Today, more women than ever are enjoying poker in person and online, and many female players are professionals who earn millions. Online poker makes practicing easy, and it lets novices avoid high stakes casinos. Most female players say their success comes from spending plenty of time learning about the game before sitting at a table in person. Here are some of the women who are overtaking the poker world.

1. Annette Obrestad

Annette Obrestad became the youngest player to win a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet in 2007, before her 19th birthday. She’s Norwegian, and she’s been playing since she was 15. She used nothing but her online winnings to fund her career, and she has earned over $4 million so far.

2. Vanessa Selbst

Vanessa Selbst is the highest-earning woman in poker, a Yale graduate, and a Fulbright scholar. She has three World Series of Poker bracelets, and she has earned more than $11 million employing poker strategy to outsmart her opponents at the poker table. In 2010, she founded Venture Justice, a charity that uses her poker winnings to help young entrepreneurs start new nonprofits.

3. Vanessa Rousso

Vanessa Rousso has been a famous player for over a decade, and she’s earned more than $3.5 million so far by playing live poker. Vanessa has made over $1 million online as well. She used her poker fame to become a spokeswoman for GoDaddy and a contestant on Big Brother in 2015.

4. Liv Boeree

Liv Boeree is a TV presenter and model from Manchester, England, who has a degree in astrophysics. She became well-known when she appeared on a reality show in 2005. After learning more about poker, she attended the World Series of Poker in 2006 in Las Vegas. In 2008, she won the Ladbrokes European Ladies Championships. Then, in 2010, won the European Poker Tour in San Remo, Italy, for $1,650,000. Few women had ever won a pot that size, and the victory launched her name into the headlines of mainstream and poker media.

Liv has won more than $3 million in live games, and she enjoys traveling the world. She spends a few months playing in Las Vegas every year. She says that there’s a lot of camaraderie among her fellow players, and everyone loves to have fun. However, the play is still cutthroat and exciting.

5. Maria Ho

Maria Ho was born in Taiwan, and she grew up in the United States. She’s won more than $2.5 million, and she’s had cashouts in 55 WSOPs and 14 World Poker Tour events. She also finished as the Last Woman Standing in the WSOP’s main event in 2007, 2011, and 2014. She was nominated for the Bluff Reader’s Choice Favorite Female Player award three times.

Maria also competed in The Amazing Race reality show. She’s a TV host and commentator for many poker shows, including NBC Sports’ Super High Roller Bowl, CBS Sports’ The Final Table, and seasons nine and 10 of the Heartland Poker Tour. This skilled player was inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame in 2018, the first year she was nominated.

Soon, there will be many more women cashing in through online and live poker.

Philips, a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that aims to provide the best in class, seamless and a unique audio experience, has today announced the availability of two new soundbars HTL3320 & HTL3310 with Dolby Digital for ultimate movie experience.

Mr. Arun Menon, Country Business Head, Philips Branded Television and Audio, TPV Technology India Pvt. Ltd. Said that Philips is always working hard to provide the best audio range of devices. Philips has a broad spectrum of offerings and focuses on creating personalized user experiences through innovative and stylish products such as the soundbars. The  HTL3320 and HTL3310 soundbars are wireless sub-woofer significantly enhancing the bass, the soundbar delivers a beautifully balanced sound along with crystal clear dialogue.

The soundbar HTL3320 comes with 3.1 CH & 300W output while the soundbar HTL3310 comes with 2.1CH & 160 W output.  Both of these soundbar deliver high-quality audio experience and are equipped with twin tweeters and virtual surround sound technology. Speaking about the performance, the speakers provide an optimum high-fidelity performance by producing rich and immersive surround sound.

Features/Specifications:

1. Philips soundbars are stylish in design. They are compact and boost the audio performance when connected with television, DVD players, gaming consoles and MP3 players.
2. The soundbars come with virtual surround sound that produces rich and immersive sound from less than five-speaker system.
3. The “Audio In” feature allows the users to easily play their music directly from their iPod/iPhone/iPad, MP3 player, or laptop via a simple connection to their home cinema. The only thing that the users need to do is to connect their audio device to the “Audio in” jack to enjoy their choice of music with the superior sound quality of the Philips home cinema system.
4. The EasyLink feature allows the users to control multiple devices like DVD players, Blu-ray players, soundbar speaker, Home theater and TV’s, etc. with one remote.
5. It features Dolby Digital, the world’s leading digital multi-channel audio standards.

Price and Availability:

The price of HTL3320 is Rs. 20, 990 and the price of HTL3310 is Rs. 18, 990.  These soundbars by Philips will be available across leading online and offline partners from December 2019.

Helo is a social media platform that allows the users to create, upload, and share a variety of content like flashcards, GIFs, short videos, music bytes, jokes, memes, status updates, wishes, quotes, poetry, and news. It is one of the leading social media platforms in India that brings people together so that they can create and share content in their own native language. Helo is a platform that allows a diversity of people to connect with broader community. Earlier Helo was available in 15 different languages like Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and more. Now, Helo further strengthens its existing safety features and content moderation policies, making them available in 14 Indian regional languages. This is done just to provide a safe user experience for its users.

Shyamanga Barooah, Head of Content Operations, Helo, commented on these safety endeavors and said that maintaining a safe, secure, and positive in-app environment is the most important thing for Helo. This is the only reason why they continuously enhance and update their policies, safety tools, and online resources. He also added that just to make sure that fake news does not get promoted on the platform, Helo has collaborated with an independent, third-party fact-checker.

A recent partnership with an internationally acclaimed fact checker to counter misinformation and fake news is yet another step taken by Helo to further intensify its efforts in minimizing misinformation and fake news in the online community. It has partnered with third-party fact-checkers like the Jagran Group, certified by International Fact Check Network and Poynter Institute.

Helo has now also advanced its in-app safety measures with 13 new safety features that include In-app Reporting, Privacy Settings, Restricted Mode, Parental Control, and Comment Filter, to name a few.  The “ In-app reporting features allow:

1.  The users to have greater control over their feed

2. The users will be able to report content or profiles that violate the Community Guidelines.

To make the app more user-friendly, Helo offers the community guidelines in 14 Indian Languages, which includes Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya and more.  No doubt that the Helo’s working on providing in-app safe environment to its users is highly appreciable. This will only encourage the users to exchange their perspectives and sharing of information across a diverse array of cultures and beliefs.

Having a laptop is a blessing in disguise, whether you consider laptop rental in Chennai or make a new purchase. But more or less, it is just like other electronics that tend to run out into issues over time. Unfortunately, the problems in a laptop knock on your door when you are giving a finishing touch to a crucial task or in the middle of something important. Issues come and no one has control over them.

But what’s more important is to fix them before they turn into a nightmare. Check out a few problems that most people frequently face in their laptops and ways to fix them:

1. Laptop Slowdown

This is the issue that most laptop users often come across. But you need to figure out the real cause of laptop slowdown. In most cases, it is due to dumping your laptop with many files and programs. These programs run in the background and consume a lot of memory power, eventually causing the laptop to slow down. But there’s an easy way out! You just have to uninstall the programs you rarely use. Also, transferring your files that you no longer need to an external drive restores the laptop’s performance.

2. Automatic Shutdown

Is your laptop automatically shutting down for no reason? Most likely, the problem occurs due to overheating. When the dust accumulates in and around the fan in your laptop, it gives you nightmares with frequent automatic shutdowns. The best way to fix the issue is to clean your laptop’s fan thoroughly. Still, if the problem exists, try installing a new fan into your laptop to solve the issue.

3. Drained Battery

Usually, a laptop’s battery should last for hours. But in case it is getting drained in a few minutes of laptop use, then it’s a problem that you need to fix. Mostly, it happens when you run multiple programs at once that put a lot of strain on your laptop battery’s performance. To fix it, don’t open more than one or two tabs in the browser at once. Besides, you could also adjust the brightness levels by clicking the energy-saver option in the power settings.

4. Wi-Fi Connectivity Issues

Often, do you find it hard to connect to a Wi-Fi network? Sometimes, it happens if the airplane mode is switched on and it could be simply fixed by unchecking the option. But sometimes, issues are related to your network adapters. To fix them, navigate to the network adapters tab in your control panel settings and look for the wireless adapter. Enable it if it is disabled for now and it would prompt you to connect with your wireless network. Or, troubleshoot it to get the issue sorted out by the system.

The Key Takeaway

Technical issues are bound to happen, whether you have mobile on rent or a laptop of high configuration. Since it is more or less like an electronic item that needs to be maintained for performance. Just renting it out or buying it and ignoring the maintenance part won’t help if you don’t want the laptop problems to show up when you are in the middle of an urgent task. Some of the problems you can fix on your own like the ones mentioned here while your laptop rental service can look after the complicated laptop issues at no extra cost or a fraction of the price.

MG Motor India has launched the first electric vehicle in India named as MG ES EV. This vehicle is directly unveiled from the company’s stable, and it is certainly a very bold move by the brand. MG ES EV is the second offering from MG Motor, India. It is an all-electric SUV that comes to India with the same specifications as the one sold in the UK. However, the company is assembling the electric car at its Halol plant in Gujarat. This electric vehicle will be priced aggressively and, it will compete with the Hyundai Kona when prices are announced in January 2020.

About the Exterior Design of MG ZS Electric SUV:

1. It is a compact SUV and the dimensions tell more about the compactness of the car.
2. The car is longer than the Hyundai Creta, but it is smaller than the MG Hector. It is 4314mm long, 1809 mm wide and 1620mm tall with the wheelbase of 2579mm that provide a decent space at the rear end.
3. If only the looks are concerned than this vehicle is more of a crossover than an SUV.
4. It sports a wide chrome stud grille flanked by projector headlamps.
5. The rear part of the vehicle is equipped with LED taillamps just below the raked windscreen and the license plate area has been moved down to the bumper, so the rear does look a bit understated, though it looks good on the car and goes well with the overall proportions.

About the Interior Design of MG ZS Electric SUV:

1. The car comes with a neat and uncluttered cabin with not much contouring on the dash and few buttons on the central console. But the fit and finish is pretty good.
2. The cabin is finished in black color and then there are silver inserts on the dash, door pads and circular air-con vents on both ends which gives the vehicle a royal and premium feel.
3. The vehicle comes with an 8-inch touchscreen system with Apple Carplay, Android Auto connectivity
4. It comes with a flat-bottomed steering wheel, USB mobile charging at the front and rear, Bluetooth functionality and even a rear-view camera.
5. It comes with a panoramic sunroof.
6. The vehicle is equipped within Smart EV 2.0 connected car technology which makes it a connected car.
7. It comes with an APM 2.5 air filter which can bring bad air quality level of up to 300 AQI down to regular levels in just 35 mins.

Specifications:

1. The vehicle gets a 5 kWh battery pack that promises a range of 340 km on a single charge. The lithium-ion unit can be charged up to 80 percent in 40 minutes with a 50 kW DC charger, or takes up to seven hours with a standard 7.4 kW charger.
2. The battery system used in the new ZS EV is IP67 certified making it water and dustproof.
3. The company provides an onboard charging cable for 15 amp plugin in order to charge the battery of the vehicle. There’s also the option of Charge on the go, which is a roadside assistance in partnership with Allianz.

The ZS EV will be launched in 5 cities of India and MG Motors has partnered with Fortum India to set up a 50 kW DC fast charging infrastructure at the locations the ZS EV will be on sale. Not only this much, the company has also partnered with Exicom Tele-Systems for second-life use of ZS EV batteries.

At some point in time, every business reaches out to a bank in order to secure a long-term business loan. Whether the business needs money to grow and expand its operations or purchase the latest equipment, there can be many reasons why a business may need a long-term loan.

However, acquiring a business loan does not promise business survival or long-term growth because heavy interest payments can disrupt the entire game. A lack of planning can put the survival of your business at stake because making periodic interest payments as well as repaying the loan is definitely not a piece of cake.

Many businesses fail after a few years of acquiring a large loan-term loan, mainly due to their inability to pay it off.  In order to make sure your business doesn’t fall in this category, let’s have a look at these 7 effective tips to survive with a long-term business loan.

1.   Cut unnecessary spending

Managing business expenses is essential to ensuring the smooth progress and survival of your business. Firstly, begin by monitoring the existing costs of your business and consider how they can be reduced. For instance, if you are required to pay heavy shipping costs when sourcing raw materials from a distant supplier, consider purchasing from a local supplier instead. By reducing any unnecessary expenditure, you can increase profits.

Moreover, there’s always some room to cut back on operational expenses such as bills and utilities, or cleaning and office supplies. For example, electricity expenses can be reduced by turning off any lights, heating, and cooling when not in use. Reducing other expenses will result in savings, giving the business the money to cover long term businesses loans repayment and interest expense.

2.   Manage your cash flow

Most businesses use long-term loans to expand and grow. Make sure you achieve this objective, despite the temporary strain interest payments are likely to put on your cash flows. You have to grow your business no matter what and managing your cash flow efficiently will allow you to achieve this goal.

Start by making cash flow forecasts showing how the loan is going to affect your cash flows. If you are going to earn additional revenue as a result of growth, incorporate that into your cash inflows. Also, account for the increase in cash outflows due to interest payments. The goal should be to prevent a cash shortfall as a result of the loan because this could risk the survival of the business. Consider whether the loan is an option the business can afford in the long run, or whether a plan B is needed.

3.   Automate Payments

Running a business and taking care of all its affairs is not easy – there’s so much to look after and so many operations to handle. In such a situation, automating your payments can significantly reduce some of your burdens. This will ensure that the payment is deducted from your bank account automatically as soon as it is due, without being of any trouble to you.

After all, we all are humans and tend to forget things. But forgetting interest payments and repayments can be a costly mistake. The penalties for late payment can be significant for some loans.

4.   Shop around for the best rates

When seeking a long-term loan, it is always a good idea to approach different banks and private lenders and see who is offering you the best deal. Each institution is likely to have several different loan options with varying interest rates and terms and conditions.

By taking your time to do your research, you can find the best rates, which can help you save a significant amount of over the life of the loan.

5.   Try to pay off the loan early

Long-term loans are not simple; every loan comes with different terms and conditions as well as different interest rates. Some loans carry high-interest rates and hence, it’s always a good idea to get off them off your back as soon as possible to reduce the overall cost to the business over the life of the loan.

While it may seem difficult to pay off a loan earlier than you have to, you can save significant money in the process. Just make sure there are no penalties for early repayment before you sign the contract.

6.   Make sure you understand the terms and conditions’

Most businesses are in a hurry when it comes to acquiring a loan. After all, who doesn’t want money quickly? However, it is very important to study the terms and conditions associated with the loan in detail before you sign the agreement in order to avoid any unpleasant surprises later on. Many business owners are too quick to say yes to a loan, only to realize a few months down the line that it was a big mistake.

Make sure you go through the due dates for payments, penalties for late payments, and any other charges so that you know what you are getting yourself into and can prepare accordingly.

7.   Try not to extend the loan term

Some businesses try to extend the time period over which the loan is to be repaid, in an attempt to reduce the amount payable each month so that it is easier for the business to manage. However, this strategy will only increase your overall cost associated with the loan in the long term (i.e. more time means more interest). Thus, it is best avoided unless the business is in a really difficult financial situation. Some planning and discipline are all you need to effectively manage your long-term loan while keeping costs down.

The Final Verdict

Surviving long term business loans is nothing less than a challenge. It is a long-term commitment that requires a significant amount of thought and consideration in order to be beneficial to the business. By keeping these 7 tips in mind, you can make sure your business thrives as a result of the additional funds, instead of running into financial trouble.