Author: Business Circle Team

AT&T’s acquisition significantly expands its spectrum holdings across both low- and mid-band frequencies—vital for improving 5G performance and coverage. Strengthening its home-internet infrastructure (via fixed wireless) further supports its strategy of converging mobile and broadband services for customers. Meanwhile, EchoStar gains crucial financial relief and maintains a role in wireless services through Boost Mobile. AT&T has agreed to purchase wireless spectrum licenses from EchoStar for approximately $23 billion in cash, a move aimed at bolstering its 5G and fiber network capabilities across the U.S. The acquisition includes about 50 MHz of spectrum, split between mid-band (around 30 MHz at 3.45 GHz) and low-band…

Italian luxury house Valentino has announced the appointment of Riccardo Bellini as its new CEO, effective from September 1, 2025, replacing Jacopo Venturini, who departed earlier this August. Bellini joins Valentino from Mayhoola, the Qatari investment fund that holds a majority stake in the brand. He previously served as managing director there since January. With a robust luxury background, Bellini has led renowned fashion houses such as Maison Margiela and Chloé, and held leadership positions at Diesel and Procter & Gamble. His track record includes a strategic repositioning of Chloé that advanced its sustainability and brand identity Bellini will collaborate…

BlackRock’s in-house research arm has released a report encouraging investors to increase their exposure to hedge funds, positioning them as a valuable tool in navigating today’s uncertain markets. According to the research, hedge funds are better equipped to handle volatility, protect against downside risks, and capture opportunities from shifting global economic conditions compared to traditional asset classes. The analysis highlights that while equities and bonds face challenges from interest-rate changes and slower growth, hedge funds can provide diversification and stable returns. The report emphasized several strategies that stand out, including macro hedge funds that benefit from policy and currency shifts,…

As a marketer or solopreneur, you’ve probably felt it — that overwhelming flood of new AI tools launching every single day. Each one promises to ‘revolutionize your workflow,’ but instead of clarity, it leaves you drowning in options. The real challenge isn’t whether AI can help (we know it can) — it’s cutting through the noise to find the right tools without wasting countless late nights testing or burning hard-earned money on subscriptions you never end up using. That’s where AIMarketing.Tools steps in. 💡 Why AIMarketing.Tools? Our platform is built to solve the biggest problem in modern marketing: tool overload.…

August 20, 2025 — NVIDIA today unveiled its Nemotron Nano 2 family, a line of enterprise-ready large language models that merge a hybrid Mamba-Transformer architecture with remarkable inference speed and reasoning prowess. Highlights at a Glance Blazing throughput: Tests show Nemotron Nano 2 models can generate tokens up to six times faster than similarly sized models—such as Qwen3‑8B—particularly in complex reasoning tasks involving long input-output sequences. Advanced architecture: Following the Nemotron‑H design, this series replaces most traditional self-attention layers with efficient Mamba‑2 state-space layers, while retaining a few sparse Transformer layers, enabling high-speed “thinking traces” and better handling of longer contexts.…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Unemployment insurance claims in the U.S. have spiked to levels not seen since late 2021, signaling growing strains in the labor market. According to the latest data from the Labor Department, initial claims for jobless benefits rose by 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 235,000 for the week ending August 16—marking the sharpest increase since late May and exceeding economists’ expectations of 225,000. More worryingly, continuing claims—which track the number of individuals still receiving benefits—soared by 30,000 to 1.972 million, the highest level recorded since November 2021. This nearly 2-million figure is the most sustained stretch of unemployment claim…

Mumbai, August 21, 2025 (pressrelease.in) — Giftex announces its Modern & Contemporary Art Auction, to be held on August 22–23, 2025, presenting a striking selection of paintings and sculptures from some of India’s most compelling artistic voices, including M F Husain, Krishen Khanna, Himmat Shah, Walter Langhammer, K K Hebbar, Dharmanarayan Dasgupta, Aparneet Mann, Nandalal Bose, Paritosh Sen, Manoj Dutta, Nalini Malani, and Viraj Naik, among others. More than a collection of acclaimed works, this auction is an invitation for collectors to create their own visual autobiography. Every piece has the potential to evoke a memory, spark a conversation, or mirror…

India’s Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs) are entering a rapid growth trajectory. According to a recent Knight Frank India study, the assets under management (AUM) for InvITs are forecasted to expand 3.5 times, surging from USD 73.3 billion in FY 2025 to approximately USD 258 billion by 2030. InvITs Leading Over REITs in India As of FY 2025, InvITs hold nearly 3.5 times the AUM compared to REITs, which are at USD 20.6 billion. Together, both have more than doubled from USD 42.1 billion in FY 2020 to USD 93.9 billion India now stands as the fourth-largest market in Asia for combined REITs and…

In the first half of 2025, WhatsApp, owned by Meta, deactivated 6.8 million accounts tied to organized scam operations, the company announced. Many of these accounts were connected to criminal centers in Southeast Asia—including Cambodia—that use forced labor to run fraud schemes globally. Anti-Scam Innovations Rolled Out To increase user safety, WhatsApp has introduced features such as: Group safety overviews, alerting users when they are added to a group by someone not in their contacts—providing information like who created the group and member count before allowing entry. Warnings for one-on-one messages from unknown contacts, encouraging users to pause and verify…

Manufacturing at U.S. factories elevated solidly in March as output at motorized vehicle meeting crops and elsewhere rose, suggesting that manufacturing was turning the nook after being constrained by increased borrowing prices. Manufacturing output rose 0.5% final month after an upwardly revised 1.2% rebound within the prior month, the Federal Reserve mentioned on Tuesday. Manufacturing unit output was beforehand reported to have rebounded 0.8% in February. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast manufacturing facility output rising 0.3%. Manufacturing at factories elevated 0.8% year-on-year in March. It edged down at a 0.1% annualized price within the first quarter after contracting at…