In 1964, Petula Clark had a hit with “Downtown.” But the songwriter Tony Hatch has said he was inspired by Times Square-a solecism forgivable from a Brit.
Day: February 3, 2017
Amazon increasingly wants to be its own deliveryman
In this Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, file photo, Amazon.com boxes are shown stacked near a Boeing 767 Amazon “Prime Air” cargo plane on display in a Boeing hangar in Seattle. Amazon’s announcement on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, of a new air cargo hub in Kentucky is the latest way the e-commerce retailer is dipping its toe, or perhaps whole foot, into building out its shipping and logistics unit.
Justin Bieber is oddly delightful in T-Mobile’s Super Bowl ad – CNET
Sprint, for example, is insisting that bad parents will fake their own deaths in order to get out of a Verizon contract. And this they’re putting in front of the Super Bowl audience .
Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 sale on Mi.com today at noon
Xiaomi ‘s Redmi Note 4 will be on sale today on Mi.com, which is the company’s own e-commerce portal in India.The sale starts at 12 noon, and it looks like Xiaomi is offering all three versions of the phone up for grabs, which is a first since the phone was officially launched in India on January 19. So far on Flipkart only the 3GB RAM+32GB storage and 4GB RAM+64GB version were available for sale. This time the 2GB RAM is also up on Mi.com, and is priced at Rs 9,999.
Amazon’s record holiday season wasn’t good enough for Wall Street
Amazon just had its best holiday season ever, pulling in the highest quarterly sales in the company’s history and capping off a year in which it tripled profits from the previous one. The online shopping behemoth’s stock fell more than four percent in after-hours trading on Thursday after its $43.74 billion in reported revenues fell short of analysts’ lofty $44.68 billion expectations.
Global Semiconductor Sales Reach $339 Billion in 2016
Feb. 2, 2017-The Semiconductor Industry Association , representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing, design, and research, today announced the global semiconductor industry posted sales totaling $338.9 billion in 2016, the industry’s highest-ever annual sales and a modest increase of 1.1 percent compared to the 2015 total. Global sales for the month of December 2016 reached $31.0 billion, equaling the previous month’s total and bettering sales from December 2015 by 12.3 percent.
Automated Tool Clamping, Measurement
I’ve written about a number of different toolholding technologies. One is the PowRGrip toolholding system from Rego-Fix .
World Patent Marketing Success Team Introduces Easy Tabs, An Accessory…
The accessories industry is worth $316 billion,” says Scott Cooper, CEO and Creative Director of World Patent Marketing. “This industry continues to grow and is set to double in size within five years, with jewelry as its best-selling category.
Press release distribution, EDGAR filing, XBRL, regulatory filings
Global Vacuum Generator Market for Industrial Robots Driven by Demand for Precisely Cut and Assembled Components From Automotive Sector: Technavio )–According to the latest market study released by Technavio, the global vacuum generator market for industrial robots is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 8% during th… )–A.M. Best has placed under review with negative implications the Financial Strength Rating of A- and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” of Indemn… )–The Applied Fluid Technology Division of Graco Inc. , a leading manufacturer of fluid handling equipment, is pleased to announce the launch of My Graco Rewar… IMPORTANT INVESTOR ALERT: Khang & Khang LLP Announces an Investigation of Stemline Therapeutics, Inc. and Encourages Investors to Contact the Firm )–Khang & Khang LLP announces that it is investigating claims against Stemline Therapeutics, Inc.
Tesco Bank bids to reassure customers with rate pledge
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The Space Between Us: Send this mission back to Mars
Britt Robertson and Asa Butterfield star in The Space Between Us, a suffocating melodrama from Mars. Britt Robertson and Asa Butterfield star in The Space Between Us, a suffocating melodrama from Mars.
Regional Alibaba HQ creates opportunities for New Zealand exporters: minister
New Zealand Economic Development Minister Simon Bridges on Friday welcomed the opening of a new regional Chinese e-commerce base as an opportunity for exporters. Bridges said he would attend the opening of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group’s Australia and New Zealand headquarters in Melbourne, Australia, on Saturday.
Subway shutdown is chance to try new transportation strategies
New York has always been congested, but lately, worsening transit delays and gridlock on streets have left New Yorkers fed up. Transportation has gotten so unreliable that when the Metropolitan Transportation Authority recently installed Wi-Fi in subway stations, instead of being excited, riders took the opportunity to complain about the trains.
How Robots Will Transform FedEx
Rob Carter, FedEx’s chief information officer, says the shipping giant is considering small vehicles that could drive around neighborhoods and make deliveries without human drivers. Carter is responsible for setting the technology agenda across FedEx’s various operating companies, including its planes-and-trucks Express shipping service and office-and-home Ground delivery service, which operate in 220 countries.
Street Art
Street art is art, specifically visual art , developed in public spaces – that is, “in the streets ” – though the term usually refers to unsanctioned art, as opposed to government sponsored initiatives. The term can include traditional graffiti artwork, sculpture , stencil graffiti , sticker art , wheatpasting and street poster art , video projection, art intervention , guerrilla art, and street installations.
Martian melodrama ‘The Space Between Us’ crashes to Earth
There are movies about the wonders of space travel – a short list would include “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Solaris” and “Interstellar” – that seek to test the audience’s perceptual limits, altering our sense of time and place so as to usher us into the vast frontier of the unknown. And then there are movies like “The Space Between Us” – though happily, not too many – which take the vast frontier of the unknown and whittle it down to something obvious, familiar and dispiritingly pocket-sized.