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Meta says it will continue to operate and sell the Manus service, and Manus' talent will join Meta to deliver agents across Meta products, including Meta AI (Meta)
https://www.facebook.com/business/news/manus-joins-meta-accelerating-ai-in…

Manus Joins Meta: Accelerating AI Innovation for Businesses
We are excited to announce that Manus is joining Meta to bring a leading agent to billions of people and unlock opportunities for businesses across our products.

UK sugar tax to be extended to more soft drinks and milkshakes https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2025/nov/25/sterling-volatility-the-budget-rachel-reeves-german-economy-stagnating-…

Sling TV will pay $530K to settle a California suit accusing it of misleading users who didn't want to sell their data and having inadequate child privacy tools (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Sling TV First to Settle California Data Privacy Lawsuit Amid Sweep of Streaming Services
The lawsuit accused Sling TV of misdirecting consumers looking to stop the sale of their personal information

New Zealand owner's (Transfer)Wise business and personal accounts closed after a change in business address. No worthy explanation given, no paths for remedy.
https://shaun.nz/why-were-never-using-wise-again-a-cautionary-tale-from-a-business-bur…

Data breach at Korean Air leaks 30,000 employee records
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-12-29/business/industry/Data-breach-at-Korean-Air-leaks-30000-employee-records/2488168

Data breach at Korean Air leaks 30,000 employee records
A data breach involving the personal information of Korean Air employees was recently reported — the second such incident in the airline industry following a similar case at Asiana Airlines last week.

Here's my BEST ALBUMS OF 2025:
https://bzangygroink.co.uk/archives/2025/12/31/albums-of-the-year-2025/
And here's my other lists going back back to 2004:

Albums Of The Year 2025
Well, another absolute fucker of a year, wasn’t it? I retreated a lot this year, into comfort eating, into old Stargate and definitely into music. This list originally had 92 albums on it. It…

Meta says Manus, initially based in Beijing and Wuhan, will cut Chinese investor ties after the deal and "will discontinue its services and operations in China" (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Meta says AI startup Manus to cut China ties after acquisition
US tech giant says Manus will maintain current operations as it is integrated into Meta platforms

Among media stocks in 2025, WBD surged 172%, Fox jumped 47.3%, Paramount Skydance rose 29%, Netflix was up just 5.7%, and Disney was up 2.25%; Comcast fell ~20% (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Hollywood Stocks in 2025: Winners, Losers and Surprises
The M&A-boosted Warner Bros. Discovery, as well as Sphere Entertainment, Fox, and Imax were among the gainers, while Netflix moved little, and some cinema operators declined over the past year.

SEC filing: Snowflake says an executive shared unauthorized financial guidance with an Instagram influencer; an Oct. 26 video interview features CRO Mike Gannon (Alice Tecotzky/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/influencer-inte…

An influencer's interview with Snowflake's CRO triggered an 8K filing
Mike Gannon said that Snowflake will end the year with just over $4.5 billion in revenue and that "we're getting to $10 billion in a couple of years."

Shares of Shenzhen-based OneRobotics opened flat in their HK debut after the Chinese home robotics maker raised $210M by selling 22M shares at about $9.50 each (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/markets/ipo/amazo…

Amazon supplier of household robots shares open flat on trading debut
OneRobotics raises $210mn to expand global market presence