Managed Stories
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Global Payments’ TouchNet awarded ‘Partner of the Year’ by Ellucian
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Novartis gets European Commission approval for new self-treatment
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Starbucks brings high-end roastery to New York City
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What’s Starbucks’ plan for sustained success in China? Delivery dominance
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Google goes to Congress… but what did we learn?
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BYD Co. planning IPO for battery unit by 2022
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Eurofins expands advanced materials sciences footprint with Netherlands outsourcing deal
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Givaudan aims to drum up interest in Kitchen Ingredients for foodie brands
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Match CEO: What all online daters have in common
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Starbucks goes to war – with an unexpected opponent
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GlaxoSmithKline acquires cancer-killer Tesaro for $5.1 billion
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The Cambridge Analytica scandal demonstrates the power of Big Data in Big Tech
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Alphabet takes aim at disease-bearing blood suckers
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Fed: millennials are just like boomers… but poor
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Luxury titan Richemont, well-known for its watch and jewellery brands such as Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels, has reported “high single digit growth in watches” for the first half of 2018. The company said that watch sales increased by 7% year over year t
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Starbucks breaks new sustainability grounds by proving that you can recycle coffee cups
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Xylem CEO: “smart water is the next disruption”
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Assa Abloy finds first partners for CLIQ Go
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Bombardier in the lead for New Jersey rail deal
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Givaudan’s new fragrance and flavour site is focussing on Muslim customers
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Google announces new policy for political ads before EU vote
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Chr. Hansen works with University of Copenhagen and the Danish Technological Institute towards sustainable agriculture
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Compass Group sees a 7.1% rise in profit in full-year 2018
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GlaxoSmithKline has Silicon Valley top talent in its sights
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Domino’s Pizza wants to be the ‘official food of everything’
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Polypipe sees 10% organic revenue growth in four months ended October
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Alphabet pauses diabetes-diagnosing contact lens project
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China leads the trend towards electrification in the auto industry
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Givaudan targets 50% sugar reduction for new flavour techniques
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Novartis announces initiative to fund five new sickle cell disease proposals
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Connected cars are the future – and sales are set to rise
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Domino’s Pizza continues to embrace the innovative with eSports investments
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Alibaba sets new record for Singles’ Day – outsells Amazon’s Prime Day total in 10 minutes!
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Cognex reports third quarter, beats the Street despite declines
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Xylem reports strong quarter with double-digit earnings growth
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Cognizant Technology Solutions reports Q3 – revenue rises to over $4 billion
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Viasat delivers incredible quarterly earnings, share price surges
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Strong app traffic helped Baidu beat revenue estimates last quarter
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Hexagon earnings jump 13% from previous year, beats on sales
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Aptiv beats the Street on revenue and earnings
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Alphabet’s Waymo scores a massive win in California
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Givaudan invests in Indonesian centre, completes Centroflora Nutra acquisition
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Eurofins raises guidance again after strong third quarter and successful spate of acquisitions
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Alphabet’s third-quarter revenue misses by a fraction – share price declines
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Red Dead Redemption 2 is out – and it’s already being heralded as one of this era’s best ever video games
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GlaxoSmithKline turns to COPD inhalers as Advair sales dry up
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US authorities say self-driving cars need better safety measurements
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India breaks record for number of unicorns produced in a year – even though it’s only October!
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Domino’s expansion works for its delivery drivers – not against them
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Who says China and the US can’t get along? Baidu joins US-led AI group
Latest Managed Stories
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Global Payments’ TouchNet awarded ‘Partner of the Year’ by Ellucian
Global Payments, a market-leading provider of payment technology and software solutions, has recently announced that its TouchNet business was named ‘Partner of the Year’ by Ellucian “a provider of software and services that power higher ... -
Novartis gets European Commission approval for new self-treatment
Novartis has announced that the European Commission has approved Xolair for provision in “prefilled syringe for self-administration”. Xolair is the company’s treatment for severe allergic asthma (SAA) and chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) – ... -
Starbucks brings high-end roastery to New York City
Global coffee giant Starbucks is looking to bolster its luxury credentials in one of the swishest cities on Earth – New York. The company is bringing a high-end café and roastery just down the road from Wall Street, reiterating its premium coffee ... -
What’s Starbucks’ plan for sustained success in China? Delivery dominance
China is the market that global coffeehouse kingpin Starbucks has pinned its future growth hopes on. The country is massive – the world’s most populous – and its coffee culture is just beginning. For western experts, that presents the possibility ... -
Google goes to Congress… but what did we learn?
This week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who has previously been criticised for refusing invitations from Congress, finally appeared in front of US lawmakers. But what did we learn? Amongst some fairly minor, or fairly well-known, tech details, not a lot. Well, one ... -
BYD Co. planning IPO for battery unit by 2022
China is fast becoming the world’s major market for electric cars, and BYD is reaping the rewards. The electric car maker, which is backed by Warren Buffett amongst others, has an inside track in the country, and it’s looking at another way to expand as ... -
Eurofins expands advanced materials sciences footprint with Netherlands outsourcing deal
Market-leading global laboratory group Eurofins Scientific has found a new way to expand its capabilities. The company is well known for pursuing growth through acquisition, but when it came time to grow its advanced materials sciences footprint in the Netherlands, ... -
Givaudan aims to drum up interest in Kitchen Ingredients for foodie brands
Scent and flavour giant Givaudan, the company behind an enormous number of the things we smell and taste each day, is looking to push further into high-end food brands by supplying ingredients that meet specific requirements. Key amongst those requirements are ... -
Match CEO: What all online daters have in common
Mandy Ginsberg, CEO of online dating specialists Match Group, has spent a year in the industry’s top job. With a host of the world’s most popular ways to find love online – including Match.com, OkCupid, Tinder, and Hinge – the company is ... -
Starbucks goes to war – with an unexpected opponent
Coffee house Kingpin Starbucks is on the warpath. That’s not new – the company has fought the good fight against any number of social ills over the past few years, endearing itself to millennial hearts and minds. Previous (and current) adversaries ... -
GlaxoSmithKline acquires cancer-killer Tesaro for $5.1 billion
The continuing repositioning of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) under CEO Emma Walmsley, has continued with a new acquisition. Pharmaceutical giant GSK has been restructuring to focus on cancer treatments (amongst other things) over the last year, and its $5.1 billion ... -
The Cambridge Analytica scandal demonstrates the power of Big Data in Big Tech
Arguably, the tech backlash that’s muted stocks this year started early, with the revelation that political strategists at Cambridge Analytica had pilfered data from Facebook and used it to sway voters in the 2016 US Presidential Elections. Most of the media ... -
Alphabet takes aim at disease-bearing blood suckers
Google parent Alphabet Inc. has an interest in health care. The Silicon Valley titan counts Verily Life Sciences and Calico Life Sciences as its children, and other subsidiaries, like Deepmind, routinely veer into healthcare-related territories. But Alphabet’s ... -
Fed: millennials are just like boomers… but poor
A new study by the Federal Reserve has thrown common wisdom about the millennial generation into doubt. For what seems like an aeon, commentators have been claiming that millennials differ from the generations that precede them in a number of important ways, at ... -
Luxury titan Richemont, well-known for its watch and jewellery brands such as Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels, has reported “high single digit growth in watches” for the first half of 2018. The company said that watch sales increased by 7% year over ... -
Starbucks breaks new sustainability grounds by proving that you can recycle coffee cups
Paper coffee cups can’t be recycled – at least, not cost effectively. That’s the myth, and it is why many recycling services simply won’t accept them. Starbucks, long a corporate champion of sustainability (amongst other ethical concerns) has ... -
Xylem CEO: “smart water is the next disruption”
Global water technology company Xylem Inc. has a mission to “solve water”. And now, its CEO, Patrick Decker, has spoken out about how the company expects to do it. Xylem has made multiple acquisitions in the smart water area, and pumped money into ... -
Assa Abloy finds first partners for CLIQ Go
Assa Abloy Security Solutions has found its first spate of partners for the new CLIQ Go security app that it thinks will be the choice of the future. The company said that a number of security providers across the UK, including High Security Locking, William ... -
Bombardier in the lead for New Jersey rail deal
Plane and train manufacturer Bombardier is (reportedly) leading the pack in a New Jersey Transit (NJT) rail deal. The deal, which is for 999 new multilevel passenger cars “including options”, will be one of the largest contracts awarded in years ... -
Givaudan’s new fragrance and flavour site is focussing on Muslim customers
Givaudan’s new fragrance and flavour centre in Jakarta will be more focussed on Islamic preferences, the company has confirmed. According to a 2010 study, more than 22% of the world’s population is Muslim (at the time: 1.5 billion people). A Pew Research ... -
Google announces new policy for political ads before EU vote
After the last U.S. general election, and a slew of elections around the world, pressure is on Alphabet (the parent company of Google), as well as social media companies like Facebook and Twitter, to be more transparent in its dealing with political advertisements. ... -
The Danish Innovation Fund has awarded a grant to global bioscience company Chr. Hansen, working in tandem with the University of Copenhagen and the Danish Technological Institute, to develop natural solutions for sustainable agricultural production. The 3.9 million ... -
Compass Group sees a 7.1% rise in profit in full-year 2018
Compass Group, the world’s largest catering firm, reported the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 this week, demonstrating a strong underlying business that was seeing better profitability thanks to cost-cutting measures and a more lucrative pricing strategy. It ... -
GlaxoSmithKline has Silicon Valley top talent in its sights
Big Tech, look out – Big Pharma’s coming for your employees! That’s the message that pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)’s technology chief wants to send to Silicon Valley bigwigs. Karenann Terrell, who earned her stripes at Walmart ... -
Domino’s Pizza wants to be the ‘official food of everything’
At the end of October, Domino’s head of digital Karl Boyce took to the stage at the 2018 Festival of Marketing to explain how his brand is using the power of social media to become the ‘official food of everything.’ The innovative leveraging of new ... -
Polypipe sees 10% organic revenue growth in four months ended October
Since reporting first half results four months ago, British pipe manufacturer Polypipe has seen a booming business. The company said that, for the first 10 months of the year, revenue had grown by 4.5% year on year (4.1% on a like-for-like basis). But when you ... -
Alphabet pauses diabetes-diagnosing contact lens project
Verily, Silicon Valley heavyweight Alphabet’s experimental medical tech unit, has announced that it’s putting the development of a diabetes-diagnosing contact lens on hold. The project – one of its longest running – was originally heralded as ... -
China leads the trend towards electrification in the auto industry
China is the world’s biggest market for electric vehicles, and new legislation from Beijing will ensure that the market grows substantially in the near-future. Chinese officials are issuing what amounts to an ultimatum to all carmakers in the country – ... -
Givaudan targets 50% sugar reduction for new flavour techniques
Fragrance and flavour giant Givaudan, the company behind many of the tastes and scents we encounter in daily life, has unveiled a new set of flavour techniques that aim to deliver a 50% reduction in sugar without the need for added sweeteners. The company has a huge ... -
Novartis announces initiative to fund five new sickle cell disease proposals
Pharmaceutical giant Novartis has announced the launch of its 2018 STEP (Solutions To Empower Patients) program, and this year the company will be looking to ease the suffering of those with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). The company will solicit proposals under five ... -
Connected cars are the future – and sales are set to rise
According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the trend towards connected cars is about to deliver. Sales of cars that offer built-in cellular-network connectivity hit around 5.9 million a quarter at the beginning of the year. Then, they hovered there on a temporary ... -
Domino’s Pizza continues to embrace the innovative with eSports investments
Domino’s Pizza, the market-leading pizza house chain that’s as famous with investors for its innovative use of tech as it is for its fast food, has committed to yet another innovative spending strategy. The company is getting into eSports. Domino’s ... -
Alibaba sets new record for Singles’ Day – outsells Amazon’s Prime Day total in 10 minutes!
Chinese tech titan Alibaba held its annual Singles’ Day online shop-a-thon last weekend. Observers have been fretting about the event, wondering whether pressures on the Chinese economy – including the on-going trade dispute with the U.S. – would ... -
Cognex reports third quarter, beats the Street despite declines
Machine vision expert Cognex reported declines in revenue and earnings for its third quarter – the result of significantly lower revenue from its OLED display and smartphone manufacturing customers. This was always on the cards, and Cognex had warned investors ... -
Xylem reports strong quarter with double-digit earnings growth
Global water technology company Xylem is becoming more and more relevant every day. The company is a major player in the fight against a global water crisis and the most pernicious effects of climate change. During the last quarter, a major study was released that ... -
Cognizant Technology Solutions reports Q3 – revenue rises to over $4 billion
Cognizant Technology Solutions, a world leader in the provision of professional services to a wide range of industries, announced third quarter earnings last week. The company said it was continuing to shift services over to digital platforms, building new ... -
Viasat delivers incredible quarterly earnings, share price surges
Viasat, a provider of high-speed internet via satellite, reported earnings at the end of last week. Investors liked what they saw, sending the share price almost as high as the company’s satellites. As high-speed internet connections become more and more ... -
Strong app traffic helped Baidu beat revenue estimates last quarter
Baidu, the Chinese internet giant often compared to Google in the west, has reported better than expected earnings as its mobile app helped to drive traffic to the country’s biggest search engine. Baidu has suffered this year amid trade disputes, pressure on ... -
Hexagon earnings jump 13% from previous year, beats on sales
Geospatial measurement company Hexagon AB has reported earnings for its third quarter, beating the Street and seeing success in China and Europe. The group posted a 10% jump in net sales, and 13% in operating earnings (both on a year on year basis). Adjusted ... -
Aptiv beats the Street on revenue and earnings
Aptiv is a self-driving car company at the forefront of modern auto-trends. Heavily positioned to be a front-runner in the supply of systems that enable autonomous driving and electrification, the company already has partnerships with a number of carmakers, and is ... -
Alphabet’s Waymo scores a massive win in California
Alphabet, the company formerly known as (and now parent company to) Google, has scored a massive win in California. Waymo, Alphabet’s driverless car business, has been awarded the state’s first permit to test driverless vehicles on the roads! This is a ... -
Givaudan invests in Indonesian centre, completes Centroflora Nutra acquisition
Global flavour and fragrance group Givaudan – the company behind thousands of the scents and tastes we encounter on a daily basis – has invested CHF 2.9 million in a new commercial and development centre in Jakarta, Indonesia. The site, which totals ... -
Eurofins raises guidance again after strong third quarter and successful spate of acquisitions
Last Tuesday saw Eurofins Scientific, the market leading laboratory group, raise its earnings expectations for the second time this year on the back of strong third-quarter results and a spate of successful acquisitions. Last year was a bumper year in regards to the ... -
Alphabet’s third-quarter revenue misses by a fraction – share price declines
Alphabet, the Silicon Valley giant that owns Google, YouTube, and others, reported third-quarter earnings last week – and investors didn’t like what they saw. In a scenario that is eerily similar to what happened with Amazon’s latest earnings ... -
Red Dead Redemption came out at the end of last week, and it’s met with critical acclaim. Take-Two Interactive’s latest title (long awaited, after an eight-year development) has long been touted as a candidate for the biggest video game release of the ... -
GlaxoSmithKline turns to COPD inhalers as Advair sales dry up
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is hoping to compensate for drying up Advair sales by doubling down on production of APIs (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients) for COPD inhalers. Advair, a blockbuster asthma drug, will start facing generic competition any ... -
US authorities say self-driving cars need better safety measurements
According to Derek Kan, the under secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Transportation, autonomous vehicle developers need to find some better metrics to show that their products are safe. Kan told listeners at a conference on Tuesday that the way these ... -
India breaks record for number of unicorns produced in a year – even though it’s only October!
Despite the fact that 2018 is only in its tenth month, India has already broken its own record for how many businesses have achieved a $1 billion-or-more valuation in a year. These businesses, commonly called ‘unicorns’ are a sign that the Indian economy ... -
Domino’s expansion works for its delivery drivers – not against them
Lacklustre salary increases since the 2008 financial crisis – despite the rejuvenation of the global economy – are a regular fixture in discussions of labour markets. And the companion-narrative of big companies paying workers as little as possible while ... -
Who says China and the US can’t get along? Baidu joins US-led AI group
Chinese internet giant Baidu has become the first ever Chinese firm to join a “US supergroup” on artificial intelligence (AI), the Partnership on AI (PAI). The group includes big names like Amazon and Apple, and looks to “formulate best practises ...
