Hulu's first Oscars stream locked out viewers as the show went live
Hulu streamed the Academy Awards for the first time in 2025; login failures hit tens of thousands of subscribers as the broadcast started.
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2,000 VERÖFFENTLICHTE FÄLLE · REGELMÄSSIG AKTUALISIERTGundlach Bundschu's debt-funded 2020 deal ended in Chapter 11 with $37M of debt
The 1858 Sonoma winery borrowed for a 2020 acquisition, hit the pandemic and a weaker wine market, and filed Chapter 11 in September 2026.
Fall lesenGoogle banned Terraria's developer account, and Re-Logic cancelled its Stadia port
A vague YouTube violation led Google to disable Re-Logic's whole account for three weeks, and developer Andrew Spinks cancelled Terraria for Stadia.
Fall lesenGala and Molyneux's 22cans sold $54M of Legacy NFTs; the game was abandoned within weeks
Players say Legacy's 'play to earn' economy was broken by design and emptied within weeks of its 2023 launch, after NFT sales had already paid for it.
Fall lesenFast Fired franchisees say Carbone promised big sales, then gave little support
CBC found franchisees who lost savings, a gas-station deal that didn't exist and lawsuits, while Fast Fired kept selling franchises through 2023.
Fall lesenExperience Regina launched rebrand slogans that rhymed with a body part, then pulled them
Regina's tourism agency released slogans with lewd wordplay on the city's name; a review blamed a junior staffer and weak oversight, at C$120K+ in costs.
Fall lesenDeliveroo quit Australia overnight, ending service for 12,000 restaurants, 15,000 riders
After falling to fourth place behind Uber Eats, Menulog and DoorDash, Deliveroo put its Australian arm into administration and stopped orders at once.
Fall lesenCities: Skylines 2 shipped after its makers admitted it missed its performance target
Paradox warned a week before launch that Cities: Skylines 2 missed its performance target, then shipped on 24 October 2023 into poor reviews of its speed.
Fall lesenA Capgemini engineer's one-character edit leaked Razer data; court awarded $6.5M
A '#' added to a config file while fixing a Kibana log-in left Razer's server open; Singapore's High Court found Capgemini negligent and awarded US$6.5M.
Fall lesenCanopy Growth spent $366M on BioSteel, then cut it off into creditor protection
Canopy bought the sports drink brand in 2019 to diversify into beverages; by September 2023 it had stopped funding it and BioSteel sought CCAA protection.
Fall lesenBoosted spread across six models and 30 countries, took venture debt, and went bust
The electric-skateboard maker raised ~$80M, expanded fast, borrowed $18.5M against every asset, and lost control of its cash before its 2020 foreclosure.
Fall lesenBlizzard shipped Warcraft III: Reforged unfinished because it had already taken pre-orders
Bloomberg found Reforged was rescoped by budget cuts and infighting, then released on 28 January 2020 missing promised features and scoring 59 on Metacritic.
Fall lesenAhold Delhaize sold FreshDirect within three years of buying it (interview)
In a Fortune interview, Ahold Delhaize's CEO says the 2020 FreshDirect purchase taught it that stores-plus-online beats next-day delivery.
Fall lesenRedMango's botched Selfcare migration left millions of BSNL users stranded
The vendor invoiced BSNL without hitting milestones as 6 million users were due to migrate; only ~500,000 moved and OTP logins queued after the old app died.
Fall lesenA UK distributor hid override switches in e-bikes to beat the 15.5mph limit — recall
BR Ebikes modified China-made Eskuta SX-250 e-bikes with concealed seat-side switches to hit 20mph; trading standards forced a full recall.
Fall lesenA tool left in an A330neo tailplane froze deliveries and now reaches the fleet
FOD found in a pre-delivery check halted A330neo handovers for two months; A330neos delivered since January 2021 may need tailplane inspections.
Fall lesenMAS fined UOB S$900K and Credit Suisse S$700K over 1MDB-linked AML lapses
Singapore's 2017 1MDB review fined UOB S$900K and Credit Suisse S$700K for due diligence and monitoring failures, and banned convicted bankers for life.
Fall lesenUncle Nearest, America's most awarded new whiskey, slid into forced liquidation
Court filings put Uncle Nearest into receivership over ~$108M in defaults, exposed a hidden $20M Jay-Z loan, and forced Chapter 7 liquidation by September 2026.
Fall lesenMalaysia's SC fined RHB Investment Bank RM900,000, its highest-ever hit on a financier
RHB IB skipped due diligence on 7 client accounts and missed suspicious transactions in 5 — the SC's largest fine on a financial institution.
Fall lesenReliance Communications' auction spectrum terminated over dues and missed roll-outs
DoT pulled the spectrum RCom held from the 2010-2016 auctions after unpaid usage charges, liquidated damages and unmet roll-out obligations.
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