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$12.5bn price tag is highest ever for an American sports team (AFP)
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Is the LA Lakers’ sale a sign of sports investment gone mad?

WHAT IS A worthy consolation prize for a billionaire investor whose attempt to buy a stake in fifa’s football World Cup recently blew up in…

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Whether that will work out well for you depends on whether you ask the right questions.
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What to ask when your adviser pushes private funds

Good questions are every investor’s best defense. Whether that will work out well for you depends on whether you ask the right questions. Between now…

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HAL is executing orders worth  ₹62,700 crore for 156 Prachand helicopters—90 for the army and 66 for the Indian Air Force.
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HAL ties up with BEML, Adani to make Prachand light combat helicopter fuselages

Aircraft maker Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has forged partnerships with Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) and Adani Defence Systems and Technologies Limited to produce fuselages…

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In recent decades Japan has lost its knack for producing startups that make an impact. (Unsplash)
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Japan’s downbeat startups need a lift

Morita Akio, a physics graduate, co-founded the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, an electronics-maker, in 1946. The startup’s 20 employees toiled in a small room in…

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Apple reported refund has so far reached nearly $2.2 billion.
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Tariff refunds are here—and turbocharging earnings

Tariff refunds have begun rolling in to big U.S. companies—in some cases providing a solid boost to earnings. Apple reported refund has so far reached…

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N Chandrasekaran will step down as Tata Sons chairman when his current term ends on February 20, 2027. (REUTERS)
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N Chandrasekaran’s decision to step down creates immediate succession challenge for Tata Sons

After a 40-year association with the Tata Group, Natarajan Chandrasekaran on Wednesday said he had decided to step down as chairman of Tata Sons when…

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Hyundai Bluelink
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Studying Barbie and Ken, Samsung’s foldable momentum, and Hyundai Bluelink

Opening thoughts. Toys, realism and diversity? It took a while, but Barbie and Ken finally have a reality check to contend with. Nearly 70 years…

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Investors are focused on the upcoming U.S. July inflation report and the impact it could have on interest rates.
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U.S. futures higher ahead of key inflation report

U.S. futures were higher in early European trading as investors focused on the upcoming U.S. July inflation report and the impact it could have on…

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Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran steps down. (PTI)
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Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran resigns ahead of AGM, firm’s stocks tumble

N Chandrasekaran stepped down on Wednesday as chairman of Tata Sons ahead of the company’s annual general meeting, which is scheduled for August 18. Tata…

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Google WeatherNext AI
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Decoding Workday’s Copy/Paste Economy data and Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext AI

Cognitive warmup. Google DeepMind’s journey towards building relevant AI continues. It now has a model called WeatherNext AI, that will predict tropical cyclones sooner. This…

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