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In Q2, there were thirteen $1B US venture-backed startup exits, either through acquisition or IPO, the most exits since the 2021 market peak (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/public/data-billion-dollar-startup-exits-ma-ipo…

Crunchbase Data: Q2 Brought The Most Billion-Dollar Startup Exits Since 2021
Startup exits valued at $1 billion or more are now more numerous than at any point since the 2021 market peak, Crunchbase data shows. The trend we’re seeing for the second quarter of 2026 includes both the largest venture-backed exit of all time and a bevy of other comparatively tinier but still sizable startup exits through acquisition or IPO.

aldi likes to stack shelves with boxes of 2 or 3 varieties of a thing
which i think is a tactic for offering more products with fewer SKUs?
with the amusing downside when they predict roughly equal popularity across the varieties but get it wildly wrong
eg earlier i was replenishing the cornichons which are stocked in boxes containing jars of herby conichons, spicy cornichons, and crinkle-cut pickle slices
however what was left was about 100 jars of crinkle cut pickle…

Sony's Crunchyroll partners with Starz for a streaming bundle offered through Prime Video for $16.99/month, a 23% discount to subscribing to both separately (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Crunchyroll Pacts With Starz for Streaming Bundle
Viewers will be able to subscribe via Prime Video to both digital platforms for $16.99 a month.

Newsmax host on Trump's image being used on US currency: "Well, the UK does it with King Charles" | Media Matters for America
https://www.mediamatters.org/greg-kelly/newsmax-host-trumps-image-being-used-us-currency-well-uk-does-it-king-charles

„Sorry, Sandy“ – John Carmack bedauert das Ende des „Quake”-Teams
Nachdem 1996 der erste echte 3D-Shooter erschien, verließen zahlreiche Entwickler id Software. Einer der letzten Streits von damals ist nun beigelegt.

„Sorry, Sandy“ – John Carmack bedauert das Ende des „Quake”-Teams
Nachdem 1996 der erste echte 3D-Shooter erschien, verließen zahlreiche Entwickler id Software. Einer der letzten Streits von damals ist nun beigelegt.

#doku „Ich dachte, ich sterbe“: Die Brüder Valentin und Ferdinand feierten in der Unglücksnacht von Crans-Montana die Silvesternacht 2026. Beide überlebten, wenn auch körperlich und seelisch schwer gezeichnet.

Crans-Montana – Leben nach dem Feuer - Crans-Montana - Leben nach dem Feuer - hier anschauen
Der Brand in Crans-Montana gehört zu den schwersten Feuer-Katastrophen der Schweiz. Die Weltspiegel Doku begleitet Valentin und Ferdinand. Sie überleben die Silvesterparty in der Bar 'Le Constellation', als Sprühfontänen auf Champagnerflaschen ein...

Freehand, which builds AI agents to manage supply chain spend and operations for Fortune 500 companies, raised a $75M Series B, after a $25M Series A in 2024 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/transportat…

Freehand Raises $75M Series B To Automate Fortune 500 Supply Chain Spend
Freehand has raised $75 million in Series B funding to scale autonomous AI agents that manage supply chain spend and back-office operations for enterprises.

On this day, 29 June 1892,
workers at the Carnegie steel plant in Homestead Pennsylvania were locked out
after workers refused to accept new production demands. 
Andrew Carnegie was determined to break the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel Workers,
in which skilled workers at the plant were organised.
His plant manager, Henry Clay Frick, locked out the union workers,
then sacked them on 2 July.
The non-union, so-called "unskilled" wor…

Film director Carl Erik Rinsch, who was convicted last year of defrauding Netflix of $11M, is sentenced to two and a half years in prison (Madeline Halpert/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy0rrnq317o

Hollywood director Carl Rinsch gets two and half years in prison for defrauding Netflix
He was accused of using money for a Netflix show on lavish purchases like Rolls Royces and Ferraris.

Security- and AI-related startups have raised $855M across more than 150 reported seed-stage rounds this year, on track for an all-time high (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/cybersecurity/seed-trends-ai-security-startup-fund…

AI Seed Investors Flock To Cybersecurity
Startups at the intersection of AI and security have raised $855 million across more than 150 reported seed-stage rounds this year, per Crunchbase data.