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Vibefam closed a $1M seed round led by a Singapore family office. The July launch of Vibe AI and embedded finance expansion target the fragmented tech stack most small gyms still run on.
Hasbro's standalone Matrix of Leadership prop replica, at $139.99, targets adult collectors. Preorders opened for August delivery. The toy's margin impact is small but signals a strategy shift.
The Gemini roster for June 18 includes Paul McCartney (84), Isabella Rossellini (74), Blake Shelton (50), and the late mountaineer George Mallory.
Saudi Prince Museid beheaded for 1975 assassination of King Faisal. Also: Waterloo, SALT II, Sally Ride, GMAC massacre, Titan implosion, Nvidia tops Microsoft.
JAL shares stop trading today. For shareholders, the path to recovery depends on the delisting process and whether a buyout emerges.
McDonald's U.S. same-store sales beat at 2.5%. Operating margins slipped to 42.5% as value deals attracted customers. Stock fell 8% on the margin compression.
QC Capital's AI investment engine and $2.4B revenue target over 2026-2027 drive the deal. The eight-year share release structure ties consideration to performance.
Nine Wolff cranes installed on 60-year-old foundations at 1 Victoria Street. Cross-frame system solves alignment constraints. Dismantling in basement requires ceiling hoists and skating systems.
AEM, UMS Integration, and Venture Corporation each sit on the AI hardware supply chain. First-quarter results show which one is seeing the fastest pull-through and which is still waiting.
Nykaa targets $5B GMV by FY30 at investor day, plans to double beauty customer base to 100 million. Stock hits new 52-week high of ₹301, up 7%.
A will costs as little as $39 online and takes 20 minutes. Without one, provincial law decides who inherits your home, savings, and children.
Onity Group's Sidoti presentation slides offer updated small-cap messaging. The mortgage subservicer's conference pitch arrives with thin float and no price reaction yet.
Laird Superfood (LSF) presented at the Planet MicroCap Las Vegas 2026 conference on June 18, publishing a slide deck with its corporate update and strategy.
Indian shares ended flat Thursday after the Fed held rates steady but signaled a rate hike this year, trimming earlier gains. IT stocks led declines. Traders now focus on domestic inflation data due next week.
Check your EPF balance via the official website, SMS to 7738299899, or the Umang app. The new E-PRAAPTI portal helps recover old or lost accounts.
Apple assembled $14B in iPhones in India in FY2024. A $15B local component industry vs China's $300B creates cost and subsidy friction for the 25% shift goal.
Decathlon launches The Decathlon Seed, a global scheme giving eligible staff €2,000 each in free shares or asset incentives. Employee ownership gets a standardised push across markets.
A new arXiv preprint proposes a modified recurrent neural network for forecasting power consumption, with implications for grid operators and energy traders.
A new arXiv paper proposes a gradient-based stochastic optimization method for utility-based shortfall risk, scaling to hundreds of assets with lower cost than CVaR solvers.
Acrow's $70M placement funds two acquisitions and cuts debt. Existing shareholders face dilution; the deals must deliver EPS growth to offset it.
NSE files DRHP for ₹30,000-crore IPO, India's largest ever. LIC holds 10.72% stake and is not selling. Valuation implied at ₹5 lakh crore. Key risk: earnings momentum after FY26 profit fell 15%.
Five PSU shareholders including LIC and SBI will sell 2.37 crore shares in the NSE IPO. The offer-for-sale gives the market a rare chance to buy into India's dominant exchange.
Noam Shazeer, co-lead of Google's Gemini models, leaves for OpenAI less than two years after returning via a Character.AI deal. The move raises questions about Google's AI talent retention as OpenAI prepares for its IPO.
McDonald's value meals are driving same-store sales growth, but rising beef and labor costs are squeezing margins. Alpha Score 49. Q2 earnings in July will decide the next move.
8th Pay Commission opens online data portal for salary and pension submissions. Deadline June 30, 2026. Affects 50 lakh central govt employees and 65 lakh pensioners.
IREN's 800MW data centre near Bundey would draw from the same pipeline serving 130,000 homes, locals say. The company hasn't disclosed water volume or source.
West Bengal CM Adhikari says 28 lakh women got ₹3,000 each in June under Annapurna Yojana. Another 1,05,000 enrolled for July 1 payout. Scheme replaces Lakshmir Bhandar. Budget on June 22.
Trump administration offers $400,000 annual salary to Wall Street executives to strengthen national security supply chains. 200 positions open across defense and commerce agencies.
Emeco Holdings guided FY26 EBITDA US$290-295M and set a 90% surface utilisation target for FY27. The redeployment plan is key to the FY27 outlook.
John Hancock International Growth Fund beat its benchmark in Q1, led by Taiwan Semiconductor. Management overweight growth factors for continued acceleration.