Translated by Nicola Mira Published Jul 20, 2024 French group Damartex has recorded a new revenue slump, after losing 9.5% in fiscal 2022-23. In the 12 months ending with June 2024, the group posted another negative result, with revenue down 9.9% to €529.2 million. Damart Q4, from April to June 2024, was especially difficult, with [...]read moreDamartex group records 9.9% revenue slump
Finance of America Companies (FOA), which controls the outgoing brands Finance of America Reverse (FAR) and American Advisors Group (AAG), recorded a net loss under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) of $16 million in Q1 2024 and an adjusted net loss of $7 million for the quarter, according to a recently released earnings report. Total [...]read moreFOA records loss in Q1 but remains confident about improving profitability
A rare Magic: The Gathering card has sold for $3 million, making it the most expensive Magic card ever sold. And before you ask, Magic nerds, of course it was a Black Lotus. The sale of the card was announced last week by CGC Cards, a certification and grading company for trading cards, video games, [...]read moreRare Magic: The Gathering card breaks records with $3 million sale
Y Combinator is renowned in Silicon Valley for a lot of reasons, but there’s one service that has quietly become one of its most powerful: an online founder-matching tool. “I think this is the most valuable digital product that YC has built (i.e. more valuable than Bookface, etc,). It’s astonishing how many founders I meet [...]read moreHow Y Combinator’s founder-matching service helped medical records AI startup Hona land $3M
The Life Is Strange series started as French developer Don’t Nod’s baby back when the first game’s episodic rollout began in 2015. After two games, publisher Square Enix has placed the franchise in the hands of Deck Nine Games, which worked on the prequel Before the Storm and the most recent game in the series, [...]read moreWhy Lost Records Isn’t A New Life Is Strange
Lotus is back, baby. After years plodding along making plucky British sports cars that promised high performance and low weight, the company has been given a new lease of life thanks to backing from Chinese giant Geely, which is helping it forge ahead with its electric ambitions. Those ambitions seemingly include toppling every EV lap [...]read more1,984-HP Lotus Evija X EV Is Here To Destroy Lap Records
Taylor Swift is back on her record-breaking business. The 34-year-old songstress has shattered a number of records since releasing her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, and its lead single, “Fortnight” featuring Post Malone, on Friday. Spotify announced over the weekend that The Tortured Poets Department has become the first album in the streaming service’s [...]read moreAll the Records Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Has Broken (So Far)
The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, rare among globally famous races, maintains an easy-to-find list of records for every current and former class the race has welcomed in its 101-year history. There are three blank spaces in the Eligible Non-Division Records section: Production Truck/Van, Electric Production SUV/Crossover, and Electric Modified SUV/Crossover. The small print underneath [...]read moreHyundai Ioniq 5 N to gun for EV records at Pikes Peak
But experts also say that terms such as disorder or defiance are so broad and subject to interpretation that they can quickly become a catchall. For instance, in Oregon, the umbrella category of disruptive behavior includes insubordination and disorderly conduct, as well as harassment, obscene behavior, minor physical altercations, and “other” rule violations. 2. Educators [...]read more4 Things a Mountain of School Discipline Records Taught Us About Student Suspensions
Heya, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the noteworthy happenings in tech over the past several days (and change). Famed startup accelerator Y Combinator had its Demo Days, and the venture desk took it all in with an appropriately skeptical eye. You can read their day one and day two coverage, [...]read moreCanoo reveals it paid for CEO’s jet, AT&T leaks records and X announces NSFW plans