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Salesforce closed fiscal 2026 with $41.5 billion of revenue, up 10%, authorised a new $50 billion buyback, lifted its dividend 5.8% to $0.44 and raised its FY2030 target to $63 billion.

PLDT posted record 2025 EBITDA of ₱111.2 billion and core income up 1% to ₱34.6 billion, but reported net income fell 7% to ₱30.0 billion; the board declared a ₱46 final dividend and guided 2026 capex to the mid-₱50 billion range.

A US$1.14 billion gain from taking control of India's AWL Agri Business outweighed Indonesian compensation, Chinese legal provisions and a Pakistan write-down; the dividend was cut to S$0.14.

A Santa Barbara Superior Court upheld its July preliminary injunction blocking Sable Offshore Corp. from restarting the Las Flores onshore pipeline system that ruptured at Refugio State Beach in 2015, requiring 10 court days' notice before any restart. The ruling also clarifies that the Trump administration's December move to seize control of the system and issue an emergency special permit does not affect the court's prior decision.

Bruno Mars's fourth solo album, a nine-song retro-soul set made with D'Mile, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 186,000 units, his first No. 1 in nearly 13 years, led by the Hot 100 No. 1 'I Just Might'.

'APT.' is voted International Song of the Year at the first Brit Awards held outside London, making Rosé the first K-pop artist to win a Brit; it beat Mars' own 'Die With a Smile'.

The United States (Operation Epic Fury) and Israel (Operation Roaring Lion) opened a joint air and missile campaign against Iran; President Trump said Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed, and Iran answered with missile and drone attacks on Israel and US bases across the Gulf.

In the first year of a multi-year deal, Lululemon dressed the tournament's staff, officials and ball crew, ran an 8,000 sq ft pop-up, and Frances Tiafoe debuted its first sweat-concealing ShowZero fabric on court.

Debris from two intercepted drones, launched as Iran struck its Gulf neighbours, started a fire at Saudi Arabia's largest domestic refinery, a 550,000 barrel-a-day plant, and Aramco halted it as a precaution.

Qualcomm and Google disclosed a memory-corruption bug in an open-source Qualcomm graphics component, affecting more than 230 chipsets, that 'may be under limited, targeted exploitation'.

The seafood industry's biggest executive conference opened in Bergen with more than 1,150 executives, experts and investors, beating the previous year's record.

Ferrero split its top job: Alessandro Nervegna will run the core confectionery, biscuits and better-for-you business, while CEO Lapo Civiletti moves to lead Ferrero Ice Cream and WK Kellogg Co from 1 September 2026.

Florida shopper Alix Widmia sued Nike in federal court in Portland on 4 March 2026 on behalf of everyone whose data was exposed in the breach Nike found on 21 January, accusing it of lax security and of waiting until 25 February to warn customers.

Broadcom's revenue rose 29% to a record $19.3 billion for the quarter ended 1 February 2026, with AI semiconductor revenue up 106% to $8.4 billion, and it guided the second quarter to $22.0 billion.

OpenAI brings GPT-5.4 Thinking to ChatGPT, a frontier model combining GPT-5.3-Codex's coding with better work across tools, documents and spreadsheets.

Boyd Gaming brought down the 16-story Eastside Cannery tower at 2 a.m., six years after the locals casino closed for the pandemic and never reopened; the site is being sold for housing.

Maggie Gyllenhaal writes and directs a dark, comedic reimagining of the Bride of Frankenstein, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale.

Harry Styles's fourth album, a synth-driven dance-pop record made largely in Berlin with Kid Harpoon, came out on Erskine and Columbia and opened with 430,000 US units, the biggest debut week of 2026 at the time.

Salesforce said a known threat group was mass-scanning public Experience Cloud sites with a modified Mandiant tool and pulling CRM data through overly permissive guest user profiles.

For International Women's Day Alo runs 270 free Pilates, yoga, meditation and sound-bath classes with more than 100 women-owned studios in nine countries, as the Alo Foundation backs The Mental Health Coalition.

Aramco's board approved buying back up to 350 million of its shares, worth at most SAR 11.3 billion ($3 billion), within 18 months of 9 March 2026, to hold in treasury for its employee share plan. It is the company's first buyback; until now it returned cash only through dividends.

A week into the Live Nation-Ticketmaster monopoly trial in Manhattan, the Justice Department filed a signed settlement that caps ticketing fees at 15%, opens Live Nation events to rival ticket sellers and drops 13 exclusive amphitheatre deals - without breaking up Ticketmaster.

Nike told a special works council at its European Logistics Campus in Laakdal, Belgium, on 10 March 2026 that it plans to cut 411 jobs, 330 of them weekend-shift posts handling online orders, citing falling online sales.

Oracle grew revenue 22% to $17.2 billion, its first quarter in over 15 years with organic revenue and adjusted EPS both up 20% or more, raised its fiscal 2027 revenue forecast to $90 billion, and the stock jumped 9% the next day.

Thirty-two IEA member nations agreed on 11 March 2026 to release 400 million barrels between them after Iranian attacks slowed tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. The American share was 172 million barrels, the largest US release ever ordered, and Secretary Wright said it would take about 120 days to deliver.

Inditex's fiscal 2025 net sales rose 3.2% to €39.9 billion and net income climbed 6.0% to a record €6.2 billion, as the Zara owner posted its highest-ever profit even as reported sales growth slowed.