Growing up in China, then moving to the States, I get asked about Superapps constantly by international friends. It sounds grand and obvious. My answer is always the same: it's not that easy! Every superapp starts as one genuinely indispensable app. Let’s use WeChat as an example: 2011: Messaging (core chat) 2012: Moments (social timeline) 2013: WeChat Pay (payments) 2014: Red Packets (红包), arguably the single most important product moment in WeChat's history. Launched during Chinese New Year, it went viral overnight and onboarded hundreds of millions of users onto WeChat Pay in weeks. Tencent later called it a "Pearl Harbor attack" on Alibaba's Alipay dominance. 2015: WeChat Pay expanded into offline retail broadly. 2016: Enterprise WeChat 2017: Mini Programs, which allowed third-party apps to run natively inside WeChat without users downloading anything. 2020: Channels (short video, direct response to Douyin/TikTok's dominance.) 2022+: Deeper Channels integration, live commerce, search ambitions It's the heaviest app on my phone and i'm forever grateful that it exists so i can send silly photos to my parents when I was roaming around the world. Never forget that building the initial core product sets the foundation for everything that comes after

Growing up in East London, actor Idris Elba watched his father give "a voice to the unvoiced" as a union representative for Ford Motor Co. Sabrina Dhowre Elba’s mother left Somalia in 1986 amid a civil war that would bring state collapse and, as a single mother of five, went on to found a nonprofit dedicated to educating and supporting women in rural areas of the country and Eastern Africa. The couple met in 2016, married in 2019, and together founded the Elba Hope Foundation in 2022 — a continuation of everything their parents taught them about showing up for others. This year, TIME named them to the TIME100 Philanthropy list. Read their full interview and what has been accomplished so far here:

growing up as a girl in Korea a lot of our femininity and sensuality is repressed. Korea is much more conservative than America. It can be quite toxic and suffocating if I’m being honest. I always had thoughts growing up, the kind of thoughts that would make you considered “weird” or “dirty” or a “wh0*e” but after moving to America I realized I might as well embrace that part of myself as it’s a part of me. In my opinion a fantasy also doesn’t necessarily mean reality and it’s okay to indulge in it in a safe environment. One of my biggest fantasies is taking on multiple men at once….multipe c**ks 😖😖😖 Being able to please many men at the same time. Have them use me for their pleasure and be at their sensual service Do you think that makes me weird? Does that make me dirty? Or should I embrace this side of me more?

Growing the love for the game across LA 🏀❤️ Leading up to NBA All-Star 2026 at @IntuitDome, we delivered over 5,600 outdoors hoops across the city through @NBAAllStar Homecourt Hoops ⭐️

A growing pay dispute at Samsung Electronics is causing serious frustration among employees after reports claimed some workers in the company’s memory chip division received bonuses close to $400,000, while staff in other semiconductor units got around $4,000. The huge difference in payouts has reportedly created anger across teams involved in chip packaging and AI semiconductor production. Employees in some departments are slowing work and delaying cooperation on key projects as resentment spreads internally. The backlash comes at a critical time as Samsung competes with SK hynix and TSMC in the AI chip race. Workers outside the memory division reportedly feel they are contributing to the company’s AI ambitions without receiving similar rewards. Packaging teams, which play a major role in assembling advanced AI chips, are said to be among the most frustrated. Some reports claim internal decisions related to major AI chip projects have slowed down completely because of growing tension between departments.

A growing number of Americans feel their opportunities are worse than their parents’ generation, especially true among younger Americans, the latest CBS News poll finds.

A growing number of bear encounters across the country is prompting new wildlife warnings, including trail closures at Great Smoky Mountains National Park as officials try to keep visitors safe.