Pandora… The pricey deal is likely to raise questions about Apple’s internal capability to innovate after the death of Mr Jobs in 2011.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Beats. A triumph of marketing over sound quality.
Hopefully, if the deal goes through, some part of Beats’ Music subscription service will be worth it.


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Brandopus has redesigned the Harry’s Nuts! range for brand owner Liberation, a 100 per cent Fairtrade nut company. Nir Wegrzyn, managing partner at Brandopus, says, ‘We were keen to get involved with this exciting project and wanted to promote the role Harry plays on the pack to give him a more distinctive visual presentation that would increase the impact on-shelf and drive sales for this great cause.’ The packs are due to launch in January 2010.
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Diamond Royal Tack Auctioning Off Final Items Friday, Leaving Superior
Diamond Royal Tack is closing it's doors in Superior on Friday, March 29th. They will be having a final auction to sell off merchandise that has yet to be liquidated. They are rebranding as "Beyond The Barn" and moving to the Miller Hill Mall in Duluth.
They recently just had their final horse fair at the mall last week. They've had discounted prices for some time now, but remaining items will be sold through the auction on Friday.
Seller's Auction in Superior will be hosting the event at Diamond Royal Tack with the items going up for bid at Noon.


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Today's advanced threats are no secret. Focusing the correct resources on them is the true challenge, says Will Irace of General Dynamics Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions. He offers tips for harnessing the right skills and technology.
When it comes to the impending Sept. 23 HIPAA Omnibus enforcement deadline, many smaller organizations are making serious progress - or seriously procrastinating, says compliance expert Margie Satinsky.
As Riverside Medical Center in Illinois prepares for HIPAA Omnibus Rule compliance, it's facing push-back from some business associates about new requirements, says Erik Devine, chief security officer.
After organizations update their policies and procedures to comply with the new breach notification requirements of HIPAA Omnibus, they must thoroughly test their response plans, attorney Ellen Giblin stresses.
Despite the new instructions on breach notification in the HIPAA Omnibus Rule, there's still plenty of uncertainty about what constitutes a "compromise" of data that triggers notification, says privacy attorney Adam Greene.
When it comes to breach prevention, many organizations are improving their own security posture, but neglecting that of their strategic partners. Trend Micro's Tom Kellermann outlines third-party risks.
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Consumer advocate Deven McGraw says many provisions in the HIPAA Omnibus Rule, including better breach notification guidance and expansion of HIPAA liability to business associates, will provide substantial benefits to patients.
In 2012, ExperianÂ® Data Breach Resolution dealt with 1700 breaches - 800 of them in the healthcare sector. What are the common gaps for organizations looking to comply with new HIPAA Omnibus standards?
When it resumes, the HIPAA compliance audit program will be more focused in terms of what's evaluated but will encompass a broader range of organizations, says Verne Rinker of the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
Under the HIPAA Omnibus Rule, security incidents are presumed to be reportable data breaches unless healthcare organizations demonstrate through a four-factor assessment that risks are low, explains privacy expert Kate Borten.
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When is a chicken not a chicken? When it’s immortalized, or so says Upside Foods, formerly known as Memphis Meats. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Upside Foods’ “slaughter-free” ‘chicken’ putting lab-grown meat one step closer to US restaurant menus and grocery store shelves. How can that be? A chicken that’s not a chicken? Pandora’s box is opening wide, as there will soon be other companies bringing cell-cultivated proteins to a restaurant or grocery store near you. Beef that’s not beef may be next.
What about the USDA developing an inspection process for production plants and label approval for the finished cell-cultivated chicken or beef that’s soon to follow? The New York Times reported that industry experts, whoever they are, said that clearance from the FDA was the biggest hurdle for products seeking to go to market, and that they expected the cell-cultivated chicken to receive confirmation from USDA in the coming months.
Just how do you produce immortalized chicken? From their website, Upside Foods says, “In a nutshell, our production process starts by taking a sample of primary cells from a chicken or fertilized egg. From this sample, our team selects ideal cells for developing a commercial cell line. The winning cells are chosen based on their ability to produce high-quality meat and grow predictably and consistently. This process is called immortalization. Once a cell line is established, we’re able to draw from it for years — if not decades — to come, reducing the need to take additional cell samples from animals.” And there you have it—immortalized, a description I never thought I would hear about a chicken. It kind of sounds like those San Francisco sour dough bread makers jealously protecting their sour dough cultures so they can be used over and over for years and years.
Well, we knew it was happening. Cell-cultivated protein, that is. It’s been researched for many years and now it’s coming to fruition slowly, but the door is open. Katy, bar the door!
And, if chicken can be “immortalized,” can beef, pork or turkeys be far behind? Soon there may be a plethora of “meat” company cell-cultivated offerings if the money can be found to finance them. Speaking of financing, Future Foods, a company founded in Israel, a year ago raised $347 million to support their company’s cell-cultured meat and poultry products made from animal cells. And guess who some of the major investors were — Archer Daniels Midland and Tyson Foods, two pretty big US food companies.
As announced over a year ago, Memphis Meats nee Future Foods’ investor money was used in part to open a US based processing facility with the goal of bringing the cell-cultivated meat products to the US market later in 2022. Well, good luck with that, but grocery store meat section shelves may not be overflowing with the new cell-cultivated proteins that quickly, in my opinion.
The screeching sound you hear is from meat and poultry industry veterans’ fingernails being dragged across the chalk board demonstrating their frustration with anything that describes a protein that is not from a live animal being FDA-approved and thus to be labeled meat or poultry.
Will these cell-cultivated proteins that are soon to be in restaurants and grocery stores replicate the path of the plant-based faux meat proteins? Millions of dollars chased the companies making these plant-based meat analogs, only to see the companies they financed grind to a halt or at least dramatically slow their growth as consumers did not fully accept the products. But remember the first mover in a market usually reaps the most rewards if they are well-financed and can withstand the inevitable downturns of any new product venture.
At the risk of saying the obvious, there will be a brouhaha from the traditional meat and poultry industry scions about any cell-cultivated company receiving FDA-approval and subsequently similar approval from the USDA. Do such approvals portend the future for the entire conception-to-consumption of live-animal-to-meat product continuum, or will cell-cultivated chicken, followed by beef, be a flash in the pan, so to speak?


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RFID tags used in two new types of border-crossing documents in the U.S. are vulnerable to snooping and copying, a researcher said on Thursday.
Steep declines in the price of some of Samsung Electronics' major products pushed quarterly profits down and worse could be on the way, the company said Friday.
Multiyear annuity sales lifted Microsoft's revenue 9 percent for the first quarter of fiscal 2009, but the company lowered guidance for its second quarter as crisis grips the global economy, news that came as no surprise to financial analysts.
Google has finally solved a problem that kept recent subscribers to its Apps suite from accessing their new Gmail accounts.
New legislation is putting pressure on US colleges and universities to do a better job combating illegal file-sharing -- and it's taking a toll on campus IT departments, according to research published this week.
Avaya is planning a core server with which customers and independent software vendors can easily build presence, voice and other communications modes into business applications.
The note that Andy Gladys sent out to the Application Systems User Group of Greater Cleveland this week could not have been more straightforward or painful.
The investment company that announced Wednesday it has taken a 21 percent stake in Sun Microsystems believes the market doesn't get one important thing about the workstation and server vendor: It's a software company.
Sun, in a statement, denies that its co-founder and first employee, Andy Bechtolsheim, is leaving the company.
Amazon Web Services Thursday launched a public beta of its cloud-computing service running Windows Server and SQL Server, marking the first time developers and businesses can use the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to build and host applications o...
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Soreen's Lunchbox Loaves are bit-sized baked malt loaves that are made with simple ingredients like milk, wheat, flour and barley.
For Halloween, Soreen launched two new flavors, Toffee Apple and Chocolate & Blood Orange. The packs contain five individually wrapped loaves, which helps them live up to their name as excellent lunch companions. Rather than sending kids to school with a lunchbox full of unhealthy, sugary snacks, these loaves make it easy to treat kids to the flavors of the season in a way that also supplies a healthy amount of protein, fiber and energy.


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Discount Retailer Loehmann's Files for Bankruptcy Protection
"The decline in economic conditions in several markets in which Loehmann's stores are concentrated, mainly California, the Northeast, Midwest and Florida, has had an adverse effect on Loehmann's financial condition," CFO Joseph Melvin said in a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.
Loehmann's sells discounted clothes from brands including Calvin Klein and Donna Karan at more than 55 stores in the United States.
Istithmar World PJSC, the investment arm of state-owned holding company Dubai World, purchased Loehmann's in 2006. Bondholders and Istithmar agreed to the bankruptcy filing.
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Australian online bookstore Booktopia will close a three-year project by September that will bring new automation technology to its distribution center, allowing it to ship more than 60,000 units per day.
Deputy CEO and CTO Wayne Baskin told an Insider webinar that the e-merchant is “always on the path to increasing the efficiency of our systems and technology in our fulfillment center.”
Baskin joined the company in 2008 as the first software engineer, and many of the systems he built, including the warehouse management system, are still in use.
However, what has occupied much of his time in recent years is the deployment of automation and related technologies in Booktopia’s distribution center.
“We’re on a new project path to launch a whole new automation in our distribution center, and all of this will go live in August / September,” said Baskin.
“This has been going on for about three years now… and it will allow us to ship up to 60,000 units per day from our distribution center.
“We’re always pushing the limits of those numbers, so I’m sure that will allow us to do 70,000 to 80,000 if we really need to.”
Baskin noted that the technology could have been put to good use during the COVID lockdown period, had it been prepared.
“It would have been great to have that to deal with the surge,” he said. “So we wouldn’t even have felt it. “
Booktopia’s sales volumes increased significantly in April; “To give you an idea, we [were] about 80 percent year-over-year increase [and] some weekends it exceeds 100% year on year. “
In terms of units, the company shipped 40,000 units per day.
For Baskin, the rise in volume was “always … very bittersweet” because it was the result of pain in other areas of the book industry.
“We were looking at this, ‘It’s about the demise of other bookstores,” he said.
To avoid getting overwhelmed, Booktopia pulled its usual advertising and only handled organic traffic to its website.
“Very early on we looked at our numbers and had to take the advertising out of it. So for a long time we didn’t need Google ads to maintain what we needed to keep our fulfillment center busy and full, and to make sure we could ship on time, ”Baskin said.
The company also hired additional customer service staff to cope with the influx of orders.
While he didn’t expect the volumes to last, especially with the reopening of physical retailers, Baskin was confident that at least some of the online shopping habits that Australians developed during the period would be maintained.
“I think online retail spending is going to increase,” he said. ” It must. People will definitely change their behavior.
For its part, Booktopia will make greater use of personalization, recommendations and anonymous retargeting through its site.
“We have personalization and recommendations all over the site [already]Said Baskin, noting that Booktopia uses Insider’s product recommendation engine technology.
“Right now it’s mostly on our product pages, but now we’re planning to roll it out on our landing pages and home pages – throughout the site, as we’ve seen a big increase in conversion of customers and expenses. per customer on these pages.
The e-merchant has also introduced push notifications to the site and has so far found the strategy to be successful.
“We first thought, ‘Shall we make an app,’ Hey, can we send you some notifications? And then if they said yes then we would give the hardest part, which was the actual browser saying “Do you want to allow or block?” ”
“But we found that it didn’t work as well for us as just allowing or hard blocking.
“Were [now] accumulating a significant number of people saying, “Yes, I want to be notified by Booktopia”, but we are at the very beginning of this journey. “
Baskin said Booktopia could send push notification prompts around specific events, such as Mother’s Day, or over items added to a cart.
“If it’s been a day or two, we send a push notification. Or maybe you watched this three days ago and the price has since dropped or it wasn’t in stock but now it is. “
“What I like about push is that you just have to have someone say, ‘Yes, send me notifications’ and then you can start notifying them.
“You might never know who they are, you might never know anything about them, but… I think in this COVID world where we get all these new people browsing our site, that’s what that’s going to allow us to take advantage of all these new customers in the future, because a lot of them I’m sure are going to be like, “No, don’t email me”.
Baskin said Booktopia has already seen “great results” on push cart abandonment notifications.
“We see a big engagement where people click on it and say, ‘Yeah, I forgot to buy this’ and come back.
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Sun Peaks Resort LLP (SPR) is the latest resort to join Mountain Collective’s group of resorts.
Joining the group means those who buy a Mountain Collective pass for the 2020-21 season can ski or ride for two days at any of the 23 partner resorts, receive a 50 per cent discount on additional days and one bonus day.
Other resorts in the collective include Panorma and Revelstoke in B.C., Banff, Sunshine and Lake Louse in Alberta, Sugarloaf in Maine and Chamonix in France.
“Sun Peaks is thrilled to be connecting with this industry-leading collection of destinations,” said Aidan Kelly, chief marketing officer for SPR. “The value and opportunity for guests from around the world to experience so many incredible places together on one pass is amazing.”
A press release stated full Sun Peaks seasons pass information will be released soon.
Mountain Collective passes are now available for $469, USD for adults, $99 USD for children. Sun Peaks seasons pass holders will receive 50 per cent off tickets purchased at other resorts in the collective.


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Startups might not need the same kind of discipline that a second-grade teacher can dish out, but a little mentorship can go a long way. Yutilova Elena/Shutterstock
The UpTake: Startups with experienced mentorship have a big leg up, says Bob Creeden. That's where the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network comes into the picture.
“The model takes a team of entrepreneurs in residence, people that have been successful in starting their own companies and exiting successful and raising venture or strategic or private money in-between, using those folks to work with the companies,” he explains. And they connect with startups from university referrals, as well as partnerships such as one with the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
That’s how smoking cessation startup e-Nicotine connected to Blackstone. That company, which operates its regulatory and clinical development research out of Chapel Hill, just raised $3.8 million from angel investors.
“While Blackstone did not ultimately connect us with any of the angel groups that ended up being part of our A-round, I would say that they did provide us with very valuable strategic input on the framing of the financing, as well as tactical input involving our pitch deck, all of which helped us to close our A-round of financing,” says Michael Hufford, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer, says.
And it’s that pitch readiness that takes up the most time for Blackstone’s veteran entrepreneurs, such as Scott Moody, founder of AuthenTec, which sold to Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) in 2012 for $356 million.
AuthenTec technology is represented in the latest iPhone through the Touch ID fingerprint scanning technology.
“I’ve seen more dry runs of investor presentations than I can count,” he says. And, it must have worked. He made a personal investment in one of the companies he helped pitch: Joosy.
He even left us with a tip: Focus pitches on what makes you unique.
Lauren Ohnesorge covers technology, biotechnology and Durham County for the Triangle Business Journal.
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Sally Beauty Holdings on Tuesday announced that it hired Kevin Metz as vice president of e-commerce and Vanathy Lakshmi as vice president of digital product to help the retailer revamp its digital strategy.
Metz will oversee the retailer's North American digital growth initiatives, including the websites for Sally Beauty and Cosmo Prof, the retailer's mobile app, portals, third-party online marketplaces and integrations with brick-and-mortar stores, per a company press release sent to Retail Dive. Prior to joining Sally Beauty, he held roles at Stuller, Ulta Beauty and Yankee Candle, the company's statement noted.
Lakshmi will oversee the retailer's digital guest experience and digital product roadmap across the company, according to the press release. She brings more than ten years of experience in roles for companies like Walmart, Pier One, Academy Sports and Frontgate.
Sally Beauty's hires come as the retailer updates its digital execution. In early January, the retailer announced changes to its mobile app and its creation of a social media influencer program as part of an overall rebranding effort. The retailer also added Instagram shopping and Apple Pay to its website and introduced ColorView AI Technology to let shoppers virtually try hair color and cosmetics before purchasing.
"We are thrilled to add Kevin and Vanathy to the team to start leveraging their extensive expertise in e-commerce as Sally Beauty continues its digital transformation," Chris Brickman, chief executive of Sally Beauty Holdings, said in a statement. "They will take us to the next level in our drive for a consumer-driven digital environment that operates seamlessly in partnership with our stores and supply chain."
The retailer has also been rethinking its payment offerings. Last fall, Sally Beauty announced plans to roll out its own private label credit card, which will be piloted in select stores during the second quarter of 2020. The card introduction is part of the larger trend of retailers updating their loyalty programs, including competitors like Sephora partnering with Venmo.


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MattyFest attendees furious after Toronto chef's festival runs out of food
Toronto chef Matty Matheson managed to bring Wu-Tang Clan, The Descendents, Gogol Bordello and Danny Brown, among other iconic artists, to RBC Echo Beach on Saturday for thousands of people to enjoy at Mattyfest.
Unfortunately for those who came to eat — and, let's be real, this event was promoted as a food festival just as much as it was a music festival — his vendors didn't bring enough grub.
Attendees started complaining of sold-out food stalls around 7 p.m. on Saturday, some six hours after the festival had started, but at least four hours before it was slated to end.
Did Matty Matheson just throw Canada it’s very own Fyre Festival? #Mattyfest https://t.co/W2ACkSgOwx— Josh Tabish (@jdtabish) September 8, 2019
The Festival issued a "food advisory" via Twitter, Instagram and Facebook around 8 p.m. to explain that more supplies were on the way.
"Committed to sustainability, we prepped limited quantities of our menu items to eliminate food waste, but know that you're a hungry bunch!" read the advisory. "We're working on getting more food to you as soon as we can. Thanks for your patience, and stay tuned!"
This did little to console people who'd already exchanged their actual cash for "Matty Money" (also called "Matty Bucks"), a non-refundable, token-style currency required to buy food or drinks inside the festival.
Pretty fucked up that you guys were still selling Matty Bucks long after food sold out. Also, how does a food festival sell out halfway through the day?— This Broken Mixtape (@ThisBrokenMix) September 8, 2019
"Fries.... that's all there was at this event if you arrived from 6pm onward," wrote one attendee on Facebook. "Brutal planning, everyone was hungry... Wu Tang at 9:30 was it, not a food event if that's what anyone was thinking."
"Most vendors sold out by 7pm? Matty-bucks non-refundable? Y'all knew exactly how much food the vendors stocked, so you know how many Matty bucks need to be sold to sell out of food!" wrote another on Instagram in response to the food advisory.
"Kept selling the bucks even when you knew there was no food to buy! #broke&hungry."
So the guy who made his reputation of eating a bunch of food thought his fans didn't want much food.— Thunderdome Greeter (@DuncmasterFunk) September 8, 2019
As vendors hustled to re-up their supplies, organizers announced that Matty Money could be used to purchase official festival merchandise (which wasn't originally the case).
People who wanted food weren't down for buying hats instead. They wanted to eat — or at the very least to get their money back — and many weren't buying the "sustainability" excuse.
"All for food sustainability, but you sold more 'Mattybucks' than portions of food were available," replied one guest to the festival on Twitter. "That isn't us being a 'hungry bunch', that's really poor logistics and likely illegal."
Love the tactful reply, but as someone who has a career in conservation and sustainability and a background in hospitality I know not having accessible food when selling alcohol is illegal and shitty. Just letdown with #Mattyfest— Keely Hamilton, Senior Development Officer, NCC (@KeelyHamilton09) September 8, 2019
By 9:30 p.m., at least four vendors were back open and serving food.
Attendees who didn't want what was on offer and weren't able to spend their Matty Bucks were told around 10:15 p.m. that tokens could be refunded at the box office.
With only 45 minutes left in the festival, however, many people had already left with what they thought were now-worthless Matty Money bills in their pockets.
Disappointed this was announced so late. We left with 5 unused tokens 👎🏼— Lindsay Day (@lindsayerinday) September 9, 2019
The food situation may have been sketchy later in the day, but people did seem to be loving MattyFest prior to the mass shortages.
Did the event draw comparisons to Fyre Festival? Sure. Was it actually disastrous to the point where it deserved to be? No. Don't expect a Netflix documentary.
As one Instagram user so astutely summed up the first MattyFest at Echo Beach: "They really shit the bed on the food, but the bands were great."
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One of the coolest things about the burgeoning NFT space is how it allows creators to blur the lines between digital and physical art projects. Exhibition 4444 is one such project, which—by including a physical aspect to the digital rendering—masterfully invokes two worlds: digital art and fashion.
The multi-dimensional project was created by designer 4×1111, 3D artist Tropicalratchet, digital artist Starpressure and curator/director of photography CNNNR. CNNNR told ONE37pm that the goal of the effort was “to curate a unique NFT experience, combining the precedent and quality set forth by 4×1111’s craft and highly attentive-to-detail mentality in the fashion industry to our matched aesthetic in the virtual world.”
What makes the project so interesting is how buyers have an opportunity to potentially receive a physical jacket. In their description of the project, the team noted: “Not only are collectors set to bid on a digital collectible exhibition, but the one collector to hold the piece for 4 consecutive weeks will receive the physical, handmade Jacquard Woven Knit Tapestry Jacket, modeled down to the exact threading and stitch patterns, indistinguishable from the virtual garment.”
All 4 of the artist involved have a background in fashion, which is part of why the project was able to come together in such a unified, cohesive way. The only member of the collective without a professional fashion background is CNNNR, but the team cheekily noted that: “Connor, well, he just be dressin‘.” What is fashion about if it’s not about drip?
The project is launching on Foundation tomorrow; the digital art is tied to a verifiable token existing on the Ethereum blockchain, and the physical garment defines a new form of hybrid collectible. For more info on the project, check this link. And for a look back in history, take a look at CNNNR’s previous piece for ONE37pm on his genesis in the NFT space.


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By Liz Moyer
Investing.com — Stocks headed higher, continuing last-week’s rally despite weaker economic data from China that could threaten global growth.
Most investors are focused on this week’s retail earnings from big companies including Walmart and Target (NYSE:), which serve as a proxy for the health of the American consumer. The reports come after an unexpectedly strong job report for July and unexpectedly positive inflation news. The Federal Reserve is likely to be watching the trends closely as it decides on the next step with interest rates.
The of the Fed’s July meeting will be released on Wednesday, providing investors with another window into how policymakers are thinking about the economy given the data they are seeing. Some investors believe the recent trends could lead the Fed to get less aggressive with rate increases as it aims for a “soft landing,” which means cooling the economy without large job losses.
This week also brings a slate of data on housing trends, another market that is cooling amid high prices and rising interest rates.
Walmart’s earnings report comes out early Tuesday. Here are three things that could affect markets tomorrow.
1. Housing starts
The July data comes out at 8:30 ET (12:30 GMT). Analysts expect a reading of 1.54 million.
2. Walmart earnings
Analysts expect Walmart Inc (NYSE:), the biggest U.S. retailer, to report earnings per share of $1.63 on revenue of $150.9 billion.
3. Home Depot earnings
Home Depot Inc (NYSE:) is expected to report EPS of $4.94 on revenue of $43.4 billion.


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Kinetic Energy Cell Phones: Shake a Leg for the Sake of Generating Power
A recent patent filed by telecommunications giant Nokia may lead to encouraging increased physical movement among cell phone users, since the technology will harness the user’s motion to power the device.
While the principles of kinetic energy have been applied to other portable devices, Nokia’s self-powered phone would be the first cell phone powered by piezoelectric crystals and human motion, eliminating the need for batteries or chargers. In addition to powering phones, the kinetic energy concept could be applied to other portable electronic units, including medical equipment, games, or CD/DVD players, that use batteries.
Use of piezoelectric crystals has been advanced by recent research that allows them to be imprinted on flexible materials for use in devices. The combination of movement and the electric current generated by the crystals would create electricity to power the phone.
Kinetic energy has been innovatively applied at a supermarket in Gloucester, England. The store installed kinetic energy plates in June 2009, and each time a car passes over the plates, a bit of energy is created, stored, and transferred to provide power for the cash register stations.
Several startup companies are working on ways to harness kinetic energy for mobile applications. M2E Power, recently purchased by Motionetics, received venture funding to produce a Microgenerator for the military market in 2007. Other companies working on the potentially disruptive technology include NightStar Flashlight, which provides 20 minutes of light produced by 30 seconds of shaking, and MicroStrain, Inc., who is using piezoelectric crystals in wireless sensors for aerospace, automotive, civil engineering, robotics, biomechanics, & robotics applications.


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Kent-based family haulier Alan Firmin has left Palletforce to join Pallet-Track as it pushes for further growth in 2017. The road transport, distribution and logistics company will take on the Kent region for Pallet-Track. The network had been managing the postcode as a temporary measure, since the departure of Birds Transport from Pallet-Track last year. Pallet-Track founder and MD Nigel Parkes said Alan Firmin’s decision to switch to Pallet-Track from Palletforce was “a significant coup,” adding that the firm is […]
Suffolk-based Anglia Freight has opened a new cross-dock facility at its site at the Mid Suffolk Business Park.
ARR Craib said that its customer retention has been excellent, despite the fall in the price of oil that led to a significant downturn among its core oil and gas customers resulting in a 9% fall in turnover in its most recent financial year.
Pallet-Track has recruited former Palletline man Steve Butler as a divisional director.


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Unlike most other upcoming electronic products and devices, there’s only one reason why the Microsoft Surface Pro 5 has not been officially launched yet that’s because the American tech giant has decided that having the latest processor is worth the wait. Although the next generation professional tablet computer is due for a release this year, it certainly appears like Microsoft is bent on playing the waiting game.
Several reports claim that the earliest possible launch for the device is the first quarter of 2017, during a time when Intel has probably announced and made its latest generation Kaby Lake processors available for equipment. The seventh generation chip has been a subject of quite a lot of talk as of late, with several big names in the industry like Apple and Microsoft patiently waiting for it.
The Microsoft Surface Pro 5 may also come with either a new Pascal architecture NVIDIA graphics card or maybe one from its main competitor, the AMD-made Polaris graphics processing unit (GPU). Whichever of the two gets the go, one thing is for sure the hybrid device could very well become the most sophisticated in terms of graphics capabilities.
Accordingly, Kit Guru reports that the reason why Microsoft is sticking to its original plan of waiting it out for the Kaby Lake to be released is because the new processor could potentially address the previous battery issues associated with the Surface Pro 4. This time, the company hopes that putting the Kaby Lake in the Microsoft Surface Pro 5 will extend the battery life of the upcoming device.
Aside from the improved processor, there are speculations that the hybrid tablet will be equipped with a 16 GB of random access memory (RAM), which obviously is more than enough to allow multi-tasking. Display wise, the least one could expect is a 2K screen, although it’s quite possible that Microsoft goes all in by equipping it with a 4K screen.


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[analysts believe that the State Council to increase efforts to crack down on Internet piracy will have a negative impact on large electronic business platform, which led to the Alibaba shares fell on Friday, down 2.07%.
technology news (Le Tian) on November 8th, the general office of the State Council recently issued on the strengthening of the field of Internet infringement and counterfeiting management advice, said to accelerate the field of combating internet infringement and counterfeiting related laws and regulations.
said, to in agricultural, food and medicines, cosmetics, medical equipment, electrical and electronic products, auto parts, decoration materials, explosive dangerous chemicals, children’s products and garments and other social relations, reflect the focus on health and safety, public safety and the production of consumer goods as the focus, the organization to carry out concentrated rectification to strengthen the supervision of law enforcement action.
said that the fight against infringement and counterfeiting will be included in the normalization of the postal industry regulation, supervision of postal companies, courier companies to strengthen the qualification review of e-commerce companies and other clients. According to the law in accordance with the regulations of the Internet infringement and counterfeiting harmful information.
in addition, to increase the sale of counterfeit well-known trademarks, foreign trademark goods to investigate and deal with the efforts to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of consumers and consumers. To carry out special action against Internet piracy.
(mobile phone) to strengthen the network monitoring and supervision of literature, music, film, games, animation, software copyright and contains the standard categories of works and other key areas, the timely discovery and investigation of illegal network reproduced piracy.
opinion also said, relying on the national copyright supervision platform, expand the scope of copyright supervision, the intelligent mobile terminal third party applications (APP), network cloud storage space, micro-blog, WeChat and other new forms of communication into copyright regulation.
it is understood that analysts believe that the State Council to increase efforts to combat internet infringement and counterfeiting can adversely affect a large business platform, which leads to the Alibaba’s share price fell Friday, a decrease of 2.07%.
the following is the full text of the announcement:
General Office of the State Council on strengthening the field of Internet
comments on the management of infringement and counterfeiting
issued 2015 No. 77
people’s governments of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government, all ministries and commissions of the State Council, and all institutions directly under the State Council:
, with "Internet plus" as the main content of the rapid development of electronic commerce has become a strong driving force for China’s economic growth, to promote public entrepreneurship, innovation has played an irreplaceable role. However, the field of Internet IPR infringement and selling counterfeit and shoddy goods crime also showed multiple high momentum.
to implement the State Council on the development of e-commerce to accelerate the development of new economic power of the opinions (Guo Fa  No. 24), to strengthen the field of Internet Infringement


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AMP-aligned practice fined for misleading advertising
A Victoria-based financial advice practice has paid $10,200 in ASIC penalties for misleading representations on their website.
Australian Financial Planning Solutions (AFPS) – an authorised representative of Charter Financial Planning – was issued the infringement notice after an ASIC investigation, according to a statement from the regulator.
“ASIC's concerns related to false or misleading representations made in an article titled 'Benefits of a self-managed super fund' that appeared on AFPS's website between 22 July and 4 November 2014,” the statement said.
ASIC was concerned the article contained unsubstantiated claims about major retail and industry superannuation funds experiencing payout difficulties and that the article misrepresented the taxation implications of SMSFs.
Deputy chairman Peter Kell said it was a question of consumer trust.
“Consumers should be able to trust the information provided by financial firms when making decisions about their investments, including superannuation,” he said.
ANZ makes changes to advice model
ANZ has announced it will stop offering a financial advice service to new custo...
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The annual HCC Foundation Tribute Dinner will be held on Friday, April 3 at 6 p.m. in the ARCC. This year’s Tribute will honor John and Teresa Barr.
To support the Tribute’s efforts to raise funds for student scholarships, tickets will be sold for a chance to win one of the three prizes. Tickets are $100 each and only 300 tickets will be sold. Online tickets sales will end at 12:00 am on April 3rd. Any remaining tickets will be sold the night of the Tribute. The winners will be announced at the Tribute on April 3rd and you do not need to be present to win.
Learn more about the items being raffled or purchase your tickets HERE.


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Gulf states are diversifying their economies and betting big on tech.
In late August, Google signed a partnership with The Garage, a Saudi Arabia tech hub backed by the Ministry of Communications, to support more than 100 international startup companies and convince them to set up headquarters in the kingdom.
“The market here is promising; there are lots of great ideas and ambitious entrepreneurs,” says Maryam Alhuthayfi, a mentor with Google for Startups who was present at the launch.
The first cohort of entrepreneurs will receive grants of up to 100,000 riyals ($26,600) as well as funding and mentorship opportunities.
This strategic partnership is part of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, the kingdom’s development road map. Spearheaded by tech-savvy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, economic diversification plans include large investments in the digital economy. In 2018, MBS traveled to Silicon Valley in California to meet with prominent blue-chip company executives, invite them to invest in Saudi Arabia and help turn Riyadh into a regional tech hub.
Over the years, the Saudi Public Investment Fund, one of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world, also acquired minority shares in major US tech firms, including Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Paypal and Uber. Like Google, some of these companies have set foot in Saudi Arabia, chasing opportunities in the kingdom and the region.
In the neighboring United Arab Emirates, the talk of the town is now the metaverse—a 3D virtual world where users can create avatars, socialize and transact. In August, Emirates NBD, Dubai’s largest bank, partnered with the Dubai International Financial Center and Microsoft to launch a global accelerator program specialized in metaverse companies.
“With our entry into the metaverse, we seek to reimagine financial services using extended reality and create compelling new propositions for our customers in the new metaverse economy,” Marwan Hadi, executive vice president and head of retail banking at Emirates NBD, said in a prepared statement.
Dubai aims to become one of the world’s top 10 metaverse economies, creating $4 billion in extra revenue and 40,000 jobs by 2030.


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Sigma Systems signs three-year renewal with Technology Networks in Japan
TORONTO – June 4, 2014 — Sigma Systems, the leader in catalog-driven Idea-to-Install products, today announced it has signed a three-year licensing and support agreement with Technology Networks, which provides the provisioning and operations services to Jupiter Telecommunications’ (J:COM’s) internet service. Technology Networks will be merged with J:COM on July 1, 2014. The contract extends Sigma’s existing relationship with Technology Networks and ensures its ISP and cable businesses can realize the full benefits of the Sigma Service Management Platform (SMP) products.
“Japan has benefited from its successful government-led digital strategy, which has placed the country at the forefront of broadband connectivity in terms of speed and availability,” said Tim Spencer, President and Chief Operating Officer, Sigma Systems. “As a result, Japan has been a significant growth market for Sigma, as the country’s major service providers have sought out our solutions for delivering the complex and diverse digital services across these networks. Today, Sigma is enabling the growth of the digital economy, making it easier for service providers to sell and deliver more services to more customers than ever before. We are pleased to be expanding our relationship with Technology Networks and J:COM following its recent acquisition of Japan Cablenet Limited (JCN) and to be helping J:COM to migrate JCN’s services to the Sigma solution.”
About Jupiter Telecommunications Co., Ltd. and Technology Networks Inc.
Established in 1995, Jupiter Telecommunications Co., Ltd.( J:COM) is Japan’s largest multiple system and multiple channel operator. In system operation, J:COM provides cable television, high speed Internet access and telephony services to customers through 31 consolidated subsidiaries at the local level serving 5 million subscribing households in Sapporo, Sendai, Kanto, Kansai, and Kyushu regions. The number of serviceable households or “homes passed” in J:COM franchise areas is 19 million. In channel operation, J:COM invests in and operates 17 thematic channels which are provided to CATV, satellite and telecom operators.
* The above household figures are as of April 30, 2014, including figures of JCN group which became consolidated subsidiaries of J:COM in December 2013. Technology Networks is a subsidiary company of J:COM and has provided provisioning and operation services for J:COM’s services.
About Sigma Systems (sigma-systems.com or Twitter @SigmaSystems)
Sigma Systems is the pioneer in catalog-driven Idea-to-Install products for communications, media and high tech companies. Sigma Systems helps customers master what’s next and make it easier for their customers to buy from them. The company’s BSS/OSS product portfolio spans product & service catalog, configure price quote, order management, service provisioning, service inventory, cloud brokerage and device management – all of which can be deployed in the cloud or on-premise. Sigma products manage 100’s of millions of services exceeding $150b of products defined and installed at over 70 customers in 40 countries.


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Lenovo’s changing up its Motorola strategy all over again, pivoting back to an emphasis on the latter’s brand name. The Chinese firm has also confirmed that there won’t be another Moto 360 smartwatch coming out any time soon.
To recall, Lenovo had previously announced that it was going to phase out the Motorola name to a new Moto by Lenovo moniker. The news prompted a mixed reception, with many disappointed over the fact that the iconic brand was being left behind. There was also a lot of confusion over how Motorola and Lenovo would co-exist.
It looks like Lenovo has finally decided on a clear strategy going forward. Instead of dropping the Motorola name, the manufacturer’s going to embrace it and place its signature bat wing logo front and center. The shift has apparently come about after a new leadership team took the reins.
Also Read: Moto G5 Plus arriving in India on March 15
Motorola Chairman and President Aymar de Lencquesaing told CNET that he’s going to reinvigorate the brand using the Moto Z. The modular smartphone made waves last year and sales have supposedly picked up over time due to interest in the Moto Mods accessories.
Motorola unveiled a couple of new Moto Mods at the MWC 2017, highlighting an Alexa-powered Mod, a gamepad for playing games, and a wireless charging mod. De Lencquesaing is promising to make the phone more widely available, expanding beyond Verizon and spending more on marketing.
Intriguingly, Lenovo is looking to gradually transition to the Motorola brand name in all regions. It’s apparently set to reintroduce the Motorola moniker into China and wipe out its own name. Even the company’s Zuk sub-brand will be phased out.
De Lencquesaing also confirmed that Motorola had scrapped plans for a smartwatch after observing that the sales figures from the Moto 360 wasn’t enough to justify another entry in the series. Furthermore, he said that there were too few practical uses for wearables. However, he does have a small set of engineers working on a project for research purposes.


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Lawmakers debate getting rid of sales tax on groceries
Published: Feb. 7, 2023 at 10:29 PM CST
MISSOURI (KMOV) -- Missouri lawmakers are thinking about removing the 1 percent sales tax on groceries. Senate members are pushing the idea forward, saying it could save Missourians money.
There are also talks about reducing taxes for senior citizens and eliminating the personal property tax.
Illinois suspended its 1 percent sales tax for one year starting in July of last year. Officials say the move will save taxpayers as much as $400 million.
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The tech giant is searching for a locale with at least a million people, a diverse population, and excellent schools, among other qualifications. It gave municipalities six weeks—until October 19—to submit a proposal to be chosen.
Local governments in more than 100 American and Canadian cities, including places like San Diego, Chicago, Dallas, and Detroit, quickly scrambled to outline why they should be home to Amazon's new corporate office, which is expected to employ up to 50,000 workers. The mayor of Washington D.C., Muriel Bowser, even made a scripted video for Amazon explaining why the capital should be picked. It featured an Echo, Amazon's smart speaker.
But experts who have studied Amazon's business practices say having one of the most tax-allergic corporations in the world come to your hometown might not actually be a good thing.
"It's an intoxicating proposition to detonate an Amazon prosperity bomb in the center of their city," Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at New York University and the author of The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, told me on a phone call. But "this has the potential to be destructive on the wrong terms for the local municipality."


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HTC to ship iPAQ rx5915 to HP in October
Daniel Shen, Taipei; Steve Shen, DIGITIMES
High Tech Computer (HTC) is expected to begin volume shipments of the iPAQ rx5915 GPS-enabled PDA to Hewlett-Packard (HP) this month, according to market sources.
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Is Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) thinking of launching its own line of clothing? The answer is yes, according to several sites.
Since the rumors surfaced, fashion industry analysts have given their thoughts on the idea and why it could work and why it could not. Some say the move into a crowded and competitive marketplace would be risky while others believe it could mark the start of something new in clothes shopping.
The rumors that the retailer could be coming up with its own clothing line surfaced earlier this week at a meeting.
Jeff Yurcisin, Vice President of Amazon Fashion, said that the Internet based retailer might launch a private label brand to keep customers happy.
Amazon sells tons of clothing but not made by them. A recent report predicted that the online retailer will become the top seller of clothing in the United States two years from now. If Amazon does get in on the clothing business, it wouldn’t be the first time that it ventures into a competitive marketplace.
Other Products and Brands
Sucharita Mulpuru, an analyst and expert in the industry, noted that this isn’t the first time the retailer has done a private label brand. She added that they’ve already done it with AmazonBasics, which offers a range of digital and home accessories at great prices.
That is not the only private label brand they have, the retailer also has one that offers home and kitchen items and a line of patio and garden furniture. The company also has Amazon Elements, which currently only offers baby wipes, but will soon add other items.
Amazon has been around for years and is a giant but many believe the move is risky. Mulpuru says private label in fashion is one of the easiest and hardest things to do because it’s a crowded and competitive field, making it difficult to stand out.
They Know What Customers Want
But we are talking about Amazon here and Mulpuru believes they have the data to know what the masses want since they account for between 20 and 25 percent of all e-commerce in the United States. Jake Gasaway, co-founder of a company that provides software that simplifies commerce and increases sales, agrees with Mulpuru on the data comment. He says they have our browsing history, contact information and other data that suggests what the customer might be interested in.
Gasaway also talked about a recent survey, which showed that of the 2,000 online shoppers interviewed in the United States, almost half said they go directly to the online retailer when looking for a new product or detailed information about it.
Not all products have gone well though, the company tried to make an impact on the smartphone market but its device ended up taking a bunch of price cuts and is now unavailable. The tablets have stayed and they recently launched one with a $50 price tag.
Would you buy clothes made by Amazon? Do you like Amazon’s rumored idea? Let us know in the comments.


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RISC-V needs more than an open architecture to compete
Arm shows us that even total domination doesn't always make stupid levels of money
Opinion Interviews with chip company CEOs are invariably enlightening. On top of the usual market-related subjects of success and failure, revenues and competition, plans and pitfalls, the highly paid victim knows that there's a large audience of unusually competent critics eager for technical details. That's you.
Take The Register's latest interview with RISC-V International CEO Calista Redmond. It moved smartly through the gears on Intel's recent Platinum Membership of the open ISA consortium ("they're not too worried about their x86 business"), the interest from autocratic regimes (roughly "there are no rules, if some come up we'll stick by them"), and what RISC-V's 2022 will look like. Laptops. Thousand-core AI chips. Google hyperscalers. Edge. The plan seems to be to do in five years what took Arm 20.
RISC-V may not be an existential risk to Intel, but Arm had better watch it.
That's a bold claim. Redmond is right to point to serious progress – getting buy-in from the industry is an outstanding achievement. RISC-V has earned its place as a contender, there's a buzz about it, and the ecosystem is building bit by bit.
All this is necessary, but prosperity is still a way away. The processor market is a very strange place, and there's no real sign that RISC-V is packing a killer punch.
The challenge isn't one of technical competence or even of being a genuinely useful concept that does things its competition cannot. Both are true: RISC-V is shipping in numbers as embedded and SoC silicon, and it's the only ISA where designers are free to add or modify architectural features at the ISA level itself. Compared to the gargantuan market advantages of its two rivals, however, these seem like running shoes where jet boots are needed.
Take Arm. In 2021 it licensed nearly 30 billion cores – four for every human alive – and made $2.7 billion. Which proves three things. There's a huge global appetite for advanced mobile and embedded cores, Arm absolutely owns that market's IP, yet that total domination doesn't make much money.
You might think $2.7 billion is a lot of money – and its profit margin is nothing to sneeze at either – but it's only 0.6 percent of the $450 billion worldwide handset revenue, which, given its completely essential nature, is not a large chunk. It's only double the revenue of the other UK chip industry, that of the British potato chip. If there's to be an upheaval of Arm's dominance, it won't be because there's piles of cash on the table.
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There is a pile of cash in Intel's $80 billion annual haul, but that's because of the huge chip factories that Intel owns. Not up for grabs. What matters to RISC-V is that Intel has a very similar lock to Arm on its sector's ISA IP. And the ISA IP sectorization is very distinctive.
Intel and Arm are rulers of their own fiefdoms, ones which despite decades of trying to poach from each other have little overlap. Last year's Mac Mini M1 was the first mainstream Arm desktop computer since Acorn gave up the Archimedes fight in the early 1990s. You could write down all the Arm desktop PCs in the intervening decades on the back of a postcard. (No, the Raspberry Pi is not a mainstream desktop PC. We'll get to that later.)
As for Intel-based smartphones, choose that category if it comes up in a quiz. Ten minutes on Google and you'll be the undisputed world champion expert. Neither fiefdom has a runner-up, not even the ISA of the other side. There are no second places in the big processor markets. Incumbent inertia, the decades of momentum in sector tools, knowledge and installed base, combined with massive investment in innovation just to keep either fiefdom at bay, has turned the mainstream CPU market into two monopolies kept honest and energetic by each other. Want to compete with either? Good luck.
For RISC-V to really prosper, it needs its own sector. AI/ML could be one; there are lots of accelerator designs which are nicely heterogeneous and the industry has yet to pick a winner.
IoT? Maybe, but that's no spring chicken. Gaming has gone through its experimental early stages and is locked into high-performance standard architectures. In truth, the big players are well positioned to divide any new sector between them.
Even if a new sector does appear, RISC-V has to have a major enabling factor. Open source doesn't provide enough financial or technical advantage – most OEMs will be licensing cores, just like with Arm, not designing their own. Modern SoCs can add a lot of architectural innovation without changing the ISA.
To be blunt, RISC-V needs price-competitive performance. A month ago, the VisionFive, the first RISC-V SBC, appeared. It's just like the Pi, only bigger, slower, and more expensive. The Pi created its own sector because it was smaller, faster, and much cheaper than its rivals. It was based on a Broadcom SoC, where years of fearsome competition in mobile phone technology will get you that advantage: RISC-V has nothing to leverage.
RISC-V's not going to be a huge success by out-Pi'ing the Pi. But it needs to out-something something, and in a really arresting way. It doesn't much matter what that something is, but without it, RISC-V will always be in second place where there's only room for first. ®


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During the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium today, Apple Chief Operating Officer Timothy Cook dropped some interesting hints about Apple's iPhone "software road map" event March 6, where the company is expected to discuss it's official SDK for the platform.
Saying that the iPhone is "a platform not a product," Cook said that he thinks the SDK will "broaden the platform more, to the point where the only limit will be people's imagination."
He also said:
"We started by getting developers to focus on Web 2.0 apps. There's over a thousand of these today. But people also want to do more than that. As we got into the phone more and more, it became clear that we should release and SDK. This will make the product even more compelling. We're super excited [...]
The Goldman Sachs moderator asked "Any idea when we'll see the first iPhone third-party apps?" to which Cook responded:
"We're going to go into some more details at the event next week. I don't want to take away the element of surprise."
Cook also made some interesting comments about jailbreaking and unlocking
"There will always be some level of hacking. There will always be a case where someone wants to run on a carrier. There are very few people who have unlocked the iPhone for use on a carrier other than AT&T in the US. [...] I look at this 'problem' with a little bit of a smile. Having people stepping over each other for the phone isn't a bad thing."
Finally, Cook said that the best thing the company can do to thwart unlockers is offer the iPhone in more countries.
"We're going to (fight back) with software and some other ways, but offering the iPhone in more (geographical areas) is our best bet."


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You may remember IO Industries, a Canadian outfit, specialising in the production of cutting-edge small form-factor cameras for professional broadcast/cinema/video productions from their 2KSDI and 4KSDI camera heads. IBC 2017 in Amsterdam is just around the corner, and the venue has been chosen by IO Industries Inc.
IO Industries Archive
Sometimes going big isn’t the point. As technology moves on, we see incredibly innovative designs of cameras, computers, and mobile phones. While their latest generation iPhones may be getting bigger (and thinner) they do produce stunning images, and Apple are going further by putting fast computers into thin 5K
“Size matters”? It’s not always true. IO Industries, a Canadian outfit, specialise in the production of cutting-edge small form-factor cameras for professional broadcast/cinema/video productions. Adding to their 2KSDI compact camera head, IO Industries announces their new “4KSDI” a 4K remote camera head designed to fit anywhere on


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Possible cure for sunburn and other pain discovered
If you’ve ever spent too much time in the sun, you know how painful it can be when, hours later, you find yourself suffering from red, blistery skin – better known as a sunburn, which a new study shows is caused by a molecule that is abundant in the skin’s epidermis.
The study found that blocking this molecule, called TRPV4, significantly protects the skin from the painful aftereffects of a sunburn. The finding, published in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Early Edition online, resulted from research conducted in mouse models and human skin samples that could lead to new ways to prevent sunburn, as well as other sources of pain.
"We have uncovered a novel explanation for why sunburn hurts," said Wolfgang Liedtke, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of neurology and neurobiology at Duke University School of Medicine and a lead author of the study.
“If we understand sunburn better, we can understand pain better because what plagues my patients day in and day out is what temporarily affects otherwise healthy people who suffer from sunburn,” added Liedtke.
Most sunburns are caused by ultraviolet B or UVB radiation, but these types of rays are also good for the body because they provide a daily dose of vitamin D and possibly improve mood. However, when people get too many UVB rays, they end up damaging the DNA in their skin cells; thus, increasing their risk of getting skin cancer. In this regard, sunburns are actually nature’s way of warning people to get out of the sun to avoid additional damage.
For this study, Liedtke collaborated with a team of researchers who investigated whether the TRPV4 molecule could play a role in the pain and tissue damage caused by UVB over-exposure. The molecule is plentiful in skin cells, and research shows it’s involved in other pain processes as well. As an ion channel, TRPV4 serves as a gateway in the cell membrane, which rapidly lets in positively charged ions like calcium and sodium.
To find out what role the molecule might play, the researchers built a mouse model without the TRPV4 molecule, but only in the cells of the epidermis, the outermost layer of the skin. They then took these genetically engineered mice and their normal counterparts and exposed their hind paws, which most resemble human skin, to UVB rays.
As a result, the hind paws of the normal mice became hypersensitive and blistered from exposure to the UVB rays, whereas those of the mutant mice showed little sensitivity and tissue injury from UVB exposure.
The researchers then used cultured mouse skin cells to dissect the activities of the TRPV4 molecule, using a device showing that UVB caused calcium to flow into the skin cells, but only when the TRPV4 ion channel was present. Upon further molecular examination, the researchers also uncovered the entire sequence of events in this pathway, with each event affecting the next.
For example, they found that UVB exposure activates TRPV4, which in turn causes the influx of calcium ions, which then sendss in another molecule called endothelin that triggers TRPV4 to send more calcium into the cells. This other molecule, endothelin, is not only known to cause pain in humans, but it also induces itching, which may be why people with sunburns feel the urge to scratch their skin.
In order to test if these findings in mice and mouse cells have any human relevance, the research team used human skin samples to successfully demonstrate increased activation of TRPV4 and endothelin in the outside layer or epidermis of human skin following exposure to UVB rays.
To see whether they could block this novel pain pathway, the team then used a pharmaceutical compound called GSK205 that selectively inhibits TRPV4 and dissolved it into a solution of alcohol and glycerol before applying it to the hind paws of normal mice.
In so doing, the researchers found that the compound treated mice were, once again, mostly resistant to the pain and skin damaging effects of sunburn. Likewise, when researchers applied the compound to mouse skin cells in culture, they found that it stopped the UV-triggered influx of calcium ions into the cells.
“The results position TRPV4 as a new target for preventing and treating sunburn, and probably chronic sun damage including skin cancer or skin photo-aging, though more work must be done before TRPV4 inhibitors can become part of the sun defense arsenal, perhaps in new kinds of skin cream, or to treat chronic sun damage,” said Steinhoff, co-senior author of the study.
“I think we should be cautious because we want to see what inhibition of TRPV4 will do to other processes going on in the skin,” Liedtke added. “Once these concerns will be addressed, we will need to adapt TRPV4 blockers to make them more suitable for topical application. I could imagine it being mixed with traditional sunblock to provide stronger protections against UVB exposure.”
SOURCE: PNAS – PNAS-Plus, "UVB Radiation Generates Sunburn Pain and Affects Skin By Activating Epidermal TRPV4 and Triggering Endothelin-1 Signaling," Carlene Moore, Ferda Cevikbas, H. Amalia Pasolli, Yong Chen, Wei Kong, Cordula Kempkes, Puja Parekh, Suk Hee Lee, Nelly-Ange Kontchou, Iwei Ye, Nan Marie Jokerst, Elaine Fuchs, Martin Steinhoff, Wolfgang Liedtke (August 5, 2013)


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In his November 17 New York Times op-ed, columnist and recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics, Paul Krugman, states that “Recent events have made clear the need to regulate crypto, an industry that grew from nothing to a $3 trillion market capitalization a year ago, although most of that has now evaporated. But it also seems likely that the industry couldn’t survive regulation.”
In their November 30 blog on the European Central Bank (ECB) website, Ulrich Bindseil, director general of market infrastructure and payments, and Jürgen Schaaf, an advisor to the central bank, consider the current turmoil in the crypto markets “as an artificially induced last gasp before the road to irrelevance – and this was already foreseeable before FTX went bust and sent the Bitcoin is commonly said to be a cryptocurrency, a digital means of exchange developed by a set of anonymous authors under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto, which began operating in 2009 as a community project (Wikipedia type), without the relationship or dependency of any government, state, company or body, and whose value (formed by a complicated system of mathematical algorithms and cryptography) is not supported by any central bank or authority. Bitcoins are essentially accounting entries i... More price to well below USD16,000.”
For Krugman, “After 14 years, however, cryptocurrencies have made almost no inroads into the traditional role of money. They’re too awkward to use for ordinary transactions. Their values are too unstable.”
Bindseil and Schaaf confirm this: “Bitcoin’s conceptual design and technological shortcomings make it questionable as a means of A transfer of funds which discharges an obligation on the part of a payer vis-à-vis a payee. More: real Bitcoin transactions are cumbersome, slow and expensive. Bitcoin has never been used to any significant extent for legal real-world transactions.”
Krugman recalls that as the value of bitcoin was trading at record levels exceeding $60,000 on October 21, Singapore-based Crypto.com famously aired the “Fortune favours the brave” ad featuring Matt Damon, suggesting that investing in crypto is an act of courage comparable to those of mountain climbers or astronauts. As the crypto market crashed, the ad has been subject to worldwide ridicule, including featuring in the last South Park movie. This has not prevented Crypto.com from sponsoring the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
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The promotion has not been limited to movie and sports stars; Bindseil and Schaaf stress that “Large investors also fund lobbyists who push their case with lawmakers and regulators. The number of crypto lobbyists in the US has almost tripled from 115 in 2018 to 320 in 2021. Their names sometimes read like a who’s who of US regulators.”
In June 2022, a group of technology experts called on US lawmakers to block efforts to create a ‘regulatory Secure container for storing money and valuables, with high resistance to breaking and entering. More haven’ for cryptocurrency. “The claims that the An unchangeable digital record where transactions are processed and verified by a network of independent computers rather than by a single referee. This decentralised structure has been described as an open distributed ledger. It supposedly enhances security as there is no single entity to be hacked. It also protects personal identity and guarantees that governments can’t block transactions or otherwise manipulate the payments space. The blockchain is the underlying technology supporting most ... More advocates make are not true,” Harvard professor Bruce Schneier, a member of the group behind the recent warning against crypto, told the Financial Times. “It’s not secure, it’s not decentralized. Any system where you forget your password and you lose your life savings is not a safe system.”
For Krugman, “the crypto ecosystem has basically evolved into exactly what it was supposed to replace: a system of financial intermediaries whose ability to operate depends on their perceived trustworthiness.” However, legislation on crypto-assets has sometimes been slow to ratify in recent years – and implementation often lags.
Bindseil and Schaaf add that “the different jurisdictions are not proceeding at the same pace and with the same ambition. While the EU has agreed on a comprehensive regulatory package with the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MICA), Congress and the federal authorities in the US have not yet been able to agree on coherent rules.”
Krugman concludes that “if the government finally moves in to regulate crypto firms, which would, among other things, prevent them from promising impossible-to-deliver returns, it’s hard to see what advantage these firms would have over ordinary banks.” Bindseil and Schaaf concur “Since Bitcoin appears to be neither suitable as a payment system nor as a form of investment, it should be treated as neither in regulatory terms and thus should not be legitimised.”


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Wall Street brokerage firms forecast that Gildan Activewear Inc. (NYSE: GIL) (TSE: GIL) will report earnings of $ 0.53 per share for the current fiscal quarter, according to Zacks investment research. Three analysts provided revenue estimates for Gildan Activewear. The lowest EPS estimate is $ 0.48 and the highest is $ 0.60. Gildan Activewear reported earnings per share of ($ 0.99) for the same quarter last year, suggesting a positive year-over-year growth rate of 153.5%. The company is expected to release its next earnings report on Thursday, July 29.
On average, analysts expect Gildan Activewear to report annual earnings of $ 1.83 per share for the current year, with EPS estimates ranging from $ 1.70 to $ 1.98. For next year, analysts expect the company to post earnings of $ 2.17 per share, with EPS estimates ranging from $ 2.06 to $ 2.25. Zacks EPS averages are an average based on a survey of analysts who cover Gildan Activewear.
Gildan Activewear (NYSE: GIL) (TSE: GIL) last reported its results on Tuesday, May 4. The textile maker reported EPS of $ 0.48 for the quarter, beating Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $ 0.18 of $ 0.30. Gildan Activewear delivered a positive return on equity of 3.11% and a negative net margin of 1.30%. The company posted revenue of $ 589.60 million for the quarter, against analysts’ expectations of $ 512.43 million.
Several equity research analysts recently commented on GIL shares. Royal Bank of Canada increased its target price on Gildan Activewear from $ 35 to $ 41.00 and rated the stock “outperform” in a report released Thursday, May 6. UBS Group upgraded Gildan Activewear from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating in a report published on Wednesday April 7th. TD Securities reissued a âbuyâ rating and set a target price of $ 52.00 for Gildan Activewear shares in a report released Tuesday. Zacks investment research upgraded Gildan Activewear from a âconservationâ rating to a âstrong buyâ rating and set a target price of $ 41.00 for the stock in a report released on Monday, July 12. Finally, National Bank Financial raised its price target for Gildan sportswear from C $ 50.00 to C $ 53.00 and gave the company an âoutperformanceâ rating in a report released Wednesday. Six analysts rated the stock with a buy rating and one issued a strong buy rating for the company. The company currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $ 39.29.
Hedge funds and other institutional investors recently bought and sold shares in the company. Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc. increased its stake in Gildan Activewear by 16.7% during the 1st quarter. Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc. now owns 84,910 shares of the textile maker valued at $ 3,055,000 after purchasing an additional 12,174 shares during the period. FIL Ltd increased its stake in Gildan Activewear by 436.3% during the 4th quarter. FIL Ltd now owns 6,933,101 shares of the textile maker valued at $ 193,848,000 after purchasing an additional 5,640,446 shares during the period. Alliancebernstein LP increased its stake in Gildan Activewear by 3.9% during the 4th quarter. Alliancebernstein LP now owns 25,008 shares of the textile maker valued at $ 700,000 after purchasing an additional 938 shares during the period. Renaissance Technologies LLC acquired a new stake in Gildan Activewear during the 4th quarter for a value of $ 417,000. Finally, Eaton Vance Management increased its stake in Gildan Activewear by 70.7% in the 4th quarter. Eaton Vance Management now owns 180,628 shares of the textile maker valued at $ 5,059,000 after purchasing an additional 74,813 shares during the period. 76.10% of the shares are currently held by institutional investors.
NYSE: GIL shares opened at $ 33.02 on Friday. Gildan Activewear has a 12 month low of $ 16.43 and a 12 month high of $ 38.50. The company has a market cap of $ 6.56 billion, a PE ratio of -235.86, a price / earnings-growth ratio of 0.65, and a beta of 1.57. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $ 35.66. The company has a leverage ratio of 0.64, a quick ratio of 2.64 and a current ratio of 4.75.
The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Monday, June 21. Shareholders of record on Thursday, May 27 received a dividend of $ 0.154. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday May 26. This represents an annualized dividend of $ 0.62 and a dividend yield of 1.87%.
Gildan Activewear Company Profile
Gildan Activewear Inc manufactures and sells various clothing products in the United States, Canada and abroad. It supplies various sportswear products including t-shirts, fleece tops and bottoms and sports shirts under the brands Gildan, Gildan Performance, Gildan Hammer, Comfort Colors, American Apparel, Anvil by Gildan, Alstyle, Prim + Preux and GoldToe.
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Summer is generally a quiet time in the markets. Institutional investors, in general, take time. In fact, that’s where the phrase âsell in May and goâ comes from.
But calm does not mean without incident. The world continues to move forward even during the lazy summer months. And at the moment, there are two opposing views driving the market.
One is the fear that everything is just a bubble about to burst. We don’t recommend you take it out of stock, but let’s face it, things are more than just a little frothy.
But there is another point of view summed up by the acronym YOLO (as in You Only Live Once). And these investors are committed to keeping the markets up. Even if that means going âall inâ (whatever that means to them) on risky asset classes like NFTs or Dogecoin.
We sincerely hope that you will take the time to recharge your batteries (whatever that means to you) this summer. Whatever your personal beliefs, reopening our economy is a moment worth celebrating by all of us. But before you do, we recommend that you take a look at these seven stocks you can consider adding to your portfolio before you head out for the summer. These are likely to get as hot as a firecracker on July 4th and should put a smile on your face by the end of summer.
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Twitch wants to become the ESPN of game streaming, and they have the plan to make it happen
Twitch.tv has been leading the charge in one of the biggest trends to strike gaming in the past few years, the online streaming of live video games. But at the same time, Twitch has big problems, and the company is aware of its own shortcomings. To that end, Twitch is introducing perhaps the biggest expansion of their service in its short two-year life.
The goal is to create a system that will allow anybody to simply press a button and instantly broadcast their game play to whoever wants to watch. No hassles, no equipment, no software, no fuss. Twitch is rolling out an expansion to their development kit that allows game makers to build all-new Twitch functionality directly into their games.
Today at the Microsoft E3 2013 press briefing, this type of functionality was shown off in the console game, Killer Instinct. According to the developers, anyone can simply say “Xbox broadcast” and instantly begin streaming their game via Twitch. In the Killer Instinct example, games could even be quickly edited down and adorned with video skins and commentary before uploading.
Companies like Sega, CCP Games, and Sony Online Entertainment among others have also reportedly already signed on to build these features into Company of Heroes 2, EVE Online, and Planetside 2, respectively. Some games already have Twitch streaming built directly into their interface, but this will expand on that previous program with new tools, and new potential.
That's the heart of Twitch's challenge: It's often too difficult for people to actually get into broadcasting in the first place. It's not a very user-friendly process and it takes dedication to get a stream up and running.
“Even from a PC, you have to have some computer know-how, and from a console it's even more difficult as you've got to get video capture devices,” said Brooke Van Dusen, part of Twitch's Business Development team. He said the service has seen more than 600,000 broadcasters in its two years, but they want a lot more.
“We want broadcasting to be ubiquitous,” he said. “Why can't I go watch my friend immediately? We see it as very natural.”
What if nobody watches?
Even if they allow everybody to broadcast game play at the push of a button, that doesn't solve all of their problems.
“What happens if you broadcast and you have no viewers?” said Van Dusen. “What value does Twitch give you?”
The solution to that quandary is a brand new filing system that will help organize content before it's heaved into the great sea of uncurated content. Right now, when a video is streamed it gets recorded in its entirety and winds up in Twitch's massive library to die a quiet death in obscurity. Most videos are hours long with huge amounts of down time and dead air between the interesting moments of the game.
“No one wants to watch recorded live video,” he said. “They want highlights, not all the content and dead air in between.” He referenced ESPN as the prime example. Lots of people watch live games, and lots of people watch SportsCenter for the highlights the next day, but not so many people watch the entire 3 hour DVR of the game after it has aired.
The ESPN of video games
The new Twitch aims to allow developers to create systems that will automatically organize Twitch videos into smaller chunks of highlights. Or really, anything the developer can imagine. The system can create a series of tags that signal something of importance that needs to be highlighted, say, a double kill or that a specific map is being played.
Van Dusen gave me the example of someone who wants to watch a Masters-level StarCraft 2 player to see what build order they used in a Terran vs. Protoss match on a specific map. If you want to find that type of match in Twitch's backlog today, then you're out of luck.
“Right now, trying to find [specific] content in that mess is frankly impossible,” he said. The new system will allow developers to set up systems to automatically recognize features of the game and tag them accordingly, leading to a much more digestible backlog that is easily searchable.
He gave an example of how the functionality might be implemented to provide an “alert” to users that something exciting was happening. He said the system could be used to send out a message to SC2 viewers that a Mothership (formerly a big, exciting unit that lots of people would want to watch) was in play, and allow them to switch to that game to see what happens.
It's an open toolset and it's up to the developers to decide how to use it. They don't seem to know exactly where all of this is heading, but they've got some great ideas to get it all started. With the new tools, developers could tag actual players that are featured inside a game clip, or the system could immediately upload video of a high score in a racing game to the game's public leaderboard. But Twitch will no longer be a mass of long, boring videos. It will soon be possible, and simple, to plant flags in the content, to say “Hey, look! This is interesting!”
Games like Company of Heroes 2 and Planetside 2 are going to be among the first to step into the uncharted waters, but Twitch says developers are champing at the bit to get this in their games. Considering game streaming barely existed two years ago, it's exciting to think where all of this might be in another two years.


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X2Y2 enforces creator royalties
NFT marketplace X2Y2 becomes the latest to enforce creator fees on both existing and newly-launched NFT collections, according to a Nov. 19 X2Y2 Twitter annoucnement.
The marketplace follows in the footsteps of OpenSea’s decision to maintain creator-set royalties.
X2Y2 will also integrate OpenSea’s the Operator Filter Registry, which OpenSea created to help NFT contracts manage the operators allowed the transfer tokens on behalf of users and prevents NFT marketplaces who do not allow NFT listings with creator fees.
Meanwhile, X2Y2 removed its Flexible Royalty model that allowed both creators and collectors to both decide on royalties enforced on each collection.
‘We may have a different view on the best way of handling royalties with OpenSea, yet we respect the code. With OpenSea risking its market share and taking a brave move to defend royalties, they have our respect!’ wrote X2Y2.
Earlier this month, OpenSea announced it was considering to move away from enforced royalties but has been met with backlash from the NFT creator community. Bored Ape Yacht Club and streetwear brand The Hundreds canceled plans to drop their NFTs on the marketplace.
On Nov. 10, OpenSea had a change of heart and announced it will continue to enforce creator fees.


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Security experts gather again in Vegas to show off and debate the latest in hacks and flaws, focusing this year on the latest risks facing Net-connected devices.
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Xiaomi 11T and 11T Pro have been in the rumor mill for weeks, but the phone maker has finally confirmed that they’re coming soon. A new promo video from the Chinese brand shows that the Xiaomi 11T Pro will feature class-leading 120W fast charging and will launch at its upcoming launch event.
The company’s next product launch is due on September 15 and that is when we will get to see an official launch for the Xiaomi 11T and 11T Pro. Some reports have speculated that we may also see the Xiaomi Pad 5 series at this event, but there is no confirmation on that just yet.
However, the promo video below confirms that the 11T Pro is coming soon with 120W HyperCharge technology.
Xiaomi has not revealed any other specifications, but thanks to previous reports, we know that it will feature an OLED display with FHD+ resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate. Some reports have said that it will come with the Snapdragon 888 SoC while others point at the Dimenisty 1200 chip. Both phones will have 8GB RAM and 128GB/256GB storage options.
The 11T will be graced by a 64MP triple camera setup, whereas the 11T Pro will carry a 108MP triple camera system. Battery capacity could be 5,000 mAh, but 120W fast charging has been confirmed. Both phones will have the same design with Celestial Blue, Meteorite Gray, and Moonlight White color options.