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Chinese Beverage Chains Spread Across the US, Challenging Starbucks’ Dominance

Starbucks opened its first store in China in 1999, when drinking coffee in a Western-style café was still a novel idea to many locals. But in the years since, homegrown coffee and bubble tea brands like Luckin Coffee, Heytea, Chagee, and Mixue have gradually chipped away at Starbucks’ share of the Chinese market. Now, they … Read more

China’s Xi urges Asian nations to keep supply chains stable, work together during ‘turbulent’ times

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with U.S. President Donald Trump on Oct. 30, 2025, in South Korea ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty Images A day after securing a deal for rollback of U.S. tariffs, Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Asia-Pacific countries … Read more

Microsoft, AWS and Google are trying to drastically reduce China’s role in their supply chains

As geopolitical tensions intensify between the U.S. and China, tech giants Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are ramping up efforts to move production of their products and data centers outside of China, Nikkei reported, citing supply chain sources. In particular, Microsoft wants to have up to 80% of the components needed to make its Surface notebooks … Read more

Steph Curry’s VC firm just backed an AI startup that wants to fix food supply chains

Food supply chains are notoriously messy. Orders arrive through different channels, staff spend hours manually entering them into clunky enterprise software systems, and compliance often depends on spreadsheets. For decades, software vendors have tried, with mixed success, to modernize the workflows behind the global movement of perishable goods. Now, a Y Combinator startup called Burnt … Read more

BNB Chain’s New Gold Protocol hit by $2m launch-day hack

AI-driven, self-described “DeFi 3.0” staking protocol The New Gold Protocol, built “with sustainability at its core,” was hacked hours after launch. The hacking took place on Sept. 18, 2025. The hacker exploited two flaws in the design of NGP. The case demonstrates how negligence in protocol design may doom a project from day one. Summary … Read more

Darden Restaurants (DRI): A look at the restaurant chain’s performance in Q1 2026

Shares of Darden Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: DRI) were down over 2% on Friday. The stock has dropped 17% year-to-date. The restaurant operator delivered sales and earnings growth for the first quarter of 2026 and updated its outlook for the full year. The company benefited from positive same-restaurant sales across most of its segments. Here’s a … Read more

Tether halts USDT freeze on legacy chains, adopts ‘unsupported’ status

Tether will no longer freeze USDT on Omni, BCH SLP, Kusama, EOS, Algorand, and other legacy chains. The assets, however, become “unsupported,” entering a financial limbo without official issuance or redemptions. Summary Tether halts its planned USDT freeze on legacy blockchains, including Omni, BCH SLP, Kusama, EOS, and Algorand. Tokens on these networks become “unsupported,” … Read more

MAHA is reshaping Amazon and other consumer packaged goods companies’ supply chains more than tariffs right now

U.S. consumer packaged goods (CPG) giants are racing to get ahead of President Donald Trump’s Make America Healthy Again movement. Looming food regulatory changes and social media-driven consumer behavior changes are reshaping the intricate web of ingredient sourcing, manufacturing and marketing, and shifting supply chains. Keychain, an AI-powered sourcing platform that serves some of the … Read more

Solayer unveils SVM Bridge to connect Solana and SVM chains

Solayer launched SVM Bridge, an interoperability protocol to connect Solana and the Solana Virtual Machine. Summary Solayer unveils SVM Bridge to boost interoperability in the Solana ecosystem SVM Bridge will connect Solana with InfiniSVM and other SVM chains. Network boasts low latency, security, and efficient asset bridging Solana (SOL) ecosystem’s interoperability could soon get a … Read more

This car-repair chain’s revenue skyrocketed 130x in the past five years—and 83% of its workforce doesn’t have a college degree, including its CEO

When Matt Ebert speaks about his car-collision repair shop empire, he does so in a humble way, like his beginnings.  The CEO of Crash Champions, which reported $2.75 billion in revenue last year, came from a small town in Indiana, where earning a college degree was neither a given nor an expectation.  “We didn’t have … Read more

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