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Hunton & Williams | Privacy and Information Security Law Blog Update

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Hunton & Williams | Privacy and Information Security Law Blog Update
Recent posts on the Privacy and Information Security Law blog include: • FTC Issues Report on Data Broker Industry, Recommends Legislation • Google to Give Effect to Right to Remove Personal Data from Search Results • Canadian Prime Minister …
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HelloWallet, A One-Time Mint Competitor, Acquired For .5 Million
Personal finance software provider HelloWallet, a one-time competitor to Intuit's Mint, has been acquired by investment research provider Morningstar, which was already a minority investor in the company. The acquisition sees HelloWallet … In …
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UPDATE 1-Japan Display sees weak start to 2014/15 but bullish on China

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UPDATE 1-Japan Display sees weak start to 2014/15 but bullish on China
TOKYO, May 15 (Reuters) – Japan Display Inc, the world's biggest maker of liquid crystal displays for smartphones, warned of a weak start to its business year and forecast a net loss seen for the half-year to September, but said rising orders from …
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IT Leadership 2.0: Transform Yourself or Fade Away
Just step back, open your mind and observe how the landscape is changing. The corporate business infrastructure is already available in the cloud, including human resource solutions, finance, legal, e-mail, productivity tools, video conferencing …
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Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP | Food & Beverage Litigation Update

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Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP | Food & Beverage Litigation Update
FDA Backs Down on Controversial Spent Grain Proposal In a blog post, u.s. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Chief Food safety Inspector Michael Taylor said that the agency will not disrupt the current practice of breweries and food manufacturers …
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Rocket Lawyer Delivers No Excuses Estate Planning for April "Make-A-Will Month"
Rocket Lawyer, the fastest-growing online legal service, is supporting Make-A-Will Month in April to raise awareness of estate planning's importance and is empowering individuals to create a free Will any time during the month. A majority of Americans …
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Fleksy Releases Android Update, Introduces Emojis and Personalization Service

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 13, 2014

Fleksy, the award-winning touchscreen keyboard company, today released its anticipated Android update 1.2.3 to bring a more personal user experience to touchscreen typing. The latest version of the app adds 500 emojis to the keyboard and also includes My Fleksy, a personalization service that integrates a user’s personal writing style with Fleksy’s language algorithm. The update comes after a full round of successful beta testing from the Fleksy Google+ community.

Fleksy’s keyboard now includes over 500 of the most popular emojis, letting users communicate with others using expressive and fun images. My Fleksy lets users import their personal writing styles from Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, SMS messages and personal dictionary, enabling Fleksy’s language algorithm to learn from a user’s unique writing style to improve overall typing accuracy.

“With the incorporation of emojis into our keyboard, which was the most requested feature by our users, we’ve combined the most advanced touchscreen typing technology with the most creative way that users like to express themselves while typing,” said Ioannis Verdelis, COO of Fleksy.

Fleksy’s personalization service, My Fleksy, allows users to import their personal writing styles from Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, SMS messages and personal dictionary. The personalization service enables Fleksy’s language algorithm to learn from a user’s unique writing style to improve overall typing accuracy. “We all have an individual style of writing, and Fleksy’s language algorithm now incorporates this to bring a much faster and accurate experience to touchscreen typing,” said Kosta Eleftheriou, CEO of Fleksy.

Fleksy’s award-winning keyboard has received over a quarter million downloads since its release just three months ago. The app can be downloaded from Google Play here.

About Fleksy

Fleksy is a revolutionary keyboard powered by patent-pending technology that makes typing on any device fast, accurate and so easy you can type without looking. Its unique language algorithm founded on Geometric Intelligence moves beyond text prediction and autocorrect to give a much more accurate and easier typing experience than other keyboards. Winner of the 2013 CES Innovations Design and Engineering Award, Fleksy is the first keyboard app to be demonstrated on a 3D gesture system (Leap Motion); the first to be demonstrated on a smartwatch (Omate) and the first to arrive on iOS. Fleksy’s award-winning design and technology is backed by venture capital firms including Highland Capital Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. To learn more about Fleksy, visit http://www.fleksy.com.

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Hector Salcedo

Email: hector(at)fleksy(dot)com

Phone: 415.742.2646

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PersonalWeb Releases Social Learning Platform Update Enabling College Students to 'Study Together From Wherever'

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Tyler, TX (PRWEB) March 19, 2013

Internet technology company PersonalWeb® announced today the launch of its latest version of StudyPods®, a collaborative social-learning platform for university and college students to connect and share academic knowledge with each other at their own university or at colleges worldwide. The site, created with the help of students in The University of Texas System, enables students to connect, collaborate and share academic knowledge with each other at their own university or at colleges worldwide.

“We’ve adopted a new slogan ‘Study together from wherever’ because it better describes one of the key benefits for using StudyPods so students can easily form virtual study groups,” PersonalWeb President Michael Weiss said.

StudyPods new version 2.3 provides a simplified user interface so students can navigate the study-help site more effectively. Free storage space is now increased to 5GBs for each user to ensure there is ample space to store files. Also included are intuitive prompts explaining key functions and tools featured on the site enabling students to quickly become familiar with all the features of StudyPods.

Through StudyPods, students can create individual Pods based on their college coursework. They can fill pods with anything and everything related to their classes, from presentation slides, past tests to homework assignments, notes, and images. This information can then be shared with other students with similar class subjects who can also contribute content to the Pod. Students can easily find the research they need to help complete assignments, locate similar documents and find Pods that they wish to join.

StudyPods users can also connect with each other instantly through chat and notifications; making group projects more efficient and easier to coordinate.

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About PersonalWeb: PersonalWeb was established in Tyler, Texas by a team who has been responsible for creating some of the Internet’s most popular software and applications used by tens of millions of people worldwide. The company develops groundbreaking products based on its patented technology that is fundamental for many important elements of cloud computing technology, distributed search engine file systems, social media and content addressable storage. For more information, please visit http://www.personalweb.com







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IP Update: Recent Patents Awarded to Sylentis, Senesco, CalTech, and More

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IP Update: Recent Patents Awarded to Sylentis, Senesco, CalTech, and More
But, he added, he also took a liking to biology and the idea of applying engineering ideas to the study of living systems. His PhD … of Omicia. Billings also currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the US Food and Drug Administration …
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Expo to showcase local talent
… vendors which will include musicians, various performances from local karate studios and dance troupes, free food tastings provided by Oscar's Ale House, a Puppy Parade sponsored by The Humane Society and many business exhibits, including their …
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8 Surprising Places To Get Work Done
8 Surprising Places To Get Work Done. Think outside the crowded coffee shop with these ideas for taking work outside of the office. By Laura Vanderkam. Remote work is … There may not be food. And you can't take a phone call without incurring other …
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Production Music Licensing Website RoyaltyFreeKings.com Announces Major Update

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 29, 2013

RoyaltyFreeKings.com has been busy with major under-the-hood updates, in preparation for a steady stream of new royalty free albums and tracks. The considerable addition to the catalog includes a eclectic selection of new albums, including western film music, solo piano and epic orchestral trailer music, all aimed primarily at independent producers.

Several new releases include: ‘Wild Wild West’; a royalty free western music album featuring sweeping orchestral film music and brooding western acoustic soundscapes, ‘Moody Piano’; solo royalty free piano tracks aimed at independent dramatic films and perfect as music for a documentary; and ‘Epic Worlds 3’; modern royalty free epic music designed for use in trailers and promos.

March has brought about a recent new milestone for RoyaltyFreeKings.com: 800,000 plays through their demo player (powered by SoundCloud.com). In their first year, RoyaltyFreeKings.com has become known throughout the world as a source of quality music. Traffic to the website and sales of the library’s downloadable background music have steadily increased each month as producers from every corner of the world have learned of the music licensing website, and the strict quality control that runs through the entire catalog.

Alongside the new tracks and albums, a wide selection of free-to-use production tracks is also available to anyone working with a low to medium budget (US$ 250,000 or less per project). The music is immediately downloadable and ready to use. This complimentary background music section has proved to be very popular with students, educators and charities around the world. The range of styles and genres in the music given away by RoyaltyFreeKings.com include: epic dramatic orchestral, ambient piano, jazz, comedy, rock and suspense tension.

The mission of RoyaltyFreeKings.com since launching in 2012 has been to make searching for background music for video production incredibly easy and streamlined. The crowd-sourcing business model (where anyone can upload music), like that used by many competing royalty free websites, has the benefit of a rapid expansion of content. The downside is that with so many tracks being uploaded, the catalog easily gets bloated with mediocre music that does little to enhance a project, whether it’s a commercial, wedding video, film or webisode. Producers looking through these crowd-sourcing music licensing websites have to spend significant time sifting through vast collections to find something they’d actually want to use, or worse – settle for something inferior just because they don’t have the time to continue searching.

By hand picking each track, RoyaltyFreeKings.com only allows in music that meets a strict standard of musicality and production value. The growing catalog of hand picked tracks at RoyaltyFreeKings.com is produced by an international group of over fifty award winning composers, including a pop rock producer in Finland, a Nashville based folk and country expert, a heavy metal specialist in Italy, a renowned acoustic guitar artist in Hawaii and several well known trailer music composers. The high quality of tracks from these composers results is a streamlined shopping experience where producers can find, purchase and download the music they need within just a few minutes.

A guiding principle for RoyaltyFreeKings.com is fair treatment of their content suppliers. The composers who provide the carefully vetted music are given an equal share of the sales, before any discounts a customer might receive. This is in sharp contrast to many of its competitors, some of whom are offering far less – 40%, 35%, or in some cases just 30% of the sales to composers.







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EPIC Dartmouth update – August 29th, 2011

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Aarki Releases Update to Its Multiscreen Creative Platform

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Mountain View, Calif. (PRWEB) December 18, 2013

Aarki, a leader in rich media and creative advertising technology, today released the latest version of its multiscreen creative platform Aarki Studio, an HTML5 design and advertising suite.

“We’re thrilled about this update,” said Aarki CEO Sid Bhatt. “This truly gives advertisers and creative teams around the world a one-stop digital advertising platform — allowing them to create rich media ads with Aarki Studio and make real time changes as needed across all devices — mobile, tablet and desktop.”

With Aarki Studio, advertisers can create advertisements across multiple screens and make real time changes to creative assets, which will simultaneously be applied across all ad sizes. These advertisements are designed to be responsive and adjust to the display size on the fly. Aarki Studio supports all IAB Rising Star ad units, as well as easy-to-use rich media animations usable across mobile and desktop. With the latest release, Aarki Studio also provides a single, universal advertising tag. With these combined features, advertisers can run multiple tests across devices in real time to ensure the highest performing ad units rise above the rest.

For more information or to sign up to use Aarki Studio, visit http://www.aarki.com/.

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About Aarki

Aarki is a leader in interactive and creative advertising technology for brands, agencies, ad networks and premium publishers. Aarki (pronounced ar-key) is a Sanskrit word meaning to rise above or elevate. The company’s goal is to ensure customers can rise above their competition through cloud-based technologies that deliver highly engaging, interactive advertisements across all devices. Based in Mountain View, with offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Beijing and Manila, Aarki is backed by Walden Venture Capital. For more information, please visit http://www.aarki.com or follow us on Twitter: @aarkimobile.







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Wind Energy Update: Growth in Offshore Wind Despite Unclear Pathway Forward

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(PRWEB) September 11, 2013

Current wind farm projects have indicated that costs have stabilised at around £140 / €160 per MWh and regulators have put forward a challenge that offshore wind should reach a LCOE of £100 / €120 MWh by 2020, in order to maximise the size of the industry.

Opportunities for savings across Offshore Wind finance, technology and supply chain have now been recognised and there are many, diverse ways in which costs can be driven down. The key areas where cost reduction can be achieved in project execution have been identified as the type of foundations, substation design and installation, cable installation and logistical strategy.

However, the level of cost reduction required won’t happen unless new technology innovations are properly tested in situ to provide developers and financiers with technical assurance before undertaking major multi-billion pound procurement programmes.

Great risks are seen in the Offshore Wind grid connection, as this remains one of the greatest bottlenecks to offshore wind development. Grid infrastructure, investment and access are key financial challenges in all countries trying to realise offshore wind capacity.

Further to this, weather and seabed conditions are seen as some of the other, more significant risks. Offshore marine environments often result in complex hurdles and have a huge impact on the construction process. The weather usually provides most of the challenges, especially the harsh winters Europe has been experiencing.

This is why the original offshore construction focussed conference will return in its 5th consecutive year again to Hamburg, Germany – the hub of offshore excitement for the next 5 years as found in a recent Wind Energy Update survey. The industry-focussed event will bring together over 150 offshore wind installation experts for two days of business critical information disclosure.

This offshore construction specific conference will bring together the key developers, utilities, contractors, government representatives, and other key and other current industry experts to deliver not only their successes in far shore deepwater installation, but also their downfalls so to equip others with the knowledge needed for future installation projects. Speakers include senior level representatives from the UK and European major stakeholders including Ofgem, Ministry of Economy of Belgium, DONG Energy, EnBW, RWE, Vattenfall, Mainstream Renewable Power, Scottish Power Renewables and many more.

http://www.windenergyupdate.com/farshore-installation/