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Celsius CEO John Fieldly told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday that sugar-free category is a dominant force on the energy drink market and detailed his company’s growth trajectory after a recent acquisition.”For the first time in 2024, sugar free is the largest segment of the energy drink category, and you’re looking at one of the best portfolios to compete head-to-head,” Fieldly said.Investors were impressed by Celsius’ recent quarter and its agreement to buy Alani Nutrition, a rival company known for female-focused energy drink brand Alani Nu, which is popular with social media influencers. The company said it’s set to buy…

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This interview is part of the Inside the Mind of the CxO series, which explores a wide range of critical decisions faced by chief executives around the world. In 2005, when nature enthusiast Martin Axelhed took over as CEO of Fjällräven—an outdoor clothing and equipment brand known for its iconic Kånken backpack—he brought a lifelong appreciation of nature from a childhood of hiking, skiing, and hunting in the Swedish countryside. During his two decades in the role, his main focus has been integrating the company’s founding principles of ethical environmental stewardship into a modern corporate strategy while driving growth in…

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U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters aboard Air Force One, en route to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on May 15, 2025.Brian Snyder | ReutersAs the Trump administration ramps up its student loan collection efforts, worried borrowers need to ask themselves a key question: Am I delinquent, or in default? The answer determines your best next steps.”We’ve had a lot of clients contacting us recently who are extremely stressed and, in some cases panicked, about their loan situation,” said Nancy Nierman, assistant director of the Education Debt Consumer Assistance Program in New York.More from Personal Finance:How many consumers are…

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In a Tuesday interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev praised the Trump administration’s attitude towards financial services and cryptocurrency, one day after the company announced the Securities and Exchange Commission dropped an investigation into its crypto business.”It’s nice to not have to play as much defense. I mean, frankly, in the last administration, we were playing a lot of defense,” he said. “There was an all out assault on not just crypto but individual retail trading in general with market structure proposals, predictive data analytics, which is basically an assault on AI and financial services…We’re fortunate to…

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LIZZIE O’LEARY: From PwC’s management publication strategy and business, this is Take on Tomorrow, the podcast that brings together experts from around the globe to figure out what business could and should be doing to tackle some of the biggest issues facing the world. I’m Lizzie O’Leary. A podcaster and journalist… FEMI OKE: …and I’m Femi Oke, a broadcaster and journalist. Today, we’re heading to Peru! We were on the ground at the annual APEC CEO Summit—a gathering of business, government, and thought leaders from the Asia-Pacific region. LIZZIE: In this episode, we unpack the crucial discussions happening at this…

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Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu | Getty ImagesIn the two-plus years since generative artificial intelligence took the the world by storm following the public release of ChatGPT, trust has been a perpetual problem.Hallucinations, bad math and cultural biases have plagued results, reminding users that there’s a limit to how much we can rely on AI, at least for now.Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot, created by his startup xAI, showed this week that there’s a deeper reason for concern: The AI can be easily manipulated by humans.Grok on Wednesday began responding to user queries with false claims of “white genocide” in South…

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