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In the fall, my explorations of my new neighborhood of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn quickly landed me at Willoughby General, a general store a few blo...

Uber is being forced in some countries to provide more employment benefits through court actions and in order to ease tensions with workers...

A huge appetite for African eurobonds is spurring a wave of issuances in the continent.Benin saw its ratings outlook improve after successfu...

Hi Quartz Africa readers,Investors can’t get enough of Africa’s debt.A huge appetite for African eurobonds is spurring a wave of issuances i...

Last August, solar developers entered an auction to sell power into the Portuguese electricity grid. And many planned to lose money on every...

Reddit has traditionally taken a laissez-faire approach to policing content on its platform. The company hosts a loose federation of old-sch...

Affirm is one of the companies at the forefront of “buy now pay later”—the slick digital lending that’s growing in popularity with Gen Z and...

Our species, Homo sapiens, rose in Africa some 300,000 years ago. The objects that early humans made and used, known as the Middle Stone Age...

Good morning Quartz readers!Last week, Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama voted against unionizing by a strong margin. But the un...

The Pfizer vaccine will need a booster shot, likely within a year of completing the first two doses, the company’s CEO, Albert Bourla, said...

Amazon Studios is risking a lot on its upcoming Lord of the Rings series. But there’s another entity that wants the TV show to be a success...

Dreaming about making a fortune on the stock market? You’re not the only one.Retail trade—non-professionals buying and selling securities li...

The Covid-19 pandemic has crushed some sectors of the global economy, with shuttered businesses leaving many people jobless. Others have bee...

In the wake of Brexit, at least 440 banks and financial services companies are moving some part of their operations and managed assets from...

During Zoom meetings with colleagues, I am usually holding a second, secret meeting with my own face.The conversations in this meeting-withi...

Kimberly Potter, the 26-year police veteran who fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in Minnesota on April 11, has been charged...

Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowChina clocked 18.3% growth in the first quarter. The double-digit figure is because...

Texans are still paying for the blackouts caused by a winter storm in February that knocked out power for millions. Last week, electricity p...

US retailers have long been competing with one another for workers in a high-turnover industry. What’s new is that the gig economy—steering...

A farm for maggots? It’s a tough sell for some. But not for Talash Hujibers, who decided to try her hand at insect farming when she saw the...

A 14-year-old online travel company in India has fallen victim to the Covid-19-triggered economic slump—and it might be the first of several...

On a day when it recorded its highest-ever quarterly profits, New York-based Citigroup said it will exit the retail business in India and 12...

With a massive second wave of Covid-19 sweeping through India, one in five infections in the world is currently being reported from the coun...

Daily Covid-19 cases in India crossed the two-lakh mark on April 14, with an official death toll of over 1,000. This was the highest-ever ri...

Yesterday, dozens of entertainment companies and Hollywood celebrities—including Netflix, ViacomCBS, J.J. Abrams, and Leonardo DiCaprio—sign...