Managed Stories
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Live Nation conducts first ever experiment to measure brain changes from live music
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Just Eat: what’s next for food deliveries? Augmented reality
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Google looks to break into healthcare with data driven predictions
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Google is looking to embrace Chinese Ecommerce with $550 million JD investment
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Dropbox has unbelievable week, leads huge rally in new software IPOs
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Givaudan acquires Expressions Parfumées
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Compass Group CIO: understanding customer behavior with data
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Domino’s Pizza develops a new sideline – pothole repairs?
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How Emma Walmsley’s giving GlaxoSmithKline a new lease of life
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NASA warn that water shortages are “key environmental challenge of the century”
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Cybercrime now an existential threat to businesses
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Givaudan, Mixfit and DSM expand global partnership to conquer “personalized nutrition”
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Hexagon acquires NextSense, pushes further into automotive and other industries
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For many people, the looming water crisis is already here
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Viasat beats the Street on revenue in fourth quarter
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Assa Abloy acquires Pioneer Industries
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Givaudan completes Centroflora Nutra acquisition
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Just Eat ties its fortunes to Love Island
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Hexagon acquires ProCAM Srl, pushes into Italy
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Apitv’s share price jumped in May thanks to a strong first quarter
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GSK’s CFO set to retire next year
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Compass Group gets narrowed focus under new CEO
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Xylem’s tech to bring low cost drinking water to yet another city
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Alibaba to bring online training to the travel industry
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Dropbox beats the Street on every metric, sending the share price… down?
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Eurofins Scientific acquires PHAST – extends biopharmaceutical leadership in Germany
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GoDaddy continues to outperform in first quarter
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Tetra Tech reports solid second quarter results
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AerCap Holdings’ first quarter indicates continued strong demand for air travel
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Hexagon sticks to targets despite difficult first quarter
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Xylem sees “strong double-digit” growth in first quarter of 2018
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Givaudan: scent and flavor market leader sees shake up at the top
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Just Eat is FTSE 100’s top mover on Tuesday thanks to strong first quarter
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Compass Group ends April with Stop Food Waste Day
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Can PayPal go it alone? According to its first quarter – yes!
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A. O. Smith’s first quarter: double-digit earnings growth, record sales
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Domino’s Pizza reports earnings beat in first quarter
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Baidu’s share price surged last week thanks to earnings beat
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Google: stellar sales, significant spending
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Wolters Kluwer highlights sustainable options for Earth Day
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GSK poaches top talent for R&D – Walmsley’s mission continues
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Is Domino’s transitioning to become a delivery anywhere service?
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Xylem Inc. on supplying the world’s tallest building with water
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Silicon Valley needs to agree “AI principles” to work with military
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Carnival Corporation comes out for same-sex marriages in Bermuda
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Viasat to use Wi-Fi hotspots to bring all of Mexico online
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Eurofins Scientific pushes further into domestic market
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Assa Abloy introduces “Intelligent Keys” certification program
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Just Eat electric fleet is ready to go at a discounted price
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Givaudan sees “good start” to the year, despite slight sales miss
Latest Managed Stories
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Live Nation conducts first ever experiment to measure brain changes from live music
Event hosting and ticket selling market leader Live Nation conducted a first-of-its-kind experiment to see what happens to people’s brains when they attend a live music venue. In partnership with Cisco and TBD Labs, as well as a team of neuroscientists, the ... -
Just Eat: what’s next for food deliveries? Augmented reality
According to market leading online food order and delivery service Just Eat, augmented reality (AR) is the next big thing when it comes to driving sales on social media. The company says it’s testing how effective AR ads are in this space using a special ... -
Google looks to break into healthcare with data driven predictions
Google, the alphabet-owned internet giant synonymous with its search engine and renowned as a market leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and innovation, is making headway in a new area: healthcare. Well, not really new – the company has been interested in ... -
Google is looking to embrace Chinese Ecommerce with $550 million JD investment
Google’s search engine and related services might not have been able to make it past the Great Firewall (the Chinese state’s hard border of internet services and content that has locked out most international internet companies), but that doesn’t ... -
Dropbox has unbelievable week, leads huge rally in new software IPOs
2018 might have witnessed a “tech backlash” over its first half, but the effect it’s had on the technology sector overall, for the most part, appears to be underwhelming. Even the companies at the heart of the storm seem to be holding up okay, and ... -
Givaudan acquires Expressions Parfumées
Global scent and flavour kingpin Givaudan has acquired French fragrance house Expressions Parfumées, taking control from shareholders Orfite and Expressions Parfumées management. The deal was announced as early as January this year, but has finally ... -
Compass Group CIO: understanding customer behavior with data
Catering giant Compass Group’s chief information officer, Fiona Humphreys, recently elaborated the importance of a data-driven approach to customer behavior. Humphreys, who is widely recognized for advancing Compass Group’s IT skills through a ... -
Domino’s Pizza develops a new sideline – pothole repairs?
Domino’s Pizza is looking to give something back to local communities in the U.S. – better roads. Under its “Paving for Pizza” initiative, the company is looking to “smooth the ride home” for pizza deliveries by repairing potholes ... -
How Emma Walmsley’s giving GlaxoSmithKline a new lease of life
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is a global drug giant with a three-century history. The last year of that history has been under the watchful eye of the company’s new CEO, Emma Walmsley. She recently sat down with reporters from Fortune to detail how she sees her role ... -
NASA warn that water shortages are “key environmental challenge of the century”
Scientists at NASA have warned that water shortages are “likely to be the key environmental challenge of this century.” The announcement comes after new data pointed to “a drying out” of huge swaths of the world. 19 “hotspots” of ... -
Cybercrime now an existential threat to businesses
Cybercriminals worldwide now manage to rake in “at least” $1.5 trillion annually, according to digital strategist Marc Wilczek. To conceptualise the scale of that figure, he illustrates it thusly: “if cybercrime were a country, it would have the ... -
Givaudan, Mixfit and DSM expand global partnership to conquer “personalized nutrition”
“Perosnalised nutrition” is the latest craze in the health and wellness sector, and Givaudan and DSM are partnering with Mixfit to conquer the trend. Mixfit will deliver “real-time personalized and flavorful nutritional drinks for consumers through ... -
Hexagon acquires NextSense, pushes further into automotive and other industries
Hexagon AB, a “global provider of information technology products” that focuses on measurement and metrics for a variety of industries, has acquired NextSense, a company “specializing in non-contact profile measurement and surface inspection in the ... -
For many people, the looming water crisis is already here
There are few places in the world that illustrate Dominion’s interest in water technology as profoundly as Cape Town, South Africa. There, daily water use is capped to 50 liters per person. That’s less than a third of the daily water use of the average ... -
Viasat beats the Street on revenue in fourth quarter
Viasat, the leading U.S. provider of internet services in poor coverage areas, reported fourth quarter earnings a few days ago, demonstrating a robust business that’s in a strong position to capitalize on important trends in connectivity. While the report ... -
Assa Abloy acquires Pioneer Industries
The world’s largest lock maker, Assa Abloy, has signed an agreement to acquire Pioneer Industries, a U.S.-based manufacturer and supplier of steel doors and frames for the commercial market. Pioneer has a 90 year history, and (according to its website) has ... -
Givaudan completes Centroflora Nutra acquisition
Frangrance and flavour giant Givaudan completed its acquisition of Centroflora Nutra this month. Centroflora Nutra is the nutrition division of Centroflora Group, which is a global leader in the manufacturing of “natural extracts” such as botanical ... -
Just Eat ties its fortunes to Love Island
Take away food order and delivery service Just Eat is stumping up sponsorship for an unlikely UK property: reality TV show Love Island. The concept behind the program is simple: a group of British singletons are sent to Majorca where they get to sun themselves and ... -
Hexagon acquires ProCAM Srl, pushes into Italy
Hexagon, the industrial measurement specialists that use a range of high-tech tools to help a variety of industries conceptualise space, has acquired ProCam Srl, an Italian distributor of some of its software solutions. ProCAM was founded in 1995 with a pretty ... -
Apitv’s share price jumped in May thanks to a strong first quarter
Aptiv, the self-driving, connected car, and related tech company that used to be Delphi Automotive, reported a strong first quarter at the beginning of May, sending its share price higher. The company is perfectly positioned to be a key player in the trend towards ... -
GSK’s CFO set to retire next year
Glaxosmithkline (GSK) is set to see yet more change at the top. The pharmaceutical giant is still evolving as CEO Emma Walmsley – who took the reigns just over a year ago, in April 2017 – looks to shuffle her senior team and poach new talent from ... -
Compass Group gets narrowed focus under new CEO
Earlier this year, Dominic Blakemore, the new chief executive at the world’s biggest catering firm, Compass Group, got a nasty shock: his predecessor had been killed in a plane accident, and he had to step up to the role early. It was a tragic event that left ... -
Xylem’s tech to bring low cost drinking water to yet another city
Global water technology company Xylem Inc. is quietly seeing its products installed in cities all over the globe, the latest of which is Grand Forks in North Dakota. As the world faces a water crisis – the inevitable convergence of trends towards global ... -
Alibaba to bring online training to the travel industry
Ecommerce giant Alibaba wants Chinese online travel agents to do a better job. That’s why its opening a “New Tourism Academy” to help the players in this hypercompetitive industry to excel. The course content will focus on the online elements of ... -
Dropbox beats the Street on every metric, sending the share price… down?
Cloud software company Dropbox reported earnings earlier this month that demonstrated incredible strength: the company beat on revenue, earnings, and offered a higher guidance than analysts had been hoping to see. It gained more users than the consensus estimates ... -
Eurofins Scientific acquires PHAST – extends biopharmaceutical leadership in Germany
Eurofins Scientific, a global leader in the biopharmaceutical testing industry, has just extended its market share in Europe. The company has pursued growth through acquisition for some time now, and its latest purchase – PHAST Gesellschaft für ... -
GoDaddy continues to outperform in first quarter
GoDaddy, the world’s largest cloud platform dedicated to small independent ventures reported earnings this month, demonstrating a strong underlying business in the first quarter of 2018. The company is looking towards a partnership with Amazon Web Services to ... -
Tetra Tech reports solid second quarter results
Engineering company Tetra Tech reported second quarter results that exceeded its own guidance in May. The company said that revenue for the three months ended April 1 totaled $700 million, a 5% increase from the previous year. Earnings per share came in at $0.54, a ... -
AerCap Holdings’ first quarter indicates continued strong demand for air travel
AerCap Holdings is the world’s largest independent aircraft leasing company, and its first quarter results for the year demonstrate a strong underlying demand for its service. The company reported a net income of $265.4 million for the three months just ... -
Hexagon sticks to targets despite difficult first quarter
Industrial technology company Hexagon, which is at the forefront of the market for a range of productivity-increasing measurement tools, reported first quarter earnings last week. Despite posting a significant rise in earnings, the numbers missed analysts’ ... -
Xylem sees “strong double-digit” growth in first quarter of 2018
Global water technology company Xylem Inc. saw a strong start to 2018, revealing last week that it achieved “double-digit” growth over the 3-month period. The company is poised to become ever more relevant due to the convergence of two trends: a warming ... -
Givaudan: scent and flavor market leader sees shake up at the top
World-leading scent and flavor maker Givaudan will see further changes to its senior management team, as head of global science and technology, Chris Thoen, announces his retirement. Thoen has spent seven years at Givaudan. He started his tenure as head of science ... -
Just Eat is FTSE 100’s top mover on Tuesday thanks to strong first quarter
Just Eat’s share price surged this week, becoming the FTSE 100’s top riser on Tuesday morning. The jump was a direct result of the company’s strong first quarter, coming on the back of its earning release, which demonstrated a strong underlying ... -
Compass Group ends April with Stop Food Waste Day
Global catering company Compass Group ended April with an initiative designed to support the global food chain: Stop Food Waste Day. On the 27th April, the company committed itself to educating the public about the growing issue of food waste. It staged events in 30 ... -
Can PayPal go it alone? According to its first quarter – yes!
In February, eBay announced that it would be processing its own payments as soon as possible, turning its back on payment provider PayPal, which was once a part of the Ecommerce auction site. Investors were unanimous in their concern: could PayPal go it alone? If ... -
A. O. Smith’s first quarter: double-digit earnings growth, record sales
Water treatment company A. O. Smith gave investors cause for celebration at the end of April, reporting adjusted net earnings of $103.8 million for the first quarter of the year, or 60¢ per share. That’s a year-on-year increase of 18%, and it all comes ... -
Domino’s Pizza reports earnings beat in first quarter
The world’s largest pizza company by sales, Domino’s Pizza, reported first quarter earnings that beat analysts; expectations and demonstrated a positive forward momentum at the beginning of 2018. The company saw strong performance in all segments: its ... -
Baidu’s share price surged last week thanks to earnings beat
Chinese internet titan Baidu blew analysts’ expectations out of the water last week when it reported quarterly earnings, sending its share price up by 7%. The company said that adjusted first quarter earnings rose by an incredible 139% from the previous year ... -
Google: stellar sales, significant spending
Silicon Valley Titan Alphabet has reported its first quarter earnings, and, as usual, the bottom line is all about Google. Here’s what you need to know in brief: it was a great quarter that saw Google post the strongest its strongest sales figures in almost ... -
Wolters Kluwer highlights sustainable options for Earth Day
Wolters Kluwer takes sustainability seriously. In 2015, the company introduced “a framework for sustainable innovation focused on economic, social, and environmental impact,” which contributes to the planet’s wellbeing all year round. However, for ... -
GSK poaches top talent for R&D – Walmsley’s mission continues
Emma Walmsley, new CEO of healthcare giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is continuing her aggressive pursuance of key players in the industry to develop a first rate R&D showing. This time, she’s poached Kevin Sin, an ex-Genentech exec who will become senior vice ... -
Is Domino’s transitioning to become a delivery anywhere service?
If you want a takeaway delivered to your location you have to have… well, a location. For obvious reasons, the traditional method for takeaway orders has been to require a full address, offering companies some protection from prank orders and ... -
Xylem Inc. on supplying the world’s tallest building with water
Global water technology company Xylem Inc. is a world leader when it comes to supplying the equipment needed to facilitate good water systems around the globe. In a recent article in the company’s magazine, this is made clear in reference to the fact that its ... -
Silicon Valley needs to agree “AI principles” to work with military
Eric Schmidt, former CEO and chairman of Silicon Valley titan Google, said on Tuesday that big tech needed to agree on how to work with the military. Schmidt, who remains an Alphabet board member, was testifying before the House Armed Services Committee last week in ... -
Carnival Corporation comes out for same-sex marriages in Bermuda
Bermuda’s government became the first to reverse the legalization of gay marriage in February, when the Domestic Partnership Act was signed into law. It bans same-sex marriage, while allowing same-sex couples similar rights to those of married people under ... -
Viasat to use Wi-Fi hotspots to bring all of Mexico online
Satellite internet company Viasat will use its “Community Wi-Fi” program to bridge a digital divide in Mexico, offering affordable Wi-Fi hotspots all around the country. This service will function even in places where Wi-Fi has traditionally been ... -
Eurofins Scientific pushes further into domestic market
Leading laboratory group Eurofins Scientific has been using acquisitions to grow market share worldwide for years. But it’s not averse to applying the same strategy to its domestic market in France. The company recently announced that it has acquired Protec ... -
Assa Abloy introduces “Intelligent Keys” certification program
The world’s biggest lock maker, Assa Abloy, is introducing a new “Intelligent Keys” certification program as it pushes further into connectivity, a trend it says will revolutionise the security market. The company’s Intelligent Key Solutions ... -
Just Eat electric fleet is ready to go at a discounted price
Food order and takeaway specialist Just Eat is mobilizing a fleet of electric scooters, which it will offer (along with “green energy”) to independent restaurants at a cut-price. The “significant discounts” offered to partner restaurants is a ... -
Givaudan sees “good start” to the year, despite slight sales miss
Flavour and fragrance giant Givaudan, which is behind many of the scents and tastes we encounter on a daily basis, reported its first quarter results for 2018. The results were exclusively positive and, according to the company, constitute a “good start” ...
