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Boeing took a fixed-price deal to convert two 747-8s into the next Air Force One. It has absorbed over $3 billion in losses; first delivery slipped to 2028.
Lire le casThe tailor that dressed Churchill entered administration a week after a debt fund bought its loans; by June all 120 shops were gone and only the brand survived.
Lire le casA 140-year-old watchmaker bought movements from Switzerland, used the 'Glashütte' label, and was sentenced to a penalty that exceeded its entire equity.
Lire le casDHC's CEO Yoshiaki Yoshida posted anti-Korean slurs on the company website in 2020. Korean retailers dropped the brand, and DHC exited Korea in 2021.
Lire le casStan Shih founded Acer in 1976 and handed it to his lieutenants. They missed the smartphone shift; a record NT$13.1B quarterly loss in 2013 brought him back.
Lire le casCareem was founded as a corporate car booking website. The B2B model was limited. The pivot to consumer ride-hailing made it the Middle East's first unicorn.
Lire le casMarc Tessier-Lavigne led Stanford through a golden era. Then an investigation found manipulated images in 5 papers — he resigned within days.
Lire le casXinxuan anchor Zhao Mengche slashed prices without approval during Double 11. The link sold 170,000 units in minutes, costing the company nearly ¥10M.
Lire le casFrance's biggest shoe wholesaler — Kickers, Chevignon, Dim licenses — ran 100% on wholesale. October 2025: receivership. March 2026: sold off, 140 jobs cut.
Lire le casA release broke MobiKwik's wallet UPI limits: users could send more than their balance even with the wrong PIN. A collusive ring drained ₹40 crore in two days.
Lire le casIndonesia's largest crypto exchange lost about $22 million across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron and Polygon in one attack on its internet-connected wallets.
Lire le casA festive clothing collection got an Urdu name and a #BoycottFabindia trend. The company withdrew the ad and insisted the line was never the Diwali one.
Lire le casWikimedia paid for two diverse fiber routes between its data centers. One construction cut killed both links at once.
Lire le casA database failure at Chime's processor Galileo left 5M neobank customers without cards, ATMs or their app for days in October 2019 — mid-fundraise.
Lire le casConflicting remedies clauses let Cerberus walk from its $34.50-a-share buyout of United Rentals, and the seller's suit for specific performance failed.
Lire le casPatanjali promised India's Supreme Court its cure-claim ads would stop. Two apologies were rejected before an eight-month contempt case ended in a warning.
Lire le casDays before the Ashes, Australia's ABC dropped commentator Glenn McGrath over his bet365 campaign — a direct betting deal its rules forbid on-air talent.
Lire le casIn 2006, Facebook launched the News Feed without user consent. Over 700,000 protested. Zuckerberg apologized. The Feed became the core of the platform.
Lire le casA 2010 paper claimed growth collapses above 90% debt and became the citation for austerity. A graduate student found the number was a spreadsheet error.
Lire le casIn 90 days Cotti shut 617 stores, opened 544 — net negative for the first time. Franchisees lost money. High-city franchising was paused.
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