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PLDT's first-half 2025 core income edged up to ₱17.6 billion on a ₱1.1 billion swing at Maya, while full-year capex guidance was cut to ₱63 billion from ₱68-73 billion and the board declared a ₱48 interim dividend.

Plantations and food products drove a 26% jump in pre-tax profit, but core net profit slipped 4% and Kuok Khoon Hong said the full year hinged on Indonesian authorities resolving issues with the group.

WARN notices show Oracle laying off 161 people in Seattle plus staff at its Pleasanton, Redwood City and Santa Clara campuses, with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure teams hit.

Oracle Health's all-new electronic health record, built on OCI with AI agents in every workflow, became available to US ambulatory providers, with acute-care functionality planned for 2026.

Philip Krajeck, of Rolf & Daughters and Folk, opens a calm New American bistro in a former Piggly Wiggly on Dickerson Pike.

Former Wendy's and PepsiCo executive Kirk Tanner became Hershey's President and CEO and joined its board, while Michele Buck stepped down. Maria Kraus, who also chairs the Hershey Trust, replaced Buck as chairman.

The former Horton Plaza mall, which Stockdale Capital Partners spent years converting into a 700,000-square-foot office campus, went to lender AllianceBernstein on a $130 million credit bid after a foreclosure auction drew no other bidders. Stockdale owed $384.3 million.

Private equity investor Bill Chisholm took control of the 18-time NBA champions from Wyc Grousbeck's group, which bought the team in 2002 for $360 million. The deal valued the Celtics at more than $6.1 billion, a record for an American pro sports team, with full control due by 2028.

Vuori signed world No. 5 Jack Draper, Britain's top men's tennis player, as a global ambassador who would leave Nike, debut Vuori at the US Open and design a signature line.

New York's Appellate Division, First Department, threw out the roughly $464.6 million disgorgement award against Donald Trump and his company as an excessive fine, while leaving the fraud liability and business restrictions in place.

The Konektadong Pinoy Act became law on 24 August 2025 without President Marcos's signature, letting new data-transmission players build and run networks without a congressional franchise. PLDT had urged a veto and said it may challenge the law's constitutionality in court.

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow starred in Alo's Conquer campaign for its men's high-intensity training line, which went live on Alo's site for a run through 19 September.

Nike Basketball named Caitlin Clark its newest signature athlete and revealed her interlocking-C logo, with logo apparel from 1 September and her first signature shoe promised for 2026.

Vuori by Kaia, a six-piece capsule Kaia Gerber co-designed from ’90s workout videos and her mother Cindy Crawford's paparazzi looks, went on sale in BlissBlend fabric at $64 to $118.

Former OptumLabs CEO and Amazon AI Services general manager Ranju Das takes a newly created role running Lululemon's technology and AI strategy from 2 September 2025, reporting to CEO Calvin McDonald. Chief Information Officer Julie Averill leaves in September.

Prosecutors charged former TSMC engineer Chen Li-ming, by then at Tokyo Electron's Taiwan unit, and two serving TSMC engineers with stealing 2nm trade secrets, seeking 14, 9 and 7 years in Taiwan's first indictment for theft of a national core key technology.

A Farmers Insurance customer sued Salesforce in San Francisco federal court, calling it the 'hub' of a breach that exposed the data of its corporate clients' customers.

The border plant that treats Tijuana sewage went from 25 to 35 million gallons a day, a 40% jump finished in 100 days instead of the two years first planned.

Nike confirmed on 28 August 2025 that it would lay off less than 1% of its corporate staff as CEO Elliott Hill reorganised teams around sports rather than men's, women's and kids', with affected staff told by 8 September.

Nike and StockX filed a stipulation on 29 August 2025 dismissing Nike's 2022 trademark suit over StockX's Vault NFTs and fake sneakers, about six weeks before a Manhattan jury trial was due to start; the terms were not disclosed.

On a podcast Marc Benioff said Salesforce had cut its support staff from about 9,000 to 5,000 because AI agents now handle half of customer conversations.

A software issue knocked Verizon Wireless customers from California to Florida into SOS mode for much of Saturday afternoon, with Downdetector reports peaking near 23,000 before service was restored by midnight.