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America’s Most Valuable Private Family Businesses 2026
For the first time, Forbes ranks the nation’s most valuable privately owned family businesses —including the companies behind Chick-fil-A, M&M’s and Windex.
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I asked strangers to let me grow flowers in their yards, and 40 people said yes. I turned their kindness into a business.
Marisa Mender-Franklin built a flower business after dozens of neighbors offered free yard space through Facebook.
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Palantir Says SaaS Is Dead
According to Palantir Technologies, “SaaS is dead.” This is especially true for off-the-shelf supply chain software. SaaS is too slow and eliminates differentiation.
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Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism"
Slack messages, interviews with current and former works paint picture of company in turmoil.
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Forbes Top Creators 2026
The Forbes Top Creators 2026 list features Instagrammers, YouTubers, TikToks, and other digital creators who shape content, influence, and social media trends.
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Michael Dell’s Net Worth Surges Up $35 Billion From Dell’s Best Day Ever—Passing Zuckerberg As 6th Richest
Analysts called Dell’s latest earnings “one of the most impressive quarters we’ve seen in our time covering hardware.”
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My father and I started a parking lot clean-up business. It's been 45 years, and my family-run company is still AI-proof.
My dad inspired me to start a small business cleaning parking lots, and I expanded it to multiple states. I call it "America's Simplest Business."
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Read the email Meta is sending to thousands of laid-off employees
Meta emailed thousands of employees notifying them that they'd been laid off. Read the email explaining how the layoffs will work.
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The key detail SpaceX's IPO filing revealed about Elon Musk's debt
SpaceX's IPO prospectus revealed Elon Musk is barely borrowing against his shares, leading Bloomberg to add $45 billion to its net worth estimate.
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AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system
Some report burning through their whole monthly "AI credit" allotment in a single day.
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Billionaire Gautam Adani and nephew agree to pay $18 million in SEC settlement over fraud allegations
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his nephew Sagar Adani have agreed to settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit over allegations they misled investors.
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Italy’s top court rules against tourist refused tap water in Dolomites hotel
Woman argued water was a universal human right but court ruled no law obliged hoteliers to serve it from taps
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Cubs Move Forward With Historic Changes To Wrigley Field
The Chicago Cubs are working toward some significant changes to their landmark stadium experience.
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Brothers Become Billionaires From Supplying Chemicals To China’s Semiconductor Industry
Shares of Hubei Dinglong more than doubled in the past year, making cofounder Zhu Shuangquan and his younger brother Shunquan the latest members of the billionaire club.
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A major student-loan lender says it will 'surprise and delight' borrowers after Trump's repayment overhaul
Major private student-loan lenders, like Navient and Sallie Mae, are ready to bring in more borrowers when Trump's repayment changes begin in July.
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GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
GitHub is battling outages, security issues, and a talent exodus.
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Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit.
An agreement between the U.S. and Kazakhstan has given a group of American investors with ties to the president and the commerce secretary access to one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of tungsten.
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One Of Ireland’s Most Famous Whiskey Distilleries Is Halting Production
Brown-Forman’s Slane Distillery is the latest casualty of the whiskey industry’s inventory and demand problems
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What We Know About Billionaire Peter Thiel’s Secret 'Dialog’ Society—Including Who’s Involved
Government officials, public figures and billionaires have been linked to a secret society co-founded by Peter Thiel.
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Seed Giant Burpee Wants Americans To Garden Like It’s 1776
George Ball’s 150-year-old seed company invented iceberg lettuce, the Big Boy tomato and other groundbreaking vegetables along the way to growing a $110 million business. Meet the man with the gold thumb.
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Kevin O'Leary says his huge data center will create 10,000 construction jobs. We looked at the numbers.
The 'Shark Tank' investor says his Utah data center will create 10,000 construction jobs. The project faces opposition due to environmental concerns.
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Berkshire's new CEO overhauls portfolio, dumping a slate of stocks
Berkshire Hathaway's equity portfolio got one of its biggest renovations ever during Greg Abel's first three months as the company's CEO.
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'Godspeed my friend': Inside the final hours of Spirit Airlines
Spirit Airlines ceased operations overnight after a failed government bailout.
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Stanford Graduates Walking Out On The Google CEO Wasn’t A Protest. It Was A Paradigm Shift In How A Generation Exercises Power
At this year's commencement, a small but pointed act of non-participation signaled something larger: a generation that has decided engagement on exploitative terms is no longer on the table.
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Here's the severance package Disney is giving to laid-off employees
Disney laid off employees for the first time under CEO Josh D'Amaro. Here's what departing staffers are getting paid in severance.
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How a Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea
A botched tumbler promotion on the anniversary of a pro-democracy massacre unleashed a boycott, police investigation and political firestorm
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Reddit is moving on from r/all
Reddit is deprecating r/all, one of its feeds that shows popular posts on the platform, but you can still access it if you use old Reddit.
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Meta begins cutting thousands of jobs in sweeping layoffs. Here's how much it's paying in severance.
Meta has begun sending layoff emails to roughly 10% of its workforce. The cuts are expected to eliminate around 8,000 roles.
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How Eric Trump Got Rich From Bitcoin While Losing Investors A Fortune
The president’s second son pitches his bitcoin company as a money-printing machine. It’s actually an arbitrage vehicle that preys on MAGA-minded investors.
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Zillow loses thousands of listings in fight over “hidden” homes
Zillow asked for a preliminary injunction as real estate industry fight heats up.
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Texas Hotel Billionaire Set To Foreclose On Greenbrier Owner Senator Jim Justice
Broke former billionaire Jim Justice fights to keep Greenbrier Resort from Omni Hotels' Rowling family, alleging its trying to pilfer West Virginia's crown jewel.
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Google is quietly laying off staff in its cloud division
Google has laid off employees across parts of its Cloud business, including at an elite cybersecurity intelligence unit.
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Alex Jones has uncovered another massive conspiracy
Alex Jones’ Infowars is on the brink of being taken over by satirical news site The Onion, led by comedian Tim Heidecker. Jones has been riling up his base over Heidecker’s past work.
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How Poppi's cofounders built a $2 billion business — and how they're navigating their newfound wealth
Allison and Stephen Ellsworth took big risks and made sacrifices to build Poppi. They're determined not to let their wealth spoil their children.
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My husband's family has run the same company for 170 years. I married into it at 24, and now my role is 'family president.'
Jill Gardner helps lead her husband's eighth-generation family business through family engagement and legacy planning. She keeps 551 members active.
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Google to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
Ahead of a planned IPO, SpaceX inked a deal to rent compute capacity to Google for $920 million per month for 32 months.
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The rise of the fruit that tastes like custard
Custard apple plants are prized for their hardiness but exporting their delicate fruit is difficult.
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Disney Expected To Announce New Theme Park
Disney is tipped to imminently announce that it is developing a new theme park as part of a $60 billion investment in its Experiences division.
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Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company
Vibe coding is collapsing the distance between idea and deployment. But the real risk is whether your company has the judgment system to govern what AI can now build.
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20,000 job cuts at Meta, Microsoft raise concern that AI-driven labor crisis is here
Meta said it's cutting 10% of its workforce, just as Microsoft announced that it's offering employee buyouts for the first time in its 51-year history.
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I used an $80,000 inheritance from my uncle to start a business. Years later, we're approaching $1 million in revenue.
Steph Mahon used an $80,000 inheritance from her uncle to start a real estate business that's now nearing seven figures.
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First Look At New Aldi Format Set To Rollout Across The U.S.
U.S. customers are set to see a very different Aldi as the German discount retailer rolls out a new store format which it first tested in Aventura, Fla. late last year.
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Elon Musk’s Net Worth Drops $350 Billion In Massive SpaceX Selloff—But He’s Still A Trillionaire
A selloff for Musk’s rocket maker wiped out roughly $900 billion in market value.
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Eileen Fisher’s Renew Brand Logs 3 Million Items Returned
Eileen Fisher's circular Renew brand has collected 3 million items since she started the business.
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Walmart’s Great Value Brand Makeover Is A Lesson For All Businesses
A smart brand refresh builds trust, attracts new customers, and keeps loyal ones. Learn how to modernize your brand without losing what made it successful.
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April Fools’ Day 2026: the best and cringiest pranks
Happy April Fools’ Day, aka the day all brands take us by storm with bad jokes. As a reminder, today’s a day to not believe what you see — whether it’s AI-generated or not.
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Meta employees react to pending job cuts: '28 days of hell'
Inside Meta, employees are bracing for weeks of limbo as they wait to find out who's cut.
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Starbucks Korea to temporarily shut all stores for history lesson after bungled coffee promotion
The closures, so employees can watch a recorded lecture, will cost the company an estimated 2.1bn won ($1.4m) in sales
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The SpaceX IPO is great for Elon Musk and terrible for you
Elon Musk is hoping you will be fooled by his repeated invocation of Mars — because he wants you to finance his bad AI company.
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Malaysian Billionaire Jeffrey Cheah’s Sunway Walks Away From $2.8 Billion IJM Bid
Since Sunway announced the bid in January, the company has faced setbacks. Last month, IJM’s board recommended investors reject the offer, which was deemed well below fair value.
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