Jun. 09, 2021 16:30

RMRK Raises $6m To Build Polkadot’s Advanced NFT System Standard

RMRK, an advanced NFT protocol project, announced today that it raised 6 million USD to build the standard cross-chain NFT infrastructure in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem. Investors such as D1 Ventures, YBB, PAKA, DFG, and others are all betti...

Jun. 09, 2021 16:10

HKA Hires Linda Orton as New Chief Marketing and Global Business Development Officer

HKA announced today that Linda Orton has joined the firm as Partner and Chief Marketing and Global Business Development Officer based in the firm’s New York office. Linda will take over HKA’s global and regional business development and strategic ...

Jun. 09, 2021 15:40

Mary Kay Inc., Executive Producer of Award-Winning “Guardians of the Gulf,” Joins CEO Water Mandate and UN Global Compact Sustainable Ocean Principles

To celebrate World Oceans Day, Mary Kay Inc., a global advocate for environmental consciousness and corporate responsibility, today announced that it has committed to two crucial causes in protecting our world’s waterways: the CEO Water Mandate an...

Jun. 09, 2021 15:30

Enero Announces the Appointment of Heather Kernahan as Global Chief Executive Officer of Hotwire

Enero Group (ASX:EGG) has today announced the appointment of Heather Kernahan as Global Chief Executive Officer of Hotwire, the Group’s leading global technology communications consultancy. The appointment will see Kernahan report to Brent Scrimsh...

Jun. 09, 2021 15:10

Self Esteem Brands Acquires Digital Nutrition Coaching Brand Stronger U

Self Esteem Brands (SEB), the parent company of Anytime Fitness, The Bar Method, Basecamp Fitness and Waxing the City, with a mission to improve the self-esteem of the world, has acquired Stronger U, a digital, personalized nutrition-based health ...

Jun. 09, 2021 15:00

Sound Point Capital Acquires CVC Credit’s U.S. Direct Lending Unit

Sound Point Capital Management, LP, a credit-oriented investment management firm overseeing approximately $25 billion in total assets, is pleased to announce that it has acquired the U.S. direct lending platform of CVC Credit. Terms of the transac...

Jun. 09, 2021 14:50

Pratt & Whitney CSA Partners With Next Level Aviation

Pratt & Whitney CSA, the serviceable materials business unit of Pratt & Whitney, and Next Level Aviation, a leader in the global distribution of used serviceable materials (USM), have signed an agreement regarding the sale of USM for aircraft engi...

Jun. 09, 2021 14:40

Velodyne Lidar Set to Join Russell 2000®

Velodyne Lidar, Inc. (Nasdaq: VLDR, VLDRW), the first public pure-play lidar company, is set to be added to the Russell 2000® Index at the conclusion of the Russell US Indexes annual reconstitution, effective at the opening of the U.S. equity mark...

Jun. 09, 2021 14:40

ANANDA Scientific and NYU Grossman School of Medicine Announce First Patient Enrolled in the Clinical Trial Evaluating Liquid Structure™ Cannabidiol (CBD) for Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

ANANDA Scientific Inc., a biotech pharmaceutical company, and NYU Grossman School of Medicine today announced that the first patient has been enrolled in a clinical trial evaluating Nantheia™ A1002N5S, an investigational drug using cannabidiol in ...

Jun. 09, 2021 14:00

Investment In Robotics Research - Global Report 2021 by IFR

As the economies reopen from the pandemic, Asia, Europe and America adjust their robotics research funding programs (R&D). What are the targets of the officially driven government programs today? This has been researched by the International Feder...

Jun. 09, 2021 14:00

Thales Revolutionises IoT “out-of-the-box” Connectivity to any Cellular Network Worldwide

The award winning* Cinterion® IoT Suite Connectivity Activation by Thales greatly simplifies and digitalises cellular connectivity and the daily operations of industrial IoT device manufacturers and service providers. Based on standard eSIM techno...

Jun. 09, 2021 13:30

GIGABYTE to “Bring Smart to Life” with High-tech Innovations at COMPUTEX 2021

GIGABYTE Technology, a leading brand of computer innovations, continues its strong presence at COMPUTEX, joining the “#COMPUTEXVirtual” platform as the exhibition takes place online due to global pandemic situation. From May 31st to June 30th, GIG...

Jun. 08, 2021 17:10

Seabed Selects Velodyne Lidar Sensors for Mobile Mapping System

Velodyne Lidar, Inc. (Nasdaq: VLDR, VLDRW) today announced Seabed B.V., which specializes in high quality equipment for offshore surveying and dredging, has selected Puck™ sensors for its lidar mobile mapping system. The Seabed system is a turnkey...

Jun. 08, 2021 16:40

Agendia’s MammaPrint® Test is the First to Demonstrate the Ability to Predict Benefit from Extended Endocrine Treatment in NSABP B-42 Trial

Agendia, Inc., a world leader in precision oncology for breast cancer, today announced positive results from an analysis using its 70-gene MammaPrint® assay on samples from the NSABP B-42 trial. These results were reported as an oral presentation ...

Jun. 08, 2021 16:30

Holicity Inc. Announces Effectiveness of Registration Statement for Proposed Business Combination with Astra Space, Inc.

Holicity Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) (Nasdaq: HOLUU, HOL, HOLUW), announced today that its registration statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-255703) (as amended, the “Registration Statement”), relating to the previously announced b...

Jun. 08, 2021 16:30

Humanigen Announces Ken Trbovich Appointed as Senior Vice President, Investor Relations

Humanigen, Inc. (Nasdaq: HGEN) (“Humanigen”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on preventing and treating an immune hyper-response called ‘cytokine storm’ with its lead drug candidate, lenzilumab, today announced the appointment ...

Jun. 08, 2021 15:26

upGrad Aims to Close March 2022 at Half a Billion-Dollar Revenue Run Rate

upGrad, South Asia’s largest online higher education company, in its recently held company meeting announced that it aims to close March’22 at half a Billion Dollar Revenue Run Rate. Highlighting the future of online higher education, Ronnie Screw...

Jun. 08, 2021 14:55

Quorum Software Completes Acquisition of TietoEVRY’s Oil and Gas Software Business

Quorum Software (Quorum), a Thoma Bravo portfolio company and the global software leader dedicated to the energy industry, today announced the closing of the previously reported acquisition of TietoEVRY’s Oil and Gas software business. This transa...

Jun. 08, 2021 14:30

Visa and Goldman Sachs Partner to Modernize Global Money Movement

Visa (NYSE:V) today announced a global strategic partnership with Goldman Sachs Transaction Banking to help businesses - large to small - move money effortlessly around the world. Through its implementation of Visa B2B Connect and Visa Direct Payo...

Jun. 08, 2021 13:50

JEOL and SCiLS Sign a Distribution Agreement for SCiLS Lab MVS Software

JEOL Ltd.(TOKYO:6951) (President & COO Izumi Oi) and SCiLS, a division of Bruker Daltonics, announced that they have concluded a non-exclusive, worldwide distribution agreement for SCiLS Lab MVS software. The SCiLS Lab has been the software of cho...

Jun. 08, 2021 11:45

Phase 3 Clinical Trial Subgroup Analysis Across Solid Organ Transplant (SOT) Types Supports Efficacy of Maribavir Over Conventional Therapies in Post-Transplant Recipients With Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Infection (Refractory, With or Without Resistance)

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE:4502/NYSE:TAK) (“Takeda”) today at the American Transplant Congress (ATC) 2021 Virtual Connect presented results from a new subgroup analysis of SOT recipients in the Phase 3 TAK-620-303 (SOLSTICE) trial,...

Jun. 08, 2021 11:30

Blue Origin Announces That Jeff Bezos and His Brother Mark Will Join the Auction Winner on New Shepard’s First Human Flight on July 20th

Bidding is underway now at BlueOrigin.com and concludes with a live online auction on June 12th. Anyone interested in bidding in the live auction must register by June 10th. Registration details can be found at BlueOrigin.com. This press release f...

Jun. 08, 2021 10:30

Iksuda Therapeutics Closes $47 Million Financing Round

Iksuda Therapeutics (Iksuda), the developer of a new generation of antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) with raised therapeutic index, today announced it has completed a US $47 million (circa GB £34 million) financing round, co-led by Mirae Asset Capit...

Jun. 08, 2021 10:04

Rayence Launches 3D Inline AXI Detector ‘MIDAS 2121’

Rayence (KOSDAQ: 228850), a manufacturer of digital x-ray detectors, announced that it has launched a high-speed, real-time 3D detector, ‘Rayence MIDAS 2121’. The detector is designed to be optimal for 3D Inline Automated X-ray Inspection (AXI) sy...

Jun. 07, 2021 13:47

Schneider Electric Advances Corporate Climate Action with Global Supply Chain Decarbonization Service

Schneider Electric, the global leader in energy management, automation, and sustainability, today announced an enhanced global supply chain decarbonization service designed to help organizations address the significant emissions volume contained i...