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Plus, Sorren launches a human capital advisory services practice; Warren Averett named three local partners in charge of growth; and other firm and personnel news.

Apple and Nvidia battled it out on Friday for the title of world’s most valuable company, with the iPhone maker briefly topping the long-time leader in market value. Shares of Nvidia briefly dropped about 3% and its market value dipped to $4.84 trillion in early morning trading, while Apple hovered near a $4.88 trillion market…

You can buy Tesla (TSLA 0.87%) stock now, in the next trading session, or after quarterly earnings results are released on Wednesday, July 22. The main difference comes down to whether you think there’s likely to be a catalyst in the results or presentations that could drive the stock higher after the results are announced….

Despite his role in revolutionizing the electric vehicle industry with Tesla, Elon Musk’s second-most famous company, Space Exploration Technologies (SPCX 3.08%) or SpaceX, is set to rely on a fossil fuel, natural gas, to power its xAI’s data centers and enable it to make launch fuel for its Starship rockets. These developments underline the role…

Two years after Elon Musk made Greater Memphis the center of his artificial intelligence ambitions, building data centers and energy infrastructure at breakneck speed, residents are grappling with unwanted effects, including noise and emissions from the natural gas-burning turbines.  Now, public opposition to the SpaceXAI sites, known as Colossus and Colossus II, is providing a…

As the World Cup wraps up, the off-field battle for eyeballs, ad dollars and viral fame has already crowned some champions

U.S. companies raised about $114.1 billion through traditional initial public offerings in the first half of 2026, more than seven times the amount raised during the same period last year as the IPO market reached its strongest level since 2021, according to a recent PwC analysis. The surge was fueled in part by SpaceX’s record-setting…

On Episode 87 of the COO Roundtable podcast, I sat down with Vince Nauheimer of OnePoint BFG Wealth Partners and Grace Balestrieri of Brighton Jones, two operators who have led their firms through tremendous growth, and asked them a question I felt they were uniquely qualified to answer: “How do you keep your culture intact…

It was a bad week for “the ants,” as South Korea’s army of retail traders are known colloquially. 1.2 million of them were clobbered with margin calls. That’s more than 3% of the country’s adult population, illustrating the feverish extent of stock market speculation and the danger of leverage.

Dive Brief: Water treatment firm Pentair has taken on board its former finance chief Bob Fishman on an interim basis following the abrupt resignation of his successor, Nicholas Brazis, after just five months in the role, according to a Tuesday press release and securities filing. Brazis, who succeeded Fishman in the top finance seat in March,…