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‘Oh, Canada’ review: Richard Gere shows the price of a lifetime of deceptionCharles Schwab Investment Management Inc. reduced its stake in shares of APi Group Co. ( NYSE:APG – Free Report ) by 29.9% in the 3rd quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The institutional investor owned 1,803,708 shares of the company’s stock after selling 769,705 shares during the quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc.’s holdings in APi Group were worth $59,558,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A number of other large investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the stock. First Horizon Advisors Inc. acquired a new stake in APi Group during the 3rd quarter worth about $26,000. Avior Wealth Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of APi Group during the third quarter worth about $33,000. J.Safra Asset Management Corp boosted its position in APi Group by 21.5% in the second quarter. J.Safra Asset Management Corp now owns 2,104 shares of the company’s stock valued at $79,000 after buying an additional 373 shares during the last quarter. Triad Wealth Partners LLC acquired a new position in APi Group in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $132,000. Finally, SG Americas Securities LLC purchased a new position in APi Group during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $165,000. 86.62% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors. Insiders Place Their Bets In related news, Director Ian G. H. Ashken sold 53,868 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, November 13th. The shares were sold at an average price of $36.87, for a total transaction of $1,986,113.16. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now owns 5,478,779 shares in the company, valued at $202,002,581.73. This represents a 0.97 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website . Also, Director James E. Lillie sold 11,568 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, November 11th. The shares were sold at an average price of $36.98, for a total transaction of $427,784.64. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now directly owns 1,134,635 shares in the company, valued at $41,958,802.30. This represents a 1.01 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . 18.20% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders. APi Group Price Performance APi Group ( NYSE:APG – Get Free Report ) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October 31st. The company reported $0.51 EPS for the quarter, meeting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.51. APi Group had a return on equity of 33.89% and a net margin of 3.01%. The business had revenue of $1.83 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.87 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.48 earnings per share. The business’s revenue was up 2.4% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, equities analysts expect that APi Group Co. will post 1.86 EPS for the current fiscal year. Analysts Set New Price Targets A number of research firms have recently weighed in on APG. JPMorgan Chase & Co. cut their price objective on shares of APi Group from $37.00 to $34.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, August 2nd. Robert W. Baird increased their price target on APi Group from $39.00 to $40.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday. Barclays boosted their price objective on APi Group from $43.00 to $44.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Tuesday, November 5th. Finally, Royal Bank of Canada reaffirmed a “sector perform” rating and set a $45.00 target price on shares of APi Group in a report on Friday, November 1st. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and five have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, APi Group presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $43.71. View Our Latest Stock Report on APG APi Group Profile ( Free Report ) APi Group Corporation provides safety and specialty services worldwide. It operates through Safety Services and Specialty Services segments. The Safety Services segment offers solutions focusing on end-to-end integrated occupancy systems, such as fire protection services; heating, ventilation, and air conditioning solutions; and entry systems, which include the design, installation, inspection, and service of these integrated systems. Featured Articles Want to see what other hedge funds are holding APG? 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By TRÂN NGUYỄN SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California, home to some of the largest technology companies in the world, would be the first U.S. state to require mental health warning labels on social media sites if lawmakers pass a bill introduced Monday. The legislation sponsored by state Attorney General Rob Bonta is necessary to bolster safety for children online, supporters say, but industry officials vow to fight the measure and others like it under the First Amendment. Warning labels for social media gained swift bipartisan support from dozens of attorneys general, including Bonta, after U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called on Congress to establish the requirements earlier this year, saying social media is a contributing factor in the mental health crisis among young people. “These companies know the harmful impact their products can have on our children, and they refuse to take meaningful steps to make them safer,” Bonta said at a news conference Monday. “Time is up. It’s time we stepped in and demanded change.” State officials haven’t provided details on the bill, but Bonta said the warning labels could pop up once weekly. Up to 95% of youth ages 13 to 17 say they use a social media platform, and more than a third say that they use social media “almost constantly,” according to 2022 data from the Pew Research Center. Parents’ concerns prompted Australia to pass the world’s first law banning social media for children under 16 in November. “The promise of social media, although real, has turned into a situation where they’re turning our children’s attention into a commodity,” Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, who authored the California bill, said Monday. “The attention economy is using our children and their well-being to make money for these California companies.” Lawmakers instead should focus on online safety education and mental health resources, not warning label bills that are “constitutionally unsound,” said Todd O’Boyle, a vice president of the tech industry policy group Chamber of Progress. “We strongly suspect that the courts will set them aside as compelled speech,” O’Boyle told The Associated Press. Victoria Hinks’ 16-year-old daughter, Alexandra, died by suicide four months ago after being “led down dark rabbit holes” on social media that glamorized eating disorders and self-harm. Hinks said the labels would help protect children from companies that turn a blind eye to the harm caused to children’s mental health when they become addicted to social media platforms. “There’s not a bone in my body that doubts social media played a role in leading her to that final, irreversible decision,” Hinks said. “This could be your story.” Related Articles National News | Biden creates Native American boarding school national monument to mark era of forced assimilation National News | How should the opioid settlements be spent? Those hit hardest often don’t have a say National News | ‘Polarization’ is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year National News | Supreme Court rejects appeal challenging Hawaii gun licensing requirements under Second Amendment National News | Supreme Court rejects appeal from Boston parents over race bias in elite high school admissions Common Sense Media, a sponsor of the bill, said it plans to lobby for similar proposals in other states. California in the past decade has positioned itself as a leader in regulating and fighting the tech industry to bolster online safety for children. The state was the first in 2022 to bar online platforms from using users’ personal information in ways that could harm children. It was one of the states that sued Meta in 2023 and TikTok in October for deliberately designing addictive features that keep kids hooked on their platforms. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, also signed several bills in September to help curb the effects of social media on children, including one to prohibit social media platforms from knowingly providing addictive feeds to children without parental consent and one to limit or ban students from using smartphones on school campus. Federal lawmakers have held hearings on child online safety and legislation is in the works to force companies to take reasonable steps to prevent harm. The legislation has the support of X owner Elon Musk and the President-elect’s son, Donald Trump Jr . Still, the last federal law aimed at protecting children online was enacted in 1998, six years before Facebook’s founding.

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California researchers say the world may be just one genetic tweak away from human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 bird flu virus — a worrisome mutation that could open the door to widespread human infections and possibly even a pandemic, according to some experts. In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, Scripps Research Institute biologists determined that a single mutation of the hemagglutinin protein — the “H” in H5N1 — could transform a virus that has so far sickened or killed mostly birds and cows into a pathogen that targets cells in human beings. The finding comes amid a growing number of H5N1 outbreaks among California dairy cows, as well as a state-ordered recall of raw milk products . Since the virus began infecting the nation’s dairy stock in March, infectious disease experts have warned that unprotected contact between dairy workers and infected cows could enable the virus to evolve in a manner that threatens humans. Now, Scripps researchers suggest the path for such a genetic change may be much shorter than state and national health officers anticipated. “This really surprised us,” said study coauthor James Paulson, a biochemist and molecular biologist. This one mutation “satisfies a requirement for transmission,” he said. Richard Webby, director of the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Center for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals and Birds, said the study’s finding countered prevailing thought on the virus — specifically, that it would take multiple mutations for the virus to pose a threat to humans. “This will likely cause a stir,” said Webby, who is also a researcher in the department of infectious diseases at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., and was not involved in the Scripps research. “I think most of us thought it would probably need more than one change,” Webby said. Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo, called the Scripps teams’ finding a “significant discovery” and said it was “critical because, given the mutation rate of influenza viruses, one in every 10,000 particles of the bovine H5N1 virus could carry this mutation.” That means the potential emergence of an H5N1 virus “that can recognize human receptors is closer than we may have thought,” he said. Several months ago, Paulson and coauthor Ian Wilson, a Scripps structural biologist, decided they’d investigate the current H5N1 strain, and see what it would take for it to cause a human pandemic. Paulson is an expert in researching where and how different influenza viruses bind to cells when they enter a host. Wilson studies the structure of influenza virus proteins. The scientists began their research by accessing a global influenza database and locating the genetic sequence for A/Texas/37/2024 — the strain of H5N1 bird flu found in a Texas dairy worker. They then examined the hemagglutinin proteins, or spikes, on the outer surface of the virus, since those enable it to latch onto the cell membrane of its host. Animals such as birds and humans have different docking stations on their cells — known as sialic acid receptors. In order for a flu virus to open a door into a cell and begin replicating, it needs just the right spike, or key. Although more than 50 humans have been infected by H5N1, many of these cases involve dairy workers who were likely sprayed in the eyes and nose with milk from infected cows. Researchers postulate that repeated exposure of this sort allowed the virus to push into the cells — a brute force entry more than a lock-picking. Ordinarily, person-to-person transmission of a flu virus “is mainly through the air from droplets from a sneeze or cough, which contains very little virus,” Paulson said. “In this context, the virus needs to be able to recognize human-type receptors to bind to cells in the human airway in amounts sufficient to cause infection.” In order to figure out what it would take for the virus to gain the right docking equipment to unleash a human pandemic, Paulson, Wilson and their team looked at previous flu outbreaks that had jumped the bird-human divide, including the influenza outbreaks of 1918, 1957, 1968 and 2009 — as well as some earlier research. They “selected a number of positions” on the hemagglutinin protein “to mutate, one at a time” with amino acids they knew had been implicated in previous pandemics. Then they attempted to bind these altered “H” proteins with human and bird receptor analogues. Lo and behold, when they switched a glutamine to a leucine at position 226, it no longer bound to the bird receptors, but instead exclusively to those of humans. Paulson said it was especially interesting because this mutation had occurred before in earlier strains of H5N1, including one from around 2010 — but “at that time, that single mutation was not sufficient to change receptor specificity. So, the unexpected thing is that virus has changed in subtle ways — evolved, if you will — so that now that single mutation does change the receptor specificity.” Although the researchers demonstrated that it was possible for the virus to become a threat to humans with just one genetic change, that does not mean nature will follow that specific path. A multitude of factors can influence the evolution of an organism, and they are not easily predicted. This may be why the virus has not yet gained the ability to widely infect humans, some say. “Despite more than 50 human infections with bovine H5N1, we have not seen evidence of this virus adapting to humans on a larger scale,” Kawaoka said. “This suggests that ... additional mutations are likely required for the virus to become fully transmissible between humans.” Paulson acknowledged that the “context of the total biological picture is extremely important.” He said the research focused on just “one property that is important for the virus to be successful when adapting to a new host,” but there are others that may also be important. For instance, H5N1 in the past was known to cause severe respiratory disease. But recently, it’s mostly been associated with conjunctivitis and only occasionally with mild, upper respiratory disease in people. “Why is that? I don’t think anybody knows,” Paulson said. What is known is that the virus is moving swiftly through a variety of species around the globe — with ample opportunity to mutate and adapt. As of Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had confirmed H5N1 infections in 58 people: 35 as a result of working with infected dairy cows, 21 from infected poultry, and in two cases, the source is unknown. In addition, 707 dairy herds across 15 states have also been infected. And in just the last 30 days, 23 commercial poultry farms in California have come down with the virus — affecting more than 5.6 million birds. Get local news delivered to your inbox!Charleston Southern grabs late lead, stuns host Miami

Larson Financial Group LLC boosted its stake in Amkor Technology, Inc. ( NASDAQ:AMKR – Free Report ) by 46.3% during the 3rd quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 1,834 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after buying an additional 580 shares during the period. Larson Financial Group LLC’s holdings in Amkor Technology were worth $56,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. Several other large investors have also made changes to their positions in AMKR. 1620 Investment Advisors Inc. acquired a new stake in Amkor Technology in the 2nd quarter valued at about $31,000. Ashton Thomas Private Wealth LLC bought a new stake in shares of Amkor Technology in the 2nd quarter valued at about $40,000. Capital Performance Advisors LLP bought a new stake in Amkor Technology in the third quarter valued at approximately $39,000. Rothschild Investment LLC acquired a new stake in Amkor Technology during the 2nd quarter worth $52,000. Finally, Blue Trust Inc. raised its position in shares of Amkor Technology by 158.3% during the second quarter. Blue Trust Inc. now owns 2,255 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $90,000 after purchasing an additional 1,382 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 42.76% of the company’s stock. Insider Buying and Selling In other Amkor Technology news, CEO Guillaume Marie Jean Rutten sold 10,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, October 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $31.51, for a total value of $315,100.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now owns 204,971 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $6,458,636.21. This trade represents a 4.65 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink . 31.40% of the stock is currently owned by insiders. Analysts Set New Price Targets Check Out Our Latest Stock Analysis on Amkor Technology Amkor Technology Price Performance AMKR stock opened at $26.44 on Friday. The company has a quick ratio of 1.84, a current ratio of 2.06 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21. The firm has a market cap of $6.52 billion, a P/E ratio of 17.86 and a beta of 1.85. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $28.50 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $32.51. Amkor Technology, Inc. has a 12 month low of $24.10 and a 12 month high of $44.86. Amkor Technology ( NASDAQ:AMKR – Get Free Report ) last released its quarterly earnings data on Monday, October 28th. The semiconductor company reported $0.49 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.50 by ($0.01). Amkor Technology had a net margin of 5.68% and a return on equity of 8.98%. The firm had revenue of $1.86 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.84 billion. During the same period last year, the business earned $0.54 EPS. The company’s revenue was up 2.2% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, analysts anticipate that Amkor Technology, Inc. will post 1.42 earnings per share for the current fiscal year. Amkor Technology Increases Dividend The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, December 23rd. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, December 4th will be given a dividend of $0.0827 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, December 4th. This represents a $0.33 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.25%. This is a boost from Amkor Technology’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.08. Amkor Technology’s dividend payout ratio is 22.30%. Amkor Technology Profile ( Free Report ) Amkor Technology, Inc provides outsourced semiconductor packaging and test services in the United States, Japan, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It offers turnkey packaging and test services, including semiconductor wafer bump, wafer probe, wafer back-grind, package design, packaging, system-level and final test, and drop shipment services; flip chip scale package products for smartphones, tablets, and other mobile consumer electronic devices; flip chip stacked chip scale packages that are used to stack memory digital baseband, and as applications processors in mobile devices; flip-chip ball grid array packages for various networking, storage, computing, automotive, and consumer applications; and memory products for system memory or platform data storage. See Also Want to see what other hedge funds are holding AMKR? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Amkor Technology, Inc. ( NASDAQ:AMKR – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for Amkor Technology Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Amkor Technology and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .Asia’s middle distillates markets remained upbeat, with a slew of physical deals on window evident and Vitol being the key buyer, though sales from northeast Asian refiners for December spot cargoes remained scant and price fluctuations were minimal. Traders were still waiting to see whether spot sales will start emerging from the handful of northeast Asian refiners and if volumes will change month on month, though China volumes are expected to remain curtailed. Concerns about swing supplies heading over to Asia remained, given the limited east-west arbitrage profitability for refiners. Overall, the region’s supply losses from planned refinery maintenance for the first quarter next year is likely to be lighter year on year, one trade source said. Meanwhile for jet fuel/kerosene, Japan’s imports for December are likely to remain elevated given some stocking up ahead of winter heating demand and slightly lowered production from some refinery maintenance as well as production troubles. Refining margins GO10SGCKMc1 rebounded and climbed to around $15 a barrel, reflecting strength in the paper markets following a knee-jerk reaction to crude price gains. Cash differentials GO10-SIN-DIF closed the trading session slightly lower at a premium of 31 cents a barrel, with lower-priced sellers still evident in the spot market for end-December cargoes. Regrade JETREG10SGMc1 held its ground at a premium of around 25 cents a barrel. – Four gasoil deals, no jet fuel deals – Oil prices climbed on Monday after the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime introduced greater uncertainty to the Middle East, although the gains were capped by a waning demand outlook for the coming year. – Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest crude oil exporter, has cut its January 2025 prices for Asian buyers to the lowest level since early 2021, it said on Sunday, as weak demand from top importer China weighs on the market. – China will implement more proactive fiscal policy and moderately loose monetary policy next year, and step up “unconventional” counter-cyclical adjustments, state media reported on Monday, citing a Politburo meeting. – China’s car sales grew 16.6% in November from a year earlier, its fastest pace since January, as government-subsidised auto trade-ins gather steam near the end of the year. Source: Reuters (Reporting by Trixie Yap)

Percentages: FG .375, FT .563. 3-Point Goals: 5-14, .357 (Gaten 2-2, Carver 1-2, Smith 1-2, Forrester-Jhagroo 1-4, Beckwith 0-1, Cunningham 0-1, Marion 0-2). Team Rebounds: 0. Team Turnovers: 3. Blocked Shots: 2 (Gaten, Smith). Turnovers: 16 (Beckwith 3, Forrester-Jhagroo 3, Cunningham 2, Fulp 2, Marion, Peacock, Robinson, Sidney, Smith, Sucarichi). Steals: 4 (Fulp 2, Cunningham, Smith). Technical Fouls: None. Percentages: FG .439, FT .789. 3-Point Goals: 8-25, .320 (Johnston 2-3, Williams 2-3, Hausen 1-1, Pettiford 1-1, Giffa 1-3, K.Hamilton 1-3, Fonville 0-1, Thiam 0-2, Anderson 0-3, Benham 0-5). Team Rebounds: 1. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 10 (Ibukunoluwa 4, Bodo Bodo 3, Matlekovic 2, K.Hamilton). Turnovers: 9 (Johnston 2, Williams 2, Bodo Bodo, Giffa, K.Hamilton, Pettiford, Thiam). Steals: 8 (Ibukunoluwa 3, Williams 2, Bodo Bodo, Johnston, K.Hamilton). Technical Fouls: None. A_1,846 (4,500).EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — J.K. Dobbins will miss at least the next four games after the Los Angeles Chargers placed the running back on injured reserve Saturday. The team also placed safety Alohi Gilman on injured reserve and signed safety Tony Jefferson to the active roster. Dobbins sprained the MCL in his left knee late in the first half of the Chargers’ 30-23 loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Monday. Dobbins is fourth in the AFC in rushing with 766 yards and averages 4.8 yards per carry, third highest among AFC running backs with at least 100 carries. He has been considered among the candidates for AP Comeback Player of the Year after suffering a torn Achilles tendon in last season’s opener. Gus Edwards will be counted on to be the lead back in Dobbins' absence. Edwards missed four games during the middle of the season because of an ankle injury and has 25 carries for 93 yards in three games since returning to the lineup. The Chargers are 7-4 and hold the sixth seed in the AFC going into Sunday's game at NFC South leader Atlanta (6-5). Los Angeles is at Kansas City (10-1) in a prime-time game on Dec. 8, hosts Tampa Bay (5-6) on Dec. 15 and Denver (7-5) on Dec. 19. Gilman suffered a hamstring injury in the loss to the Ravens. He has 47 tackles, which is fifth on the team, along with one sack. Los Angeles also elevated cornerback Dicaprio Bootle and linebacker Jeremiah Jean-Baptiste from the practice squad for Sunday’s game. Get local news delivered to your inbox!

Mikel Arteta returned from a visit to see Arsenal’s owners over the international break determined to turn up the temperature and ignite his side’s stuttering title challenge. The head coach was in an animated mood as he warmed up for a crucial run of fixtures, with the emphasis on playing with fire in the belly in Saturday afternoon’s home game against Nottingham Forest. Arteta talked of the intensity going up in training this week and he has emerged from a trip to the USA for talks with the club’s hierarchy confident that Arsenal, whose injury problems have eased after four games without a win in the league, can cut a nine-point gap to Liverpool at the top. “It’s a joy to have the owners that we have,” Arteta said. “I’m very open and critical with myself and try to put things on the table straight away. I think it’s very important that we all feel comfortable and uncomfortable. “And this sport and the demands that we have sometimes put the temperature up a little bit, sometimes bring it down and everybody needs it. I’m the first that needs that. And not only from the owners – from the coaches, from the players, media, it’s great to have that. So you are always seeking to be the best and evaluate and judge yourself in the right way.” Arteta does not mind the pressure going up. He grinned when he was asked about the temperature at the club now. “Very good,” Arteta said. “Like Mallorca in June.” Expectations have gone up and Arteta suggested he would be in trouble if he did not live up to them. “It’s about delivering with that expectation time and time and time again. Which is only one way to fulfil that expectation: winning big trophies, that’s it. Anything else is going to be ...” Arteta trailed off and made a choking sound. Arsenal hope to have Bukayo Saka, Declan Rice and Leandro Trossard available, and Riccardo Calafiori is back training after a knee injury. But Ben White faces an extended spell on the sidelines after surgery and Takehiro Tomiyasu has a knee problem. It has been a challenging period and Arsenal have been rocked by the , their sporting director. Edu is expected to join the network of clubs spearheaded by Evangelos Marinakis, Forest’s owner. “I can talk about what we are doing right now,” Arteta said, “and I’m going to be very much involved in that process because we want to find the right person first of all. The right person has to be someone who is able to cooperate and make each other better and take us to a different level.” Arteta had urged his players to show their teeth after the two weeks ago. He saw a mentality shift in that game. “Last year we were losing 2-0 [at Chelsea] and we score for 2-2,” he said. “Just watch the footage of how we celebrate the goal. This season you go out there and score 1-0 and look how we celebrate the goal. It is about raising expectations higher. You are not satisfied. This team wants more and more, that even if we win and win and win they are going to be willing to do more.”Trump expected to offer Kelly Loeffler secretary of Agriculture

Chinese smartphone makers have the habit of creating sub-brands for different areas of the market. This was quite a trend back in 2019 with the rise of multiple sub-brands. Realme, for example, was born as a lineup from Oppo but quickly evolved to become a sub-brand. With the success of Realme, we saw Xiaomi kicking Redmi out of its wings for a separate venture in the mid-range and cost-effective flagship market. Vivo later brought iQOO as its subsidiary which has a great focus on raw power and hardware. Now, it seems that the latter is aiming to introduce a new sub-brand. Vivo Y-series and V-series to become Jovi in some regions According to the report, Vivo’s new sub-brand will be Jovi. The name will sound familiar to Vivo fans because the company has been using the name for its and some system apps. Now, it seems that Jovi is ready to become a smartphone brand. The information was acquired by Smartprix after digging into the records of the GSMA database. These show three upcoming Vivo smartphones using the Jovi brand. There will be a Jovi V50 with model number V2427, and Jovi V50 Lite 5G with module number V2440. Another device is the Jovi Y39 5G with the model number V2444. apparently, we will see Vivo reusing the usual V and Y found on some of its own smartphones. One intriguing fact might suggest that the brand has big plans for the Jovi smartphones. After all, the Jovi V50 and the Vivo V50 share the same model number. The same happens with the Jovi V50 Lite 5G and the Vivo V50 Lite 5G. Jovi will start with simple rebrands of existing Vivo smartphones. Some brands like Xiaomi’s POCO have adopted a similar strategy. Redmi launches its K-series flagships only in China, then POCO rebrands them under its F and X series. While the deployment of Vivo’s new sub-brand seems to be imminent, nothing is official before Vivo’s confirmation. GSMA database is reliable, but Vivo can still change its mind before an official announcement. For now, we will need to wait. Interestingly, there were Will the new brand come with new software skin for Android that replaces FuntouchOS? Time will tell.

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