Brief - The Hustle | International (6)

The big business of owning an international bridge

Michael Waters
Updated 7/16/20
The UK government is taking a $500m stake in a bankrupt satellite company

Nick DeSantis
Updated 7/6/20
A messaging app won a cat-and-mouse game with the Russian government

Nick DeSantis
Updated 6/29/20
TikTok creators’ new dance move: flipping China censorship on its head

Belle Long
Updated 6/18/20
On mute no more: Zoom gets a taste of international politics

Michael Waters
Updated 6/15/20
Time limits on video games? A Japanese teen is taking the government to court

Michael Waters
Updated 6/12/20
Britain and Huawei square off over 5G

Michael Waters
Updated 6/9/20
India’s potential is irresistible for tech’s bigwigs

Belle Long
Updated 6/5/20
TikTok’s new rival makes for a great side hustle

Michael Waters
Updated 5/29/20
Pack your thermometers: Hotels are gearing up for new arrivals

Michael Waters
Updated 5/25/20
A beer shortage leaves Mexico with a case of sud sadness

Nick DeSantis
Updated 5/11/20
Wanna know how life in isolation has changed us? Look at the electricity data

Nick DeSantis
Updated 4/23/20
The 'peace tech' company making bets on war

Singdhi Sokpo
Updated 6/24/25
Saudi Arabia will host the 2030 World Expo (and incidentally, World Expos are still a thing)

Ben Berkley
Updated 12/1/23
A ‘finders keepers’ fight except it’s over $20B in sunken treasure

Ben Berkley
Updated 11/10/23
The world was already horrifying — technology is making it more so

Ben Berkley
Updated 10/11/23
Meta vs. Canada is a long pattern of dismantling news

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 8/24/23
Neom’s got a trillion problems but $1T ain’t one

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 6/2/23
Will the Russia conflict reshape the world economy as we know it?

Mark Dent
Updated 4/11/23
What the heck is a golden passport?

Rob Litterst
Updated 4/4/23
7-Eleven in Japan dials convenience up to… well, eleven.

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 3/16/23
The drama around India’s richest man

Jacob Cohen
Updated 1/31/23
Is India Apple’s next frontier?

Jacob Cohen
Updated 1/24/23
China’s economy slowed down in 2022

Jacob Cohen
Updated 1/22/23
Why foreigners can’t buy Canadian homes

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 1/5/23
Tech winter is dire for immigrant visa holders

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 12/9/22
What to know about the Taiwan chip situation

Jacob Cohen
Updated 10/25/22
Buying bread? You’re gonna need more dough

Rob Litterst
Updated 10/21/22
Truss’ resignation is all about the economy

Jacob Cohen
Updated 10/21/22
Iran’s internet blackouts, explained

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 9/27/22
Digits: Plasma, funerals, and Hallmark

Jacob Cohen
Updated 9/26/22
Digits: Solar sheep, a PornHub ban, and more

Jacob Cohen
Updated 9/6/22
India’s new ecommerce system, explained

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 8/8/22
AC sales are heating up in Europe

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 7/29/22
The robot workforce is coming

Rob Litterst
Updated 7/8/22
Latin music is taking over the world

Rob Litterst
Updated 6/27/22
What’s happening in China?

Jacob Cohen
Updated 5/26/22
Digits: Tom Cruise, military baby food, Uber prices

Jacob Cohen
Updated 5/23/22
So long, Bolshoi Mak

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 5/17/22
Why many remote jobs are moving abroad

Rob Litterst
Updated 5/11/22
Backing out of Russia is costing oil companies billions

Rob Litterst
Updated 5/9/22
Russia’s war in Ukraine is causing ripples in the world of online chess

Rob Litterst
Updated 5/6/22
Asian languages are on the rise. One reason: cartoons

Rob Litterst
Updated 4/4/22
Digits: Emoji news, overdue books, avocado mayhem, and more

Jacob Cohen
Updated 4/4/22
Toronto is the next Silicon Valley, eh?

Rob Litterst
Updated 3/22/22
How the war is destabilizing the digital gig economy

Mia Sullivan
Updated 3/16/22
Digits: NJ’s gas debate, music revenues, 15-minute delivery flops, and more

Jacob Cohen
Updated 3/14/22
Russia vs. Meta: A strained relationship just got more complicated

Rob Litterst
Updated 3/14/22
What’s going on with ‘hacktivists’ and Ukraine?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 3/9/22
People are sending crypto and NFTs to Ukraine

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 3/7/22
What the heck is SWIFT?

Rob Litterst
Updated 3/1/22
How the internet is responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Trung T. Phan
Updated 2/28/22
Social media’s complicated role in the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 2/25/22
Olympic viewership is way down. What’s going on?

Rob Litterst
Updated 2/7/22
How hackers keep North Korea’s economy afloat

Jacob Cohen
Updated 12/28/21
Turkey’s currency crisis made bread a political issue, and bakeries are losing dough

Rob Litterst
Updated 12/20/21
Some findings on the world’s priciest spots

Jacob Cohen
Updated 12/9/21
Is China about to have its own ‘Lehman Brothers’ moment?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 9/21/21
China’s huge crackdown on tech, explained

Trung T. Phan
Updated 8/31/21
What does an ancient script have in common with emojis? Code.

Jacob Cohen
Updated 8/27/21
Is hosting the Olympics a bad deal?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 7/30/21
Chinese education and tech stocks have lost $1T+ since February. Why?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 7/28/21
The big ad dollars behind this year’s fanless Olympics

Jacob Cohen
Updated 7/23/21
The future is bright for Egyptian startups

Jacob Cohen
Updated 7/8/21
Language learning app Duolingo is headed for a multibillion-dollar IPO

Timmy Chong
Updated 7/1/21
Digits: China’s new space station, Olympic moms, and a pilot shortage

Ethan Brooks
Updated 6/28/21
Will advertisers’ gamble on the Tokyo Olympics pay off?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 6/22/21
China’s Uber, DiDi, files its US IPO

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 6/16/21
El Salvador’s decision to make bitcoin legal tender could shake up US taxes, corporations

Trung T. Phan
Updated 6/10/21
G-7 tax deal seeks to end to Big Tech tax havens

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 6/9/21
A proposed $4B+ soccer league imploded in 48 hours. What happened?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 4/26/21
The European Union is considering an AI ban

Jacob Cohen
Updated 4/16/21
The largest SPAC ever

Trung T. Phan
Updated 4/14/21
Inside China’s quiet plan to dethrone the dollar

Kolby Hatch
Updated 4/9/21
H&M, Adidas, and Nike are facing boycotts in China. Why?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 4/6/21
Coupang is the ‘Amazon of South Korea.’ But there is a key difference.

Kolby Hatch
Updated 3/15/21
For the next big ecommerce trend, look down and east

Jacob Cohen
Updated 2/16/21
Vaccine passports are a mess. Can Big Tech clean them up?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 1/26/21
Southeast Asia’s superapp battle, explained

Trung T. Phan
Updated 1/7/21
Why is the Chinese government going after Jack Ma, the country’s richest man?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 12/28/20
Europe is dropping the hammer on Big Tech (again)

Trung T. Phan
Updated 12/17/20
The luxury market is transitioning to ecommerce — and China is leading the pack

Trung T. Phan
Updated 12/15/20
Abu Dhabi’s $230B sovereign wealth fund has gone all in during the pandemic

Trung T. Phan
Updated 12/9/20
The new H-1B rules make finding talent a lot harder for startups

Trung T. Phan
Updated 11/4/20
The ‘Stripe of Africa’ just got acquired by Stripe for $200m+

Trung T. Phan
Updated 10/16/20
How the EU wants to regulate Big Tech

Trung T. Phan
Updated 10/8/20
Netflix is beating the US military in the ‘Space Force’ trademark race

Michael Waters
Updated 10/3/20
Thanks to blazin’ Wi-Fi, Madagascar has found its niche as a global outsourcing hub

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 10/3/20
Holy Hua-camole: The US is pursuing criminal charges against Huawei

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 10/3/20
The big business of honey laundering

Michael Waters
Updated 9/30/20
The US incineration industry is on fire thanks to China’s ban on recycling imports

Conor Grant
Updated 9/29/20
Why did Warren Buffett invest $6B+ in centuries-old Japanese trading houses?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 9/29/20
Copyrighting clown makeup involves a lot of eggs

Michael Waters
Updated 9/23/20
Harley-Davidson’s profits get a boost from international sales, while US sales continue to spin out

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 9/23/20
Meet Eskom: The South African power utility giant where CEOs go to die

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 9/22/20
The boarding-pass hack that hit Australia’s former prime minister

Michael Waters
Updated 9/21/20
The UK really wants a trillion-dollar tech company

Trung T. Phan
Updated 9/14/20
This German internet company copied itself to success. Now, its biz model is in question.

Trung T. Phan
Updated 9/10/20
Australian charity experiment could be right on the money

Caroline Dohack
Updated 9/9/20
Can social commerce catch on outside of China?

Michael Waters
Updated 9/8/20
The big business of twinfluencers

Michael Waters
Updated 9/2/20
Infobip and the big business of sending corporate texts

Michael Waters
Updated 9/1/20
The record store is dead… unless you’re a rodent

Michael Waters
Updated 8/18/20
Who knew cardboard would become the hottest heist?

Caroline Dohack
Updated 8/18/20
How speaking a 2nd language can change your mindset — and help your career

Caroline Dohack
Updated 8/17/20
Does it matter that business travel’s on hold?

Caroline Dohack
Updated 8/14/20
Trade deals are stalling, thanks to… cheese?

Michael Waters
Updated 8/12/20
5 facts you might not know about the founder of TikTok

Michael Waters
Updated 8/6/20
The chatbot banker will see you now

Michael Waters
Updated 8/5/20
We looked for love in all the wrong places

Caroline Dohack
Updated 7/30/20
All about ‘brushing,’ one of the seediest scams in ecommerce

Michael Waters
Updated 7/30/20
Did you know you can patent the shape of a food?

Michael Waters
Updated 7/24/20

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