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Global Coffee Co. will aim to be the best coffee company in the world by combining global reach with local expertise to operate across all formats, segments, channels and price points.

ERA has structured its recruitment model around four growth pathways; increasing existing agent productivity, recruiting outside agents, adding ancillary revenue streams, such as mortgage and title, and pursuing M&A. The approach has found traction among brokers who view the brand as a vehicle for expansion rather than a simple flag-planting exercise.

Reports suggest that Stripe is considering a PayPal acquisition, although negotiations on the subject are in early stages with no guarantee of going through.

GameStop ended Q4 with $9.01 billion in total cash, equivalents, and marketable securities, nearly double the $4.77 billion held a year prior. That buildup was funded by $4.2 billion in zero-coupon convertible notes issued during fiscal 2025.

USAC closed 2025 with a record adjusted EBITDA of $613.8 million and a distributable cash flow of $385.7 million, indicating strong financial performance despite high debt levels.

The acquisition of JK Monarch by Trumark Homes signifies a strategic expansion for Daiwa House, enhancing its U.S. homebuilding platform across the busiest construction corridors.

Open World announced its acquisition of Drope.me, an influencer marketing platform that connects game developers with content creators. The purpose of the acquisition was to help Open World scale up its marketing tools for game makers interested in reaching creators' audiences.

It helped redefine modern craft beer through bold innovation, fearless creativity and an unwavering commitment to great beer. As we begin a new chapter for this great brand, our priority is to refocus BrewDog on the craft beer excellence that made it beloved in the first place and strategically invest to return the operations to profitable growth.

Cal AI is the AI calorie counting app startup built by two high school teenagers that soared to over 15 million downloads and over $30 million in annual revenue in under two years, MyFitnessPal tells TechCrunch.

From day one, our mission was simple: make it easy and reliable to build in prediction markets. There's no better place to push that mission forward than Polymarket.

InterContinental Hotels Group, owner of Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, and Hotel Indigo, reported robust revenue and profit growth for 2025, driven by a record hotel rollout and strategic acquisitions. The group opened 443 new hotels over the past year - adding more than 65,000 rooms - and completed its acquisition of the European hotel brand Ruby. Financially, IHG posted total revenue of $5.19 billion (£3.8 billion), up 5% from 2024, while operating profits rose 15% to $1.2 billion (£880 million).

Cenlar has a subservicing platform with $740 billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB) and 2 million loans across 100 clients, generating about $460 million in revenue in 2025. But $307 billion in UPB will not transition to Pennymac because some clients mainly UWM are bringing their subservicing activities in house. Pennymac tied part of the acquisition cost $85 million in contingent consideration payable over three years to client retention.

Palo Alto Networks has officially completed its $25 billion acquisition of CyberArk. Identity security will now become a core pillar of Palo Alto's platform offering. The deal, announced in July 2025, was completed faster than expected due to German approval. The acquisition adds more than 10,000 CyberArk customers to Palo Alto's customer base. These organizations use the platform for identity security, with a focus on Privileged Access Management. The offering focuses on securing human, machine, and AI identities.

Orna is developing a new treatment that uses circular RNA and specialized lipid particles to prompt a patient's own body to produce the cell therapies needed to fight disease. The technology has the potential to "unlock an entirely new class of genetic medicines and cell therapies for patients who today have limited or no treatment options," said Francisco Ramírez-Valle, senior vice president and head of Immunology Research and Early Clinical Development at Eli Lilly, in a statement.

To understand the strategy at work here, you likely need only look at your recent phone calls and text messages. Mobile channels are a mess. As a result, many consumers refuse to answer calls from numbers not listed in their contact list. This poses a significant problem for organizations across industries, including financial services, healthcare and the public sector, which often need to use the phone to reach people and relay critical information.