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Black Friday is a smaller slice of the season than you think
Friday October 30, 2026 Simon L. For all the hype Black Friday gets, the day itself brings the typical established small online store about as many orders as an ordinary day between October and December. The stores that do see a real jump tend to be the ones that got ready for it. It’s tempting to plan the whole holiday season around that one Friday. The biggest discount goes there, the main email goes out that morning, and by Saturday you’re deciding whether the quarter was a success.
Is Google still the front door to the internet?
Friday October 30, 2026 Simon L. For years, finding a business meant opening Google. Now people also start on TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, YouTube, maps, and AI assistants, depending on their age and what they need. Among Gen Z adults, 19% start a product search on TikTok, more than double the rate of all adults. But Google is not going anywhere, and neither is the humble business website.
EME EFE ESTUDIO: The small steps behind one designer’s big leap
Friday October 23, 2026 Simon L. Manuel Ferre’s old company has asked him to come back three times, most recently with a better-paid offer. He’s said no every time. The night he quit his job as a graphic designer, he had no other job lined up, and his friends asked him if he’d gone crazy. His bet was to put everything into his design studio, EME EFE ESTUDIO. It looked like a reckless leap, and he was scared. What his friends didn’t see was how long he’d been getting ready.
What your Black Friday results can teach you about growing your business
Friday October 16, 2026 Simon L. When we dug into our Black Friday numbers from last year, a few things surprised us. Our busiest day of the sale wasn’t even Black Friday; our supposed bargain hunters came back about as often as anyone else; and the discount persuaded many of them to commit for two years or more. Black Friday brings a wave of new customers and some of our strongest revenue, and yes, we get excited about that. But the money isn’t the only reason it’s such a big deal for us.
What 34,582 .si domains say about the Super Intelligence rush (and why so few mention AI)
Friday October 9, 2026 Simon L. Until a few weeks ago, .si was a quiet country domain used mostly by Slovenian businesses. Then Washington decided AI needed a new name. “Artificial,” turns out, sounds fake. So now we’ve got “Super Intelligence.” Or SI, if you’re feeling fancy. And so Slovenia, with 2 million people and very reasonably priced domains, found itself in the middle of the AI race without ever signing up for it. Domain buyers acted fast.
Jev AI in practice: 5x faster, but is it accurate enough?
Wednesday October 7, 2026 Simon L. & Mantas L. Most AI agents spend their day making tiny decisions: which tool to call next, whether a step worked, whether an email needs a reply. Each one goes to an LLM, takes a few seconds, and comes back as a paragraph of text your code has to pick apart. It works, but it’s slow, the costs add up, and nothing tells you when the model is guessing.
High-exposure Langley strip centre sold for $9.8 million
DEAL | A high-exposure retail strip centre at 8790 204 St., Langley, sold August 31 for $9.8 million. Built in 1981, the two-storey mixed-use property offers strong holding income with significant redevelopment potential. Situated on 1.47 acres just north of Highway 1, the property offers 14,123 square feet of commercial space, but is designated for higher-density development as part of the Carvolth Frequent Transit Development Area.
What we learned running seven AI coding models on real production work
Friday September 25, 2026 Simon L. & Tomas R. Seven AI models read the same ticket and reached the same answer. They were all wrong. The ticket said add a 30-second timeout, so they wrote a 30-second timeout. The engineer who’d shipped this task wrote 20 instead. They’d read the codebase, which already defined a 20-second timeout for that type of service because the system caps how long any single request can wait. A 30-second timeout would never have fired.
What four people at Hostinger actually do with AI all day (and what happens when you have an agentic beef)
Friday September 18, 2026 Simon L. An AI engineer, a software engineer, an influencer partnerships team lead, and an operations manager at Hostinger walk into a bar. Between them they’ve got fleets of custom-built AI agents, automated workflows that replace hours of manual work, and personal prompt libraries they’re a bit too obsessive over. Tasks that used to take half a day now take minutes. Processes that needed a whole team run in a few clicks.
The most important skill for making money with AI
Tuesday September 15, 2026 Simon L. Someone on your timeline made $10,000 last week with AI. They posted the Stripe screenshot, the step-by-step, the exact stack. You followed the steps. Picked up the tools. Maybe you even built something that works. And then you wondered why the money part wasn’t happening yet. The steps were fine. You were just paying attention to the wrong things. There’s a pattern to how AI money advice works. Someone finds a method that pays. They teach it. A thousand people copy it.
How three different businesses are getting ready for Black Friday
Tuesday September 15, 2026 Simon L. Countdown timers, inboxes three pages deep in “FINAL HOURS” emails, checkout pages sweating under the 9 a.m. rush. The unspoken rule of Black Friday is that you win it by shouting loudest and cutting deepest. Three businesses that built their stores with Hostinger aren’t playing that game.
5 reasons your online store isn’t making sales
Friday September 11, 2026 Simon L. An aerospace engineer selling olive oil, an artist who started with 70 Instagram followers, and three skaters in Mexico City all launched online stores and hit the same wall: getting people to buy. Sometimes the fix was in how they talked about the product. Sometimes it was who they were trying to reach, or how the buying process actually worked. Here’s what they and two other store owners figured out about what stood between them and consistent sales.
Can Southeast Asia survive Pinduoduo’s price onslaught?
A logistics provider sorts out parcels for delivery at a multi-storey carpark in Singapore, 13 April 2026.(SPH Media) (Edited and refined by Bai Kelei, with the assistance of AI translation.) As Chinese e-commerce platforms step up their expansion into Southeast Asia (SEA), their business model of ultra-low prices, low delivery charges and powerful supply chains is putting mounting pressure on local e-commerce players, traditional retailers, small and medium-sized enterprises and brand owners.
Claude watermarks its writing now. Should you worry?
Monday September 7, 2026 Simon L. You’ve seen the headlines and heard the panic. Claude now stamps an invisible watermark into the text its latest models generate, and the reaction was instant. SEO forums lit up with “your rankings are cooked” posts. Watermark removal apps appeared out of nowhere. And someone, somewhere, is already selling a course about it (probably drafted in watermarked Claude). So let’s take a breath.
From a local shop to a brand shipping across India: the story of Shripad Steel Home
Monday September 7, 2026 Simon L. Every year, in homes across parts of India, families clear a small corner in their home and build a tiny house. Just five by five feet, decorated with miniature pots, pans, and cooking vessels. For ten to fifteen days around Diwali, children play there, staging pretend meals with tiny brass pots and pans made to fit their hands. The tradition goes back generations, and it’s part of what a small shop in Solapur has carried far beyond its own city.
What 518,173 projects reveal about building with AI
Friday September 4, 2026 Simon L. What do people create when AI can build just about anything? We looked at every project people have made with Hostinger AI Builder since early February – all 518,173 – and sorted them by what the person set out to build. Some people are spinning up a booking page for their salon, an online store for their side hustle, or a landing page for their product launch. Impactful, necessary, and exactly what you’d expect.
Bitten Tech: 400,000 subscribers, one person, and an operation that runs itself
Friday September 4, 2026 Simon L. Some careers start with a big plan. Ansh Bhawnani‘s started with a friend who refused to share a cheat code. Back in ninth grade, Ansh watched a classmate bypass restrictions in Need for Speed and asked how he’d done it. The answer was “go search yourself.” So he did, digging through forums on a limited mobile data pack until he cracked the game himself. “I took it personally,” he said.
When everyone’s got the same superpowers, blending in is the biggest risk of all
Friday August 21, 2026 Simon L. There’s never been a better time to start a business, which is exactly the problem. You can describe an idea and watch a website appear. You can have a logo in seconds, a month of social posts before lunch, and product descriptions written faster than you can read them, and often better than the ones you agonized over at midnight. What used to cost money, months, and a bit of specialist skill can now be done with a few prompts and a free afternoon.
Inside the two Hostinger inventions that just earned U.S. patents
Thursday August 20, 2026 Simon L. Most website owners have an email list they haven’t used in months. And their website spends most of the day holding onto resources it isn’t using, at a cost they never see. One problem is theirs; the other is their host’s. Two new Hostinger inventions solve both, and both now hold U.S. patents. One is for an AI system that produces complete email marketing campaigns from a single conversation.
Il numero uno degli scacchi si autosospende dopo le sanzioni Ue alla Russia
AGI - Arkady Dvorkovich, presidente della Federazione internazionale degli scacchi dal 2018, ha sospeso volontariamente i propri poteri dopo essere finito nella lista delle persone sanzionate dall'Unione europea. Il ventunesimo pacchetto di sanzioni contro la Russia, adottato in settimana, contiene 218 nuove voci, tra cui 48 persone fisiche e 170 entità: il numero più alto dall'inizio della guerra.
Six months, zero views: How Darrel Wilson kept showing up until it paid off
Saturday June 27, 2026 Simon L. Before the professional edits, the polished thumbnails, and the 800,000+ YouTube subscribers, Darrel Wilson was broke. He was renting a room, filming tutorials no one watched, and waking up every day to the same number staring back at him: zero. For six straight months, that’s what he got. No views, no comments, no signs anyone was watching. Most people quit somewhere in that stretch. Darrel didn’t. His story isn’t flashy. Far from it.
AI content repurposing playbook: Turn one piece of content into 15+
Thursday June 18, 2026 Simon L. Last Tuesday you wrote a client an email explaining your process so clearly they forwarded it to their business partner. Last Wednesday you asked AI to write a LinkedIn post and got four paragraphs that technically contained words in the correct order. Two likes. One was a bot. Here’s the thing: that Tuesday email probably had five or six ideas in it worth sharing. Specific, helpful, genuinely yours. But it went to one person and disappeared.
Inkfire: Turning barriers into opportunities (and better websites)
Wednesday June 17, 2026 Simon L. Inkfire is a 100% disabled-led business support agency handling marketing, IT, virtual assistant work, and website design. But they’re not looking for a pat on the back. When co-founder Imali Chislett spoke at the UK Parliament’s House of Lords at the launch of the Lilac Review into disabled entrepreneurship, she wasn’t there to tell a story about overcoming the odds. “We’re not your inspiration, we’re your competition.” Being disabled-led is easy to call inspiring.
World Football Food: 48 countries, 288 recipes, one very hungry football fan
Will Gray is an author, journalist, and brand builder. He’s the kind of person who’s always got three business ideas on the go, and just enough energy to see them through. He’s also a man of two great passions: football and food. Hard to argue with either one. It’s even harder to think of a better combination, and he’s spent the last 20 years proving it.
Vibe coding news: what’s happening and what it means for your business
Friday May 29, 2026 Simon L. Just over a year ago, “vibe coding” sounded like a meditation technique you’d do at a music festival, not a way to build software. In 2026, it’s a dictionary-recognized word, a multibillion-dollar market, and how a lot of people are building everything from online stores to hardware prototypes. What started as a niche way to build software with AI prompts instead of writing code now directly affects what you can build, how much it costs, and what to watch out for.
40+ AI prompts for small businesses: save time, get more done, and grow your business
Tuesday May 19, 2026 Simon L. If you’re mostly using AI to draft a quick email or summarize a meeting, you’re barely scratching the surface. That’s like hiring a really smart assistant and only asking them to make coffee. AI can research your competitors, plan your content strategy, write copy that converts, and help you make decisions you’d normally lose sleep over. The catch? It needs a good prompt. Feed it lazy instructions and you’ll get a lazy answer.
Stop using AI for the easy stuff and let it run your business
Monday May 18, 2026 Simon L. Think about your last workday. How many tasks did you start by opening AI first? Drafting an email, planning a campaign, replying to a tricky customer message. It’s become the starting point for almost everything. That shift happened fast. And it’s quietly leveled the playing field for small businesses. Capabilities that once required a full team are now available to anyone. But most small businesses are still using AI for one-off tasks.
News Archives - Hostinger Blog
News Featured story Hostinger has paid out €11.8 million to employees under its stock option program, allowing them to directly benefit from the company’s growth. “We launched our stock option pro… As AI is collapsing the boundaries of online creation, Hostinger brings building, running, and growing online into one agentic experience with AI Builder.
Singapore's PM Wong removes Pritam Singh as Leader of the Opposition
Photo Would you like to save this selection to obtain the price for similar content, of the same format, in the future? Singapore (Singapore), 15/01/2026.- (FILE) - Opposition Workers Party secretary-general Pritam Singh gives a doorstep interview outside Poi Ching School in Singapore, 23 April 2025 (reissued 15 January 2026). Workers' Party chief Pritam Singh has been removed as the Leader of the Opposition on 15 January 2026.
Richmond industrial site in key location sells for $34 million
DEAL | An industrial property at 2551 Viking Way, Richmond, sold Dec. 19 for $34 million. The rectangular, generally flat and level 5.69-acre site features approximately 400 feet of frontage along Viking Way. It is currently occupied by 129,700 square feet of warehouse space but offers significant redevelopment potential with several possible building designs.
Singapur celebra su 60º Día Nacional
Photo Would you like to save this selection to obtain the price for similar content, of the same format, in the future? FOTODELDIA Singapur, 09/08/2025.- Miembros de la Fuerza de Defensa Civil de Singapur marchan durante el desfile del Día Nacional en Padang, Singapur, este sábado. EFE/SIMON LIM
Singapore marks 60th National Day
Photo Would you like to save this selection to obtain the price for similar content, of the same format, in the future? Singapore (Singapore), 09/08/2025.- People watch as military tanks roll past during the National Day parade at the Padang in Singapore, 09 August 2025. Singapore celebrated its 60th anniversary with a parade and expanded festivities linking the historic Padang to synchronized performances and celebrations at Marina Bay. (Singapur) EFE/EPA/SIMON LIM
ESPAÑA - MONTENEGRO
Photo Would you like to save this selection to obtain the price for similar content, of the same format, in the future? FOTODELDÍA - SINGAPUR (Singapur), 20/07/2025.- El portero Petar Tesanovic, de Montenegro, en acción durante el partido de cuartos de final del torneo masculino del Mundial de Singapur disputado entre España y Montenegro. EFE/SIMON LIM
World Aquatics Championships Singapore 2025 - Day 3
Photo Would you like to save this selection to obtain the price for similar content, of the same format, in the future? SINGAPORE (Singapore), 13/07/2025.- Carla Comba (L) of Argentina and Sanfeng Nong (R) of China in action during the Women's Water Polo match between China and Argentina at the World Aquatics Championships Singapore 2025, in Singapore, 13 July 2025.
World Aquatics Championships Singapore 2025 - Day 2
Photo Would you like to save this selection to obtain the price for similar content, of the same format, in the future? SINGAPORE (Singapore), 11/07/2025.- South Africa team stands for the national anthem prior to the Men's Water Polo match between Serbia and South Africa at the World Aquatics Championships Singapore 2025 in Singapore, 12 July 2025. (Sudáfrica, Singapur) EFE/EPA/SIMON LIM Product Suggestions Text Texto deportes general España Photo Gráfico general y gráfico territorial EUA-Caribe.
Client Stories Archives - Hostinger Blog
Client Stories Discover the stories of real-life heroes that took their dreams and ideas online with Hostinger. Featured story Faced with customer service issues at his previous hosting providers, Jake, a brand designer, began searching for a new web host. Hostinger’s live chat function was one of the mai… TASTIK: Reimagining our everyday source of protein After years of working as a project manager in the public sector, Greta Budreikė spent the 2020 pandemic lockdown exploring new ideas at home.
It never rains but it pours
The Online Citizen 2019-05-01 Opinion by Simon Lim Last year, Singapore lost Broadcom, a Fortune 500 company, when it redomiciled to the United States. With that move, not only many local employees lost their jobs, the pap government loses much tax revenues and many of its local suppliers and vendors lost a major customer too.
Saving trees or improving lives?
"Cutting brought many good things for me and my family," says Andrew, pointing to the brick house behind him, a rarity in this remote village. Andrew is one of thousands of Zambian villagers whose lives have changed for the better because of the recent surge in mukula trade. Coveted as a material for traditional luxury furniture in China, the mukula (Pterocarpus tinctorius, also previously known as P. chrysothrix) is a rosewood-like tree abundant in Zambia.
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