LONDON, UK: Manchester-based cybersecurity firm Netacea has secured £4.4million in a funding round led by Mercia Asset Management, a specialist asset manager with c.£1.4billion of assets under management. Netacea provides defensive AI software against bot attacks that target mobile, web…
LONDON, UK: BHP and Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd (MDP) have signed Asset Sale Agreements to divest the Blackwater and Daunia mines, which are part of the BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) metallurgical coal joint venture in Queensland. Each of BHP and…
LONDON, UK: Gama Aviation Plc has conditionally agreed to sell the Group’s US MRO Business, Gama Aviation (Eng) Inc. (GAEI), trading as Jet East to West Star Aviation Enterprises for a value of approximately US$131 million on a cash free/debt…
LONDON, UK: LBG Media, the owner of the global leader in youth publishing LADbible Group, announced the acquisition of Betches Media LLC, a US-based media brand founded by women and focussed on digital media content production and publication for women….
LONDON, UK: Kelvin UK Bidco Limited, a newly formed company owned indirectly by funds advised by Apax Partners LLP, has offered to takeover Kin and Carta plc. Under the terms of the acquisition, each Kin and Carta shareholder will be…
LONDON, UK: Aukett Swanke (AIM: AUK), the Architecture and Smart Buildings group, announced the acquisition of TR Control Solutions Limited (TRCS), a developer of energy management software and provider of energy efficiency services. The acquisition is a further step in…
LONDON, UK: Bodycote plc announced the appointment of Jim Fairbairn as Group Chief Executive to succeed Stephen Harris on his retirement. Jim is expected to join the Company and the Board in March 2024 and become Group Chief Executive in…
Using Nvidia chips and software, Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract manufacturer, will build artificial intelligence data factories for products such as self-driving cars, the companies announced on Wednesday. At Foxconn’s annual Tech Day in Taipei, Foxconn Chairman Liu Young-way…
Thermo Fisher Scientific announced on Tuesday that it would buy Olink Holding AB, a Swedish company that specializes in protein analysis for disease research and drug development. The deal is worth $3.1 billion and will boost Thermo Fisher’s life sciences…
Fingerprint, a Chicago-based startup that provides a device intelligence API, has raised $33 million in a Series C funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners and Uncorrelated Ventures. The company helps developers build security solutions using information from hardware accessing…
ScyllaDB, a company that develops an open-source NoSQL database, has announced that it has raised $43 million in a Series C3 round of funding, bringing its total funding to $100 million. The funding round was led by Eight Roads Ventures…
MARYLAND: Choice Hotels, one of the largest owners of budget hotels, has announced a $7.8 billion offer for its rival Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, after Wyndham stopped engaging in private talks about a potential merger. Choice Hotels said it first…