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In Brief Posted: 5:29 PM PDT · July 10, 2026 Image Credits:Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch Phia, the shopping startup co-founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe Gates, and Sophia Kianni, has been accused of a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which may have helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did not…
Restaurant regulars usually notice the signs of trouble well before a location, or even a chain, shuts down. Before the first On the Border bankruptcy, for example, I noticed half-empty restaurants while customers waited because the location we often visited lacked enough staff. The food quality…
Meta’s stock is down more than 7% year to date. The company spent much of this year defending its decision to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into AI infrastructure, and investors who followed the Q1 earnings call on April 29 watched the stock drop another 6% to 7% after the company raised its …
At age 55, some people are still scrambling to fund their 401(k)s. But if you’ve been steadily making contributions and taking advantage of employer matching dollars since your 20s, you may reach your mid-50s with a pretty impressive pile of cash — enough cash that you can conceivably decide …
Being the richest person in world history comes with its own headaches, and Elon Musk has a migraine-sized one when it comes to his legal battles. Tesla is being sued for autopilot crashes, for misleading statements about Robotaxi, and for alleged workplace discrimination. Musk himself was recently …
7:19 AM PDT · July 10, 2026 The EU announced on Friday that Meta must overhaul Facebook’s and Instagram’s addictive design features or face a fine. The tech giant is in breach of the Digital Services Act by focusing on features like infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and highly personalized recommendation algorithms, the European Commission…
Japan will not convey in advance preference on BOJ policy, minister says
In the lead up to the SpaceX IPO, there were dozens of stories about early employees and investors who stood to make millions of dollars for betting on, or working for, Elon Musk. But thanks to Musk’s work with DOGE, his public comments on X, and the infamous gesture he made at Donald Trump’s inauguration…





