Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, has teamed up with some of the world’s most counterfeited global brands, including Louis Vuitton, Samsung and Swarovski, to fight against copycats. The collaboration will see Alibaba provide its members with big data and other support that will help them block, identify and even take down listings from its market places such as Tmall and Taobao, that fail to meet certain criteria.
Day: January 16, 2017
Shaw Communications Inc. (SJR) Plans Monthly Dividend of $0.07
Shaw Communications Inc. declared a monthly dividend on Friday, January 13th. Investors of record on Thursday, April 13th will be given a dividend of 0.0747 per share on Thursday, April 27th.
NVE Corporation (NVEC) to Release Quarterly Earnings on Wednesday
NVE Corporation is scheduled to be issuing its Q316 quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, January 18th. Analysts expect the company to announce earnings of $0.64 per share and revenue of $7.40 million for the quarter.
Robot cars are now learning to drive by playing Grand Theft Auto
With its reckless and violent driving scenarios, you may not imagine playing Grand Theft Auto would be an ideal way to teach anyone or anything to drive in the real-world. But the popular game is being used to train computers capable of controlling self-driving cars of the future to navigate streets.
Report Published: ‘Global Consumer Board Market – Strategic Assessment and Forecast Till 2021’
Fast Market Research recommends “Global Consumer Board Market – Strategic Assessment and Forecast Till 2021” from Beige Market Intelligence, now available The consumer board market to reach up to US$ 131.6 billion till 2021 with a CAGR of 5.6% The report considers the present scenario of the worldwide consumer board market and its strategic assessment for the period 2016-2021.It includes a detailed analysis of market growth drivers, trends, and restraints. It also includes the top five vendors in the market and other key vendors.
Topshop, Molly Goddard Launch Spring 2017 Runway Shoe Collection
Gobbetti will join the company on Jan. 27, as executive chairman, Asia-Pacific and Middle East until July 4, when he will become ceo. MADE FOR WALKING: Continuing its support for London’s design talent, Topshop has unveiled the launch of a footwear capsule collection created in collaboration with Molly Goddard for spring.
IHS Markit Names BroadSoft The UCaaS Platform Global Market Share Leader
BroadSoft, Inc. , has been identified by IHS Markit as the global Unified Communications as a Service platform leader, with 38% of the total worldwide UCaaS seats running on its platforms , as of the second quarter of 2016. According to the IHS study, the BroadSoft UCaaS global market leadership position places it ahead of its closest competitors.
Zacks: magicJack VocalTec Ltd (CALL) Given Consensus Rating of “Hold” by Brokerages
Shares of magicJack VocalTec Ltd have earned a consensus broker rating score of 3.00 from the one brokers that provide coverage for the stock, Zacks Investment Research reports. One research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating.
Google reveals its servers all contain custom security silicon
Google has published a Infrastructure Security Design Overview that explains how it secures the cloud it uses for its own operations and for public cloud services. Revealed last Friday, the document outlines six layers of security and reveals some interesting factoids about the Alphabet subsidiary’s operations, none more so than the revelation that “We also design custom chips, including a hardware security chip that is currently being deployed on both servers and peripherals.
BHOS presidential scholar easily chooses university
News selected on topics and regions – oil and gas, business, politics, IT, the South Caucasus, the Caspian Sea region, Central Asia Ranking of the Azerbaijani banking sector The project initiated by Public Relations department of Baku Higher Oil School and entitled “10 questions to Presidential Scholar at BHOS”, Process Automation Engineering student Ramil Huseynov is answering our questions. – I was born in Raduzny city of the Russian Federation in 2000.
Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles Market with Current Trends Analysis, 2015-2025
Future Market Insights has announced the addition of the “Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles Market: Global Industry Analysis and Opportunity Assessment 2015-2025” report to their offering. Metal and metal oxide nanoparticles, also indicated as nanocrystals or nanopowders play a vital role in many areas of physics, chemistry and material science.
Father jailed for trying to scare jury with Halloween masks
A father has been jailed for three years after he tried to scare a jury on his son’s drugs trial. William Liversage secretly recorded jurors in and out of the court room before trying to use a werewolf mask to frighten them into finding son Liam not guilty.
The soon-to-be launched Aadhaar Pay will let you make purchases using your fingerprint
Paying for your groceries and other goods by using your biometrics instead of an e-wallet, debit card or cash seems to be the next phase in the Centre’s ambitious push to shift the country to a “less cash” economy, as its mandarins term it. The article by Indulekha Aravind was published in the Economic Times on 15 January 2017.
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Coty Inc. announced today that it has entered into a partnership with the Founders of Younique, a leading online peer-to-peer social selling platform in beauty. Under the proposed agreement, Coty intends to acquire 60% of Younique while the Founders will own the remaining 40%.
Image of Crescent Jupiter with the Great Red Spot Created Citizen Scientist
Scientists have released incredible new images of Jupiter megastorm from the data sent by its Juno probe that reveal a crescent Jupiter and the iconic Great Red Spot. Below the Great Red Spot is visible a reddish long-lived storm known as Oval BA.
Deep Probabilistic Programming
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Samsung Galaxy J7 2017 Variant to Run Android 7 Nougat Out of the Box
Techies are already antsy with anticipation as the Samsung Galaxy J7 2017 already has the latest Android OS. Thanks to modern technology, electronics have no other way to go but up.
Android Nougat Update for Moto Z Play, Sony Xperia Z5 Might Be Released Anytime Soon
The most updated Android OS is what the latest smartphones already have. Now the other phones in the market will be getting it as well.
Did we really elect Donald Trump?
Republicans can argue until their last breath that Trump objectors are sore losers, but isn’t more at stake than “mere politics”? This phrase has been rendered quaint by such serious issues as: Russian hackers apparently trying to tilt the election toward Donald Trump; the FBI’s possibly politically motivated practices; Trump’s initial resistance to the conclusions of the U.S. intelligence community; Trump’s refusal to release tax records, which might mollify concerns about his relationship with Russia. These aren’t partisan issues, or shouldn’t be, as evidenced by the Justice Department inspector general’s decision to investigate how FBI Director James Comey handled the probe of Hillary Clinton’s email and private server.
Today in history
Today is the 16th day of 2017. There are 349 days left in the year. This is the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
South Korea Prosecutor Seeks Arrest of Samsung’s Jay Y. Lee
Prosecutors are seeking a warrant to arrest Samsung Group’s Jay Y. Lee for allegations including bribery and embezzlement, a stunning turn for the scion of South Korea’s richest family groomed for decades to take over the company from his father. Samsung Electronics Co.
From fiction to fact: the cybercrime threats of the future
As programmes like ‘Humans’ and ‘West World’ play out a fictional world of cyborgs turning on mankind, we take a look at the growing number of cyber threats, both to businesses and individuals, and how fiction is quickly becoming fact. The Internet of Things and advances in artificial intelligence have created a swathe of new opportunities for criminals where complacency is, at best, commercial suicide and, at its very worst, potentially world ending.
After August floods, outlook on crawfish season still in limbo
Stanley Woolfolk, left, and Jeremiah Smith pour a can of fresh, hot boiled crawfish into a distribution bin, Friday, January 13, 2017, at Tony’s Seafood in Baton Rouge, La. Jeremiah Smith hands a sample of a crawfish to customer Markeith Pounds, Friday, January 13, 2017, at Tony’s Seafood in Baton Rouge, La.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 to be Flipkart exclusive, confirms teaser
Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 will launch on Jan 19 and it looks like this will be a Flipkart exclusive smartphone. Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 smartphone will be a Flipkart exclusive smartphone, according to a teaser from the e-commerce portal on its Twitter handle.
HSBC Analysts Give Carrefour SA (CA) a 28.00 Price Target
Other equities analysts have also recently issued research reports about the stock. Barclays PLC set a 29.00 price objective on shares of Carrefour SA and gave the company a buy rating in a research note on Wednesday, January 11th.