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2022 October
10/31/2022 - 🌍 Shrinking GDP and expanding inflation
10/31/2022 - It’ll take more than an exchange rate change to get Lebanon out of its deep crisis
10/31/2022 - Brutal reviews and Jamie’s exit: Why nothing can kill the “Halloween” franchise
10/31/2022 - Elon Musk doesn’t understand the purpose of Twitter’s blue checkmark
10/31/2022 - Rupert Murdoch is officially a remote worker now
10/31/2022 - An IMF deal is just the first stage in resolving Ghana’s crisis
10/31/2022 - Being denied internal mobility is the second-most reason employees quit. Here's what companies can do.
10/31/2022 - Ford is dropping production of its most popular car to focus on EVs
10/31/2022 - A British-era bridge collapsed in India, killing 141—just five days after renovation work
10/31/2022 - 🌎 Twitter's Musk era begins
10/31/2022 - Trader Joe’s United’s first loss is further proof that unionizing isn’t easy
10/31/2022 - Elon Musk’s first test of how to handle misinformation on Twitter is not going well
10/30/2022 - 🌍 A Halloween tragedy
10/30/2022 - Egypt’s economic engine is under threat from climate change
10/29/2022 - Alphabet's soups
10/28/2022 - SPACs: Where are they now?
10/28/2022 - Blowing satellites up is harder than Putin would have you believe
10/28/2022 - So long for now, TWTR
10/28/2022 - Brazil’s election winner will play a key role in the climate crisis
10/28/2022 - Egypt doesn’t want its human rights record on the COP27 agenda
10/28/2022 - China wants its homegrown logistics giants to take on FedEx and UPS
10/28/2022 - Amazon Web Services grew more slowly than ever, but that’s OK
10/28/2022 - 🌎 Monster mortgage rates
10/28/2022 - With Rishi Sunak, east Africa is having another Obama moment
10/28/2022 - The US housing market’s stagnation has gotten even worse
10/28/2022 - Three Indian cryptocurrency companies are mired in a drug trade investigation
10/28/2022 - North American lumber is moving south
10/28/2022 - India's female cricketers, who once paid to play, will now earn as much as men
10/28/2022 - Google is in a world of trouble from governments everywhere
10/27/2022 - 🌍 Up, up, and away
10/27/2022 - Peak fossil fuel use just came into sight
10/27/2022 - The US's third-quarter GDP growth obscures a slowdown in the economy
10/27/2022 - Samsung heir Jay Y. Lee sidestepped legal troubles to fill his father’s shoes
10/27/2022 - Elon Musk realized he needs Twitter’s advertisers
10/27/2022 - The Nile Delta isn’t ready for climate change
10/27/2022 - Rents in the US are finally set to decline
10/27/2022 - 🌎 Bond rush
10/27/2022 - The ways in which Elon Musk could change Twitter on the inside and on the outside
10/27/2022 - MTN is holding Africa's first metaverse music concert
10/27/2022 - Ford and Volkswagen hit reverse gear on self-driving cars
10/27/2022 - The four-day workweek: When is less truly more?
10/27/2022 - Interest in the four-day workweek has exploded, but does it live up to the hype?
10/26/2022 - 🌍 Too much gas
10/26/2022 - The guy who inspired the "quiet quitting" movement is back to working 50 hours a week
10/26/2022 - Taylor Swift’s new album success crowned her the queen of vinyl
10/26/2022 - Day of the Dead: Tradition, reborn
10/26/2022 - Space Business: Dealbook
10/26/2022 - America’s GDP growth numbers will tell a tale of two economies
10/26/2022 - Ghana’s currency is slumping because of its dollar-buying spree
10/26/2022 - The number of US households on SNAP benefits ordering groceries online has doubled since 2021
10/26/2022 - Behind the scenes of my trans transition at work
10/26/2022 - India's curbs on Alphabet are a blessing for local payment providers
10/26/2022 - 🌎 Big Tech slows down
10/26/2022 - Businesses must first admit their part in biodiversity loss to be able to fight it
10/26/2022 - ✦ Financing smallholder farmers in Malawi
10/26/2022 - YouTube became the latest casualty of Big Tech's ad revenue retreat
10/26/2022 - India's desert state is getting wetter—and that's not good news
10/26/2022 - India jailed a British Aramco executive for using a satellite phone
10/25/2022 - 🌍 China’s $1 trillion deficit
10/25/2022 - Italy's first female prime minister will use the masculine form of her title
10/25/2022 - Trans-inclusive workplaces: 5 considerations for companies
10/25/2022 - Rishi Sunak opted for continuity in his speech and cabinet appointments
10/25/2022 - Creating a trans-inclusive workplace
10/25/2022 - As the deadline for the Twitter-Musk deal approaches, 3 questions remain
10/25/2022 - Are microcredentials the key to your career pivot?
10/25/2022 - 6 million people in Tigray are facing a healthcare crisis big enough to hasten a genocide
10/25/2022 - Social media is creating a new era of resumes—what hiring teams can learn
10/25/2022 - 🌎 The Huawei plot thickens
10/25/2022 - Will Meta and Twitter settle the debate over founder power?
10/25/2022 - Adidas has realized it was time to boot Ye
10/25/2022 - US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg on the psychological hurdles for EVs and self-driving cars
10/25/2022 - A Meta investor recommends the company tighten its belt with more layoffs and less metaverse
10/25/2022 - Rishi Sunak and his wife are richer than King Charles
10/25/2022 - Why are rich Indians unable to get rid of hazardous plastic?
10/25/2022 - Indians on a shopping spree give credit cards a 70% boost
10/24/2022 - US commodities chief thinks most cryptocurrencies are securities
10/24/2022 - Chinese spies charged with trying to thwart Huawei investigation
10/24/2022 - Kenya is under pressure to investigate the killing of a renowned Pakistani journalist
10/24/2022 - Why has the US raised alarms of possible terror attacks in Nigeria’s capital?
10/24/2022 - Soccer can transform the African cultural and creative ecosystem
10/24/2022 - Rishi Sunak set to become the UK's first non-white prime minister—and its richest
10/24/2022 - 🌎 Third time's an alarm
10/24/2022 - The Mobileye IPO can’t save Intel-in-distress
10/23/2022 - 🌍 The Sunak era
10/23/2022 - 🌍 Round three for Xi
10/23/2022 - WhatsApp clone apps are a hacker’s dream
10/22/2022 - A quarter of US adults under 30 now get their news from TikTok
10/22/2022 - Pfizer plans to sell its covid vaccine at a 10,000% markup in 2023
10/22/2022 - The Great British Wank Off
10/21/2022 - What to Watch For: Taylor Swift's "Midnights" vinyl sales
10/21/2022 - Scientists think covid might trigger diabetes in children
10/21/2022 - The US Mint gave Hollywood legend Anna May Wong long overdue recognition
10/21/2022 - Candy prices are up 13.1% with Halloween right around the corner
10/21/2022 - The Memo: Special Edition on Workplace Technology
10/21/2022 - 🌎 Housing headache
10/21/2022 - Kenya's new stance on GMOs is pitting politicians against scientists
10/21/2022 - A chess prodigy is suing his rivals and Chess.com for $100 million
10/21/2022 - Climate activists are slamming Egypt's record on human rights ahead of COP27
10/21/2022 - India's insurance regulator has set a deadline to cover mental health
10/21/2022 - An unprecedented boom makes Russia India’s seventh biggest trading partner
10/21/2022 - Asia's richest man is also India's seventh-biggest philanthropist
10/20/2022 - Musk plans to cut nearly 75 percent of Twitter’s workforce
10/20/2022 - 🌍 A chaotic 44 days
10/20/2022 - Rich countries are destroying covid vaccines they hoarded while much of the world still waits for their first shot
10/20/2022 - 4 ways to create, use, maximize, and sustain your time
10/20/2022 - US home buyers and sellers are facing the worst market in a decade
10/20/2022 - Why the UK can't easily call a general election to replace Liz Truss
10/20/2022 - In freaking out about Truss's plans, the markets did their job
10/20/2022 - The UK media's Liz Truss vs. lettuce watch was as brilliant as it was ruthless
10/20/2022 - Opinion | Some CEOs demand a return to office; why women leaders I know aren’t
10/20/2022 - Liz Truss has resigned after 44 days in power that plunged the UK into chaos
10/20/2022 - A final word about UNGA 2022
10/20/2022 - 🌎 Aluminum alert
10/20/2022 - Reports of child labor and engine recalls weigh on Hyundai ahead of earnings
10/20/2022 - An aluminum bellwether’s unexpected loss added to recession concerns
10/20/2022 - India is now ever more
dependent on Chinese imports despite seeking self-reliance
10/19/2022 - 🌍 Sticker shock
10/19/2022 - The WHO is done playing nice about vaccine equity
10/19/2022 - Edgar Allan Poe: A gig economy horror story
10/19/2022 - Ghanaian traders are locking shops to protest 37% inflation and a slumping currency
10/19/2022 - Space Business: Rescue Rangers
10/19/2022 - Receiving child ID DNA kits takes a new meaning in the aftermath of the Uvalde shooting
10/19/2022 - Why it's hard to close the pay gap and what to do about it
10/19/2022 - 3 behaviors to command respect (and more pay) at work
10/19/2022 - 7 questions to audit the pay gap at your company
10/19/2022 - 2 ways to position yourself to earn more money
10/19/2022 - Pay equity: how defined strategy, goals, and audits can help
10/19/2022 - 🌎 Switch on the oil tap
10/19/2022 - Dipping into its oil reserves is America’s strongest response to OPEC cuts for now
10/19/2022 - COP27 is all about the money
10/19/2022 - Amazon Labor Union won't accept its second election loss lying down
10/19/2022 - ✦ Rise of the Super Apps
10/19/2022 - Has the pressure to perform turned Ola Electric into a toxic workplace?
10/19/2022 - India's festival-time gold obsession hasn't lit up in 2022
10/19/2022 - Reliance Jio is now India's largest fixed-line service provider
10/18/2022 - 🌍 No trust in Truss
10/18/2022 - After posting huge subscriber gains, Netflix says revenue is the metric that matters
10/18/2022 - Shein's new resale platform won't do much to quell sustainability complaints
10/18/2022 - Uganda has the most promising financial sector in eastern Africa
10/18/2022 - The world is burning. Can Silicon Valley put out megafires?
10/18/2022 - The making of America’s fifth-largest airline faces a crucial shareholder vote
10/18/2022 - Meta was ordered to sell off its GIF empire
10/18/2022 - Twitch and YouTube streamers made gaming network G4TV obsolete
10/18/2022 - 🌎 Live, laugh, loan forgive
10/18/2022 - A judge has axed America’s first and only state digital ad tax
10/18/2022 - Biden’s plan for student loans forgiveness goes live
10/18/2022 - The EU’s gas price cap treads a thin line between flexible and chaotic
10/18/2022 - A lack of financing could hinder India’s shift towards a low-carbon economy
10/18/2022 - Pay transparency: A double-edged sword
10/18/2022 - Everything you need to know before embarking on salary transparency
10/17/2022 - 🌏 Where’s China’s GDP data?
10/17/2022 - The Africa CDC chief had trouble getting into Germany for the World Health Summit
10/17/2022 - When half of frontline workers want to quit, how do you retain them?
10/17/2022 - Does Ye know Parler does content moderation too?
10/17/2022 - Why are margarine prices so high?
10/17/2022 - Nigeria's worst floods in a decade have displaced over a million people
10/17/2022 - It’s not too late to address Roe v. Wade with your employees. Here’s how.
10/17/2022 - Somalia thinks censoring Al Shabaab media coverage will tame terrorism
10/17/2022 - Kicked off Instagram and Twitter, Ye wants to own right-wing social media app Parler
10/17/2022 - Liz Truss has been forced to comprehensively shred her divisive tax cut plans
10/17/2022 - 🌎 Musk's latest U-turn
10/17/2022 - Rules for entering Quartz’s podcast sweepstakes for a chance to win $200
10/17/2022 - The Starlink-Ukraine saga adds to Elon Musk’s history of flip-flopping, unnerving Tesla investors
10/17/2022 - China's delay of its third-quarter GDP data release augurs ill for its economy
10/17/2022 - India is taking digital banking to the poor with a new initiative
10/17/2022 - India is at least 99 new coal projects away from net zero
10/16/2022 - 🌍 Xi holds court
10/16/2022 - Egypt’s tech entrepreneurs take up the fight against climate change
10/15/2022 - Xi Jinping: Here comes treble
10/14/2022 - Unusually bold public dissent comes before Xi Jinping’s pivotal Party Congress meeting
10/14/2022 - The lack of appetite for fake meat means layoffs at Beyond Meat
10/14/2022 - AfroAtlas and Lufthansa have a plan to make African air travel cheaper
10/14/2022 - This building was designed to be the ultimate residence for the hybrid post-covid lifestyle
10/14/2022 - Five years on, the MeToo movement wants to go viral offline
10/14/2022 - The Fed is facing a housing Catch-22
10/14/2022 - Exercises like de-risking, pairing, and mobbing can make companies more agile and creative
10/14/2022 - About Quartz
10/14/2022 - Could software be the weak link in China's electric vehicle dominance?
10/14/2022 - UK prime minister resorts to major changes in a bid to calm markets and save her job
10/14/2022 - The NFT market is down by almost every metric
10/14/2022 - 🌎 The surging cost of health insurance
10/14/2022 - The world’s largest academic endowment fund lost money for the first time in six years
10/14/2022 - The 2020 Tokyo Olympics corruption trail stains Japan’s corporate sector
10/13/2022 - 🌍 An oily tipping point
10/13/2022 - US health insurance prices went up nearly 30% over the past year
10/13/2022 - The WHO says gender-affirming care is essential to transgender health
10/13/2022 - Netflix’s budget-friendly subscription plan comes just in time for recession-minded viewers
10/13/2022 - An AI art demonstration for UK lawmakers ended on a terrifying note
10/13/2022 - All our theories about high inflation being temporary have turned out to be wrong
10/13/2022 - US banks post equal parts pessimism and preparedness this earnings season
10/13/2022 - How a fully remote team of 30 manages to create vibrant culture
10/13/2022 - Sub-Saharan Africa will livestream all World Cup matches for the first time ever
10/13/2022 - A US importer and Indian producer are under scrutiny for kidney deaths in the Gambia
10/13/2022 - Most companies with a climate goal have no plan for how to reach it
10/13/2022 - Inflation isn't hurting Pepsi
10/13/2022 - 🌎 Trump's SPAC leg up
10/13/2022 - Google Play Store approval gives the Trump SPAC deal a fleeting lifeline
10/13/2022 - Biden’s EV subsidies are creating winners and some seriously sore losers at home and abroad
10/13/2022 - India's edtech space is unable to keep up with post-pandemic setbacks
10/13/2022 - Feedback: Talk it out
10/13/2022 - Changes to feedback at work have been accelerated by the pandemic
10/12/2022 - 🌍 Europe, have you met covid?
10/12/2022 - Charcuterie: Global board meeting
10/12/2022 - Space Business: Ticket to Ride
10/12/2022 - Menopause: The cost of company ignorance
10/12/2022 - France flexes the law’s muscles as oil workers’ strike enters a third week
10/12/2022 - Workplaces serious about normalizing pregnancy should also be normalizing menopause
10/12/2022 - Menopause at work: What companies can learn from a health expert’s own experience
10/12/2022 - 5 scaled ways employers can address the costly impacts of menopause at work
10/12/2022 - Current cholera outbreaks are a preview of what climate change will do to public health
10/12/2022 - Menopause awareness month: 2 doctors talk cool-down rooms, menopause parties, and age-related bias
10/12/2022 - India's cheapest electric car is powering past safety concerns over EVs
10/12/2022 - 🌎 Gig economy's new test
10/12/2022 - Can SoftBank convince more restaurants to use robots?
10/12/2022 - Biden’s new labor rule tests the gig economy as we know it
10/12/2022 - A new podcast revisits China as the best model for Africa's development
10/12/2022 - ✦ The making of a Francophone unicorn
10/12/2022 - Bangladesh’s power crisis is an echo of the 1943 Bengal famine
10/11/2022 - Did Facebook price its most loyal VR customers out of the market for the Meta Quest Pro?
10/11/2022 - 🌍 The IMF hath spoken
10/11/2022 - What happened when NASA smashed into that asteroid
10/11/2022 - The US's estimate for uptake of the new covid booster was off by more than 90%
10/11/2022 - Don’t worry. Elon Musk will talk to antisemites on Twitter and express his concerns
10/11/2022 - The future of K-pop superstars BTS takes center stage in South Korea’s conscription debate
10/11/2022 - In Neom, Western executives have found their LIV golf league
10/11/2022 - A Dutch court says monitoring workers using webcams violates their human rights
10/11/2022 - Nigerian universities’ eight-month strike is nearing its end
10/11/2022 - Arianna Huffington on what quiet quitting asks of employees and employers
10/11/2022 - Peloton is trying to be everything, everywhere, all at once
10/11/2022 - An Amazon Labor Union leader is now taking the fight to her home warehouse
10/11/2022 - Why airline carbon offsets are mostly a sham
10/11/2022 - Kenya wants to use Tanzania's gas deposits to dominate east Africa's LPG market
10/11/2022 - 🌎 Pork on the docket
10/11/2022 - In challenging an animal welfare law, the pork industry questions how far states' rights extend
10/11/2022 - Tech startups are scrambling to save Egypt's farmers from climate change
10/11/2022 - Meta is teaching people VR is lame. ByteDance could be the one to change that.
10/11/2022 - India adds Mumbai airport to its 100% green list
10/10/2022 - 🌍 Russia goes next-level
10/10/2022 - The IMF is about to downgrade its economic growth forecast for a fourth time
10/10/2022 - 3 scaled child care benefits for companies
10/10/2022 - Want to support your employees' mental health at work? Try these science-based actions
10/10/2022 - An unprecedented number of Indians are trying to enter the US via Mexico
10/10/2022 - 🌎 Big earnings energy
10/10/2022 - The Nobel Prize in Economics offers a timely reminder of the nature of financial crises
10/10/2022 - Corporate America’s earnings will spell out the chances of a US recession
10/10/2022 - How India's proposed digital rupee would be different from cryptocurrency
10/9/2022 - 🌍 Xi’s next term awaits
10/9/2022 - How Google learned to love the African spirit of ‘ubuntu’
10/8/2022 - Swatch’s space-themed watches are helping it recover from its pandemic stumbles
10/8/2022 - Crypto laws are incoming
10/7/2022 - What we need to do about Uganda's Ebola outbreak should have happened years ago
10/7/2022 - The US labor market is resisting Fed rate hikes
10/7/2022 - Americans have run out of their pandemic savings at the wrong time
10/7/2022 - Juul’s going up in smoke. Is Puff Bar next?
10/7/2022 - Elon Musk will be miserable in the app economy
10/7/2022 - Reduce burnout and increase collaboration with 5 company actions
10/7/2022 - 🌎 Twitter deal's deadline
10/7/2022 - The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winners are fighting against dictatorial regimes
10/7/2022 - The $100 million Binance heist highlights once again crypto bridges’ vulnerabilities
10/7/2022 - How the Bengal Water Machine helped transform Bangladesh's economy
10/6/2022 - Judge gives Elon Musk and Twitter three weeks to close
10/6/2022 - 🌍 Tragedy in Thailand
10/6/2022 - The Hans Niemann cheating mystery might be exactly what chess needed
10/6/2022 - Biden just took the first step toward legitimizing the cannabis industry
10/6/2022 - Why the Fed’s hikes are not showing up in your savings account
10/6/2022 - Google’s $1 billion Africa investment is anchored on the ‘spirit of Ubuntu’
10/6/2022 - Power-hungry Europe is leaving developing countries starving for electricity
10/6/2022 - Shopify is quietly becoming a power player in offline retail too
10/6/2022 - Did Elon Musk really lose $80 million helping Ukraine?
10/6/2022 - Annie Ernaux, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a powerful voice in French feminism
10/6/2022 - The cost of living crisis has come for internet data plans in Nigeria
10/6/2022 - 🌎 OPEC+ cuts deep
10/6/2022 - OPEC’s oil cuts force the US to reconsider its foreign policy
10/6/2022 - Open banking could be what Africa needs to deepen financial inclusion
10/6/2022 - WHO says four Indian cough syrups may have caused the death of 66 Gambian children
10/6/2022 - Office design: Working towards joy
10/6/2022 - Architects are reviving the post-covid office space with hybrid workers in mind
10/5/2022 - 🌍 Big OPEC+ cuts
10/5/2022 - The Maine lobster issue demonstrates just how tricky sustainability is
10/5/2022 - Mockumentaries: For real?
10/5/2022 - Why Elon Musk might rebrand Twitter using the X he’s obsessed with
10/5/2022 - Rainbow fentanyl is a war-on-drugs tactic
10/5/2022 - Poshmark’s sale and Goodwill’s luxury bid keep resale in spotlight
10/5/2022 - Space Business: Expeditionary
10/5/2022 - Women in the workplace: how companies can support working mothers
10/5/2022 - 4 maternity leaves and 6 kids in 2 years: What co-founder moms learned and how they reward employees now
10/5/2022 - Aaron Judge's 62nd home run is a coda and catharsis for Major League Baseball
10/5/2022 - Dartmouth's first female president has advice for companies on leveraging the strengths of women
10/5/2022 - It takes a village: How Donut empowers working parents (theirs and yours)
10/5/2022 - How I used the unsolicited parenting advice I got at work
10/5/2022 - 3 ways to reduce invisible labor for women at work
10/5/2022 - Apple's manufacturing moves away from China are a drop in the ocean
10/5/2022 - 🌎 US debt alert
10/5/2022 - One of the 2022 Chemistry Nobel Prize winners is already a Nobel laureate
10/5/2022 - A Nobel for an Indian fact-checking duo may help—but only that much
10/5/2022 - America’s record public debt is about to hit the ceiling
10/5/2022 - ✦ Expanding access to insurance in Africa
10/4/2022 - 36 ways to build a family-friendly culture
10/4/2022 - 🌍 Musk wants Twitter (again)
10/4/2022 - The number of strikes are increasing for US workers
10/4/2022 - How to expand fertility benefits to build inclusion
10/4/2022 - US income inequality hasn't risen for a decade
10/4/2022 - The US lost more than a million job openings in August
10/4/2022 - Elon Musk just remembered he signed a contract to buy Twitter
10/4/2022 - 5 tips to create boomerang employees now
10/4/2022 - Even Shell's CEO admitted taxes on energy companies are a way to deal with inflation
10/4/2022 - Venture capital investment in Africa is headed towards another record year
10/4/2022 - 🌎 Zelle has a fraud problem
10/4/2022 - Marvel’s “Deadpool 3” teaser nods to Ryan Reynolds’ “Ted Lasso”
-like soccer club investment
10/4/2022 - The 2022 Physics Nobel winners untangled the spookiness of quantum mechanics
10/4/2022 - The banking industry's answer to Venmo has a growing fraud problem
10/4/2022 - Will the new locally made Mercedes-Benz model help India's EV sector?
10/4/2022 - Why Prosus terminated a $4.7 billion fintech takeover deal in India
10/3/2022 - 🌍 The UK’s U-turn
10/3/2022 - Office buildings in NYC won't recover from work-from-home for 10 years
10/3/2022 - Kim Kardashian was charged for illegally hawking a cryptocurrency
10/3/2022 - Falling oil prices are prompting OPEC+ to take drastic measures
10/3/2022 - Svante Pääbo, the 2022 Nobel laureate in medicine, helped humans understand their origins
10/3/2022 - 🌎 Tesla's record sales still disappoint
10/3/2022 - Africa wants $1.3 trillion in climate financing
10/3/2022 - If semiconductors are “the new oil,” what does that mean for the petrodollar?
10/2/2022 - 🌍 Tesla rebounds
10/2/2022 - A $30 million funding round paves the way for Nigeria’s “restaurant-tech”
10/1/2022 - US imposes sanctions on Indian petrochemical firm over Iran ties
10/1/2022 - Modi sets off a new phase of India's digitisation with 5G launch
10/1/2022 - US unemployment insurance isn't ready for the next recession
10/1/2022 - The unstoppable dollar
10/1/2022 - What the UK should do instead of tax cuts