Category: Money

The virus doesn’t care about borders. Congo’s latest Ebola nightmare just clawed its way into two more northeastern provinces, Haut-Uele and Tshopo. That is the grim word from the country’s public health institute. It is getting worse. Official data released late Sunday shows confirmed cases nationwide have climbed to 1,926. The death toll now stands […]

Oliver Blume is sweating. The Volkswagen chief is desperately trying to keep the lights on at his German factories while hacking away at the company’s bloated budget. It is a brutal tightrope walk. Wolfsburg is feeling the squeeze. Cheap, aggressive Chinese rivals are eating VW’s lunch in Asia, forcing the German giant to rethink its […]

Hospices are grim by nature. But the entrance to one doesn’t have to look like a Soviet bunker. Hayward House, a palliative care unit tucked away at Nottingham City Hospital, just showed off a brand-new reception and entrance. It is a massive upgrade. This facelift did not come cheap. It took a cool £1.5 million, […]

The British government just put a target on the backs of the world’s biggest tech giants. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Oracle are no longer just vendors to the UK financial sector. They are now officially “critical third-party suppliers.” That is government-speak for “too big to fail, and too dangerous to leave unsupervised.” It is a […]

Ten years ago, Silicon Valley convinced everyone that math could dress you. Stitch Fix was the poster child. The pitch was simple: algorithms and remote stylists would ship a box of clothes to your door, and you’d love it. It was a tech-disruptor fantasy. It failed. The math couldn’t save a business that forgot how […]

Washington is getting ready to slap new port fees on Chinese-built cargo ships. It is a messy geopolitical play. Yet, Germany might actually win. A new study from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) suggests German exports to the U.S. could tick up by about 2% once these fees kick in. Why? Because German […]

There is a war zone in your gut. Trillions of bacteria are constantly fighting, eating, and, as it turns out, messing with your hormones. A new review in the journal npj Biofilms and Microbiomes suggests these microscopic freeloaders play a much bigger role in hormone-related cancers than we ever guessed. It is not just about […]

Coding is dead. Long live the prompt. Tools like Lovable and Replit have turned every amateur with an idea into a software founder. It is democratization at its finest. But there is a catch. The internet is now drowning in a sea of identical, beige, soul-free apps. If you think every new website looks exactly […]

The stock market is riding a high that cannot last. Sure, the S&P 500 just wrapped up its best quarter since the pandemic, boasting a 9% gain for the year. Enjoy it while you can. Bank of America says the party is about to end. In a grim note to clients, BofA analysts stuck to […]

A quiet regulatory shift in Washington could soon line the pockets of Donald Trump Jr. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is pushing a proposal to let licensed dealers ship guns straight to buyers’ doorsteps. It is a massive departure from current law. Right now, if you buy a gun online, you must […]