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Norges Bank Investment Management, the arm of Norway's central bank that runs the country's Government Pension Fund Global, holds shares in companies across dozens of countries.
When Hans Wilsdorf's wife Florence died in 1944, the Bavarian-born founder of Rolex built a Geneva foundation that has owned every share of the company since 1960. Eight decades later, that grief-born structure is the reason Rolex can under-produce, never discount, and out-think every shareholder-owned competitor in luxury.
In 2016, Nathan Tinkler — Australia's youngest billionaire at his 2011 peak — entered bankruptcy owing more than A$540 million. Two years later, a rare court order under Section 153B of the Bankruptcy Act erased the proceeding from the public record entirely. Inside the mechanism almost no one uses.
When EY finally refused to sign Wirecard's 2019 accounts, two Philippine banks issued a one-sentence denial that ended Europe's biggest fintech: the €1.9 billion in escrow had never been on their books. The forensic story of how the missing cash was never missing — because it never existed.
Dan McCrum spent the better part of five years being followed, hacked, smeared as a market manipulator, and threatened with criminal prosecution by the German state — for being right.
DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine that has spent more than a decade unable to crack Google's grip on the U.S. market, just recorded a 30% surge in installs after Google unveiled its AI-first Search overhaul at I/O — six consecutive days of double-digit growth, including across a Memorial Day weekend when the company typically sees a traffic dip.
Anthropic is reportedly in talks to close a Series H round in the range of $65 billion at a post-money valuation approaching $965 billion, according to figures circulating among investors and reported by financial press.
SpaceX has reportedly filed its S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, setting up what is expected to be the largest IPO in history.
The US economy added jobs last year and inflation fell to 2.4% in January, its lowest figure in months, and the White House declared the inflation crisis over.
Anghami CEO Elie Habib built World Monitor, an open-source geopolitical intelligence dashboard, in days. It now attracts 2 million users — mostly from Asia and the Middle East — revealing a massive, unmet global demand for real-time conflict intelligence that existing media and institutional architectures have failed to serve.
Internet shutdowns are framed as acts of authoritarian overreach, but the profit chains behind them implicate surveillance tech vendors, VPN companies, consulting firms, and financial analysts across the globe. I mapped who benefits when a country goes dark.
A striking figure is circulating through European boardrooms and investor meetings: roughly one in three founder-CEOs across Europe seriously considered stepping down from their own companies in the first half of 2025. The data points to a structural problem the continent's startup ecosystem can no longer treat as a personal matter.
