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Daily Archives: March 9, 2021
Internet Banking Market Report with Industry Overview, Opportunities, Drivers and Product Scope | Oracle Corporation , ACI Worldwide The Courier -…
Posted: March 9, 2021 at 1:39 pm
The Internet Banking report provides recent trends, development status and investment opportunities of the market. The report also covers government policy and its future influence on the industry. The report also highlights the market size and growth by market players and end users.
In COVID-19 outbreak, this report provides an analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on the global economy and the Internet Banking industry. The global Internet Banking market has the potential to grow with million USD with growing CAGR in the forecast period from 2021to2026. This report includes the regional and global analysis, technological innovation, performance of the product as well as future opportunities in the growth of the product.
Segmentation by type : Retail banking, Corporate banking, Console
Segmentation by applications: Payments, Processing Services, Customer and Channel management, Risk Management, Others
Top Companies Covered in this Report: Oracle Corporation (U.S.), ACI Worldwide (U.S.), Rockall Technologies (Ireland), Microsoft Corporation (U.S.), Fiserv, Inc. (U.S.), Temenos Group AG (Switzerland), Capital Banking Solutions (U.S.), EdgeVerve Systems Limited (India), Tata Consultancy Services (India), Cor Financial Solutions Ltd. (UK)
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1 RESEARCH SCOPE
1.1 Research Product Definition
1.2 Research Segmentation
1.2.1 Product Type
1.2.2 Main product Type of Major Players
1.3 Demand Overview
1.4 Research Methodology
2 GLOBAL VIRTUAL PRIVATE SERVERS PROVIDERS INDUSTRIES
2.1 Summary about Internet Banking Industry
2.2 Internet Banking Market Trends
2.2.1 Internet Banking Production & Consumption Trends
2.2.2 Internet Banking Demand Structure Trends
2.3 Internet Banking Cost & Price
3 MARKET DYNAMICS
3.1 Manufacturing & Purchasing Behavior in 2020
3.2 Market Development under the Impact of COVID-19
3.2.1 Drivers
3.2.2 Restraints
3.2.3 Opportunity
3.2.4 Risk
4 GLOBAL MARKET SEGMENTATION
5 COMPETITIONS OF MAJOR PLAYERS
6 MARKET FORECASTS
6.1 Forecast by Region.
6.2 Forecast by Demand.
6.3 Environment Forecast.
6.3.1 Impact of COVID-19
6.3.2 Geopolitics Overview
6.3.3 Economic Overview of Major Countries
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Cashless event solutions providers PlayPass and Weezevent join forces to conquer the reemerging live event sector – Tech.eu
Posted: at 1:39 pm
Announced this morning, the two biggest names in cashless payment solutions, PlayPass and Weezevent have combined forces, and are eyeballing the reemerging leisure and entertainment sector, read: live events.
Together, the group now comprises six offices around the globe including Paris, Madrid, Antwerp, Lausanne and Montreal and has a headcount of over 100 employees.
Pre-pandemic, cashless payments were steadily growing in popularity amongst event producers with Lollapalooza (in Paris, Berlin and Santiago), Rock Werchter, Main Square, Hellfest, Rock En Seine, Frequency and Nova Rock all employing the NFC technology. And not just for music, leading sports brands including Formula 1, Red Bull Air Race, Paris St. Germain FC, Lausanne FC and the William Hill World Darts Championship have all employed this technology at their events.
Combined, this represents substantial 400 million in annual turnover. No small change.
And while this success represents a global/continental europe market, the new merger is expected to be replicated in the UK. Steve Jenner of PlayPass and Olly Goddard of Weezevent will jointly head up the groups UK division, and in-house development teams are expected to be beefed up.
The PlayEvent (?) WeezePass (?) upcoming festival client list includes Standon Calling, 2000Trees, Black Deer, ArcTangent, Lakefest, Neverworld and the inaugural UnLocked Festival.
The new entity is reporting pre-orders for click-and-collect drinks, social distancing measures and adapted access control protocols for mass gatherings, are all now accounted for in the groups latest product set.
All this humble author can say is gimme mah vaccine, and bring on the FESTIVALS!
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Williamson County Vaccine Hub: When and Where To Get Vaccinated – Patch.com
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WILLIAMSON COUNTY, TX Williamson County and the Texas Department of State Health Services will continue to have several drive-thru vaccination sites for the week of March 8.
Here's when and where you can get vaccinated.
According to the Texas Department of State Health Services, Texans who can receive the COVID-19 vaccine at this time must fall into the Phase 1A and Phase 1B categories.
Phase 1A includes health care workers, medical first respondents and residents and staff of long-term care facilities. Those in Phase 1B include anyone 65 and older and individuals 16 and older with at least one chronic medical condition that puts them at increased risk for severe illness.
Earlier this month, the state agency and the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services announced teachers, school staff, bus drivers and those who work as or for licensed child care providers, including center-based and family care providers are also eligible for the vaccine.
People must first pre-register on the county's centralized waitlist in order to receive an appointment.
If you need to reschedule your appointment with Family Hospital Systems, residents are encouraged to email support@familyhospitalsystems.com.
Have questions? Williamson County has set up a call center to serve as a resource for residents interested in COVID-19 vaccine information.
The call center number is 512-943-1600 and is answered Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Note: The call center cannot reschedule appointments.
Family Hospital Systems will vaccinate eligible residents this week at the Kelly Reeves Athletic Complex, 10211 Parmer Lane, and Curative will host a site at the Georgetown ISD Athletic Complex, enter off of Stadium Dr. Both are appointment only.
On March 12, Curative will also open an additional drive-thru vaccine site at Dell Diamond, 3400 E Palm Valley Blvd., in Round Rock. All vaccine doses are scheduled by appointment only.
The Williamson County and Cities Health District is also working to vaccinate the county's vulnerable population with a vaccination location in Taylor at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church.
This site targets eligible residents who live in the eastern part of the county and are unable to transport to other sites. This site is by appointment only with emailed invitations going to people from the county's centralized waitlist with zip codes on the east side of the county, as well as people referred to them from their community nonprofit partners.
State allocated sites:
Once it is your turn to receive the vaccine, Williamson County can offer technical assistance with completing your registration paperwork at a Vaccine Registration Technical Assistance site.
These are the sites:
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New Book Revisits the History of Hair Metal and Hard Rock – Ultimate Classic Rock
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Nothin' but a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion, a new book out March 16 by Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock, chronicles an era of sensationalsuccess through the eyes of those who led the charge.
"Revolver cofounder Beaujour and former Guitar World editor Bienstock give heavy metal a flamboyant retrospective in this raucous oral history," wrotePublishersWeekly."Metal heads and those with a fondness for over-the-top antics that marked the genre and era are in for a treat."
The book draws frominterviews with more than 200people, including members of Van Halen, Motley Crue, Poison, Guns N Roses, Skid Row, Bon Jovi, Ratt, Twisted Sister, Winger, Warrant, Cinderella, Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, Lita Ford and more.
If you want to relive the explosive decade, this is as close as you're gonna get," Ratt singer Stephen Pearcy said. "All right here, right now.
The book stretches across the decade - from thefirst wild club shows in Los Angeles to the chart-topping, window-rattling, MTV-fueled hits to the inevitable demise of hair metal at the beginning of the '90s. It leaves no stone unturned as it documents the experiences of not only the rock stars, but also the managers, producers, engineers, journalists, label executives, stylists, costume designers, groupies, photographers, video directors, roadies and more.
From the streets to the Strip, the studio to the stage, this is an epic tale told by the people that lived it," said Poison's Bret Michaels. "It's a backstage pass to the wildest and loudest party in rock history you'll feel like you were right there with us!
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Spectator competition winners: the hell of a foreign holiday – The Spectator Australia
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In Competition No. 3188, a challenge designed to make us all feel better about the looming prospect of another enforced staycation, you were invited to submit a postcard from a friend on holiday abroad that makes you relieved you arent there.
Whenever I find myself dreaming of a trip to see the Northern Lights, I console myself with Northern Dark, Geoff Dyers hilarious account of the crushing disappointment of his pilgrimage to the Svalbard Archipelago (only on the return journey do the stars of the show, those swirling geysers of psychedelic green, make an appearance but on the opposite side of the aircraft from which Dyer and his wife are sitting).
I enjoyed Paul Freemans account of guillemot and periwinkle stew atop Halls Ledge, Rockall, and Brian Murdochs valiant attempt to look on the bright side of hotel quarantine: the view from the window is a restfully empty car-park, so no crashing waves to keep us awake all night. Honourable mentions also go to John Plowman, Alan Millard, G.M. Southgate, P.M. Davidson and James Jackson. The winners, printed below, are rewarded with 30 each.
Vive la diffrence! In the Footsteps of Emile Zola certainly is a welcome change from the showiness and monotonous constant sunshine of the Riviera. This is the real, authentic France. Yesterday we trekked the iconic beetroot fields, the disused coal mines, limmense horizon plat described in Germinal and slept in the eerie stillness of the battlefield of Sedan immortalised in La Dbcle so evocative in the drizzle. Tomorrow its the steam engines personified in La Bte Humaine and a lecture on Zolas use of naturalisme. The locals are an inspiring bunch, too: not for them the superficial bonhomie you find in the South. No, these are the salt of the earth, a gritty breed fashioned by the landscape and ever-changing weather, as honest as Zolas symbolic beetroot and turnips that we are treated to in our roadside packed lunches. Next year Im not missing the Solzhenitsyn tour! Youve GOT to comeDavid Silverman
A postcard! How quaint! I hear you cry. Somethings kicked off in town so the ruling party, sensibly in my view, muzzled the internet. There goes our email! Still, the guys in Security will post this (I hope!) when theyre not patrolling the hotel fencing. Not even a virus could get past them and their guns! No chance of seeing the temples, alas, or anywhere else but were making our own entertainment (no TV thats the news blackout). A German guest has us line-dancing every afternoon (no exceptions!) and is planning our own in-house Eurovision Song Contest. Do you remember that Graham Greene novel where characters have cockroach races before killing them? Its the latest craze and we compare scores over dinner. Clive cheats, of course; he says everyone does. The hotel library (bookshelf, actually) has all the Dan Brown and Jeffrey Archer novels; masses to reread! D.A. Prince
Darlings, its wonderfully authentic here and Carpathia has us by heart and by throat as they say locally Our host, the Count, is charming and very old-school and wont take a paying-guest leu from us he says that our presence is nourishment enough isnt that sweet?! Malcolm is as accident-prone as ever and, so far, has had a fight with an inanimate suit of armour, found a Bucovina cobra (very common, apparently) in his docksiders and fallen (he says he was pushed!) into an oubliette. But hes off shooting Transylvanian Nocturnal Woodcock tonight with the Counts retainers (very rough-hewn) and so the Count and I dine deux. Hes very dishy. Id send you a picture but he doesnt photograph well, or at all, actually, and theres no signal anyway.The visitors book is remarkably empty. Ill set that to rights first thing in the morningNick Syrett
Hi all,Wish you were here in Mar a Lago? Because thats the idea. The name, Donald says, is Red Indian for absolutely fantastic and thats no lie. Its an incredibly exclusive Club utilising prime Florida real estate; you couldnt possibly afford membership. Donald has beautiful weather flown in constantly on its own breeze. Not that exclusivity means the resort isnt diverse; I golf with billionaires, multi-billionaires and more types of corporate tax lawyer than youd think legal while the wife this ones named Brandi spends whole days at the spa with her Personal Beautifier who promises that, with the application of the right snake oils, she need never reach 30. The Trumps are in residence Donald is such a perfectionist, still smarting at his second presidential victory while Melania selects frocks for the courtroom and everything is Trump-branded, from shampoos and bathrobes to the more cosmopolitan domestic staff.Adrian Fry
What a relief to take a rest from English froideur! Weve been having some stiff upper gins on the terrace overlooking the public beach, 100% jolly, revelling in the revels of this keep-your-hair-down island. The roads simply heave with happiness, and do you know, scooters are free these days, you just hop on and off where you find them. What a blessed r. to follow ones inner gourmet, too there are streets crammed like Christmas with every cuisine you have ever heard of, and a few besides. Were trying Korea-Mex tonight, although Holly says she might go for a quick Brazilian. In the siesta, or is it fiesta, no thats a car haha, we have been taking turns on Spotty-fi, scoring each others playlists. Des has never heard of Leapy Lee OR Baha Men! Really! Tabitha won last nights screaming competition. All so blissful, batteries re-charging!!!! Agadooo to yooooo xxxx Bill Greenwell
You are invited to submit a Shakespearean soliloquy reflecting on the news that the Bard has been cancelled by some US academics. Please email entries of up to 16 lines to lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 17 March.
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Facebook is busy cloning an already-cloned Instagram feature for its own app – Pocketnow
Posted: at 1:38 pm
Instagram Reels is a very well known clone of the famous TikTok app. It lets you create short videos with easy-to-use tools to record and edit. Users can choose to use the in-app music tracks, or use custom audio for their videos. They can also speed up or slow down parts of the video. All in all, it works like TikTok. And now, Facebook has said that it is working on its own version of theReels on the main app.
The information comes from Reuters, which reported that Facebook is testing a feature on Instagram that will allow you to share Reels on your Facebook account.It wrote, the social media giant said it will have its own version of the reels feature on the main app. There is no information on how the feature will work or what would it be called. But going by history, you can expect a clone of the already-cloned feature.
In India, were testing the ability for Instagram creators to choose to have their Reels recommended on Facebook creators can reach new audiences and people can create and discover more entertaining content, a Facebook spokeswoman told Reuters on the latest development.
Instagram first introduced Reels in India soon after the TikTok ban in June last year.The success of TikTok has prompted many social media companies including Instagram and Snapchat to make their own versions of TikTok. Now, Facebook is creating one too!
The company will soon ready its own version of Reels, which is already a version of TikTok. Facebook has been working on expanding the presence of Reels on its variety of apps. Instagram recentlyrolled out Reels on the Instagram Lite App. It allows users to watch the popular short-format videos in the Reels tab.However, it doesnt enable users to create Reels on the app.
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This Baby Black-Footed Ferret Clone From Colorado Is Hoping To Save Her Species – Colorado Public Radio
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A small face poked its nose through the bars of a metal cage, curious about the two women whove entered the room at the National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center outside of Fort Collins.
Captive breeding manager Robyn Bortner opened the cage door.
This is mama, Bortner said. Normally if this was a black-footed ferret we could not do anything like were doing now, which is handling her. Its very different for us to work with ferrets that dont want to bite you.
The friendly, domestic ferret shes holding is a surrogate mom to the first cloned endangered species native to North America, which stayed hidden in the nest box.
To get the baby black-footed ferret out of hiding, U.S. Fish and Wildlife veterinarian Della Garelle used a small handling cage and placed her on the scale. She weighs in at 816 grams.
Very good weight for a female black-footed ferret, Bortner said. She has all the usual characteristics of her species which are the classic black feat, a black tip tail. And shes got her black mask.
Elizabeth Ann might look like all the other black-footed ferrets at the center, but she is unique. Shes the clone of a ferret who died in the 1980s.
Its pretty inspiring that people 30 years ago saved those tissues, in case this could happen someday. So dreams do come true, Garelle said.
The bigger dream is to get the black-footed ferret off the endangered species list, Garelle said. To help save this little mammal one of the most endangered animals in North America found in Colorado and several other states, scientists brought Elizabeth Ann into the world.
Biotechnology nonprofit Revive & Restore collaborated with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to bring this clone to life.
Elizabeth Ann stands to bring in this huge boost of diversity for the species, said Ben Novak, the nonprofits lead scientist. Today every black-footed ferret is related to each other, somewhere between a sibling and a first cousin.
The black-footed ferret was once thought to be extinct. In the early 1980s, a ranch dog in Wyoming dropped a carcass off on its owners porch. Biologists tracked down where it came from, and eventually captured the last group of wild black-footed ferrets. Only seven of those passed down their DNA.
Today, there are just 500 ferrets in the wild.
Elizabeth Ann was cloned from the tissue of a ferret named Willa. She actually has no living descendants, Novak said. By cloning her, Elizabeth Ann is actually a potential eighth founder for this population.
Habitat loss, disease and the decimation of prairie dog populations a black-footed ferrets primary source of food drove these animals close to extinction. Novak believes Elizabeth Ann embodies a paradigm shift for conservation efforts.
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Scientists Have Cloned A Black-Footed Ferret – NowThis
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Scientists have cloned an endangered black-footed ferret.
Elizabeth Ann was born on December 10, 2020, after being duplicated from the genes of another black-footed ferret named Willa, who died in 1988.
Cloning is a process that copies the DNA from one organism to create an exact genetic replica of that same organism.
The same company that cloned Elizabeth Ann also cloned an endangered Przewalski horse, a Mongolian wild horse, from 40-year-old DNA in the summer of 2020. The black-footed ferret is the first U.S. endangered species to be cloned.
Conservationists from the nonprofit Revive & Restore think that cloning could eventually bring back extinct species, but they say that conservation of these species is key.
How can we actually apply some of those advances in science for conservation? Because conservation needs more tools in the toolbox. Thats our whole motivation. Cloning is just one of those tools, said Ryan Phelan, the co-founder and executive director of Revive & Restore.
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Debit card-cloning gang busted, 3 held – The Tribune India
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Faridabad, March 5
The cyber cell of the local police has claimed to have busted a gang involved in financial fraud through cloning of debit cards, after the arrest of three persons recently.
DCP (HQ) Arpit Jain said here today that the accused identified as Mubarik, Arif and Majhar, have been arrested by the cops in connection with an incident that took place a month ago in which the accused got transferred an amount of Rs 3.4 lakh illegally from the account of one Prambhajan Singh of Sector 23 here, after cloning his debit card.
He said while Mubarik hailed from Rajasthan, Arif and Majhar were residents of Ballabgarh and Ferozpur Zirka town of Nuh district. Claiming that the arrested accused had admitted their involvement in at least 20 different cases, he said the amount withdrawn by them in a fraudulent manner was over Rs 20 lakh.
Around 50 debit cards, Rs 1.93 lakh and two schemer devices have been recovered. All accused were remanded to judicial custody.
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This ferrets twin lived more than 30 years ago. How is that possible? – CBC.ca
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A ferret that died more than 30 years ago is getting a second chance at life.
Well, sort of. More precisely, an exact replica of that ferret has been brought to life.
American scientists have cloned an endangered species native to the U.S. called the black-footed ferret.
The clone, named Elizabeth Ann, was made to help the dwindling ferret species survive by increasing something called genetic diversity.
But before we get to that ...
Clones are two living things that have the exact same genes, just like identical twins.
Clones of animals are made in a lab by taking the cells of an adult animal, living or dead, and altering them to change them into the building block type of cells seen in the womb.
In 1996, Dolly the sheep was the first animal to be cloned by a group of researchers in Scotland. (Image credit: Jeff J. Mitchell/Reuters)
These cells are then placed into the womb of an adult female of that animal, called a surrogate mom, to grow the clone.
The surrogate mom then gives birth to the clone.
Elizabeth Anns surrogate mom is a ferret of a different species.
Cloning is controversial, however, as some say that cloning animals may lead scientists to one day clone humans, which could lead to a lot of different problems.
For example, one issue some scientists argue is that the science isn't perfect, and errors in the cloning process could lead to babies with major medical issues or deformities.
Back in 1981, the black-footed ferret species was on the edge of extinction.
Elizabeth Ann drinks milk from her surrogate mother beside her siblings. They are all a different type of ferret species than Elizabeth Ann. (Image credit: USFWS National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center)
To help the species survive, scientists in Wyoming gathered seven ferrets from the few that remained to start a breeding program.
Since then, thousands of ferrets have been reintroduced into the wild, but they all come from the seven original ferrets.
Because the ferrets all come from such a small gene pool, they are missing something called genetic diversity.
Genetic diversity is important for helping animals fight off disease and other dangers that could harm their species.
Elizabeth Ann was cloned using the cells from a ferret that lived more than 30 years ago. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/The Associated Press)
Say youre on a team of seven people trying to take down a dragon.
You each bring unique combat skills, but the dragon breathes fire and none of you know how to overcome the flames.
But if you brought in an eighth person, theres a chance theyve fought fire-breathing dragons before, and their knowledge could mean the difference between life and death.
Elizabeth Ann could be this eighth person.
Her genes come from a ferret named Willa who died in the 1980s and whose cells were frozen in case they might come in handy in the future.
Elizabeth Ann brings a new gene pool into the mix, and Lead researcher Ben Novak said that once she and her kids are introduced into the wild, theyll increase the genetic diversity of the species and make the species better at surviving dangers in the wild.
Lead researcher Ben Novak holds Elizabeth Ann just after she was born in 2020. (Image submitted by Heather Sparks/Revive & Restore)
For now, the technique used to clone Elizabeth Ann could help other endangered species like a Mongolian wild horse that was cloned last summer and born at a Texas facility.
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