by John Hill | Jul 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
The rich have always wanted to own a team, and it seems like lately, they’ve been lining up to do it. Steve Ballmer walked away from Microsoft’s C-suite and into the Clippers, pouring more than $4 billion into the team and its new arena. Mark Walter closed a record...
by John Hill | Jul 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
The World Cup is driving record-breaking activity on prediction markets, with popular platforms Kalshi and Polymarket reporting their highest trading volumes to date. Just days ahead of Sunday’s final, the Argentina–Spain contract has become the single largest market...
by John Hill | Jul 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
Amy Wu Martin creates AI-generated songs for her son on Suno. She’s not famous or getting paid. She just likes it. That, in a nutshell, is why she led Menlo Ventures into a $250 million fundraise last fall, then re-upped in a $400 million round in June at a $5.4...
by John Hill | Jul 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
Heat that hit Europe exceptionally early and hard this year appears to have led to a spike in deaths, with well over 10,000 more people dying at the height of the heat wave than would normally have been expected, according to figures that are still emerging across the...
by John Hill | Jul 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
The World Cup has been a bonanza for beer in the U.S. Bars in Boston reported needing emergency deliveries to keep taps from running dry on some game days. Fans downed a total of 290,000 stadium beers during the six matches in Philadelphia, FIFA organizers said. But...
by John Hill | Jul 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
This is Fortune 500 Power Moves, a column tracking executive shifts—from appointments and promotions to resignations and retirements—within the highest ranks of Fortune 500 companies. Below is a recap of the C-suite developments at America’s...
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