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Pre-dawn maintenance on America Online never came back up. The service stayed dark 19 hours — with its own glitch-detection software shut off during the window.
Ler o casoA Sydney fund staked US$93M on two Goldman CDOs after a 'price stability' reassurance, collapsed within months, then fought Goldman for nine years.
Ler o casoTenaris signed for Benteler's Shreveport steel-tube mill, but Benteler terminated the $460M sale after U.S. antitrust scrutiny.
Ler o casoThe three luxury houses spent years dictating what retailers could charge — the Commission called it resale price maintenance and fined them €157M.
Ler o casoOn 27 Feb 1997 Renault announced the closure of Vilvoorde by July, sacking 3,100 workers it had never consulted. A euro-strike and court rulings followed.
Ler o casoGerber Singles was adult food in baby jars. 'Meat mush' did not sell to college students in 1974.
Ler o casoJohn B. Watson conditioned a 9-month-old to fear animals and never undid it. The experiment became a landmark in research ethics — for all the wrong reasons.
Ler o casoFrom ~500 stores to 39. Beijing flagships closed. Members could not redeem benefits. The 'soft discount' model could not pay its rent.
Ler o casoBaghdad Metro's 2024 award to a European-Turkish consortium was scrapped for retender; Iraq's development fund says it launched before the studies were done.
Ler o casoOne big-bang payroll cutover plus a 60% cut to pay advisors left 290,000 federal workers underpaid or unpaid; repairs officially cost $5.1bn.
Ler o casoSEBI's June 2025 order says the TV pundit bought stocks before his own buy calls and sold after they aired; ₹11.37 crore impounded, 12 entities barred.
Ler o casoA midnight outburst got Lu Han's accounts frozen on three platforms — and a ten-year KFC endorsement ended without renewal a year later.
Ler o casoA firmware-bug silent error destroyed a customer's data on Tencent Cloud; contract caps meant the offer was ¥136K against an ¥11M claim.
Ler o casoThe thrift bank declared a bank holiday in April 2012; receivership found a P11B hole, two auctions found no buyers, and uninsured depositors recovered little.
Ler o casoCoteminas retail arm Ammo Varejo touted 1.4 million customers in a 2021 IPO filing; disclosures then ran 13 months late and CVM fined its IR director.
Ler o casoThe consumer watchdog fined the juice challenger and English Oven's maker ₹1 lakh each: front-of-pack '100%' must be literally true — fine print can't save it.
Ler o casoTwo baristas clashed with customers on June 17, 2024. In Feb 2025, staff across China demanded 13th-month pay the company promised but never delivered.
Ler o casoTaiwan's first COVID vaccine was authorized on Phase 2 data; five years later the company is still loss-making and the stock trades near NT$50.
Ler o casoA respected immunologist claimed water remembers molecules that no longer exist. Nature printed it with a warning, then sent a magician to watch the rerun.
Ler o casoA store sold a drink 5 days past expiry. Manager sent a TV clip saying 'expired doesn't mean inedible.' Parent was mid-IPO, ¥51.4B revenue.
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