Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Spotify's second quarter of 2026 brought 300 million Premium subscribers and 777 million monthly users, revenue of EUR 4.78 billion (up 15% at constant currency) and operating income of EUR 655 million on a record 33.4% gross margin.

Umios, the Japanese seafood group formerly called Maruha Nichiro, grew first-quarter sales 5.3% to JPY 277.6 billion but operating income fell 29.4% to JPY 6.7 billion on rising seafood costs and currency effects.

Salesforce promoted revenue chief Miguel Milano to chief operating officer, while president and chief engineering officer Srini Tallapragada stepped down after 14 years to advise Marc Benioff for a year.

Heineken's operating profit (beia) rose 6.7% organically to EUR 2,170 million in the first half of 2026 on net revenue of EUR 14,834 million, up 2.7%, as total volume grew 1.6% and Heineken-brand volume 5.3%; it kept its 2% to 6% profit growth guidance.

H&M's designer collaboration with WARDROBE.NYC - Christine Centenera and Josh Goot's New York label of luxury essentials - launched in select stores and online on 6 August 2026, from $59.99.

The RealReal's second-quarter 2026 revenue rose 17% to $192.6 million and gross merchandise value hit an all-time high of $617 million, up 22%, prompting the online resale marketplace to raise its full-year guidance.

Ferrero's WK Kellogg Co is permanently laying off 117 union and non-union workers at its cereal plant at 2168 Frisco Avenue in Memphis between 7 August and 2 October 2026.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on 7 August 2026 that payrolls fell by 23,000 in July, with unemployment at 4.1% and May and June revised down by 103,000.

Lululemon's half marathon ran again for the first time since 2019, sending nearly 10,000 runners from 24 countries 21.1 km along Vancouver's seawall, won by Ben Preisner in 1:06:11 and Phily Bowden in 1:14:19.

Weekly Energy Department data published on 10 August 2026 put the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at 298.7 million barrels, down 6.1 million in a week and the lowest reading in the EIA series since January 1983. The stockpile had held about 415 million barrels before the Iran war began.

Sable Offshore reported $137.1 million of revenue and $9.4 million of operating cash flow for the second quarter of 2026, its first full quarter of sales since the Santa Ynez Unit restart, and ended June selling about 40,000 net barrels of oil a day.

Abbott and Google Health launched a multi-year partnership to bring glucose data from Abbott's over-the-counter Lingo sensor into the Google Health app, where Google's AI Health Coach will use it for personalized advice. The deal includes one of the largest real-world metabolic health studies.

Babcock & Wilcox signed for Siemens Energy to start work on 20 steam turbine generator sets of 50 MW each, 1 GW in all, for its FastPower data-centre program, on top of the turbines already ordered for the Applied Digital project.

Judge P. Casey Pitts entered the consent decree clearing HPE's Juniper Networks deal in a 41-page order that found DOJ leadership overrode its own antitrust staff, but held that 12 states and DC had not shown the Instant On sale and Mist source-code licence were against the public interest.

Stronger tropical-oil refining, Chinese soybean crushing and a first full half of India's AWL lifted pre-tax profit 13% to US$1.06 billion; the interim dividend rose to S$0.05.

Over-ear wireless headphones with improved noise cancellation and lossless audio support over a wired connection.

Chembur station opened on the Line 2B branch of the Yellow Line, taking the operational section to six stations after the first 5.8 km from Diamond Garden to Mandale started carrying passengers in April 2026. The station sits roughly 200 metres from Chembur suburban railway station and about 100 metres from the monorail, making it a three-mode interchange; Line 2B as a whole is estimated to cost 10,986 crore rupees.