Author: Arabian Media staff
Tapping your card on the tablet and choosing a tip percentage feels like a direct reward to your server for their work. Yet in many restaurants (and increasingly in airport concessions and delivery apps), your tip is quietly subsidizing the employer’s labor costs instead of landing in workers’ pockets. By exploiting tip-credit rules, mandatory tip pools, and a tangle of “service” surcharges, operators can legally pay sub-minimum wages or even use your tips to replace money they were already obligated to spend. Understanding the fine print on that tablet screen can help you decide when—and how—to tip. Key Takeaways Under…
Exchange-traded funds using options to generate income have become popular. They take a variety of approaches to providing income and growth. Source link
Early access to corporate financial results produced underwhelming results. Here’s why. Source link
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Humana’s stock surges, after the health insurer raises its full-year profit outlook and sees improvement in its Medicare Advantage business. Source link
Image: Getty Images IBM has released its 2025 edition of the Cost of a Data Breach Report, revealing that the average cost of a data breach in the Middle East declined to $7.29m (SAR27m). This marks a notable 18% drop from $8.86m (SAR32.80m) the previous year. According to the report, the reduction was largely due to increased adoption of AI/ML-driven insights, strong encryption, and a DevSecOps approach. Lost business remained the most significant contributor to breach costs in the region, averaging $3.14m (SAR11.63m) per incident. This was followed by post-breach response costs at $2.03m (SAR7.50m), detection and escalation at $1.77m…
Yves Lamoureux has shifted his view on stocks to neutral from “extremely bullish,” as he says investors have turned into gamblers. Source link
Two market commentators believe investors are underestimating the potential for stocks to respond positively to fiscal and monetary stimulus. Source link
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Image: Supplied UAE-based AI-powered SpaceTech firm Space42 has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Microsoft and Esri to deliver high-resolution base maps across all 54 African nations. The five-year initiative, called the ‘Map Africa Initiative’, aims to support more than 1.4 billion people by improving access to geospatial data and intelligent solutions across the continent. Announced at the 2025 Esri User Conference, the partnership will address long-standing gaps in infrastructure, investment and data availability by producing the continent’s most comprehensive mapping database to date. The effort is designed to catalyze economic development through improved information flow to governments, businesses…