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The US federal flood insurance program is underwater—and as president Joe Biden tries to bail it out, millions of homeowners could find them...

????The big ideaTikTok has altered the contours of the music industry, from artists’ path to stardom to the power of record company executiv...

A decade ago, the consultants at McKinsey examined the trend of solving social problems through business strategies and asked where the publ...

Facebook sent thousands of content moderators home due to coronavirus—and its algorithms suffered.During a company briefing today (Feb. 24),...

Indians will soon know for sure if their favourite social media influencers actually like the products they vouch for or if they’re getting...

Indian startups are reaching the aspirational unicorn status much faster than before.Over the last decade, the average time an Indian startu...

 Hello Quartz readers,You have a lot of questions about vaccines. So many, in fact, that we’re dedicating an entire virtual event to the top...

Home Depot reported another quarter of higher-than-expected sales and profits, but its lack of guidance for 2021 worried investors. The pric...

After nearly a year of collecting dust, New York City’s movie theaters can finally reopen.Theaters in the city—the second biggest film marke...

Crocs—the comfortable foam clogs of dubious aesthetic value—had started to accrue a subversive sort of cool among teens even before Covid-19...

Last April, the organizers of Burning Man—the anything-goes music festival that typically draws 80,000 attendees for a week of communal livi...

The Ethiopian government’s latest plans to open up its telecommunications sector and enter the mobile money market are sparking concerns ove...

Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowThe US Covid death toll passed 500,000. President Joe Biden marked the tragic figur...

Is $1.9 trillion too much?Work began in earnest this week on stimulus legislation designed to pull the US out of the pandemic recession, a g...

Researchers in Cape Town are starting local clinical trials of a Covid-19 vaccine designed to protect people from infection caused by varian...

With India shutting its door to TikTok, its Chinese owner Bytedance has now found a new Asian home.The Beijing headquartered company is down...

When Beijing blocked Clubhouse this month, the app’s users in China mourned the end of the brief period of free speech they had experienced...

India was forced into a mass remote working experiment in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic which many said would kill the office space indu...

A spike in the number of new Covid-19 infections threatens to overturn the progress India has made in containing the pandemic.On Feb. 21, th...

Fast Retailing, the Japanese clothing group that owns Uniqlo, toppled a giant last week.The company surpassed Spain’s Inditex, owner of Zar...

The Muppets have not been canceled. They have just been put in context.Disney added all five seasons of The Muppet Show to its streaming ser...

When Ted Hui arrived in the UK last December after fleeing Hong Kong, he had a rude shock: not only was his HSBC bank account frozen, but hi...

A new Kenyan bill seeks to license and regulate digital lending platforms in the country, in a bid to clamp down on the issuance of high-int...

With the wages she earned as a garment worker at Yi Da Manufacturer, a factory in Cambodia, Douk Sovann says she would normally spend about...

Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowCovid vaccines are effective, early studies suggest. The Pfizer shot appears to pre...