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SAP has agreed to pay $480 million to settle a long-running intellectual property and antitrust dispute with Teradata, ending litigation rooted in a 2008 joint venture that collapsed acrimoniously.
Aisha Khoury 
US prediction market Kalshi faces a customer backlash after settling its $54.5m Ayatollah Khamenei contract at pre-death prices, not at $1, following his killing in US-Israeli strikes.
Mitchell Tan 
Lloyd Blankfein, who steered Goldman Sachs through the 2008 crisis, says the world is "due for a kind of reckoning" over opaque private credit markets. For Australia, the warning hits close to home.
Oliver Pemberton 
Fresh data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency shows more than half of Australian employers still have a gender pay gap above 11.2 per cent, with men nearly twice as likely to hold the highest-paid roles.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
Paramount has beaten Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery in a $110B deal, bringing a treasure trove of game studios under new ownership.
Jake Nguyen 
Sony faces a £2 billion antitrust claim in the UK over PlayStation Store pricing, with 12.2 million users potentially entitled to £162 each if the case succeeds.
Darren Ong 
Former Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney is leading a conservative coalition demanding prediction market platforms be regulated as gambling, not federal derivatives.
Aisha Khoury Finnish startup Donut Lab's solid-state battery survived discharge at 100°C in a second VTT test, gaining capacity with heat — but energy density and cycle-life claims remain unverified.
Andrew Marsh 
Early demand signals for Sydney's new airport at Badgerys Creek are promising, but sceptics say the real test begins once flights are in the air.
Oliver Pemberton 
David Ellison says HBO will 'operate with independence' after the $110 billion Warner Bros. deal, but the pressure to justify scale rarely spares prestige brands for long.
Yuki Tamura Paramount CEO David Ellison has confirmed plans to merge Paramount+ and HBO Max into a single streaming service, as part of his $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Darren Ong Zillow posted $2.6 billion in revenue for 2025, up 16%, by pivoting from a listings site to a full transaction platform. But a frozen US housing market and mounting lawsuits complicate the story.
Sophia Vargas 
The US-Israel military campaign against Iran has triggered an energy crisis as QatarEnergy halts LNG output, oil prices surge 13%, and the Strait of Hormuz faces near-closure.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
Litchfield Minerals (ASX: LMS) has identified a 5km copper-zinc corridor and fresh targets at its Oonagalabi project in the NT, but assays and deeper drilling will decide the real story.
Daniel Kovac 
Kaiser Reef has shed its last gold hedge, giving investors full exposure to spot prices as gold trades near record highs above $7,800 an ounce in Australian dollars.
Yuki Tamura 
ASX-listed Patriot Resources has finalised its acquisition of the Tassa Silver-Gold Project in southern Peru, securing a 31.4Moz silver-equivalent resource for under US$1 million in cash.
Tom Whitfield 
BNK Banking Corporation swings to an underlying profit of $1.8m in 1H26, driven by margin expansion and a deliberate retreat from low-return home loans.
Jake Nguyen 
The ASX 200 closed February at a fresh record high of 9,202, but the calm surface conceals brutal sector-level volatility that is reshaping how Australians should think about their portfolios.
Mitchell Tan 
Oliver Curtis served time for insider trading. Now he co-leads a $6 billion AI infrastructure company with a $10 billion debt deal. Not everyone is convinced.
James Callahan MLB is sitting on a viewership crisis dressed up as a media transition. A broken streaming model, a vanishing young audience, and an ESPN divorce are the real story.
Tom Whitfield