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Apple's Services Hit Record $30.7B as Advertising Drives June-Quarter Growth
Apple posted record June-quarter revenue and a 12% services gain, with advertising a standout driver — though services f...
Why Startups Topple Industry Giants: The Organizational Trap Behind Disruption
New entrants rarely beat incumbents on technology alone. Blockbuster and Kodak show the real barrier is organizational —...
Shark Week at 38: How Discovery Turned a TV Stunt Into a Cultural Marketing Franchise
Nearly four decades after its 1988 debut, Discovery's Shark Week has become a cultural platform spanning TikTok contests...
BarkleyOKRP Taps Former FCB CMO Brandon Cooke to Lead Client Growth
Brandon Cooke joins BarkleyOKRP as global chief marketing and growth officer, succeeding Jason Parks and driving growth ...
Telemundo's World Cup Run Delivers Record Ratings and a 2030 Rights Opening
Telemundo averaged 5.9 million viewers across its World Cup platforms through the quarterfinals, up 150% from 2022 — fue...
Latam and Shopee Team Up After Amazon's Brazil Mileage Exit
Latam Pass members now earn 1 mile for every R$2 spent on Shopee purchases made through the airline's app, weeks after A...
BP Plans 700 Global Office Job Cuts as CEO Refocuses on Oil and Gas
BP is set to cut around 700 office roles worldwide — roughly 8% of its non-operational workforce — under CEO Meg O'Neill...
Flydubai Sets August 16 Careers Open Day for Emirati Talent Across Aviation and Corporate Roles
Flydubai will host its UAE National Careers Open Day on August 16 to recruit Emirati candidates for pilot, engineering, ...
Gildan sales jump 72% on HanesBrands, sells Australia unit and lifts margin outlook
Gildan Activewear's second-quarter sales rose 72.3% to $1.58bn on the HanesBrands integration, as it agreed to sell Hane...
'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Lands Second-Biggest Box Office Opening Ever With $355 Million
The Tom Holland-led film grossed $355 million domestically and $927 million worldwide in its debut weekend, trailing onl...
Decentralisation Isn't Self-Organisation — and Leaders Keep Confusing Them
Decentralised organisations still shape behaviour through system-wide structures, a new essay argues — pure self-organis...
FIFA Defends World Cup Investment Plan as UEFA and CONCACAF Push Back
FIFA insists 'nobody is selling football' and refuses to withdraw a plan to sell minority stakes in a World Cup commerci...
Ferro-Alloy Resources Names New CEO, Raises £5.7m and Sets Sights on Yttrium
The Kazakhstan-focused miner is replacing its CEO, raising funds to meet near-term debt, and weighing yttrium extraction...
Why Cutting Staff in a Crisis Can Cost More Than Keeping Them
An investor argues that owners should judge layoffs by company value, not quarterly profit — and explains when cutting s...
What to Watch as 30 CAC 40 Companies Report Half-Year Results This Week
Three-quarters of France's flagship index publish interim results in a single week, with investors parsing guidance upgr...
FIFA Scraps Plan to Sell World Cup Stakes to Private Investors After Uproar
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has dropped the FIFA Forward Enterprise plan to sell World Cup commercial rights to priv...
Airbus Spain Faces Indefinite Strike From 24 August After Workers Reject Pay Deal
CGT, UGT and UTIL filed an indefinite strike notice covering all Airbus Spanish centers after workers rejected a 5%/5% p...
Avançsa Puts €4M into Open Cosmos as Catalonia Deepens Its Space Industry Bet
Catalonia's Avançsa is lending €4 million to satellite maker Open Cosmos, adding to €31 million from ICF funds and cemen...
Xiaomi Q1 Revenue Holds at ¥99.1bn as Auto Sales and Overseas IoT Offset Memory Costs
Xiaomi's first-quarter revenue held near ¥100 billion despite memory price pressure, with more than 80,000 EV deliveries...
China's M&A Market Jumps 60.7% in 2025 as Policy Reshapes Deal Logic
Chinese M&A activity hit 2,800 deals worth over 964 billion yuan in 2025, with policy support and AI tools reshaping how...
Xi'an Tianmei's Stachyose Standards Aim to Break China's Premium Prebiotic Bottleneck
A Chinese stachyose maker is betting on purity standards and NMR testing to move the prebiotic ingredient up the value c...
Johnson & Johnson to exit manufacturing sites in up to $750M supply chain overhaul
J&J is streamlining its innovative medicine manufacturing network by fiscal 2029 — at a cost of up to $750 million — whi...
Zepto Confirms Pre-IPO Equity Placement at $4.5 Billion Valuation
Zepto has agreed a pre-IPO equity placement at a reported $4.5 billion valuation, staying debt-free with ₹5,681 crore in...
Nvidia's $5B Safe Superintelligence Bet Leads Week's Biggest Startup Funding Rounds
A reported $5 billion Nvidia investment in Safe Superintelligence headlined a week that saw roughly $8.2 billion raised ...
Bolt.Earth Recognises 5,000+ EV Charging Technicians as Field Workforce Expands Across India
Bolt.Earth's first technician rewards programme highlights the maintenance workforce behind EV chargers, with its field ...
Textile Exchange Opens Nominations for 2026 Climate and Nature Impact Awards
The textile sustainability group is accepting nominations until July 3, 2026, spotlighting prior winners in direct cotto...
DB CEO Palla Denounces 'Organised Irresponsibility' as Punctuality Stays at 58.7%
Deutsche Bahn's chief Evelyn Palla blames 'organised irresponsibility' for the rail operator's failures — and warns that...
Women's Sports Draw Bigger Ad Bets as Marketers Chase a Different Kind of Fan
Rising women's sports viewership is pulling in ad tech platforms and DOOH campaigns, but the data infrastructure to back...
School Specialty to Acquire Nasco Education U.S. in K-12 Supplies Consolidation
School Specialty, which supplies five in every six U.S. school districts, is acquiring Nasco Education U.S., uniting two...
Progressive's Dr. Rick Flips the Script in New 'Let It Out' Campaign
The insurer's long-running character stops fighting 'Parentamorphosis' and urges young homeowners to embrace their inner...