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Bite-sized business news. 5 minute breakdown of the top 3 Australian or global business stories of the day. Tailor made for busy humans. Hosted by Brett Joffe and Justin Joffe, co-founders of Flux.

Sara Lee is back in biz | Pharma companies at risk | Godfrey's has collapsed

6 mins; January 30, 2024

Stage 3 tax cuts explained | Dominos' share price plummets | Netflix & WWE announce major collab

7 mins; January 28, 2024

Canva's new valuation | Appen's bitter pill from Google | Zip's return to profitability

7 mins; January 23, 2024

Kmart's going global with Anko | Reddit plans to go public | Uniqlo sues arch-rival Shein

6 mins; January 21, 2024

Zoe Foster Blake buys back Go-To | Adobe and Figma call it quits | Toshiba delisting 74 years in the making

6 mins; December 21, 2023

General Pants is in survival mode | End of an era for Zoom | Sportsbet's double-digit revenue drop

5 mins; December 19, 2023

7-Eleven Australia's big goal | China's in deflation territory | Tesla self-driving fail

5 mins; December 17, 2023

ACCC tries matchmaking Suncorp-Bendigo merger | US Fed pauses interest rate | Amazon competes against itself

5 mins; December 14, 2023

McDonald's Australia faces class action | Hasbro toys are struggling | Google loses major app lawsuit

5 mins; December 12, 2023

$80 billion Australian mining merger | Afterpay's bad debts | Google's latest AI release

5 mins; December 10, 2023

Chemist Warehouse to list on ASX | AusPost to end daily letters | Twitch is shutting down in South Korea

5 mins; December 07, 2023

Amazon acquires Cricket World Cup rights | Spotify lays off employees | Mastercard's AI shopping tool

5 mins; December 05, 2023

7-Eleven Australia's major sale | Aristocrat Leisure's big show to investors | Dr Martens' share price drop

5 mins; December 03, 2023

Temple & Webster's boost | Australian's inflation rate drop | Amazon enters AI race

5 mins; November 30, 2023

Adore Beauty's big takeover offer | Edrolo's AI crisis | ByteDance scales back gaming operations

5 mins; November 28, 2023

Aussie startup raises $109 million | X loses major ad partners | Aussie banks' anti-scam technology

5 mins; November 26, 2023

Sweat app returns to Kayla | Binance's billion dollar criminal charges | Kim K invests in truffles

5 mins; November 23, 2023

Akubra hats has a new owner | OpenAI staff's threat to quit | Culture Kings' massive discounts

5 mins; November 21, 2023

Accent Group's shares tumble | ChatGPT's major update | Marvel Studios' flop

6 mins; November 19, 2023

McDonald's Australia's burger war| Red Bull's F1 racing success | Amazon is ditching boxes

5 mins; November 16, 2023

CommBank is margin over growth | Crocs x McDonald's | The Body Shop has a new owner

6 mins; November 15, 2023

Coca-Cola's fizzy situation with the ATO | ExxonMobil enters lithium | Pfizer's weight-loss drug

5 mins; November 14, 2023

Seven takes a slice of KIIS owner| ANZ's record profit | 30,000 shipping containers stuck in Australian ports

5 mins; November 13, 2023

CoinSpot gets robbed | Shein eyes $90 billion valuation | Amazon joins forces with Meta

5 mins; November 12, 2023

Xero's got a Goldilocks problem | Westpac dumps PwC | Scentre Group's customer visit boon

5 mins; November 09, 2023

Optus' costly outage | Klarna's ringing in the profits | Elon Musk's sassy AI bot

5 mins; November 08, 2023

Berkshire Hathaway's $157 billion in cash | Block is pleasing investors | Airwallex takes on the banks

5 mins; November 07, 2023

Atlassian's major share price hit | Apple's longest sales slump | Live Nation's owes Taylor Swift big!

5 mins; November 05, 2023

Aussie companies' in-office mandate | Treasury Wines acquires luxury wine brand | Origin Energy's takeover bid rejected AGAIN

6 mins; November 02, 2023

Cotton On's global ambitions | WeWork's heading for bankruptcy | Bud Light's redemption

6 mins; November 01, 2023

Adore Beauty defies the odds | McDonald's big revenue jump | Shein acquires Missguided

5 mins; October 31, 2023

Qantas denies ghosting | Coca-Cola beats Pepsi | Dan Murphy's customers go mainstream

5 mins; October 30, 2023

Harvey Norman's profit halved | Tinder's new Matchmaker tool | Altria's share price gets smoked

5 mins; October 29, 2023

Uber Australia's spammy emails | Meta's dark clouds ahead | Coles' private label success

5 mins; October 26, 2023

Afterpay's new product | Microsoft's AI success | Hasbro teams up with Marvel

5 mins; October 25, 2023

Medibank wants doctors on its side | F45's $370 million USD loss | Kim K's Skims is shaping up for men

5 mins; October 24, 2023

Seven's fight to win The Ashes | Netflix's subscriber success | Providoor's new spin

5 mins; October 23, 2023

Employment Hero's $267m capital raise | Tesla's price drop hurts its numbers | ARN's takeover of Southern Cross

6 mins; October 22, 2023

BONUS EPISODE: Having difficult conversations about money

9 mins; October 21, 2023

Sara Lee Australia's voluntary administration | 23AndMe gets hacked | Amazon's drone-delivery is going live

5 mins; October 19, 2023

News Corp faces investor pressure | Netflix launches 'Netflix House' | Ferrari's in the cryptocurrency lane

5 mins; October 18, 2023

Cochlear's hearing big profit growth | Manchester United rejects Qatari takeover bid | Pfizer's vaccine decline

5 mins; October 17, 2023

Penfolds' luxury wine boom | Microsoft seals Activision deal | TikTok partners with Disney

5 mins; October 16, 2023

Atlassian $1.5 billion acquisition | Google renovating its Search | RedBubble's shares jump

5 mins; October 15, 2023

Telstra $267 million acquisition | Birkenstock stomps onto the NYSE | ExxonMobil drops the largest takeover of 2023

5 mins; October 12, 2023

Qantas' Chairman steps down | PepsiCo beats investor expectations | Apple and Google's tap-and-go regulation

5 mins; October 11, 2023

Virgin Australia's first profit in a decade | Samsung's got too many chips | Fortescue's 25-year deal

6 mins; October 10, 2023

Seven Network takes out the crown | Uber will return your package | NBA's new media deal is heating up

5 mins; October 09, 2023

VGW's billion dollar loophole | X cuts the headlines | Ozempic's massive popularity

5 mins; October 08, 2023

Canva's $200 million Creator Fund | Sam Bankman-Fried's trial begins | CBA's market share decline

5 mins; October 05, 2023

Spotify's audiobook freebie in Australia | Liontown's got a fight on its hands | Starbucks is designing new beans

5 mins; October 04, 2023

Kellogg's major rebrand | Foxtel to lose "Succession" and more | TikTok's ad-free subscription tier

5 mins; October 03, 2023

Rex takes on Qantas with new loyalty program | Nike's sorts out its stock | Meta's celeb-AI bots

6 mins; October 02, 2023

PwC's 'growth at all costs' mindset | Meta's new Smart Glasses | Snap shuts down its AR division

5 mins; October 01, 2023

Star Casino's $750 million grovel | 17 US States sue Amazon | Taylor Swift boosts the NFL

5 mins; September 27, 2023

News Corp's shop is open | Tinder's exclusive new membership | A new Hollywood deal is written

5 mins; September 26, 2023

Mr Yum and me&u's merger | Stake vs Stake battle royale | H&M disincentivises returns

6 mins; September 25, 2023

AusSuper wants more for Origin Energy | Klaviyo pops on the Nasdaq | ACCC blocks Transurban from the Monopoly Board

5 mins; September 24, 2023

Airbnb's new 7.5% levy | Disney's $60 billion park investments | Bard's becoming relevant?

5 mins; September 21, 2023

Kathmandu owner's billion-dollar sales | Instacart's enormous IPO result...for some | YouTube bans Russel Brand

5 mins; September 20, 2023

Yellow Brick Road is FIRED | #TikTokmademebuyit becomes reality | The music industry is singing

5 mins; September 19, 2023

Elle Australia's print comeback | Costa Group weighed down by the weather | Las Vegas casinos in turmoil

5 mins; September 18, 2023

Amazon wants a slice of Aussie media | SEN's major financial loss | Arm's inspirational IPO

5 mins; September 17, 2023

Myer's best sales results in 18 years | UFC and WWE's public listing | Gatorade sells water

5 mins; September 14, 2023

Guzman y Gomez eyes ASX | Apple launches iPhone 15 | Google vs US DOJ

5 mins; September 13, 2023

CSL's billion dollar investment | Tesla's got a new secret weapon | Warner Bros' Hollywood dilemma

5 mins; September 12, 2023

News media plummets on Facebook | HESTA vs its members | YouTube enters gaming

5 mins; September 11, 2023

AustralianSuper's super-sized fees | Apple vs China | Nine wins a one-horse race for Melbourne Cup

5 mins; September 10, 2023

Bunnings goes from retail to commercial | Clubhouse attempts comeback | CommBank acquires free-agent Waddle

5 mins; September 07, 2023

Step One's overcome the chafe | Meta's ad-free subscription | Novo Nordick dethrones LVMH

5 mins; September 06, 2023

Qantas CEO steps down | Johnson & Johnson is rips off the Band-Aid | Stake.com's casino heist

5 mins; September 05, 2023

Liontown Resource's fourth acquisition offer | APRA comes down on Aussie super funds | Hilton vs ATO

5 mins; September 04, 2023

Aus Post's $200 million loss | JBL unites Amazon and Google | Chris Hemsworth's app is under the spotlight

5 mins; September 03, 2023

ACCC sues Qantas for cancelled flights | Harvey Norman's profit decline | Lego's growing market share

5 mins; August 31, 2023

Flight Centre's comeback | OnlyFans' $1 billion revenue | France is destroying wine

5 mins; August 30, 2023

Fortescue's CEO steps down | ChatGPT new Enterprise product | Natura & Co wants to sell The Body Shop

5 mins; August 29, 2023

Rolex's smooth moving acquisition | Tabcorp's post-break up glow up | Appen's getting volatile

5 mins; August 29, 2023

Kmart and Bunning's big year | Subway has been sold | Shein and Forever 21 collab

5 mins; August 27, 2023

Qantas' profit skyrockets to new heights | Nine's TV ads plummet | Nvidia's soaring AI revenue

5 mins; August 24, 2023

Woolworths' $1.6 billion profit | Wisetech's acquisition spree comes undone | Domino's rising pizza prices backfire

5 mins; August 23, 2023

Coles has got a theft problem | KFC's owner sees costs zingin' | Biggest US IPO in 2023 is planned

5 mins; August 22, 2023

Premier Investments' CEO steps down | A2 Milk's grim future | Estee Lauder's Chinese revenue slump

5 mins; August 21, 2023

F45 is delisting from NYSE | Spotify banning white noise? | Commbank's new payment product

5 mins; August 20, 2023

Dan Murphy's membership hack | Origin's $1 billion profit | Roblox's UGC

5 mins; August 17, 2023

Temple and Webster's new toy | VinFast Auto's valuation soars past Mercedes Benz | Life360's subscription revenue boom

5 mins; August 16, 2023

NAB rakes in major profits | Australia Post gets speedy | Monday.com's magical quarter

6 mins; August 15, 2023

Matilda's massive ratings winner | JB Hi Fi's profits slide | Hopin's business ain't so valuable anymore

5 mins; August 14, 2023

Cettire's luxurious growth | Newscorp's got the scissors out | Tapestry's $13 billion mega deal

5 mins; August 13, 2023

AGL's $1.3 billion loss | WeWork's 99% share price drop | Barstool sold back to founder for $1

5 mins; August 10, 2023

CommBank's $10 billion full-year profit | Invocare's $1.8 billion acquisition | Disney deep dives into AI

6 mins; August 09, 2023

Myer's slowdown in sales | Simon & Schuster sold to private equity | Canva's latest valuation drop

5 mins; August 08, 2023

TV networks fight for prominence | MrBeast sues its burger maker | Apple's 1 billion paying subscribers

5 mins; August 07, 2023

ACCC rejects ANZ-Suncorp merger | eToro's in hot water in Australia | Nintendo's profit record

5 mins; August 06, 2023

Seafolly re-sold for $70m | Uber's targeting a new industry | Pokemon releases sleep app

5 mins; August 03, 2023

Rio Tinto's dating again | Birkenstock prepares to IPO | TPG Telecom's $6.3 billion bid

5 mins; August 02, 2023

RBA puts rates on hold | $450 million acquisition of Bondi Sands | Foxtel is launching "Project Magneto"

5 mins; August 01, 2023

Luxury Escapes gets physical | Atomo's pregnancy pivot | Hermes is riding the Birkin wave

5 mins; July 31, 2023

Prospa's small biz customers are in pain | Mcdonalds' spinoff restaurant | Gucci owner acquires stake in another luxury brand

5 mins; July 30, 2023

Chatime braces for closures | Meta's ad revenue surge | Zimmermann's big acquisition opportunity

5 mins; July 27, 2023

Origin's profiting from volatility | OpenAI founder releases new currency | Spotify raises subscription fees

5 mins; July 26, 2023

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