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ARKK: Public Markets Are Not Venture Capital (BATS:ARKK)
ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) is rated SELL due to venture-style risk and high valuations already reflecting ambitious growth expectations. ARKK's concentrated portfolio exposes investors to significant volatility and depends on a few holdings like…
FIFA scraps World Cup private investment plans as Infantino fights for his future
FIFA and Gianni Infantino have performed a dramatic U-turn on his plot to sell a stake in its commercial and event operations after widespread condemnation of the plans. In a statement late on Friday night, the under-fire FIFA president said:…
Digital Health Funding Is Booming, Especially For Wearables
The wearables industry has captured a significant amount of the capital in healthcare. Digital health is back in a boom market, at least from a funding perspective. Venture capital and investors more generally are eager to spend heavily in the…
Will Infantino survive Fifa's latest scandal? Trump changes everything
Football chiefs will consider whether to push for a vote of no confidence on Gianni Infantino following another another day of drastic developments surrounding the embattled Fifa president. But Infantino's game-breaking Fifa Forward Enterprise plan…
Humanoid Robot Patents: China Most, U.S. Best?
Screenshot of a MLex report on robot patents globally over the last six years. China has the most patents in the humanoid robot space, and it's not even close. But, according to a new LexisNexis analysis of robot patents over the past six years…
Fifa scraps proposal to sell off stakes in World Cup after widespread backlash
Gianni Infantino's proposal to sell chunks of the World Cup to private investors has sensationally collapsed, with the Fifa president admitting the project “has created divisions of a nature that are no longer of the interest of the…
America's AI Trade War Expands To Humanoid Robots
TOPSHOT - A robot crosses the finish line in the humanoid robot half marathon in Beijing on April 19, 2025. Dozens of humanoid robots took to the streets of Beijing, joining thousands of their flesh-and-blood counterparts in a world-first half…
Gianni Infantino and five days that shook football - and the echoes of European Super League
Any hope Gianni Infantino might have had of tiptoeing away from the scene of his World Cup private-investment wreckage having sustained only minor damage to his reputation disappeared on Saturday. Uefa - the governing body of European football -…
Fifa World Cup plans: Gianni Infantino scraps private investment proposal after widespread opposition
Jack Skelton, BBC Sport senior journalist and Simon Stone, Chief football news reporter Fifa president Gianni Infantino says he has scrapped the controversial plan to sell off stakes in the governing body's major competitions, following widespread…
Weapons stockpile shortages impacting military strategy in the Mideast
The Pentagon is confronting a growing reality after months of fighting Iran: America's stockpile of missile defense interceptors. It is shrinking so much, military planners are weighing whether they can continue the current cycle of limited…
Healthcare Realty Stock: Turnaround Is Working, Stock Is Still Cheap (NYSE:HR)
Healthcare Realty Trust remains a compelling value and income play after a successful strategic reset and portfolio streamlining. HR delivered strong Q2 results with 5.1% same-store NOI growth, 93% occupancy, and high tenant retention, supporting…
Why Calcutta Stock Exchange needs to be revived
India should adopt two propositions as core policy. First, the country should have a third exchange — large markets sustain multiple venues, as America's NYSE–AMEX–NASDAQ trifecta showed. The Calcutta Stock Exchange (CSE)…
4 best new movies (and one godawful one) to watch this weekend on Hulu, Peacock, HBO Max, and more (August 1-2)
This week saw a couple 2026 blockbusters trickle onto streaming platforms, just in time to keep us out of this heatwave and in the AC. Leading the pack is a darkly funny romance between two stars of 'The Odyssey' — 'The Drama' —…
Premium: AI Is Getting Way Too Expensive
A great deal of the discussion of the so-called benefits or problems with AI comes down to the theoretical jobs that are (or are not) lost as a result of things LLMs can (or cannot do), or the equally theoretical productivity benefits that'll come…
Gianni Infantino: Fifa executive joins PM Andy Burnham in questioning Infantino
Alex Brotherton BBC Sport journalist Fifa president Gianni Infantino's position came under further scrutiny on Friday as the governing body's chief operating officer strongly criticised his plan to sell stakes in competitions to private investors.
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