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Calendar dates are not supposed to matter in efficient markets. Stock prices should reflect a company’s cash flows, as well as sentiment toward macroeconomic variables such as interest rates. The fact that Labor Day is right around the corner shouldn’t matter. Yet for nearly a century, one month has exhibited a noticeably different pattern from…

Southeast Asia’s startup capital market recorded its worst first-half performance in years on Monday, with new data from DealStreetAsia DATA VANTAGE confirming that not a single dedicated regional private equity fund reached final close between January and June 2026 — extending a drought in dedicated regional PE closes that deepened again in the first half…

OpenAI’s ads business is now running at a $1 billion annualised run rate, just six months after launch.

Hackers obtained customer contact and booking-related data from Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands airports, creating new phishing risks for travelers.

Global private startup investment in space and satellite companies reached $20.3 billion in 2026 with four months still remaining in the year — the highest annual total Crunchbase has ever recorded for the sector, according to a Crunchbase sector snapshot Thursday. The milestone is worth understanding precisely: that $20.3 billion covers seed-through-growth-stage rounds raised by…

A ransomware crew that built its reputation on mass file-transfer hacks has pulled off something different this month. Cl0p, the extortion group behind the 2023 MOVEit breach, has spent August 2026 naming Shell, Philips, General Electric, Fiserv and roughly 45 other companies on its dark-web leak site. The common thread isn’t a shared vendor for…

A cybercriminal operating under the alias “TheHatman” is selling roughly 3.6 million employee-directory records allegedly pulled from the Microsoft Azure and Entra ID tenants of nine large companies, according to cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock. The victim list includes McDonald’s, Vodafone, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Kyndryl, HCL Technologies, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Gap Inc., Hexaware…

‘Professor Seo’ Seo Geon-chang (37) has once again written a massive turnaround on the field. Swinging a fierce bat this season, he reached triple-digit hits for the first time in five years since the 2021 season and climbed to ninth place in batting average with a .323 mark, fully reviving himself as the core of…

BUSINESS / ECONOMY China-Kyrgyzstan trade hits $11.7b in Jan-July as ‘new three’ exports, e-commerce expand

Airport group says no payment details were accessed and operations remain unaffected, as it works with authorities to investigate the breach.