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French Executive Moves: Kärcher, LaSalle and Insurance Groups Appoint New Leaders
Kärcher France appoints Sabrina Pantier as managing director, LaSalle names Alexandre Arhuis-Grumbach president, and Dio...
Boeing ordered to pay $29m to family of UN engineer killed in Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crash
A Chicago court ordered Boeing to pay $29m to the family of Michael Ryan, a UN engineer killed in the 2019 Ethiopian Air...
From a £100 Starter Course to £500,000: Poland's Online Course Boom Rewards Grit, Not Youth
A Polish construction boss who lost everything and ended up in a UK excavator cab built £500,000 in course revenue. He i...
Banco Millennium Atlântico Debuts In-Line Service Model at Reopened Mutamba Branch
Luanda's Rua Amílcar Cabral branch shifts from transactions to triage, advice and digital integration, with the country'...
Mozambique's State Drug Company SMM Reports 98.5% Profit Drop, Group Swings to Loss
Sociedade Moçambicana de Medicamentos earned only €137,000 in 2025 as exceptional Infarma gains faded and sales nearly h...
Streaming Ad Impressions Surge While Prices Slide in Q2 2026 TV Earnings
Disney's entertainment ad business is now majority streaming, but Q2 results from Disney, Paramount, WBD and Roku show a...
Publishers Plot a Post-Google Playbook as Earnings Reveal Diverging Bets
Earnings calls from the NYT, News Corp, People Inc, USA Today Co., Ziff Davis and BuzzFeed show publishers building vide...
UPI's Rs 20,700 Crore Cost Burden Pushes India Toward Merchant-Only MDR
A parliamentary panel says government incentives cover only 11% of UPI industry costs; amended law now permits threshold...
Campus Activewear Q1 FY27: Revenue Up 12.2%, PAT Up 17.7% on Volume Growth
Campus Activewear started FY27 with double-digit revenue and profit growth, flat average selling prices and a record Q1 ...
Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner Buy Lakers at $12.5 Billion Valuation
The former Disney CEO and Thrive Capital founder take control of the Lakers from Mark Walter less than a year after his ...
Viant's Proprietary Data Surge Collides With Ad Tech's Fast-Accelerating M&A Wave
Viant’s 34% revenue jump, a wave of $2bn ad tech deals and TIME’s chatbot-influence ad backlash signal the end of neutra...
Uruguay's Carrasco Yacht Returns as a $2m Lakeside Events Hub
The Canelones events brand is rebuilding on a Lake Calcagno public concession, with 30-plus events already booked ahead ...
Zillow Takes Its Home-Intent Audience Data to Pinterest in First Off-Site Deal
Zillow Elevate advertisers can now target 34 housing-behavior segments on Pinterest, with Kohler's pilot reporting highe...
Nasdaq to Buy Off-Exchange Venue LeveL Markets and Launch Digital Liquidity Networks
Nasdaq has agreed to acquire LeveL Markets, operator of the third-largest U.S. ATS by volume, and is forming a new digit...
SAIB Bank Posts EGP 12.4bn Revenue and EGP 458.8m Net Profit for June 2026 Period
Egypt's SAIB reported EGP 12.4bn in revenue and EGP 458.8m net profit, with loans at EGP 87.2bn and deposits at EGP 146....
Refined Capital Partners Takes Majority Stake in Never Fully Dressed
Private equity investor Refined Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in inclusive UK fashion label Never Fully...
Why Terry Blackburn Says a Marketing Plan Must Come Before Scaling an Advice Business
The Wealthy Advisers Club founder argues advice firms need a clear client-acquisition plan and repeatable systems before...
Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner to Buy Los Angeles Lakers for Record $12 Billion
Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner have agreed to buy the Los Angeles Lakers from Mark Walter for a record $12 billion, just 14...
Metaplanet’s Siiibo Securities Buy Paves Way for Bitcoin-Backed Financial Products
The Japanese bitcoin treasury is betting a newly acquired securities firm can turn its crypto holdings into a regulatory...
BelAZ Delivers 130–240-Tonne Mining Trucks to Kuzbass and Ural Mines
The Belarusian heavy-truck maker announced shipments of ultra-class haulers to mining companies in Kemerovo and Sverdlov...
ECB Signals No Grounds to Block UniCredit's Commerzbank Move Despite BaFin Concerns
A confidential ECB document reportedly concludes there is no reason to reject UniCredit's acquisition of control over Co...
Tencent Q2 Revenue Tops Forecast; Adjusted Profit Rises 9% as AI Capex Sends Free Cash Flow Negative
Revenue hit RMB 204.8 billion, up 11%, and adjusted profit reached RMB 68.4 billion, but heavy AI infrastructure spendin...
Kushner and Iger Agree to Reported $12 Billion Los Angeles Lakers Purchase
The reported $12 billion-plus acquisition from Mark Walter would surpass the Seattle Seahawks sale, making the Lakers th...
IRCTC Q1 Profit Stays Flat at ₹330 Crore as Revenue Climbs 18%
Catering revenue jumped 33.9% and internet ticketing stayed subdued, while tourism fell sharply from the March quarter; ...
Qara Energy Wins Contract to Build Yazaki's First Egypt Wiring-Harness Plant
Qara Energy will build a turnkey automotive wiring-harness complex in Fayoum for Yazaki Egypt, alongside an EGP405m righ...
18 Months in Judicial Restructuring: How a Loire Restaurant Group Survived €1.8m in Debt
Imalyne exited court-supervised restructuring in February 2026, cutting two loss-making units while safeguarding 40 jobs...
DOJ Seeks to Halt Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Over Years of Pathogen Contamination
The Justice Department filed a civil complaint to stop Arrow Reliance Inc. (Darwin’s Natural Pet Products) from making a...
Fortuna Mining Doubles Down on Senegal Gold with $200M Bambadji Acquisition
The Canadian miner buys the Bambadji property adjacent to its Diamba Sud project, aiming to create a district-scale oper...
Schneider Electric Acquires AiDASH for $350M to Boost Grid Climate Resilience with Satellite AI
France’s Schneider Electric has agreed to buy a 90% stake in US startup AiDASH, which uses satellite imagery and AI to h...
Big Tech has a herding problem
Meta, Tesla and SpaceX are pouring billions into AI data centres with little clarity on returns, following the herd rath...