“We are building this very permissionless and open infrastructure, and we don’t want to restrict any use case,” Zhang said. “For now, the focus is on the side of loyalty programs, growth hacking campaigns, maybe credit scoring in the near future, and we also have a number of projects using us to customize voting systems.”
Former President Trump’s elusive new social media network Truth Social — which plans to go public — is reaching out to internet influencers asking them to “reserve their spots” for when it launches in February or March.
Why it matters: The outreach doesn’t mention Trump’s name or affiliation. Some influencers suggest that could be a ploy to enlist their support without realizing the affiliation.
Details: In an email to influencers obtained by Axios, a representative on behalf of Truth Social’s VIP department named “Ana” asks if those influencers would like to “reserve” their “preferred username for when we launch in late February/early March.”
The emails come from vip3@tmtgcorp.com. (The holding company for the app is called Trump Media & Technology Group, or TMTG.)
They are signed by “Ana” but don’t include a last name. The contact number has a Palm Beach County area code and is a dead number.
The email address used to reach out to influencers appears to be working, although there was no response to an email inquiry from Axios. Truth Social did not respond to request for comment.
The intrigue: Some of the the influencers that have been solicited are Democrats and publicly posted anti-Trump content.
Gillie Houston, a Brooklyn-based food and travel writer, said she doesn't intend to respond and has been vocally anti-Trump.
The big picture: Truth Social has been the subject of a lot of intrigue, in part because the company has offered few details about who's building it.
Sources tell Axios there's likely engineering coordination between Rumble, a YouTube rival that appeals to conservatives, and Truth Social. Rumble announced earlier this year it would partner with Truth Social to provide infrastructure for the new app.
Truth Social CEO, former Republican Rep. Devin Nunes of California, told Fox Business over the weekend the company is looking for partners like Rumble that "will ensure, to the best of our ability, that once we do go live, will have a safe place that Big Tech cannot cancel."
Between the lines: While Truth Social has yet to reveal many details about its inner workings, there‘s some evidence the platform has been working to get up and running in the months ahead.
On Monday, Fox Business reported Truth Social is partnering with Silicon Valley artificial intelligence firm Hive to do content moderation for the app.
In an interview, co-founder and CEO Kevin Guo told Axios that Truth Social's integration with Hive is several months old. "They’ve been integrated with us from Day One," he said.
He noted it's common for apps to integrate with Hive's moderation technology before they launch.
Hive also does content moderation for Parler, among other apps.
What to watch: Truth Social will enter a crowded field.
Parler, a Twitter alternative embraced by conservatives, raised $20 million earlier this year.
Former Trump aide Jason Miller's new social app “Gettr” now has 4 million users, according to the company.
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ZURICH, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Logitech International (LOGN.S) is seeing offices starting to re-equip for staff returning from working at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Chief Executive Bracken Darrell said on Tuesday as the company raised its full-year outlook.
The tech company has been a big beneficiary of people exiled from their workplaces during the pandemic stocking up on its computer mice, keyboards and webcams.
It is now seeing companies examining how their offices will look in future, when people use a hybrid of home and on-site locations, Darrell said after Logitech reported smaller-than-forecast declines in third-quarter sales and operating income.
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"I do think it is the big thaw," Darrell told Reuters. "It's as if we have had the big freeze and ...we are starting to see people making decisions on what the offices are going to be like when we get back into them.
"I don't think we are going to go back to offices like we did before. But we are going to need multiple places to work and people are going to need video in those offices because a lot of us are going to be at home, calling in."
Logitech posted a 2% drop in sales partly due to tough comparisons from a year earlier. The company was also wrestling with a shortage of semiconductor chips which has hit carmakers and tech firms. read more
Still, Logitech hiked its sales and profit outlook, sending its shares 8.1% higher on the Swiss exchange.
The Swiss-U.S. company, which posted a 74% sales increase last year, said it now expects full-year sales to rise between 2% and 5%, when measured in constant currencies.
Logitech, the first company to manufacture and sell computer mice in the 1980s, had previously forecast flat sales growth, plus or minus 5%.
It said it expected full year non-GAAP operating income between $850 million and $900 million, up from its previous view of $800 million to $850 million.
Sales fell to $1.63 billion in the three months ending Dec. 2021, while its non-GAAP operating income fell 37% to $302 million.
Darrell said the company was benefiting from long-term trends, like the growth in esports and video calling
The results beat expectations by a wide margin, said Bank Vontobel analyst Michael Foeth.
"This important quarter has proven Logitech's ability to sustain revenue growth at very high levels, with strong execution capabilities and discipline in a challenging and dynamic market environment," the analyst said.
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HILDEN, Germany, & GERMANTOWN, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced it has completed a U.S. government contract to equip public health laboratories across the country with the QIAcuity digital PCR system to monitor the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic by testing wastewater for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 pathogens.
QIAGEN has shipped more than 35 QIAcuity systems to state and local health laboratories as part of a multi-million-dollar contract with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to supply COVID-19 instruments and consumables through the end of 2021.
More than 70% of all U.S. states now have at least one laboratory – either public health or privately-owned – with a QIAcuity system for wastewater surveillance. The ultra-sensitive digital PCR platform has set new standards for delivering rapid results in two hours rather than the six required by competitive systems based on a proprietary nanoplate-based system.
“This contract to QIAGEN has allowed public health laboratories to have rapid access to extraction equipment and supplies that are enabling them to do both surveillance and wastewater testing to support pandemic response,” said Scott J. Becker, M.S., Chief Executive Officer, Association of Public Health Laboratories, in Silver Springs, Maryland. “This accelerated ability has enabled public health laboratories to serve communities across the country. QIAGEN was incredibly responsive to the many needs of APHL member labs and worked tirelessly to support and address public health concerns.”
“QIAcuity is an ideal solution to test for SARS-CoV-2 pathogens in sewage samples, and QIAGEN is ready to support public health labs in the U.S. and around the world to generate important insights to complement epidemiological data,” said Thomas Schweins, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Life Science Business Area at QIAGEN. “We are ready to help public health officials set up and operate processes for this crucial tool to fight the pandemic. Genetic surveillance is proving its value these days – and will prove to be a vital tool in the future. As COVID-19 is becoming endemic, testing needs will increasingly shift from detecting viruses to monitoring the spread of infectious diseases.”
Surveillance testing allows public authorities to collect data from broad sweeps of the population, including people who are not reflected in public-health statistics because they lack access to healthcare. It can potentially reveal dynamic changes in infections – and mutations – earlier than traditional diagnostic testing, providing public-health officials with near-real-time data about the presence and intensity of the disease.
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QIAGEN N.V., a Netherlands-based holding company, is the leading global provider of Sample to Insight solutions that enable customers to gain valuable molecular insights from samples containing the building blocks of life. Our sample technologies isolate and process DNA, RNA and proteins from blood, tissue and other materials. Assay technologies make these biomolecules visible and ready for analysis. Bioinformatics software and knowledge bases interpret data to report relevant, actionable insights. Automation solutions tie these together in seamless and cost-effective workflows. QIAGEN provides solutions to more than 500,000 customers around the world in Molecular Diagnostics (human healthcare), Applied Testing (primarily forensics), Pharma (pharma and biotech companies) and Academia (life sciences research). As of December 31, 2020, QIAGEN employed approximately 6,000 people in over 35 locations worldwide. Further information can be found at http://www.qiagen.com.
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CBS News and Stations on Monday unveiled its reimagined and rebranded streaming news service, it was announced by Neeraj Khemlani and Wendy McMahon, presidents and co-heads of CBS News and Stations.
This enhanced direct-to-consumer streaming network brings together national and local live news along with content from CBS News' iconic programs. The new service will showcase CBS News' original reporting and exquisite storytelling, featuring some of the most well-known anchors and journalists throughout the organization, new primetime programs, and a new state-of-the-art studio in the CBS Broadcast Center in New York.
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The CBS News Streaming Network delivers live national streams, 13 local streams – including a new CBS News Miami Streaming channel launching today – and content from programs like 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, CBS Sunday Morning, Face The Nation with Margaret Brennan, the CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell , CBS Mornings, and CBS Saturday Morning. CBS News Streaming (formerly known as CBSN) is available on more than 30 platforms across mobile, desktop, connected TVs for free.
"We're unlocking the power of CBS News – streaming the best of our reporting and storytelling on television to viewers everywhere," said Khemlani. "From up-to-the-minute reporting from our new live news desk, signature interviews by Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell, adventures on CBS Sunday Morning and 60 Minutes, true crime on 48 Hours – and reporting out of Washington to Kyiv to Beijing – we're delivering a 24/7 experience with quality journalism from the best news brands in the business."
CBS News' early commitment to streaming has drawn a significant audience, across national and local streaming channels delivering more than 1 billion streams for the second year in a row in 2021. CBS Stations local streams increased a dramatic 37% from 2020, delivering the highest local streams in history.
"CBS News and Stations' local streaming channels are growing at a rapid pace and will continue this year through the significant expansion of coverage in all of our markets, giving us an additional 15,000 hours of live local news per year by the end of 2022," said McMahon. "Our commitment reflects the relevance and importance of local news to audiences across the country. We are excited to launch CBS News Miami today and look forward to completing the rollout of our local streaming channels later this year when we debut CBS News Detroit. Unifying our brands and newsgathering resources positions us to deliver the best local-to-national-to global streaming news experience to our consumers however they want to watch."
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Throughout the day, the CBS News Streaming Network will air live daily newscasts of up-to-the minute news. Anchors Vladimir Duthiers, Anne-Marie Green, Tanya Rivero, Lana Zak, and Elaine Quijano will now, for the first time, be joined by Tony Dokoupil, co-host of CBS Mornings; Michelle Miller, Jeff Glor and Dana Jacobson from CBS Saturday Mornings; Jericka Duncan, anchor of CBS Weekend News and CBS News national correspondent; and correspondents from across the Network.
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The evening lineup kicks off at 6:00 PM, ET with the nightly political program Red and Blue now drawing upon CBS News' Washington team of anchors and correspondents including Margaret Brennan, Major Garrett, Nancy Cordes, Weijia Jiang, Ed O'Keefe, Nicole Killion, Scott MacFarlane, Jeff Pegues, Catherine Herridge, Jan Crawford, David Martin, Errol Barnett, Christina Ruffini, Ben Tracy, and the newest member of the team, Robert Costa.
At 7:00 PM, ET, the CBS News Streaming Network will deliver a live prime time news hour, recapping all of the top stories of the day and leveraging our New York headquarters and Washington and Los Angeles bureaus. Beginning at 8:00 PM, ET the stream will present content from CBS News' flagship broadcasts including 60 MINUTES and 48 HOURS as well as original programs Person-To-Person With Norah O'Donnell, Eye On America, and a new documentary slate under the historic CBS Reports banner, the first one anchored by Gayle King. At 10:00 PM, ET, the CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell will air in its entirety.
The new streaming network will also offer a fresh new lineup of daytime programming such as Here Comes The Sun with Tracy Smith and Lee Cowan from CBS Sunday Morning, as well as inspiring franchises, The Uplift anchored by Tony Dokoupil and On The Road.
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In need of renovations. Chip and Joanna Gaines had high hopes when they launched Magnolia Network, but they were not expecting the controversy that stemmed from Andy and Candis Meredith’s show Home Work.
Home Work originally premiered on the Discovery+ iteration of Magnolia Network in July 2021 before shifting to TV in January 2022. The show follows the Merediths as they transform a 20,000-square-foot school into their home while also doing projects for clients, overseeing rental properties and juggling their family of nine.
Two days after the series first appeared on airwaves, the network pulled Home Work amid allegations of shoddy work, expanding budgets and timelines, a lack of communication from Andy and Candis and unsafe conditions.
“I want Magnolia to be accountable,” Aubry Bennion, a Utah homeowner who was one of the Merediths’ former clients, shared via Instagram in January 2022. “It’s mind-blowing to me that they would put Magnolia’s name and reputation on the line or that they would allow these people to represent them without any sort of oversight or mentoring.”
Teisha Satterfield Hawley, another homeowner who worked with Andy and Candis, came forward with similar claims. “Hopeless is the word that comes to mind when I think of that day,” she wrote via Instagram in January 2022. “We had been living in our basement for months at this point, including Thanksgiving, Christmas and birthdays. We were exhausted, we had just been told all of our funds were used and our home was torn apart with bubbling floors laid.”
Amid the controversy, the Merediths denied scamming or lying to their clients but admitted to setting unachievable goals.
“I fully acknowledge how hard any renovation is, especially when it’s a renovation for television. The timelines that were set were too crazy, and I am an optimistic person,” Candis said in a January 2022 Instagram video. “I know better now that I should never have said these short timelines and set these expectations. That is on me, and I take full responsibility.”
Chip and Joanna, for their part, have yet to react to the ordeal, but prior to the headlines about Home Work, they detailed how they curated the shows on Magnolia Network.
“We don’t do it the typical way. We’re not the network that says, ‘Send in your casting tapes,’” Joanna explained to Variety in January 2022. “For us, it’s been this really authentic way of finding talent. It’s either talent that we’re just completely enamored with as far as what they do, what they’re passionate about. It’s been a little harder, honestly, because it takes a lot of time on the phone and hours of talking them into even wanting to do television. I’d say most of our talent didn’t come to us and say, ‘I want to do a show.’ We came to them and said, ‘Can we highlight what you’re doing? It’s so amazing and inspiring.’”
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Play and Learn was an invaluable resource for me as a new mom and then later as a mom of two toddlers 22 months apart.
Having a set place to go which offered a program structured around age-appropriate play for my kiddo and the chance to be around other moms gave me incentive to show up.
I found the facilitators to be a wealth of knowledge and incredibly caring. Although I may have felt lost at times with my parenting, I never felt alone because I had Play and Learn.
The fact that it is free to caregivers is unheard of these days, and very much appreciated.
What is Play and Learn? Play and Learn is a twice weekly, no-cost, adult-child activity session where parents and caregivers engage their children in fun learning activities, such as reading, singing, art, pretend play and movement activities.
The Newborn Network will host Play and Learn at the South Routt Community Center in Oak Creek, starting Feb. 8. Any family with children birth to 36 months is eligible to join.
All planned activities are based on the developmental stages of the participating children. During sessions, parents, caregivers and children are supported by a trained facilitator.
Sessions provide a combination of parenting education, child and caregiver activities, and networking opportunities with other families with young children.
These sessions are not limited to parents and their children. Grandparents, aunts, foster families, other family members, friends, neighbors, caregivers or anyone who cares for children in this age range (birth to 3 years old) are invited.
Again, Play and Learn is offered at no cost to participants.
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