L&T built Hyderabad Metro on a 2010 PPP bet — 90% stake now offered to government
Fifteen years of cost overruns, thin ridership and state assistance that never came left L&T asking the government to buy out its loss-making metro.
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2,000 已發佈案例 · 定期更新Google scrapped Plex checking accounts, leaving 11 partner banks in the lurch
Google spent two years signing 11 banks and credit unions for Plex accounts, then abandoned the project before launch after delays and its leader's exit
閱讀案例Glovo dodged Spain's Rider Law with an app tweak — three years later it hired 15,000
The delivery platform redesigned its app to make couriers look autonomous, then had to employ about 15,000 of them anyway, paying fines along the way.
閱讀案例GloriFi, the 'anti-woke' neobank, shut down two months after its chaotic launch
Backed by Ken Griffin and Peter Thiel with a $1.7B SPAC pending, the conservative neobank missed launches, feuded with vendors and ran out of money by November
閱讀案例A buggy upgrade took £400,000 in wrong parking charges from Worcester drivers
Flowbird's software upgrade charged Worcester drivers repeatedly for single sessions — 200,000 erroneous payments before the council swapped vendors
閱讀案例FCA restricted DeadHappy's ads after its Harold Shipman life-insurance joke
The Leicester life insurer ran a serial killer's image with 'you never know who your doctor might be'; the FCA imposed prior approval on its promotions.
閱讀案例CPKC's IT consolidation jammed its network — the STB demanded a fix plan
Weeks after CPKC consolidated its US IT systems on 3 May 2025, inventory data broke down, dwell times rose and the STB demanded a remedy plan.
閱讀案例Adobe killed Flash — and a Chinese railroad's dispatching died with it for a day
China Railway Shenyang still ran train planning on Flash in 2021; when Adobe's kill switch flipped, Dalian's railroads reportedly shut for about 20 hours
閱讀案例A late testnet bug in Cardano's Vasil upgrade cut ADA by a fifth
Cardano's Vasil hard-fork rehearsal failed shortly before launch; ADA fell nearly 20% as founder Charles Hoskinson admitted 'a lot of egg on our face'.
閱讀案例Capital One's vendor glitch froze deposits for days over a pay period
A third-party vendor technical issue locked Capital One customers out of deposits and payments from January 15, 2025, hitting the mid-month pay cycle.
閱讀案例Better.com's second mass layoff leaked through early severance payslips
Days before announcing roughly 3,000 cuts, Better.com's severance payslips appeared in payroll; execs deleted some and said nothing until a CFO email.
閱讀案例AWS DNS failure took down Snapchat, banks and 1,000+ sites for most of a day
A DynamoDB API DNS resolution failure in US-EAST-1 cascaded worldwide — 11 million outage reports before Amazon throttled its own systems to recover.
閱讀案例FTC settled with Ascension after 24M mortgage files sat exposed online for a year
The Texas analytics firm's OCR vendor left mortgage records with Social Security numbers open to the internet; 60,000-plus Americans affected, no penalty
閱讀案例Yieldstreet investors lost $208M as the firm scrubbed its record and rebranded
Now Willow Wealth, Yieldstreet disclosed $41M more real estate defaults and pulled a decade of performance data from public view as investor losses hit $208M.
閱讀案例Victoria Cruises Line sold a 3-year residential cruise that never sailed — refunds stalled
VCL advertised cabins at US$3,840 a month for a 115-country voyage, collected deposits, and had no lease on the advertised ship, the BBC found.
閱讀案例Via's 24-axle trains fell short of CN's 32-axle crossing test — $31M in vouchers
CN's crossing speed limits — imposed over Via's 24-axle Venture trains — produced record delays and $31M in vouchers, 7% of Via's 2024 revenue.
閱讀案例Verijet sold jet cards to fund its expansion — then liquidated owing cardholders $10.5M
The jet charter that became America's 13th-largest private operator filed Chapter 7 with $38.7M in liabilities and $10.5M of unused customer deposits
閱讀案例Twitter Spaces crashed during DeSantis' 2024 campaign launch and lost half the room
Ron DeSantis announced his 2024 run on Twitter Spaces in May 2023; the stream broke for nearly 30 minutes and more than half the audience left before he spoke.
閱讀案例Twitter shelved OnlyFans-style subscriptions over child-safety detection gaps
Twitter's adult-creator subscription plan was shelved in May 2022 after an internal Red Team found it could not detect child sexual exploitation at scale.
閱讀案例TransPennine Express lost its franchise after Britain's worst cancellation rate
FirstGroup's TransPennine Express had a quarter of its trains cancelled in early 2023; the government refused to renew the contract and nationalised the service
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