California hammered as national job cuts jump to a five-year high

California hammered as national job cuts jump to a five-year high

Job cuts across the country are the highest they have been in five years, led by layoffs in California and cutbacks in Washington. California employers announced 173,022 job cuts from January to November, up nearly 14% from the same period last year, according to the latest monthly report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.…

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Jealous aunt drowns niece, 6, at wedding because child ‘looked prettier than her,’ admits to murdering 3 other relatives

Jealous aunt drowns niece, 6, at wedding because child ‘looked prettier than her,’ admits to murdering 3 other relatives

A woman is accused of drowning her six-year-old niece during a wedding celebration because the child “looked prettier than her.” The woman, who goes by Poonam, reportedly drowned her young relative in a tub of water after her family gathered for a ceremony in Panipat, northern India, on Monday. The girl, named Vidhi, had attended…

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Race for talent is on as bankers brace for IPO boom in Vietnam

Race for talent is on as bankers brace for IPO boom in Vietnam

[HANOI] Vietnam’s potential upgrade to emerging-market status by FTSE Russell in September has investment banks bulking up staff in anticipation of a flood of initial public offerings (IPOs). Brokerage VnDirect Securities aims to lift headcount in its investment-banking division by 20 to 30 per cent over the next 12 to 18 months, while Vietcap Securities,…

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3 Pricing Moves Early Stage Teams Use To Unlock Profit

3 Pricing Moves Early Stage Teams Use To Unlock Profit

You can feel when your pricing is holding your company back. You see interest in your product, but the revenue never quite catches up. The team is building, iterating, grinding, yet you still don’t have the pricing clarity that flips the business from surviving to scaling. Every early team reaches this point. The good news…

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TikTok to invest more than 200 billion reais in Brazil data centre

TikTok to invest more than 200 billion reais in Brazil data centre

[NEW YORK] ByteDance’s TikTok will invest more than 200 billion reais (S$49 billion) to build a data centre in Brazil, marking its first project in Latin America. TikTok will partner with data centre developer Omnia and Casa dos Ventos, one of Brazil’s leading renewable energy providers, in a data centre in the northeastern state of…

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