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NASA awards Blue Origin Mars telecom network contract
Blue Origin will build, launch and operate a Mars communications relay for NASA under a contract worth up to $700 million, with service targeted for 2030.
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A Valid Software Signature Is Not a Durable Authority Record
A green verification result can survive long after the authority that made a release legitimate has changed. The cryptography may still be sound. The missing evidence is organisational: who was permitted to sign, under which role, at what time, and what later revocation or…
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MiniMed's $843m Quarter Has Two Organic Growth Rates
MiniMed and Medtronic disclosed the same $843 million diabetes quarter on the same morning. One called organic growth 15.8%; the other called it 14.9%. Both calculations can be followed, but only after the denominator, adjustment policy and unfinished separation are kept in view.
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Enovis's €155m Enterprise Value Means €176m Cash at Close
Enovis has put one acquisition behind three different price measures and two legal gates. The arithmetic is public; the reconciliation is not. That makes the gap, rather than the headline, the first useful test of the eCential Robotics offer.
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UPS Prices $9 Million of Retention in Class B, Settles in Class A
UPS has attached US$9 million of restricted stock units to two executives carrying its new global operating model. The divisor will be the 1 September Class B closing price, but vested units will deliver Class A shares with ten votes apiece. That difference matters because the…
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ScanSource Booked US$161m of Recurring Revenue—and 33.7% of Gross Profit
ScanSource put three figures into its fiscal-2026 record: US$2.88 billion billed by Intelisys suppliers to end users, US$161.209 million of recurring revenue recognised by the company, and 33.7% of total gross profit attributed to recurring revenue. They look like successive…
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Yum Sold Pizza Hut China for US$1.2bn; KFC's 3% Royalty Now Has a 12-Year Rebate
Yum! Brands completed a US$1.2 billion sale that turned Yum China from Pizza Hut's local licensee into the owner of the brand rights in Mainland China. One 3% recurring fee ended with that transfer. Yet the relationship did not end: KFC and Taco Bell remain under a separate…
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OpenAI coalition urges faster AI cyber defence
More than 100 organisations are calling for faster vulnerability repair, shared threat intelligence and wider access to defensive AI for critical infrastructure.
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HPE Used 76m Preferred-Stock Equivalents in Q2 EPS. Conversion Is Still Open
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has already put one consequence of its Juniper financing into the common-share earnings calculation. In the profitable second quarter of fiscal 2026, diluted EPS included 76 million common-share equivalents from HPE’s Series C mandatory convertible…
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VeriSign's .net wholesale fee rises 9.99% to US$12
The important distance in VeriSign's new `.net` price is one tenth of a cent. Multiplying the existing US$10.91 wholesale fee by the registry contract's 1.10 annual ceiling produces US$12.001. VeriSign has announced US$12.00, effective 1 March 2027. The increase therefore uses…
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DICK’S US$1.74bn Foot Locker Sales Came with a US$31.9m Segment Loss
DICK’S Sporting Goods increased consolidated quarterly sales by 53.2% after acquiring Foot Locker. That growth rate crosses a change in ownership: Foot Locker contributed US$1.74 billion of revenue that did not sit inside the prior-year group. The more comparable records moved…
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Facet Delivered US$30m of Sales—but Twice the Forecast EPS Dilution
Facet's first quarter inside Donaldson Company, Inc. did what an acquisition is supposed to do at the operating line: it reached the top of the sales range, improved the group's gross-margin mix and produced operating profit. The per-share ledger was less obedient. Adjusted EPS…
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Bath & Body Works' 596 Partner Stores Do Not Define Its US$108m Growth Line
Bath & Body Works reported its fastest growth in a line called International and Other. The name sounds geographic and the company also disclosed 596 partner-operated stores. Neither description supplies the line's denominator. It combines franchise royalties with international…
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Deere's US$7.7bn Sales Receivables Rose as Its US$56.6bn Finance Book Fell
Deere finished its third quarter with two large credit balances moving in opposite directions. Trade accounts and notes receivable rose to US$7.723 billion, while financing receivables and equipment on operating leases fell to US$56.576 billion. The contrast is not a verdict on…
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Hormel Paired US$22.1m of Brazil Sale Cash With a US$56.1m Valuation Loss
Hormel's July closing notice withheld the financial terms of its Ceratti disposal. The August filing now supplies a cash receipt, an asset perimeter, a liability perimeter and a valuation loss—but not the licence to turn four different accounting clocks into one invented sale…
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Abercrombie's APAC Sales Rose 19%. The Region Is Still Under Strategic Review
APAC has produced two quarters of double-digit sales growth and a sharply narrower first-quarter operating loss. Those receipts improve the operating case, but they do not disclose the region's current profit or cash—and they do not close the strategic review announced in March.
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TJX Carries US$557m of Minority Stakes. US$483m Sits Above Its Share of Net Assets
TJX's two overseas equity-method stakes occupy a small line in a much larger retailer's accounts. Inside that line, however, the recorded value depends far more on goodwill and tradenames than on TJX's proportionate share of the investees' net assets—and the operating evidence…
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Trimble Cut T&L Goodwill by US$562m While Segment Profit Rose 19%
Trimble's transportation and logistics unit produced more revenue, profit and margin in the second quarter, yet its long-duration accounting value fell sharply. The two facts are compatible: one measures current execution, while the other compares a reporting unit's carrying…
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HP Validated US$10.9bn for Supplier Finance. Suppliers Sold an Immaterial Amount
HP’s supplier-finance note describes a door large enough for US$10.9 billion of unpaid invoices. It does not say that US$10.9 billion went through it. At 31 July 2026, the payment obligations that suppliers had actually elected to sell to financial institutions were immaterial.…
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Williams-Sonoma Collected US$200.2m. US$29.3m Waited in Inventory
Williams-Sonoma had already received US$200.2 million of tariff refunds and related interest by the end of its fiscal second quarter. Yet US$29.3 million of refund income had not reached the income statement: it remained attached to merchandise still held for sale. The split…