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Analysts said the store's arrival would probably have a modest effect on overall adoption of the Mac platform, which has about 10 percent of the U.S. market, according to the research firm Gartner.
"Clearly Apple's been seeing a lot of momentum in the Mac platform over the past few years without this," said Ross Rubin, an analyst with NPD Group. "It certainly doesn't seem to be anything that has been artificially depressing their share."
Still, he said, the store would make it easier for developers to reach new customers with their software, which in turn benefits Apple.
"The Mac App Store can now expose buyers to many other products that highlight the strengths of the platform," he said.
The store launches next month in 90 countries, offering free and paid software in six categories: education, games, graphics and design, lifestyle, productivity and utilities.
The referendum to reroute Clean Elections funding to education passed through the Senate Elections Committee (4-3) despite a slightly new tactic from the opposition.
In addition to saying HCR 2026 is sneaky in its roundabout way of asking voters if they want to keep publicly financing campaigns, those against it say it flouts a bargain brokered in the Senate last year.
Todd Lang, executive director of the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission said having to fight the referendum is frustrating since Clean Elections, the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Sen. John McComish, R-Phoenix, struck a deal last session that the Legislature would lay off Clean Elections — at least this sess...
“If we want to make deals and we want to make agreements and want to resolve conflicts —and I know that’s what legislature is all about — it seems to me that this bill shouldn’t go forward because we did have an agreement that there would be no repeal this session.” Lang said.
While there was an agreement, it wasn’t in writing. It was a handshake deal that went down in the Senate, Lang said, which is why the promise of not touching Clean Elections didn’t come up when the bill went through the House.
Sen. Steve Gallardo, D-Phoenix, said he believes senators need to honor their word and not let the bill go forward.
The bill's sponsor, Paul Boyer, R-Phoenix, said he wasn’t aware of last session’s bargain and doesn’t think this Legislature should have its hands tied by a previous Legislature.
Everyone who voted for the bill was in the Senate last session except for Kimberly Yee, R-Phoenix, who was a member of the House at the time.
While the Elections Committee did vote down party lines, the bill saw bipartisan opposition when it passed out of the House with a 31-27 vote.
Boyer said he is anticipating that he will need to put in a lot of elbow grease to get the bill out of the Senate.
The Back River has seen PCBs and other contaminants. A new study by the U.S. Geological Survey and UMBC will study why PCBs still exist in the river, and how to address them.
Traces of some toxic chemicals have persisted in animals and waterways such as the Back River in Baltimore County for decades after the U.S. government banned their use.
A study in the Back River soon could help explain why the chemicals continue to show up — and maybe provide insights into how to get rid of them.
Industrial chemicals known as polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, were long used in electrical and hydraulic equipment and plastics. The cancer-causing chemicals were outlawed in 1979 but continue to be found throughout the environment, including in humans.
As Baltimore City, Baltimore County and other jurisdictions around the state struggle with how to tackle the toxic pollution in the Chesapeake Bay, researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey and University of Maryland, Baltimore County, are focusing on the Back River to better understand the contamination. They plan to ...
Baltimore’s Board of Estimates approved city funding for the research Wednesday.
PCB pollution is often thought of as a contaminant found only in soils and sediments, a remnant of old factories and dirty industry. But the research aims to address a different reality regarding PCBs, said Upal Ghosh, a UMBC professor of chemical, biochemical and environmental engineering.
PCBs are known to cause cancer and impair reproductive and immune systems in animals, building up the most in those at the top of the food chain. Research published last week found the chemicals are threatening the future survival of killer whales.
Enough of the contamination has been found in fish tissue or sediments in Chesapeake waterways — including the Potomac, Severn, South, Rhode, Elk and Sassafras rivers, along with Back River — that they are classified as PCB-impaired by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Much like the state’s responsibilities to reduce nutrient and sediment pollution across the Chesapeake, the EPA requires jurisdictions that contain impaired waterways to address the pollution.
But given relatively poor understanding of the types and sources of PCBs, there is little those governments can do for now, said Emily Majcher, a USGS hydrologist collaborating with Ghosh and other researchers on the Back River study.
Scads of silvery, lifeless fish were seen floating along in the waters of the Baltimore harbor and Back River this weekend.
On Monday, state investigators estimated the kill at around 30,000, mainly Atlantic menhaden, said Jay Apperson, a spokesman for the Maryland Department of the Environment.
There are 209 varieties of PCBs, and groups of them behave differently. But there is no data on which types are most prevalent in the bay, Majcher said.
The research aims to fix that. The scientists will collect and analyze samples not just long-embedded in the dirt but also potentially built up inside old sewer mains and slowly being released through the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant, which processes sewage from across much of the Baltimore region.
The data used to classify Back River as PCB-impaired as recently as 2008 dated as far back as 2001, and it didn’t differentiate between different types of PCBs, known as congeners.
A Baltimore spending panel on Wednesday approved the city's half of a $430 million project to eliminate a miles-long sewage backup beneath the city.
“I don’t want to say it’s meaningless, but it’s much more detailed and informative if you’re looking at the congener level,” Majcher said.
The researchers plan to collect samples from the Back River over the coming months, funded with about $200,000 — including the $75,000 Baltimore officials approved Wednesday, and other money from Baltimore County and the U.S. Department of the Interior.
The study then could provide answers for dealing with PCBs elsewhere. It is intended as a pilot that could inform eventual cleanup efforts around the region and the country.
GroupMe extends the idea of social tagging systems like del.icio.us, Flickr or BibSonomy by introducing the group dimension. The foundation of social tagging systems are so-called folksonomies, which describe how users (folks) tag resources (e.g. photos, videos, and publications).
In 2017, venture capitalists more than tripled the amount of money that they invested in real estate tech, according to industry tracker PitchBook Data Inc.
Commercial real-state startup Reonomy has raised $30 million, the latest in a string of venture deals in real-estate technology.
The in Series C round, led by Sapphire Ventures, comes four months after the company said it raised a $16 million round. Existing investors Bain Capital Ventures and SoftBank Capital participated.
The good news about Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls, the latest from David Sedaris, is that it’s not a collection of modern comic fables about talking animals. (Readers of Sedaris’ previous book, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, might be forgiven for taking the new book’s title as something between a taunt and a warning label...
Sedaris appeared in the early ’90s, seemingly full-blown, with a stockpile of observations and stories based on a family background like no other, and a work history that was undreamt of even for the most highly sought-after Creative Nonfiction grad student. The fact that he was so funny about it all practically secure...
One of the silliest literary debates of the last several years turned on whether Sedaris, whose essays tend to be labeled “nonfiction,” deserves to be respected as a true creative nonfictioneer or if he’s—shudder—a fabulist, like Stephen Glass. When someone like Mike Daisey cobbles together some factoids and guesses ab...
They aren’t identified as such, and the first one could easily be taken for another of Sedaris’ own confessionals, until the speaker reveals that he’s a married heterosexual. Sure, he claims to have told his mother that he’s sorry that his father isn’t alive anymore, only to be reminded that it was his father who picke...
Sedaris can still be virtuosic when his present and past rub up against each other and strike just the right sparks, as in “Loggerheads,” one of the longest and best stories here, in which a trip to Hawaii calls up a bittersweet memory of a doomed childhood attempt to raise a bunch of baby turtles freshly hatched on th...
Lindsay Lohan wants to star in Disney's live-action remake of The Little Mermaid alongside Meryl Streep.
A new rumor suggests that Lady Gaga could end up playing the villain in Disney's live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid.
Chicago and Into the Woods director Rob Marshall is Disney's top choice to direct their live-action Little Mermaid movie.
Director Bill Condon has some encouraging words for Lindsey Lohan in her bid to play Disney's The Little Mermaid.
Actress Lindsay Lohan sent out a photo on social media this weekend hinting that she wants to play Ariel in Disney's The Little Mermaid remake.
Oscar-winning songwriter Alan Menken will co-write the music for Disney's The Little Mermaid remake with Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda.
NAIROBI, April 9 Carrefour aims to become Kenya's number two retailer this year, adding floorspace and using ultra-competitive pricing to boost sales and increase market share, its franchisee holder in the country said.
PARIS, March 28 Carrefour plans to cut 1,229 jobs as it downsizes its large hypermarket stores in France under a plan to boost sales and profits at Europe's largest retailer, the Force Ouvriere union told Reuters.
PARIS, Feb 28 Carrefour said its turnaround plan was well on track and raised its savings goals, after Europe's largest retailer delivered cost cuts of 1.05 billion euros ($1.2 billion) in 2018 and a higher free cash flow.
PARIS, Feb 25 Carrefour, Europe's largest food retailer, could cut around 4 percent of its Italian workforce - or up to 590 staff - and downsize five of its 51 hypermarkets in the country to cope with falling sales, according to its 2019-2022 business plan.
PARIS French retailer Carrefour is joining up with other with food companies including Danone to launch "MiiMOSA Transition", a crowdfunding project to help farmers switch to organic farming, in response to rising consumer demand for socially responsible practices.
PARIS, Jan 29 French retailer Carrefour is joining up with other with food companies including Danone to launch "MiiMOSA Transition", a crowdfunding project to help farmers switch to organic farming, in response to rising consumer demand for socially responsible practices.
LONDON European shares were sluggish on Wednesday as a batch of poor corporate updates added to worries about a global growth slowdown and China-U.S. trade negotiations.
The Crawford County champ fell a couple rounds from the end.
MANSFIELD - Weeks of practice behind him, Luke Biederman's spelling success came up just a couple of rounds short Thursday night during the Tri-County Spelling Bee.
After winning the Crawford County Spelling Bee last month, the seventh-grader from Colonel Crawford decided to expand the list of words he was practicing to spell.
Unfortunately, "lackadaisical" wasn't on his list.
"I was expecting to get it wrong," Biederman said.
He also practices by spending a lot of time reading — right now, he's busy finishing the second book in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. He likes the books, but they're not quite his favorite. "That's probably Harry Potter," he said.
There were 31 competitors Thursday in Mansfield. After eight rounds, Maggie Sheridan found herself standing alone. Her sister, Katie, having just misspelled a word, Maggie was only seven letters away Thursday night from winning the Tri-County Spelling Bee.
She got the letters right.
It was the third year in a row Maggie won the competition, which brings together the best pre-high school spellers from Richland, Crawford and Morrow counties. It was the first time, though, that her sister, Katie, took her down to the wire.
"I knew she'd win," Katie said afterward.
Their dad, Mark, said the sisters — both eighth graders at Lexington — practice spelling together at home every day. They also compete together on their school's academic challenge team, play together in the Mansfield Youth Symphony and volley next to one another on the school's tennis team.
"They're pretty diligent," Mark said. "They do everything together."
But the sisterly showdown Thursday almost never happened. For a few seconds during the third round, Katie was a little lugubrious after spelling "lugubrious" — it means to look or sound sad — with an extra "r," making the word "lugrubrious." That's when Maggie spoke up, in her sister's defense, to tell the pronouncer t...
"She pronounced it right the first time, but she repeatedly said it wrong after that," Maggie said. "I had to speak up."
The judges discussed the situation, and agreed the word had been pronounced two different ways.
"So I got another chance," Katie said.
She advanced to the next round — the sisters both continued advancing until they were the only ones left. That's when Katie was asked to spell "duodenum," which is part of the small intestine. She wasn't sure how to spell it.
"If we would have learned about that in health class, I would have known it," Katie said.
Her sister again didn't hesitate to speak the truth.
"We did learn that in health class," Maggie said.
Although she was the champion, Maggie said a couple of words that others were asked to spell sounded tricky to her. She was glad that she knew every word that she was asked to spell. In fact, she couldn't remember the last time she was actually tricked by a word — even the word that knocked her out of last year's Scrip...
"Sadly, I knew the word," Maggie said. "I was nervous and I got it wrong."
She placed 23rd in the nation last year, and wants to make it to the top 15 this year. She can advance by winning the regional spelling bee, or by earning a wildcard bid, which is possible since she's been to the national event before.
And while Maggie is practicing her spelling, Katie is going to study extra hard in other subjects to make sure their academic challenge team does well. Even so, she suspects everyone will answer about the same number of questions.
"It's pretty equal," Katie said. "We have a pretty good team."
Sunflower Farmers Market has leased 27,000 square feet of space in Thorncreek Crossing in Thornton.
The new natural- and organic-foods market rounds out a 392,100-square-foot shopping center that is already home to a Super Target, Barnes & Noble, World Market, Michael’s and Office Max.
Sunflower is expected to open its new store this fall. Thorncreek Crossing is at the intersection of Washington and 120th Avenue.
Sunflower has 30 retail stores throughout Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Texas. It was one of five companies selected this year for the International Council of Shopping Centers’ Hot Retailer Award.
Denver-based ProLogis has signed two new build-to-suit agreements valued at about $60 million.
The projects are a 342,000-square-foot distribution center for a third-party logistics company in Moissy-Cramayel, France; and a 180,000-square-foot distribution center for a leading retailer in northern Japan.
The deals bring ProLogis’ year-to-date development starts to about $437 million.
ProLogis is a global provider of distribution facilities with more than 475 million square feet of industrial space in North America, Europe and Asia.
Denver architect Curt Fentress will share insights from his new book Touchstones of Design: [re]defining public architecture at a reception at the Tattered Cover LoDo.
The reception for the architect of Denver International Airport, Colorado Convention Center, Invesco Field and Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Complex will be at 7:30 p.m. June 16 at the Tattered Cover, 1628 16th St.
Behringer Harvard has purchased 7166 at Belmar, a mid-rise multifamily community providing 308 apartment homes at 7166 W. Custer Ave. in Lakewood.
Built in 2008, the gated community consists of two four- and five-story buildings; a private parking structure; clubhouse with fitness center; a demonstration kitchen; business center; and a cyber café with complimentary coffee. Common-area amenities also include a resort-style swimming pool and spa and picnic areas wi...
7166 at Belmar offers pet-friendly apartments ranging from 679 to 1,367 square feet with one, two or three bedrooms and baths. Each home also includes a private patio or balcony with storage. Selected apartments offer fireplaces or spectacular pool and mountain views.
A guest suite is available for use by residents’ out-of-town guests.
Catholic Charities has received a $600,000 housing development grant for the Guadalupe Community Assistance Center in Greeley.
The 11,000 square-foot building will include 8,800 square feet dedicated to providing 56 beds of temporary emergency shelter to homeless men, women and families.
Catholic Charities will own the shelter and provide case management services for the residents. Additional office space will be available for use by other agencies such as the Veterans Administration.
The Colorado Springs Pike Senior Limited Partnership has received a $350,000 HOME loan to assist with the construction of the 70-unit Pikes Peak Senior Apartments.

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