A Chinese tea farmer has become an e-commerce sensation after promoting her business through social media platform Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.

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The MCO has put a whole new focus on the video medium; there’s a webinar around every corner, an Instagram livestream every other minute, and a slew of YouTube tutorials that have sprung up. With that, technical and performance difficulties have also been rampant across the online video wave. We have 5 things you need to think about before you switch on that webcam for your next video appearance.

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As Uber heads to court next month, its London rivals are partnering up to take it down.

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A new partnership between eBay and LendingPoint is offering merchants on eBay access to loans. The pilot program will give eBay sellers in the U.S. access to funding to help grow and sustain their businesses.

The program, eBay Seller Capital is powered by the fintech company LendingPoint. The program offers access to installment loans for select sellers. It is currently available to select sellers and will roll out by being open to all eligible sellers.

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The pandemic and its ensuing global lockdown has created an economic mess. Surprisingly, that hasn’t stopped people from actually saving more and clearing their debts during the MCO. Could this be because of the moratorium? Or is it because there’s nothing much to spend on these days? While this isn’t a blanket scenario, many Malaysians seem to be using the MCO period to upgrade their financial standing.

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After five years of research into women and the workplace, McKinsey and company have stated, ‘...we see bright spots at senior levels. But companies need to focus their efforts earlier in the pipeline to make real progress.’

The first step, as they say, is fixing the “broken rung”.

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Joe Biden has announced Senator Kamala Harris of California as his pick for Vice President, the first black woman and person of Indian descent to be nominated for national office in the US. We discuss her leadership qualities and mastery of communication, and how it’s led her to the Biden presidential ticket.

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Researchers have compared employee behavior over two 8-week periods before and after Covid-19 lockdowns. Looking at email and meeting meta-data, the results were quite surprising. Do you think you’re logging longer hours during the pandemic workday? Are you stuck in more meetings and sending more emails? We discuss.

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COVID-19 caused three years of digital transformation to happen in just three months. Business continuity became a buzzword and indicator for how well a company could navigate the sudden shift to remote work. And it became clear early on that those who had heavily invested in digital transformation initiatives before the onset of the pandemic had a better chance of survival in the “new normal.”

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There’s a narrative that more screen time is leading to killing attention spans, making us more biased, and ruining our eyes… and the solution to that seems to be reading more. But what if your phone WAS the tool that helped you read more?

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