Gojek Latest FinTech To Cut Jobs Amid Coronavirus Damage
Ride-hailing and digital payments firm Gojek is slashing hundreds of jobs as the coronavirus-triggered economic downturn hits home in Southeast Asia. The Indonesian-based company confirmed the cuts in a statement to Bloomberg and various news organizations, noting that it would be eliminating 430 jobs. That amounts to 9 percent of the workforce of the tech company, which is headquartered … Continue reading Gojek Latest FinTech To Cut Jobs Amid Coronavirus Damage Continue Reading
The travel and tourism industries will be changed forever by the coronavirus pandemic with less focus on major tourist destinations, says Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky. “Travel as we knew it is over,” Chesky told American news channel CNBC during an interview with Deirdre Bosa. “It doesn’t mean travel is over, just the travel we knew is over, and it’s never … 
VDF products fair: Nendo has updated its Press light for Czech brand Lasvit with a glass shade that appears broken into a thousand tiny pieces. The design is rendered as a floor and pendant lamp featuring the same shape as the original light, which was launched in 2012. The light comprises a glass cylinder pressed together as if pinched around the base of a light source to hold … 
Two of the largest mall owners in the United States are teaming up on a bid to buy one of their key anchor tenants, bankrupt JCPenney. Simon Property Group, which owns the most malls of any company in the U.S., and fellow mall giant Brookfield Property Partners have joined together to make a bid for the … 
Bruny Island Cabin is a wood-lined off-grid holiday home in Tasmania designed by architecture studio Maguire + Devin featuring only built-in furniture. Apart from a mattress and a freestanding low table, every element in the cabin is part of the frame. Maguire + Devin created Bruny Island Cabin for a client who wanted an off-grid retreat on 99 acres of … 
Amid Wall Street’s gyrations and the search for the next great tech unicorn: Blank checks for blank check companies? On Monday (June 22), CNBC reported that famed investor Bill Ackman is seeking to raise $3 billion for an initial public offering (IPO) of his blank check company. It would be the largest IPO of this type of … 
Instagram has taken what could be a big step toward expanding access to its shopping platform at a time when rivals of the Facebook subsidiary are moving broaden and diversify their own revenue streams. In a Tuesday (June 23) press release, the company said it will be opening up Instagram Shopping to a wider array of … 
Siufan Adey and Thomas Aquilina of Afterparti present the architecture collective’s manifesto in the second part of Virtual Design Festival’s collaboration with the London Festival of Architecture. Afterparti, which was born out of the New Architecture Writers (NAW) programme for emerging BAME writers, creates zines –non-commercial magazines – and events that promote underrepresented voices in architecture and design. “We’d already … 
Readers are envious of the chickens who get to call a Kengo Kuma designed chicken coop in Mexico, home. The Casa Wabi Coop was designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates to provide eggs for the Casa Wabi Foundation in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. An adaption of a communal housing model, it features gridded walls made from interlocking wooden … 
Mexican architecture studio Hemaa has renovated a dark grey house in Mexico City designed by modernist Mexican architect Augusto H Álvarez in the 1950s. Local studio Hemaa based its renovation of Sierra Negra, which has undergone a number of remodels since it was first built by Álavrez, on the Mexican architect’s original plans. “After some research on the property, we were able to …