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If Not AOC, Then Who?

What do we do if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez decides not to run for president in 2028? It makes sense that many leftists are currently focused on calling on her to take the plunge. But the absence of a Plan B, or even much discussion about one, is worrisome. The US Left can’t afford to sit out the 2028 Democratic primary. Doing so in 2024 was a disaster: our abstention self-marginalized anti-billionaire politics from the national conversation and thereby gave space for Harris to pivot to the “center” (i.e. the policy preferences of corporate donors, establishment hacks, and AIPAC). Abstaining again in 2028 would be especially counterproductive since democratic socialists now have so much wind in our sails after our big electoral wins in NYC and across the country. It’s time to deepen our momentum, organization, and profile — not to retreat to the margins during America’s single most important political battle. Even more urgently, keeping Trump’s heir out of the White House may depend on whether leftists and the party’s unprecedentedly disenchanted base can force the Democrats in 2028 to take meaningful steps towards a very angry electorate and away from the corporate-consultant blob that has helped get us into this mess. If AOC (or Abdul El-Sayed) decides to run, we should enthusiastically go all in — DSA, fighting unions, progressive organizations, anybody who wants to see a better country and world. But, as far as I can tell from the outside, there’s a real chance that she doesn’t run. And we can’t just wait and see where she lands before discussing alternatives, since AOC’s decision might not come for quite a while, giving us little time to scramble at the last minute for an alternative. So we should start working now on getting a Plan B into motion, and recruiting a good candidate for the role. Here’s one idea. A Worker Candidate — Healthcare Not Warfare 2028 Run a union worker Leftists don’t need to always run experienced, well-known socialist politicians for high-profile contests. Lula, the current president of Brazil, began his political career as a metalworker militant who ran for governor of São Paulo in 1982. Especially in an era of institutional distrust, it’s possible to lean hard into making a virtue out of a working-class comrade’s distance from traditional politics. Experience abroad shows this clearly. Rachel Kéké — an immigrant hotel housekeeper — ran as the candidate of the leftist La France Insoumise for the National Assembly in 2022, defeating a former minister in the Macron government. The Belgian Workers’ Party in 2024 won its first Flemish seat in the European Parliament by running Rudi Kennes, a three-decade veteran of the Opel Antwerp auto factory. And the South Korean left in 2024 elected auto factory militant Yoon Jong-oh to the National Assembly. If a tiny French Trotskyist organization could make such a big splash in 2002 and 2007 by running a well-spoken postal worker cadre for office — the LCR’s Olivier Besancenot received about 1.5 million first-round votes — it’s not far-fetched to expect that a much larger organization like DSA, together with a broader coalition of the willing, could run this playbook to much greater effect. This is especially the case now that almost everything DSA does immediately becomes a national news story. We don’t need someone famous. We just need a charismatic, well-vetted comrade who works in a relatable working-class occupation — e.g. a nurse, or a worker in auto or construction, or at Amazon. Ideally, they have a compelling personal story or have been part of a significant strike or organizing campaign, but even those criteria don’t necessarily have to be deal-breakers. The main lesson of the Graham Platner fiasco isn’t that we should never run outsiders for office (the momentum he generated proves the exact opposite), but that they need proper vetting and roots in democratic membership organizations like DSA or a union. In any case, there are plenty of ways to signal working-class authenticity without resorting to Platner’s or Fetterman’s performative macho white dude affect. Better to have someone of any gender or race who is actually working class, with firm socialist politics, who can speak from experience about the day-to-day realities of trying to make it in America. There are surely at least a dozen such worker leaders in our movement nationwide; we just need to sit down and convince one that their personal sacrifice for the greater good (i.e. running for president) will be worth it. If we don’t have a frontrunner with a clear path to victory like AOC (or El-Sayed, were he to win Michigan), it’s better to embrace someone whose decision to run in itself tells an important story about US politics: workers have been iced out of our political system and are now fighting hard to break back in. The novelty factor, in itself, would generate press. And it would help democratic socialists signal to the American public that our movement’s defining characteristic is that we represent workers vs. bosses, not that we’re “the furthest left” force in American politics — a framework that suggests we’re extremists and that helps our opponents isolate us from non-college-educated voters by highlighting extremely minoritarian (and misguided) stances included in DSA’s platform like prison abolition. We don’t get many opportunities to speak to tens of millions of Americans; we need to use these opportunities to broaden our appeal beyond those already in our orbit. Run to polarize the 2028 primary and general election around “Medicare for All” and “End All Aid to Israel” Why should democratic socialists use our scarce time and volunteer energy to run in a race we’re unlikely to win? Running in the 2028 primary will not only recruit us scores of members (imagine having a DSA member intervening in eleven nationally televised primary debates!), but — more importantly — it has the potential to be a decisive leap forward towards an America that finally starts meeting the needs of working people instead of HMO and AIPAC billionaire donors. Polarizing litmus tests are good, actually — as long as they’re fought for around popular demands in a thoughtful and strategic way. Democratic socialists have an opportunity and responsibility to make the 2028 primary about two of the most widely and deeply felt issues of our moment: domestically, America’s unaffordable, family-breaking private healthcare system; internationally, America’s bankrolling of the genocidal Israeli government. A candidacy relentlessly demanding Medicare for All and No Aid to Israel would pose a sharp question to the American public, the Democratic Party, and other 2028 contenders: Why can’t working-class Americans afford their healthcare bills at the same time that our government is spending at least $3.8 billion yearly to fund an Israeli regime eager to keep dragging us and the world into more forever wars? Our candidate can agitate around a clear message: I’m running to give voice to all those working-class Americans who are struggling to get by. No matter what state you live in, who you voted for in 2024, or your background, it’s just plain common sense that we should make healthcare more affordable instead of spending billions to enable the Israeli government’s crimes against humanity. Every American who agrees with me when I say ‘Medicare for All — Not a Dime for Israel’ should make their voice heard through our campaign. Racking up a high number of votes for this agenda is a crucial way to show the Democratic Party and the country as a whole that we can’t keep supporting a life-destroying status quo in our healthcare system and in the Middle East. If we want to defeat Trump’s handpicked crony this coming November, we need to speak to ordinary people’s frustrations with the status quo — we can’t keep running the same tired establishment playbook and expecting a different result. For those highly engaged voters (or skeptical media pundits) who raise concerns about wasting votes, the candidate can take the time to explain why this isn’t the case: It's true I'm a long shot. But Zohran showed anything can happen — and voting for me is a pragmatic decision, not a wasted vote. In a heavily divided primary with a large number of candidates and a very discredited establishment, my campaign and the democratic socialist movement I’m part of are positioned to be the balance of power if we can get a large enough number of voters to loudly demand Healthcare Not Warfare. Since there’s a high chance no candidate will get to 50% in the 2028 primaries, the Democrats could very well be heading towards a brokered convention, where a disciplined, principled current committed to breaking from corporate donors can play an outsized role in making sure whoever ends up with the nomination raises the banner of single-payer healthcare and cutting aid to Israel. How exactly could running this sort of primary campaign be translated into actual leverage? The candidate replies: I’m aiming to win the nomination, but if I don’t achieve that goal, my delegates and I will pledge our support in the primary only for a candidate who agrees in the general election to call for ending US aid to Israel and establishing Medicare for All at home. These are both winning planks for November against the Republicans, and the only reason I can see that other candidates haven’t yet raised these is that they’re still more scared of the donor class than they are of the people. That needs to change. If Democratic leaders want young people, workers, and those sick of the status quo to show up in big numbers this November, they need to meet us halfway. In this way, whether or not we win the nomination, democratic socialists could still play a decisive role in 2028. The approach outlined here is similar to what radical left parties periodically do in parliamentary democracies like Denmark or Sweden when they find themselves as a junior partner electorally: they dictate to center-left allies what their terms would be for enabling, from the outside, the formation of a new government. Running a Healthcare Not Warfare candidate will make it significantly more likely that the 2028 Democratic candidate stands with ordinary people instead of donors on these two pivotal planks — a shift that will, in turn, make it easier to achieve the existentially important task of defeating MAGA’s heir in November. Look at how much popular traction the Uncommitted movement got with a similar strategy in 2024 with so little on-the-ground organization — surely we can go much further with a working-class candidate, a much bigger DSA, and a Democratic Party base that has turned against Israel, billionaires, and the hacks in the party who prop them up. Objections and Responses There are quite a few objections to this proposal, many of which are very reasonable. Let me briefly address each here. Socialists shouldn’t waste their scarce time and resources on a candidate unlikely to win. This is a good rule in general, but there are important exceptions, and presidential elections are the main one. There’s no other political contest that gets anything like this level of attention and engagement in the US, so if you want to be a serious force in nationwide politics, you basically can’t afford not to have a candidate. Far from being an overall drain on our resources, running a dynamic 2028 campaign would likely result in a major net increase in members and capacity. In that spirit, the very pragmatic Milwaukee sewer socialists — who mostly ran to win at home in Wisconsin — supported Eugene Debs’s propagandistic presidential campaigns, which they correctly saw as a crucial means of recruiting to the Socialist Party. And now that the (post-1972) Democratic Party gives more weight to voters than party operatives in determining its presidential nomination, it’s become feasible to run as a socialist in primaries without risking a split in the vote against the Republicans in November. We should just support Ro Khanna, who also supports M4A and ending aid to Israel. I like Ro Khanna and would enthusiastically vote and canvass for him for president were he to get the nomination. But there’s a real chance that Khanna’s bid for office doesn’t catch on; he lacks the grassroots organizational apparatus of DSA, and, because he’s not really of the Left or labor (despite his current very good positions), he’s unlikely to generate the type of buy-in and enthusiasm that a DSA candidate would. Moreover, Khanna would be running as an individual, not as someone emerging from and building an organized movement — his campaign would not likely focus on building sustained power from below, nor would it likely polarize the 2028 primary around M4A and Israel aid. Also, and not inconsequentially, the poor electoral results for Tom Steyer and Saikat Chakrabarti this spring suggest that there’s perhaps not much of a popular appetite in the Democrats’ base to support multi-millionaire class traitors. Much better, then, to run a democratic socialist worker. If by Super Tuesday it’s clear that our campaign has captured the main left lane in the primary, Khanna should drop out and endorse us; conversely, if he’s managed to capture this lane, DSA could at that point transform its Healthcare Not Warfare campaign into an independent campaign to elect Ro Khanna focused on winning (and holding him accountable to) those two critical planks. An openness to consolidating an anti-corporate candidate by Super Tuesday is a necessary component of the strategy I’m proposing, because otherwise we risk splitting the primary votes (per DNC rules, you need at least 15% to get any delegates to convention). We should convince Shawn Fain or Sara Nelson to run for president instead. I agree it’d be great if either ran for president, but my impression is that there’s basically no chance that will happen in 2028, because both are firmly focused on their union leadership duties (and, in the case of Fain, beating back a federal witch-hunt). This plan could have DSA end up endorsing a non-socialist, non-DSAer for president. That’s against our principles. It’s a myth, and bad politics, that socialists can’t ever support candidates who aren’t members of their organization and/or who don’t call themselves socialists. Bernie, after all, was not a DSAer. And socialists abroad regularly make tactical decisions about if and when supporting a non-socialist candidate makes sense from the standpoint of promoting working-class interests, defending democracy, and building a socialist current in the process. If your “principles” prevent you and DSA from helping achieve the momentous stride forward of having a Democratic candidate in 2028 run on Medicare for All and ending aid to Israel, those “principles” are not very good. In fact, they actively undermine the causes they’re aiming to support. We shouldn’t confuse principles (working-class independence) with tactics (the best way to advance this in a given context). In my recent article in Catalyst on Milwaukee sewer socialism (I’ve uploaded the full text here), I have a section showing how similarly rigid rules about endorsements had to be eventually discarded in the old Socialist Party nationwide after WWI because they tended to lead socialists towards a sectarian abstention from broader anti-corporate electoral insurgencies beyond their party’s control. For what it’s worth, Lenin’s current under Tsarism frequently backed bourgeois candidates in the second round of elections and Lenin himself advocated that British Communists support Labour Party candidates; for his part, Kautsky in 1912 defended the German Social Democracy’s electoral pact with the Progressives in the runoffs. If our predecessors could be that tactically flexible in an era before the limits of their underlying strategic assumptions about intransigent class politics in capitalist democracies were made clear, then there’s no need to insist on being more tactically rigid today, after a century’s worth of accumulated experience. As long as you maintain your own political profile and organization while engaging in broader coalitional efforts, there’s zero inherent contradiction with the principle of political independence. More specifically: DSA and allied organizations should enthusiastically back Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed if AOC declines to run and he throws his hat in the presidential ring. (I have no idea whether he’s even considering this path, but there’ll surely be chatter about it if he wins his Senate race this November.) Though he doesn’t call himself a socialist, El-Sayed is a principled Berniecrat, a consistent fighter for Palestine, and would have a clear path to victory. Using the “s” word is far less important than whether a campaign fights for the interests of working people at home and abroad — and whether actively participating in it can grow the organized working class and the Left. And the same holds true if a less anti-corporate candidate were, under pressure, to adopt our two Healthcare Not Warfare planks. Why focus only on M4A and ending US aid to Israel? There are so many other important issues to fight for! Obviously there are many pivotal issues beyond healthcare and Israel, and our candidate — and especially our organizations involved in the campaign — should be prepared to speak on all of these. But one of the crucial lessons of the Zohran campaign is that you have to relentlessly stay on message if you want to cut through the noise. CNN and Fox News will want to talk about DSA’s views on Venezuela and abolishing the police; we need to polarize the debate on the widely and deeply felt issues that are most favorable for growing the Left, isolating our opponents, and winning urgently needed changes. One recent poll found 63% of Americans support M4A, even after respondents were told it would raise taxes and eliminate most private insurance. Another found that 74% of Democrats opposed “providing additional economic and military support to Israel.” And focusing on two demands sets the campaign up to be able to leverage its mandate to make clear demands upon other candidates (which we can’t do if we run with a laundry list of demands). Talking about a Plan B is a distraction from the more urgent work of building a groundswell of calls on AOC to run. It’s good for DSAers, fightback unionists, and progressive organizations to try to convince AOC to run. This proposal is meant as an addendum to pushes to get AOC to run and to line DSA up for that eventuality, not as a substitute for those efforts. But I’m worried that, like in 2024, we might eventually find ourselves with no time to find a viable alternative unless we start now. DSA, with its abundant deliberative processes, moves slowly. The approach you’re suggesting seems risky. If a DSA candidate runs but doesn’t receive a lot of votes, it’ll undercut our current national momentum. This is a reasonable worry. All big initiatives always carry risks, and the path I’m advocating is certainly not free of these. That said, if a Healthcare Not Warfare campaign doesn’t catch on like we envisioned, it’s a pretty simple pivot in March 2028 to explain that in the future we really need our standard-bearers like AOC, or our growing bench of national electeds, to step up in presidential primaries. Moreover, it’s worth noting that the risk of my Plan B proposal is on the whole significantly less than the risk entailed by an AOC run. We should all back her if she runs, since she’d fire up the base, provide huge openings for organizing, have a real shot at defeating a Republican (especially given MAGA’s unpopularity), be a great standard-bearer for our issues, particularly M4A and ending aid to Israel, and be less willing than mainstream candidates to capitulate to any anti-democratic machinations from Trump and co. But it’s also true that AOC could lose, which would be a devastating setback to the country and the Left. Or she could win and find herself unable to pass much, if any, of her (and our) program, a demoralizing prospect. So if we’re willing to take these risks with AOC (and we should), it follows that we should be able to take lower-level risks if she doesn’t throw her hat in the ring. What’s Your Plan B? The US Left is facing its biggest opening for growth and influence since the 1930s. Initiatives that would have been impossible a few months ago are now potentially feasible. A President AOC is now easier to imagine, but if she ultimately assesses that the risks aren’t worth the potential reward in 2028, we can’t be left flat-footed. So even if you’re not convinced by the specifics of my Plan B, I hope you can at least agree that it’d be a disaster for us not to have one — and not to start getting a Plan B into motion. Hopefully other organizers and political currents will put forward their responses and alternative ideas ASAP. The stakes are too high to just wait and see. More As always, please share this article widely. This newsletter depends on all you lovely people to get the word out. Thank you! I uploaded the full text of my Catalyst article on Milwaukee sewer socialism here (it’s updated and 3x as long as the version published earlier on this substack). If you haven’t yet, please make sure to subscribe to Catalyst here; I read every issue front to back, highly recommend. 🌹🎵 Ivan Lins (arranged by Arthur Verocai) — “General da Banda” 🌹🎵

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Microsoft tops quarterly cloud growth estimates, easing spending concerns

Revenue at the company's Azure cloud-computing business rose 43%.

Jul 29 • 4:04 PM EDT • Business • reuters.com

Orlando ranks first in small-business growth among midsized U.S. cities

Orlando ranked first in a new analysis of midsized U.S. cities for small-business growth, beating out McKinney and Frisco.

Jul 29 • 9:53 AM EDT • Business • wftv.com

A Deluge of A.I. Computing Power Is About to Come Online, Fueling Major Leaps

The number of A.I. chips that provide the computing power to advance the fast-evolving technology is doubling every nine months.

Jul 29 • 5:02 AM EDT • Technology • nytimes.com

The Sales Trap That Keeps Businesses Owner Dependent

Sales is essential for business growth, but founder-led sales can create owner dependency. Learn how to build a scalable sales system that increases business value.

Jul 29 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • forbes.com

AI race redraws Asian air cargo, replacing e-commerce as growth engine

The global race to build artificial intelligence is redrawing Asia's air cargo map, prompting airlines to redesign networks around growing ​semiconductor manufacturing hubs as cross-border e-commerce loses momentum.

Jul 29 • 1:17 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com

See which Livonia restaurants failed health checks

Wayne County inspectors found microbial growth and improper storage at several Livonia restaurants this summer.

Jul 29 • 12:01 AM EDT • Health • detroitnews.com

F-M metro business closures: Chamber says growth continues despite losses

The Fargo-Moorhead area has lost more than 30 businesses so far this year, including Charlie’s Place, Youngblood Coffee, and Crave, which closed as of Monday.

Jul 28 • 10:42 PM EDT • Business • valleynewslive.com

Construction season hinders seasonal business in Avon

As Avon attempts to accommodate rapid growth in the city, a longtime family farm market said construction season has been interfering with their business season.

Jul 28 • 6:47 PM EDT • Business • news5cleveland.com

How brain cells restore healthy growth and connections after a disease-causing genetic deletion

Scientists at Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have discovered how an experimental therapy can help brain cells overcome the effects of a disease-causing genetic deletion. Instead ...

Jul 28 • 5:40 PM EDT • Health • medicalxpress.com

Visa posted 14% revenue growth as consumer and business spending held up

The payments company reported net revenue of $11.6 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $3.32 for the quarter ended June 30

Jul 28 • 4:23 PM EDT • Business • qz.com

Solid Growth For Digital Storage In Media And Entertainment

Digital storage and memory vendors are creating new storage products to meet the needs of video professionals so they have the tools they need to express their visions.

Jul 28 • 11:55 AM EDT • Entertainment • forbes.com

Under pressure over China backers, Mercedes CEO pledges to defend US business

Mercedes-Benz's CEO pledged on Tuesday to shield its U.S. business from a possible sales ban, as concerns in Washington over the German carmaker's Chinese investors threaten it with exclusion from one of its few remaining growth markets.

Jul 28 • 9:15 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com

BETMGM Q2 2026 BUSINESS UPDATE

Q2 continued delivery of profitable growth with ongoing focused strategic execution JERSEY CITY, N.J., July 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- BetMGM LLC ("BetMGM"), a leading sports betting and iGaming...

Jul 27 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • investors.mgmresorts.com

Lenovo Jumps to #153 on ‘Fortune Global 500’ as AI-driven Business Fuels Growth

Lenovo climbed 43 places to #153 on Fortune’s annual Global 500 List, making it the highest ranking in the company’s history and one of the most significant advances in recent years.

Jul 27 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • news.lenovo.com

Data centers: The business structure that's reshaping AI infrastructure finance

Learn how data center REITs fund AI/HPC growth via joint ventures and institutional capital, plus stocks to watch and rising regulation risks—read now.

Jul 27 • 3:18 PM EDT • Business • seekingalpha.com

Louisiana leads the nation in construction job growth

Louisiana posted the nation’s highest construction employment growth rate over the past year, with employment rising 7.7% between June 2025 and June 2026. That’s according to a new analysis of … Already an INSIDER? Sign in. Already an INSIDER? Sign in

Jul 27 • 10:40 AM EDT • Business • businessreport.com

KGK Science secures investment to expand nutraceutical clinical research

North American nutraceutical CRO KGK Science will use growth investment from Maxim Partners to expand clinical trials, decentralised research and regulatory services for dietary supplement and consumer health companies

Jul 27 • 10:39 AM EDT • Science • nutraceuticalbusinessreview.com

Crafting a local identity: Why North Bay small businesses and local causes are turning to breweries for canned collaborations

Restaurants, markets and hyper-local causes continue teaming up with artisanal breweries for business growth and community connection.

Jul 27 • 9:14 AM EDT • Business • pressdemocrat.com

Zacks.com featured highlights include PENN Entertainment, Chemours and Lumentum

PENN Entertainment, Chemours and Lumentum stand out after broker rating upgrades, supported by stronger earnings growth outlooks and improving analyst sentiment.

Jul 27 • 6:06 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com

This 25-Year-Old Founder Turned B2B Memes Into a $500,000 Business

Skits and stunts sell. But Aidan Brannigan’s 400 percent growth rate is no joke.

Jul 27 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • inc.com

Sunday Gardener: Pruning flowers for healthy growth

Carrie Engel from Valley View Farms shares her advice for pruning flowers that aren't thriving in your garden.

Jul 26 • 1:24 PM EDT • Health • wbaltv.com

Live Nation Entertainment (LYV) Faces Margin Pressure, Is The Stock Still Undervalued?

Recent commentary on Live Nation Entertainment (LYV) has focused on slower sales growth, rising capital intensity, and substandard operating margins. This has raised investor questions about free cash flow resilience as margins are expected to contract. See our latest analysis for Live Nation Entertainment. At a share price of $177.24, Live Nation Entertainment has eased slightly over the past week and month, but its 90 day share price return of 13.3% and 1 year total shareholder return of...

Jul 26 • 9:07 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com

Founder-Led Growth Is Replacing The Old Business Playbook

Most of the money founders spend on growth adds complexity and never builds trust. Here are the 4 parts of founder-led growth that make people buy before you pitch.

Jul 25 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • forbes.com

Inside 530-million-year-old embryos, scientists uncover rare time-lapse of early animal growth

Think of a small fossil as the equivalent of a homemade video of prehistoric life. Fossils formed when sea organisms began their great proliferation more than half a billion years ago rarely contained ...

Jul 25 • 7:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencex.com

Wildfire smoke from 'Fields Fire' creates health hazards for Valley air quality

The Fields Fire burning in Merced County has exploded in size since flames were first reported Thursday afternoon. Overnight, strong winds fueled rapid fire growth.

Jul 25 • 2:14 AM EDT • Health • abc30.com

WATCH: Trump touts new nuclear reactors in his push to speed up domestic power

President Donald Trump hosted executives from nuclear power companies Friday in the Oval Office to celebrate a new milestone in the White House’s push to accelerate the growth of nuclear power in the United States.

Jul 24 • 4:45 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

Diane Raver Named One of NJBIZ's 2026 Leading Women in Business

As New Jersey's film and television industry experiences unprecedented growth, one of the leaders helping shape its future has earned statewide recognition. Diane Raver, executive director of the New Jersey Film Academy at Brookdale Community

Jul 24 • 3:57 PM EDT • Business • brookdalecc.edu

Matt Mindrum: Don’t put a moratorium on Indianapolis’ growth

Marion County's data center moratorium sends a message that Indianapolis is becoming less open to business. It risks turning away billions in investment from some of the world’s fastest-growing industries.

Jul 24 • 2:00 PM EDT • Business • ibj.com

Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd (BOM:538685) Q1 2027 Earnings Call Highlights: Navigating Challenges ...

Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd (BOM:538685) reports significant EBITDA improvement despite revenue decline, focusing on digital growth and operational efficiencies.

Jul 24 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com

A sold-out crowd celebrates the 2026 Fast 50 honorees

FTB Services, the franchisee of Fuzzy's Tacos and Dave's Hot Chicken, topped the 2025 Fast 50 list with 466% revenue growth over three years.

Jul 24 • 12:12 PM EDT • Business • bizjournals.com

How Africa’s richest man plans to turn a $20 billion business into a $100 billion industrial empire

Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote plans to grow Dangote Group into a $100 billion industrial empire by 2030 through refinery expansion, cement growth, fertiliser investments and what could become Africa’s biggest IPO

Jul 24 • 11:00 AM EDT • Business • africa.businessinsider.com

US business activity perks up in July, helped by World Cup, but trend may not last, S&P Global says

Activity in the vast U.S. services ​sector accelerated in July, aided in part by spending around the FIFA World Cup and the Independence ‌Day holiday, while the pace of growth in the manufacturing sector eased to the slowest since March amid a slowdown in precautionary stock building prompted by the U.S.-Israeli-led war with Iran.

Jul 24 • 9:54 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com

Albertsons warns of softer grocery demand as consumers pull back

Albertsons cut its annual outlook after comparable grocery sales declined, while digital and pharmacy growth helped offset pressure in its core business.

Jul 24 • 9:34 AM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com

China's CATL sees net profit rise 42% in first half

Chinese battery giant CATL ​posted a 42% ‌year-on-year rise in first-half net profit, ​supported by robust ​growth in its energy ⁠storage business ​that offset softer demand ​in the electric vehicle market.

Jul 24 • 7:43 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com

Nestlé to sell half of waters business in $3.4B deal

Peranel, which will house brands such as S.Pellegrino and Source Perrier, will be a fully independent company and have full flexibility to “pursue growth opportunities.”

Jul 24 • 7:18 AM EDT • Business • fooddive.com

AmEx raises 2026 revenue growth forecast as affluent cardholders keep spending

American Express increased its full-year revenue growth forecast and beat Wall Street expectations for second-quarter profit on Friday as its affluent customers continued ​to swipe their cards for travel and dining despite lingering ‌economic uncertainty.

Jul 24 • 7:05 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com

SAP Shares Jump After Strong Quarter Reassures Investors of Cloud Business Resilience

Shares climbed after the group logged strong revenue figures, reassuring investors that growth at its cloud business remains healthy despite fears of AI disruption.

Jul 24 • 4:48 AM EDT • Business • wsj.com

Euro zone business activity returns to growth in July for first time in four months, PMI shows

Euro zone business activity returned to growth in July for the first time in four months, driven by a rebound in new orders, even as high inflation and renewed conflict in the Middle East ​clouded the outlook, a survey showed on Friday.

Jul 24 • 4:04 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com

Radiology sees ‘substantially lower' relative growth in training capacity compared to rest of medicine

“These findings collectively suggest that the bottleneck in radiology training capacity may be financial rather than structural," researchers write in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Jul 24 • 1:26 AM EDT • Business • radiologybusiness.com

Alliance Entertainment Touts 21% Sales Jump, Collectibles Push at Investor Event

Alliance Entertainment (NASDAQ:AENT) executives outlined growth in physical media, collectibles and licensing opportunities during a RedChip Companies investor event, while emphasizing the company’s distribution scale and push into higher-margin products. Bruce Ogilvie, executive chairman of Allian

Jul 23 • 6:06 PM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com

Intel's AI business helps fuel strongest revenue growth in 15 years

Intel beat expectations with its strongest revenue growth in more than 15 years as CEO Lip-Bu Tan credited better execution.

Jul 23 • 5:32 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

SAP Second-Quarter Revenue Up on Cloud Business Results, Operating Profit Guidance Lowered on Slowing Growth

The German business-software company logged a 9.4% rise in revenue, but saw a slowdown in operating profit growth.

Jul 23 • 5:13 PM EDT • Business • wsj.com

Why creative leadership drives business growth

Ndidi Oteh explains why creativity isn’t just a cultural value—it’s a critical force behind innovation, transformation, and long-term business success.

Jul 23 • 4:39 PM EDT • Business • fastcompany.com

Wilmington announces business and economic development chief

The city of Wilmington announced on Thursday the hiring of Louis Starks as its new business and economic development manager. According to a news release, the role focuses on strengthening Wilmington's business ecosystem, supporting entrepreneurship and advancing strategic economic growth. "In this role, Starks will collaborate with residents, local businesses, community groups, educational institutions and regional partners to promote investment, workforce development, and innovation for businesses of all sizes," the release stated. "He will also help connect small businesses with City procurement opportunities, cultivate public-private partnerships, and lead initiatives that promote long-term economic vitality." Starks has more than 20 years of experience in economic development, urban planning, housing finance, workforce development and public policy, according to the release. Most recently, he served as manager of business development for Oakland County, Michigan, "where he led teams focused on business retention and expansion and financial services for one of the nation's most economically diverse regions. During his tenure, his teams supported billions of dollars in business investment initiatives while helping create thousands of jobs," the release stated. He holds a law degree and master's degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Iowa, as well as a bachelor's degree from Duke University. He is also a Certified Economic Development Professional. Starks is expected to begin his Wilmington position on July 27. “Louis has built his career around helping individuals, organizations and communities reach their full potential,” stated city manager Becky Hawke in the release. “Whether supporting entrepreneurs, managing complex redevelopment projects, or bringing together public and private partners, he has consistently focused on creating opportunity and delivering results. He understands that a strong economy creates opportunities for everyone. By supporting local businesses and fostering innovation, his work will help ensure the benefits of Wilmington’s growth are felt throughout the community, creating jobs, strengthening neighborhoods, and improving quality of life for residents.”

Jul 23 • 2:03 PM EDT • Business • wilmingtonbiz.com

Democrats seize on AI data center backlash that's dividing rural Republicans

The fast growth of massive data centers has already upended races for local offices across the country, often uniting conservatives and liberals.

Jul 23 • 9:29 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com

Nevada small business boom driven by women and minority entrepreneurs, UNLV analysis shows

New data from UNLV’s Center for Business and Economic Research shows women and entrepreneurs of color drove much of Nevada’s post-pandemic small business growth.

Jul 23 • 1:39 AM EDT • Business • fox5vegas.com