Barratts: three administrations in five years, and the family kept buying it back
The Bradford shoe chain treated administration as a recurring reset until 2013, when the rescue equity vanished and only a rival's bid for 14 stores remained.
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2,000 已发布案例 · 定期更新微软斥资 4.25 亿美元收购拥有 5.6 万用户的 WebTV——服务从未规模化
微软以 4.25 亿美元收购 WebTV 时，它只有 5.6 万用户；十六年后服务关闭时，用户数从未突破百万。
阅读案例Religare's chair sold stock ahead of the Burman offer — SEBI clawed back ₹1.99 crore
Chairperson Rashmi Saluja sold ₹34.7 crore of Religare shares two days after a takeover dinner; SEBI ordered ₹1.99 crore disgorgement and a ₹40 lakh fine.
阅读案例TRAI在2023年要求Jio和Airtel披露“无限5G”背后的限制
TRAI认定Jio和Airtel没有掠夺性定价，但要求他们明确“无限5G”是有上限的——Airtel设定了每月300GB的商业使用阈值。
阅读案例VyStar shipped a banking platform its QA refused to sign off — 850,000 members paid
VyStar downgraded 135 critical defects to launch its banking platform on time; the app went dark for a month and full features took seven months to return.
阅读案例LightSquared: a $4B 4G network built on a spectrum license the FCC took back
Harbinger bet $4B on a 4G network over satellite spectrum. When the FCC moved to suspend its license, LightSquared filed Chapter 11 four months later.
阅读案例Doctissimo ran health quizzes with no consent and MD5 passwords — CNIL fined it €380K
France's best-known health site quizzed users about cancer and endometriosis without consent, stored passwords in obsolete MD5 and served pages over HTTP.
阅读案例PharmEasy auto-renewed ₹99 memberships without consent — CCPA fined it ₹2 lakh
India's top online pharmacy charged thousands for a ₹99 membership they never knowingly bought, then called it a technical glitch. The regulator didn't buy it.
阅读案例Dukaan replaced 90% of its support staff with AI — then bragged about it publicly
Dukaan's CEO tweeted the layoff like a victory lap. The internet called it tone-deaf, and a paying customer said the bot drove him to cancel.
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亨氏 2000 年推出 EZ Squirt 彩色番茄酱：有绿色、紫色、粉色、橙色、青色和蓝色。到 2006 年就消失了。
阅读案例「怪兽研究」告诉孤儿他们有口吃——有些人再也没有恢复
爱荷华大学的研究人员告诉 12 名孤儿他们的言语有缺陷，而事实上没有。这项研究被压制了。2007 年，受试者赢得了 92.5 万美元。
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印度的资金循环法将 Amway 的标准 MLM 模式定为犯罪：CEO 入狱两个月，执法局后来指控涉案金额达 405 亿卢比。
阅读案例Tiger Woods's Dubai course promised a 2009 opening — his first design never opened at all
A Dh4bn 'world's first Tiger Woods design' with 22 palaces and an Elie Saab hotel: work stopped at three holes in 2009 and no opening was ever announced.
阅读案例HMRC's tax credits overpaid £2.2bn a year — and EDS refunded just £70m
Tax credits launched in 2003 on systems that 'did not work as intended'; overpayments hit £2.2bn a year and contractor EDS repaid just £70m.
阅读案例Mauria Udyog: SEBI cracked a 226-entity pump-and-dump via food orders and flight logs
Five dead stocks were pumped for years with 2.1 crore bulk SMS and employee demats; SEBI's 394-page final order clawed back ₹143.79 crore.
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制片厂在季中终止了其最赚钱喜剧明星的合约，然后看着该剧的收视率在换人后攀升。
阅读案例Nidec's investigation found 850 quality violations — after its accounting scandal
The motor empire built by M&A could not keep its factories honest: 805 unauthorized design and process changes, most of them in three business units.
阅读案例EnQuest's £4bn Kraken bet hit the 2015 crash: $1.1bn loss, 23p rescue, oil-linked coupons
North Sea producer EnQuest leveraged up for its first big development just as Brent halved — then agreed bond coupons payable in cash only above $65 oil.
阅读案例BCCI's ten-year no-rival-league pledge to IPL broadcasters drew a Rs 52.24 crore CCI fine
CCI ruled a clause promising IPL broadcasters no rival T20 league for a decade was abuse of dominance, fining BCCI Rs 52.24 crore.
阅读案例Tata sold its Nexon EV on a 312 km claim. Owners got 200 km — and courts made Tata pay
India's best-selling EV was sold on a lab-test 312 km figure. Owners got ~200 km, Delhi pulled its subsidy, and a court later ordered a full refund.
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