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India's PE market has split in two: record deal volume but collapsing values as sponsors balk at seller prices. Q1 2026 saw 415 PE deals worth $9.1 billion, down 34% in value despite near-record transaction count, as shows. Only two billion-dollar deals closed versus seven in Q4 2025.
SkyeChip's IPO demand signals Asia wants its own NVIDIA proxies. The Penang-based chip designer drew for its public tranche, the largest retail demand since Petronas Chemicals in…
Amazon is betting its entire retail interface on conversational commerce. Rufus, the AI assistant now used by , delivers 60% higher purchase rates than traditional search, the…
The three companies controlling 90% of global memory supply just discovered what monopoly pricing looks like.
Morgan McSweeney, the architect of Labour's July 2024 landslide, quit as Chief of Staff within 24 hours of Starmer's Director of Communications.
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Page 6Dua Lipa is demanding at least $15 million from Samsung after the electronics giant used her copyrighted image from Austin City Limits 2024 on television box packaging without permission across US retail stores.
A federal judge has predicted tribal nations will succeed in blocking Kalshi's sports contracts, marking the first major legal victory using tribal sovereignty rather than state gambling law.
Iran omitted a key US demand to extract highly enriched uranium from its written counter-proposal, prompting Trump to dismiss their response as "a piece of garbage" he "didn't even finish reading." The President convenes a…
Australia's financial regulator is reviewing DroneShield's November disclosures after three executives sold shares following a botched $7.6 million US government deal announcement that was later rescinded as incorrect.
Trump's 14-point peace proposal died yesterday after Iran's counterproposal ignored every nuclear concession the White House demanded.
Infrastructure investor I Squared Capital has trumped Pacific Equity Partners with a $1.45 per share offer for the Australian out-of-home advertising company, valuing it at A$766 million versus PEP's A$747 million bid.
Chinese refiners are pulling unprecedented volumes of platinum through the new Guangzhou futures contracts, with one major processor reporting triple the normal demand since November's launch.
Hang Seng Bank and Bank of Communications are in early talks to create a special vehicle for offloading $25 billion in non-performing loans, a two-decade high representing 2 percent of total lending.
Goldman Sachs revised its yuan forecasts higher across all timeframes, calling the currency one of its highest conviction trades for 2026.
Australia's former healthcare darling hit A$125.78, down 49.91 percent over 12 months and wiping A$60 billion from its market cap after dismal half-year results triggered another confidence collapse.
FBI warnings about criminal networks like "The Com" and "764" reveal cybercrime's evolution from purely digital to hybrid online-offline operations, with members aged 11-25 offering contracts for swatting and physical assault.
The May 14-15 Beijing summit will happen as scheduled, six weeks after Iran tensions forced the original delay. The meeting puts Xi in a stronger position than March, when Trump needed Chinese cooperation to reopen the Strait of…
The wafer-scale processor maker is reportedly considering raising its IPO price to $150-160 per share, up from an initial $115-125 range, as institutional demand builds for alternatives to Nvidia's dominance.
Japanese authorities burned through over $35 billion in forex intervention starting April 30, triggering a 500-pip yen rally that reversed within days.
Australian superannuation achieved its highest transparency score in five years but , the lowest ranking in 17 years despite managing over A$4 trillion.
Microsoft Office represents the lone success story in a strategy that fails far more than it succeeds. Fast following requires the same market insight as leading but without first-mover advantages like customer loyalty and…
Trump administration officials explicitly ruled out restricting US oil exports despite surging global demand from the Iran conflict.
Gautam Adani is building the world's largest renewable-powered AI infrastructure network. His targets 5 GW of data centers by 2035, powered entirely by the Khavda project's 30 GW capacity.
Trump's tariff strategy hit another judicial wall yesterday. A his 10 percent global tariffs illegal under Section 122 of the Trade Act, finding no balance-of-payments deficit exists.
Elon Musk's nonprofit law expert told an Oakland courtroom that OpenAI Foundation deserves "a lot more" than $200 billion in assets.
CoreWeave's AI infrastructure boom hit reality with a , nearly double Wall Street's $0.49 per share estimate. The company faces securities class action lawsuits alleging it hid delays and overstated scaling capabilities.
Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz fully open Friday after seven weeks of closure, triggering the sharpest oil sell-off since March 2022.
Google is negotiating omnibus agreements with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to distribute AI models across their portfolio companies, turning private equity into the most powerful distribution channel for enterprise AI.
Major PE firms used the Milken Institute conference to position AI as the solution to overvalued software investments made during the 2020-2022 remote-work boom, with Ares, Blackstone, and Blue Owl deploying proprietary scorecards…
Toyota plans 15 new battery-electric models by 2027, targeting one million EV units annually as BYD and Tesla each sold 1.76 million last year while Toyota managed under 100,000.
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