It speaks to how far HTC has fallen that they’re now accepting a position akin to that of Foxconn - simply a manufacturer. “plan B” - HTC - ended up winning the contract. Huawei was off the table for the new smartphones. Richard Yu himself ended negotiations with Google right then and Our source, word spread inside Huawei quickly that global CEO Phones built by HTC that we’ll see unveiled tomorrow. The devices’ exteriors or in their marketing, much like the Pixel The Huawei logo and name would be featured nowhere on Relegated to a manufacturing role, producing phones with Googleīranding. Though, set a hard rule for the partnership: Huawei would be Nexus, or both (e.g., two Pixels and a cheaper Nexus). It’s unclear if they would have been branded Pixel, Portfolio - allegedly up to three phones, not just the two weĮnded up with.
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Police recommended that Fielding be charged with unlawful brandishing of a firearm, but the Santa Clara County District Attorney declined to file charges in the case, citing insufficient evidence.ĭavid Ruddock, writing for Android Police:įast-forward shortly after the Nexus 5X and 6P launched, and
Named in the lawsuit as Robert Genereux, he tells the driver to get out of his car, and threatens him when he refuses: "unlock this door or I'm going to take out your window."Ĭops turned up and determined that the gun-toting guard not only lacked a firearm permit, but also a necessary license to be a security guard in the first place. He called the behavior of both guards who threatened his client outrageous."Īfter waving his gun around like a cartoon gangster, the mall ninja's supervisor approaches. " attorney tried to reason with the guard and tell him to drop the gun, but it didn't work. Imposed 15% Foreign Tax in July, Vancouver September Home Sales Plunged 33%ĬBS News's Betty Yu reports that San Jose's Westfield Valley Fair mall is being sued after one of its guards, Francis Lancaster-Abraham Fielding, pulled a gun on a driver who knocked over a traffic cone.
Priced at lot value, the property is being sold ‘As Is, Where Is.’”Ĭongratulations to those who guessed the “opportunity knocks” price of $899,000 for this “As Is, Where Is” bargain complete with “amazing views”, presumably through the opening where one would normally expect to find a workable door as opposed to the windows that are all boarded up.ī.C. This property overlooks China Creek Park, with amazing views of the North Shore mountains and close to Commercial Drive and two skytrain stations. After all, Manhattan property speculation plunged by 20% in Q3/16 relative the Q3/15.ĭescription: “Opportunity knocks! Builders and investors need look no further if they desire a view property with multi-family zoning (RM-4). It may be that the world's autocracies have run out of national wealth to loot and bubbles to exploit.
Since many of the speculators gambling on Vancouver properties have broken their home countries' laws by moving capital across the border (and because much of that capital was stolen money), the Vancouver market immediately became a no-go zone for offshore crooks.īut there may be other forces at work. In July, the British Columbia government imposed a 15% tax on foreign ownership of properties, which had the not-accidental side-effect of making the ownership of those properties more transparent. The market was so hyperinflationary that realtors engaged in " shadow flipping" - pretending to have found buyers for the houses they listed, while secretly buying those houses themselves and then selling them on immediately at a huge markup, pocketing both the profit from the sale and a commission from the original seller. Houses that are literal tear-downs, on tiny lots in remote neighbourhoods, are priced in the million-dollar range. It's hard to overstate the absurdity of the Vancouver property market. Vancouver has been wracked by a white-hot property bubble driven primarily by offshore speculators, mostly Chinese, who have driven up the price of housing beyond the means of working Vancouverites, crippling the city's daily life as workers, students and families struggle to find somewhere - anywhere - to live.