Small Ideas Won the 2026 World Cup for Marketers — From WhatsApp Data to Armpit Logos
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Small Ideas Won the 2026 World Cup for Marketers — From WhatsApp Data to Armpit Logos

The 2026 World Cup was a live test of creator marketing, ambush campaigns and first-party data. Unilever's 50,000-creato...

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BCC Invest: Kazakh Bond Market Is Becoming a Real Alternative to Bank Loans
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BCC Invest: Kazakh Bond Market Is Becoming a Real Alternative to Bank Loans

Kazakhstan's mid-sized companies are turning to bond issues as bank credit gets costlier; BCC Invest says it arranged 30...

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Kazakhstan's Halyk Bank Now Competes With Tech Giants for Digital Talent
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Kazakhstan's Halyk Bank Now Competes With Tech Giants for Digital Talent

Halyk Bank's executives explain why the lender's digital push put it in the same talent pool as fintechs and big tech — ...

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SCAT's 80-Fold Profit Rise Lifts Two Founders Onto Forbes Rich List
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SCAT's 80-Fold Profit Rise Lifts Two Founders Onto Forbes Rich List

SCAT's net profit jumped almost 80-fold between 2016 and 2024, lifting Vladimir Denisov and Vladimir Sytnik onto the For...

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Lufthansa's Q2 Operating Profit Slumps 56% on Jet Fuel Surge and Strikes
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Lufthansa's Q2 Operating Profit Slumps 56% on Jet Fuel Surge and Strikes

Lufthansa's adjusted operating profit fell 56% to €383m in Q2 as Middle East-driven fuel costs added €750m and strikes w...

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Vietnamese Company Pitches Transport and Agribusiness Projects to Equatorial Guinea
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Vietnamese Company Pitches Transport and Agribusiness Projects to Equatorial Guinea

Vietnam's New Atlantic International Trading Company has proposed shipping, trucking and cassava projects it says could ...

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Big Tech's Q2 Ad Dominance and the Private Equity Push Into Ad Tech
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Big Tech's Q2 Ad Dominance and the Private Equity Push Into Ad Tech

Meta and Amazon outgrew Google in Q2 advertising; Wall Street frowned on AI capex, and private equity is circling under-...

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Agency Holding Companies Are Dangling AI Sweeteners to Grow Principal Media
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Agency Holding Companies Are Dangling AI Sweeteners to Grow Principal Media

Holding companies are bundling free AI tokens and data services into principal-media deals to feed high-margin growth, w...

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Apple's India Sales Cross $10 Billion as Retail Push Takes Hold
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Apple's India Sales Cross $10 Billion as Retail Push Takes Hold

Apple's India revenue topped $10 billion in fiscal 2026 as iPhones led double-digit growth and the company widened its r...

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Shell's Q2 Profit Doubles to $9.8B as Geopolitical Turmoil Becomes a Cash Machine
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Shell's Q2 Profit Doubles to $9.8B as Geopolitical Turmoil Becomes a Cash Machine

Shell reported an adjusted $9.84B second-quarter profit, nearly double a year earlier and above forecasts, as oil and ga...

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Fuchs Shares Dip After Fire Damages Saudi Joint Venture Plant
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Fuchs Shares Dip After Fire Damages Saudi Joint Venture Plant

A fire severely damaged Fuchs Petrolub's Saudi JV plant, but the company says the financial impact is contained — shares...

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Wacker Chemie’s Q2 Profit Jump Is Flattered by One-Offs — Guidance Tells the Real Story
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Wacker Chemie’s Q2 Profit Jump Is Flattered by One-Offs — Guidance Tells the Real Story

Wacker Chemie raised its 2026 EBITDA guidance and lowered its revenue outlook. But near-€280m in special items flattered...

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Stabilus Reports Record Profit Lifted by Divestment as Auto Business Slips
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Stabilus Reports Record Profit Lifted by Divestment as Auto Business Slips

Q3 net profit rose fivefold to €51.4m, but €44.4m came from selling Fabreeka; revenue fell 5% and auto demand kept shrin...

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China's Top Wig Maker Rebecca Faces ST Status After Fund Diversion, Misstated Accounts
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China's Top Wig Maker Rebecca Faces ST Status After Fund Diversion, Misstated Accounts

Regulators plan to fine Rebecca 6.5M yuan and flag its shares over years of related-party fund transfers and inflated ca...

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Menlo Ventures Raises $3B for AI-Focused Funds in Its Biggest Fundraise Ever
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Menlo Ventures Raises $3B for AI-Focused Funds in Its Biggest Fundraise Ever

The 50-year-old Silicon Valley firm is putting $3 billion behind a bet on AI's next phase, with a barbell strategy that ...

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GHCL Textiles Q1 FY27 Net Profit Up 191%; Knitting and Renewables Expand
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GHCL Textiles Q1 FY27 Net Profit Up 191%; Knitting and Renewables Expand

GHCL Textiles posts 191% net profit growth in Q1 FY27, with EBITDA up 116% to ₹70 crore, as knitting capacity and renewa...

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Palantir posts record quarter as CEO Karp calls AI frontier labs 'Marxist'
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Palantir posts record quarter as CEO Karp calls AI frontier labs 'Marxist'

Palantir's Q2 revenue jumped 93% to $1.9B and profit hit $1.1B, as CEO Alex Karp used the results to warn enterprises ag...

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day Sets IMAX China Record With CNY130 Million Opening
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day Sets IMAX China Record With CNY130 Million Opening

Sony and Marvel's new Spider-Man film took over CNY130 million on IMAX screens in China in its first weekend — 16% of th...

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Amazon and Games Workshop Are Developing a Warhammer 40,000 Animated Series
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Amazon and Games Workshop Are Developing a Warhammer 40,000 Animated Series

Amazon MGM Studios, Blur Studios and Games Workshop are developing an animated Warhammer 40,000 series, with Henry Cavil...

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Audible Taps In-House Team and Special US for Global 'Stories That Speak to You' Push
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Audible Taps In-House Team and Special US for Global 'Stories That Speak to You' Push

Amazon-owned Audible's new 12-market campaign, built in-house with Special US, sells listening as a life-changing habit ...

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Atlantic Coast Mortgage Hires Beazer Homes Veteran Keith Cross as SVP of Builder Relations
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Atlantic Coast Mortgage Hires Beazer Homes Veteran Keith Cross as SVP of Builder Relations

Fairfax-based Atlantic Coast Mortgage hires a Beazer Homes veteran to lead builder partnerships, signaling a push into n...

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Yellow.ai to List Via SPAC, Then Buy the Call Centres It Wants to Automate
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Yellow.ai to List Via SPAC, Then Buy the Call Centres It Wants to Automate

Yellow.ai is merging with SPAC Bluerock to list on Nasdaq at about $550M — and plans to spend the proceeds buying the ou...

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InfraRed Capital Partners Takes Majority Stake in Intermodal Firm Rail Modal Group
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InfraRed Capital Partners Takes Majority Stake in Intermodal Firm Rail Modal Group

London-based InfraRed Capital Partners acquired a majority stake in Rail Modal Group, the New York operator of inland in...

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Bafin Orders NordLB to Fix 'Serious' Money-Laundering Control Failures
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Bafin Orders NordLB to Fix 'Serious' Money-Laundering Control Failures

Germany's Bafin has ordered NordLB to clean up 'serious' gaps in its anti-money-laundering controls, including outdated ...

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Aflabox Raises €1.35M to Bring AI Cereal Safety Testing to the Field
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Aflabox Raises €1.35M to Bring AI Cereal Safety Testing to the Field

The Italian agritech startup has closed a €1.35M seed round to certify its AI-powered grain-testing platform and expand ...

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Palantir Revenue Jumps 93% on US Commercial Demand, Forecast Raised
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Palantir Revenue Jumps 93% on US Commercial Demand, Forecast Raised

Palantir nearly doubled quarterly revenue to $1.94 billion, beating analyst estimates and lifting its full-year outlook ...

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AstraZeneca–BMS Merger Report Sends Shares Tumbling Into Antitrust Spotlight
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AstraZeneca–BMS Merger Report Sends Shares Tumbling Into Antitrust Spotlight

Investors sold AstraZeneca after a report it held preliminary merger talks with Bristol Myers Squibb, while analysts que...

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Egypt Fintech Willy Sets This-Quarter Launch for All-in-One Wealth Platform
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Egypt Fintech Willy Sets This-Quarter Launch for All-in-One Wealth Platform

Willy's app is technically ready and awaiting final licence approvals; co-founder Mostafa Abdelaziz says education conte...

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AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb in Talks Over $400bn Pharma Merger
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AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb in Talks Over $400bn Pharma Merger

AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb are in merger talks that could create a nearly $400bn pharmaceutical giant, the Fin...

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Banco de Chile Builds CLP 50 Billion Provision Buffer as Middle East Risk Mounts
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Banco de Chile Builds CLP 50 Billion Provision Buffer as Middle East Risk Mounts

Banco de Chile posted a 28.1% jump in Q2 profit but set aside CLP 50 billion in extra provisions, citing Middle East ten...

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