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Grocery shopping online? These are the top websites you can bank on to get your daily needs
In this era of e-commercial sites ruling the internet, we see a lot of people opting for grocery shopping online. And why not? It’s a relief for the working moms and also an easy way for the homemakers as they can shop their necessary household items without having to worry about time, bickering with the vendors, no more queues or parking hassles. And the best part is you also have a number of promotional offers to avail from. Let’s take a look at the online shopping portals for groceries and food items available today.
Bringing a revolution to the new age E-commerce space, Big Basket is an online shopping destination for food and groceries. Founded in 2011, the Bengaluru-based online grocery startup deals with over 15,000 products comprising groceries, fruits and vegetables, dairy products, personal products, kid products, and wide range of household products.
Competing with Big Basket in the similar business spaces, nature’s basket is a venture of the multifaceted Godrej group. Its online gourmet food retail sector is a collection of exotic, fine foods from across the world.
Zopnow started in 2011 as an online inventory-keeping outlet. Today in partnership with stores like HyperCity and More, it has become one of the dominant player in online grocery market.
This E-commerce giant has ventured into the online market for grocery and household items. You can find selected groceries and gourmet food products on its website.
An online retail store in Pune, Biggmart offers grocery & staples, Fresh vegetables, personal care, bakery products & Patanjali products at low price with free home delivery within 90 min at your home.
Launched in 2014, meatroot.com carefully selects its vendors who provides fresh, processed and ready-to-eat non vegetarian food items. It also supports the key partner brands Zorabian & Venkeys.
A US government request to trawl through the personal data of millions of users of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase signals the start of an effort to pull digital currencies like bitcoin into the mainstream, experts have said.
The “John Doe” summons, a broad order for data on all Coinbase users in 2013, 2014 and 2015, was filed by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in a federal court in California on 17 November.
In the summons, the IRS said that all of Coinbase’s users in that period “have not been or may not be complying with US internal revenue laws”.
Coinbase has said it will fight the request in court.
Cryptocurrencies – digital assets which exist entirely online but are exchangeable for goods or services – have grown in popularity in recent years, in part because they grant a degree of user anonymity. Coinbase is the largest bitcoin exchange and its best-known brand.
But user confidentiality has also caused headaches for governments, who worry the currencies are being used for drug dealing, money laundering or tax evasion. Digital currencies are currently taxed as an asset like gold, with capital gains tax due when there is an appreciation in value.
However, the extent to which bitcoin users with US tax liabilities have been declaring such assets is unclear.
In documentation supporting its petition, the IRS referred to three anonymous cases of taxpayers who had used virtual currencies to evade tax, two of which were “corporate entities with annual revenues of several million dollars” which used Coinbase wallets and concealed bitcoin transactions as “technology expenses” on their tax returns.
Several experts in cryptocurrency said that the IRS was on a “fishing expedition”, and pointed out that it followed an excoriating report by the US treasury’s inspector-general for taxation which said the IRS was not doing enough to regulate and investigate cryptocurrencies.
“The government has no idea that anybody has committed a crime,” said Jerry Brito, the executive director of Coin Center, a lobbying and research group focused on cryptocurrencies.
In a statement, Coinbase said: “Although Coinbase’s general practice is to cooperate with properly targeted law enforcement inquiries, we are extremely concerned with the indiscriminate breadth of the government’s request.”
It added: “In its current form, we will oppose the government’s petition in court.”
Some experts, though dismayed by what they saw as the overly broad and invasive nature of the request, said that more government scrutiny on cryptocurrencies was inevitable as they became more mainstream.
“It’s an indication of bitcoin’s growing adoption,” said Chris Burniske, an analyst at ARK Investment Management who focuses on bitcoin.
A Bitcoin sign at a pub in Sydney, Australia. Cryptocurrencies have grown in popularity in recent years.Photograph: David Gray / Reuters/Reuters
“As more people use it, it is going to grow in a way which affects national and global economies, so the IRS needs more clarity on how citizens are using it,” he said. “Globally, we’re seeing regulators grapple with how to regulate and tax [cryptocurrencies].”
Others said that while they felt Coinbase was right to seek to narrow the scope of the request, some change was needed to bring bitcoin and its ilk out of the dark and into the world of mainstream finance.
“If bitcoin and other digital currencies are going to be viewed as legitimate financial instruments, there has to be some regulatory apparatus here,” said Kevin McIntyre, associate professor of economics at McDaniel College in Maryland.
“Certainly,” he added, “the tinfoil hat-wearing libertarian types who embrace the privacy of [bitcoin] are going to be very disappointed.”
Not all of them, however. Juan Llanos, an advisor in financial technology regulation and compliance, said he was seeing a lot of anger within the cryptocurrency industry at the IRS’s move, but also some schadenfreude from the more anarchistic parts of bitcoin’s user base.
“Coinbase has been attacked by ultra-anarchists from the beginning, because they are the closest to a digital bank there is,” he said. “Many anarchists – usually the early adopters of bitcoin – who are against the customs of Coinbase are celebrating,” he said.
This is not the first time the IRS has used blanket John Doe summonses as part of an investigation, though it is possible that the Coinbase request will be the largest of its kind.
In 2014, a federal judge approved similar summonses for FedEx, DHL and UPS to produce information about taxpayers who use an offshore asset-management service called Sovereign Management & Legal, and in 2015 a judge approved another summons for US taxpayers with offshore accounts at Belize Bank International Limited.
Top e-commerce sites in India dedicated exclusively for Fashion apparel and lifestyle
Whenever we talk about online shopping, the most prominent names that come to our minds are Flipkart, Amazon, Myntra, Snapdeal etc. On most of these sites, you can shop for almost everything from stationeries, clothes, home decor to electronics; whereas some of the sites are dedicated only for clothing, accessories, and home decor. Today we are focusing on online shopping websites which are exclusively for clothing, shoes, and accessories. A few of them were found on our bucket list:
Myntra is a leading India online retail for clothing, shoes, accessories and home décor. Founded in 2007 in Bengaluru, it has started off initially as a store for personalized gift items. In 2014, Myntra has merged with Flipkart. The site is famous for its quality and branded apparels with luxury designer wears.
Launched in 2012, this Gurgaon-based company sells apparel, shoes, fashion & home accessories etc. Recently in July 2016 another top leading e-commerce company Flipkart has acquired Jabong.
It is an online fashion store with offices in Gurgaon and London. KOOVS.COM has also collaborated with international designers to create clothing collections. Started in 2010, Koovs.com is famous for its specialization in western fashion.
Founded by Suchi Mukherjee, Limeroad is an online shopping platform for lifestyle products. Being one of the largest exporters in the Indian market, Limeroad helps in marketing products of micro vendors.
What sets craftsvilla apart from the other e-commerce site is that it deals in apparels and accessories which are ethnic or handcrafted. Craftsvilla provides a platform for the local artisans and designers to create their own brand. It has also collaborated with the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, for e-marketing of handloom and organic products.
abof was created in October 2015 and is owned by Aditya Birla Group. Abof mainly does the business of clothing lines of the parent company- Aditya Birla Group, however, you can also find external brands on the website. Most of the products found on the website are trendy and affordable.
Another Online shopping store on fashion and lifestyle font headquartered in Bangalore. A subsidiary of Reliance group, Ajio was launched in Lakme fashion week April 2016 with a brand philosophy of “Doubt is out”.
This online shopping website for fashion and home décor is a member of Smile group which started in 2010. The main promotional feature of this site is its everyday sales event which starts at 9 AM every day.
This Bangalore based startup ventured into e-commerce business in the year 2013. Specialized in online fashion and lifestyle shopping voonik is exclusively for women fashion buyers, however, it has another site called www.mrvoonik.com for men.
Yepme.com was established in 2011 as an online fashion store and today yepme is a private label fashion brand which also features in other fashion websites apart from in its own.
Apart from above ones, the following websites are also an important part of the online fashion and lifestyle revolution in India:
Buy Indian ethnic dresses for women at BIBA’s online store. Shop wide range of traditional clothes for women and girls. Free shipping, Cash on Delivery. Avail upto 40% off.
Shop online with great comfort & convenience for wide range of bras, panties, nightwear & shape wear. Watch out for fabulous offers & best deals right here on Zivame
The Landmark Group is one of the leading retail and hospitality organizations in the Middle East and India. Its vast portfolio of successful businesses includes award-winning household brands like Lifestyle, Max, Splash and Home Centre.
Shopnineteen.com: Online shopping for designer Clothes, Shoes, Bags, Jewelry and Accessories for women. Latest fashion trend apparels for girls at best price in India.
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If a big screen for watching videos, playing games or simply to fit more on the screen when browsing, emailing and texting is what you’re after, these are the best phablets available right now.
Apple iPhone 7 Plus
Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus has a 5.5in screen and dual camera on the back.Photograph: Samuel Gibbs for the Guardian
Price: £719
Apple’s latest phablet is like a greatest hits from the past two years of iPhone. It looks pretty much the same as 2014’s iPhone 6 Plus, has the same fingerprint scanner as the iPhone 6S Plus, but is now waterproof and has a better camera.
The dual camera on the back is the main attraction, using two different lenses to create an effective 2x zoom and some fancy effects. The home button also doesn’t move any more, but the little vibrating Taptic Engine does a good job of giving you the impression that it does.
One thing the 5.5in phablet doesn’t have is a headphone socket, which means you’ll have to use an adaptor to plug wired headphones into the Lightning port at the bottom. You can’t charge while listening to music, but at least the battery lasts about a day.
The iPhone 7 Plus is also wider and more difficult to use one-handed than other 5.5in smartphones in this group, so it’s worth investing in a good case as dropping it is a real possibility when out and about.
Verdict: best phablet for iOS users who don’t want to switch.
The Google Pixel XL is the Android-maker’s first phablet.Photograph: Samuel Gibbs for the Guardian
Price: £719
Google’s first own-brand phablet runs the very latest version of Android 7.1 Nougat and will get updates before any other Android smartphone.
It has the company’s latest in intelligent voice control, Google Assistant, which is a conversational search and personal assistant hiding under the Pixel’s home button for when you need it.
The 5.5in Pixel XL is a relatively simple-looking device, but its subtle wedge shape means there’s no camera lump on the back. The camera is excellent – ranked the best in the business by DxoMark – and it’ll last over a day between charges.
It’s snappy, has a good fingerprint scanner on the back, great screen on the front and is one of the first smartphones compatible with Google’s new Daydream View VR goggles.
But the Pixel isn’t waterproof, like Apple’s iPhone doesn’t have expandable storage, and is pretty pricy compared to the rest of the Android competition.
Verdict: best for latest and greatest Android with a cracking camera.
The Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge’s screen is curved for more than aesthetics.Photograph: Samuel Gibbs for the Guardian
Price: £520
Samsung’s smaller top-end phablet, the Galaxy S7 Edge has a 5.5in curved screen that makes it the narrowest and easiest to handle in the category. It has more features too, with a great camera, fingerprint scanner, heart-rate reader, wireless charging and various bits and pieces to take advantage of the curved screen.
It is that curved screen that makes the S7 Edge stand out, fitting a 5.5in screen in a body not much larger than a 5in phone. The only real downside is that picking a case for it could be difficult.
The S7 Edge is waterproof, and has a microSD card slot for expanding the storage. It lasts a day and a half between charges and is compatible with Samsung’s Gear VR headset too.
It doesn’t run the latest version of Android yet, but an update to Android 7 Nougat is already in testing and is expected to be available to all in 2017.
Verdict: best for those looking for a big screen without a big device.
The Huawei Mate 9 has a massive 5.9in screen.Photograph: Samuel Gibbs for the Guardian
Price: €699
If you want a really big screen – bigger than all the others in this lineup – the Mate 9 is for you.
The front is pretty much all screen with a 5.9in display and small bezels at either side making it more manageable than you might expect. Not everyone will be able to use it comfortably with one hand, but the curved back, chamfered edges and good palm rejection make it easier to hold on to than even some smaller-screened competitors, even when it weighs a good 20g more.
The screen isn’t as sharp as some others, but the Mate 9 will last around two days between charges. It’s superfast too, has dual-sim support, expandable storage and has an extremely rapid fingerprint scanner on the back.
It has two cameras on the back, one monochrome and one colour, which work together to improve detail and low-light performance. You can also use them in interesting combinations – shooting in true monochrome is great fun.
Huawei’s version of Android – Emotion UI based on Android 7 Nougat – has many more power and notification controls than you would normally find, and looks a little different from Android on most other smartphones.
Verdict: for those after the biggest screen with the best battery life.
The OnePlus 3T is available in gun metal or soft gold and squeezes a non-curved 5.5in screen into a small body.Photograph: handout/Handout
Price: £399
The OnePlus 3T is the successor to the excellent OnePlus 3. Now it has a faster processor, a larger capacity battery and better cameras.
It’s 5.5in screen is slightly less sharp than rivals with the same size display, but is vibrant and colourful with good viewing angles. It’s also got narrow bezels, which combined with a curved back and chamfered edges make the 3T easier to grip than most.
You have a choice of 64GB or 128GB of storage, but cannot add more. It has two sim slots for using two phone numbers simultaneously, and a rapid charging technology called Dash Charge.
The battery lasts a day between charges and the phone has the fastest Qualcomm processor on the market, matching the Google Pixel XL. The fingerprint scanner on the front is excellent and the camera’s pretty good too.
It doesn’t yet run Android 7 Nougat, but an update to the latest version is promised before the year is out. The OnePlus 3T is a great all-round device for less money than most of the rest.
Verdict: a high-quality phablet that is cheaper than most of the competition.
Black Friday, as we now know it, is the shopping day after Thanksgiving that signals the start of the end of year sales.
Retailing folklore has it that the spike in sales that retailers got from Black Friday meant that their bottom line, for the first time in the year, moved out of the red and into the black.
Outside of retailing, the term black Friday has a longer history. A search of the Guardian archive, going back to at least 1866, throws up varied examples of its use in our reporting. From stock market crashes, attacks on suffragettes, to calamitous performances by the England cricket team, there has never been, it seems, a shortage of black Fridays.
The Black Friday panic of 1866
The failure of Overend Gurney – a large discount house – sent shockwaves through the financial system in May 1866.
The Observer noted that panic spread through the city as spending ceased and a stampede began as investors withdrew their funds from banks.
England V Australia, 1899 – another ‘Black Friday’ for English cricket
A not too unfamiliar tale as England were punished by a visiting Australian side. After their batting collapse, England saw Australia amass a big score to help them win the match convincingly.
The brutal victimisation of suffragettes by police on ‘Black Friday,’ 1910
A ‘cablegram’ from Emily Pankhurst saying “protest imperative” appeared in print after ‘Black Friday’ – a day when police “brutality victimised” women marching on Parliament demanding the right to vote.
A promise between railway, transport unions and miners to support each other in the event of a strike was broken on ‘Black Friday’, 15 April 1921, when miners received little backing in their dispute with mine owners, who tried to reduce their wages. The epithet ‘black’ derives from a widespread feeling that the decision amounted to a breach of solidarity and a betrayal of the miners.
Assassination of Martin Luther King, 1968
Alistair Cooke, writing for the Guardian, tried to capture the mood in the US following the death of the civil rights activist.
World stock markets just about survive ‘crash-ette,’ 1989
Share prices tumbled in what was seen as the first contemporary global financial crisis. The collapse of the junk bond market was blamed for causing Black Friday. Jittery market trading after the weekend led to more gloomy headlines, like Black Monday and Black Tuesday.
Pokémon Go has finally given players a big reason to come back to the game: the introduction of the first new Pokemon since it launched back in July.
Pokémon trainers can now catch Ditto, an amorphous blob that can transform into any other Pokemon using its signature move “mimic”. But there’s a catch.
You won’t see Ditto on the world map, the overview screen where players see which Pokémon are around them. That’s because it’s hiding in plain sight, disguised as other Pokémon. In other words, that Ratatta or Pidgey you wouldn’t normally bother with? If you catch it, it might be a Ditto.
Ditto was caught?!Photograph: Niantic Labs
If someone else nearby you has caught the Ditto in the area already, it will show up marked in its true form.
Once you’ve caught Ditto, it acts largely like you’d expect. You can take it to a Pokémon gym, where it will transform itself into a copy of the first Pokémon you fight, stealing its moves. Unless it’s another Ditto, in which case both blobs will sit there, uselessly blobbing at each other with a basic attack.
As if that isn’t a good enough reason to pop back to Pokémon Go, the game is also offering double XP and stardust for the next week, to “say thank you” to the community. It’s almost as though Niantic Labs knows it’s Thanksgiving in the US and wants to make the most of the fact that people might have more time to play the game.
Donald Trump told Apple CEO Tim Cook that he is going to “get” the company to start manufacturing its products in the United States, the president-elect told the New York Times on Tuesday.
Trump revealed that he had received a post-election phone call from Cook during which he said, “Tim, you know one of the things that will be a real achievement for me is when I get Apple to build a big plant in the United States, or many big plants in the United States.”
According to Trump’s account, Cook responded, “I understand that,” and Trump went on to promise incentives through tax breaks and reduced regulations.
“I think we’ll create the incentives for you, and I think you’re going to do it,” Trump said he said.
Apple did not immediately respond to a request for confirmation of Trump’s characterization of the call, nor did it respond to a request for comment on the content of Trump’s remarks.
Though Apple markets its high-end products as being “designed by Apple in California”, the electronics are assembled at factories in China from components produced primarily in China, Japan and Taiwan, according to the MIT Technology Review. The company says that its suppliers employ more than 1.6 million people.
Forcing American companies to bring jobs back to the US was one of the key themes of Trump’s presidential campaign, despite his own business’s decision to manufacture apparel in China or Bangladesh.
“We’re going to get Apple to build their damn computers and things in this country instead of in other countries,” the then-candidate told supporters in Virginia on 18 January.
Trump later called for a boycott of the company’s products unless it acceded to the FBI’s demand that it unlock one of the San Bernardino shooters’ iPhones, a request Apple had strenuously resisted.
Apple markets its products as ‘designed in California’ but assembles them in Chinese factories from components produced in China, Japan and Taiwan.Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA
But most experts agree that building iPhones from scratch in the US is impractical and economically unfeasible, largely because the company relies on a complex and very large supply chain and manufacturing infrastructure already established around Shenzhen, China.
“Geography matters,” said Seungjin Whang, a Stanford Business School professor who studies supply chain management. “In Shenzhen, if you need a part (how scarce it might be), you can find at least 10 suppliers within a day.”
“Right now the supply chain to make consumer electronics in volume does not exist in the US,” said Tim Wilson, a partner in venture capital firm Artiman. “You might tax [importing] so it costs more, but to reposition and get people to rebuild that supply chain in the US is not something that I would predict in the next few years.”
If Apple were to invest in establishing a new supply base in the US, Whang predicts that the delay would give its competitors – largely Korean and Chinese companies – time “to catch up and eat its lunch”.
Jason Dedrick, a professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, analyzed Apple’s supply chain for the MIT Technology Review and found that assembling iPhones in the US would add between $30 to $40 to the product’s cost, largely due to labor costs and the additional cost of shipping components to the US.
Dedrick’s estimate did not include the capital cost outlay of building factories, which could be substantial.
“It’s quite feasible for Apple to do limited volume assembly of some products in the US,” Dedrick said, proposing iMacs as a possibility. “I don’t think it’s possible to move production of hundreds of millions of iPhones to the US, at least not at a competitive cost.”
One possibility, Greg Linden of the Institute for Business Innovation at UC Berkeley said, would be for Apple to have “the parts kitted in China and shipped to the existing factory of one its assemblers here and voilà – you’ve got a US-assembled iPhone with one extra process step plus some extra shipping and labor.”
That strategy could cost as little as $10 to $20 per iPhone, he said, but is limited to the capacity of those already existing factories.
As to whether Apple will attempt something like that, Linden said, “I guess it depends on how badly Tim Cook wants a win.”
In the wake of the US elections, with the rise of the “alt-right” blamed for the easy ride the far right have had on social media, Twitter is eager to prove that it can police its own borders. Perhaps too eager.
Overnight, the social network suspended its own chief executive and co-founder, Jack Dorsey.
A couple of hours later, Dorsey was back, blaming an “internal mistake” for his account suspension, and attempting to make light of it with a call back to his, and the service’s very first tweet.
just setting up my twttr…again (account suspension was an internal mistake)
Hours later, there remain some odd effects around the suspension. Dorsey has lost almost 700,000 followers, if the public counts before and after his suspension are accurate.
Mars- Brand New Show in Net Geo; thrilling experience
After the huge success of movie “The Martian”, now we have a six-part long science fiction show based on Mars. The National Geographic channel has recently launched a new show named Mars- a six-part TV Event. The show has premiered on 18 Nov 2016 and looks like a realistic take on our mission to Mars. The show is a blend of documentary and fiction and is presented by the same team behind Apollo 13. Looks like Mars is gaining its popularity on Earth for sure.
Children aged between 11 and 18 drink a bathtub full of sugary drinks in a year, according to Cancer Research UK. This is a disturbing thought, for two reasons. First, because that is a lot of sugary drinks (nearly 80 litres) and, second, because the prospect of a bath of cola or similar is gross – the beige scum, the stickiness, the bubbles sticking to the edge of a tub. I need a shower just thinking about it. (If you want to know what a cola bath is really like – apparently it’s quite smooth – you can watch this video of a pool being filled with Coke and a young man called Ryan then leaping into it. “How does it feel, dude?” “Feels really good!”)
In fact, the researchers, who took the figures from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey 2015, included all drinks with added sugar – non-diet soft drinks and sodas, flavoured juice drinks, sports drinks, sweetened tea, coffee drinks, energy drinks and electrolyte-replacement drinks. But why measure it all in bathtubs? “We tried a lot of different things. It was just a way of representing the amount so people could visualise it,” a spokesperson explains.
Maybe if we all pictured our beverages in bath form, we would moderate our drinking habits. So, based on the idea that a standard tub contains 80 litres of liquid, how many bathtubs-ful of tea do British people drink a year? According to YouGov research last year, commissioned by the charity Contact the Elderly, the average British person drinks 876 cups of tea a year, which is more than two bathtubs’ worth.
People tend to under-report their consumption of alcohol, but findings collected by Statista last year suggested that British people consume almost 15,000 pints of beer a minute – and that’s just the teachers (joke) – which is the equivalent of 106-and-a-half baths a minute. I don’t know how you could even run them in that time. The annual figure for beer is 67.2 litres a person – a slightly meagre bath. Research by the Drinks Business, which has a vested interest, forecasts that, by 2018, wine consumption in Britain will be, on average, 24.6 litres a head. If you were to bathe in that, it would barely reach your hip bone.
How about water? In the US, a person drank on average 36.3 gallons of bottled water in 2015 – just more than two baths. In the UK, according to the British Soft Drinks Association, each person drinks just 40.6 litres a year, or half a bath, and uses approximately 150 litres of tap water a day – another two baths full. Presumably, one of those is for their actual bath.
According to the British Coffee Association, Britons drink 55m cups of coffee each day. Assuming each cup contains 250ml, all those cups would fill 171,875 baths. Which means that British drinkers get through 63m baths of coffee every year, or just under a bathful (approximately 79 litres) a person.
Thought of like that, your daily caffeine hit becomes a lot less appealing. Forget recommended daily allowances, how about a recommended yearly bathtub?
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