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Big tech firms like Apple and Google dominant our annual list of the most valuable brands. The only one to decrease in value this year? Facebook.
 
“We thought people would just see us as ‘another green company,’” admits Gaurab Chakrabarti, a former Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and cofounder of Solugen. His chemical-manufacturing startup, which now has over $55 million in funding, uses bacteria to make products that typically involve a highly toxic process. “We’re becoming a dominant brand.”
 
It’s a startling example of terrible estate planning: For months, Aretha Franklin’s estate thought she’d died with no will at all. Turns out, she did have a will—three of them, handwritten, composed at different times and stashed throughout her Detroit home.
 
Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti was indicted Wednesday for defrauding former client Stormy Daniels and attempting to extort Nike.
 
Wynn Resorts’ new Massachusetts casino isn’t even open yet, and it’s creating headaches for the gambling company.
 
More than half of America’s e-commerce sales occur through Amazon. But merchants are growing wary of doing business with the retail giant.
 
One leading expert on Ford thinks the automaker hasn’t done enough in cutting back and suggests it should slash 15,000 more jobs.

David Karp, the Tumblr founder, will donate $1 million to Planned Parenthood, becoming one of the most famous givers in a wave of donations that follows a controversial new Alabama abortion law.  

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