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• The lesser have been segmented into various types: solid lasers, gas lasers, liquid lasers, and other types (photonic crystal laser, and industrial short-pulse laser).
• Laser technology facilitates data transmission over long distances with minimal signal loss and high reliability, essential for modern communication infrastructures.
• Telecommunications networks rely extensively on laser technology for various applications, including optical communication systems, fiber optic transmission, and network infrastructure.
• The report profiles key players in laser technology companies such Coherent (US), Trumpf (Germany), Han's Laser Technology Industry Group Co., Ltd (China), IPG Photonics (US) and Jenoptik AG (Germany), and others.

• CHICAGO, April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Trilogy Real Estate Group , a Chicago-based real estate investment and property management firm, announced today that Erica Blue has joined the company as product specialist and assistant territory manager.
• "We are building a top-tier sales team to support our growing investment platform and are pleased that Erica has joined forces with us," said Matt Leiter, chief financial officer for Trilogy Real Estate Group.
• "Erica has an impressive track record and a passion for real estate that make her ideally suited for this opportunity."
• Trilogy Real Estate Group acquires, develops and manages properties across the Midwest and the Southeast, and has sponsored more than 16 investment offerings, including DSTs and qualified opportunity zone funds.

• CHICAGO, April 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Bunny is bringing a new twist to the freezer aisle with the launch of Twist pints!
• Twist pints join Blue Bunny's popular Twist Cones, delivering a fun twist of flavors to treat-loving tastebuds nationwide.
• "The overwhelmingly positive response to launching Twist Cones fueled our determination to take the dual-flavored soft serve experience to the next level with Twist pints," said Jeremy Hrynewycz, Brand Marketing Director at Blue Bunny.
• Throughout April, Blue Bunny is partnering with Great Wolf Lodge to launch Twist pints in a way only Blue Bunny can: by executing Twisted Taste Tests across the country.

• In fact, physical sales are so healthy that HMV has risen from the ashes and returned to its flagship store on Oxford Street.
• According to Lawrence Montgomery, the managing director of Rough Trade record stores, Swift owes her success in part to appealing to a younger contingent of fans by turning her albums into collectables.
• She has done this through the release of multiple alternate album covers or disc colours.
• A few days later, another special edition, with a fourth bonus track, was made available.

The special ones

• Ariana Grande’s Eternal Sunshine album, released in March 2024 came in five CD and six vinyl variants, as well as a deluxe edition.
• Perhaps the most troubling aspect of all this is how children are being targeted as consumers of these expensive products.
• Researchers have observed that Swift’s 2019 album, Lover, was focused on a “tween identity”.

Cross-generational collecting

• Millennials like me are also being suckered in by the allure of special editions.
• I’m a Beatles and Pink Floyd fan, and I’m not oblivious to the numerous re-releases both acts have been party to over the decades.
• I have three copies of Abbey Road, three White Albums, three versions of Let it Be, and more editions of McCartney than anyone rightfully needs.
• And yes, I’ve bought them, even though I already own more than one copy of each.

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Glenn Fosbraey does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.