2025-10-15
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Finance & Investments
The company projects reaching $1B in 2025 sales after booking over $500M in 2024.
Fidelity Management & Research Company led the Series E round with new investor ICONIQ.
Oura has sold over 5.5M rings, up from 2.5M units reported in June 2024.
Raises FY 2025 forecast to $2.75B revenue and ~$200M core profit.
The upgrade was driven by strong Q3 demand in online sports and iGaming.
This marks the company's third revenue and profit forecast upgrade in 2025.
Guenther Steiner is appointed CEO with Richard Coleman as Team Principal.
Founder Hervé Poncharal will transition to a consultant role after this season.
The team will retain its name, French base, and partnership with KTM machinery.
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Media, Broadcasting & Sponsorships
WWE Raw averages 6.5M viewing hours, ranking as Netflix’s third most-watched season globally.
The content's 18.2% 60-day churn rate outperforms the NFL Christmas games' 27.2%.
US Netflix subscribers who are WWE fans grew from 62% to 76% post-launch.
The agreement includes over a dozen shows, including The Bill Simmons Podcast.
This deal will pull some Ringer video podcasts, including Simmons', from YouTube as of 2026.
Simmons previously produced Netflix's Vince McMahon docuseries, which drew 908M viewing minutes.
The series was ESPN’s second-most-watched since 2003, doubling 2023's average of 728K.
The entire 2025 postseason averaged 1.2M viewers, a 5% increase vs. 2024.
Game 1 was the series-high with 1.9M viewers, while Game 2 aired on ABC.
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Teams & Leagues
Defending champion Thunder rank 14th in the league in current team payroll.
Two max contracts for Thunder stars will be added to its payroll next season.
Most rosters are set with the 2025–26 NBA season starting in one week.
The 3.56M sq. ft. development includes a hotel, casino, retail, and a theater.
Construction is planned to begin in April 2026 with completion targeted for March 2029.
The complex will occupy 26 acres on the former Tropicana Las Vegas site.
The men's team wears the jersey on Oct 26; the women's team on Oct 19.
A limited-edition capsule collection of 1,899 units will also be released by the club.
Sheeran is the seventh artist in the series, following Drake and The Rolling Stones.
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Miscellaneous
Swim Ireland ended its association with the former Olympian, cutting all funding and services.
The inaugural competition, which permits performance-enhancing drugs, is scheduled for May 2026 in Las Vegas.
Organizers filed an $800M lawsuit against World Aquatics and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
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