Trade Desk cut the price on its stock options to $12.26, and CEO Jeff Green’s 10-vote shares carried the shareholder vote
The filings give the vote count, what the reset covers, and the fine print that limits it.
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Saturday Brief: AWS Says 2027 Is Largely Sold Out, Security Stocks Jump on PHP Flaws, FICO Holds at $10
Amazon says its 2027 cloud capacity is largely sold out, and security stocks jumped while website owners patched a flaw in the code behind most of the web. Plus FICO’s price freeze for lenders who sign up, an Indian trading academy ordered to hand back its course fees, and a lawsuit aimed at Division III’s scholarship ban.
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Friday Brief: Congress Asks About VIP Perks, SpaceX Shops for Cell Sites, OpenAI Lines Up $30 Billion
Three members of Congress want sportsbooks and prediction markets to show what happens to a customer’s losses after the VIP invite, and SpaceX wants room on 80,000 cell sites. Plus OpenAI’s bridge round ahead of a possible IPO, a World Series between two clubs below the payroll floor owners just proposed, and FIFA putting the 2030 World Cup up for bid.
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Google Is Paying PJM Homes and Businesses to Use Less Power So Its Data Centers Can Plug In
Google added 1,070 megawatts to its Voltus virtual power plant deal on the grid that’s already short of capacity, under a contract that runs through 2040.
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Thursday Brief: Barclays Cuts 5,000 Jobs, DeepSeek Doubles Its Round, Apple Loses in Australia
Barclays is cutting thousands of jobs in the same results that handed shareholders more cash, and DeepSeek’s round doubled at the same valuation. Plus Australia’s order prying open Apple’s App Store, Meta’s new non-voting shares, and four years in which the S&P 500 beat pro sports teams.
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Australia’s Epic v. Apple orders cap the fee on outside payments by Apple’s own yardstick, and Apple says it will appeal
From March 1, 2027, iPhone users with Australian accounts get rival app stores and outside checkouts. The orders also cap what Apple can charge on those sales, tied to whatever Apple charges on physical goods.
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Meta’s non-voting Class C share lets Zuckerberg sell without losing control, and the board’s price was eight years in California
A one-for-one dividend of non-voting stock goes to every Meta holder after the new charter takes effect in January. The founder agreement attached to it decides who can actually sell it, and the filing names California’s Prop 40 as one reason.
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Tesla’s Standing-Vote Sign-Up Meets the All-Shares Bar Musk Set for a SpaceX Merger
Tesla’s new retail program offers two boxes that split on mergers, and the company’s own 2025 vote shows how a board-backed proposal can fall short of half the outstanding shares.
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Wednesday Brief: Bob Chapek’s Vail Retainer, SpaceX’s First Profit, Netflix’s Ad Cut, Utah Sues Kalshi
Oasis Management’s contract keeps Bob Chapek in the Vail Resorts board race until the vote, and SpaceX’s first profit as a public company owes plenty to interest income. Plus Netflix’s ad shortfall, Braze sold below its IPO price, and Utah suing Kalshi along with one of its market makers.
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Kalshi Research Finds 14,694 Traders Beat Its Prices, and the Rest of the Crowd Covers the Cost
A Kalshi working paper on 1.08 billion trades finds 0.15% of accounts forecast better than the market and pull prices toward the right answer. Its own numbers show who pays the market makers those traders beat, while Massachusetts sportsbooks cap the customers who beat the closing line.
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