Happy Friday -
Systems redundancy is paramount for business continuity, especially for small to mid-sized businesses. This time of year, the weather plays a much larger role in hindering business operations. Storms can impact service, even on the most reliable networks. Trees fall and damage lines. Utility vehicles can and do take out service boxes. So how do businesses prepare for and overcome mother nature? Simple: They take to the air.
Comcast Business is the first broadband provider in the county to offer customers automatic 4G LTE cellular access should they lose their primary network connection, as well as a backup battery with power for eight hours. This combination provides that critical redundancy required for business continuity and enables SMBs to weather the storm.
If you would like to speak with Comcast Business about how SMBs can utilize 4G LTE wireless backups to protect their Internet service, I’d be happy to arrange that for you. Or if you’d prefer a contributed article on the topic, let me know.
*Separately, the Winter Games have started and Comcast Business has put together a clever infographic that illustrates not only how training methods have changed since the first Winter Games in 1924, but also how technology has been an integral factor. It’s pretty interesting – please feel free to use it: https://cbcommunity.comcast.com/browse-all/details/winter-games-then-and-now
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Between September 2017 and February 2018, the brand new Good Guts Coconut Peanut Butter flavored daily probiotic supplement garnered exceptional national attention, winning both the SupplySide 2017 CPG Editor’s Choice Award in the Animal Nutrition category at SupplySide West and the New Hope Network 2018 Delicious Living Supplement Award. Fidobiotics was also announced as a finalist for the Natural Products Expo West NEXTY Award for product innovation.
"We have committed so much of 2017 to creating a probiotic product for every companion animal to enjoy and help maintain key GI functionality. We are over-the-moon excited to have won both of these stellar awards!", Said Mika Wheelwight, CEO of Fidobiotics
About The SupplySide West Editor's Choice Awards
"This year’s Editor’s Choice Awards judging saw the team narrow down the field from hundreds of products to only five on the short list in each category," said Heather Granato, vice president, content, in Informa’s Global Health & Nutrition Network. "The winning items stood out for bringing a combination of factors to the table, from taste and delivery method to innovation in ingredients and cutting-edge science. They truly represent category leaders and set a high bar for next year’s program."
2017 is the 6th Annual SupplySide West CPG Editor’s Choice Awards. The award seeks to recognize innovative finished products launched by CPG companies in a variety of categories. For over 20 years, SupplySide has helped those in the dietary supplement, food, beverage, animal nutrition, personal care and cosmetic industries break through the hype and ambiguity to find the information they need to explore, discover, innovate and market their next best-selling product.
For 20+ years, SupplySide has helped dietary supplement, food, beverage, personal care, cosmetic, animal nutrition and pharmaceutical professionals find information to explore, discover, innovate and market their next best-selling product.
About The Delicious Living Supplement Awards
Delicious Living magazine, a trusted health and wellness resource for more than 33 years, announces the winners of its annual Supplement Awards. Delicious Living initiated these awards to educate consumers on how to make trusted supplement purchases in a market increasingly saturated with new products and wellness claims.
About The Natural Products Expo West NEXTY Awards
The NEXTY Awards recognize the most progressive, innovative, inspiring and trustworthy products in the natural products industry. We believe these products and companies are shaping a healthy future for natural products and deserve to be recognized. The editors and content team at New Hope Network will award 22 products with the prestigious New Hope NEXTY award at Natural Products Expo West & Engredea in Anaheim.
New Hope editors whittle the field of products down to three finalists in each of 22 categories and a panel of industry experts meet to judge and choose the winners.
Good Guts For Mutts
The Good Guts Coconut Peanut Butter flavored daily probiotic supplement was released in May of 2017 and is found in retail locations across the United States as well as online at Fidobiotics.com. Good Guts brings the best of the animal supplement world into one product. With 2 prebiotics (Inulin and FOS), 11 probiotic strains, and 5 digestive enzymes, it truly is the gold standard for canine gut health. Good Guts for Mutts is Gluten Free, Grain Free, GMO Free, Vegan, and Made in the USA.
The CSP desiccated bottle that houses Good Guts works to ensure a longer than ever shelf stability and probiotic viability. Its delicious Coconut Peanut Butter flavored powder ensures that dogs will be happy ingesting the probiotic powder and digesting whatever else they end up eating.
Good Guts comes in three sizes with three different CFU doses. The Good Guts For Lil Mutts is specifically designed for dogs 24 pounds and lighter and contains 30 servings, containing 3 billion CFUs of 11 different probiotic strains per serving.
Good Guts For Medium Mutts is specifically designed for dogs between 24 and 64 pounds and contains 30 servings, containing 6 billion CFUs of 11 different probiotic strains per serving.
Good Guts For Big Mutts is specifically designed for dogs weighing over 64 pounds and contains 20 servings, containing 12 billion CFUs of 11 different probiotic strains per serving.
Good Guts For Cats
The Good Guts Big Kahuna Tuna flavored daily probiotic supplement for cats was released in May of 2017 and is found in retail locations across the United States. Like Good Guts For Mutts, Good Guts For Cats does not cut corners when it comes to giving each and every cat a healthy and happy digestive tract. Good Guts For Cats contains 2 prebiotics (Inulin and FOS), 11 probiotic strains, and 5 digestive enzymes.
It has quickly become one of the most popular daily probiotic supplements for cats in the United States. Good Guts is Gluten Free, Grain Free, GMO Free, and Made in the USA. The CSP desiccated bottle that houses Good Guts works to ensure a longer than ever shelf-stability and probiotic viability. Good Guts For Cats comes in a tasty Big Kahuna Tuna flavored powder, and will be lapped up by the most finicky of felines.
About Fidobiotics
Fidobiotics bounded into existence in 2013 with the goal of providing the same level of quality for canine and feline probiotics as is available for humans. Our human-grade probiotics are the gold standard for quality, shelf-stability, creative and fun packaging, and thoughtfully sourced ingredients.
Just as we understand the importance of treating our bodies kindly with healthy, natural supplements, we deeply believe in our products’ ability to benefit our furry family members.
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J. Michael Keyes is a partner at the international law firm Dorsey & Whitney. Keyes is an intellectual property attorney with extensive trial and litigation experience in cases involving trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair competition and false advertising. He has tried several cases in federal courts across the United States. Of the settlement today, he says,
“The blockbuster trial over alleged trade secret misappropriation by Uber is now history. Waymo and Uber agreed to settle their heavyweight bout with Uber paying $244 million to Waymo. The lead up to the trial featured plot twists and turns, criminal investigations, and alleged destroyed evidence that sounded more like something out of a Tom Clancy novel than an actual business dispute between these two tech titans.”
Mr. Keyes offered several take-aways from the case and the settlement today:
”While it’s certainly not unheard of to settle a case midway through trial, it’s not the typical scenario. Usually, by the time both sides get to trial, all of the relevant stakeholders are aware of the risks and believe that their respective “world views” will prevail before the jury. It’s hard to know what altered that calculus, and we may never know,” Keyes said.
“Uber’s CEO acknowledged that they should have handled their acquisition of OttoMotto—the company founded by the former Google driverless technology engineer—“differently.” That’s probably the understatement of 2018. I think what Uber is saying is that it should have done much more vetting of OttoMotto and its IP to ensure compliance with the law of trade secrets,” Keyes adds.
“Tech heavyweights and non-heavyweights alike need to be vigilant about making sure that employees that are hired and companies that are acquired are not “tainted” with potential claims of misappropriation. Extreme vetting of employees to make sure they did not take files and other information from the prior employer is a must. Careful due diligence during the acquisition process of a company is also paramount. The IP of that company needs to be traced back to its origins to ensure it is free of claims by third parties.”
