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Talk to anyone who has tried online dating, and the complaints quickly come out. The hours of swiping each week. The repetitive photos of pe...

There are two ways of getting married in India, depending on how conservative your family is: You can either let your parents arrange a matc...

Hi Quartz Africa readers!It’s been quite a week for cryptocurrencies, starting with Tesla’s announcement that it had invested $1.5 billion i...

The recently concluded 34th summit of the African Union (AU) had a particularly significant job to do: it elected six commissioners to the A...

China, the world’s top greenhouse gas emitter, also boasts one of the world’s most ambitious long-term climate goals. President Xi Jinping v...

Researchers have known for decades that commodity agriculture is driving deforestation. But a new study by the non-profit World Resources In...

Clubhouse had a $1 billion valuation before it had a business plan. On Jan. 24, the company announced its latest fundraising round, along wi...

Around 5,000 years ago (c. 3100 BC), what we know today as Ancient Egypt came into existence. A thousand years either side, and other such “...

Good morning, Quartz readers!I thought impeaching US president Donald Trump would be a waste of time.It’s not that I didn’t agree his conduc...

Big pharma has been essential in the race to fight Covid-19. In exchange, their work to end Covid-19 has rewarded pharmaceutical companies r...

The pandemic has been brutal for working parents in the US, but it’s especially devastating for Asian working mothers, who have experienced...

A decade after founder Hugh Hefner took Playboy from public to private again, the company returned to the stock market yesterday.It was not...

When the GameStop saga started blowing up on Reiss Jeram’s phone, the 18-year-old actor was shocked by the video game seller’s skyrocketing...

Spotify has joined a growing list of workplaces to announce that things won’t be going back to the way they used to be. The more than 6,500...

Against all odds, office romances are thriving.Despite the fact that many workplaces have been forced to go virtual during the pandemic, the...

With a second wave of Covid-19 across Africa appearing to ebb, public health officials are calling on countries to move with urgency to prot...

This is a developing story.It’s been a rough month for HSBC in the UK.First, in January, the bank’s CEO, Noel Quinn, and its chief complianc...

Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowDonald Trump’s impeachment defense begins. The former US president could “do this a...

Raising money from investors is a challenging enough task for startup founders in general, but even more so for female entrepreneurs. In 201...

Joe Biden did it, Benjamin Netanyahu did it, even Mike Pence did it. But Narendra Modi has not—yet.As world leaders step forward to take the...

Canopy Growth, a Canadian cannabis company, said it is accelerating its US growth strategy based on expectations of “significant reform” led...

Disney’s flagship streaming service, Disney+, is growing faster than anyone anticipated—including Disney. But that growth doesn’t tell the w...

Some people walk dogs out of love, or duty, or because their parents make them. And enough people now do it for money that dog-walking is at...

The conference call wasn’t exactly a beloved feature of corporate life before the pandemic. So it’s a bit ironic that Clubhouse, the buzzy n...

Countries that never got the pandemic under control—like the US, the UK, and Brazil—have waited patiently for a Covid-19 vaccine. Now that t...