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Monday, April 30, 2018

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India’s NSE Nifty 50 Index of equities had a 31 per cent total return in rupee terms in 2017.

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The Nifty PSU Bank index was trading 2.02 per cent up at 2,872 around 10:20 am (IST).

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Getting your resume correct is important. It’s often the biggest step in realising your dream part-time job. You’ll need the perfect job to supplement your income when starting a business. Here are some tips on what companies are looking for in the perfect candidate.

1. Make It Easy to Contact You

At first, this might seem obvious, but it is essential that all of your appropriate contact information is included on your resume so that it is easy for employers to contact you. Street addresses are considered to be irrelevant these days and your resume could be kicked out by technology based on your zip code. You should instead use a professional LinkedIn URL and professional email address. Some as basic as yourname@gmail.com can be used. Place all of your contact information on the top of your resume. Bold your name. Also, name the resume document with your first and last name (for example “John.Smith resume.co”) so that the hiring manager will be able to find it easily.

2. Quality Instead of Quantity

Your resume should only include experiences that are relevant to the specific job you are applying for. Focus on prior employment that demonstrates your experience that is relevant and directly relates to the job posting. Your resume should be kept to one to two pages. Your longest descriptions should be the most relevant and recent positions you have held. Someone who has been out of college for just a couple of years will probably have a one-page resume, whereas a senior level person might have a two to three-page resume.

3. Adapt Your Resume to the Target Audience

Any highly professional resume writer will suggest you make sure that your resume is always tailored to the specific job you are applying for. This includes your job descriptions and titles. Before you send out your resume for a certain job position, first research the company and position. Develop a master resume that lists your skills, education, and job experience. As you are preparing to apply for a job, tailor your resume so that it reflects the priorities that were emphasized by the employer for the position, and use similar language to theirs.

4. Make Sure Your Format Is Uniform

The formatting of your resume should be consistent throughout. Make sure to use clear headings or titles; make it easy for a hiring manager to navigate through the page. Make use of oversized subtitles and titles in order to highlight information you would like a recruiter to see immediately when they start to review your resume. Bullet points should be used for your descriptions rather than paragraphs. That makes it a lot easier to read, especially when someone has just a couple of seconds to glance at your resume.

5. Summarize Your Skills and Forget About Objectives

Years ago, people used a “Career Objective” statement. However, instead of using this, add a “Unique Value Proposition” or “Performance Summary” after your target job title that addresses the skills that you can offer that relate to the needs of the employer. You should be accurate, but creative as well in selling your knowledge, skills, and experience. Write a three to six-line description that highlights your ability to meet the requirements that the posting describes. By addressing the needs of the employer up front and making using of the same key phrases that they use, this demonstrates that you have a clear understanding of the job requirements, and using the same keywords can help to provide your resume with greater visibility.

6. Make Use of Action Verbs

When you are describing past work experience, start by using strong action verbs that accurately describe your responsibilities, achievements, and accomplishments. First list the most important and impressive descriptions. Here are some action examples:

“Secured $8 million to save critical programs during a funding freeze”

“Exceeded annual sales plan by 15%”

Avoid using passive phrases like:

“Was part of a team that created new time-saving initiatives”

“Was responsible for sales in my department”

7. Proofread, and Proofread Again

Before you hit the print or send button, ask a trustworthy colleague, friend, or family member to proofread your resume. Many hiring managers toss out a resume immediately that has even the slightest mistake or blunder. Make sure to read your resume from the perspective of your employer. What is important for them to know in order for them to want to contact you to set up an interview?

Having a flawless resume is still the most vital thing that a job candidate can have in order to catch the attention of a hiring manager as well as to make a good first impression. Following this advice when putting together your resume can lead you to landing the perfect side gig for when you’re still growing a new business.

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Visiting the Immersive arcade at the Tribeca Film Festival is always challenging. Every year, there are way more virtual reality and augmented reality experiences to try out (not to mention creators to interview) than I can squeeze into just a couple of hours.

This year, as always, I was only able to check out a handful of projects. They ranged from the serious and political to the playful and colorful — though even the playful projects were still exploring some ideas about creativity and human connection.

Terminal 3, for example, uses augmented reality to put the viewer in the position of an interrogator with airport security: You meet and interview a Muslim traveler, and you get to choose from different questions before ultimately deciding whether or not they should be allowed into the country.

Artist Asad J. Malik told me that as someone who grew in Pakistan, “I’m an expert on [airport] screenings, because I get screened a lot.” For Terminal 3, Malik interviewed real people (one of the options is an interview with Malik himself), though the person you see in front of you doesn’t appear photorealistic. Instead, they’re almost like a digital ghost who might gradually become more lifelike, depending on the questions you ask.

Malik said that he’s not trying to promote a specific political message about Muslims, except to illustrate the enormous variety of personalities, backgrounds and viewpoints among people who may or may not identify themselves as Muslims, but “who the world would identify as Muslims.”

Terminal 3 was created with support from Unity for Humanity and RYOT (a virtual reality-focused studio that, like TechCrunch, is part of Verizon subsidiary Oath). It’s built for Microsoft Hololens — not exactly the most popular platform at Tribeca, but Malik said it was crucial to his approach, because it allows the interview to take place against the background of the real room: “Suddenly this story, this person, it’s in your real space.”

Meanwhile, Lambchild Superstar: Making Music in the Menagerie of the Holy Cow makes no attempt to replicate a real environment. Instead, it takes place in a virtual world of dazzlingly bright colors, populated by animals who can be manipulated to make music — for example, a cow whose tail you can grab and reposition to change the sound made by his farts.

Lambchild Superstar is a collaboration between filmmaker Chris Milk and the band OK Go. OK Go’s Damian Kulash said they initially started out with the question, “What is an OK Go video in VR?” before deciding that was the wrong approach.

Something like the “Upside Down & Inside Out” video (which shows the band flying weightlessly) might seem like a good candidate for 360-degree video, but Kulash said it actually turns out to be “not really about the environment.” Instead, it’s presenting you with an experience in “a very controlled rectangle.”

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So Kulash and Milk decided to explore a different direction, namely allowing users to make create their own music.

“I got into my ridiculous rant about the kind of alchemy of music,” Kulash recalled. “You add one sound to another sound. and you come out the other side with this ball of joy and emotion. It’s just crazy: Where did that thing come from?”

But Milk noted that if you give most people a guitar or a piano, they might get intimidated, because they don’t know how to play it: “There’s a barrier there.” Hence the funny environment and animals; it feels more like playing a game than performing music, but you emerge at the end with a unique song.

And it’s a song that you’ve created with another user, which Kulash said was also a key part of the experience.

“Chris is a zealot about that, and for good reason,” he said. “VR can be an extremely isolating technology … but is there a way we can use that, rather than to isolate, to let you have the closeness of a more human experience? It’s a weird thing that we had to remove all the human iconography to do that.”

This year’s Tribeca Immersive is also unusual for being the first to include a couple of games, like Star Child, a platform adventure game from Playful Corp. Playful’s Paul Bettner said that like the company’s previous game Super Lucky’s Tale, Star Child uses 3D and virtual reality to try to breathe new life into a classic gaming genre, namely the platformers like Abe’s Oddysee.

Today is the final day of the Tribeca Immersive, so New Yorkers have one last chance to experience all these projects. But while you might have a hard time finding some of these projects outside a festival environment, Bettner intends to release Star Child as a mobile game as well. It might sound really tough to squeeze a VR experience onto a smaller screen, but apparently for Bettner’s team, it’s not.

“What I’m finding in VR is if we build the content a certain way, with a focus on doing third person VR, and we focus the entire project on just making it stand out and take advantage of what VR can do, then bringing it to what we call flatscreen platform is a much easier transition than the other way around,” he said.

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Earlier this week Eric Lundgren was sentenced to 15 months in prison for selling what Microsoft claimed was “counterfeit software,” but which was in fact only recovery CDs loaded with data anyone can download for free. The company has now put up a blog post setting “the facts” straight, though it’s something of a limited set of those facts.

“We are sharing this information now and responding publicly because we believe both Microsoft’s role in the case and the facts themselves are being misrepresented,” the company wrote. But it carefully avoids the deliberate misconception about software that it promulgated in court.

That misconception, which vastly overstated Lundgren’s crime and led to the sentence he received, is simply to conflate software with a license to operate that software. Without going into details (my original post spells it out at length) it maintained in court that the discs Lundgren was attempting to sell were equivalent to entire licensed operating systems, when they were simply recovery discs that any user, refurbisher, or manufacturer can download and burn for free. Lundgren was going to sell them to repair shops for a quarter each so they could hand them out to people who needed them.

Hardly anyone even makes these discs any more, certainly not Microsoft, and they’re pretty much worthless without a licensed copy of the OS in the first place. But Microsoft convinced the judges that a piece of software with no license or product key — meaning it won’t work properly, if at all — is worth the same as one with a license.

Lundgren had already pleaded guilty to infringing Dell’s trademark by copying the look of its discs, but the value Microsoft convinced the judges those discs have (a total of $700,000) directly led to his 15-month sentence.

Anyway, the company isn’t happy with the look it has of sending a guy to prison for stealing something with no value to anyone but someone with a bum computer and no backup. It summarizes what it thinks are the most important points as follows, with my commentary following the bullets.

Microsoft did not bring this case: U.S. Customs referred the case to federal prosecutors after intercepting shipments of counterfeit software imported from China by Mr. Lundgren.

This is perfectly true, however Microsoft has continually misrepresented the nature and value of the discs, falsely claiming that they led to lost sales. That’s not possible, of course, since Microsoft gives the contents of these discs away for free. It sells licenses to operate Windows, something you’d have to have already if you wanted to use the discs in the first place.

Lundgren established an elaborate counterfeit supply chain in China: Mr. Lundgren traveled extensively in China to set up a production line and designed counterfeit molds for Microsoft software in order to unlawfully manufacture counterfeit discs in significant volumes.

Microsoft is trying to make it sound like the guy is some criminal mastermind running some big time Windows pirating empire. He literally gave a Dell recovery disc to a duplication shop and told them to make exact copies of it, including the label and paper sleeve.

Lundgren failed to stop after being warned: Mr. Lundgren was even warned by a customs seizure notice that his conduct was illegal and given the opportunity to stop before he was prosecuted.

I can’t speak to this one, but Lundgren told me that the first notice he had that this was being pursued by anyone was when they raided his house. The monetary value of the discs was so small and the counterfeiting piece so minor (fake labels for duplicates of discs that Dell doesn’t even provide any more) that if anything it would be a fine and confiscation of the shipment, not a 5-year case alleging millions in damages.

Lundgren pleaded guilty: The counterfeit discs obtained by Mr. Lundgren were sold to refurbishers in the United States for his personal profit and Mr. Lundgren and his codefendant both pleaded guilty to federal felony crimes.

Lundgren pleaded guilty to counterfeiting the Dell discs, not to counterfeiting Microsoft software. It’s an important distinction because the discs are nearly worthless and copyright crimes are sentenced based on the value of the infringed item.

Lundgren went to great lengths to mislead people: His own emails submitted as evidence in the case show the lengths to which Mr. Lundgren went in an attempt to make his counterfeit software look like genuine software. They also show him directing his co-defendant to find less discerning customers who would be more easily deceived if people objected to the counterfeits.

Printing an accurate copy of a label for a disc isn’t exactly “great lengths.” Early on the company in China printed “Made in USA” on the disc and “Made in Canada” on the sleeve, and had a yellow background when it should have been green — that’s the kind of thing he was fixing.

Lundgren intended to profit from his actions: His own emails submitted as evidence before the court make clear that Mr. Lundgren’s motivation was to sell counterfeit software to generate income for himself.

The plan was to sell these nearly worthless discs —remember, anybody can make one for free — for a quarter each to refurbishers. Records, however, show that Lundgren had sold several thousand to one buyer for $3-4 each, which is contrary to this assertion. I’ve asked him for clarification on this.

Microsoft has a strong program to support legitimate refurbishers and recyclers: Our program supports hundreds of legitimate recyclers, while protecting customers.

The implication is that that Lundgren is not a legitimate refurbisher or recycler. He pointed out earlier, however, that his company, which handles recycling for Lenovo, Nintendo, and others, takes care of more e-waste in a year than Microsoft has in a decade.

When a refurbisher installs a fresh version of Windows on a refurbished PC, we charge a discounted rate of $25 for the software and a new license – it is not free.

But if they’re not installing a fresh version of Windows, because the machine already has a licensed copy on it, as so many do, the software is free. There’s no limit on how many a company can make on its own; Microsoft only charges for the licenses. Here, go make one yourself in case you need to do it.

Mr. Lundgren’s scheme was simple. He was counterfeiting Windows software in China and importing it to the United States. Mr. Lundgren intended the software to be sold to the refurbisher community as if it was a legitimate, licensed copy of Windows.

There’s the key right there. “As if it was a legitimate, licensed copy of Windows.”

These are not licensed copies of Windows! They’re discs anyone can make, and that manufacturers and refurbishers can print as many of as they like, to give to customers who already have a copy of Windows. These discs are for repairing or re-installing a copy of the OS. They did not come with licenses and Lundgren was not selling or providing licenses.

Don’t let Microsoft fool you the way they helped fool the judges. A recovery disc is something you or I or a refurbisher can make right now for free. A license to operate Windows comes from Microsoft and costs good money. They’re not the same thing and Lundgren was going to sell the former, not the latter.

I’ve asked Microsoft to explain this last point and will update the post if I hear back.

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Slow progress in recalibrating of ATMs to receive Rs 200 notes was one of the factors responsible for the recent cash crunch

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Margins may go back to Re 1 or Rs 1.5 a litre, if the oil marketing companies aren't able to pass on the crude price hike to the consumer

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The board has decided that the EAC will consist of two members - Deepak Kapoor and Lalit Bhasin

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If her new album says anything, it’s that all she ever needed to be was herself.

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Twitter released quite a few news-related features over the past years in an effort to become your go-to source for the latest in current events. It introduced a dedicated News tab in 2015, for instance, though that one didn't work out as planned. Last month, it also started testing an algorithm that puts trending tweets from news organizations at the top of your timeline when something big happens. Now, the platform has rolled out a feature that highlights news links tweeted by the people you Follow right in your Home timeline, according to BuzzFeed News. Underneath the highlighted story, you'll see all the tweets from your network that mention that particular link.

I haven't come across the behavior yet, but Twitter has confirmed its rollout to the publication, which said that it's now out for all users across iOS, Android and the web. We've also reached out to Twitter to clarify whether it's truly a public worldwide rollout or merely a limited test.

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Twitter started grouping together tweets about ongoing events back when it launched "Happening Now." It only applied to sports topics in the beginning, but this new feature and the one that pushes trending tweets by news organizations to the top of your feed are probably part of its expansion.

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Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

Welcome to the weekend. We're getting ready for Microsoft's next Windows 10 update and looking at Nintendo's plan for E3.

It rolls out April 30th.Windows 10's Timeline is the star of its latest update

The next big Windows 10 update arrives Monday, and we've already tried out all of its new features. Timeline helps sync your work across multiple devices, while Focus Assist dials back notifications so you can get things done and improved dictation makes voice control even more powerful.

A premium doorbell for the paranoid homeowner.Nest Hello review

According to Nicole Lee, the Nest Hello acts as both a security camera and a good way to see who's at your door. Not only does it have many of the same features as Ring's Doorbell Pro, it includes upgraded perks like continuous live 24/7 video recording and facial recognition. That requires an added subscription fee, but with Nest Aware perks and the rest of the Google ecosystem, "good becomes great."

Get ready.Nintendo's E3 plans are all about 'Super Smash Bros.'

Nintendo released its plans for the upcoming E3 video game trade show and they're all about the recently announced Super Smash Bros. game for Switch. Attendees will be able to view a Super Smash Bros. invitational tournament, have a chance to take part in an exhibition play and get a crack at the game itself at Nintendo's booth.

No repeats.MoviePass won't let you see the same movie more than once

Pray they don't alter the deal any further.

Goodbye gas-guzzlers, hello ... electricity-eaters?Ford's decision to kill most of its cars was inevitable

Who can blame Ford for getting out of the car game in the United States, though? The automaker was just looking at the numbers and, let's face it, they're bleak.

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For Maruti Suzuki Q4FY18 results, analysts expect the earnings upgrade cycle for Maruti to continue in FY19 as well, driven by higher volumes and margins. Check Maruti Suzuki Q418 results

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NEW YORK (AP) - Social media is a daily way of life for many Americans.

Nearly half of Americans who use the internet say they use Facebook at least several times a day, making it easily the most popular social media site. And Facebook-owned Instagram comes in No. 2.

So whether you're reaching for your phone before getting out of bed in the morning, or logging on to procrastinate during work, chances are you see the little blue "F'' icon more often than you take a shower.

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Tory losses would send the message that council services must be protected, and that Britain demands an end to austerity

The streets of London are not ablaze with posters or other signs there are local elections on this week, as in 150 councils around the country. Yet in a surprisingly optimistic report out today, Hansard says intention to vote is at an all-time high of 62%, with voter engagement with politics higher than ever. But that determination to vote may be stymied by an alarming fall in voter registration. According to Equifax analysis, 197 local authorities saw a drop in the last year: Newcastle down 7%, Mole Valley down 5%.

The shift to individual voter registration risked knocking out the young, students no longer registered by universities, renters and ethnic minorities. The voter ID pilot this week will show whether yet another gerrymander in the voting system deters those – more likely to be Labour – arriving at polling stations without passports or driving licences.

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With Infinity War finally in theaters, Hawkeye's role in the massive Marvel event has been revealed.

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Marvel's massive Avengers: Infinity War takes in $39 million in Thursday, the highest ever for a Marvel Studios movie.

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The end-credits scene in Infinity War comes with some pretty major implications for the future of the MCU.

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Asia-Pacific stocks started the week higher, led by financial stocks in Hong Kong and Singapore as markets in China and Japan are closed for holidays.

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Walmart Inc.'s plan to shed control of its U.K. grocery chain, Asda, reflects a global strategy to emphasize faster-growing markets over some of its more mature ones.

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan farmers are busy in their poppy fields as the annual opium harvest begins, underscoring the government's failure to stamp out a crop that yields much of the world's supply of heroin.

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Twitter Inc. sold data access to the Cambridge University academic who also obtained millions of Facebook Inc. users' information that was later passed to a political consulting firm without the users' consent.

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As thousands of Venezuelans flee their homeland each day, the region’s tolerance for immigrants is being tested.

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The museum tells the story of the evolution of India's transport through light and sounds, historical art (drawings, lithographs and posters), re-imagined street stalls and contemporary art

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Walmart Inc's urgency to stem market share losses to rivals around the world is driving it to partner with local players in the UK and India, even as it scales back in some other markets like Brazil.

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The Australian model and the DJ tied the knot on Saturday in the Bahamas.

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Kylie Jenner made sure her boyfriend Travis Scott had a birthday to remember this year, renting out Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, on Saturday night to celebrate his special day.

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When the Dallas Cowboys traded for former No. 8 overall pick Tavon Austin on Saturday, Ryan Switzer was a big fan of the move. Little did he know, he would soon be on his way out of town...

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Bill McKibben describes a recent visit to the Japanese cities of Kyoto and Hiroshima, symbols of the greatest threats that humanity has ever faced: nuclear weapons and global warming. What makes those threats different?

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Sam Knight writes that James Rebanks, who is known on Twitter as the Herdwick Shepherd, uses his writing and social-media presence to document his flock, evoke the English countryside, and explore his connection to the land.

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Doreen St. Félix writes about Kanye West’s recent public support of Donald Trump, on Twitter and elsewhere, in advance of releasing two new albums.

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Scott Disick pulled a total Prince Charming move by surprising Sofia Richie with a bed full of rose petals! Check out the romantic pic here!

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"The All Night Strut!" celebrates music of the 1930s and 1940s in a sweeping revue that runs through May 20 at the Meadow Brook Theatre in Wilson Hall on Oakland University's Rochester Hills campus. Tickets are $28-$43. Call 248-377-3300 or visit mbtheatre.com.

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Dr. Seuss' "The Cat In The Hat" slips into the Meadow Brook Theatre's Children's Series for shows at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday, April 28, in Wilson Hall on Oakland University's Rochester Hills campus. Tickets are $15. Call 248-377-3300 or visit mbtheatre.com.

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The Michigan Opera Theatre Children's Chorus groups for a production of Gilbert & Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pinafore" at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 28, at the Detroit Opera House, 1526 Broadway St. Tickets are $15-$50. Call 313-237-7464 or visit michiganopera.org.

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The Winter Olympics' figure skating medalists, including the locally trained Shibutani brother-sister duo and Meryl Davis of West Bloomfield, slide into town for the annual Stars On Ice spectacular at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 28, at Little Caesars Arena. Tickets are $30-$70. Call 313-471-7000 or visit

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The University of Michigan Choral Union joins the Detroit Symphony Orchestra during concerts at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 26, and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 29, at Orchestra Hall, 3711 Woodward Ave., Detroit. Tickets are $15-$1005. Sunday's concert will be webcast on dso.org/live.

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Swatch's bullish outlook came as the Swiss watch industry reported March exports rose 4.8 percent compared with a year earlier.

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The German sportswear maker is working on contingency plans to move some production from China to other Asian markets over potential tariffs imposed on footwear.

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The listings will help investors gauge market interest and set a bar on valuations for rivals.

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Most dating apps are aimed at a general population, but people of color and immigrants are rarely well-represented. CultureCrush wants to fix that. This app, created by a team led by former attorney Amanda Spann, lets you search the dating pool by nationality, ethnicity and tribe in an effort to help fish out of water find a match.

“We have 24,000 users, 5% of which are premium paid users, and the app has generated revenue every month since its existence. Upon our relaunch, we anticipate this number to rapidly accelerate,” said Spann. “CultureCrush is the only app of its kind that enables you to search by nationality, ethnicity, and tribe. We have nearly 1,000 tribes from across the continent of Africa. Akin to JDate, CultureCrush allows users to connect with others from specific ethnic or national backgrounds. Anyone who grew up in a specific culture understands the magic of connecting with others from the same or similar background. CultureCrush improves upon the JDate model by establishing an inclusive ecosystem where all cultures can find and date each other, or any other culture they like.”

The app also supports friend-to-friend matchmaking and has a three-day message countdown that dumps matches after 72 hours. The app is similar to other niche dating services like BlackPeopleMeet, PlentyOfGeeks and even Trump.Dating. There’s someone for everyone, the thinking goes, but sometimes you have to shrink the pool.

Spann created the app in Chicago after talking with a friend of hers from Nigeria. She said her friend found it difficult to date especially because of the cultural divide she experienced on traditional dating apps. Further, Spann and her friend felt uncomfortable on traditional dating apps after getting fetish comments like “Hi Chocolate Goddess.” For her, enough was enough.

“It’s predicted that by the end of this year African-Americans will be the most represented out of any ethnic group online. Pairing this with the fact that African-Americans are currently spending nearly 48 billion on travel annually and 8.7 percent of the overall US black population is comprised of immigrants, we believe that 2018 is ripe with opportunity for CultureCrush,” she said. “We’re excited to see how our users respond to the new features and we are looking forward to focusing our energy and attention back into growing our user base after our initial setbacks.”

“We decided to pursue the project after observing that mainstream dating apps often fail to account for cultural preferences and rarely yield positive experiences for users of color,” said Spann. “Imagine being a Nigerian man who just moved from Lagos to Chicago for med school, it might be nice to meet a local woman from your tribe. Or being a Jamaican woman spending a week in Copenhagen for work who wants to grab a drink with someone of Caribbean descent. Or what if you are an African-American who lives in a predominately white community, having difficulty meeting other people of color,” she said.

The app is available now and you can sign up to be notified when the new app hits the stores.

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Monday, April 30, 2018

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