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Verizon and BT agreed to combine their international enterprise networking arms into a 50:50 joint venture serving over 3,000 multinationals in 180-plus countries with about $4 billion in combined annual revenue; Verizon pays BT $625 million to equalize.

France's Senate cast the final vote on 29 June 2026 to definitively adopt the anti-fast-fashion law targeting Shein and Temu, after the National Assembly's own final vote on 24 June and a joint committee compromise reached on 17 June. The law introduces a rising eco-penalty on ultra-fast-fashion garments, from €5 today to €10 by 2030, capped at 50% of the pre-tax price.

From 30 June 2026 large listed companies across the EU are expected to have at least 40% of non-executive board seats, or 33% of all board seats, held by the underrepresented sex, the target date set in the Women on Boards Directive.

Constellation Brands' beer business grew net sales 2% to $2.28 billion in the quarter to 31 May 2026 while depletions slipped 0.3%, as Modelo Especial fell about 2% and Corona Extra more than 5% and Pacifico rose about 21%; comparable EPS was $3.43.

7-Eleven sued Nike in federal court in Dallas on 1 July 2026, claiming the orange, green and red stripes on an Air Max 95 Big Bubble due on 11 July, 7-Eleven Day, copy its Tri-Color Mark.

Tesla filed its opening brief in the Eleventh Circuit, with former Solicitor General Paul Clement arguing that Florida law bars the $200 million punitive award over the fatal 2019 Key Largo crash; the victims have hired another former Solicitor General, Elizabeth Prelogar.

Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter of 2026, up 25% and far above the roughly 406,000 analysts expected, and deployed 13.5 GWh of storage; the shares still fell 7.49% on the day.

Chainsmoker Cat is a slice-of-life comedy animated by Bibury Animation Studios about Yani, a catgirl whose life revolves around cigarettes she can't put down — her apartment ankle-deep in butts and ash despite repeated, short-lived attempts to quit. The humor leans on her self-aware but powerless slide into bad habits rather than any larger plot, adapted from the manga published in English by Seven Seas.

Crunchyroll used its Anime Expo panel to unveil Solo Leveling: Beyond the System, an A-1 Pictures film continuing Sung Jinwoo's story past the second season.

100studio adapts Tsuyoshi Takaki's cult shonen manga BLACK TORCH, nearly a decade after its Jump Square run ended.

Animated by Lay-duce, this 24-episode family comedy-drama follows high schooler Ito Hazui as her mother's sudden remarriage hands her four step-brothers to adjust to overnight. Most of the show's tension comes from her relationship with the eldest, Gen, whose standoffish manner keeps cracking to reveal quieter moments of care.

EXCEEDS: Gun Blaze Vengeance is Seven Arcs’ newest entry in the long-running Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha franchise, but it's a fresh original story rather than a continuation of Nanoha's own arc: thirty years after mysterious "invasive alien species" nearly destroyed the world, a UN agency called EXCEEDS fights to contain the ongoing fallout. It centers on Shina Hisase, a young extermination hunter on the remote island nation of Mizuho, trying to protect her younger sister Setsuna as the agency pulls her deeper into its operations.

Set during Japan's postwar economic boom, Grow Up Show follows the struggling Sunflower Circus troupe as ringmaster Maria and her performers try to keep the show running on a shoestring budget. Everything changes when they take in Mizuka Tsurumaki, a natural-born circus prodigy, and set their sights on a spot at the prestigious nationwide Circus Collection festival. Animated by A-1 Pictures, it is an original coming-of-age story built around the discipline and spectacle of circus performance.