Researchers have called the prospectus for WeWork’s IPO filing a “masterpiece of obfuscation.” How did the co-working giant spiral from a $47 billion valuation to talk of bankruptcy in just 6 weeks? This is the story of the six weeks that almost ended WeWork.

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Connected cookbooks? Alexa-enabled microwaves? None of this stuff will make you a better home cook. Maybe home cooking just doesn’t need to be ‘disrupted?

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Amazon announced an insane number of new and updated hardware recently, all packed with Alexa. From a ring that you wear on your finger and speak to Alexa to a security camera in your home, Amazon is in a sticky situation as it continues to battle over privacy issues while releasing a host of new devices. Do you really trust these companies?

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Samuel L. Jackson inked a deal with Amazon to provide the first celebrity voice option for Alexa, its cloud based digital assistant. According to Amazon, they will be adding more celebrity voices to the platform in 2020. The Jackso “voice pack” for Alexa will be available later this year for the special introductory price of US$0.99 (RM4.15) - and users can select either clean or explicit modes.

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As more people emigrate to the city, the township of Sambuca is facing a dwindling population problem. To keep the place running, municipal councils are selling old homes for a shocking €1. The best part? There’s a catch though, but one that buyers are willing to oblige.

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Earlier this summer, the Information reported that Facebook is planning to add the words “from Facebook” to WhatsApp and Instagram‘s branding. From the perspective of a digital strategist, this may be a branding disaster.

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It’s becoming increasingly obvious to some of the bigger brands out there, that traditional TV advertising is no longer as effective as it used to be. The fact that more and more consumers are choosing to cut the cord and move to streaming services is partly to blame for this slump - and no one who uses streaming services want adverts on their platform; afterall, it’s part of the reason that they switched.

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The collapse of Thomas Cook has plunged governments across Europe and Africa into crisis-planning mode as they help with the repatriation of more than 500,000 stranded tourists and begin to count the cost of the holiday company’s demise on already-battered economies. About 50,000 holidaymakers are stranded in Greece, 21,000 in Turkey, 15,000 in Cyprus and 4,500 in Tunisia. Thousands of tourists are also stuck in the US and dozens of other countries. Most of the tourists are from the UK with an estimated 150,000 people, followed by Germany with about 140,000 holidaymakers.

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Yahoo is the pioneering web portal and search engine that helps hundreds of millions of users around the world find the information they need online. But it isn’t exactly a popular company these days. While it’s been down for a long time, it’s not out of the game yet. They have a new logo that practically screams out “we still exist!”.

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The Odeon Cinema, one of the few remaining Art Deco-style buildings in Kuala Lumpur, will soon make way for a multi-storey retail and service apartment project. Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has approved in principle for the project to go ahead and that the development order is in the process of being issued. However, Kuala Lumpur mayor Datuk Nor Hisham Ahmad Dahlan said a portion of the building’s facade would be integrated into the development.

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