Swatch Targeted by Activist Investor
An American investor is challenging the Hayek family’s leadership, attempting to gain a board seat at Swatch Group amid declining performance.
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Explainer: Making Sense of Art Basel’s New Qatar Fair
The world’s largest organiser of art fairs will launch its fifth annual event in Doha in February 2026. What does it mean for Art Basel, Qatar and the evolution of an art market desperate for growth opportunities after more than two years of shrinking sales?
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BoF Masterclass | How Brands Build Genuine Communities
Join us for a BoF Professional Masterclass that explores the topic in our latest Case Study, “How Brands Build Genuine Communities.”
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Uber Freight bets big on AI tools to grow its business
Three years ago, as the pandemic caused chaos for companies big and small, Colgate-Palmolive’s chief supply chain officer Luciano Sieber orchestrated a “logistics blitz.” The result gave Sieber a better understanding of how Colgate-Palmolive moves its products around the world. But it stuck Sieber with another problem: too much data. About a year ago, Sieber […]
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OpenAI’s Codex is part of a new cohort of agentic coding tools
Last Friday, OpenAI introduced a new coding system called Codex, designed to perform complex programming tasks from natural language commands. Codex moves OpenAI into a new cohort of agentic coding tools that is just beginning to take shape. From GitHub’s early Copilot to contemporary tools like Cursor and Windsurf, most AI coding assistants operate as […]
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In a good sign for consumer internet startups, Creator Ventures raises $45M
“I’ve got a pretty wild story to tell you,” the early YouTube star Caspar Lee says in a TikTok. He goes on to tell the story of how a startup founder slid into his LinkedIn DMs with a pitch about an eco-friendly deodorant called Wild. He ignored the message at first, but his cousin Sasha […]
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Can Gaming Go Glam?
The new makeup brand Godmode, co-founded by the actress Chloë Grace Moretz and the pop star Rina Sawayama, has alter-egos, backstories, highlighters, lip liners and everything but its own video game. Can it hook gamers anyway?
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Gravitee, a platform that helps companies manage APIs, raises $60M
Gravitee, a platform designed to help companies manage their APIs and other digital traffic pipelines, has raised $60 million in a Series C funding round led by Sixth Street Growth with participation from Riverside Acceleration Capital and Albion VC. The new capital, which brings Gravitee’s total raised to just over $125 million, will be used […]
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Nike Lays Off Some Workers in Shakeup of Technology Division
The cuts are the latest in an ongoing move to reset priorities and management seeks to execute on a turnaround strategy.
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The 2025 Playbook for Employer Branding
During a recent LinkedIn Live, BoF’s senior correspondent Sheena Butler-Young and commercial features editorial director Sophie Soar shared insights into how companies can account for a workforce with evolving needs and expectations — from providing perks and services with cross-generational appeal, to navigating return-to-office policies in a new work environment.
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