Monthly Archives: August 2022

Apple asked photographers for iPhone shots of their favorite place. These are the results.

Today, August 19, is World Photography Day, and Apple has some photos to share with you. The company asked photographers to use their iPhones to take photos of their favorite place. As it typically happens, the results made us feel like we’re doing something wrong when taking photos with our phones, because these are pretty…

An American traveler’s bag was lost on her vacation to Europe. 5 weeks later a stranger sent a photo of her luggage in a city she had never even been to.

After thinking her bag was lost in the sea of luggage at Rome Airport (right), Lisa Khan got a text from a stranger staying she’d found it in Florence. Courtesy of Lisa Khan Lisa Khan and her family’s bags were lost on a transatlantic trip from Florida to Italy. Five weeks after arriving in Italy,…

China’s real-estate market is in such a slump that cities are offering discounts for group purchases and tasking civil servants with selling apartments

China’s once red-hot property market has slowed massively. Liu Junfeng/VCG/Getty Images To drive up sales, some cities in China have come up with unusual measures. They include arranging for residents to make property purchases as a group for discounts. A small city in eastern China is asking civil servants to sell real-estate to family and…

Mia Alexander wants neobank Dave to become the first choice for America’s under-represented communities. She’s working on initiatives to boost their employability, and correct a system that’s left minorities with less access to financial services.

Mia Alexander, VP, customer success, Dave Dave Insider’s Banker of the Week series appears in our weekday newsletter, 10 Things on Wall Street. This week we’re highlighting Mia Alexander, a vice president with neobank Dave. Alexander manages customer success, and has been focused on connecting underrepresented communities with digital-banking needs, cash advances, and job opportunities….