Jean Kim

It’s been hard for investors and other tech players to put a firm value on one of the fastest-growing area of the consumer internet, social-messaging apps like WhatsApp and Line. In February, Facebook said it was paying $19 billion for WhatsApp, a price many found risibly high. Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten bought Viber—a similar app— around the same time for $900 million. The other top social messaging apps are either owned by a huge listed parent company such as Tencent or in private hands.

With its government debt at 172% of its GDP, Greece’s economy is far from recovered from its debt crisis. Its unemployment rate still lingers above 27%, as it has since March of 2013. And while it has seen an improvement from last year’s negative account balance and the central bank has high hopes to exit the recession this year, the country’s current balance is just under 1% of its GDP.

Somewhere in the South China Sea, an oil tanker carrying 1,160 barrels of fuel went missing on July 4. The Honduran vessel the Moresby 9 was boarded by attackers, and by the time the Indonesian navy arrived, it had disappeared. Its location is still unknown. The apparent hijacking appears to be the latest in a string by highly skilled pirates who troll the region looking for one specific thing: oil.