Singapore – September 18, 2026 -- Trip.com Group Limited swung to a net loss of RMB2.4 billion (US$361 million) in the second quarter of 2026, reversing from net income of RMB4.9 billion a year earlier, after China's State Administration for Market Regulation imposed a RMB5.2 billion (US$763 million) anti-monopoly penalty on the travel platform operator.
San Francisco – September 18, 2026 -- San Francisco Health Plan (SFHP) has earned a 4.5-star rating in the 2026 NCQA Health Plan Ratings, the highest score in its history, as the Medi-Cal insurer covers more than 172,000 residents.
NCQA classifies plans scoring 4.5 or 5 stars as among the highest-rated in the country, basing the evaluation on clinical quality, member experience, and accreditation status. SFHP, created by the City and County of San Francisco, is the city's leading Medi-Cal provider, offering preventive care, specialty care, hospitalization, prescription drugs, and family planning services.
Redmond, Wash. – September 18, 2026 -- Microsoft Corp.'s board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.98 per share, an 8% increase of 7 cents over the prior quarter's payout.
The dividend is payable Dec. 10, 2026, to shareholders of record as of Nov. 19, 2026. The company also set the ex-dividend date as Nov. 19, 2026.
Microsoft confirmed its 2026 Annual Shareholders Meeting will take place virtually on Dec. 8, 2026. Shareholders of record as of the close of business on Sept. 30, 2026 will be entitled to vote their shares at the meeting.
San Francisco – September 18, 2026 -- Harness Web Application & API Protection (WAAP) scored a 99.8% Security Efficacy rating and 98.2% Operational Efficiency rating in SecureIQLab's Cloud WAAP v5.0 CyberRisk Validation Comparative Report, earning Leader status among 12 tested vendors.
SecureIQLab tested 12 leading Cloud WAAP vendors, with just six achieving Leader status. Harness was among only five vendors to satisfy both the Secure by Design and Secure by Default criteria, a distinction it also held in 2025 when its solution was evaluated under the Traceable by Harness name in the Cloud WAAP v4.0 report.
New Brunswick, N.J. – September 18, 2026 -- Rutgers University and RWJBarnabas Health launched the Rutgers/RWJBarnabas Health Innovation Hub, powered by Amazon Web Services, creating one of the nation's first technology hubs to unite a medical school, an academic health system and a cloud provider under one roof.
The facility combines Rutgers' academic and research capacity, RWJBarnabas Health's clinical reach as New Jersey's largest academic health system, and AWS cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure to address health care challenges spanning the classroom and hospital bedside.
NEW YORK – September 18, 2026 -- Sol de Janeiro has named Washington Spirit and U.S. Women's National Team players Trinity Rodman and Tara Rudd as brand ambassadors, expanding a multi-year partnership that already made the Brazilian-inspired beauty company the NWSL club's Official Body Care and Celebration Partner.
Sydney – September 18, 2026 -- Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) has appointed semiconductor finance veteran John Hollister as Chief Financial Officer, effective August 17, 2026, as the Sydney-based quantum computing manufacturer scales its commercial roadmap.
Hollister previously served as CFO of GlobalFoundries, one of the world's largest semiconductor foundries. He spent two decades at Silicon Labs, including 11 years as CFO, and held earlier roles at Cicada Semiconductor and Cirrus Logic. Based in the U.S., his mandate at SQC covers capital formation, financial planning, worldwide accounting, M&A, tax and investor relations.
Atlanta – September 18, 2026 -- Sensei, a Carestream Dental brand, has partnered with Zentist to deploy AI-powered remittance automation across dental practice management platforms serving U.S. dental service organizations, multi-location groups, and independent practices.
The tool digitizes and organizes Explanation of Benefits (EOBs) and Electronic Remittance Advice (ERAs) from 160 payers directly, with expanded access to as many as 1,500 payers and plans through Zentist's clearinghouse network. Billing teams currently rely on manual logins across dozens of individual payer portals to locate EOBs and resolve denied claims, a process the partnership aims to consolidate into a single dashboard.
Detroit – September 18, 2026 -- Caracal Products & Services has appointed Jim Wheeler, a healthcare sales strategist with more than 34 years of industry experience, as its new Vice President of National Sales.
Wheeler most recently supported business development and sales at Concordance Healthcare Solutions, where he worked with integrated health systems across Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana, providing consulting services aimed at reducing costs and increasing revenue for those systems.
Caracal President and CEO Donald Roberts said Wheeler's health care sales background positions him to work closely with customers on product selection suited to their operating environments.
Riyadh – September 18, 2026 -- MemryX and Lenovo have signed a memorandum of understanding to expand sovereign edge AI deployments across Saudi Arabia, building on joint platforms already running in the Kingdom's infrastructure and industrial sectors.
The collaboration pairs the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE455 V3 rugged edge server with the MemryX Cascade 100P AI accelerator to process video and sensor data on site, reducing latency and dependence on centralized, power-intensive data-center infrastructure. One live deployment runs real-time construction safety analytics, including personal protective equipment compliance and site safety event detection. A second deployment operates inside a port environment, running compliance and monitoring workloads across the operator's existing camera infrastructure without disrupting operations.