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Business Quincey to become executive chairman of the Atlanta beverage giant. Coca-Cola Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Henrique Braun will become chief executive on March 31. (Courtesy of Coca-Cola) link copied *]:pointer-events-none [&.is-paywalled>*]:blur-[7px] ” data-start=”0″ data-end=”2″ data-size=”2″ readability=”10″> Coca-Cola has named a successor to CEO James Quincey who will take the reins of…

In brief Elon Musk said early DOGE audits uncovered $100 billion to $200 billion in annual “zombie payments.” He described internal resistance to the effort and said he would not reprise the role. The interview also covered immigration, AI, SpaceX, and his views on faith and daily work. Elon Musk claimed that audits conducted under…

The billionaire and author MacKenzie Scott revealed $7.1 billion in donations to nonprofits Tuesday, bringing her overall giving since 2019 to $26.3 billion. Scott first pledged to give away the majority of her wealth in 2019 after her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Since, she’s distributed large, unrestricted gifts to nonprofits without asking for…

President Donald Trump inserted himself directly into the battle for control of Warner Bros. Discovery on Wednesday, saying, “It’s imperative that CNN be sold,” while deriding the network’s news coverage. Trump’s comments during a White House roundtable indicated that he favors Paramount’s hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, WBD for short — though he…

Just a few weeks ago, David Zaslav was offered a co-CEO gig by David Ellison in a Paramount-owned Warner Bros Discovery. Then Netflix swooped in and sealed an $83B deal for WB’s streaming and studio holdings before Ellison came roaring back with a $108 billion hostile tender offer for all of WBD, possibly triggering a…

“We are humbled to have been a part of India’s digital transformation journey over the past 15 years, with Amazon’s growth in India perfectly aligned with the vision of an Atmanirbhar and Viksit Bharat,” says Amit Agarwal, Senior VP Emerging Markets, Amazon. “We have invested at scale in growing the physical and digital infrastructure for…

Topline President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized the Federal Reserve, arguing the central bank’s latest reduction in interest rates could have been doubled, while calling Fed Chair Jerome Powell a “stiff.” Key Facts The Federal Open Market Committee voted 9-3 in favor of lowering interest rates by a quarter-point to between 3.5% and 3.75%, down…

David Ellison is taking his case directly to the WBD shareholders — David Zaslav doesn’t seem to be listening any longer. On Wednesday, Ellison sent a lengthy letter to Warner Bros. Discovery stockholders stating the case for why his Paramount Skydance would be the best buyer, not Netflix. His call to action was for WBD…

News As part of the tentative agreement, the utility agreed to put ‘downward pressure’ on rates, but lower bills from customers are not guaranteed. Georgia Power’s Plant Bowen in Cartersville is shown. The utility wants to add about 10,000 megawatts of power supplies in just five years, mainly to serve data centers. (Hyosyb Shin/AJC 2015)…

At the Fed’s press conference, Fed Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged that many consumers are struggling with higher inflation. “We hear loud and clear” the concerns about affordability, Powell said. But what Powell and the Fed can do about affordability is a different story. “There’s actually not much they can do about that,” Apollo chief economist…

AP  —  The fiancée of a man who died on a cruise ship has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Royal Caribbean, alleging it negligently served him at least 33 alcoholic drinks and was liable for his death after crew members tackled him to the ground and stood on him with their full body weight….

This is a comparison of Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee statement with the one issued after the Fed’s previous policymaking meeting in October. Text removed from the October statement is in red with a horizontal line through the middle. Text appearing for the first time in the new statement is in red and underlined. Black text appears in both statements….

Donald Trump weighed in again on the potential sale of Warner Bros. Discovery, this time by saying that he opposes any plan in which the company continues to own CNN. Trump told reporters Wednesday that there were “some good companies bidding on it.” “I think the people that have run CNN for the last, long…

David Ellison, the CEO of Paramount Skydance who has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, is urging WBD shareholders to tender their shares and “register their view with the WBD board of directors that they prefer the superior Paramount transaction,” the company said. Paramount sent a letter from Ellison Wednesday addressed to…

In this article KO Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Henrique Braun to become the next CEO of The Coca-Cola Company. Courtesy: The Coca-Cola Company Coca-Cola Chief Operating Officer Henrique Braun will succeed James Quincey as CEO next year, the company said Wednesday, as Coke and its rivals navigate tepid consumer demand for soft drinks….

LOADINGERROR LOADING “The Late Show” audience erupted in cheers on Tuesday — and even chanted Stephen Colbert’s name — after the host delivered a pointed line about Paramount Skydance’s hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount launched its $108 billion offer this week, days after Warner announced plans to sell to Netflix in an…

It’s official—we finally have a total figure for MacKenzie Scott’s donations this year: an eye-popping $7.2 billion. That brings the billionaire philanthropist’s total gifts since 2020 to $26 billion and more than 2,700 gifts. This squarely places Scott among the most generous philanthropists, alongside fellow billionaires Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett—all of…

Mega billionaire Elon Musk, in a friendly interview with his aide and conservative influencer Katie Miller, said his efforts leading the Department of Government Efficiency were only “somewhat successful” and he would not do it over again. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, who also owns the social media platform X, still broadly defended President Donald…

Some have questioned how much thought was put into the policy, as the US confusingly continues restricting less advanced AI chips (like the A100 and H100) while green-lighting H200 sales. Trump’s Justice Department also seems to be struggling to keep up. The NYT noted that just “hours before” Trump announced the policy change, the DOJ…

It’s probably not going to be like last time. Back in September, when Oracle reported that its AI-related sales backlog had more than quadrupled to $455 billion — largely due to deals with OpenAI — the stock exploded, rising more than 20%, creating billions in wealth within minutes. The celebration lasted into the next day,…

YouTube TV says it will begin offering cheaper, more targeted packages of programming starting early next year. YouTube TV Plans, a collection of 10 different packages, are designed to offer “more choice and flexibility to our subscribers,” the company said Wednesday in a blog post. Individual plans can be combined, allowing heavy viewers of sports…

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer testifies during a US Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing on 2026 funding priorities, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, Dec. 9, 2025. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday that the deadline…

The US Food and Drug Administration is looking into whether deaths “across multiple age groups” have been related to Covid-19 vaccines, a spokesperson said Tuesday, weeks after a senior agency official claimed — without offering evidence – that Covid-19 vaccinations resulted in the deaths of 10 children. Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for the US Department…

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BANGKOK (AP) — Paramount Skydance says the Chinese gaming and social media giant Tencent Holdings withdrew from its bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery to avert a possible national security review. Paramount’s revised filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of its takeover bid said the Chinese company had dropped its $1 billion financing…

Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — SpaceX is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering that would seek to raise significantly more than $30 billion, people familiar with the matter said, in a transaction that would make it the biggest listing of all time. The Elon Musk-led company is targeting a valuation of about $1.5 trillion…

Elon Musk says he would not lead the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) if he had his time again, but has maintained that its tumultuous efforts to shrink the size of the US government under President Donald Trump was “a little bit successful”. The billionaire boss of Tesla and SpaceX gave his reflections during a…

In this article WMT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Construction company Alquist 3D worked with Walmart last year to build a nearly 8,000-square-foot 3D printed addition to its store in Athens, Tennessee. Alquist A version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Property Play newsletter with Diana Olick. Property Play covers new and…

McDonald’s Netherlands has taken down a Christmas advert made with Artificial Intelligence (AI) following online backlash. The 45-second advert was produced with generative AI clips and released publicly on McDonald’s Netherlands YouTube channel on 6 December. Viewers on social media denounced the use of AI in the film, with one commenter calling it “the most…

Thrive Market headquarters at Fast Company Creativity Counter-Conference in Los Angeles. Araya Doheny | Getty Images Thrive Market is officially going dry. The online health and grocery marketplace will become the first major online grocer to remove all alcohol products when it takes them off its subscription service. The company plans to replace the category…

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