Business

Growing Pains: The Hidden Phases of Business Evolution
Building a company from the ground up is an exhilarating journey filled with unexpected challenges. At Hawke Media, we grew to 250 people in under ten years, and this...
Gunvor hires Singapore specialists as it expands precious metals business into physical trading
Gunvor hires Singapore specialists as it expands precious metals business into physical trading
[LONDON] Global commodity trading house Gunvor is expanding its precious metals business from trading derivatives into physical metal and has hired specialists in the London and Singapore trading hubs,...
Meituan launches AI agent to boost food delivery business
Meituan launches AI agent to boost food delivery business
[HONG KONG] Meituan has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) agent app that aims to boost its food delivery and local services business, as its battle with Alibaba Group...
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says he cut 4,000 support roles because of AI
Artificial intelligence already is replacing certain jobs at technology companies.Last week, Salesforce Chief Executive Marc Benioff said the San Francisco software giant was able to shrink the number of...
Google is training its AI tools on YouTube videos. These creators aren’t happy
Santa Ana-based entrepreneur Charlie Chang spent years posting finance videos on YouTube before he made a profit.Today, Chang’s media business oversees more than 50 YouTube channels, along with other...
Moderna to cut 10% of staff to offset slowing Covid business
Moderna to cut 10% of staff to offset slowing Covid business
Published Thu, Jul 31, 2025 · 07:53 PM[CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS] Moderna is cutting about 10 per cent of its workforce, part of an effort by the struggling biotech company to...
Sony buys stake in ‘Gundam’ owner to grow anime business
Sony buys stake in ‘Gundam’ owner to grow anime business
Published Fri, Jul 25, 2025 · 11:34 AM[TOKYO] Sony has bought a strategic 2.5 per cent stake in Japanese game franchise giant Bandai Namco, which owns Gundam and arcade...
SingPost divests freight forwarding business Famous Holdings for S7.9 million
SingPost divests freight forwarding business Famous Holdings for S$177.9 million
[SINGAPORE] Singapore Post (SingPost) has divested its entire freight forwarding business, Famous Holdings, for about S$177.9 million.The sale resulted in an estimated realised gain on disposal of S$10.5 million...
Third-Party Validation: The Secret Weapon for Business Growth
Success in business isn’t just about what you know—it’s about who knows you. I discovered this firsthand during the early days of Hawke Media when a simple Forbes article...
Algorithms for Everyone: Breaking the Enterprise Monopoly on Business Intelligence
The artificial intelligence boom has transformed entire industries, but it has largely bypassed the businesses that form the backbone of the American economy. While tech giants deploy sophisticated machine...