Stuut raises $29.5 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz to automate accounts receivable
Tarek Alaruri asked me: Have you ever seen the TV show Dirty Jobs? I absolutely have, but if you haven’t—it’s a rollicking reality TV jaunt through some of the messiest jobs…
Johor is building a 7300-acre innovation hub on the Singapore border, offering ‘land and scale’ for its neighbor’s ‘capital and speed’
Are innovation hubs built, or do they evolve out of necessity?That’s the question facing Datuk Syed Mohamed Syed Ibrahim, president and CEO of Johor Corporation (or JCorp), the principal development…
The latest Fed minutes read like another nail in the coffin for a December interest rate cut
While Wall Street won’t love a hold, it does have some justification for betting on one in advance of the U.S. Federal Reserve decision. Notes from the FOMC’s most recent…
Walmart and Target are both getting new CEOs—one succession plan has gone smoother than the other
Target and Walmart have long duked it out for the U.S.’s budget-conscious shopper, with Target skewing a bit more to discretionary “fun” items and Walmart to low-price staples. Though both…
Mark Zuckerberg’s hate-speech gamble fuels Gen Z radicalization on Instagram as millions watch Hitler speeches and Holocaust denial
“When the family is arguing about politics and they ask for my expert opinion.”Thirty-one million people have viewed the clip. More than 1.6 million liked it. The comments are full…
5 stocks to buy—and 5 to avoid—if 2026 brings a downturn
Perhaps this time is different. But note that phrase served as the ironic title of an acclaimed 2011 book by economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff—a work whose subtitle is…
The CEO of Shangri-La Hotels explains the core of Asian hospitality: Not ‘silver candlesticks,’ but ‘warmth and attention to detail’
That’s not the case for Shangri-La Hotel and Resorts, founded by Malaysian tycoon Robert Kuok in 1971, and now led by his daughter Kuok Hui Kwong. The chain operates over…
AI may replace people in Southeast Asia’s scam complexes—and that could undercut the drive to stop them
AI-driven automation of labor isn’t just coming for legitimate businesses.Hundreds of thousands of workers—hailing from over 50 countries—are currently trapped within Southeast Asia’s sprawling scam centers, according to estimates by…
China is ‘walking the walk’ on climate action leadership say green industry figures
But green industry leaders say this doesn’t mean that climate diplomacy is dead.“When there’s a vacuum, something or someone will fill it. In the climate leadership space, we now see…
Big 5 AI ‘hyperscalers’ have quadrupled their use of debt to fund operations, Bank of America says
To put that $121 billion in perspective, it’s more than four times the average level of debt ($28 billion) issued by these companies annually over the previous five years, per…
