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Private Equity, Venture Capital Firms Want to Buy Porsche Out of Bugatti: Report
The automaker responsible for delivering groundbreaking models like the Veyron and Tourbillon may be on the verge of a shift in control, as Bugatti's ownership stake could be set to change dramatically in the near future. Earlier this year, Mate…
With a record year for primary markets rekindling the OFS vs IPO debate, signals of a maturing market
With 2025 marking a big surge in primary market activity, some trends could stand out: the so-called offers-for-sales (OFS) dominated the issues, while facing some flak for the fact that the money raised has gone to promoters and early investors as…
ITV agrees to invest £3m in fitness app created by Joe Wicks
The broadcaster ITV has agreed to invest up to £3m into the health and fitness app The Body Coach, created by Joe Wicks, who shot to fame by getting people exercising in their living rooms during the Covid pandemic. It is the latest deal made…
Peter Thiel opens Miami office as California 'billionaire tax' tensions escalate
Peter Thiel is formally expanding his footprint in South Florida at a moment when California's wealthiest residents are reassessing their futures in the state. On Wednesday, Thiel Capital, the private investment firm founded by the billionaire…
Major General Dan Tolkowsky, wartime RAF Spitfire pilot who helped create the Israeli Air Force
Major General Dan Tolkowsky, who has died aged 104, played a pivotal role in the creation and development of the Israeli Air Force (IAF), having served in the RAF from 1942 to 1946 as a Spitfire pilot during the campaigns in Italy and France. In…
Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M
Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes — always a decade away! — to an increasingly tangible and tantalizing technology that has drawn investors off the sidelines. The technology may be challenging…
The Funding File: The Biggest M&A and VC Deals in Media and Entertainment in 2025
This report is a partnership between WrapPRO and PitchBook, the go-to financial data and software platform that provides detailed information on private and public capital markets. What began as a year of stasis over uncertainty about a second…
The new billionaires of the AI boom
The new AI billionaires include Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo, who founded Scale AI, a data-labeling startup that received a $14.3 billion investment from Meta in June. The founders of the AI coding startup Cursor — Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif…
College dropout' has become the most coveted startup founder credential
Although iconic founders like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg famously didn't finish college, multiple studies show that the vast majority of successful startups had founders with bachelor's or graduate degrees. Despite this data, the…
'They didn't de-extinct anything': can Colossal's genetically engineered animals ever be the real thing?
Death and taxes are supposed to be the things we can depend on in this life. But in 2025, the American entrepreneur Ben Lamm sold much of the world on the idea that death did not, after all, need to be for ever. This was the year the billionaire's…
2025's AI-fueled scientific breakthroughs
AI-driven scientific innovation accelerated in 2025 — fueling major progress in fields ranging from robotics to health care. Why it matters: Powerful new models and computing tools are influencing everything from how experiments are designed…
Year Ender 2025: From Chips to Chatbots, How Tech Redefined the Playbook
2025 was a year when technology stopped being just exciting headlines and started showing how deeply it shapes our daily lives. From the race for faster chips to the rise of autonomous AI agents, the tech industry faced both breakthroughs and…
From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025
Following two years of immense hype in 2023 and 2024, this year felt more like a settling-in period for the LLM-based token prediction industry. After more than two years of public fretting over AI models as future threats to human civilization or…
Obama's Trojan Horse: How His Refugee Machine Engineered The Billion-Dollar Looting Of US Treasury
Authored by X user Saggezza Etern, Imagine waking up tomorrow to find your bank account empty. Every dollar you saved for your children's tuition, your retirement, your security—gone. Now imagine looking out the window and seeing the thief…
Scheduled Commercial Banks can now become sponsors of Pension Funds: PFRDA
A scheduled commercial bank can now independently set up a pension fund to manage National Pension System (NPS), Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has said. PFRDA board has given in principal approval to the framework. This…
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