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Swiss Chocolatier Introduce the Fourth Type of Chocolate in 80 Years

September 7, 2017 By Sam Doliente Leave a Comment

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A Swiss chocolate maker added more color to the traditional types of chocolates which are white, milk, and dark. Therefore, Barry Callebaut AG which is the largest cocoa processor in the world added pink to this sweet industry. The result is Ruby Chocolate which is the fourth type invented in the last 80 years. The Swiss chocolatier describes the taste as fruity.

The Swiss Chocolatier Needed a Decade to Find the Perfect Formula for Its New Kind of Cocoa Beans

At the moment, the global chocolate industry is going through a tensed period due to new trends in wellness and healthy food choices. However, Swiss company Barry Callebaut AG might have just given the world a new reason to reintroduce chocolate in their daily or at least weekly diets. They have just invented the fourth type of sweet treats namely the pink chocolate.

According to Chief Executive Officer Antoine de Saint-Affrique, the company experimented for a decade with a new type of cocoa bean. What’s special about this ingredient is that it has a pinkish hue which is the precise factor that lends the new chocolate its color.

After the Tasting Tests, the Company Found to Their Surprise That China Is Its Most Welcoming Market

On Tuesday, the Swiss chocolatier unveiled the innovation in Shanghai. According to the Zurich-based firm, the fourth type of chocolate has a natural berry flavor. Therefore, consumers have first a sour taste in their mouth which quickly turns into a sweet sensation.

The company is the main cocoa processor for world renowned brands such as Cadbury or Hershey Co. Therefore, people might soon see the novelty on the shelves of their local markets.

“It’s natural, it’s colorful, it’s hedonistic, there’s an indulgence aspect to it, but it keeps the authenticity of chocolate.”

The company has already conducted tastings in the U.S., U.K., Japan, and China. Ipsos and Haystack carried out independent consumer researches to test the way people find the taste of this product. The company found out this way that China was the most receptive to this new chocolate which is usually an extremely indifferent market to this type of treat.

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Chinese Multi Billion Dollar Worth Bike-Sharing Companies Plan to Go Global

September 4, 2017 By Dean Lamori Leave a Comment

China is known as an overcrowded country. It has a 3.7 million square mile surface that hosts 1.381 billion people. Photos and videos of Chinese citizens being pushed against bus windows at rush hours are circling the world. One of the main solutions that streamlined traffic was bike-sharing companies.

Ofo and Mobike Are the Main Bike-Sharing Companies Competing for World Supremacy

There are millions of bikes on sidewalks that are actually privately held. However, people can rent them by scanning a code by themselves. When they’re done with the two-wheeled vehicle, they can leave it exactly where they are. Someone else will surely need the bike from there. This precise business model China wants to export overseas. China is the first country that developed a multi-billion revolution with the help of bicycles.

The bike-sharing apps have been downloaded for at least 100 million times which unlock access to millions of bikes. The concept proved successful and popular for a nation that is dealing with an overcrowding issue. Therefore, the model might soon be replicated in other parts of the world as well.

There are two Chinese rivals, Ofo and Mobike, which are trying to compete with each other for the first company that covers the world with their bikes. Last month, Ofo activated 100 bicycles in Seattle. From this point on, the company intends to seize the entire U.S.

Each of them possesses at least 7 million bikes that are operational in over 150 cities. However, while they provide a green and clean alternative to private transportation, such businesses started gathering negative reviews.

Privately Held Bikes Are Becoming a Nuisance for Foot Traffic

That’s because these minimalistic vehicles are becoming a clogging source for sidewalks. Office buildings, subway stations, road intersections, and shopping malls began encountering numerous food traffic problems due to the stacks of privately held bikes abandoned in front of them. On top of that, broken bikes are being dumped by rivers, parks, highways, and not recycled.

The core issue stems from the freedom customers have in choosing where to abandon their rented two-wheeled vehicles. While this solution yielded greater results than the usual docking stations, ride-sharing companies need to improve their method before social media triggers a backlash against them to take them down.
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New Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Amazon Sold Inefficient Eclipse Glasses

September 2, 2017 By Dean Lamori Leave a Comment

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America celebrated a rare celestial event on August 21, 2017, when the moon formed a perfect line between the Sun and our Blue Planet. The result was nature invoking darkness in the middle of the day. The phenomenon was visible from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts. Therefore, numerous people purchased eclipse glasses to witness the total solar eclipse in the safest conditions. However, a couple in Charleston opened a new class action lawsuit blaming Amazon for faulty products.

Plaintiffs Claimed that They Experienced Vision Impairment after Using Amazon’s Eclipse Glasses during August 21 Total Solar Eclipse

On Tuesday, the federal court in South Carolina received papers to open a new class action lawsuit from couple Corey Payne and Kayla Harris. They claimed that they ordered in early August a three-pack of special glasses that promised owners protection during a solar eclipse. Therefore, they employed these tools to view the astronomic event safely on August 21.

However, after a while, both Harris and Payne started to feel headaches and have watery eyes. It took them several days to realize that their condition wasn’t getting any better. On the contrary, time accentuated their vision issues through vision impairment with effects of blurriness and distorted vision.

Therefore, they intend to make the retailer of these eclipse glasses, namely Amazon, to cover compensation for the damages they’ve done. The retail giant responded publicly to these allegations. Representatives claimed that Amazon started sending out messages on August 10 to customers.

Amazon Claimed It Sent Email for a Product Recall to Customers

The emails contained an appeal to a recall of solar eclipse glasses that were potentially faulty. However, the message justified that Amazon wasn’t able to test their efficiency as it wasn’t the manufacturer of these products. Nonetheless, no information on a number of recalled products or involved vendors was disclosed afterwards.

On the other hand, plaintiffs Harris and Payne claimed that they had not received such an e-mail from Amazon. Therefore, they turned the lawsuit into class action so other customers in situations similar to theirs could join in with their own testimonials. In the end, they can reclaim compensations for themselves.
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Iceland Airline Wow Air Adds Four U.S. Cities to Their Cheap International Flights

August 25, 2017 By Tom Hager Leave a Comment

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Iceland has its own budget airline, Wow Air, which has just announced a novel competitive program for its international flights. The company is going to offer cheap tickets for four U.S. cities. These are Cleveland, Detroit, Cincinnati, and St. Louis. With this single strategy, the Iceland airline managed to trigger a drop in major airline stocks.

Iceland Airline Will Offer Detroit, Cincinnati, St Louis, and Cleveland Cheap Flights to Iceland as of Next Spring

Icelandic budget carrier Wow Air intends to gain more influence in its industry. The company is already offering extremely competitive prices with a one-way ticket to Iceland starting as low as less than $100. Therefore, the company has nothing but to gain from extending its U.S. reach over four important Midwest market points.

On Wednesday, the Iceland airline announced the four additional cities to its offerings. Such new openings will give Wow Air customers access to a total of 12 U.S. destinations. The new lines will become available as of this spring, yet ticket pre-purchases are already accessible to enthusiasts.

As a consequence, people will be able to travel from the named four cities to Iceland for just $99.99 one way. WOW’s other European destinations that are linked to these flights will start at $149.99.

WOW Air CEO Skuli Mogensen claimed that all four new destinations were chosen based on comprehensive data. Therefore, these decisions are highly likely to unlock new opportunities for the company with large potential. The new non-stop flights to Iceland are indulging smaller yet influential markets with limited budgets.

“We like the region. We think there’s opportunity there. We think it’s under-served.”

Wow Air Will Encourage More Americans to Visit European Destinations Thanks to Low Fares

The CEO also stated that the new destinations would follow the trend of other markets that Wow Air unlocked. Based on their past experience, the company managed to stimulate each market they entered. This means that the low fares would create new potential clients who would not have otherwise considered European destinations due to large expenses.

Therefore, tickets are already available for Detroit service starting with April 26. The other routes will inaugurate on May 4 in Cleveland, May 10 in Cincinnati, and May 17 in St Louis.
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Trump Administration Refuses Helping Coal Industry Executive

August 24, 2017 By Amilia Allport Leave a Comment

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Trump administration has recently taken the first decision to go against the industry that the President believes in most, namely the coal industry. A prominent coal executive asked support to win an emergency order that would have protected power plants based on coal. However, the CEO didn’t receive the help Donald Trump promised in the first place.

The White House Supported the Energy Department in Its Decision to Refuse Issuing Emergency Order for Coal Industry

The Energy Department was in full process of weighing in the cons and pros of issuing a crucial order for coal players. All plants that produce massive energy yet are promoting air pollution face numerous environmental regulations that translate in market stress. In the end, the department considered the order as unnecessary. Contrary to what Donald Trump promised, the White House supported this decision.

The outcome of this process is a rare display of friction between the coal industry and the President of the United States. Donald Trump claimed numerous times that he believes the U.S. economy has nothing but to gain from promoting coal-based plants.

Murray Energy chief executive Robert Murray stated that President Donald Trump showed him his commitment to the coal market numerous times both public and private. The Executive released several letters that attest these details.

The text informed the president that his withdrawal from this agreement would render thousands of coal miners losing their jobs. On top of that, thousands more pensions would become vulnerable overnight. However, the White House did not identify the claims that the president was first on board with this as true or not.

On Tuesday, spokeswoman Kelly Love made a public statement where she claimed that this measure was not good enough to aid the coal industry. However, she reminded the public that Trump showed many signs of his support for miners. Some of these actions were the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, and repeal of the “Waters of the U.S. Rule” and the Clean Power Plant.

Murray Energy Wanted Two-Year Moratorium to Counteract the Fatal Side Effects of FirstEnergy Solutions Filing for Bankruptcy

Murray wanted Trump to take advantage of a rarely used U.S. Federal Power Act. This bill enables the Energy Department to intervene in case of a crisis like war or natural disaster. At the same time, power plants receive a temporary exemption from abiding by environmental laws.

Murray Energy was planning to use this federal intervention to activate a two-year moratorium on coal-based plant closures. In this case, the emergency crisis concerns a crucial customer, FirstEnergy Solutions, which is nearing a status of bankruptcy. This event would take Murray Energy down as well.
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Trump Administration Puts an End on an Obama-Era Plastic Ban within Parks

August 21, 2017 By Kurt Cottrell Leave a Comment

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The scientific community keeps publishing papers on the negative effects of plastic manufacturing on the environment. However, the political theater is still convinced that there is no such thing as humans doing harm to nature. Therefore, Trump administration made another step to show its disbelief in this branch of science. They slammed an Obama-era plastic ban within national parks. The text regarded plastic bottles made out of the infamous material.

Obama Government Managed to Persuade 23 out of 417 National Parks to Apply Plastic Ban

In 2011, the government encouraged the National Park Service to instate a new policy. The aim was to make national parks to dissuade the sales of bottled water. This move was an important step in environmental causes to cut back on plastic that wreaks havoc in nature once it becomes litter.

Even though this ban was not actually reinforced by law, there were 23 out of the total of 417 national parks that implemented these restrictions. Some of them are Zion National Park and Grand Canyon National Park.

These two attractions alone drew 10.2 million visitors in 2016. By comparison, the total of national parks hosted 331 million people the same year. Instead of the more comfortable plastic bottles, organizers encouraged visitors to use refillable bottles or tap water instead.

Trump Slammed the Ban after the International Bottled Water Administration Conducted a Campaign against the Obama-Era Interdiction

Even though this was just a small step towards environmental goals, Trump administration decided to reverse this Obama-era plastic ban. The new status quo impairs national parks from interdicting people to use plastic bottled water.

At the moment, the world came to consume 1 million plastic water bottles each minute. Considering that such a large quantity overwhelms recycling efforts, much of these residues end up across coastlines and other parts of the wilderness as well.

The recent ban reversal appeared after the International Bottled Water Association spent $80,000 on a campaign against the bottle ban. The mobilization lasted for a few months only and started right after Donald Trump’s inauguration.
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TransCanada Might Drop Keystone XL Project despite Trump Vouching for It

August 10, 2017 By Sam Doliente Leave a Comment

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Officials are in the middle of hearings that will decide the fate of the Keystone XL project. The debates are taking place in Lincoln’s Cornhusker Marriot Hotel and gathered environmental activists, TransCanada spokespersons, ranchers, tribal members, and other Nebraskans. Therefore, the meetings have the necessary resources to create comprehensive negotiations. However, the company itself might not be willing anymore to begin such a mission, despite President Trump’s promises of a new pipeline.

The Nebraska Public Service Commission Will Issue a Ruling Concerning the Fate of the Keystone XL Project

The Trump administration turned the Keystone infrastructure project into a priority. Thanks to these authorities, the plan was brought back to negotiation table in March. However, TransCanada executive vice president Paul Miller claimed last month that there would be no formal investment in the project until the month of December.

This week’s hearings before the Nebraska Public Service Commission or PSC are debating whether it is safe to allow the pipeline passing through the state or not. However, if they take a negative decision, they might as well kill the project altogether. TransCanada doesn’t have other alternatives than a route directly through Nebraska.

Even Though It Is No Longer Building the Infrastructure, TransCanada Could Resell the Permits

However, PSC’s ruling might appear as late as November. On the other hand, this decision pertains to TransCanada as well. Nonetheless, the company might not be willing to go ahead with Pipeline XL project any longer. Executives have been talking about this construction since 2008. Since then, there were many changes in this industry, including some disappointing oil prices. On top of that, there’s also the threat of the clean energy market.

However, anti-pipeline authorities are not giving up on their cautiousness just yet. That’s because if the company receives the permit from PSC, they have several options with it. For instance, if they refuse to start this project anymore, they can resell the documents to another willing pipeline developer. Therefore, the company representatives are refraining, for now, to reveal their intentions in case they abandon the Keystone XL project.

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Boeing Drew the 787 Dreamliner Outline in Air for Publicity

August 5, 2017 By Kurt Cottrell Leave a Comment

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Chicago-based Boeing has recently invested and coordinated a unique project. Its goal seems feeble at the moment, yet it managed to make the large plane spotting community interested in it. The event involved one of the 787 Dreamliner airplanes which drew the Dreamliner outline in the sky across the entire United States.

The Company Coordinated an 18-Hour Endurance Test which Materialized in a 787 Dreamliner Outline

According to data coming from Flightaware.com, the aircraft began its mission from Boeing field outside of Seattle at 3:38 p.m. local time on Wendw. The aircraft then reached the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. At this point, it began drawing the outline of an aircraft which managed to fit the large dimensions of the United States. Therefore, the trajectory even reached the farthest south of Texas in Wyoming while the furthest eastern point was Kentucky.

The entire mission took 18 hours before landing at 9:38 a.m. at the same Boeing field in Chicago. The company stated that this trip was just another test flight to investigate the endurance of the new aircraft. However, by no means was it an ordinary one. A Boeing spokesperson admitted that this time the company ordered a special journey.

“Rather than fly in random patterns, the test team got creative, flying a route that outlined a 787-8 in the skies over 22 states.”

Boeing Turned to Twitter to Make the Event Public

As a consequence, in just 18 hours the pilot reached 22 states out of the total of 50 America has. The design of the sketch in the air hid some special hints as well. For instance, the tip of the Dreamliner outline was pointing towards the home of Boeing in Washington. The tail reached all the way to Alabama while the two wings ended in southern Texas and northern Michigan.

Boeing issued few details about the endurance test. On the other hand, the company turned to Twitter to make the event public. As a consequence, the stunt might have just been another shot at a successful publicity.

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U.S. Bipartisan Group to Propose Bill Regarding the Security of the Internet of Things

August 2, 2017 By Amilia Allport Leave a Comment

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A group of U.S. senators decided to confront the vulnerabilities the Internet of Things trigger even at the level of governmental high-security institutions such as the Pentagon. The tech industry defines this system like the entirety of computing devices that serve the needs on a daily basis. Since all these tools are connected to the Internet, they can send and receive data. Therefore, the U.S. bipartisan group intends to strengthen global cyber security.

The U.S. Bipartisan Group Is Supporting a Paper Created by Harvard and Atlantic Council Experts

The proposal of the U.S. senators concerns vendors first and foremost. Those who are in direct partnership with the government will have to secure their Internet-connected products before moving them into the property of the state. This includes making sure the equipment can receive patches for any kind of issues and it is in alignment with industry security standards.

The new bill is going to create a safer cyber environment for the government. Another requirement is going to force vendors to discard devices with passwords that cannot be changed or any other tool that bears suspicions of security flaws.

The bipartisan group constitutes of Republicans Steve Daines and Cory Gardner and Democrats Ron Wyden and Mark Warner. However, the creators of the bill were actually professionals at the Atlantic Council and Harvard University.

Manufacturers Are Currently Free to Design Any Security Level They Want

Mark Warner stated that they are reviewing the bill to change it into the most seamless version possible. To his view, the legislation is but an answer to a market weakness. At the moment, there is no regulation to give manufacturers the incentive to build their products with security matters in mind.

On another note, the text will allow exceptions to the rule to address all possibilities. For instance, federal agencies will still have the possibility to acquire non-compliant devices. However, this will be possible only if the U.S. Office of Management and Budget will attest that there are other security measures instead such as network segmentations.

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Laurene Powell Jobs Entered Media Industry by Acquiring The Atlantic

July 31, 2017 By Kurt Cottrell Leave a Comment

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The founder of Emerson Collective is a pure advocate of social justice, clean environment, and education and migration reforms. She is also the widow of the late Steve Jobs. As of recently, Laurene Powell Jobs secured a controlling stake in the publication The Atlantic. As a consequence, the world proved to be curious about the evolution of such an event within the media industry. The most popular scenario is that one of the oldest media outlets in America might be converted to Apple culture altogether.

Former Owner David Bradley Talked only to Powell Jobs about the Opportunity

Emerson Collective has just replaced the DC power broker, David Bradley, as the owner of The Atlantic. As a consequence, everybody is wondering what the new direction for the publication is going to be.

However, except some personal liaisons with the Apple empire, Powell Jobs proved to have an entrepreneurial nature for good causes. She has been leading the company towards progressive causes since the beginning. Therefore, the future of the U.S. outlet might have nothing to do with Apple.

David Bradley compiled a database of around 600 potential investors. However, the power broker talked only to Powell Jobs as a fit suitor for his replacement at the helm of The Atlantic. The philanthropist admitted that she has a deeper appreciation of this publication than anyone else. It was the co-founder of the magazine, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who inspired her to select the right goals for her organization.

The New Direction Might Propel The Atlantic Deeper into the Media Industry

So far, the reintegration concerns only The Atlantic. Therefore, Laurene Powell Jobs will not have control over the Atlantic Media that consists of Quartz and National Journal. However, things may change in the future. The businesswoman had only words of appreciation for the publication’s news coverage and its honest portrayal of today’s culture and society.

For the time being, The Atlantic remains a fruitful business with good odds on its side in the future. The financial power that it will earn from Emerson Collective together with Powell Jobs’ influence could launch the outlet higher in the media industry.

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