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One patch cycle rebooted millions of Windows PCs at once; a latent bug blocked Skype's peer-to-peer self-healing and the network stayed dark for two days.
Leer el casoThe BOTANIST maker hid that its 2022 trademark seller was a president-linked entity; false explanations, deleted data and a broken listing oath followed.
Leer el casoGoldman launched Apple Card four days after its board heard the disputes system wasn't ready. The CFPB's answer: $89M in penalties, redress and a product ban.
Leer el casoL'Oréal paid HK$6.5B for China's 'King of Masks' at its peak. Four years later sales had fallen 90% and L'Oréal wrote down €213M. The brand had simply stopped.
Leer el casoZeki Bulgurcu fronted Smile's car insurance for five years; after a drunk-driving conviction, the insurer ended the partnership with immediate effect.
Leer el casoAfter WWII, Ferrero couldn't afford enough cocoa. He mixed it with local hazelnuts. The spread became a global phenomenon sold in 75 countries.
Leer el casoPhysicist Alan Sokal submitted a nonsensical paper to Social Text. It was published. The hoax exposed the cost of ideological gatekeeping in peer review.
Leer el casoShiseido's IPSA opened its first China custom store in December 2023, closed it in February, then gutted its counter network.
Leer el casoNEOM's 2021 Oxagon was an octagon half-floating on the Red Sea; by 2026 the floating half had no procurement and oversight was set to move to Aramco.
Leer el casoA crew capsule and two rockets to return to the moon, begun in 2005. GAO found no sound business case; the FY2011 budget canceled it with $9bn spent.
Leer el casoSEBI impounded ₹173.14 crore in illegal gains after trades in IEX put options preceded a market-coupling shock.
Leer el casoAfter a second gun video, Nike pulled Morant's Ja 1 a week before launch, Powerade paused its deal, and the NBA suspended him 25 games — about $7.5 million.
Leer el casoNASA sold its flagship telescope on an early date and a low number, then spent two decades replanning as new technology refused to mature on schedule.
Leer el casoSigned in 2014 and undercut that year by $15bn of cheaper Israeli gas, the $2.1bn plant was set to cost Jordan $280m a year — and ended in ICC arbitration.
Leer el casoTwenty-nine contractors split Kagawa's civil-works bids by territory for three years; the JFTC ordered ¥441.77M in surcharges and 20 exclusion orders.
Leer el casoJD's PLUS members discovered they paid ¥247 more for the same phone than non-members, triggering a 'big data price discrimination' backlash
Leer el casoDeyaar's boss approved Dh202m of construction contracts for a firm that paid him; a court sentenced him to 15 years and ordered Dh28.6m repaid
Leer el casoGoogle's hot-swappable modular smartphone promised a $50 phone for the whole world, then died on September 2, 2016 — three years in, with no device ever sold.
Leer el casoIn 1912 an amateur archaeologist unveiled 'Piltdown Man,' hailed as the missing link between apes and humans. It was a planted forgery — exposed only in 1953.
Leer el casoMBK's leveraged buyout left it debt-laden; a March 2025 rehabilitation filing bought time. In July 2026 the court found no funding plan and no buyer.
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