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Pandora CEO notes a shift in jewelry trends as new collections fuel growth

Pandora CEO notes a shift in jewelry trends as new collections fuel growth

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Pandora’s CEO says fresh jewelry lineups are driving growth as the retailer diversifies from its core business of silver charm bracelets. “What we are doing in terms of distinctive newness is working, so where we are launching new collections that are inspiring and good for consumers we are delivering growth,” Berta de Pablos-Barbier said Thursday. She stepped into the top job on January 1 after serving as chief marketing officer. Pandora shares climbed 4% at the market open after the group raised its 2026 profit outlook on the back of U.S. tariff refunds, while posting stronger than anticipated second-quarter sales. De Pablos-Barbier’s strategy centers on introducing novel designs with distinct aesthetics and a broader range of metals, moving past the core offer of silver …

Zia Yusuf blasts Vodafone CEO over illegal migrant scandal – ‘liable for prison’ | Politics | News

Zia Yusuf blasts Vodafone CEO over illegal migrant scandal – ‘liable for prison’ | Politics | News

Published by Sam Flores

Zia Yusuf has written to the Vodafone CEO (Image: Getty) Communications giant Vodafone should be excluded “from all defence, national and emergency services” contracts if the firm helps illegal migrants, Zia Yusuf has declared. Reform’s home affairs spokesman said the company’s CEO, Margherita Della Valle, will face prison if Nigel Farage wins the next election. It comes after left-wing charity Care4Calais revealed it had dished out 2,221 pre-paid Vodafone SIM cards to migrants. And Reform has vowed to introduce a “Polanski law” to criminalise those aiding illegal entry to the UK, with the proposal set to ignore the “intent” behind the acts. Mr Yusuf said that Vodafone’s customers will be “astounded” that they are “helping to facilitate the invasion of Britain by unvetted, military-age men”. He added in a letter to Ms Della Valle: “They will be shocked to hear that their phone or broadband provider is actively endangering British women and girls. “I therefore want to give you the opportunity to publicly disavow Vodafone’s distribution of pre-paid SIM cards to illegal migrants. “If you …

AI nuclear power firm Fermi finally has a new CEO

AI nuclear power firm Fermi finally has a new CEO

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Fermi, the AI nuclear power firm, has named a new CEO more than three months after firing co-founder Toby Neugebauer from the top executive post. Fermi said Wednesday it has hired Lee McIntire, an independent member of the company’s board who has held chief executive positions at CH2M Hill and TerraPower, the nuclear power startup founded by Bill Gates. Fermi America, which was co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, is developing an AI campus in Amarillo, Texas, called Project Matador that will eventually use nuclear reactors to power data centers. The announcement, along with Monday’s news that it had signed TensorWave as its first binding customer lease for its Project Matador campus, provided a welcome boost to Fermi’s stock. (The stock is up nearly 23% since Monday.) The young company took a hit in April when Neugebauer and CFO Miles Everson were pushed out of the company. At the time, the company described the executive shakeup, along with other plans including a corporate headquarters in Dallas, as Fermi 2.0. “Fermi’s next chapter is a …

Paramount CEO threatens to relocate company from California

Paramount CEO threatens to relocate company from California

Published by Sam Flores

Last month, Paramount Skydance CEO and Trump ally David Ellison threatened to relocate the company out of California in response to his ongoing legal battle with California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who is suing, along with 12 other states, aiming to block the $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery takeover. The threat was first reported by Semafor. Now, Bonta has responded. “Paramount agreed to halt the merger until a court decision or until June 2027, asked for a November trial, and is now back with another attempt to blackmail the state into letting an illegal deal through,” Bonta wrote on X. “Paramount has lost the plot as it continues to lose in court. It didn’t work the first time … and it won’t work this time.” If Paramount were to move its HQ, it would likely happen before Oct. 1, when “Paramount will start accruing a $7-million-per-day ‘ticking fee’ payable to WBD shareholders until the deal closes,” according to Variety. Which state will it be? That’s not clear yet, but presumably it wouldn’t be any of …

Game Over? GameStop CEO May Pull Billion eBay Bid

Game Over? GameStop CEO May Pull $56 Billion eBay Bid

Published by Jenni Sidey

Anyone who took GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen’s bid for eBay seriously should have reconsidered after his CNBC interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin in early May. When Sorkin pressed him on the basic math, Cohen failed to clearly explain how GameStop could finance the $56 billion deal or make the proposed cash-and-stock structure work. The interview raised more questions than it answered and pointed to the inevitable conclusion: the deal was never likely to happen from the start. Here’s the most contentious part of Ryan Cohen’s CNBC Squawk Box interview about the GameStop-EBAY acquisition. This is a HEATED back and forth, uncommon for financial news. $GME Sorkin, at one point is in disbelief at RC’s repetitive answering to his question. pic.twitter.com/MWAbYWStlp — Reese Politics (@ReesePolitics) May 4, 2026 Fast-forward to Monday morning, when a new Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter said Cohen is considering withdrawing the $56 billion bid for the online marketplace. However, Cohen is not giving up on a potential partnership with eBay. He is reportedly considering proposing a partnership or …

New Business Insider CEO focused on monetising off-platform audience

New Business Insider CEO focused on monetising off-platform audience

Published by Sam Flores

Business Insider CEO Christian Baesler. Picture: Axel Springer Business Insider is set to begin monetising its non-website audience, which new CEO Christian Baesler said has not been done “in any meaningful way so far”. Baesler, who has been leading Business Insider on an interim basis since June and has now been appointed permanently, said the brand is entering its “next phase”, which is also centred on the “need to become essential for a number of professional niches”. He is bringing social media expertise from five years as president and CEO of former Hot Ones producer Complex and then just over a year as chief operating officer at Buzzfeed after its 2022 takeover. Visits to the Business Insider website in the US more than halved in the past two years to 30.9 million in June. Ten people were laid off in May at Axel Springer-owned Business Insider, its fourth round of layoffs in four years, as the newsroom scaled back in some coverage areas and refocused on others. Baesler told Press Gazette: “Historically, Business Insider has …

Kalshi CEO says New York rejected B tax proposal amid crackdown

Kalshi CEO says New York rejected $10B tax proposal amid crackdown

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Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour is escalating his company’s fight with New York, saying officials turned down a tax proposal that he estimates could bring the state nearly $10 billion over five years. Speaking Monday (August 3) on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Mansour said the prediction-market operator had tried to address concerns about tax revenue and consumer protections rather than leave New York. “We put out a proposal in front of the governor” that would establish “some sort of taxation on the prediction market industry,” Mansour said, according to a transcript of the interview provided for this article. He said the proposal could raise “close to $10 billion over the next five years.” That nearly $10 billion figure comes from Kalshi and has not been independently substantiated. Mansour said the money could help fund schools and health care. Tarek Mansour says Governor Hochul is choosing "special interests" over New Yorkers. Kalshi proposed a framework that would generate nearly $10 BILLION in tax revenue for New York over the next five years. Instead of letting New Yorkers benefit, …

After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’

After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises. The CEO, who famously studied philosophy and earned a PhD in social theory, implied in Palantir’s quarterly shareholder letter that these were the kinds of capitalists who gave rise to Marxist socialism. “There are Marxist overtones and undertones to our business,” he wrote in a letter to shareholders about Palantir’s outstanding quarter. “Others, including many of those building large language models, intend, knowingly or otherwise, to capture the means of production of their purported partners.” To be clear, AI labs have hardly cornered Palantir out of the market. Quite the opposite. The skyrocketing use of AI helped Palantir achieve record-breaking results. For its second quarter, the company reported $1.9 billion in revenue, up 93% over the year-ago quarter, and $1.1 billion in profit, “more profit in a single quarter than we did in total revenue in the same period the year before,” he wrote. During the quarterly conference call with Wall Street analysts, he explained his analogy …

Snap CEO sidesteps Specs preorder questions on Q2 earnings call

Snap CEO sidesteps Specs preorder questions on Q2 earnings call

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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel sidestepped investors’ questions about preorder demand for the company’s long-awaited Specs smart glasses during Monday’s earnings call, just weeks before the device’s September launch event. “What we’re hearing from folks is really that they want to try Specs,” Spiegel told investors. “It’s obviously a high consideration purchase at $2,195. Obviously, developers and folks who are familiar with the platform really understand it and understand the technical leaps we’ve made with this generation. I think for the broader public and consumers, it’s going to be really important for folks to go hands-on. Our upcoming launch event will be an important sort of starting point for that consumer-oriented journey.” The company unveiled Specs in June after spending more than a decade developing the device. The wearable’s $2,195 price tag is significantly higher than most Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, which start at around $350, but lower than Apple’s Vision Pro, which starts at $3,500. Investors also pressed Spiegel on why he believes Snap’s strategy is financially viable for a company of its size, why …

Apple’s Next CEO Adds Retired Hardware Executive to His Team

Apple’s Next CEO Adds Retired Hardware Executive to His Team

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Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus is rehiring Laura Legros, a former vice president of hardware engineering who retired from Apple in 2022, reports Bloomberg. Legros previously managed product delivery, development schedules, and coordination across engineering teams. Under Ternus, she will work across different parts of the company, and report directly to him. According to Bloomberg, Legros was one of Ternus’ most trusted deputies before she retired. She has presented at past Apple events, introducing the 2018 MacBook Air and the 2020 iPad Air. As he prepares to take over, Ternus has been shadowing current CEO Tim Cook and leading executive meetings. He has met with company leaders to work on product plans, and has been spending time with Apple’s design teams. Ternus will take over as Apple CEO on September 1. Cook will remain at Apple as executive chairman to engage with policymakers around the world. Popular Stories iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra: Pre-Orders and Release Date Apple has yet to reveal when the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra will be announced and …