HP tops revenue, profit estimates as AI PC and Windows 11 refresh boost demand

HP beat analysts’ estimates for second-quarter revenue and profit on Wednesday, helped by strong demand for AI-optimized personal computers, but warned ‌that rising memory costs would pressure margins. PC makers including HP, Dell Technologies and ‌China’s Lenovo Group are navigating a shortage of memory chips as data center buildout is sucking up capacity and ​triggering […]

Pentagon awards Microsoft $9.7 billion deal in bid to cut costs, end license sprawl

The Pentagon on Wednesday announced a ‌five-year, $9.69 billion agreement to consolidate ‌Microsoft and other enterprise software licenses scattered across ​the military services, the intelligence community, and the U.S. Coast Guard into a single contract vehicle, officials said. The cost-cutting ‌effort hands Microsoft ⁠a guaranteed enterprise-wide foothold across the U.S. armed forces while ⁠squeezing out […]

SpaceX set for fast entry into US, global indexes under new FTSE rules

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is eligible for inclusion in both the Russell U.S. Equity Indexes and FTSE ‌Global Equity Index Series under newly announced fast-entry rules, according ‌to index provider FTSE Russell. FTSE Russell, a London Stock Exchange Group business, proposed introducing ​a fast-entry mechanism for initial public offerings and revising eligibility requirements for its Russell […]