As the UN Food Systems Summit +4 wraps up in Addis Ababa, Wawira Njiru, Founder and CEO of Food4Education, takes the TED stage with a powerful message: Africa is not waiting for answers, it’s creating them. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250730384724/en/Wawira Njiru, Founder and CEO of Food4Education, spotlights Tap2Eat — the NFC wristband powering Kenya’s school feeding infrastructure for over 500,000 children — giv...
Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR), an automated global electronic broker, today announced the expansion of Forecast Contracts into Europe. These event-based contracts allow investors to take positions on clearly defined outcomes related to financial, economic and climate indicators. Trading is available nearly 24 hours a day, 6 days a week. Forecast Contracts provide a straightforward way to express a view or manage risk tied to a specific event. Each Forecast Contract is based on a simple y...
Expereo, the world-leading managed Network as a Service (NaaS) company that connects people, places and things anywhere, today announces the appointment of Julian Skeels as its Chief Digital Officer (CDO). Julian joins Expereo with a career history from Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and most recently Keystone Education Group, where he has been responsible for driving product evolution and digital customer experience. In the role of Chief Digital Officer, Julian will report directly to CEO Ben Elms...
A diverse group of global companies across the video ecosystem has joined Access Advance's Video Distribution Patent ("VDP") Pool and is now sharing why they selected this pool. Positioned as a balanced, transparent, and comprehensive video codec licensing solution for the video streaming industry, the pool brings together major patent holders, video platform operators, and stakeholders in the consumer device market in an effort to help the industry navigate the complex licensing challenges in ...
Ant International, a leading global provider of digital payments, digitization, and financial technology, has been recognised in the CNBC World’s Top Fintech Companies 2025 list under the Payments category. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250721248882/en/Ant International, a leading global provider of digital payments, digitization, and financial technology, has been recognised in the CNBC World’s Top Fintech Companie...
Compass Pathways plc (Nasdaq: CMPS), a biotechnology company dedicated to accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health, announced today that it will release financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2025, and provide an update on recent developments, on July 31, 2025. Compass management will host a conference call at 8:00 am ET (1:00 pm UK) on July 31, 2025. A live webcast of the call will be available on the Compass Pathways website at: Second Quart...
Access Advance LLC today announced that the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Roku Inc. seeking to compel the Court to set a global fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) royalty rate for the HEVC Advance Patent Pool. Judge Richard G. Stearns determined that his Court "lacks jurisdiction to determine" a global FRAND royalty rate, noting that the “US patents constitute only a fraction of a larger portfolio.” The Court further concluded ...
Textron Aviation Defense LLC, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, today announced its offering of the Beechcraft M-346N jet as a “ready-now” solution from an iconic American company for the U.S. Navy Undergraduate Jet Training System (UJTS) program. The U.S. Navy has released several Requests for Information related to an upcoming Request for Proposals for a new aircraft for the UJTS program. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/...
Today, Venture Global, Inc. (NYSE: VG) is announcing a final investment decision (FID) and successful closing of the $15.1 billion project financing for the first phase of the company’s third project, Venture Global CP2 LNG (CP2), together with the associated CP Express Pipeline. This milestone represents the largest standalone project financing ever, and the second largest project financing after the combined financings of Venture Global’s Plaquemines LNG. The transaction garnered enormous int...