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Small Businesses Turn to Creator Content and AI as Social Media Tops Search
Companies

Small Businesses Turn to Creator Content and AI as Social Media Tops Search

A new five-country survey finds social media has overtaken search for discovering small brands, while US small-business ...

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How Education-Led Field Reps Are Reshaping Retail Brand Trust
Retail

How Education-Led Field Reps Are Reshaping Retail Brand Trust

Brands in food, beverage and beauty are shifting field marketing from scripted selling to category education, as consume...

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Resolute Mining and Guinea's State Miner Form Gold Joint Venture
Companies

Resolute Mining and Guinea's State Miner Form Gold Joint Venture

Resolute Mining and Guinea's Nimba Mining Gold have launched Landaya Gold, a Conakry-based joint venture to explore and ...

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White House Presses Netanyahu to Condemn Qusra Settler Siege
Politics

White House Presses Netanyahu to Condemn Qusra Settler Siege

Washington's rare public criticism of settlers intensifies after a Palestinian-American home was among three besieged in...

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Amplifon and Saipem Lead Milan Stocks as FTSE MIB Closes a Four-Session Losing Week
Markets

Amplifon and Saipem Lead Milan Stocks as FTSE MIB Closes a Four-Session Losing Week

A quiet August week left Milan's benchmark lower, with Amplifon's India disposal and Saipem's contract wins standing out...

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US Borrows at Highest 10-Year Yield Since 2007 as Inflation Cools
Economy

US Borrows at Highest 10-Year Yield Since 2007 as Inflation Cools

July's 0.1% monthly CPI gain trimmed September Fed hike odds, but the Treasury sold 10-year notes at 4.683%—the highest ...

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Reddit Surges 11% on S&P 500 Entry as Index Funds Must Buy 16.7 Million Shares
Markets

Reddit Surges 11% on S&P 500 Entry as Index Funds Must Buy 16.7 Million Shares

The social media platform replaces AvalonBay in the benchmark, creating a concentrated index-fund bid before the August ...

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Marketscreener's Capex-Light Style List: How Low Capital Intensity Drives Outperformance
Markets

Marketscreener's Capex-Light Style List: How Low Capital Intensity Drives Outperformance

The screener flags companies with capital expenditure below 10% of sales and 20% of EBITDA, a group that has historicall...

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Brazil's TSE Delays AI Election Rules as Deepfakes Spread From Ireland to Pakistan
Politics

Brazil's TSE Delays AI Election Rules as Deepfakes Spread From Ireland to Pakistan

A postponed TSE meeting leaves Brazil without clear sanctions for AI-generated election content, while cases in Ireland,...

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Simpala Liquidation: FGC Tells 21,000 Creditors How to Claim Up to R$250,000
Personal Finance

Simpala Liquidation: FGC Tells 21,000 Creditors How to Claim Up to R$250,000

The FGC says reimbursements have not begun after the Central Bank liquidated Simpala Financeira, and creditors should co...

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Marketscreener's Mobility Theme Rests on 2021 EV and Autonomy Forecasts
Markets

Marketscreener's Mobility Theme Rests on 2021 EV and Autonomy Forecasts

A thematic equities note says cleaner, connected and shared transport will define mobility, but its 2030 forecasts are a...

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Inside the NBA's Four-Pillar Revenue Machine and the Stocks Riding Its Global Growth
Markets

Inside the NBA's Four-Pillar Revenue Machine and the Stocks Riding Its Global Growth

Sponsorship, TV rights, tickets and merchandising power the NBA's international expansion—and lift franchise values, loc...

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Gold Holds Fourth Weekly Gain as US Consumer Data Weakens
Markets

Gold Holds Fourth Weekly Gain as US Consumer Data Weakens

Comex gold nears a fourth straight weekly rise at $4,446.76 as weak US retail sales and a drop in consumer sentiment sup...

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Weak Ruble Keeps Russian Bond Yields Near 15.2% Despite Weekly Deflation
Markets

Weak Ruble Keeps Russian Bond Yields Near 15.2% Despite Weekly Deflation

A second week of falling consumer prices was not enough to lift Russian government bonds, as a 2.6% ruble slide, a widen...

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Nvidia’s $500 Billion Bet: Making AI Compute Wall Street’s Next Asset Class
Technology

Nvidia’s $500 Billion Bet: Making AI Compute Wall Street’s Next Asset Class

Nvidia and six asset managers want to turn AI data centres into investable infrastructure. The real test is whether the ...

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Africa’s Business Heroes Names Top 20 Entrepreneurs for 2026 Nairobi Semi-Final
News

Africa’s Business Heroes Names Top 20 Entrepreneurs for 2026 Nairobi Semi-Final

Twenty founders from 12 countries will pitch in Nairobi on 21–22 August for 10 semi-final places, after a process that b...

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When Les Echos Warned France Could Not Build Marinas for Every Boat
Lifestyle

When Les Echos Warned France Could Not Build Marinas for Every Boat

A 1976 Les Echos report traced the surge in French pleasure boating and a dry-stack storage idea for small boats as bert...

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Freedom Bank Swings to T11.6bn First-Half Profit as Securities Gains Offset Cost Rise
Companies

Freedom Bank Swings to T11.6bn First-Half Profit as Securities Gains Offset Cost Rise

The Kazakhstan lender controlled by Timur Turlov reported an 11.6bn tenge half-year profit after a 27.7bn loss a year ea...

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Kazakhstan's Art Market: Supply Is Growing, But Demanding Buyers Are Not
Lifestyle

Kazakhstan's Art Market: Supply Is Growing, But Demanding Buyers Are Not

A Kazakh gallery veteran argues that stronger authentication standards—not just higher prices—will decide whether the co...

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Inside AlES's Kaizen Push: From a Single 5S Pilot to a Plant-Wide Habit
Companies

Inside AlES's Kaizen Push: From a Single 5S Pilot to a Plant-Wide Habit

Kazakh power producer AlES started with one relay protection lab and now trains hundreds of employees in lean methods, a...

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Shoqan School Losses Widen to 744.5 Million Tenge Despite 24% Revenue Growth
Education

Shoqan School Losses Widen to 744.5 Million Tenge Despite 24% Revenue Growth

Kazakh private school Shoqan School's H1 2026 net loss rose 6.5-fold to 744.5 million tenge on interest costs, even as r...

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Kazakhstan's FDI Turns Negative in 2025 as Oil Project Outflows Hit $7.5bn
Economy

Kazakhstan's FDI Turns Negative in 2025 as Oil Project Outflows Hit $7.5bn

Kazakhstan posted a $916.4m net FDI outflow in 2025, the only EAEU economy in negative territory, as large oil projects ...

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Why Leaders Are Told to Package Purpose With Emotion, Not Just Strategy
Companies

Why Leaders Are Told to Package Purpose With Emotion, Not Just Strategy

A Forbes Kazakhstan essay argues that in turbulent times, leaders who wrap shared meaning in positive rituals can hold t...

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Kenes Rakishev’s Fincraft Resources Cuts H1 Loss 21-Fold as Kaznickel Sale Drags On
Companies

Kenes Rakishev’s Fincraft Resources Cuts H1 Loss 21-Fold as Kaznickel Sale Drags On

The Kazakh industrial holding reported a 4.8 million tenge net loss for H1 2026, helped by stronger continuing operation...

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Kazakhstan's secondary commercial property market carries hidden legal defects in up to 25% of assets
Real Estate

Kazakhstan's secondary commercial property market carries hidden legal defects in up to 25% of assets

Buyers of Kazakh business premises risk inheriting land-use, servitude and unauthorised-rebuild liabilities. A full lega...

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Kazakhstan's KASE Index Hits Record Above 8,100 as Oil Climbs and US Inflation Cools
Markets

Kazakhstan's KASE Index Hits Record Above 8,100 as Oil Climbs and US Inflation Cools

Oil, slower US inflation and a Kaspi.kz dividend catalyst pushed Kazakhstan's benchmark to a fresh high. The week's winn...

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A Bloody 1870 Battle Lives On as a Weekend Reenactment Near Metz
Lifestyle

A Bloody 1870 Battle Lives On as a Weekend Reenactment Near Metz

The annual Gravelotte reenactment returns near Metz on 15–16 August, keeping alive a Franco-Prussian War battle whose me...

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Mark Walter Sells Lakers to Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner After Less Than a Year
Companies

Mark Walter Sells Lakers to Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner After Less Than a Year

Billionaire investor Mark Walter bought the Lakers from the Buss family in 2025 for about $10 billion; his quick exit is...

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French Mega-Universities Chase Shanghai Ranking Points Through Star Researchers
Education

French Mega-Universities Chase Shanghai Ranking Points Through Star Researchers

A Fields Medal for mathematician Hong Wang is boosting the institutions behind France's merged Paris-Saclay group as the...

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Trump Orders Navy to Abandon Electromagnetic Catapults and Return to Steam on Carriers
Defense

Trump Orders Navy to Abandon Electromagnetic Catapults and Return to Steam on Carriers

The president's directive reverses a core Ford-class technology, potentially costing billions and unsettling France's ne...

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