As Global Gold Prices Soar, What It Means for Bangladesh: Record-breaking demand, geopolitical hedging, and a global supply chain that bypasses South Asia’s informal markets

Gold has never been more expensive, more sought after, or more consequential for global finance. In January 2026, prices breached $5,500 per ounce for the first time in history—an astonishing…

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Designing Affordable Premium: How Brands Win Through Small Luxuries: The strategic intersection of aspiration and accessibility reshaping consumer markets from New York to Dhaka

The Rise of Treatonomics In an era defined by economic uncertainty, a counterintuitive consumer behavior has emerged as one of the most powerful forces reshaping global retail. While high-end luxury…

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Why Viral AI Video Is Becoming Big Tech’s Next Battleground OpenAI, Google, and Chinese Giants Race to Dominate the Future of Content Creation

The race to dominate AI-generated video has become the most consequential technology battle since the smartphone wars. OpenAI's Sora 2, Google's Veo 3, and a fleet of Chinese competitors are…

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Bangladesh’s Remittance Lifeline: How $30 Billion Averted Economic Crisis in 2025

Record remittance inflows of $30.32 billion in fiscal year 2024-25 transformed Bangladesh's economic trajectory, enabling the country to achieve its first current account surplus in eight years and rebuild foreign…

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Vodcast vs Short Ads: Which One Delivers Better ROI for Brands in 2026?

The marketing world has split into two camps, each armed with compelling data. On one side stand the advocates of vodcasts—video podcasts that combine the intimacy of audio storytelling with…

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Bangladesh’s Gig Economy: The Promise and Precarity of a Million-Worker Revolution

In a country where only one in three university graduates secures a formal job and unemployment benefits remain absent, more than one million Bangladeshis have turned to a new economic…

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How Singapore Became the Most Efficient Startup Engine on Earth: How a tiny city-state built Asia’s most powerful innovation ecosystem—and what Bangladesh can learn from it

I first understood Singapore's startup magic standing in the lobby of BLOCK71, a converted industrial building at Ayer Rajah Crescent. The building hummed with unmistakable energy: founders pitching over lukewarm…

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Micro-Markets: Why Global Brands Are Designing Products for a One-Kilometre Radius

For most of the modern branding era, scale was a virtue. The larger the audience, the broader the distribution, the more uniform the product portfolio, the more efficient the commercial…

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More Than Exercise: Relational Meanings of Mobile Fitness App Use Among Married Men in Ghana and Its Implications for Digital Lifestyle Innovations

Abstract This study investigates how married men in Ghana engage with mobile fitness applications and the relational meanings that emerge from their use. Drawing on qualitative data from focus group…

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Strategic Alignment of Marketing Technology: A Conceptual Framework for Capability Building in Malaysian Firms

Abstract The rise of marketing technologies (MarTech) has significantly altered how organisations approach customer engagement, decision-making, and capability development. However, the effectiveness of MarTech adoption often hinges not on the…

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