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History·May 5, 2026Edwin Land: The Inventor Steve Jobs Modeled Himself On, and the Company That Forgot Him
Edwin Land held 535 patents — second only to Thomas Edison. He invented instant photography. He built a company Steve Jobs called 'a national treasure.' Then his board pushed him out, the company collapsed twice into bankruptcy, and one of the bankruptcies was caused by a $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme run by its new owner.
History·May 5, 2026WeWork: The Six Weeks That Took $47 Billion to Zero
On August 14, 2019, WeWork filed its IPO prospectus. On September 17, the IPO was withdrawn. In between, an investing public discovered that the most-hyped private company of the previous decade had been operating, in plain sight, with the governance practices of a family business.
History·May 4, 2026Sears Roebuck: The Amazon of 1900 That Took 130 Years to Die
By 1900, you could buy almost any product manufactured in America from a single mail-order catalog and have it delivered to your farmhouse. The company behind the catalog was, by every reasonable measure, the original Amazon. It also took 130 years to forget how to be.
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13 people taken to the hospital following carbon monoxide leak at Fort Atkinson business - WMTV 15 NEWS
13 people taken to the hospital following carbon monoxide leak at Fort Atkinson business WMTV 15 NEWS
OpenAI plans to go public, intensifying investment race with Anthropic
The company behind ChatGPT filed its plans one week after Anthropic did the same.
SpaceX's stock market blast-off could be Musk's biggest gamble yet
SpaceX is preparing for a stock market debut that could transform the company, the wider market and Elon Musk's fortune.