Norway’s sovereign wealth fund owns almost 1.5% of the world’s listed shares in…
The fund does not own 1.5% of every listed company. NBIM reports 10,873 shareholder meetings and 108,325 proposals voted on in 2025.
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The UK’s Online Safety Act gives Ofcom the power to fine platforms 10% of their…
The UK's Online Safety Act gives Ofcom theoretical penalty powers larger than the GDP of small countries. The team that actually issues those fines has fewer than 50 staff — and Meta is now in the High Court trying to shrink the formula.
Rolex has no owner because of a 1945 foundation a grieving widower built after his…
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.
Australia’s youngest billionaire owed $540M in 2016 — then a rare legal manoeuvre…
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.
Wirecard’s $2.1B in ‘missing’ cash was supposedly held in Philippine banks that…
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.
Inside the Financial Times investigation that took five years and nearly destroyed…
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 just had its biggest install surge in years after Google killed the AI…
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 just closed a $65B round at a $965B valuation, and the cap table reveals…
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 IPO filing lays out a $1.75 trillion bet on Mars, AI and Musk control
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.
This may not be 2022: Why the Iran oil shock hits a US economy with no SPR buffer…
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’s side project World Monitor now has 2 million users tracking…
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.
Paris-based ESG platform FINGREEN AI shuts down after EU changes sustainability…
French company FINGREEN AI, an AI-powered ESG platform, is shutting down all operations due to recent regulatory changes from the European Union.