GMMTV cut Justin Moir, its new viral star, days after old posts surfaced
The 15-year-old actor had just gone viral off a hit GMMTV series when 2024 TikTok reposts surfaced; the agency ended his contract immediately.
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Jibo raised $73M and a record crowdfund on an $899 'family robot', shipped three years late into a market of $130 smart speakers, and went dark in 2019.
Leer el casoTGN1412 worked in monkeys — in 6 humans it caused catastrophic organ failure
A German biotech's drug seemed safe in monkeys — 6 healthy volunteers received it and within hours suffered catastrophic organ failure. TeGenero went bankrupt.
Leer el casoNamyang Dairy edited its distributors' orders for years — the fine came to ₩12.5bn
Korea's biggest dairy pushed stock nobody had ordered onto 1,849 distributors and made them pay 63% of its promotion staff. A leaked call ended it.
Leer el casoMing burned its treasure fleet — and handed the oceans to Europe
Zheng He's fleet was the largest in history. Confucian officials called it wasteful. The Ming destroyed the ships and banned ocean travel. Europe sailed in.
Leer el casoAtari Jaguar — the '64-bit' console that killed Atari as a hardware maker
Atari launched the Jaguar in 1993 as the first 64-bit console. With only 63 games and a controller nobody liked, it flopped; Atari left the console business.
Leer el casoFXCM lost $225M in a day when the Swiss franc surged — and was banned from US markets
When the Swiss National Bank removed its currency cap, FXCM lost $225M in hours. A $300M bailout saved it, but a fraud charge killed its US business.
Leer el casoCBS paid for Janet Jackson's halftime moment with the FCC's biggest indecency fine
Nine-sixteenths of a second on live TV: a record $550,000 fine, vacated after eight years, and a career that paid anyway.
Leer el casoHackers planted a backdoor in PHP's self-hosted git; the project moved to GitHub
Two commits signed as PHP's creator added an RCE backdoor to php-src. The response: shut git.php.net down and make GitHub the canonical repository.
Leer el casoSculptor Capital fought its own founder, then sold itself for a fraction of its peak value
A hedge fund once worth nearly $50 billion spent years in open war between its founder and CEO, and was sold to a mortgage REIT for under $720 million.
Leer el casoEMI and Warner Music: a $20B music giant died on a missed remedy deadline
EMI and Time Warner scrapped their 50-50 music JV in October 2000 after the European Commission said improved remedies arrived past the formal deadline.
Leer el casoMannings was a big fish in Hong Kong. In mainland China it never scaled — then it left.
A 320-store Hong Kong beauty chain entered the mainland in 2004, peaked at ~200 stores, dwarfed by Watsons' 3,000, never profited, and in 2025 retreated home.
Leer el casoBasicNet bought Woolrich Europe, then told 139 workers to move to Turin or quit
Weeks after the €90M takeover, the new owner ordered Bologna and Milan emptied — resignees would get no benefits. Strikes and political revolt forced a retreat.
Leer el casoCryo Interactive made Dune and Atlantis — a decade later, one flop killed it
Cryo was one of France's oldest game studios, famous for Dune and Atlantis — then Frank Herbert's Dune flopped in 2002 and the company was liquidated.
Leer el casoSloan-Kettering's own study found laetrile slowed mouse tumors — the hospital buried it
America's top cancer hospital tested laetrile to prove it useless; its veteran scientist's mice showed the opposite, so the results were buried for five years.
Leer el caso99 Cents Only Stores was born from a wine clearance that found the magic price point
Dave Gold inherited a liquor store. He priced slow wine at 99 cents to clear inventory — it sold out. He realized 99 cents was magic, and built a $1.6B chain.
Leer el casoSydney's CBD light rail: a $517m mispriced business case grew into a $3.1bn project
NSW signed the $2.1bn light rail PPP with $517m of errors already in the $1.6bn business case; the line cost $3.147bn and opened a year late.
Leer el casoTicketmaster's Eras presale: 3.5M fans, 2M tickets, then the public sale was canceled
Ticketmaster's biggest presale ever melted the site: hours-long queues, 3.5B bot-driven requests, a canceled public sale — then a class action and a DOJ suit.
Leer el casoCNBC Awaaz anchor leaked his stock tips to a broker before air — both banned 5 years
The host of 'Pandya Ka Funda' passed each stock recommendation to a broker guest before air; SEBI proved it with phone records and a five-year ban.
Leer el casoKim Ho-joong's DUI hit-and-run cost him every commercial in a week
Mr. Trot winner signed 10+ ads worth 2B won; a 2024 DUI hit-and-run erased them in a week and ended in a 2.5-year prison term.
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