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The daily drama of money and work from the BBC.
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Why is Temu so cheap?
The Chinese-owned online store has exploded in popularity in the past year, shipping to customers in 49 countries around the world. And its advertising has taken centre stage at one of the world’s most watched events: the Super Bowl.
So why is Temu so cheap? And how can it afford to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising to take on its rivals?
We hear from experts, politicians and shoppers in China, the US, and the UK about how the company operates, as it seeks to out-pace the competition.
(Picture: The Temu logo displayed on the screen of a mobile device. Credit: Getty Images)
Presented and produced by Sam Gruet -
Would green hydrogen be a drain on Uruguay's water sources?
The government of Uruguay has launched ambitious plans to make hydrogen and green fuels.
The country generates far more of its electricity from renewables than most countries - Uruguay produces more than 90% of its electricity from sustainable resources, like wind. And that, the government says, puts it in a good position to start producing green hydrogen.
Proponents of green hydrogen production in Uruguay say it will be good for the planet and the country's economy, but could it use too much water?
(Picture: Mauricio Caro, a farmer in Uruguay. He worries that if water is taken from the local aquifer to make green fuels, farmers will run short. Credit: Grace Livingstone/BBC)
Presented and produced by Grace Livingstone -
Business Daily meets: Andy Yen
Andy Yen is founder and CEO of tech company Proton, best known for its encrypted email service Proton Mail.
He was born in Taiwan, studied in California, then moved to Switzerland to work at CERN as a particle physicist. He then set up Proton from Geneva.
Dougal Shaw talks to the entrepreneur about growing up in the shadow of China, personal privacy in an age when we live our lives online, and his company’s “cat and mouse” games with Russia over VPN software, which allows people to access the internet without state control.
(Picture: Andy Yen)
Presented and produced by Dougal Shaw -
Stockholm: The capital of music tech?
Spotify and Soundcloud started out as small, music tech startups in Stockholm, and now, several other companies that blend music production and innovation are choosing to set up shop in the Swedish capital.
In this edition of Business Daily, we meet some of these new businesses, to see why Stockholm holds such appeal. And we try to find out whether music tech is a profitable sector with a long-term future.
(Image: Emelie Olsson, the co- founder of Corite, a music tech startup. Credit: Maddy Savage/BBC)
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Nato: Who’s spending what?
Wary of the perceived threat from Russia, the countries that make up the Nato Western military alliance are upping their spending on the military. But not fast enough, according to former US president Donald Trump, who has made the issue part of his election campaign.
So should governments in Europe be spending more on their collective defence? Do Europeans want them to, or would they rather that money go to things like education and healthcare instead?
As Sweden joins the alliance, we look at who is spending what within Nato, who is pulling their weight, and who is not.
We speak to people across Europe about what they want, and we talk to one former army chief, who says his country is woefully underprepared to defend itself.
Presenter/producer: Gideon Long
Additional reporting from Bethany Bell, BBC correspondent in Vienna
And additional recording by Maddy Savage in Stockholm and Kostas Kallergis in Brussels
(Photo: German Eurofighter Typhoon jets of TLG73 during Nato exercise. Credit: Getty Images) -
The sugar price surge
We trace the commodity’s journey from sugar cane farm, to mill, to candy shop, all in a quest to find out why the cost of sugar has gone up.
The US is the world's fifth largest sugar producer, with sugarcane grown in the south and sugar beets in the north.
Even though the cost of sugar is rising worldwide, Americans pay twice as much as the global average for sugar because of a government policy.
Brought about to protect domestic producers, a protectionist policy taxing imports of sugar is actually creating higher prices, a report by the government accountability office found in October.
We travel from a candy story in New York, to a sugarcane farm and mill in Louisiana, to find out what the impact will be.
Presented and produced by Erin Delmore
Additional sound mixing by Cameron Ward and Helen Thomas
(Image: A worker climbs onto a front loader beside a pile of raw cane sugar inside a storehouse at a sugar mill in Louisiana. Credit: Getty Images)
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