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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…
Soapy micro dramas face a reckoning in 2026 after capturing Hollywood's attention
2025 was the year Hollywood became obsessed with micro dramas, the love-em-or-hate-em mobile series that first became popular in China and have exploded in the US. Micros, also called 'verticals,' have been maligned by some industry critics as low…
9 daily habits highly successful people have in common
Stacey Kennedy, the CEO of Philip Morris International, allows herself five minutes to check her email before starting her morning routine. On an ideal morning, she's up at 6:30 a.m., out of the house for a mindful walk around her neighborhood, and…
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…
Chicago-based Farmer's Fridge has turned vending machine salad into fast-food success
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Luke Saunders came up with the novel idea to sell salads from a vending machine 12 years ago, it was so far out of the box that he had to invent a new one. Believing that fast food should be faster…
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…
One of the most impactful resolutions you can make in the new year
Throughout the 2010s, eating less meat and embracing plant-based food was — to many Americans — aspirational. Large swathes of the public told pollsters they were trying to cut back on meat, lots of schools and hospitals participated…
Study Abroad: How 2025 taught Indian students to carefully scrutinise options and choose
For much of the past decade, study abroad was discussed in India in terms of momentum. Numbers rose year after year, destinations multiplied, and overseas education came to be seen as an almost automatic pathway to global opportunity. In 2025, that…
La Comida looks for raise its profile as it prepares for downtown move
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The senior nutrition program La Comida is Palo Alto's best-kept secret, but Executive Director Deborah Grant is working to change that. The nonprofit serves around 300 hot lunches to seniors every weekday…
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…
ITV backs Joe Wicks with £3m investment in the body coach app
The deal has been struck through ITV's AdVentures Invest fund and will see The Body Coach advertise across ITV's linear channels and its streaming platform ITVX, giving the app access to one of the UK's largest broadcast audiences. Wicks launched…
Maven Income and Growth VCT 3 (LON:MIG3) Stock Crosses Below Fifty Day Moving Average - What's Next?
Maven Income and Growth VCT 3 (LON:MIG3) shares crossed below their 50‑day moving average (50‑day MA GBX 43.61) Wednesday, trading as low as GBX 42 and last at GBX 42.27 on a volume of 44,956, signaling short‑term technical…
Israeli entrepreneur challenges Wolt
Hasan Abasi (36) has lived most of his life in northern Israel. He was born in Umm El-Fahm, grew up in Haifa and after a brief spell in Zurich as a software developer for google, he gave up on a promising career in Europe and returned to the city…
Vanderbilt University Has $7.77 Million Holdings in Welltower Inc. $WELL
Vanderbilt University lifted its holdings in shares of Welltower Inc. (NYSE:WELL - Free Report) by 22.0% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned…
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