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Satay seller Titus Wibowo never fails to create a stir whenever he delivers the local delicacy to customers. Since June, he's been wearing the black Spider-Man suit for the purpose of entertaining people during the Covid-19 pandemic. "Many people are stuck indoors during the movement control order. For them, it's the same routine each day and many are bored. I decided to wear this outfit because I can see it brings happiness to customers. Children are thrilled to receive satay specially delivered by their favourite masked superheroes. The father of one also posts videos of his adventures as a masked crusader on his YouTube channel, Boy Satay. They operate daily from 2pm-10pm, offering chicken, beef and mutton satay. He also sells otak otak, a fish cake made of minced fish meat mixed with spices. Titus and Rosdin hold two jobs – satay makers and masked delivery riders. Titus purchased the skin-tight suits online for RM350 each. It comes complete with a one-piece spandex …

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The lawsuit, one of a series that has been filed against Google in the United States, follows complaints about Google's management of its app store, known as the Play Store, even though the company was originally seen as more open than Apple Inc. France's antitrust watchdog slapped a 500 million euro ($593 million) fine on Alphabet's Google on Tuesday for failing to comply fully with temporary orders it had given in a row with the country's news publishers. News publishers APIG, SEPM and AFP accuse the tech giant of having failed to open talks in good faith with them to find common ground for the remuneration of news content online, under a recent EU directive that creates so-called "neighbouring rights". The case in itself focused on whether Google breached temporary orders issued by the antitrust authority, which demanded such talks take place within three months with any news publishers that ask for them. …

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The first tax season where taxpayers will experience the full effect of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is here, and soon the economic results will be scrutinized. Business owners were a central demographic component when the bill was put together. The idea was to incentivize small businesses, lessen their tax burden, and create growth. Whether or not this is happening is hotly contested. But, fiscal rewards aside, small-business owners should plan on taxes taking extra time and attention this year--two of the rarest commodities for busy entrepreneurs. Below are some tips on how you can stay out of the weeds and focused on your business this tax season. What's New for Small-Business Owners Corporate provisions comprised some of the most sweeping changes in the tax reform. The most critical factor in determining how your business will be taxed is the structure of your company--and which structure is best has been vastly changed by the tax reform. For …

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It's September 1, and that means a new round of tariffs in the ongoing trade war with China are about to go into effect. Most consumer goods made in China (which is to say most consumer goods) will begin carrying a 15 percent tariff starting today, with no grace period for goods that were already in transit to the U.S. Everything from toothbrushes to milk to children's toys will get pricier. So will 92 percent of apparel imported from China. So will many electronic products. In particular, Airpods, Apple Watches, and just about everything made by Apple is likely to be affected, since the company has bet big on manufacturing in China. Are you likely to see higher prices the next time you go to the store? It's complicated. On one hand, retailers know higher prices are coming and right now, when the tariffs are known to be taking effect, is a logical time to raise retail prices. On the other hand, China, which controls its currency's value against the dollar and other world …

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SolarEdge Technologies ( NASDAQ:SEDG ) and Enphase Energy ( NASDAQ:ENPH ) are two of the most valuable companies in the solar industry, with market caps of  $16.5 billion and $21.6 billion, respectively. That's a little odd because both occupy similar places in the solar market, providing module-level power electronics, inverters, and monitoring devices for residential solar projects. In many ways, they're fighting for the same piece of the solar pie. As a result, the more of their market the two of them control, the more they'll be competing against each other for growth. And that could make at least one of them overvalued. Image source: Getty Images. Fighting for the same customers SolarEdge's core products are power optimizers that are attached to solar panels, and inverters that convert the DC power those panels produce into the AC power used in our homes and businesses. Enphase Energy makes microinverters that perform the DC-to-AC conversion at the individual …

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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin When it comes to men's grooming in 2021, there is a new opportunity on the horizon to experiment with fresh ideas of self- care and grooming. After a long-period of unkempt grooming routines that were collectively adapted-as the world worked from home, a new trend in grooming has emerged as the people get set to return to work. The trend is all about gummies. For the last five years I purposely dodged the bullet with respect to reporting on this topic for men's grooming and well-being. The reason was that myself and my team were not clear on the positive effects of gummies. And quite frankly, I was not educated whatsoever on the product offerings. Upon viewing major men's publications, blogs and influencers report on gummies; I decided to conduct a review and test the positive effects of these fresh product offerings. On a negative note, I was unable to find a cream to stop burning and itching of skin, but what I did conclude …

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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin After a break from writing work I’m now catching up on reviews. The writing hasn’t stopped me from tasting new whiskies so here’s what’s come my way over the last few months. Where yesterday’s roundup covered more expensive releases, these are much more accessible, and some even stand up to the much more expensive fare at friendlier prices. Here’s my usual disclaimer. These reviews reflect my personal views on the whisky and that these are not requested nor considered official by Forbes in any way. Often, but not always, I’ll be sent a sample or have a chance to try it at a tasting, but opinions are always my own. A quick note about my (loosely applied) criteria. In choosing whiskies to review, I don’t have much of a requirement beyond the fact that the whisky ideally should have been released within the last few months, and that the bottles are available to buy for the general public, preferably to a global market. Also …

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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin SHANGHAI, CHINA - AUGUST 27: People visit an Artificial Intelligence (AI) equipment experiencing ... [+] area during the 5th Popular Science Products Expo at Shanghai Exhibition Center on August 27, 2018 in Shanghai, China. The 5th Popular Science Products Expo is held on August 24-27 in Shanghai. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images) You are standing in line waiting to board your regular afternoon flight home. You give your boarding pass to the check-in attendant and suddenly a light flashes on the board. The attendant says, “Sorry, we can’t allow you on this plane because you have a history of treatment for alcohol abuse which the airlines consider makes you a travel risk.” Or because a data link to the police department indicates you have multiple unpaid parking tickets. Or perhaps, you have a history of trying to visit websites the government has deemed troublesome or even dangerous, or because surveillance …

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LONDON: From Washington DC to Wall Street, 2021 has already seen online groups causing major organised offline disruption. Some of it has been in violation of national laws, some in violation of Internet platforms’ terms of service. When these groups are seen to cause societal harm, the solution has been knee-jerk: To ban or “deplatform” those groups immediately, leaving them digitally “homeless”. But the online world is a Pandora’s box of sites, apps, forums and message boards. Groups banned from Facebook migrated seamlessly to Parler, and from Parler, via encrypted messaging apps, to a host of other platforms. Users easily migrate between platforms on the “dark web”. Deplatforming won’t work on the regular Internet for the same reason: It’s become too easy for groups to migrate elsewhere. READ: Commentary: Facebook’s eleventh-hour suspension of Trump’s account raises questions about its motives This year, we’ve come to see social platforms not as passive communication …

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