TonyBet's 'I made $8,500 last month' single-mum ad pulled by ASAI
TonyBet's YouTube ad opened on a mother too broke for rent, then 'I made $8,500 last month' from betting. ASAI ruled it sold gambling as a way out of trouble.
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3,222 CAS PUBLIÉS · MIS À JOUR RÉGULIÈREMENTOne solenoid in the battery pack could silently cut a Tesla's drive power
A defective contactor in the high-voltage path could cause a sudden loss of drive power, prompting a recall of 12,963 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles.
Lire le casMeta offered EU users only a binary 'consent or pay' choice — €200M DMA fine
The EU fined Meta €200 million because its ad-free-subscription alternative gave users no genuine less-data option, breaching the DMA.
Lire le casTwitter reused 2FA phone numbers for ads — a $150M FTC penalty
Twitter told users their phone numbers secured their accounts — then matched them to advertisers. The FTC made it pay $150M.
Lire le casIntel's €1.06B EU fine collapsed — then came back at a fraction of the size
The EU fined Intel €1.06B for abusing dominance in x86 chips; appeals shrank it to €237M.
Lire le casSmucker wrote its Hostess goodwill down to zero within two years of the $5.6B deal
J.M. Smucker paid $5.6B for Hostess in 2023, then wrote off ~$1B in FY2025 and $962M in FY2026, wiping the goodwill to zero.
Lire le casAP Aibi sold ¥4,279 Korean luxury into a market that reads it as cheap
Amorepacific's premium AP Aibi opened its first mainland store in July 2024; by November 2025 all channels were closed after a best-seller sold 50 units.
Lire le casXiaoe sold livestream rooms with no health-ad filter — ¥360,000 and a rectification order
Xiaoe sold private-domain livestream tools from ¥12,800 a year but filtered nothing for food or health claims, so streamers sold ordinary food as medicine.
Lire le casThree Korean carriers ran a 'situation room' to carve up the porting market — ₩96.3B fine
SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus coordinated for seven years to keep their shares of the number-porting market stable. Korea's KFTC fined the three ₩96.3 billion.
Lire le casFairwood launched Taiwanese brand One Bowl Minced Pork; all 4 stores closed by 2026
Listed fast-food group Fairwood built sub-brand One Bowl Minced Pork to 4 stores, then shuttered every one by Jan 2026.
Lire le casFeiyu staged a luxury-bag flash sale — then faked the result to deny the winner
A secondhand-luxury livestreamer faked a flash-sale result to cancel the only winning order — fined ¥200,000 in Shanghai's first such enforcement.
Lire le casProject Lobster raised €3.5M and never turned a profit — liquidated in 2026
Project Lobster raised €3.5M across three rounds, never reached profitability, filed for bankruptcy in Nov 2025 — Ace & Tate took five of its seven stores.
Lire le casDaishin Koki, a 53-year-old eyeglass frame maker, went under as production moved overseas
Sabae's Daishin Koki, an eyeglass frame maker founded in 1973, was ordered into bankruptcy on 2 February 2026 with about ¥50M in liabilities.
Lire le casCharul grew used luxury watch sales to ¥1.4B — then back taxes sank it
Saitama's Charul, a used luxury watch and brand goods retailer that reached ¥1.4B in sales, was ordered into bankruptcy on 18 February 2026.
Lire le casUNEVEN, a menswear select shop, went under as the yen priced out its imports
A Nagoya menswear select shop stocking foreign brands went bankrupt in January 2026 as the weak yen and cross-border rivals hollowed out its market.
Lire le casHiratsuka, a 53-year-old bag maker, went under as its market shrank
Miyagi's Hiratsuka, a women's handbag maker-retailer founded in 1973, was ordered into bankruptcy on 17 April 2026 as sales fell to a 17th of their peak.
Lire le casAdolf Riedl, a 78-year-old German swimwear maker, filed for insolvency
Nov 2025: the 78-year-old Bayreuth swimwear maker behind Sunflair and Olympia filed for insolvency as discount competition and costs squeezed mid-size fashion.
Lire le casNike scheduled a sneaker drop for 7/11 in 7-Eleven's own colours — and got sued for it
Nike's Air Max 95 launched July 11, 2026 in orange-green-red stripes matching 7-Eleven's 60-year-old tri-color mark — 7-Eleven sued for trademark infringement.
Lire le casZara's China stores fell from 183 to 60 — a local rival ate its market
Zara peaked at 183 mainland stores in 2018. By March 2026 it had about 60, while domestic rival UR passed 400 stores and opened 30+ more in 2025 alone.
Lire le casGalactic Energy's Ceres-1 fourth stage shut down early, losing three satellites
A premature fourth-stage shutdown on Ceres-1 Y19 ended Galactic Energy's long run of consecutive orbital successes.
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