Lego

Consumer

Lego is Carrying the Toy Industry

Photo via LEGO

The secret ingredients to Lego’s success? A clutch of licensing deals and finding ways to sell Lego sets to kids well over the age of 30.

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Image Credit: Lego.com

Consumer

Lego Thrives Amid Higher Business Cost and a Slowing Toy Market

Danish company Lego reported generating $4.65 billion in revenue for the first half of 2024, up 13% from a year earlier.

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Photo by Marcin Nowak via Unsplash

Banking

Santander Considers Leaving UK as It Ramps Up to Full-Service Digital Bank in US

Not long after pledging to operate a digital bank in America, Spain’s most valuable lender is reevaluating its business in the UK.

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Photo by Gage Skidmore via CC BY-SA 2.0

Big Tech

Under Trump 2.0, EU’s Big Tech Enforcement Becomes a Sovereignty Issue

The EU wants everyone to know it has no intention of genuflecting toward a new Trump administration and won’t stop doling out Big Tech fines.

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Photo by Cottonbro Studio via Pexels

Social Media

TikTok Restored Services in the US. Now What?

After a brief blackout period from late Saturday, TikTok began restoring services to US users on Sunday morning.

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