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The UK customers hope the Galaxy Note being introduced to them

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The Samsung Galaxy Note 5 had released on August 13. Samsung also announced that this smartphone would not be introduced to the UK.

Samsung has been focusing on the US and Asian markets for its smartphones. When it released Galaxy Note 5, it had no plan to introduce the new device to the UK. Well, there are great wishes from the customers in the UK that the Galaxy Note should be brought to them.

There are also wishes stated from the retailers. The online retailer Clove’s petition is looking to convince Samsung considering the plans to provide Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ as Europe’s only 5.7 inches smartphone. It attacks the customers to go across the countries to experienced such device.

The petition implies the strong demand for Note 5 and hope it could be used by more customers.

The voice of local customers think that if there are enough people show their wishes to use the Note 5 in the UK, then the Samsung company will take their petition into fully consideration.

They suggested that Samsung company should make market research for Note 5 in Europe, and learn more about what their customers think.

Here are some specific details for Galaxy Note 5. It contains a mass of high-end specs, such as a 5.7-inch mobile screen, 2560×1440 pixel QHD display, a 64-bit octa-core processor and 4GB of RAM.

It is possibly that there are comments for Note 5 petition from Samsung. Then we will know how the reaction from Samsung about bring Note 5 to the UK. Please pay close to Samsung’s news.

Samsung Pay UK release plans confirm that it will hit UK soon

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Samsung is now working on its Samsung Pay UK release plans. It has been confirmed that UK will be the first country to use Samsung Pay in the European countries.

The Samsung Pay is made to be accepted by UK retailers in the following months. It will be launched in Britain shortly after the global debut in the US and South Korea.

Even though there is no specific details for an exactly release date in UK, the Samsung Galaxy S6 maker has implied the Samsung Pay will be released to compete with Apple Pay in the near future.

Samsung’s spokesperson claimed that the company will launch the Samsung Pay first in the US and South Korea before long.

Then they will launch a European version in accordance with its locally service. They said they have no idea when the company will release the Samsung Pay in Europe, but UK will be their first country to apply this service.

It is working principle is a bit like Apple Pay. Samsung’s Mobile lets users create a smartphone-stored digital recreation of their bank card. Then they can tab the phone against payment terminals to exchange digital currency to close the deals.

Samsung Pay avail of Magnetic Secure Transmission teach to be compatible with more store terminals.

The Samsung Pay doesn’t support all the devices. It only supports a select number of existing Samsung smartphones, such as Samsung Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 Edge,Galaxy S6 Edge+ and the Samsung Galaxy Note 5.

Amazon announced to end the third-party PPC service

Amazon announced that it could close down PPC service in the morning of August 12 of Beijing time. This PPC service will be closed down for good from this October. By using the PPC service, the advertisers can lead the visiting traffic back to their websites from Amazon platform.

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This PPC service was allowed the non Amazon’s seller to buy the advertising space on Amazon. Those specific items’ads pop up on Amazon website so that they lead the customers to visit those retails or manufacturers websites from Amazon.

Scot Wingo, the executive chairman of Channel Advisor claims: “Our clients made full use of this PPC service as it provides a great media to promote sales. On one side, they could cooperate with Amazon, on the other side, they could make their dealing data invisible.”

Wingo added this service could enhance the conversion rate. It surprised most of the advertisers when they received emails from Amazon that this PPC service will be ended.

Amazon confirmed this announcement about PPC service adjustment and it stated that this service will be ended for good shortly after October 31.

It wrote in an Amazon email that: ” We will continue to estimate the services that we offer to our partners and help them to reach our customer community with the best ways so that to promote their business scales. So far, Amazon also offers other advertising services to the third-party sellers, including sponsors’ adverts.”

According to the statistics from eMarketer, Amazon benefits $ 1.26 billion from its worldwide advertising business in 2015. It is expected to increase up to $1.83 billion in 2018.

Pixels’ anti-piracy proposal becomes heavy-handed

Columbia Picture hired the anti-piracy company to take down the illegal of Adam Sandler’s new comedy Pixels but the action might become a bit heavy-handed.

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Torrent Freak reported that Entura International has submitted Vimeo a series of copyright takedowns in the matter of the videos used the word “pixels” in their titles.

In fact, a lot of videos and files can be found that containing the film’s title. It is very common case to see the “pixels” title online.

There are several independent file productions have been influenced by this anti-piracy approach. For instance, an award-winning short film, an art-foused NGO and a royalty-free stock footage company are in the list.

There are a great number of videos have been taken down by Vimeo because of Entura’s order. The creators of those videos closed down their accounts and removed their work online to avoid any punishment from the anti-piracy approach.

The company staff Mark suggested the creators should fill a counter notice about this approach. He continued that the trust and safety team is under control of this problem but they could not help people with this issue.

Pixels will be released on August 12 in the UK. Let’s keep an eye on this matter.

The OnePlus 2 sold out after a while when it was released in China

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Many of broad customers have to wait till August 11 to buy the OnePlus 2, however, the customers in China was able to buy the OnePlus 2 on August 4 for its first batch of stock.

China is the only place to get the privilege to buy the OnePlus 2 without going through the invitation process. The customers in abroad have to go through the invitation process to buy one. The stock of OnePlus 2 had been sold out within 64 seconds when it was released August 4.

OnePlus stated in a Weibo post that the computer planned to deliver 30,000 units of OnePlus 2 during the on-sale period.

The customers in China will be able to buy the OnePlus 2 at 10am local time on August 11 for the second round of its sales. It is the same day that its global sales will be released.

It will limit the global stock and there are about two million customers applied for the invite waiting list.

The OnePlus 2 comes with the latest specs, including a Qualcomm 64-bit Snapdragon 810 processor. It has 4GB of RAM and an integrated fingerprint sensor. It costs at £289 for the flagship model. While its smaller capacity 16GB edition, coming with 3GB of Ram costs at £239.

Samsung offers compensations to those employees contacted cancer in South Korea plants

 

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Employees are an one of the important parts of developing an enterprise. Employees’ health is also an important access to the enterprise. Samsung has confirmed it did not do a good job to protect its staff from being ill and dead at its semiconductor plants in South Korea.

Samsung has planned to use 100 billion won (amount to $50 million) to compensate its employees who got cancer and other incurable deceases because of the insecure working environment.

The activist group Sharps have revealed 200 instances of Samsung employees involving in health problems and 70 percent of those employees died due to these health problems at last.

According to Reuters, there were deaths caused by gas leaks at Samsung’s chip plants and they have been reported to the public before.

Samsung CEO Kwon Oh-hyun apologized that they should have solved the working conditions issue to prevent such tragedy. They felt sorry for this tragedy and shamed for the failure of saving them.

The Samsung company will use the funding to compensate the victims an d their families in this issue. What is more, it will also improve the health and safety of working conditions at Samsung’s plants with a portion of the funding.

Will the major record labels plan to boycott YouTube?

YouTube could be the first option for many fans to look for their favorite artist latest video, but this situation might be changed soon. There are more rival platforms working on obtaining more members.

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New York Post reported that Record labels have plans to un-shelve their clips from Google-owned network as the YouTube is not making enough profit from the network.

It is said that Universal, Sony and Warner Bros make preparations to boycott the Record labels as they could like to support the rival platforms like Vessel and Snapchat.

In terms of the world’s largest streaming service Spotify, Google is confident that the business pattern of free content could be the best way to persuade the consumers to spend money on it as a long-range planning.

It was suggested from the previously reports that Spotify has pressure from the music industry to give up the free option business pattern, but the Spotify company is insisting on its initiative.

Google also has plans to offer a high-quality music service to the consumers. It is called YouTube Music Key. It will be launched in beta in November. You could also search the video of YouTube the Music Key from the internet. There will be more detailed news concerning this service in the near future.

Tinder For Travelers- a new dating app for holiday

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Would you like to travel with a complete stranger? A new dating app is made to help lonely travelers to enjoy their vacation like that.

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Miss Travel has launched Tinder for travelers app for iOS and Android devices. This app can be applied to look for travel partners, a tour guide to show you around a specific place or used as a dating app due to personal demand.

To use this app, men have to pay subscription fees for a membership, while women can sign up for free. You can learn more about the idea of gender balance on this app.

It offers safeguards to make sure your trip is safe in case of any dangers encountering as the Miss travel could make the users’ background check for the traveling partners.

The found and CEO of Miss Travel Brandon Wade stated it would provide you a well-arranged trip with this app. No one hopes there are unexpected things happened during the trip.

Miss Travel is the travel agent of love. It helps to connect people who wants to share life experience and have willingness to find the right one during the trip. You will never travel alone with Miss Travel with you.

This Miss Travel app can be accessed on Google Play, and the App Store.

You don’t need a Google+ account for YouTube any more

Dating back to late 2013, Google made a great stir as it forced YouTube users to join Google+ to upload videos or to make comments.

Maybe the YouTube company has realized that grouping its services under one roof did not work well, so the company informed that YouTube users will have access to its service with a Google account in a few months.

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Bradley Horowitz wrote in a blog post that: “they were told by lots of people that accessing Google services with only one account will make things easier for them.”

He added: “they were informed that it makes no sense for users Google+ profile to be their identity in all other Google products they use.”

Therefore, you will be able to share things and communicate with others or even create a YouTube channel with the Google account in the upcoming months.

YouTube will offer the option soon to separate users’ accounts and delete their Google+ profile for those who don’t want a Google+ profile in the first place.

YouTube is just one of the service to separate from Google+, and its company has plans to separate other products from it as well.

Shell and PayPal joined Fill Up and Go that allowing you to pay for fuel on phone

With the new function of paying fuel on phone, you don’t have to head into the crowded petrol station shops. Good news comes from Shell and Paypal that joining forces so that they provide you chance to pay for petrol on phone.

You can save some time by using this Fill Up and Go service. You don’t need to wait in the queues for the payment. You can sit in the car and use your phone to pay it.

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To use this new service, you need to download the Shell Motorist app. And this app is available for iOS and Android services. You can choose the maximum amount to fill by using this service and use an on-pump QR code to pre-authorised the sale.

It is a bit different from Apple Pay as it needs to authorize. But this service is better than the traditional cash transactions. You don’t have to stop for a long time to pay the petrol. You can start your journey soon after you fill the fuel by using the Fill Up and Go service.

So far, the transactions are only made via PayPal and the Fill Up and the Shell Motorist app requires a 5-digit code to keep your account safe.

According to Paypal’s Director of Mobile Commerce in UK, the payments can be done quickly by using this service and it is available for all iOS and Android users as long as they have the app.

He added: “it is important that the service is available to all of the people regardless of particular phone.”

The Fill Up and Go service has been employed to all Shell garages around the country from July 23 after a three-month trail.