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Meta's Stock Plunges 6% as AI Spending Fears Overshadow Revenue Surge
Meta's Q2 revenue soared 28% to $60.8B, but a disappointing Q3 outlook and surging AI investments sent shares down over ...
Qualcomm Guides Profit Below Estimates as Apple Revenue Decline Accelerates and Costs Rise
The chipmaker expects Apple revenue to fall faster than anticipated and plans price increases to offset supply-chain cos...
Snap Unveils New Agency Controls, Expands Partner Program to Europe
Snap introduces organization-level access controls and cross-account audience sharing for agencies, broadens its Indy Ag...
US Packaging Firm Footprint to Open Eco-Factory in Poland, Hiring Hundreds
Footprint resumes recruitment at its new plant in Piekary Śląskie, targeting autumn for production of plastic-free cups ...
CoStar's Residential Push Turns Profitable as Homes.com Revenue Jumps 66%
CoStar Group reported Q2 revenue of $925M, up 18%, while its residential portfolio achieved a first-ever adjusted EBITDA...
P&G Bets on Brand Spending to Reverse Sales Slowdown, with China Outperforming North America
Procter & Gamble’s fiscal fourth quarter saw a sharp deceleration in growth and margin pressure from increased marketing...
Kave Home Invests €45M to Double Logistics Capacity as Sales Surge 48%
Catalan furniture brand Kave Home is spending €45 million to double its logistics platform, backing up a 48% sales jump ...
Airbus Aims to Turn Military Transport Plane into Firefighting Tool as European Wildfires Spread
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury accelerates A400M conversion for firefighting as blazes force mass evacuations in France and ...
SafeGuard Privacy Launches GDPR Modules for IAB Diligence Platform
The new modules, developed with BVDW and Nexida, bring standardized privacy assessments to both U.S. and European regula...
L’Oréal India Growth Accelerates on Haircare, Skincare; Innovist Buy to Deepen Footprint
L'Oréal said its India business accelerated in H1 2026, fueled by haircare and skincare demand and e-commerce expansion....
Lufthansa Group at a Glance: Passenger, Logistics and MRO Operations
A snapshot of Deutsche Lufthansa AG’s business lines, fleet and global network — from passenger airlines like SWISS and ...
BMW Targets Management Layers, Ströer Attracts Buyout, and ZF Loses Another Executive
BMW is cutting management fat, Ströer is in advanced talks with private equity, and ZF faces more boardroom exits. Plus:...
Bradesco BBI Upgrades Cogna to Buy, Pegs It as Top Education Stock Pick
Bradesco BBI upgraded Cogna to buy and made it its top pick in Brazil's education sector, citing a potential 14% dividen...
X and World Federation of Advertisers Settle Ad Boycott Lawsuit
The settlement ends Elon Musk’s legal fight against advertisers who pulled spending over brand safety, with the WFA agre...
Aon's Q2 Revenue Climbs to $4.25bn on Data Centre and Construction Surge
The brokerage giant reported 5% organic growth, driven by data centre construction and strong client retention, even as ...
Rheinmetall Q2 Revenue Soars 70% as European Rearmament Boom Drives Record Orders
Rheinmetall Q2 revenue surged 70% to €3.3 billion, with operating profit beating forecasts at €562 million. An €11.37 bi...
NASD Launches Nigeria’s First Regulated Digital Securities Platform
Nigeria’s NASD OTC Securities Exchange goes live with a blockchain-based platform for tokenised securities, with the fir...
X Warns Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban Risks Foreign Law Conflicts
Elon Musk’s platform has officially urged Australia to drop plans to strengthen its underage ban, arguing proposed data-...
UBS Sees Integration Rewards as Profit Surges 64%, Job Cuts Mount
The Swiss bank's Q2 pre-tax profit jumped to $3.6bn, driven by massive cost savings from the Credit Suisse deal. Staffin...
Goldman Sachs Playbook Maps How Family Firms Can Beat the 12% Odds of Reaching the Third Generation
Only 30% of family businesses pass successfully to the second generation, and barely 12% make it to the third. A Goldman...
KeyBanc Sees Reddit as a ‘Sustainable Compounder’ with AI Data Upside, Initiates at Overweight
KeyBanc initiates Reddit at Overweight, $225 PT, citing durable ad growth and AI data licensing potential. The platform'...
eBay Settles Harassment Case for $50M+ After Sending Cockroaches, Funeral Wreath to Bloggers
eBay has agreed to pay over $50 million to a couple who were terrorized by company employees after criticizing the platf...
After Losing Their Jobs, This Couple Started a Shoe Business That Now Has 600 Employees
Marina and Ricardo Larroudé turned a pandemic layoff into a shoe company with hundreds of employees and a simple rule: t...
Verisk Buys Geospatial Intelligence Firm MIS to Bolster Real-Time Catastrophe Response
Verisk adds real-time event analysis to its catastrophe-risk portfolio by acquiring McKenzie Intelligence Services, stre...
Anvisa Approves Five New Semaglutide Pens, Heating Up Brazil's R$5.6 Billion Weight-Loss Drug War
Brazil's health regulator cleared five additional semaglutide pens from Sandoz, Sun Pharma, Ranbaxy, and Brainfarma, sha...
DAE Completes Macquarie AirFinance Acquisition, Scaling Up Global Fleet
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise closed its purchase of Macquarie AirFinance, adding a large aircraft portfolio and orderbook ...
Kazakhstan Open to Wildberries Warehouses as Drone Attacks Expose Logistics Risks
Astana says no formal request yet from the Russian marketplace, but it would consider any proposal in the national inter...
Bunge Lifts FY2026 Profit Outlook as Geopolitics Fuels Grain Processing Boom
Strong soybean and softseed processing margins, driven by war-related grain price spikes, helped Bunge beat Q2 estimates...
Adani Enterprises Posts ₹1,160 Crore Loss on OFAC Charge, Revenue Jumps 50%
Net loss driven by ₹2,644 crore one-time payment to US sanctions body; operating profit hits record as airports, roads a...
BMW to Cut 8,000 Jobs in Global Restructuring as New CEO Targets €1bn Savings
The German automaker will launch voluntary buyouts and early retirements from October, targeting non-production roles in...