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If your office is anything like ours, it's been obsessed with a new artificial intelligence chat bot that can do some pretty crazy things. Write a personal reference? Done Write me a meal and exercise plan? Done Draft an email to Elon Musk inviting him to come on to the Dive? Done Write a catchy rap song based on personal details of my life? Done While we’ve been having a lot of fun playing around...

When you want to download an app onto your phone, there are really only one place you go on your phone. And depending on what phone you own - it's either Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store. You might not be aware, but every time you pay for an app or make a purchase within the app, Apple and Google take a 30% cut. And that is becoming a growing point of frustration for other tech companies....

Imagine you've just bought your dream car. It's a new BMW that you’ve been saving up for all your life - and it's set you back a tidy $80k. The obvious first step is to take a long drive! After all, the weather is beautiful, and this is the best way to experience the drive! Life is pretty good. Then you start to feel a little chilly, so naturally you go to turn on the in-built seat warmers for a l...

It’s Friday night. You’ve had a long week at work. And you’ve decided to treat yourself to some takeaway. You choose Thai. Then it occurs to you - there are so many Thai restaurants in the world! The obvious answer is that Thai food is good. There’s no denying that. But there’s more to it than that. For the past 20 years, Thailand’s government has been running a Global Thai program with...

In the next few years, we’re going to see huge changes in the world of farming. At least according to the world’s biggest farm supply company - Deere and Co, or John Deere, as you're probably more familiar. Earlier this year, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company unveiled a self-driving tractor. In their most recent earnings announcement, the company said we would see ful...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed.   Tell us what you think of The Dive - email us at thedive@equitymates.com.   In the spirit of reconcili...

Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Once just American retail traditions, they've now become truly global. But before you log on and take advantage of the discounts, here’s a stat for you to keep in mind: only 1 in 7 Black Friday deals offer a genuine discount! Crazy! That finding came out of the UK from product review website Which.co.uk. It certainly got us talking and looking deeper into t...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed.   Tell us what you think of The Dive - email us at thedive@equitymates.com.   In the spirit of reconcili...

In just one minute, 140 babies will have been born, and on the 15th November - one of those babies became the 8 billionth person on earth. It took us until 1804 to reach 1 billion people, but we added the other 7 billion in the 218 years following.  The world’s population growth has been staggeringly fast in the past two centuries, but the rate of growth has now started to decline. Two y...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed.   Tell us what you think of The Dive - email us at thedive@equitymates.com.   In the spirit of reconcili...

Last week, food delivery app Deliveroo stopped taking orders in Australia. Its British parent company said it wasn’t generating enough money, leaving Deliveroo Australia without any backing to continue operating. But Deliveroo isn’t the only food delivery company to fail or downsize recently. Voly and Send also went bust this year. GoPuff, Gorillas and Getir are all cutting staff in search of...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed.   Tell us what you think of The Dive - email us at thedive@equitymates.com.   In the spirit of reconcili...

The Football, or Soccer, World Cup has kicked off in Qatar. For 2 weeks the world’s attention will be trained on Qatar as the world’s best players compete for the ultimate national prize - winning a World Cup. But equal to the attention focused on the pitch, is the climate surrounding this event. There’s been a lot of media commentary at Qatar’s human rights record, at the migrant labour used to b...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed.   Tell us what you think of The Dive - email us at thedive@equitymates.com.   In the spirit of reconcili...

Taylor Swift has been forced to cancel her Eras Tour ticket sale to the public after historic demand for tickets caused Ticketmaster’s site to be completely overwhelmed. It was Swift’s first tour in five years. Ticketmaster verified 1.5 million fans for pre-sale, but was inundated with 14 million visits to the site.  With such demand, resale markets went crazy. With some screenshots showing T...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed.   Tell us what you think of The Dive - email us at thedive@equitymates.com.   In the spirit of reconcili...

New data released by the Australian Tax Office has revealed that almost a third of large companies paid zero corporate tax in Australia in the 2020-21 financial year. In those almost 800 strong list are the likes of Glencore, Qantas, ExxonMobil, Chevron, and more. Despite massive profits, many multinational companies that report large profits to the sharemarket manage to avoid paying much tax, if...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed.   Tell us what you think of The Dive - email us at thedive@equitymates.com.   In the spirit of reconcili...

Environmentally conscious Australians were shocked last week when a major recycling program supported by our two major supermarkets - REDcycle - announced they were pausing operations. For years, REDcycle has been Australia’s only way to recycle household soft plastics - you know that mixture of plastic shopping bags, food wrappers and other packaging. That soft, scrunchable plastic that too...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed.   Tell us what you think of The Dive - email us at thedive@equitymates.com.   In the spirit of reconcili...

The cryptocurrency market is in meltdown after the collapse of FTX, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges. In 2022, it felt like we'd already seen the worst... several crypto companies went bankrupt in the first half of the year. And after months of subsequent price falls, it felt like stability had returned to the market. But this has now all been shattered. The collapse of FTX has even bee...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed.   Tell us what you think of The Dive - email us at thedive@equitymates.com.   In the spirit of reconcili...

Earnings season. It’s that time of year when publicly traded companies tell the public how they’re going. How much they’ve sold, did they make a profit, and what their plans are for the future.  We’ve just got through earnings for the third quarter - that is July to September this year.  With thousands of companies listed in America, and tens of thousands listed around the world there’s...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed.   Tell us what you think of The Dive - email us at thedive@equitymates.com.   In the spirit of reconcili...

There is a global competition heating up over where you work and where you retire.  Indonesia, Thailand, Greece and Portugal are among a raft of countries hoping to draw in digital nomads and wealthy retirees by extending visas for up to a decade for those who want to reside there. It comes after tourism and immigration took a major hit through the pandemic. And many workers and businesses we...