Geneva (AFP) June 30, 2020 The UN rights chief on Tuesday said COVID-19 was being instrumentalised to silence free speech, citing China and Russia, while voicing alarm at statements in the US that “deny the reality” of the virus. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet pointed to Russia, China, Kosovo, Nicaragua among others where “threats and intimidation against journalists, bloggers and civic activhttp://dlvr.it/RZkbhW Continue reading UN rights chief slams virus response in China, Russia, US

Marketers at B2C companies realize that personalization is key to business, but they are having problems implementing personalization strategies, according to a recent survey by Adweek Intelligence in association with IBM Watson Advertising. “Defining personalization has to start, stop and be continuously refined through the sole lens of the customer,” Liz Miller, a principal analyst at Constellation Research advised.http://dlvr.it/RZkbQ5 Continue reading B2C Marketers Grapple With Personalization Tactics

Guwahati, India (AFP) June 29, 2020 More than a million people have been affected by flooding in northeastern India, where the death toll over the past week rose to 13, authorities said on Monday. Flooding is an annual phenomenon in India’s northeast, claiming hundreds of lives each year. “The flood situation is grim in Assam. More than a million people have been hit by this … Continue reading More than a million hit by India monsoon floods

Washington (AFP) June 30, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has led a growing number of Westerners to see China as a top power, with the lead of the United States slipping, a study said Tuesday. A survey of French, German and US opinion released by the German Marshall Fund of the United States found significant increases in perceptions of Chinese influence since the outbreak of COVID-19 … Continue reading Post-COVID, more in West see China as major power: study

Dakar (AFP) June 29, 2020 It took one morning in late May to cut a large chunk from the side of a seaside volcanic hill in Senegal’s capital Dakar, to make way for a hotel. A man had turned up with permits and diggers got to work, according to Mamadou Mignane Diouf, an official from a local campaign group called Forum Social, who fought against … Continue reading Senegal capital fights shoreline developers

Munich, Germany (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 A new era in radar remote sensing began 10 years ago, on 21 June 2010, when the radar satellite TanDEM-X was launched. Since then, it has been orbiting Earth in close formation flight with TerraSAR-X, its three-year-older ‘twin’. The distance between the satellites varies between several kilometres and sometimes only 120 metres. This enables the radar sensors to obtain … Continue reading Congratulations, TanDEM-X – 10 years of 3D mapping from space

Manila (AFP) June 29, 2020 Philippine rescuers were searching Monday for 14 people missing after a local fishing boat collided with a cargo ship, authorities said. The boats crashed early Sunday in waters southwest of Manila, capsizing the Philippine fishing vessel Liberty 5 off the coast of Occidental Mindoro province. The captain of the cargo ship Vienna Wood, which is registered in Hong Kong, called … Continue reading 14 missing after Philippines sea collision

Addis Ababa (AFP) June 27, 2020 Ethiopia said Saturday it was on track to begin filling a controversial mega-dam on the Blue Nile River within weeks but vowed to try resolving its dispute with downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), set to be Africa’s largest hydroelectric project, has been a source of tension in the Nile basin ever since Ethiopia … Continue reading Ethiopia says on track to fill mega-dam as African Union pushes for deal

If you search for “why CRM fails” you get over three million results. Analysts report that close to half of all CRM projects fail and about 40 percent of CRM software purchased goes unused — because sales teams don’t want to use software that makes them glorified data entry clerks and still doesn’t “work.” As a CRM industry veteran, this ongoing failure rate hits close … Continue reading Let’s Rethink Our Relationship With CRM

Washington DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 An analysis of the first large diamonds confirmed to come from deep under the Earth’s surface supports initial predictions showing that the Smithsonian’s famous Hope diamond may be “super deep”, originating from more than three times deeper in the Earth than most diamonds. It also suggests, in a new finding, that the “Crown Jewels” Cullinan diamond may also be … Continue reading Both Hope diamond and British Crown Jewel diamonds, may be “super-deep”