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The Federal Circuit affirmed without opinion a Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruling, won by Lululemon, that the challenged claims of Nike's patent on sharing recorded workouts to social networking sites are unpatentable.

PLDT's first-quarter 2026 core income rose 2% to ₱9.1 billion on Maya's contribution and asset-sale gains, while capex fell to ₱10 billion and free cash flow stayed positive.

The three biggest US carriers agreed in principle to form a joint venture pooling spectrum so satellite operators can reach phones directly and all but end wireless dead zones.

Egypt has inaugurated the $15BN New Delta project, moving recycled water across the desert to reclaim up to 2.2 million feddans of new farmland west of the Nile Delta.

B&W sold 12.4 million new shares at $18.50 each, raising about $230 million with the underwriters' extra shares, and Applied Digital bought about 540,500 of them. The money is meant to expand steam turbine and boiler production for AI data centre power plants.

Danny Harris and Marco DeGeorge agree to sell Bella+Canvas, the blank T-shirt business they started in 1992 and ran beside Alo, to wholesaler SanMar, leaving Alo as their main brand.

An Assemblée nationale fact-finding mission found contaminated formula stayed on sale for weeks after the alert and that five weeks passed between Nestlé's first recall and France's health crisis centre hearing of it, and made 12 recommendations.

Ferrero plans ten seasonal and limited-edition Wonka products across chocolate, candy, ice cream and cereal for the US and Europe, in an exclusive global tie-up with Netflix.

To end a Superior Court trial and a Lincoln Club repeal initiative, the city agreed to cut the standard trash fee to $38.75 from July 2027 and to end paid parking in Balboa Park by January 2027.

People on the top 12 mg dose of Lilly's triple-hormone shot retatrutide lost an average of 28.3% of their body weight (70.3 lbs) over 80 weeks, and 30.3% by two years in the extension - weight loss at the level of bariatric surgery.

Saudi Arabia's NEOM authority paused further construction on The Line, its 170km linear megacity, until after 2030 amid a sweeping scale-back of the project's ambitions.

Alo's first store in Australia: a 315 m² 'sanctuary' at Chatswood Chase on Sydney's Lower North Shore, opposite Lululemon.

Lululemon's first Greek store opened at Akadimias 17 and Voukourestiou in Kolonaki, central Athens, with franchise partner Arion Retail Group; a second followed at Golden Hall in June.

Aramco signed an agreement to transfer its stakes in the PRefChem refinery and petrochemical complex at Pengerang, Johor to PETRONAS, which will own and run it outright. Aramco committed $7 billion to the 300,000 b/d project in 2017; the sale comes as the Strait of Hormuz closure cut Saudi crude flows to Asia.

Prosecutors detained former Ombudsman member Yeka Hendra Fatika, accusing him of rewriting a 2022 cooking-oil report into ammunition for the palm oil companies' defence and of taking money from Wilmar Group.

Lilly moves into infectious disease by agreeing to buy Curevo (shingles), LimmaTech Biologics (staph and other bacteria) and Vaccine Company (Epstein-Barr virus) for up to $3.83 billion combined in cash.

The Los Angeles City Council voted 11-3 to slow the raises in its Olympic Wage ordinance, pushing hotel and airport workers' $30 minimum from the 2028 Games to 2030, as business groups withdrew a ballot measure to repeal the city business tax.

Lululemon gives two of Chip Wilson's nominees, Laura Gentile and Marc Maurer, board seats after the 2026 meeting and backs board declassification; Wilson accepts a standstill of about 18 months.

Salesforce's fiscal 2027 opened with $11.1 billion of revenue, up 13%, non-GAAP EPS up 50% to $3.88 as its $25 billion buyback cut the share count, and Agentforce ARR above $1 billion.

OpenAI updates GPT-5.5 Instant in ChatGPT and the API to be easier to read and better paced, with fewer long or bullet-heavy answers.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8, stronger across coding, agentic tasks and professional work, with the consistency to keep working on long-running tasks.