Managed Stories
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Domino’s looks to better delivery to fight off rivals
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Skyworks misses estimates – hurt by Huawei ban
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Givaudan continues M&A spate with purchase of “much-respected” Drom
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How Domino’s is looking to beat delivery services and win the pizza wars
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Starbucks smashes Street’s expectations, share price jumps
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Cognex beat the Street – but weak guidance spooks investors
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Novartis CEO: Sandoz is not for sale
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Alphabet sees share price rocket after strong earnings beat
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BYD unveils new design hub to take lead on cars of the future
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GlaxoSmithKline celebrates major impact on Bangladesh health care scene
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Cameco “pleased” with Trump’s uranium decision
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Aptiv partners with Lyft and the National Federation of the Blind to bring self-driving to low-vision riders
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Novartis approaches record highs after strong second quarter
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Givaudan wants to enable quicker innovation and market access for start-ups – and it’s partnering with Buhler to do it
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Xylem: digital water is “already here”
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Mixed results send Domino’s down
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Amadeus looks to ethics with strengthened Key Travel partnership
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Charles River says new innovation lab will be open in “early 2020”
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Alibaba looks to ramp up the excitement over this year’s Single’s Day
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Compass Group snaps up “boutique” operator Dine Contract Catering
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Xylem Inc. announces ambitious new sustainability goals
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Baidu’s self-driving cars have racked up more-than a million miles in 13 Chinese cities
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Starbucks and Amazon partner on new football documentary
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Idexx Laboratories sees change at the top – board confident in future performance
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Viasat partners with Centre for Appropriate Technology and Indigenous Business Australia to build Real-Time Earth ground station
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As water crises loom, Xylem says smart tech is the way forward
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Global Payments acquires Total System Services in huge deal for fintech
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Project Loon heads to Kenya for first commercial trial
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BYD makes its way into London
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Self-driving cars get a safety blueprint
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Amadeus IT moves closer to smart airports with ICM Airport Technics acquisition
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GlaxoSmithKline puts focus on bringing drugs to market faster
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BYD in talks to provide India with electric vehicles
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Interested in a post-meat world? Givaudan’s got your back!
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Alibaba looks to double the number of brands it works with internationally
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Good news for Novartis as judge blocks generic competitors
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Xylem: why industry can’t ignore smart water tech
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Netflix: users may add other services, but they won’t cancel Netflix
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Alibaba looks to gamify ethics
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Chinese electric vehicle specialist BYD partners with Macquerie over electric trucks in Australia
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Givaudan opens new innovation centre in Switzerland, focussing on new solutions
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Baidu sees major growth on the way for autonomous car OS
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Cognizant makes second Irish acquisition in three months with Zenith deal
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As regulators mull break-up, Alphabet investors could see a 50% upside
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Domino’s Pizza puts delivery robots on Texas streets
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GlaxoSmithKline partners with University of California to spur drug discovery
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Compass Group to buy Fazer Food Services
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Alibaba announces that its voice-controlled assistant will feature in Chinese cars
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Starbucks gets spooky with Chinese ghost stores
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China is major market for electric cars – Beijing works to avoid a crash
Latest Managed Stories
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Domino’s looks to better delivery to fight off rivals
Gone are the days when pizza provider Domino’s Pizza – the world’s largest chain by store number and undisputed market leader – were only competing with other pizza chains. Today, a flurry of food order and delivery services, from Grubhub to ... -
Skyworks misses estimates – hurt by Huawei ban
Semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions reported earnings last week that failed to live up to analysts’ estimates after trade difficulties between the US and China hit its business. Skyworks produces a huge number of chips for the smartphone market, and ... -
Givaudan continues M&A spate with purchase of “much-respected” Drom
Givaudan, the global scent and flavour giant behind many of our most familiar smells and tastes, has been on a mission to pursue growth through acquisition this year. Now, that mission is continuing with the purchase of a major Munich-based fragrance house, Drom. ... -
How Domino’s is looking to beat delivery services and win the pizza wars
Domino’s Pizza is the world’s largest pizza chain by sales. And it wants to go further, hitting 25,000 stores and $25 billion in sales worldwide by 2025. With traditional rivals Pizza Hut and Papa John’s looking to turn around their struggling ... -
Starbucks smashes Street’s expectations, share price jumps
Coffeehouse kingpin Starbucks, the global leader in the luxury coffee market, smashed Wall Street’s expectations in all areas last week, sending its share price up. Perhaps most importantly, the company saw success in its second-largest market, China, at a ... -
Cognex beat the Street – but weak guidance spooks investors
Machine vision systems, sensors, and software maker Cognex reported earnings at the beginning of this week that beat Wall Street’s expectations – but declined from the previous year. This decline is not unexpected – it is common knowledge that the ... -
Novartis CEO: Sandoz is not for sale
In an interview published this Saturday, pharmaceutical giant Novartis’s CEO Vas Narasimhan sent a strong message to investors: the company’s generics unit, Sandoz, is NOT for sale. The reason Narasimhan reiterated this point was that Novartis’s ... -
Alphabet sees share price rocket after strong earnings beat
Shares of Silicon Valley giant Alphabet, the parent of search engine market leader Google and a number of other tech companies, skyrocketed at the end of last week. The reason? A strong beat of Wall Street’s expectations in its second quarter earnings report. ... -
BYD unveils new design hub to take lead on cars of the future
Chinese electric car market leader BYD, perhaps best known to readers of our newsfeed as the company responsible for outfitting a variety of cities around the world with fleets of electric buses, is looking to distinguish itself from competitors. China has fast ... -
GlaxoSmithKline celebrates major impact on Bangladesh health care scene
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and CARE celebrated the impact they have had on health care in Bangladesh last week. This marks the culmination of an ambitious plan by GSK Bangladesh to revitalise health in the Indian state. The company has committed 20% of its profits to ... -
Cameco “pleased” with Trump’s uranium decision
Last weekend, President Trump overruled his commerce department, deciding not to impose any new trade restrictions over nuclear fuel imports into the US. That’s a positive twist for a sector that’s had the threat of trade issues hanging over its head ... -
Aptiv, once a part of Delphi Automotive (now Delphi Technologies), is the car component and software company looking to enable futuristic technologies in the automotive industry. It specialises in self-driving software, connectivity, and electrification. You might ... -
Novartis approaches record highs after strong second quarter
Pharmaceutical giant Novartis saw its share price approach record highs at the end of last week, after revealing strong results for the second quarter of the year. The company’s success was driven by a strong portfolio of drugs, including psoriasis and ... -
Givaudan, the world leader in fragrances and flavours that’s behind many of the everyday tastes and scents we come into contact with, is passionate about start-ups. Specifically, it wants to help new players innovate and reach market more quickly – and ... -
Xylem: digital water is “already here”
Xylem Inc., the world’s leading water technology platform, says that digital water is already here. By “digital water” Xylem means the impact of new smart technologies on water infrastructure – something the company has long championed as a ... -
Mixed results send Domino’s down
Fast food giant Domino’s Pizza reported results for the second quarter of the fiscal year. The company beat the Street on some metrics, but fell short on others. At a time when competition in the food order and delivery market is high and getting higher, this ... -
Amadeus looks to ethics with strengthened Key Travel partnership
IT giant Amadeus, the provider of backend services to a huge range of airports and other players in the travel sector, is furthering a long-standing partnership with ethical travel company Key Travel. Key Travel is a travel management company that works with ... -
Charles River says new innovation lab will be open in “early 2020”
Charles River Laboratories, a provider of laboratory services for the pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotech industries, has announced that it’s opening a new south San Francisco accelerator and development lab (CRADL) early next year. The company says ... -
Alibaba looks to ramp up the excitement over this year’s Single’s Day
By now, you’ve probably heard of Single’s Day. If not, here’s the short version: it’s a kind of Valentine’s Day equivalent for single people that was cooked up by a bunch of Chinese university students some years ago, and is now the ... -
Compass Group snaps up “boutique” operator Dine Contract Catering
Global catering giant Compass Group has made another acquisition just a month after purchasing Nordic catering business Fazer Food Services for 475 million euros. The company in question this time is a “boutique” foodservice operator, Dine Contract ... -
Xylem Inc. announces ambitious new sustainability goals
Global water technology company Xylem Inc. is one of the businesses at the forefront of the fight against climate change and ecological disaster. So it’s fitting that it’s amongst the world’s most proactive companies when it comes to actually ... -
Baidu’s self-driving cars have racked up more-than a million miles in 13 Chinese cities
Chinese internet giant Baidu, the company often described as a Chinese Google, hosted its Create AI developer conference in Beijing at the start of this month, and investors got an interesting take-away. The company’s self-driving program has racked up more ... -
Starbucks and Amazon partner on new football documentary
Coffeehouse kingpin Starbucks is finally realising its dreams of moving into the storytelling space. The company recently announced that it was partnering with ecommerce giant Amazon to create a six-part documentary about soccer called “This is ... -
Idexx Laboratories sees change at the top – board confident in future performance
In one of the sadder stories this month, news has broken that Idexx Laboratories chairman, president and CEO, Jonathan Ayers, is taking a leave of absence due to serious injuries sustained in a bicycling accident at the end of June. Ayers has been a driving force ... -
High-speed internet enabler Viasat, which uses low-orbit satellites to beam WiFi connectivity around the globe, has announced that it’s building on its existing presence in Australia by creating a Real-Time Earth (RTE) facility in Alice Springs. The company ... -
As water crises loom, Xylem says smart tech is the way forward
Xylem Inc. CEO Patrick Decker has a clear message for utilities: smart tech is the answer to looking global water crises. Decker is worth listening to. As the CEO of Xylem, he stands at the helm of one of the world’s largest and most advanced water technology ... -
Global Payments acquires Total System Services in huge deal for fintech
Ecommerce player Global Payments, which powers the merchant end of cashless transactions, has just pulled off the latest blockbuster fintech deal of the year, but reaching an agreement to merge with Total System Services, a company that processes payments for ... -
Project Loon heads to Kenya for first commercial trial
Project Loon, Silicon Valley giant Alphabet’s moonshot that involves using helium balloons to broadcast high powered connectivity in hard-to-reach places, has announced that it will launch its first commercial trial over the next few weeks in Kenya. The ... -
Chinese electric vehicle and battery market leader BYD (in partnership with ADL) has just broken into a new market – London. The company has supplied numerous cities around the world with electric vehicles for public transportation, and now its tech will be ... -
Self-driving cars get a safety blueprint
Self-driving cars have been given the biggest and most comprehensive safety blueprint available thanks to Aptiv, Baidu, and nine of the other biggest players in the space. Given that self-driving vehicles are often billed by proponents as a solution to the millions ... -
Amadeus IT moves closer to smart airports with ICM Airport Technics acquisition
IT giant Amadeus, the company responsible for the back-end systems that power much of the travel industry, is moving closer to its dream of smart airports with a recent acquisition. ICM Airport Technics is an Australian provider of “passenger automation and ... -
GlaxoSmithKline puts focus on bringing drugs to market faster
According to Luke Miels, drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)’s head of pharmaceuticals, it’s time to take the foot off the break when it comes to getting drugs to market. Miels recently told reporters that the “old days” of “doing one ... -
BYD in talks to provide India with electric vehicles
It seems like Chinese electric vehicle specialist BYD is moving into new territories every month. At the end of June, the country in question is a potential goldmine: India. After BYD’s domestic market of China, India is widely seen as the next great growth ... -
Interested in a post-meat world? Givaudan’s got your back!
Fragrance and flavour giant Givaudan, the company behind many of the everyday smells and tastes we encounter in daily life, has been aggressively pushing into relevant food and drink trends over the past year. Now, it’s making a bold play towards the ... -
Alibaba looks to double the number of brands it works with internationally
Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba, the number one player in online retail and a host of other digital industries in China, is looking to make a bigger splash worldwide with the addition of a new platform. The company announced a new, English-language, portal on its ... -
Good news for Novartis as judge blocks generic competitors
Pharmaceutical giant Novartis got a win in the courts and on the market this month, as a judge ruled that generic competitors to its top-selling multiple sclerosis medicine Gilenya can’t make their way to market – at least, in the US. And until an ... -
Xylem: why industry can’t ignore smart water tech
The corporate world often talks a good game when it comes to conservation of resources and sustainability – but all too often, according to Xylem Inc.’s vertical marketing manager for industry, Vinayak Subramanyam, water gets overlooked. He’s worth ... -
Netflix: users may add other services, but they won’t cancel Netflix
Streaming video on demand (SVOD) market leader Netflix is confident that, despite a number of new competitors, users will stick with the platform. Key to that prediction is Netflix’s (very understandable) belief in its own original content. The company pumps ... -
Alibaba looks to gamify ethics
Chinese technology giant Alibaba has recently revealed that it’s working to make Chinese consumers more ethical. The company has been using s series of mini-games within its Alipay and Sesame Credit interfaces to encourage charitable giving. This bold new ... -
Chinese electric vehicle specialist BYD partners with Macquerie over electric trucks in Australia
BYD is a standout performer in the electric vehicle space. It’s outfitted a number of Chinese cities with electric bus fleets, providing cleaner, greener, public transport, and has a done the same for a number of European and Latin American cities too. Now, ... -
Givaudan opens new innovation centre in Switzerland, focussing on new solutions
Scent and flavour giant Givaudan, the company behind many of the everyday tastes and smells we encounter, has opened a new “flagship” innovation centre in Switzerland, its home country. The company already has a number of these centres around the world ... -
Baidu sees major growth on the way for autonomous car OS
Chinese search engine giant Baidu has announced that it expects big things from its new self-driving car operating system (OS) DuerOS for Apollo. The company said that it’s celebrating the software’s growth and looking to build on it at the Consumer ... -
Cognizant makes second Irish acquisition in three months with Zenith deal
Cognizant, the market-leading American IT group, has made its second Irish acquisition in just three months. Zenith Technologies, which employs 300 people in Ireland and 500 overseas, cost Cognizant an “undisclosed sum” and has forecast 100 million euros ... -
As regulators mull break-up, Alphabet investors could see a 50% upside
The US Department of Justice’s antitrust probe into Silicon Valley giant Alphabet – the company formerly known-as (and know parent to) Google – has investors concerned. On the one hand, Alphabet has plenty of experience in this area, given its ... -
Domino’s Pizza puts delivery robots on Texas streets
Fast food giant Domino’s Pizza is no stranger to the tech world. The company has managed to distinguish itself from competitors with a best-in-class app, and recently announced an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered “quality checker” software that ... -
GlaxoSmithKline partners with University of California to spur drug discovery
In the world of healthcare, CRISPR technology (effectively, gene editing) is the next big thing. Now, pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is partnering with the University of California Berkeley (UCB) to leverage the latter’s expertise in the field and ... -
Compass Group to buy Fazer Food Services
UK-based global catering giant Compass Group is looking to extend its hold on the North European market with a Nordic acquisition. The company it’s agreed to buy, Fazer Food Services, comes with a 475 million euro price tag – but it will expand ... -
Alibaba announces that its voice-controlled assistant will feature in Chinese cars
Chinese technology giant Alibaba announced on Tuesday that its voice-controlled artificial intelligence (AI) assistant will feature in local vehicles from giant carmakers Audi AG, Renault SA and Honda Motor Co Ltd. As the country’s premier ecommerce company ... -
Starbucks gets spooky with Chinese ghost stores
Starbucks, the world’s coffeehouse market leader, is working hard to retain (and extend) its top-dog position. One of the priorities in doing that is focussing on deliveries – a powerful trend in the restaurant space, as younger consumers look to have ... -
China is major market for electric cars – Beijing works to avoid a crash
China’s massive car market is, as regular readers of this newsfeed will know, a driving force in the trend towards electrification. But interest in the green technology has reached such a critical fever point that lawmakers are moving to prevent a boom-bust ...
