The Iran war is undermining economic optimism across the Gulf and wider MENA. Do governments have the financial firepower to absorb the shock? The Middle East is shuddering from its biggest crisis in decades. The US-Israeli war with Iran is shaking the entire region, testing Gulf economic resilience, and disrupting global trade and oil markets….
President Donald Trump, in between blockading the Strait of Hormuz and posting blasphemous AI images of himself as Jesus, claims he still wants to strike a deal with Iran’s government to end the current conflict, reopen the Strait, and curtail the country’s nuclear program. So far, he’s been unsuccessful — and during his first term…
Somewhere between your scraper sending a request and the target website deciding what to do with it, a lot can go wrong. An IP gets flagged. A CAPTCHA fires. A rate limiter triggers. The data you needed is now behind a wall, and your team is debugging instead of working. Residential proxies solve this by…
With more than 50 brands, across news, sports, music and entertainment, PRISA Media is the leading Spanish-language media group in the world. Some of their brands are niche, others are national, and some, like El PAÍS and the sport newspaper As, are global. PRISA operates newspapers, radio stations and podcasts in Spain, Chile, Colombia and…
I’ve always loved a good blog post of someone just saying what they use and do. Keerthana Krishnan has a good one here with Chrome DevTools Features I Use All the Time (and Why You Should Too). Cheeky parentheticals, Keerthana. Like, sure, I’ll read a blog post about new Chrome DevTools features, but I’m more…
The publication’s shift in leadership signals both continuity and evolution—positioning the storied magazine for its next phase of growth. After 15 years at the helm of Global Finance Magazine, Andrea Fiano is stepping into a new role as Editor at Large, marking the close of a defining chapter for the publication and the beginning of a new era…
To celebrate the second Sunday of Easter, President Donald Trump appears to have decided that blasphemy might be the best option. Late Sunday evening, Trump posted a wordy attack of Pope Leo XIV on Truth Social, saying the first American-born leader of the Roman Catholic Church was “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.”…
This past week has been a disaster for Vice President JD Vance. He embarked on two foreign adventures — campaigning for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and leading peace negotiations with Iran — that ended in total failure. Orbán lost by an enormous margin; Iran quit the talks, and President Donald Trump announced a new…
For CFOs and finance leaders evaluating Amazon marketplace strategies, the build-versus-buy decision represents more than a marketing question—it’s a capital allocation challenge with measurable P&L impact. As Amazon advertising spend scales from six to eight figures annually, the cost structure of managing that spend becomes a critical driver of profitability. Understanding the fully loaded economics…
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: After the US and Iran failed to reach a longer-term peace agreement over the weekend, President Donald Trump is trying something new: blockading…