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Arlie Hochschild's 1983 concept described the paid smile in an airline cabin. Four decades later, the same unpaid work runs through friendships, families and Slack channels — and the people carrying it are the last to notice they're working.
Uber has agreed to acquire Berlin-based Delivery Hero in a $14.8 billion deal that would extend the combined platform to 99 markets and consolidate the world's largest food delivery business outside China.
Singapore became an independent country on 9 August 1965 after a brief and bitter union with Malaysia.
Dubai is routinely treated as an oil city because it is wealthy, Gulf-based and visually associated with the wider United Arab Emirates.
US plant-based food sales fell 2% in 2024 after years of double-digit growth, and the shoppers walking away aren't skeptics — they're the committed vegans who built the category. Cognitive dissonance, ingredient labels, and a purity war inside the movement help explain why.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has admitted it began writing its incident response playbook during the incident it was responding to — a breach in which a contractor exposed administrative credentials to Amazon AWS GovCloud accounts and internal CISA systems on a public GitHub repository.
Singapore's rise is often told as a neat parable: a small island with almost no natural resources became rich by being disciplined, open and clever.
What the IMF did not say on Wednesday matters as much as what it did.
In one example from Shenzhen, a former product manager laid off from a major platform company is now running what she calls a business of one, using generative AI to write ad copy, design storefronts, and produce short-form video dramas from a repurposed industrial park where the rent is subsidised by the local government.
Halfway through 2026, cybersecurity has stopped functioning as a technology beat and started functioning as a geopolitics beat.
Ozempic lists for roughly $969 in the United States and around €59 in Germany — the same pen, the same molecule, made in the same Danish factory. The reason winds back to a Nobel laureate's 1922 trip to Toronto.
If you own a dog, there is a reasonable chance its retractable lead was made by a company called Flexi, based in a town in northern Germany, which by its own account and most industry estimates holds around 70 percent of the world market for exactly that product and does nothing else.
