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Recent Publication from yStats.com Provides Projected Updates to Online Payment Methods in Europe
‘Europe Online Payment Methods: Full Year 2016,’ a new report from yStats.com, a secondary market research firm from Hamburg, Germany, includes important information regarding European online and mobile payments. According to this report, debit and credit cards as well as PayPal are the most utilized online payment methods in Europe, but differences in preferences of shoppers in various countries persist.
Recent Publication from yStats.com Provides Projected Updates to Online Payment Methods in Europe
‘Europe Online Payment Methods: Full Year 2016,’ a new report from yStats.com, a secondary market research firm from Hamburg, Germany, includes important information regarding European online and mobile payments. According to this report, debit and credit cards as well as PayPal are the most utilized online payment methods in Europe, but differences in preferences of shoppers in various countries persist.
China restricts access to foreign literature
Beijing is restricting access to foreign books and publications as it opens a new front in its battle to limit outside influence on Chinese society . Regulators have given verbal instructions to publishers limiting the number of children’s books written by foreign authors to be published within China each year, according to three people with knowledge of the order.
The first-ever racing track on a cruise liner is unveiled on the Norwegian Joy
Norwegian Joy, built especially for the Chinese market, features one of the first-ever ocean-bound race tracks. Photo / YouTube, Kallis Video Production One of the world’s biggest cruise liners – boasting 20 decks, 20 restaurants, waterslides and a pioneering car racing track – has set sail with its impressive dispatch caught on camera.
Lonza Names New Leader in Research and Technology
Jordan Petkov, Ph.D., has joined Lonza Consumer Care as global head of research and technology for its personal care and hygiene businesses. Based in Blackley , Dr. Petkov provides technical support for Lonza’s portfolio of hygiene, preservation, hair and skin care products.
Fraport and Heinemann launch home delivery for pre-ordered duty free
Travellers flying from Frankfurt Airport can now order duty free/travel retail items online and have them delivered directly to an address within Germany. Frankfurt Airport Retail, the joint venture established by Fraport and Gebr.
‘Black Passports’: Leak exposes spies’ secret how-to guide
WikiLeaks has released over 8,000 CIA documents that expose the intelligence agency of developing new technology to hack and extract information from your tech devices. TRAVEL secrets of undercover CIA hackers have been uncovered in the latest WikiLeaks data dump including claims the US Consulate in Frankfurt is a covert base for hackers.
ALSO further expands its service business with existing customers
ALSO and Media Markt are expanding their cooperation in Switzerland. Beyond support for the online store, ALSO will take over Media Markt’s main warehouse in the middle of 2017 to service its retail stores across the country.
Three paradoxes of digitalisation
An e-commerce boom is rapidly unfolding in several Asean member states, including Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam. A 2016 report titled “E-Conomy SEA ” by Singaporean sovereign fund Temasek and Google pegs e-commerce in Asean to rise to US$8.78 billion by 2025.
Tuloy po kayo’/ – Dobro Pozhalovat’
Marife Zamora, president of the Management Association of the Philippines , and consul ad honorem of Russia Armi Lopez Garcia, chairperson of the Philippine Russian Business Assembly Inc. , presented in cooperation with the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines a Forum on Business Opportunities in Russia at the Manila Peninsula last Friday, 3 March. NEDA Secretary Ernesto N. Pernia gave a sneak preview of bragging rights for the Philippines as today’s top economic performer.
Tourism gets a virtual lift from new app
A new virtual reality app is allowing people across the world to “visit” landmarks like the Falkirk Wheel and New Lanark world heritage site. These attractions are among an elite band of 26 sites to feature in special apps launched by tourism body VisitScotland, ScotlandVR is billed as a ground-breaking virtual travel experience that allows people, wherever they are in the world, to be immersed in Scotland’s remarkable attractions.
Travelers fret about WiFi, but it might be about to get better – Fri, 03 Mar 2017 PST
Don’t take my word for it. Just ask Wendy Lewis, who says she spends a good part of every trip trying – and sometimes failing – to find reliable and reasonably priced hotspots.
Citrix and Rehab Management Help Australians Get Back to Work
With 210 employees working across 56 offices and in the field, Rehab Management needed a solution to resolve connectivity issues impacting the quality of services provided by its regional and remote offices. The organization also wanted to boost employee morale and productivity by enabling them to work regardless of location and device.
Dell Intros Industrial IoT Gateways
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Snapchat maker prices shares at $17
The Los Angeles company known for its Snapchat messaging app generated the largest initial public offering in Southern California history on Wednesday, raising at least $3.4 billion while valuing the firm at $23.8 billion. Snap Inc.’s IPO is the most lucrative in the U.S. since online shopping company Alibaba raised $22 billion in 2014 and the biggest for a tech company since Facebook’s $16-billion haul in 2012.
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A Delivery Man Just Became One of the Richest People in China
Imagine your net worth increasing by $2 billion a day. That’s what happened when China’s largest parcel delivery company, S.F. Express, made its stock exchange debut and turned founder Wang Wei into the country’s third-richest man.
A Delivery Man Just Became One of the Richest People in China
Imagine your net worth increasing by $2 billion a day. That’s what happened when China’s largest parcel delivery company, S.F. Express, made its stock exchange debut and turned founder Wang Wei into the country’s third-richest man.
Visitors can fully immerse in Scotland through their mobile devices
Edinburgh, Feb 28 People across the world can now instantly walk through the prehistoric village of Skara Brae in Orkney, soar over Edinburgh Castle like a bird, journey into the depths of The Hollow Mountain of Ben Cruachan and experience the Northern Lights – all from the comfort of their own home, with the release of a new virtual reality app from VisitScotland. ScotlandVR is a virtual travel experience, and the tourist boards first step with interactive virtual map technology, that allows people wherever they are in the world, to be fully immersed in this soulful destination.
You could virtually be in Dark Sky Park with new app
The launch of a new virtual reality app from VisitScotland means that people across the globe can now experience the dark skies at Galloway Forest Park. The launch of a new virtual reality app from VisitScotland means that people across the globe can now experience the dark skies at Galloway Forest Park.
Boss delivers dire warning about Amazon
Gerry Harvey said Amazon was “not a good corporate citizen” and if Australia had a choice, it should stop the retailer coming in, “like Donald Trump not letting the Muslims in”. Photo / 123rf Harvey Norman boss Gerry Harvey has slammed Amazon as a “parasite” that “contributes virtually nothing to society”, saying Australia should enact a Donald Trump-style ban on the e-commerce giant.
CORRECTING and REPLACING ThreatMetrix Selects Verne Global to Expand Data Center Footprint
Verne Global to provide disaster recovery and operational scale for world’s largest Digital Identity Network A using 100% sustainable energy Verne Global to provide disaster recovery and operational scale for world’s largest Digital Identity Network A using 100% sustainable energy Verne Global , a global developer at the forefront of data center infrastructure design, today announced that ThreatMetrix A , The Digital Identity CompanyA , will broaden its service delivery network utilizing Verne Global. Verne will provide ThreatMetrix with vital growth capabilities required to manage its rapidly growing global customer base.
Tunisian entrepreneurs get powerful ally in D.C. startup
When President Trump issued the refugee and travel ban last month, Amanullah and his cofounders at Affinis Labs felt a new sense of urgency to scale Minbar. Minbar is a platform aimed at helping entrepreneurs in underserved markets with everything from formulating startup ideas to raising capital.
The coolest stuff coming from Mobile World Congress
The coolest stuff coming from Mobile World Congress We’re in Barcelona with 100,000 mobile industry pros. Here’s the plan.
Singer Janelle Monae finds critical acclaim as two of her movies score Oscar best picture nods
Monae stars in both ‘Hidden Figures’ and ‘Moonlight,’ which will compete for the best picture Oscar prize at the ceremony on Feb. 26. ‘I consider myself not just an actor or a musician or singer, but an artist-storyteller, and my hope is to continue to tell untold, unique, universal stories in unforgettable ways,’ she said. Janelle Monae attends the 8th Annual Essence Black Women in Music at NeueHouse Hollywood on Feb. 9, 2017, in Los Angeles.
DC-based for decades, Apollo 11 capsule to go on road trip
The Apollo 11 command module, which tra… . In this photo taken Feb. 17, 2017, the Apollo 11 capsule sits in the restoration hanger at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., ahead of a planned four-city tour.
The Next Financial Crisis Might Be in Your Driveway
Lured by low interest rates, low gas prices, and a crop of seductive vehicles that are faster, smarter, and more efficient than ever before, American drivers are increasingly riding in style. Don’t be fooled by the curb appeal, though-those swanky machines are heavily leveraged. The country’s auto debt hit a record in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, when a rush of year-end car shopping pushed vehicle loans to a dubious peak of $1.16 trillion.
We Need to Prepare for the 5G Jobs Apocalypse
My taxi driver in San Diego had a plan. He was moving to Laredo to get back into long-distance trucking.
Toy Fair Shows Off What’s New As Toys ‘R’ Us Cuts 250 Corporate Jobs
The 114th North American International Toy Fair boosts a chance for industry players to see “hundreds of thousands of innovative new toys and games before they hit store shelves.” To attend the four-day event in New York City must be a lot like being a kid in a candy store – err – make that toy store.
Satya Nadella meets IT Minister Prasad
New Delhi, Feb 21 – Indian-born Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday met Union IT and Electronics Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad here. The details of the meeting and the talks were yet to emerge but Nadella, after visiting Bengaluru on Monday, was scheduled to call on the minister before heading to address Future Decoded –Microsoft’s two-day flagship technology and business conference in Mumbai that kicked off on Tuesday.
Code Load On Cyber Coolies
The alarm bells may have started ringing a little too soon. Indian infotech firms like Infosys began losing the confidence of shareholders last month when bills proposing changes to the H-1B visa programme, which allows nearly 1.5 million skilled Indians to work in the US, were tabled in Congress.
Internet Solutions and Accuris Networks Introduce Pan-African Wi-Fi Network
Internet Solutions’ various independent Wi-Fi networks in the region are now consolidated using the Accuris Wi-Fi Server, enabling a carrier-grade, homogenous network accessible anywhere with single sign-on. This creates a pan-African Wi-Fi fabric for ‘Internet of Things’ applications demanding a consistent, low-cost, IP access network.
3dcart to Exhibit at Miami Small Business Expo
The expo will take place at the Miami Convention Center. For more information, and free registration, visit the Miami registration page.
Now you can climb Mount Everest in VR
Just last week, I had a great conversation with a Manhattan taxi driver named Sherpa, who, after I asked if his name was connected to Nepal, told me that he had indeed stopped working on Mount Everest to live in New York City . Smiling, he suggested I visit the famed mountain one day, to which I replied, “I’m a fragile city guy, maybe one day I’ll visit it in virtual reality.”
Maven Expands Car-Sharing Services To Atlanta
Aimed at those searching for the latest automotive news delivered in a timely manner, the news category reports about new car releases and brings exclusive stories from the automotive niche. Car news are delivered every day and focused on those in need of the newest from the automotive world.
Indian techies welcome in Canada after Trump ban
Toronto, Feb 12 – Indian-origin tech leaders in Canada say the controversial visa and travel restrictions imposed by US President Donald Trump will be a boon for tech recruitment and investment in Canada. This provides a great opportunity for the best talent from India to come, live and work in Canada, said Shafin Diamond Tejani, the CEO of Fantasy 360, a Vancouver-based global leader in creating immersive experiences and games using Virtual Reality , Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality .
Waking climate change’s sleeping giant
A world-leading glaciologist visiting New Zealand says scientists are fast running out of time to fully understand dramatic changes under way in climate change’s sleeping giant: Antarctica. Professor Eric Rignot, based at the University of California, Irvine and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will this week give a free talk in Wellington , outlining growing concerns scientists have about the frozen continent and pressing the urgent case for action on climate change today.
Cross-border e-commerce urged amid easing of retail sector decline
Slide for fourth consecutive year blamed on worldwide economic conditions, while online marketplace may have huge potential for local retailers The struggling retail sector is expected to stabilise following a three-year slump , with an industry head predicting a milder decline of 3 to 4 per cent for 2017, dragged down by unfavourable currency conditions and uncertainty sparked by the possibility of rigid US trade policies. Retail Management Association chairman Thomson Cheng Wai-hung said: “The association and I believe it is unlikely that the sector will see a revival this year.”
Cross-border e-commerce urged amid easing of retail sector decline
Slide for fourth consecutive year blamed on worldwide economic conditions, while online marketplace may have huge potential for local retailers The struggling retail sector is expected to stabilise following a three-year slump , with an industry head predicting a milder decline of 3 to 4 per cent for 2017, dragged down by unfavourable currency conditions and uncertainty sparked by the possibility of rigid US trade policies. Retail Management Association chairman Thomson Cheng Wai-hung said: “The association and I believe it is unlikely that the sector will see a revival this year.”