Xiaomi Q1 Revenue Holds at ¥99.1bn as Auto Sales and Overseas IoT Offset Memory Costs
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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...

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China's M&A Market Jumps 60.7% in 2025 as Policy Reshapes Deal Logic
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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...

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Xi'an Tianmei's Stachyose Standards Aim to Break China's Premium Prebiotic Bottleneck
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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...

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Johnson & Johnson to exit manufacturing sites in up to $750M supply chain overhaul
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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...

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Zepto Confirms Pre-IPO Equity Placement at $4.5 Billion Valuation
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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...

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Nvidia's $5B Safe Superintelligence Bet Leads Week's Biggest Startup Funding Rounds
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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 ...

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Bolt.Earth Recognises 5,000+ EV Charging Technicians as Field Workforce Expands Across India
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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 ...

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Textile Exchange Opens Nominations for 2026 Climate and Nature Impact Awards
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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...

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DB CEO Palla Denounces 'Organised Irresponsibility' as Punctuality Stays at 58.7%
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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...

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Women's Sports Draw Bigger Ad Bets as Marketers Chase a Different Kind of Fan
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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...

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School Specialty to Acquire Nasco Education U.S. in K-12 Supplies Consolidation
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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...

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Progressive's Dr. Rick Flips the Script in New 'Let It Out' Campaign
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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...

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Egypt Gold Wins Two MENA Awards for Phygital Precious-Metals Investment
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Egypt Gold Wins Two MENA Awards for Phygital Precious-Metals Investment

Egyptian precious-metals firm Zahab Masr and Dr Fadi Kamel took two World Business Outlook MENA 2026 awards for their hy...

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Emirates NBD to Acquire HSBC Egypt's Retail Banking Business
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Emirates NBD to Acquire HSBC Egypt's Retail Banking Business

Emirates NBD Egypt has signed final agreements to buy HSBC Egypt's retail banking operations, including branches, ATMs, ...

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Master Trusts Unite to Fix 'Slow, Costly' UK Pension Transfers
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Master Trusts Unite to Fix 'Slow, Costly' UK Pension Transfers

Eight master trusts managing £162.7bn are backing open standards and automation to replace error-prone manual transfers,...

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Finance of America Pitches Reverse Mortgages as the Industry's 'Second Half' Opportunity
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Finance of America Pitches Reverse Mortgages as the Industry's 'Second Half' Opportunity

Finance of America urges lenders to turn aging borrowers into a new revenue line, arguing reverse home equity products c...

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ICE Mortgage Tech Logs Best Quarter Since 2022; Parent to Buy MarketAxess for $5.7B
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ICE Mortgage Tech Logs Best Quarter Since 2022; Parent to Buy MarketAxess for $5.7B

ICE Mortgage Technology posted $557M in Q2 revenue and an 8% operating margin, while parent ICE announced a $5.7B deal t...

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Zepto Delays IPO After Public Investors Value It at Half Its $7 Billion Peak
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Zepto Delays IPO After Public Investors Value It at Half Its $7 Billion Peak

Zepto is pausing its listing plans and raising private funds at about $4.5 billion after public investors valued the qui...

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Hormel completes sale of Brazilian Ceratti business to Zanchetta
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Hormel completes sale of Brazilian Ceratti business to Zanchetta

Hormel Foods finalised the sale of its Brazilian Ceratti meat brand to Zanchetta Alimentos, closing a deal first agreed ...

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French Winemaker Bets on Argentina With Antucura Wellness and Real-Estate Club in Mendoza
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French Winemaker Bets on Argentina With Antucura Wellness and Real-Estate Club in Mendoza

Anne-Caroline Biancheri is turning her boutique Mendoza winery Antucura into a wellness and private residential club, wi...

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India's Café Chains Absorb a Matcha Price Shock to Keep the Premium Drink Boom Alive
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India's Café Chains Absorb a Matcha Price Shock to Keep the Premium Drink Boom Alive

Matcha, hojicha and yuzu costs have jumped as much as 75%, but India's café chains are holding menu prices steady to pro...

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Maine Pulp Mill Faces $794,456 in OSHA Fines After Two Worker Deaths
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Maine Pulp Mill Faces $794,456 in OSHA Fines After Two Worker Deaths

OSHA says Woodland Pulp exposed workers to fatal hydrogen sulfide and hydrogen peroxide hazards; the mill has 15 days to...

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Wall Street Talent War Hits Litigation: Gibson Dunn Lures Wachtell Co-President Bill Savitt
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Wall Street Talent War Hits Litigation: Gibson Dunn Lures Wachtell Co-President Bill Savitt

Gibson Dunn poaches Wachtell co-president Bill Savitt and five partners, signaling the elite-lawyer talent war has reach...

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AI Capex Splurge Burns Billions in Big Tech Cash — and Investors Are Buying In
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AI Capex Splurge Burns Billions in Big Tech Cash — and Investors Are Buying In

Alphabet and Amazon posted negative free cash flow as AI infrastructure spending surged, yet double-digit cloud growth h...

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Kroger settles wrongful death suit over dairy manager's suicide
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Kroger settles wrongful death suit over dairy manager's suicide

Kroger has settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a dairy manager who died by suicide in 2021, closing ...

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Rivian Narrows Q2 Loss as Cheaper R2 SUV Hits the Road
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Rivian Narrows Q2 Loss as Cheaper R2 SUV Hits the Road

Rivian's adjusted EBITDA loss narrowed to $379 million on revenue of $1.66 billion, beating estimates, as the company ra...

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UK Pet Stocks Seek New Homes as CMA Remedies Move Ahead
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UK Pet Stocks Seek New Homes as CMA Remedies Move Ahead

A growing £7.2bn petcare market is colliding with the CMA's probe remedies, pushing listed pet businesses toward restruc...

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US Fashion Firms Plan Broad Hiring Through 2031, but Just 10.5% Eye US-Made Sourcing
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US Fashion Firms Plan Broad Hiring Through 2031, but Just 10.5% Eye US-Made Sourcing

Nearly nine in ten US fashion companies plan to hire through 2031, yet barely one in ten sees US-made sourcing as a tari...

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Maruti Suzuki logs record July sales as utility vehicles surge 49%
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Maruti Suzuki logs record July sales as utility vehicles surge 49%

India's largest carmaker reported a 34% jump in July sales to 241,421 units, led by record domestic passenger-vehicle vo...

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CCB Overtakes ICBC as China's Top Mutual Fund Custodian
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CCB Overtakes ICBC as China's Top Mutual Fund Custodian

New Wind data shows CCB edged past ICBC as China's largest public fund custodian, as ETF redemptions shrank ICBC's book ...

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