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Bernard Arnault breaks silence to dismiss LVMH succession battle claims
The luxury titan used his first-ever social media post to amplify a three-page rebuttal of a Le Monde investigation port...
DoorDash Teams With Shopify to Deliver for Small Local Retailers
DoorDash has integrated its marketplace with Shopify, enabling small brick-and-mortar merchants to list products and off...
Innocean Launches Music-in-brand Platform to Bridge Brands and Global Filmmakers at Busan
Korean ad agency Innocean will debut Cinema by Brand, a year-long programme that turns brand briefs into theatrically re...
Super Retail Group: A Guided Tour of Australia's Auto, Sports and Outdoor Retail Empire
From Supercheap Auto to Macpac, Super Retail Group operates four powerhouse brands across automotive, sports and outdoor...
Coforge Q1: Organic Growth at 1.1%, Encora Deal Fuels Revenue, Net Profit Hit by One-Offs
Coforge's fiscal Q1 revenue jumped 21% on the consolidation of Encora Holdings, but net profit fell 15% as integration a...
Clifford Chance Leads Spain’s Top Pro Bono Legal Initiatives at Expansión Jurídico Awards
From an offline AI tool for prisoners to legal battles for Afghan women, Spain’s leading law firms are redefining corpor...
JC Flowers ARC in Advanced Merger Talks with ACRE to Form a Bad-Loan Powerhouse
The stock-swap deal would fold JC Flowers’ residual stressed-asset book into ACRE, creating one of India’s largest asset...
Broker Q1 Earnings Under Strain as India's Derivatives Boom Cools
Sequential slowdown in equity derivatives and reversal of commodity rallies pressured most listed brokers in the June qu...
Stax Collapse: $1.7M in Unfulfilled Orders, NAB and Staff Among Creditors Owed Millions
Liquidators report over 12,000 customer orders worth $1.7 million remain unshipped as collapsed activewear brand Stax ow...
Vivo Owner Telefônica Brasil Lifts Q2 Profit 17% to R$1.57 Billion
Telefônica Brasil (VIVT3) posted a 17% rise in second-quarter net income, driven by revenue gains across mobile and fixe...
Applied Digital Secures 150MW Lease with CoreWeave at North Dakota Campus
Applied Digital has landed a major lease with cloud provider CoreWeave for additional capacity at its Ellendale facility...
Elon Musk's X Begins Rebuilding Safety Teams After Slashing Them by 80%
X (formerly Twitter) is reversing its two-year freeze on trust and safety roles, listing two dozen new positions after c...
Russia to Clarify Gig Economy Worker Status in New 'White Book' by September
Russian tax authorities and businesses are drafting a set of best practices to clearly define labor vs. civil contract w...
Satya Nadella Warns Firms Outsourcing Their 'Thinking' to One AI Model Won't Survive
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella issued a stark warning that enterprises must retain control of their prompts, data, and mode...
La Fageda sales surge 16%, profit jumps 134% as social enterprise boosts reinvestment
Spanish social enterprise La Fageda posted €39.1 million in revenue for 2025, with profit climbing to €2.51 million, fun...
Dominique Diagou Steps Up: How the Next Generation Is Leading NSIA’s Insurance Empire
Mansan Dominique Diagou, daughter of founder Jean Kacou Diagou, has taken the helm of NSIA Holding Assurances, steering ...
Egypt Launches Unified Digital Licensing System for Commercial Shops
A new one-stop platform slashes bureaucracy, promising temporary permits within a week and a fully digital, inter-agency...
Allstate Seeks Remote Auto Damage Consultants to Bolster Virtual Repair Oversight
Allstate is hiring remote-based Auto Damage Consultants for its Good Hands Repair Network, offering $70,100–$121,475 ann...
Anicut Capital Takes Control of Bira 91 Founder’s Stake, Leads Debt Restructuring
Venture debt firm Anicut Capital has seized the pledged 17.8% stake of B9 Beverages founder Ankur Jain and will appoint ...
Higgsfield AI Puts $85,000 in Credits on the Line to Lure Ad Creatives Away from the Pitch Deck
The generative AI ad platform has teamed up with ADWEEK for a month-long competition that challenges agency and brand te...
BRB Crisis: Bank President Meets Central Bank Chief to Unlock R$6.6 Billion Rescue
BRB’s president and risk director met Brazil’s central bank chief on Monday to progress a R$6.6 billion state-backed loa...
Travelers Seeks Workers' Compensation Legal Leader as In-House Demands Grow
The insurer is hiring an Associate Managing Counsel to lead its in-house litigation team, reflecting a broader industry ...
arGEN-X to Acquire Forte Biosciences in $2.2 Billion Immunology Pipeline Deal
Dutch biotech arGEN-X is buying US-based Forte Biosciences for $2.2 billion, adding a promising anti-CD122 antibody for ...
How Apple Quietly Overtook Nvidia as the World’s Most Valuable Company
Apple reclaimed the top spot by market cap not through a splashy AI product, but by convincing Wall Street that its asse...
Chinese Chipmaker CXMT Surges 466% on Debut, Briefly Overtakes Tencent as China's Most Valuable Listed Company
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) saw its shares skyrocket on its first trading day, reaching a market cap near $490 b...
Ride-Hailing Apps Predict 300% Demand Surge in Lima for Fiestas Patrias
Cabify and inDrive forecast sharp spikes in urban mobility as midweek national holidays drive restaurant, park and famil...
Nostrum Oil & Gas in Advanced Sale Talks for Kazakhstan Business Amid Debt Crisis
British-listed Nostrum Oil & Gas is in due diligence with a revived buyer for its Kazakh oil and gas assets, aiming to p...
Rhetan TMT Gains Entry to Government TMT Bar Market with BIS Certification
The steel bar maker’s BIS certification for premium grades opens access to government contracts, while a new 1 MW solar ...
ServiceNow, Tyler Technologies, Celanese: 3 New 5-Star Stocks According to Morningstar
Morningstar's latest screen flags ServiceNow, Tyler Technologies, and Celanese as newly 5-star rated, trading at discoun...
China Fines Trip.com $765 Million Over Anti-Competitive Hotel Practices
China's market regulator slaps a $765 million penalty on online travel giant Trip.com for restricting hotel competition ...