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indianexpress.com - Sandeep Singh - With a record year for primary markets rekindling the OFS vs IPO debate, signals of a maturing market
With a record year for primary markets rekindling the OFS vs IPO debate, signals of a maturing market
The Indian Express

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…

businessinsider.com - Lucia Moses - Soapy micro dramas face a reckoning in 2026 after capturing Hollywood's attention
Soapy micro dramas face a reckoning in 2026 after capturing Hollywood's attention
Business Insider

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…

businessinsider.com - Tess Martinelli - 9 daily habits highly successful people have in common
9 daily habits highly successful people have in common
Business Insider

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…

indianexpress.com - The new billionaires of the AI boom
The new billionaires of the AI boom
The Indian Express

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…

chicagotribune.com - Robert Channick - Chicago-based Farmer's Fridge has turned vending machine salad into fast-food success
Chicago-based Farmer's Fridge has turned vending machine salad into fast-food success
Chicago Tribune

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…

techcrunch.com - Marina Temkin - College dropout' has become the most coveted startup founder credential
College dropout' has become the most coveted startup founder credential
TechCrunch

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…

vox.com - Kenny Torrella - One of the most impactful resolutions you can make in the new year
One of the most impactful resolutions you can make in the new year
Vox

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…

thehindu.com - Aman Singh - Study Abroad: How 2025 taught Indian students to carefully scrutinise options and choose
Study Abroad: How 2025 taught Indian students to carefully scrutinise options and choose
The Hindu

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…

paloaltoonline.com - Hannah Bensen - La Comida looks for raise its profile as it prepares for downtown move
La Comida looks for raise its profile as it prepares for downtown move
Palo Alto Online

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…

zerohedge.com - Tyler Durden - Obama's Trojan Horse: How His Refugee Machine Engineered The Billion-Dollar Looting Of US Treasury
Obama's Trojan Horse: How His Refugee Machine Engineered The Billion-Dollar Looting Of US Treasury
Zero Hedge

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…

thehindubusinessline.com - Scheduled Commercial Banks can now become sponsors of Pension Funds: PFRDA
Scheduled Commercial Banks can now become sponsors of Pension Funds: PFRDA
BusinessLine

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…

bmmagazine.co.uk - Jamie Young - ITV backs Joe Wicks with £3m investment in the body coach app
ITV backs Joe Wicks with £3m investment in the body coach app
Business Matters

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…

marketbeat.com - 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) Stock Crosses Below Fifty Day Moving Average - What's Next?
MarketBeat

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…

globes.co.il - Assaf Gilead - Israeli entrepreneur challenges Wolt
Israeli entrepreneur challenges Wolt
גלובס

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…

marketbeat.com - Vanderbilt University Has $7.77 Million Holdings in Welltower Inc. $WELL
Vanderbilt University Has $7.77 Million Holdings in Welltower Inc. $WELL
MarketBeat

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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