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According to a recent report by The Wall Street Journal , your social media postings could determine your insurance premiums for life, car and property. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Digital disruption gave birth to new monopolies in today's business world, by providing great incentives to capture you, the consumer. Has their go-to-market strategy spoiled us? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“Checkout with Instagram” launches in the U.S. today with more than 20 top brands, opening a whole new revenue stream for the social media platform. Now the 130 million people who tap IG’s product tags on shopping posts will be able to buy those items without leaving the app, thanks to stored payment info. Is it time to say, RIP wallet? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...

It’s being called the “Netflix for games” , but what does that imply for the future of gaming? What does Google’s newly-unveiled cloud gaming platform indicate for console-driven videogames moving forward, as well as for the consoles themselves? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Grab wants to become the Asean’s largest payment and financial service platform by rolling out an online checkout system for e-wallet GrabPay, credit services to customers and more insurance options for its drivers . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The late philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “without music, life would be a mistake.” This rings true for most of us. Whether we listen to sad music after a painful breakup or upbeat music on our graduation day, music often plays a significant role in our most memorable life events. Memories aside, music also influences our mental performance and ability to get things done. See...

“ Snowplow parents ” are the newest embodiment of a hyper-intensive parenting style that can include parents booking their adult children haircuts, texting their college kids to wake them up so they don’t sleep through a test, and even calling their kids’ employers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Your professional social network needs decluttering just like your house does. How can you apply the Marie Kondo method to your LinkedIn feed ? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the ongoing battle against disinformation and online hoaxes, WhatsApp is testing out an in-app reverse image search feature that it hopes will, eventually, help people distinguish between what’s real and what’s not before blatantly forwarding messages to their contacts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A survey by YouGov of 25,000 people worldwide has found that Malaysians are number one fans of their own cuisine - but other nations aren't liking it that much. Have we been living in a bubble about how good our food is this whole time? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We spend so much time in the workplace nowadays that the lines between family and colleagues can sometimes get blurred. But always remember one thing, you cannot fire your family. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What makes people defy ethics at the workplace? A study breaks down the core reasons employees (especially in higher positions) act unethically in the office. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We’ve all said at some point or another, ‘I wish that they were just a little more efficient’. Often those words are not as, nice - but the meaning is the same. We’d just like people to be professional at the job that they’re doing - and to do it well. But does there become a point where efficiency overtakes effectiveness? The #BizBytes team discusses. See omnystudio....

The benefits of playing certain videogames, especially when it comes to hand-eye coordination, has long been documented. Now, a concept called “ videogame therapy ” is making its way into nursing homes in the hopes of helping patients reclaim some amount of mobility. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Some tech companies have started focusing on voice and speech analysis to determine risk factors for a number of ailments. Not only that, these companies also claim that your voice can predict your behavior in the future . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s been a tough year for tech . From the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal to concerns around Venmo’s creepy public transaction history to accidents caused by self-driving cars and the way stalker ads now chase us across the web, it’s increasingly hard not to feel that we’re at the mercy of an army of unfeeling machines exploiting us for commercial gain. See omnystudio...

British bank NatWest is trialling the use of a new NFC payment card with a built-in fingerprint scanner . The trial, which will include 200 customers when it begins in mid-April, will allow its participants to make NFC payments (called “contactless” in the UK) without needing to input a PIN or offer a signature. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Skipped paying a fine in China? Walked your dog without a leash? These could affect your chances of buying an airline ticket if you were in China with the controversial social credit system . Millions have been barred from buying airline ticket and train tickets over the course of the years since implementation in certain areas in China. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Randstad released the second edition of its Bonus Expectations survey this year, and 83% of Malaysia-based employees want a bonus this year, compared to 64% of them who received a bonus last year. But companies are playing it conservative with bonuses this year - so how can we resolve this issue? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Having a four-year college degree has become a common requirement for many jobs around the world but according to Apple CEO Tim Cook, there are certain in-demand skills that students may not learn in college - namely, coding. Having a degree may not be a requirement in the future in certain sectors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

No matter how cool your job is, there will be some repetitive or mundane task that gets you slipping into the dreaded state of boredom. So how do you reframe boring tasks so you don’t just get through them mindlessly? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman has come up with a decision-making process to avoid gut-based decisions called the “ Mediating Assessments Protocol ”, or MAP. Instead of making decisions on impulse, break down the components of your decision the way you would approach interviewing a job candidate. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Managing money is hard. It gets even harder once you’re a parent. Via Quartz, here are a few ways to simplify the process as much as possible. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There comes a time in every young person’s life when they need to sit down with their parents and face the uncomfortable facts of life — it’s time for The Talk. After all, how else will they learn the truth about where bills and credit scores come from? That’s right, you need to have the financial version of The Talk . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Making the internet available and affordable does not get us all the way to universal access. It leaves behind the 20% of the world’s population that is illiterate. So could Siri, Alexa and other virtual assistants be the missing link in internet accessibility ? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.