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Trump Greenlights TikTok Sale, Values U.S. Operations at $14 Billion

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order declaring that the proposed divestiture of TikTok’s U.S. operations meets the national security conditions imposed by a 2024 law. The order signals major progress in a high-stakes effort to decouple the app from its Chinese parent...

BYD Pulls Ahead of Tesla in Europe as Strategy and Scale Pay Off

Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD has overtaken Tesla in the European Union for successive months, signaling a shift in the EV landscape built on local production, pricing strategy, and product mix. Experts point to BYD’s aggressive expansion, use of hybrids, and tariff mitigation efforts as core...

Amazon Steps Back from UK Grocery Stores After Strategy Misfire

Amazon is pulling back its physical grocery store experiment in the UK after several years of expansion and innovation that failed to deliver the results it expected. The company has announced it will close all 19 of its Amazon Fresh stores in Britain, converting five into Whole Foods locations,...

Starbucks Rolls Out Strategic Restructuring to Revive Growth and Cut Costs

Starbucks has launched a sweeping restructuring effort aimed at tightening operations, closing underperforming stores, reducing corporate overhead, and refocusing resources toward improving in-store experience. Under CEO Brian Niccol, the coffee giant is executing a plan designed to both stem...

TikTok’s Data Footprint on Children: How Sensitive Information Was Allegedly Collected in Canada and Why It Matters

TikTok is facing intensified scrutiny in Canada after a joint investigation by federal and provincial privacy authorities found the platform collected and used sensitive information from large numbers of children, even though the service states it is not intended for users under 13. Regulators...

Micron’s Revenue Upswing: AI-Fueled HBM Demand, Pricing Power and Capacity Strategy Explained

Micron Technology’s guidance for the coming quarter — a revenue forecast well above Wall Street consensus — reflects more than a momentary beat: it signals a structural shift in demand dynamics driven by the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence workloads and the premium memory those systems...

Companies Increasingly Turn to Co-CEO Leadership Amid Complex Business Challenges

Enterprise software firm Oracle has appointed Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia as co-CEOs, marking another instance of a growing trend in corporate leadership. The move follows Safra Catz’s transition to vice chair after more than a decade as CEO, signaling that companies are increasingly exploring...

Compute and Capital: Nvidia’s $100 Billion Commitment Is Reordering the AI Landscape

Nvidia’s commitment to invest as much as $100 billion in OpenAI, paired with a multiyear plan to supply vast datacenter systems, represents one of the largest single alignments between a leading chipmaker and a dominant AI software house. The move stitches together deep pockets and essential...

Oracle Pursues $20 Billion Cloud Pact with Meta to Lock Down AI Advantage

Oracle is reportedly engaged in talks for a potential multi-year cloud computing agreement with Meta valued at roughly $20 billion, a move that would mark one of the largest single-vendor infrastructure arrangements in the fast-developing artificial-intelligence economy. The discussions, described...

Leaders Report Progress on TikTok Deal as U.S.–China Trade Talks Move Back to Center Stage

A high-level phone call between the presidents of the United States and China this week produced a joint readout that officials described as “productive,” centered on a tentative breakthrough over the future of a popular short-form video app. The discussion — and an agreement to meet in person on...

Intel–Nvidia Pact Could Be the Make-or-Break Moment for Intel’s 14A Chip Roadmap

Intel’s recent strategic tie-up with Nvidia — a multibillion-dollar equity stake combined with a multi-generation product collaboration — has reframed the debate over whether Intel can economically scale its next-generation 14A manufacturing node. Beyond headline optics, the arrangement offers a...

TikTok Deal Seen as Litmus Test for US–China Trade Breakthrough

U.S. and Chinese leaders have converged on an unlikely focal point in efforts to de-escalate one of the world’s most consequential strategic rivalries: the future of TikTok. What began as a dispute over a social media app has grown into a political and economic proxy for broader trust issues...
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