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Starbucks union authorizes indefinite strike ahead of holiday season

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 5, 2025

Starbucks baristas gather outside a Starbucks store as they protest the company during a rally to demand a new contract…

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U.S. FEC filings and public statements: A handful of crypto super PACs raised about $263 million ahead of the 2026 midterm elections; Fairshake remains the largest with $141 million (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 29, 2025

Bloomberg: U.S. FEC filings and public statements: A handful of crypto super PACs raised about $263 million ahead of the…

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Chinese robovan startup Neolix has raised $600 million led by UAE-based Stone Venture without disclosing its valuation, ahead of a possible Hong Kong IPO as early as 2026 (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 23, 2025

Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia: Chinese robovan startup Neolix has raised $600 million led by UAE-based Stone Venture without disclosing…

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China is ahead of the rest of the world in adopting robot vans, despite limitations such as slow speeds; Neolix has deployed 10,000 robots so far (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 22, 2025

Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia: China is ahead of the rest of the world in adopting robot vans, despite limitations…

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Windows 11 had a share of 50.9% of the Windows market on July 4, ahead of 46.2% of Windows 10; The operating system, published in 2021, had only one share of

By Stacey D. WallsJuly 7, 2025

Featured podcasts Grink: Ai Special with Sierra, Harvey, Windsurf and more Grit explores what is needed to create, build and…

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Sources: The FTC goes ahead with a Microsoft antitrust probe opened by Lina Khan, pointing that the new president Andrew Ferguson hierarchizes Big Tech Examination (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 12, 2025

Bloomberg:: Sources: The FTC goes ahead with a Microsoft antitrust probe opened by Lina Khan, pointing that the new president…

Families of Tiananmen victims barred from visiting graves on anniversary – Radio Free Asia

Moscow’s new military partner has something Russia needs more than its allies – The Diplomat

How Japan is gradually rebalancing its foreign policy – The Diplomat

2026 was a crazy year for Southeast Asian stock markets – The Diplomat

Vietnam’s quiet strategy during the Shangri-La dialogue – The Diplomat

Ulta Beauty (ULTA) First Quarter 2026 Results

Markets in ‘greed’ mode as AI companies prepare for IPOs

Victoria’s Secret (VSXY) Q1 2026 Results

Prices of Audemars Piguet watches stable after collaboration with Swatch

McDonald’s MCD unveils its growth strategy

Democrats will force vote to kill Trump’s slush fund and immunity program

Trump’s ballroom is dead and his battleships may be sunk

Massive defeat for Trump as his militarization fund dies

Democrats figured out how to kill Trump’s weapons fund

It’s time for the 25th Amendment as Trump thinks the latest dementia screening was an intelligence test

Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to fall below $67,000 on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy’s first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (Bloomberg)

a CoreWeave-linked data center raised $900 million via five-year junk bonds, priced at par for a 7.5% yield, as the industry increasingly shifts to high-yield bonds (Gowri Gurumurthy/Bloomberg)

Microsoft launches MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained “from scratch on clean data, without distillation of third-party models” (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Internal position: Guy Rosen, Meta’s chief information security officer who previously oversaw Meta’s election integrity work, will leave in the coming months (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Meta Expands Teen Account Safety Features to Limit Harmful Content on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger, including Nutrition, Weightlifting and Anxiety (Eli Tan/New York Times)

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Starbucks union authorizes indefinite strike ahead of holiday season

U.S. FEC filings and public statements: A handful of crypto super PACs raised about $263 million ahead of the 2026 midterm elections; Fairshake remains the largest with $141 million (Bloomberg)

Chinese robovan startup Neolix has raised $600 million led by UAE-based Stone Venture without disclosing its valuation, ahead of a possible Hong Kong IPO as early as 2026 (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)

China is ahead of the rest of the world in adopting robot vans, despite limitations such as slow speeds; Neolix has deployed 10,000 robots so far (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)

Windows 11 had a share of 50.9% of the Windows market on July 4, ahead of 46.2% of Windows 10; The operating system, published in 2021, had only one share of

Sources: The FTC goes ahead with a Microsoft antitrust probe opened by Lina Khan, pointing that the new president Andrew Ferguson hierarchizes Big Tech Examination (Bloomberg)