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The Cavalier Men's and Women's Basketball Teams are both in the midst of their first full week of practice, as both prepare to tip off their 2007-2008 campaigns.
Dave Leitao's Virginia Men are coming off a 21-11 season that saw them tie atop the ACC standings with an 11-5 conference record. The Cavaliers also advanced to the second round of the ACC Tournament. While Virginia loses J.R. Reynolds and Jason Cain from last year's team, the Cavs still return a solid core of athletes, headlined by All-American Sean Singletary. Virginia tips off its season on November 11th against Vermont.
Meanwhile, the Cavalier Women are hard at work as well, looking to improve on last year's 9-15 showing. Virginia returns its three leading scorers in Sharnee Zoll, Lyndra Littles, and Monica Wright, who all ranked among the ACC's top 12 last season. They will open up play on November 10th, as they host Longwood.
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|January 31, 2014 09:05 AM EST
VeliQ, the provider of the complete mPaaS™ (mobility Platform-as-a-Service) solution for company-wide mobility, has strengthened its management team following a record year in which it achieved a 250% increase in revenue. Edgar Jager, formerly at SAP, has been named Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Steve Crummey, who previously held this position, has been promoted to Chair of the Board of Directors. In his new role, Steve will guide the company to new uncharted territory. Furthermore, as of last autumn, Ron van Bijsterveld holds the position of Chief Technology Officer. With this reinforcement of the management team, VeliQ intends to build on the success of its increased revenue growth via a fast-growing global partner program.
International breakthrough
In his role as Vice President at SAP, Edgar Jager was responsible for developing OEM business and third party software in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) for six years. Previously, he held senior management positions for a number of years at Adobe Corporation, Macromedia and Blue Martini Software. "I see this as just the start of an international breakthrough for VeliQ, thanks to collaboration with large partners such as Portugal Telecom, SAP and Vimpelcom," says Jager. "It is a wonderful new challenge to be able to lead the team and partners who will realize VeliQ's aspirations in terms of growth."
Record year with 250% increase in revenue
"Our mission is to make the management of all mobile devices within organizations as simple and secure as possible," says Alex Bausch, CEO and founder of VeliQ. "To facilitate that, we have developed a complete mPaaS (mobility Platform-as-a-Service) solution that is being used increasingly by partners across the world for their client mobility solutions. In 2013, a record year in which we achieved in excess of 250% growth in revenue, we also succeeded in identifying the best people capable of strengthening VeliQ's profile globally. Both Edgar Jager and Ron van Bijsterveld possess the requisite experience, as well as a valuable network of contacts."
About VeliQ
VeliQ delivers MobiDM, the only true enterprise mobility Platform as a Service (mPaaS™) solution.- Described by the IDC as 'relevant and unique', VeliQ's mPaaS™ solution offers industry-leading, cross-platform mobile device management, application management, content management, security and back-end integration in a single unified console for true mobility enablement. With VeliQ's mPaaS™ solution, end-users receive a highly scalable, multi-tenant, enterprise-grade mobility enablement platform that can be deployed in minutes. Via our partners, our solution has currently been implemented in 60 countries at both SMBs and large enterprises alike in such sectors as education, finance, healthcare & pharmaceuticals, retail & hospitality, technology & manufacturing, transportation & logistics, and legal & professional services. VeliQ is headquartered in the Netherlands and has offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, Poland and Turkey.
For more information, please visit www.veliq.com.
The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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Cultural, regulatory, environmental, political and economic (CREPE) conditions over the past decade are creating cross-industry solution spaces that require processes and technologies from both the Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Management and Analytics (DMA). These solution spaces are evolving into Sensor Analytics Ecosystems (SAE) that represent significant new opportunities for organizations of all types. Public Utilities throughout the world, providing electricity, natural gas and water, are pursuing SmartGrid initiatives that represent one of the more mature examples of SAE. We have s...
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The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
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How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural styles ...
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The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
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An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
Nov. 27, 2014 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,329
The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, will examine why IT must finally fulfill its role in support of its SBUs or face a new round of...
Nov. 27, 2014 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,267
One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
Nov. 27, 2014 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,293
Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
Nov. 27, 2014 07:45 AM EST Reads: 1,568
The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
Nov. 27, 2014 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,537
Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
Nov. 27, 2014 06:45 AM EST Reads: 1,372
Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
Nov. 27, 2014 06:45 AM EST Reads: 1,434
We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
Nov. 27, 2014 04:00 AM EST Reads: 1,282
"Matrix is an ambitious open standard and implementation that's set up to break down the fragmentation problems that exist in IP messaging and VoIP communication," explained John Woolf, Technical Evangelist at Matrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Nov. 27, 2014 04:00 AM EST Reads: 1,237
P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services ...
Nov. 26, 2014 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,659
Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
Nov. 24, 2014 07:00 PM EST Reads: 1,756
Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
Nov. 24, 2014 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,652
The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
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Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world.
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Proving the effectiveness and calling for the reauthorization of the Ex-Im Bank.
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New research confirms robots aren't stealing jobs in developing countries either.
Comparisons to electricity and cable TV are off base.
The negative effects of data privacy could outweigh benefits.
We need a middle ground approach to international Internet policy.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture cleared the path to commercialization for a "genetically modified" potato developed by J.R. Simplott.
The President's efforts to promote transparency and good governance should be continued.
To be successful the TPP must protect IP.
New agreement will bring 200 additional ICT products under ITA coverage.
Setting carbon targets will not lead to deep decarbonization.
Rob Atkinson will provide the luncheon keynote at the Washington Innovation Summit.
Rob Atkinson Presenting "Innovation Economics" at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
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Rob Atkinson's presentation to the 2012 World Computer Congress.
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ITIF amicus brief asks U.S. Supreme Court to clarify the treatment of WiFi under the Wiretap Act.
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The FTC should avoid unnecessarily regulating predictive analytics and the underlying data. Instead, it...
The U.S. decision to forgo oversight of Internet governance has inherent risks.
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Conventional economics provides an increasingly poor guide for economic policy and should be replaced by an evolutionary economics framework.
Rob Atkinson contributed the chapter "Public Policy, Innovation and New Technologies" to the textbook "Guide to U.S. Economic Policy."
Robert Atkinson contributed the chapter "Innovation in Cities and Innovation by Cities" for the book "Creating Competitiveness: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Polices for Growth."
In a chapter for the new book Practicing Sustainability, Rob Atkinson wrote about sustainability from an innovation economics perspective.
"Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage." This new book delivers a critical wake-up call: a fierce global race for innovation advantage is under way and the United States is running the risk of losing.
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Supply-Side Follies: Why Conservative Economics Fails, Liberal Economics Falters, and Innovation Economics is the Answer
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Right now it seems that only nodes in the array tree can be flipped to modify the appearance of the tree. It would be convenient if nodes in the gene tree can be flipped as well.
Secondly, in the special case where the array tree and the gene tree are identical (i.e. not microarray data, but for instance a distance matrix for phylogeny, where every seq is compared to every seq [not what I am doing, but issue identical]) then it would be nice if a flip in an array tree node was 'linked' to the corresponding node in the gene tree [to keep the two trees identical, and to keep the diagonal symetry these arrays have].
The second part is probably harder to pull off and less needed than the first.
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UAE | Health
UAE pioneers public health facility for men
Initiative seeks to address 5-year difference in life expectancy compared to women
- Image Credit: Zarina Fernandes/Gulf News
- Al Muhaisnah Health Centre where the Men's Health Clinic was officially opened on Saturday. The average lifespan of men in the UAE is five years less than that of women.
Dubai: The world's first public health facility exclusively for men has opened in the UAE. Specialising in male-related diseases, the Men Health Clinic was officially opened in Al Muhaisnah Health Centre in Dubai Medical District on Saturday.
The Ministry of Health clinic is the first specialising in men's health within the public sector. It will provide world-class health services and treatment while also raising awareness about men's health issues within the community.
The move sits well with the expert assessment that the average life span of women in the UAE is five years more than men.
"We decided to open this clinic to promote awareness about male-related disease. We already have children's and women's health departments and clinics in the ministry but none that are specialised in men's health," said Dr Mustafa Al Hashimi, deputy director of Dubai Medical District.
Dr Al Hashimi told Gulf News that the clinic aims to raise awareness about the factors contributing to health risks for men as they tend to refrain from visiting the doctor until they actually get sick. "We want them to come to the clinic before they reach that stage, we want them to know about the importance of prevention and take responsibility for their sexual and social behaviour to live a healthier life," he said.
The clinic will also train doctors and nurses to enable them to deal with male-related diseases through its partnership with the International Men's Health Association which will see both sides collaborating to hold training sessions, conferences and workshops.
"We are also starting up a computer programme in order to create a database of diseases that threaten men's health. We hope to compare this data with international databases in order to monitor our progress," said Dr Al Hashimi
Professor Ridwan Shabsigh, president of the International Men's Health Association and professor of clinical urology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Cornell University in New York, stressed the importance of the UAE's initiative.
He highlighted statistics which show that men have a lower life expectancy than women in the UAE. "There is a five-year gender gap between men and woman in the UAE where woman live until they are 79 years old and men only reach 74. This is contributed by four main components: male gender specific diseases that are driven by the anatomy of men, non-gender specific diseases that have high prevalence in men, health behaviours that are unique to men and lastly social situations with special impact on men."
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Samuel Glover b 1665?died 1746 in Albemarle Co, VA. He married Sarah Blair. (d 1747)
Child of Samuel Glover and Sarah Blair is: (Phineus, m Mary Durant? John, William, Robert m Mary d 1794 Buckingham, daughter Ann m Elisha Smart)
Samuel Glover, II was born 1690. He married Elizabeth Jones.
Child of Samuel Glover, II and Elizabeth Jones is: (Anthony m Anna Tyndall? child is David Glover m Sarah Fear Jones;,James, John, Samuel m Mary Tnydall?;)
Samuel Glover, III was born 1720 in VA, and died 1803 in Buckingham Co, VA. He married Judith Benning September 22, 1746 in Albemarle Co, VA, daughter of Anthony Benning and Elizabeth Jounay. She was born September 7, 1731 in VA, and died Aft. 1759 in Buckingham Co, VA.
Child of Samuel Glover, III and Judith Benning is:(John, Elizabeth, Mary, Samuel, Sara, Anthony, Garterhood b 1757 m Charles John Lewis d 1820 Caswell County, N.C.,
Lt. John Glover was born September 18, 1747 in VA, and died 1822 in Fayette Co, Ky. He married Celia Ann (Vardeman?) February 23, 1769, daughter of John (Vardeman?). She was born July 18, 1752 in VA, and died June 18, 1797 in KY.
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Martha Patsy Glover was born Abt. 1770, and died 1833. She married Samuel Drake South abt 1790, son of John South and Margaret Drake. He was born April 22, 1769 in near Hagerstown, Md - posssibly Bedford, Va, and died September 17, 1832 in Fayette Co, Ky.
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Jeremiah Weldon South was born June 10, 1805 in Madison Co. Ky, and died April 15, 1880 in Frankfort, Ky. He married Mary Magdalene Cockrell Abt. 1829 in Estill Co, Ky, daughter of John Cockrell and Amelia Alley. She was born Abt. 1811 in Jackson, Breathitt Co, Ky, and died May 6, 1873 in Frankfort.


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Title: Getting rid of a small itchy vine in Granbury, Texas
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QUESTION:I am clearing an area near some trees that has never been "domesticated". There is a little itchy vine that grows pretty extensively (not very much top growth, but is all over the place). The small leaves itch like crazy for 10 minutes or so wherever they touch my hands or arms, but there are no welts. It spreads underground, but when I dig and dig, I can never seem to get all the roots. It is robust where it is growing but the deeper I dig, the finer the root becomes until I break or lose it. In one place I determined to dig carefully so I could follow the thread-like root. Where I finally lost it was about a foot deep and there was a LARGE root, maybe 3/8" around, running parallel to the ground. I'd like to get them dug out once and for all, but can't if I don't understand how they spread. There are some trees nearby, but this root was growing parallel to the trees and not like it was growing outward from the trunk. Once I googled "little itchy Texas vine" and found its name, but I didn't write it down so I could research it further. The articles I found didn't address its root growth at all. Can you help me?
Mr. Smarty Plants can think of a few small perennial vines that have the potential to produce stinging or itchiness. Most of the Tragia spp. cause a stinging sensation when touched. Here are three species that occur in your area:
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Tragia brevispica (Shortspike noseburn) and here are photos.
Tragia ramosa (Branched noseburn) and here are photos and more information.
The Botanical Dermatology Database lists a few other vines native to your area that are irritants to skin. Members of the Genus Clematis all appear to have irritants. Here are a couple in your area:
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Another vine that produces tubers that reportedly have a skin irritant is Dioscorea villosa (Wild yam); however, it would be rare for it to occur in the Granbury area. It does occur in East Texas.
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Very few of the descriptions of the vines in our database or other literature are going to tell you much, if anything, about their roots. However, I can suggest a method for getting rid of the vine without digging up the roots entirely. First, cut the vine off near the ground and, using a small paint brush, immediately paint the cut surface of the stem leading to the root with an herbicide. Roundup is the name of one popular herbicide, but there are others. You can ask your favorite nursery for their recommendation. Don't spray the herbicide on the cut since you would risk getting the herbicide on other plants that you want to live. Paint the surface immediately after you cut it since plant cells usually respond to injury by sealing themselves quickly. It might take more than one treatment but this should eventually kill the vine. Be sure you read and observe the precautions to protect yourself and the environment that are given on the label of the herbicide that you use.
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My wife and I sailed on the Magic out of Galveston to Key West and the Bahamas. Our stateroom was very comfortable and well kept up. We were booked on the 12th level spa deck in the front of the ship. Some movement was occasionally noticeable but not unpleasant. The location was just steps from the gym and spa. We spent time each day in the thermal suite, either on the heated chairs or in the various steam rooms and the thermal pool. Nothing could be more relaxing. We found the food to be good enough, especially at dinner.
Breakfast on the Lido deck had enough variety to avoid becoming too repetitive. Lunch variety was also good. We liked the tandor station and the deli. We had excellent weather and enjoyed all three ports. We booked our own excursions to the Wyndam in Freeport and the Blue Lagoon in Nassau. By avoiding the ship's shore excursions we got more time for less money. I was told that there were 2000 children on the ship but found that it was possible to More find the quiet and relaxed time I was looking for. Despite the number of people on the cruise I never felt cramped or crowded. Embarking and debarking took all of 5 minutes each time. Less
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Today - Friday, November 28, 2014
- China's Fenda Technology has announced that it has been selected by Lenovo (OTCPK:LNVGY) as a qualified supplier for the vendor's wearable devices, says DigiTimes according to a Chinese-language Sina.com report.
- The report said that the wearable is possibly a smart wristband and will have a good chance of being showcased Jan. 6-9 at CES 2015 in Las Vegas.
- Vivendi (OTCPK:VIVHY) has closed the sale of its mobile carrier SFR to domestic cable company Numericable (Altice's subsidiary) for €13.4B ($16.7B).
- Numericable is looking to make SFR its flagship brand and displace Orange as France's largest broadband operator.
- Vivendi will use the sale to cut debt, announcing plans to proceed with the early redemption of €5.3B in bonds.
- Previously: Vivendi chooses to sell SFR to Altice in €17B+ deal
- Hutchison Whampoa (OTCPK:HUWHY), the owner of Britain's fourth largest mobile operator 3 Group, is now entering the race for either O2 (NYSE:TEF) or EE, the U.K.'s number one and two wireless carriers.
- The move sparks the prospect of a bidding war, as Deutsche Telekom (OTCQX:DTEGY) and Orange (NYSE:ORAN) confirmed on Wedneday that they were in talks to sell EE to BT (NYSE:BT).
- Hutchison could put forward a bid for either EE or O2 by the end of the year.
- Previously: Deutsche Telekom, Orange confirm EE sale talks
Thursday, November 27, 2014
- Outbrain has filed notice confidentially with the Nasdaq seeking approval for a public listing of shares, according to the WSJ.
- Sources indicate the integrated online advertising trailblazer seeks a valuation as high as $1B.
- Outbrain's content recommendation product is considered one of the stronger Google Adsense alternatives for website publishers.
- Monitise (OTCPK:MONIF) gets a £49.2M investment from strategic partners Telefonica (NYSE:TEF), Santander (NYSE:SAN) and Mastercard (NYSE:MA).
- They will buy 161M ordinary shares at 30.5p/share (Nov. 26's close), representing 8.2% of the existing issued ordinary share capital.
- Monitise also says it's in discussions to expand its commercial relationships with above partners "to support the development and accelerated rollout of its global platform capabilities."
- IBM has agreed to deploy Watson in support of Monitise's new technology platform.
- Monitise also reiterates current year and longer-term guidance.
- Short interest is ~11% of float.
- Monitise was best performer on FTSE AIM 100 index today.
- Source: press release
- CEO Nick Hayek (OTCPK:SWGAY) says it's Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) that's under pressure, not the Swiss watch industry.
- Apple's watch is "not yet ready for mass production," and that this "would not have happened under Steve Jobs."
- Smart-watches "won't revolutionize" the watch industry, he says, any more than clock-equipped smartphones did.
- Hayek thinks the Apple Watch could spur business, because many customers will opt to buy normal watches instead.
- Source: Handelsblatt
- European Parliament lawmakers overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution urging antitrust regulators to consider splitting Internet search engines, such as Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), from other commercial services.
- The controversial initiative will have no binding power over the European Commission, the bloc's top antitrust regulator, but proponents of the measure hope it will add pressure.
- Renewing its push into the Internet TV market, Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) and partner Haier Electronics (OTCPK:HRELY) have launched new TVs in China that provide users with access to the e-commerce company's Taobao and Tmall online marketplaces as well as movies and video games.
- Last year, Alibaba launched a smart TV with Chinese TV manufacturer Skyworth (OTCPK:SWDHY), but the product failed quickly because its online entertainment offerings were limited.
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
- Pivotal, which EMC and VMware (NYSE:VMW) spun off from their core ops in late 2012, is laying off 60 employees, sources tell CRN. The company reportedly has 1,800 workers.
- Though EMC announced IPO plans for Pivotal back in March 2013, no offering appears to be on the horizon for now. The company's product line is headlined by its Greenplum analytics database and Cloud Foundry app platform (PaaS); each faces plenty of competition. A Big Data Suite featuring Greenplum and several other analytics-focused products was launched in April.
- Pivotal had Q3 revenue of $58M (+23% Y/Y), and an op. loss of $52M. GE paid $105M last year to buy a 10% stake.
- Though Samsung "has taken the majority of Apple's iPhone chip orders for 2015," TSMC (NYSE:TSM) is believed to have landed all of the iPad-related orders for Apple's next-gen A9 processor, and is set to receive a combined 40%-50% of iPhone/iPad A9 orders, Digitimes reports.
- In December, TSMC will reportedly begin taping out A9 processors that leverage its next-gen 16nm FinFET manufacturing process. Samsung, however, is said to have won orders by offering aggressive prices for its 14nm FinFET process (previous). TSMC expects to begin 16nm mass-production in Q2 2015.
- The Korea Times reported last week Samsung will handle 80% of A-series processor output starting in 2016. TSMC is currently manufacturing the A8, and has received a huge top-line boost from doing so.
- Sony (NYSE:SNE) is prepping a smartwatch whose "face and wrist band will be made from a patented material that allows the entire surface area to function as a display and change its appearance," Bloomberg reports. The product could arrive as soon as next year.
- Aside from providing more usable surface area, an e-paper smartwatch might also be less power-hungry than rival offerings using LCDs or OLEDs. The product is reportedly being developed by a new business unit created by CEO Kazuo Hirai to fast-track promising ideas (previous).
- Sony's existing SmartWatch 3 (launched in September) features a 1.6" LCD, and (like many rival offerings) runs on Google's Android Wear platform. All signs suggest initial sales have been limited. The Apple Watch is expected to begin shipping in early 2015.
- After being prodded by the FCC on the issue, AT&T (NYSE:T) insists CEO Randall Stephenson's Nov. 12 remarks about halting fiber investments until neutrality rules are set only applied to new investments rather than ones already planned.
- Stephenson's remarks - "We can't go out and invest that kind of money deploying fiber to 100 cities not knowing under what rules those investments will be governed." - appeared to refer to AT&T's April announcement about bringing its U-verse GigaPower service to up to 100 cities in 21 metro areas, depending on local support. AT&T now says that plan is still on track.
- The original remarks came two days after Pres. Obama backed tough neutrality rules, and five days after AT&T announced it would be spending ~14% less on capex in 2015 than it would in 2014.
- Melvyn Morris, KING Digital's chairman since 2003, has "stepped down from the role of Chairman of the Board and will take a leave of absence from the Board for personal reasons."
- Director Gerhard Florin, formerly an exec at Electronic Arts and BMG, is King's new chairman.
- SemiLEDs (NASDAQ:LEDS): FQ4 EPS of -$0.17
- Revenue of $2.27M (-32.8% Y/Y).
- Press Release
- Shanda Interactive has sold 48.8M Shanda Games (GAME -0.2%) Class B shares to a company controlled by acting CEO Yingfeng Zhang, and an equal number of shares to an affiliate of Hong Kong-based Ningxia.
- Following the sale, Ningxia owns 24.1% of GAME's Class A and B shares, and 40.1% of its voting rights. Zhang's company respectively owns 9.1% and 34.5%. Shanda Interactive "no longer beneficially owns any ordinary shares of the Company."
- Shanda Interactive doesn't intend to remain a member of the consortium that has offered $1.9B ($6.90/ADS) to buy Shanda Games. However, Ningxia and Zhang remain a part of it.
- GAME also announces Zhang is now the company's chairman. He replaces Shanda Interactive co-founder Tianqiao Chen, who is leaving the board. Ningxia chairman Shengming Ma is joining the board.
- Chip stocks are outperforming after Analog Devices (ADI +5.2%) beat FQ4 estimates and offered in-line FQ1 guidance. The Philadelphia Semi Index (SOXX +1.9%) has made new highs.
- Notable gainers include many analog/mixed-signal and telecom IC firms: TXN +3%. LLTC +2.7%. SMTC +3.1%. ISIL +3.3%. SWKS +3.7%. AVGO +2.9%. OVTI +3.2%. FSL +3.1%. EZCH +2.5%. XLNX +2.3%. ALTR +2.1%. MX +4.3%. PMCS +2.7%. BRCM +2%.
- On its CC (transcript), ADI noted its telecom equipment chip sales are holding up well in spite of weak capex, aided by the fact its dollar content for 4G base stations is "at least 20% to 30% better" than for 3G base stations. The company also mentioned its lead times were stable in FQ4.
- Chip ETFs: SMH, XSD, PSI, SOXL, USD, SOXS, SSG
- UniPixel (NASDAQ:UNXL) is rallying ahead of a Dec. 4 analyst day (co-hosted with Kodak) where it will show off its InTouch manufacturing process, whose full commercialization has been repeatedly delayed. 138K shares have changed hands vs. a 3-month average of 108K.
- Many shorts have taken profits in recent months: While 2.4M shares (22% of the float) remained shorted as of Nov. 14, that figure is down sharply from 4.5M as of June 30, and 6.3M as of Nov. 15, 2013.
- On top of providing light Q4 sales guidance, Ctrip (NASDAQ:CTRP) guided on its CC (transcript) for a Q4 op. margin of -12% to -17%, down sharply from Q3's 11% and Q4 2013's 20%. Gross margin is expected to account for 3% of the Y/Y drop, sales/marketing spend 12%, R&D 18%, and G&A 2%.
- The outlook has led Barclays, UBS, and Raymond James to downgrade the Chinese online travel leader to neutral ratings. Several other firms have slashed their targets.
- Piper (Neutral, PT cut to $49): "Management reiterated expectations of 20%-30% PF op margins long-term, but visibility on multi-year margin trajectory is low due to increasing competition. Furthermore, beyond Q4, the company suggested that Q1 PF op margin may be flattish q/q and 2015 PF op margin may be similar to 2014 (low to mid single digits)."
- Goldman (Neutral, PT cut to $59) likes Ctrip's mobile metrics - mobile was respectively 45% and 35% of hotel and air ticket volume - and notes Ctrip's open platform now claims 1K+ hotel agency partners and 800+ local travel agencies. But it also expects spending on R&D, rebates (due to price competition), branding, and product coverage expansion to remain heavy.
- Rivals Qunar (QUNR -2.2%) and eLong (LONG -2.4%) are following Ctrip lower.
- Bloomberg reports Amazon (AMZN -0.5%) has finished internal talks to buy top Indian online fashion retailer Jabong. VCCircle reports Amazon has "completed its first level of talks" to buy Jabong, and that the deal could be worth $1.1B-$1.2B.
- Jabong had a 1H14 GMV of INR5.1B ($82.9M) courtesy of 3.2M orders, up 3x Y/Y. The company is backed by German e-commerce VC firm/incubator Rocket Internet.
- Indian restrictions on retail foreign investment could stand in Amazon's way. However, the new government is reportedly open to loosening e-commerce-related restrictions.
- Amazon committed to investing $2B in India earlier this year, where it faces off against local giant Flipkart and eBay-backed marketplace Snapdeal. Alibaba just stated it plans to expand its Indian presence.
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